A low-cost manufacturing procedure has been developed for the fabrication of planar anode-supported solid oxide fuel cell including only two thermal treatments. This method is also environmental-friendly since slurries are water based and use non-toxic additives. Slurries were formulated by optimizing powder quantity, minimizing organic compounds while controlling their stabilities rheological ...

Here we report on a new architecture for potentiometric NO2 sensors that features thin 8YSZ electrolytes sandwiched between two porous (La0.8Sr0.2)0.95MnO3 (LSM95) layers-one thick and the other thin-fabricated by the tape casting and co-firing techniques. Measurements of their sensing characteristics show that reducing the porosity of the supporting LSM95 reference electrodes can increase the ...

Photolithography is a highly advanced method for fabricating features in the micron and submicron size range. Semiconductor processing methods have been applied to fabricate microsensors and microactuators with high throughput and excellent dimensional control of small features, usually from silicon. It is clearly desirable to extend these methods to microfabricate other materials, such as piez...

Many graphical objects can be represented by swept volumes (including its subset – generalised cylinders) by sweeping 2D or 3D templates along 3D trajectories. In this paper, we present a new approach for constructing swept volumes using image templates. We utilise scalar fields as our underlying data type, and employ volume ray casting techniques for rendering swept volumes in their original s...