In recent times there has been a growing interest in the development of quasi-two-dimensional niobium pentoxide (Nb2O5) as a semiconductor for the potential electronic applications such as capacitors, filtration, dye-sensitised solar cells and gas sensing platforms. Therefore once the purpose is established, Nb2O5 can be prepared in a number of nanoand sub-micron-structural morphologies that in...

Nd-doped germania-ormosil hybrid films are synthesized by a sol–gel spin-coating technique for photonic applications. Acidcatalyzed solutions of c-glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane mixed with gemanium isopropoxide are used as matrix precursors. Planar waveguide films with a thickness of about 1.8-lm are obtained by a single spin-coating process and at low temperature heat treatment. The effects o...

We report on the fabrication and characterization of thick UV-patternable hybrid sol-gel films by spin coating using a modified sol-gel process. Thick coating of 25 microns with crack-free surface can be produced by one spin coating step. Thick layers of more than 100 μm can be obtained with a multi-coating process. Characterization using different techniques including optical microscope and at...

During spincoating, the centrifugal force of the substrate spinning with several 1.000 rounds per minute (rpm) distributes few ml of resist over the substrate. Advantages: The high resist film thickness homogeneity as well as the short coating times make spincoating the most-applied coating technique at least in microelectronics. The fact that the coated resist already lost a significant amount...

We have developed a high-purity sol-gel coating for the interior surface of glass cells used for polarizing He by spin-exchange optical pumping. The coating is designed to minimize spin relaxation due to wall collisions. A longitudinal spin-relaxation time T1 in a sol-gel coated Pyrex cell of 34468 h was achieved, the longest T1 we have ever recorded for a gaseous sample. Repeated trials indica...

The phosphorus barrier layers at the doping procedure of silicon wafers were fabricated using a spin-coating method with a mixture of silica-sol and tetramethylammonium hydroxide, which can be formed at the rear surface prior to the front phosphorus spin-on-demand (SOD) diffusion and directly annealed simultaneously with the front phosphorus layer. The optimization of coating thickness was obta...

A reversal imprinting technique was developed in this study. A polymer layer was first spin coated on a patterned hard mold, and then transferred to a substrate under an elevated temperature and pressure. The reversal imprinting method offers an advantage over conventional nanoimprinting by allowing imprinting onto substrates that cannot be easily spin coated, such as flexible polymer substrate...

The low-speed spin-coating method was developed to prepare uniform and interconnected silver nanowires (AgNWs) film with the transmittance of 95% and sheet resistance of 20Ω/sq on glass, which was comparable to ITO. The fitting value of σ dc/σ op of 299.3 was attributed to the spin-coating process. Advantages of this solution-processed AgNW film on AlGaInP light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as transp...

The aim of this study was to deyelop a noyel hydroxyapatite (HA) coating method on zirconia using glass coating technique. A borosi)icate glass, the mixture of the glass ttnd HA (3e, 50, 70, and 90 mass%), and the 100% HA were coated on two kinds of zirconia discs and fired at 900-950'C. After the final coating, the surface of the sample was etched for 3 min in an acid-mixture of 3% HF and 5%HN...