Ab initio calculations were employed to investigate the effect of oxygen concentration dependent Ti vacancies formation on core electron binding energy shifts in cubic titanium oxynitride (Ti1−δOxN1−x). It was shown, that presence a vacancy reduces 1s first N neighbors by ∼0.6 eV and this is additive with respect number vacancies. Hence it predicted can be revealed from intensity shifted compon...

A novel design electroplating spring frame MEMS structure specimen is demonstrated here. The specimen can be fit into a specially designed microtensile apparatus which is capable of carrying out a series of tests on submicro scale freestanding thin films. Certain thin films applicable in MEMS were tested including sputtered Chrome, Nicole, Copper, Tantalum Nitride thin films. Metal specimens we...

Highly transparent and conducting fluorine-doped ZnO (FZO) thin films were deposited onto glass substrates by radio-frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering, using 1.5 wt% zinc fluoride (ZnF2)-doped ZnO as sputtering target. Structural, electrical, and optical properties of the FZO thin films were investigated as a function of substrate temperature ranging from room temperature (RT) to 300°C. The cr...

In present study spray pyrolysis technique was employed to prepare pure and doped CdSnO3 thin films. The spray pyrolyzed thin films were observed to be nanostructured in nature with particle size less than 10 nm and characterized to investigate its structural, microstructural and chemical properties by means of XRD, SEM/EDS, TEM and surface profilometry. Pure and Zn doped CdSnO3 nanostructured ...

< Ge33Se67 thin film and quartz crystal microbalance for NO2 gas sensing. < Physisorption of NO2 in Ge33Se67 thin films. < Reversibility of the NO2 sorption in Ge33Se67 thin films. < Pure physical effect of gas sorption revealed by Raman, XPS, AFM. < Large free volume of the thin films encountered through GAXRD. a r t i c l e i n f o

Nanocrystalline tin dioxide (SnO2) thin films were prepared on glass substrate by pulse laser deposition for the first time. The thin films were characterized for their composition, morphology, and crystalline structure by x-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. It was found that the thin films consisted only of the tetragonal p...

Obliquely deposited thin films of ternary Ag–Ge–S glasses are characterized in this work. Thin films are fabricated in a vacuum thermal evaporator at different evaporation angles and examined by Raman spectroscopy. The Raman mode frequency of GeS4 corner-sharing (CS) structure of the as-deposited films display a red-shift as a function of Ag content due to reduced global connectivity, and there...

The relaxation behaviors of thin polymer films show a strong dependence on temperature and film thickness. Direct quantitative detection of the relaxation behaviors of thin polymer films at nanometer scale by traditional instruments is however challenging. In this study, we employed atomic force microscopy (AFM)-based force-distance curve to study the relaxation dynamics and the film thickness ...

In this review paper, a critical analysis was carried out to investigate the effect of cathodic potential, bath temperature, time and nature of substrates on the ZnO thin films synthesized by electrodeposition technique. XRD patterns of the various deposited films were studied to examine the structural characteristics of the Nanostructured ZnO thin films. From the XRD patterns of the different ...