Mechanically robust photocatalytic titanium oxide coatings can be deposited using reactive magnetron sputtering. In this article, we investigate the effect of doping on the activity of reactively sputtered TiO2. Silver, copper and stainless steel targets were used to co-deposit the dopants. The films were characterised using XRD, SEM and EDX. Adhesion and mechanical properties were evaluated us...

Each new semiconductor technology node brings smaller transistors and wires. Although this makes transistors faster, wires get slower. In nano-scale regime, the standard copper (Cu) interconnect will become a major hurdle for FPGA interconnect due to their high resistivity and electromigration. This paper presents the comprehensive evaluation of mixed CNT bundle interconnects and investigates t...

We report a unified nontemplate approach to a variety of silver nanostructures, including nanobelts, dendrites, nanodisks, and nanoshells. The growth of these silver nanostructures occurs by galvanic displacement initiated by short-circuited nanobatteries formed between the copper nano/microparticles and protruding silver “seeds” on their surface. The silver nanostructures share analogous struc...

Each new semiconductor technology node brings smaller transistors and wires. Although this makes transistors faster, wires get slower. In nano-scale regime, the standard copper (Cu) interconnect will become a major hurdle for FPGA interconnect due to their high resistivity and electromigration. This paper presents the comprehensive evaluation of mixed CNT bundle interconnects and investigates t...

Gradient nano-grained (GNG) metals are a unique class of materials with spatial gradients in grain size, typically from the surface to the bulk. Here the gradient mechanical behavior inGNG copper is studied by a crystal plasticity finite elementmodel that accounts for grainsize-dependent yield strengths. The associated finite element simulations reveal both the gradient stress and gradient plas...

0009-2614/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2010.11.069 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (P. Yang). 1 Present address: University of Michigan, Ann Arbo Radial p–n junction solar cells have been predicted theoretically to have better efficiencies than their planar counterparts due to a decrease in the distance required to collect minority car...

This paper investigated the mechanism of enhancing mechanical and tribological properties nitrile rubber (NBR) via addition nano-SiO2 on molecular scale. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were performed structure models pure NBR, NBR/SiO2, three-layer friction pairs. The results showed that hydrogen bonds interfacial interaction between NBR chains decreased fractional free volume nanocomposit...

Introduction: At least some meteoritic nano-diamonds are likely of presolar origin because of their association with anomalous Xe-HL and Te isotopic components indicative of a supernova (SN) origin [1,2]. But the abundance of Xe is such that only ~1 in 10 6 nano-diamonds contains a Xe atom, and the bulk 13 C/ 12 C composition of nano-diamond acid residues is chondritic (solar) [3]. Therefore, i...

In this study CuO nano sheets were prepared using the cellulose extracted from green synthesis (cotton) as a novel me project. Structural properties were examined using X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM), and Ultra Violet (UV-Vis). The optimum copper oxide peak was at 2 theta 〖35.44〗^°corresponding to (1 ̅11) while for the cellulose was 〖22.8〗^°correspon...