A hydrothermal method based on the use of hydrogen peroxide is described to grow a homogeneous layer of tungsten oxide (WO3) on a platinum (Pt) film supported on a silicon wafer. WO3 growth is highly selective for Pt when present on silicon in a patterned arrangement, demonstrating that Pt catalyzes decomposition of the WO3 precursor in solution. The obtained Pt/WO3 interface yields high photoc...

Multilayer iron-doped indium-saving indium–tin oxide (ML ITO50:Fe2O3) thin films with high conductivity and transmittance in the visible spectrum have been fabricated by sputtering method. Structures consisting of very layer conventional indium tin (90 mass% In2O3–10 SnO2) reduced content In2O3 (ITO50:Fe2O3) to 50 are discussed. By optimizing oxygen flow rate layer, lowest volume resistivity 3....

An indium tin oxide glass electrode coated with poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene), PEDOT, PEDOT-ITOE, was proposed as an electrode workable as both a reference electrode and a counter one, a reference/counter electrode, in an organic phase and applied to a thin-layer cell of a two-electrode system for voltammetry at the liquid | liquid interface. By oxidizing the PEDOT film by 50% and doping a s...

Indium tin oxide (ITO) thin films were sputter-deposited at ambient temperature on a glass-like substrate that was periodically nanostructured by UV nanoimprint lithography. Cross gratings of the corrugated and conformal ITO, with different periods and modulation depths, were tailored to exhibit light trapping or antireflection properties at specific spectral windows by combined optical simulat...

The anchoring of the nematic liquid crystal N-(p-methoxybenzylidene)-p-butylaniline (MBBA) on Langmuir-Blodgett monolayers of fatty acids (COOHC(n)H(2n+1)) was studied as a function of the length of the fatty acid alkyl chain n (n=15,17,19,21). The monolayers were deposited onto glass plates coated with indium tin oxide, which were used to assemble sandwich cells of various thicknesses that wer...

Graphene has been received a considerable amount of attention as a transparent conducting electrode (TCE) which may be able to replace indium tin oxide (ITO) to overcome the significant weakness of the poor flexibility of ITO. Given that graphene is the thinnest 2-dimensional (2D) material known, it shows extremely high flexibility, and its lateral periodic honeycomb structure of sp(2)-bonded c...