Cristina V. Manzano

TL;DR: These ordered anodic aluminum oxide templates with pores <15 nm in diameter and an aspect ratio above 3 × 10(3) have been fabricated using a nonlithographic approach by anodizing aluminum in an ethylene-glycol-containing sulfuric acid electrolyte to open up the possibility of obtaining nanowire arrays in the quantum confinement regime that is of interest for efficient thermoelectric generators.

TL;DR: In this paper, a consistent model that explains the emissions for different electrodeposited ZnO films is proposed to explain the transition from the donor OH− to the acceptor zinc vacancies (VZn−) and to interstitial oxygen (Oi0), respectively.

TL;DR: The structure, composition, and morphology of these Bi2Te3 films were characterized and the thermoelectric figure of merit, both parallel and perpendicular to the substrate surface, were determined by measuring the Seebeck coefficient, electrical conductivity, and thermal conductivity in each direction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the growth of self-ordered anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) templates with pore diameters in the 140-400nm range is achieved by anodization in phosphoric acid at low temperatures (−4°C).

TL;DR: In this paper, anodic aluminum oxide (AAO2O) templates with 12-nm in diameter and aspect-ratios of >1000 were obtained by a simple two-step anodization process under mild-anodization conditions.