Fabrication of microporous structures for the anode of a thin film solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC(s)) using controlled etching process has led us to increased power density and increased cell robustness. Micropores were etched in the nickel anode by both wet and electrochemical etching processes. The samples etched electrochemically showed incomplete etching of the nickel leaving linked nickel isl...

Recently, biological materials such as DNA molecules, proteins, and albumen have been extensively investigated for various applications, as they are environmentally friendly and exhibit novel optical and electronic properties. Especially, over the last decades, DNA–lipid complex have been frequently reported as components of optical electronic devices. In this mini-review, the physicochemical p...

Thin film coatings have been essential in development of several micro and nano-scale devices. To realize thin film coatings various deposition techniques are employed, each yielding surface morphologies with different characteristics of interest. Therefore, understanding and control of the surface growth is of great interest. In this paper, we devise a novel network-based modeling of the growt...

This paper presents an energy-harvesting system consisting of amorphous-silicon (a-Si) solar cells and thinfilm-transistor (TFT) power circuits on plastic. Along with patterned planar inductors, the TFTs realize an LCoscillator that provides power inversion of the DC solarmodule output, enabling a low-cost sheet for inductivelycoupled wireless charging of devices. Despite the low performance of...

This chapter aims to provide the reader with a practical knowledge about electrical methods to measure organic thin film transistor devices. It presents a series of recipes, which allow the experimentalist to gain insight into the performance and limitations of the devices and circuits being measured. It also gives guidelines on how to correctly interpret the measurements and to provide feedbac...

An important objective of software fault tolerant systems should be to provide a fault-tolerance infrastructure in a manner that minimizes the effort required by the application developer. In the limit, the objective is to provide fault tolerance transparently to

We study the sewing constraints for rational two-dimensional conformal field theory on oriented surfaces with possibly non-empty boundary. The boundary condition is taken to be the same on all segments of the boundary. The following uniqueness result is established: For a solution to the sewing constraints with nondegenerate closed state vacuum and nondegenerate two-point correlators of boundar...

Introduction Lecture 1. Algebraic properties of correlators in 2D topological field theory. Moduli of a 2D TFT and WDVV equations of associativity. Lecture 2. Equations of associativity and Frobenius manifolds. Deformed flat connection and its monodromy at the origin. Lecture 3. Semisimplicity and canonical coordinates. Lecture 4. Classification of semisimple Frobenius manifolds. Lecture 5. Mon...

Solutions of the stress field due to the eigenstrain of an ellipsoidal inclusion in the film/ substrate half-space are obtained via the Fourier transforms and Stroh eigenrelation equations. Based on the acquired solutions, the effect of a thin film’s thickness on the stress field is investigated with two types of ellipsoidal inclusions considered. The results in this paper show that if the thic...

We have utilized a transmission ratio (TR) between curtain-shaped (Curtain) Mura and non-Mura zones as a key parameter to characterize the optical appearance of Curtain Mura occurred on a 13.3-in TFT–TN panel (Mura sample) after bonding process to place silicon-based driver-IC chips on one of the panel substrates using anisotropic conductive film as a binder (COG ACF process). Our measured TRs ...