The rapid thermal processing (RTP) technique features dynamic control of temperature, which permits high heating and cooling rates that cannot be reached with conventional furnace treatments. In recent years, RTP has been increasingly applied to the processing of magnetic materials. The controllable heating profiles provide an approach for the deliberate construction of materials structure via ...

Please cite this article in press as: Abakarov, A., (2012), doi:10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2012.02.013 The algorithms and graphic user interface software package ‘‘OPT-PROx’’ are developed to meet food engineering needs related to canned food thermal processing simulation and optimization. The adaptive random search algorithm and its modification coupled with penalty function’s approach, and the finite...

The collaboration between Sharp Laboratories of America (SLA), Oregon State University (OSU) and ORNL focused on low thermal budget pulse thermal processing (PTP) technique to develop high performance copper zinc tin sulfide (CZTS) thin film system for advanced photovoltaic (PV) applications, with the goal to develop novel fabrication processes for the manufacture of low-cost, high-performance ...

Thermal stability of a porous low-k film is a critical issue for application consideration in the back-end-of-line. In this study, thermal stability of the porous silicate has been investigated by changing the thermal processing temperatures. Experimental results have shown that the dielectric constant of the porous silicate still remains below 2.0 after thermal processing at 500 8C for 1 h. A ...

This paper presents an application of Iterative Learning Control (ILC) methodology to the temperature proole control of a Rapid Thermal Processing (RTP) system for single wafer processing (SWP), a trend in semiconductor manufacturing. The motivation and the basic ideas are brieey introduced. The eeectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by the simulation studies of a simpliied model o...

Up to now, reported attempts of multiphysics modeling of high-temperature microwave processing have been limited to fairly idealized models. In this contribution, an original accurate computer model enabling virtual experimentation in microwave processing of zicronia is presented. The model, implementing fully coupled FDTD electromagnetic and thermal algorithms, uses detailed data on temperatur...

The traditional preparation process of Nigella sativa (NS) oil starts with roasting of the seeds, an allegedly unnecessary step that was never skipped. The aims of this study were to investigate the role and boundaries of thermal processing of NS seeds in the preparation of therapeutic extracts and to elucidate the underlying mechanism. NS extracts obtained by various seed thermal processing me...