Showing papers in "Thin Solid Films in 2015"

TL;DR: Reactive multilayer thin films are a class of energetic materials that continue to attract attention for use in joining applications and as igniters as discussed by the authors, with most of these materials fabricated by magnetron sputter deposition or electron-beam evaporation.

TL;DR: The binding energy (B.E) information of electrons from the O 1s orbital of oxygen atoms in different functional groups were identified by characterizing GO in an in-situ heating and characterization experiment, performed in a vacuum between 473 and 573 K, and chemically modified GO was found to occur between 543 and 561 K as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of nitrogen flow rate on film resistivity was investigated and it was found that film orientation can influence the resistivity with (111) oriented film more resistive than (200) oriented films.

TL;DR: In this article, the basic principles and instrumentation of Mueller matrix ellipsometers are presented, and the data analysis in MME-based nanostructure metrology is revisited from the viewpoint of computational metrology.

TL;DR: A detailed review of hollow cathode discharges can be found in this paper, where the authors describe the structure of a parallel-plate discharge, particularly the gas phase and cathode surface excitation and ionization collision processes.

TL;DR: Owing to the relevance of electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions, the effects on monolayers (and indeed toxicity) are found to depend largely on the coating or functionalization of the nanomaterials.

TL;DR: In this paper, the interaction of various nucleobases (guanine (G), adenine (A), thymine (T) and cytosine (C)) with a graphene-like BC 3 nanosheet using dispersion corrected B3LYP level of theory was reported.

TL;DR: In this article, it is suggested that the sputter deposited alloy thin films can be topologically regarded as binary alloys of the form Al-(CoCrCuFeNi), and if the concentration of the largest atom (Al) increases, a transition from FCC to BCC is noticed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reported the synthesis of rod shaped gold nanoparticles/2-aminoethanethiol functionalized reduced graphene oxide composite and its application as an anode material for lithium-ion batteries.

TL;DR: In this paper, Cadmium sulphide (CdS) thin films were deposited by two different processes, chemical bath deposition (CBD), and pulsed DC magnetron sputtering (PDCMS) on fluorine doped-tin oxide coated glass to assess the potential advantages of the pulsed dc magnetron (DC magnetron) sputtering process.

TL;DR: In this paper, an intermediate thin layer of titania (TiO2) on the substrate was introduced in order to improve both the corrosion resistance and the mechanical properties of the HAP/316 L stainless steel system.

TL;DR: Graphene has been used to enhance conversion efficiency in dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) through increased electronic transportation as discussed by the authors, which is realized through reduction of graphene oxide (GO) to reduced graphene or RGO in TiO 2 nanoparticles in solution Chemical and hydrothermal reactions are two commonly used avenues In the chemical route, toxic hydrazine and its derivatives are the typical reducing agent Hydrothermal process is not toxic but requires prolonged heating.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of potassium (K) on the Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) growth kinetics on alkali-free alumina substrates and the electrical parameters of the CIGS solar cell was investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the average crystallite size estimated using Scherrer and Williamson-Hall equations was found to increase with annealing temperature, which is explained in the light of Koop's theory based on Maxwell-Wagner two layer models.

TL;DR: In this paper, a particle-free MOD ink of high silver content was directly used for inkjet printing silver conductive patterns on PI substrate, which showed metalized silver with low resistivity (8.6μΩ·cm), high reflection and good adhesion.

TL;DR: Graphene oxide (GO) was incorporated into polyimide (PI) resin to obtain composite films via in-situ polymerization method as mentioned in this paper, and the effects of GO content on the dielectric permittivity, loss tangent and breakdown strength were simultaneously studied.

TL;DR: In this article, different material properties of the bcc α and the A15 β phase of tungsten with respect to process parameters are investigated. And the formation of β-W is mainly dependent on process gas pressure.

TL;DR: A series of [TiN/TiAlN] n multilayer coatings with different bilayer numbers n ǫ = 5, 10, 25, 50, and 100 were deposited on stainless steel substrate AISI 304 by a lateral rotating cathode arc technique in a flowing nitrogen atmosphere as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of film thickness on characteristic parameters such as the structural, morphological and optical properties of the films was investigated, and the X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) studies showed that all the films exhibited polycrystalline structure with monoclinic phases and covered the glass substrates well.

TL;DR: In this paper, the electrical, optical and physical properties of an absorber layer fabricated by selenization of sputtered Cu, Zn and Cu 10 Sn 90 multilayers were reported.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of the O2/Ar mixing ratio in CF4/O 2/Ar and C4F8/O2//Ar inductively coupled plasmas with a 50% fluorocarbon gas content on plasma parameters and active species densities, which influence dry etching mechanisms, was analyzed.

TL;DR: In this article, a simple facile lyophilization method was used for the preparation of ZnO-graphene nanocomposites, which showed a significant enhancement in the photodegradation of methylene blue.

TL;DR: In this article, the hybrid copper inks with precursor and nanoparticles were fabricated and sintered via flash light irradiation to achieve highly conductive electrode pattern with low porosity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of preheating temperature on the crystalline state of seed layer and hydrothermal ZnO nanorods grown thereon were investigated, and the results revealed a strong dependence of growth alignment along (002) orientation of the seed layer influenced by the pre heating temperature as revealed by X-ray diffraction analysis after nanorod growth.

TL;DR: In this article, the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Thin Solid Films has been published, and a definative version was subsequently published in thin solid films, 2015.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of film thickness on the properties of antimony doped SnO2 thin films have been studied and the minimum value of sheet resistance observed is 4.81 ǫ/cm2.

TL;DR: In this article, Nanostructured thin films of pristine Fe 2 O 3, Ti-Fe 2O 3, Cu 2 O, Fe 2O3 /Cu 2 O heterojunction thin films exhibited absorption in visible region.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of deposition temperature (Tsub) on the phase formation, morphology and deposition rates of cubic and tetragonal Li7La3Zr2O12 films were investigated.

TL;DR: Al2O3 rear surface passivated ultra-thin Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) solar cells with Mo nano-particles (NP) as local rear contacts are developed to demonstrate their potential to improve optical confinement in ultra thin CIGS solar cells.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effect of the printing speed and pressure on the electrical properties of the printed Ag nanowire (Ag NW)-based transparent conductive electrodes, and found that the importance of the rheological behavior of the ink, printing speed, and pressure was confirmed to understand the mechanism underlying Ag NW ink transfer.