Mg alloys have a vast usage where weight reduction is really significant since they do the features really well for materials of ultra-light weight. However, Mg is inherently a reactive metal and its alloys generally possess quite weak corrosion resistance that widely restricts their technological usages, especially in some rough service conditions. Despite, many investigations on the passive a...

Thermoelectric materials are solid-state energy converters whose combination of thermal, electrical, and semiconducting properties allows them to be used to convert waste heat into electricity or electrical power directly into cooling and heating. These materials can be competitive with fluid-based systems, such as two-phase air-conditioning compressors or heat pumps, or used in smaller-scale a...

We report the use of networks of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with high and moderate coverages (measured as number of tubes per unit area) for all of the conducting (i.e., source, drain, and gate electrodes) and semiconducting layers, respectively, of a type of transparent, mechanically flexible, thin-film transistor (TFT). The devices are fabricated on plastic substrates using layer-...

Since their discovery by Iijima in 1991, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have attracted great interest in chemistry, physics, electronics, and materials science. As a result of their chemical and mechanical stability, high conductivity, high surfaceto-volume ratio, and other unique properties, CNTs have various potential applications in areas such as field-effect transistors (FETs), sensors, light emit...

cumn2o4 nanoparticles, a semiconducting materials with tunable functionalities in solid oxide fuel cell, was successfully synthesized via a sol-gel method using its respective metal cations sources i.e. cu2+ and mn2+ in an appropriate complexing agent.the vibrational frequencies below 1000 cm-1 of the obtained materials confirmed the formation of metal-oxygen (m-o:cu-o, mn-o) bond in the sample...

Title of Dissertation: STUDY OF TRANSIENT EFFECTS IN PHOTOEXCITED SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS Yi-Hsing Peng Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Directed By: Professor Chi H. Lee Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Semiconducting conjugated polymers regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) (RR-P3HT) and poly[2-methoxy-5-(2’ethyl-hexyloxy)-1,4-phenylene vinylene] (MEH-PPV) have received considerable ...

The variety of semiconductor materials has been extended in various directions, for example, to very wide bandgap materials such as oxide semiconductors as well as to amorphous semiconductors. Crystalline β-Ga2O3 is known as a transparent conducting oxide with an ultra-wide bandgap of ~ 4.9 eV, but amorphous (a-) Ga2Ox is just an electrical insulator because the combination of an ultra-wide ban...

Semiconducting-ionic conductors have been recently described as excellent electrolyte membranes for low-temperature operation solid oxide fuel cells (LT-SOFCs). In the present work, two new functional materials based on zinc oxide (ZnO)-a legacy material in semiconductors but exceptionally novel to solid state ionics-are developed as membranes in SOFCs for the first time. The proposed ZnO and Z...

Scandium nitride has recently gained interest as a prospective compound for thermoelectric applications due to its high Seebeck coefficient. However, ScN also has a relatively high thermal conductivity, which limits its thermoelectric efficiency and figure of merit (zT). These properties motivate a search for other semiconductor materials that share the electronic structure features of ScN, but...