The interplay of surface texture, strain relaxation, absorbance, grain size, and sheet resistance in textured, boron-doped ZnO (ZnO@B), transparent conductive oxide (TCO) materials of different thicknesses used for thin film, solar cell applications is investigated. The residual strain induced by the lattice mismatch and the difference in the thermal expansion coefficient for thicker ZnO@B is r...

This talk presents our researches on the application of mathematical morphology, which is a mathematical framework of quatitative image manipulations, to the characterization and manipulation of textures. A texture is considered as a repetitive arrangement of homothetic magnifications of a small object called primitive. The shape and arrangement of the primitive are estimated by a method based ...

The study reports that the combined use of in situ interlayer hot forging and post-deposition heat treatment (PDHT) could alter typical coarse oriented microstructure Ni-based superalloy 625 obtained by arc plasma directed energy deposition (DED) to a fine non-oriented condition. In synchrotron X-ray diffraction electron backscatter showed high-temperature (1100 °C/ 1 h) PDHT induced significan...