Both temperature and strain characterization of seed and regenerated gratings with and without post annealing is reported. The high temperature regeneration has significant impact on thermal characterization and mechanical strength of gratings while the post annealing has little effect. The observed difference is evidence of viscoelastic changes in glass structure.

-The nanostructure transformation associated with electro-optical properties via post-annealing of indium tin oxide film (ITO) is investigated by increasing post-annealing temperature in ambient oxygen. Although oxygen vacancy and activation Sn ions contribute to conductivity of ITO film, the oxygen vacancy inevitably reduces during posting annealing, but Sn-O related bonds are oppositely incre...

Electrospun membranes are gaining interest for use in membrane distillation (MD) due to their high porosity and interconnected pore structure; however, they are still susceptible to wetting during MD operation because of their relatively low liquid entry pressure (LEP). In this study, post-treatment had been applied to improve the LEP, as well as its permeation and salt rejection efficiency. Th...

We report on the effects of annealing on the martensitic phase transformation in the Ni-based Heusler system: Mn50Ni40Sn10 and Mn50Ni41Sn9 powder and Co50Ni21Ga32 nanoparticles. For the powdered Mn50Ni40Sn10 and Mn50Ni41Sn9 alloys, structural and magnetic measurements reveal that post-annealing decreases the martensitic transformation temperatures and increases the transition hysteresis. This m...

Calcium fluoride nanoparticles with special amount of cerium ion (%1) were synthesized by coprecipitation. Fourier transforms infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), absorption and photoluminescence (PL) from CaF2Ce nanoparticles has been investigated. FTIR spectra reveal that there are some amounts of OH, NO3 and other organic functional groups on the parti...

We report on the demonstration of the effectiveness of nanosecond laser annealing on optical properties of phosphorus ion (P)-implanted ZnO nanorods (NRs). Vertically-alligned ZnO NRs have been synthesized by nanoparticle-assisted pulsed laser deposition (NAPLD) on c-plane sapphire substrates. The pre-laser annealing was performed with the third harmonic (355 nm) of a Qwitched Nd:YAG laser at a...

Abnormal behavior of dopant activation was observed in P + /B + ion shower doped poly-Si upon post implant annealing. Phosphorous or boron was implanted by ion shower doping using a source gas mixture of PH3/H2 or B2H6/H2. Activation annealing was conducted using a tube furnace in the temperature ranges from 350 o C to 650 o C. Hall measurement revealed that reverse annealing occurred for poly-...

Calcium fluoride nanoparticles with special amount of cerium ion (%1) were synthesized by coprecipitation. Fourier transforms infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), absorption and photoluminescence (PL) from CaF2Ce nanoparticles has been investigated. FTIR spectra reveal that there are some amounts of OH, NO3 and other organic functional groups on the parti...

Cadmium sulphide (CdS) thin films were deposited onto glass substrates by chemical bath deposition (CBD) from a bath containing cadmium acetate, ammonium acetate, thiourea and ammonium hydroxide. The CdS films were annealed in air at various temperatures (350, 400 and 450 °C) for 60 minutes, and times (5, 15, 30, 45 and 60 minutes) at constant temperature (400 °C) in order to investigate the in...