Showing papers in "Thin Solid Films in 2014"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a detailed review of the state-of-the-art for electrochromics and its applications in smart windows and provide ample references to current literature of particular relevance.

TL;DR: In this paper, a copper antimony sulfide (CuSbS 2 ) thin film was fabricated by sulfurization of an electrodeposited metallic stack composed of Cu and Sb on a Mo-coated glass substrate.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared several alternative sintering methods compared to traditional thermal Sintering as high temperature and long process time of thermal sinterings are increasing the costs of inkjet-printing and preventing the use of this technology in large scale manufacturing.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive characterization of the stress, elastic modulus, hardness and adhesion of ALD aluminum oxide (Al2O3) films grown at 110-300°C from trimethylaluminum and water is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarize the past development and the recent progress of amorphous coatings made in their group in terms of fabrication, microstructure, thermal stability, and properties such as corrosion and wear resistance, bonding strength and wettability.

TL;DR: In this article, a sintering process for nickel nanoparticles using flash light irradiation was investigated for multilayer ceramic capacitors, magnetic devices and printed electronics, and the existence of a small amount of 10-nm size nanoparticles in the ink significantly improved the flash light absorption and induced the melting and sinting of the nanoparticles.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) polymer interlayer on the rectifying junction parameters of Au/n-InP Schottky diode has been investigated using currentvoltage (I-V) and capacitance-voltage measurements at room temperature.

TL;DR: In this paper, the X-ray diffraction of the chemical bath deposited and dip coating deposited thin films showed that the films possess hexagonal structure having lattice parameters, a.k.a. hexagonal hexagonal lattice.

TL;DR: In this paper, the ability to quantitatively discriminate the most likely secondary phases ZnS and Cu2SnS3 from Cu2ZnSnS4 using common approaches but also using more complex and time-consuming Rietveld refinement analysis techniques to analyse X-ray diffractograms is investigated in a comparative study to the peak analysis of Raman spectra measured with standard conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, a thin film solar cell of CdS/Sb 2 S 3 /C-Ag was developed on glass substrates coated with SnO 2 :F (FTO) by thermal evaporation of Sb 2S 3 powder.

TL;DR: In this article, an ultra-low temperature molecular beam epitaxy process was used to construct metastable GeSn layers on Si substrates with Sn contents up to 20% and 25%, respectively.

TL;DR: Pulsed laser deposition has been investigated as a technique for synthesis of ultra-thin, few-layer hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) thin films on crystalline highly ordered pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) and sapphire (0001) substrates as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, an optically active nanostructured phase mixture of copper oxides was synthesized by an energy efficient hydrothermal process, which revealed its efficacy as a unique solar cell material.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of sputtering pressure on the structure, residual stress and the deposition rate of AlN films deposited by the two processes (dcMS and HiPIMS) was investigated.

TL;DR: Spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) has become the primary technique for determining the intrinsic and structural properties of homogeneous and inhomogeneous materials in bulk and thin-film form, including properties of surfaces and interfaces as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of molecular weight, hydrolysis degree, and cross-link on the performance of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) when applied as dielectric material in organic field effect transistors were evaluated.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of Ag layer thickness and SnO 2 layer thickness on electrical and optical properties of the tri-layer films was investigated using Hall measurements, four-point probe and ultraviolet-visible-near infrared spectrophotometer.

TL;DR: In this article, an organic-inorganic photovoltaicelectrode consisting of graphene nanosheets, zinc sulfide nanoparticles (ZnS) and polypyrrolenanotubes(PPy) was fabricated on indiumtinoxide (ITO)glass using layer-by-layerelectropho- retic deposition.

TL;DR: In this paper, the infrared stealth fabric was prepared using W-doped VO2 (M) paints by the coating technology and the infrared emissivity of coated cotton fabric was measured by IR-2 Infrared Emissometer, which was as low as 0.752.

TL;DR: Several phenomena are neglected in the original Berg model in order to provide a simple model of the reactive sputtering process as discussed by the authors, however, there exist situations, where this simplified treatment...

TL;DR: In this paper, the fatigue behavior of structural-material substrates coated with thin-film metallic glasses (TFMGs) is investigated. And the results show that the four-point-bending fatigue life of the substrates is greatly improved by Zr-and Cu-based TFMGs, while Fe-based and pure-Cu films are not so beneficial in extending the fatigue lifetime of 316L stainless steel.

TL;DR: In this paper, an explorative study was performed on sputter-deposited thermochromic (TC) VO 2 films exposed to heat treatment under dry and humid conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report ALD deposition of silicon dioxide using either thermal or plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD), and several aminosilanes with differing structures and reactivity were used as silicon precursors in R&D single wafer ALD tools.

TL;DR: In this paper, the properties of 1,2,4-triazole were well investigated compared with BTA, and it was revealed that 45mM 1 2 4 triazole can achieve equivalent chemical protection for copper surface as 2mM BTA.

TL;DR: In this paper, pure and Fe doped TiO 2 thin films were deposited onto quartz substrates maintained at room temperature by radio frequency magnetron sputtering and characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), micro Raman spectroscopy, Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Energy dispersive spectrograms (EES), ultraviolet-visible and photoluminescence (PL) spectrographs).

TL;DR: In this paper, atomic force microscopy (AFM) images obtained using the indenter tip after the main indentation cycle was completed were analyzed to measure the pile-up heights and widths obtained in bulk materials (copper, gold and aluminium), and the results were compared to those from their respective thin films under similar indentation conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, thin films of amorphous alumina of thickness 350nm were deposited on fused silica substrates by electron beam evaporation and changes in film crystallinity, short-range structure, optical and mechanical properties were studied.

TL;DR: In this article, the antibacterial properties and durability of materials sputter-coated with Zr-based and Cu-based thin film metallic glasses (TFMGs) were evaluated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the electrodeposition of CuSbS2 semiconductor thin films for photovoltaic solar cells from ionic liquid electrolyte based on choline chloride-urea eutectic.

TL;DR: In this paper, Electrochromic Nickel Oxide Films and their compatibility with Potassium Hydroxide and Lithium Perchlorate in Propylene Carbonate: Optical, Electrochemical and Stress-Related Properties