Surface enhanced fluorescence (SEF) utilizes the local electromagnetic environment to enhance fluorescence from the analyte on the surface of a solid substrate with nanostructures. While the detection sensitivity of SEF is improved with the development of nano-techniques, detection of multiple analytes by SEF is still a challenge due to the compromise between the high enhancing efficiency and b...

n-type solar cell concepts increasingly utilize emitter formation by diffusion from boron doped sources. Combining the advantage of n-type silicon material and bifacial cell architecture enables high-efficiency and versatile photovoltaics. In case of boron emitters, it was standard until now to form a metal-semiconductor contact by screenprinting Al containing Ag pastes. Instead of utilizing Al...

In this work, thin films were deposited on the amorphous glass substrates by magnetron sputtering method. Surface morphology of double-layers of Ag/Al and Ag/Cu were investigated. For surface morphology studies atomic force microscope (AFM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were used, variations of the grain and partical size as well as surface roughness, roughness exponents and correlatio...

The literature about alloys of the Cu-Al system is extensive, due to its practical use. These alloys are of low cost and present good strength and hardness, depending on the Al content. They are used for making sleeves, guides, seats, flanges, gear wheels and many other critical small parts, as electrolysis cell cathodes, circuit plates and casting moulds when high thermal conductivity is neede...

Medium-sized double magic metal clusters, Al@Ag(54) (-) and Al@Cu(54) (-), are predicted based on unbiased global search and density functional calculation. Both bimetallic core-shell clusters have icosahedral symmetry, and they are much lower in energies than all other low-lying isomers. In contrast, the icosahedral cluster Al@Au(54) (-) is a high-energy isomer. Both Al@Ag(54) (-) and Al@Cu(54...