Erbium-doped Y20 3 planar optical waveguides have been fabricated by spray-pyrolysis deposition. The attenuation spectrum of the waveguide shows peaks that are due to absorption of the erbium ions. The as-deposited layers also show photoluminescence sharply peaking at 1540 nm with additional Stark splitting. The thin layers of Er 3:Y 203 obtained are promising for the realization of integrated-...

A rapid, wafer-level, dry process for in-situ synthesis, deposition of stable nanostructured, porous metal-oxide films for gas sensors is presented. Lace-like, nanostructured films of pure SnO2 featuring high porosity (98%) are selfassembled on a target substrate by flame spray pyrolysis (FSP). The nanoparticles are mainly polyhedral and monocrystalline with a grain size of 8.7 nm and crystal s...

Thin films of CuS (covellite) were deposited onto TCO (SnO2:F) glass by Spray Pyrolysis (SP) technique. Aqueous and water:alcohol (ethanol, 1-propanol) solutions of copper(II) chloride and thiourea with different Cu/S molar ratio have been used as precursors. The substrate temperature was varied from 185°C to 285°C. The structural and the morphological characterization of the films has been car...

Flame-spray pyrolysis offers a scalable approach to the synthesis of tailored nanostructured catalysts for biomass conversion.

In this study, we report the first preparation of phase-pure Co9S8 yolk–shell microspheres in a facile two-step process and their improved electrochemical properties. Yolk–shell Co3O4 precursor microspheres are initially obtained by spray pyrolysis and are subsequently transformed into Co9S8 yolk–shell microspheres by simple sulfidation in the presence of thiourea as a sulfur source at 350 °C u...

Ultrasonic spray pyrolysis is a superior method for preparing and synthesizing spherical particles of metal oxide or sulfide semiconductors. Cadmium sulfide (CdS) photocatalysts with different sizes and doped-CdS with different dopants and doping levels have been synthesized to study their properties of photocatalytic hydrogen production from water. The CdS photocatalysts were characterized wit...

Pt nanoparticles-laden graphene (Pt/GR) composites were synthesized in the gas phase from a mixture of ethanol and Pt precursor by microwave plasma spray pyrolysis. The morphology of Pt/GR composites has the shape of wrinkled sheets of paper, while Pt nanoparticles (Pt NPs) that are less than 2.6 nm in the mean diameter are uniformly well deposited on the surface of GR sheets stacked in only th...

Tungsten sulfide (WS2)-carbon composite powders with superior electrochemical properties are prepared by a two-step process. WO3-carbon composite powders were first prepared by conventional spray pyrolysis, and they were then sulfidated to form WS2-carbon powders. Bare WS2 powders are also prepared by sulfidation of bare WO3 powders obtained by spray pyrolysis. Stacked graphitic layers could no...