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??OxN1?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...

In this paper, the transparent conductive aluminum-doped zinc oxide (ZnO: Al, AZO) thin films with different annealing conditions are studied. The AZO thin films were prepared on the Coring glass substrate by RF magnetron sputtering. The AZO thin films were annealed in atmosphere of vacuum and hydrogen at temperatures from 100 to 400°C in steps of 100°C for 1 min, respectively, to investigate t...

Micron-sized subwavelength structured photonic sensors could allow critical thermo-mechanical phenomena in manufacturing processes to be monitored, while offering tremendous advantages. To implement these novel sensors into real manufacturing processes, the microring sensors can be embedded at critical locations in metallic structures, which are heavily used in hostile manufacturing environment...

Chemical reactivity and stability of highly epitaxial mixed-conductive LaBaCo2O5.5+δ (LBCO) thin films on (001) LaAlO3 (LAO) single-crystalline substrates, fabricated by using pulsed laser deposition system, were systematically investigated. Microstructure studies from x-ray diffraction indicate that the films are c-axis oriented with the interface relationship of [100]LBCO//[100]LAO and (001)L...

Thin films of CuSbS2, a potential candidate for absorber layer in thin film solar cells, were successfully deposited on soda lime glass substrates by using spray pyrolysis and the effect of variation of antimony concentration on the structural, morphological and optical properties were investigated. An aqueous solution of precursor containing cupric chloride, antimony acetate and thiourea was u...

The molecular dynamic technique was used to simulate the nano-indentation test on the thin films of silver, titanium, aluminum and copper which were coated on the silicone substrate. The mechanical properties of the selected thin films were studied in terms of the temperature. The temperature was changed from 193 K to 793 K with an increment of 100 K. To investigate the effect of temperature on...

In situ infrared and visible-light ellipsometric investigations of boron nitride thin films at elevated temperatures situ infrared and visible-light ellipsometric investigations of boron nitride thin films at elevated temperatures" (1998). Faculty Publications from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. 14. In situ infrared ͑IR͒ spectroscopy and visible-light ͑VIS͒ spectroscopic ell...

Uniform thin films of a metal-organic framework, which is constructed from free-base porphyrin linkers and hexa-zirconium nodes (MOF-525), are solvothermally grown on conducting substrates. Subsequently, solvothermal post metalations are employed to prepare the Zn-MOF-525 and Co-MOF-525 thin films. All the thin films are electroactive in aqueous media.

A low level tin doped indium oxide, ITO, (ca. 10 w % SnO2) thin films were prepared on glass substrate by electron beam technique. Deposited films with deposition rate of 0.1–0.25 nm s were annealed at different temperatures from 250 to 550 °C in air. The thin films were characterized using low and high angle X-ray diffraction and UV-visible spectroscopy. The lattice constant and the grain size...