Showing papers in "Thin Solid Films in 2016"

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of dopant type, ionic size and its concentration on the crystal structure, electronic property and morphology of doped ZnO with a narrower band gap is reviewed systematically.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the advantages of large glazings, which are able to accomplish good indoors-outdoors contact and daylighting. But, they also point out that large glazing, encompassing windows and glass facades,...

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of recent developments in 2D layered materials, specifically transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), from a thin film perspective is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of annealing at different temperatures on morphology, structural, optical and electrical properties was investigated using field emission scanning electron microscopic, X-ray diffraction, UV-vis spectral, photoluminescence and electrical studies.

TL;DR: In this article, the Mott-Schottky analysis was used to estimate the properties of titanium oxide, which showed that passive film formed, is of n-type semiconducting film and the donor concentration is in the order of 10 20 cm − 3.3.

TL;DR: In this article, the most common plasma diagnostics methods employed in the context of plasma polymerization process, namely Mass Spectrometry, in-situ Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, Optical Emission Spectrograph, Langmuir and Ionic probes are reviewed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the structural characterization of vanadium oxides with different stoichiometries under various bonding states were successfully prepared by reactive sputtering with and without post oxidation or reduction and characterized using Raman spectroscopy.

TL;DR: In this paper, a p-n heterostructure consisting of p-type SnO and n-type ZnO was proposed for realizing next-generation, all-oxide transparent electronic devices.

TL;DR: In this paper, the p-type thin film transistors with solution-processed channels using a sol-gel route, based on a copper (II) acetate precursor, were realized.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of the precursor gas chemistry ratio between hydrogen/methane (H2/CH4) and argon (Ar) to tailor control of the grain size, morphology and roughness of large area diamond films was reported.

TL;DR: In this paper, a 1DPC of the TiO 2 /SiO 2 multilayer has been fabricated by sequential asymmetric bipolar pulsed dc magnetron sputtering of the SiO 2 to achieve wide omnidirectional photonic band in the visible region.

TL;DR: In this article, the anneal temperature and time dependence of the ferroelectric Si-doped HfO 2 thin films were investigated by applying 700 −C −900 −C rapid thermal anneals for 5 −s −60 −s durations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors achieved low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) thin-films with a single orientation on glass by using continuous wave blue laser annealing (BLA) of amorphous silicon (a-Si).

TL;DR: In this paper, Graphene oxide (GO) coatings were applied on copper strips via electrophoretic deposition (EPD) from GO/water suspension by making copper strips as anode.

TL;DR: In this paper, a number of different structures varying in the position and orientation of nickel on the surface of the nano-cage were studied, and the results revealed that Ni adsorption provides N-type conduction which makes it an ideal adsorbent for practical applications in magnetism, catalysis and other areas.

TL;DR: In this article, the incorporation of nitrogen in pulsed laser deposited diamond like carbon (DLC) thin films, reverts the sp 3 network to sp 2 as evidenced by an increase of the sp 2 cluster and I D /I G ratio in C K -edge XANES and Raman spectra respectively which reduces the hardness/Young's modulus into the film network.

TL;DR: Several types of typical atmospheric pressure plasma sources have been addressed, and the processes including surface treatment, texturing and sintering for application to flexible and printed electronic devices have been discussed as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the structure and compactness of the passive films on nanocrystalline (NC) and coarse crystalline 304 stainless steels (SSs) were investigated, and a bi-layer passive film composed of an inner Cr2O3-rich layer and an outer Fe2O 3-rich layers was obtained on both NC and CC 304SSs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the analysis of visible light activation of room temperature NO2 gas sensitivity of metal oxide semiconductors (MOS): blank and CdSe quantum dots (QDs) sensitized nanocrystalline matrixes ZnO, SnO2 and In2O3 were synthesized by the precipitation method.

TL;DR: In this paper, Niobium-doped TiO 2 films as highly transparent conducting oxides for electrical contacts were investigated and the Hall mobility of degenerately doped films increased with decreasing substrate temperature owing to metal-like phonon scattering in these samples.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparison of the influence of two alloy pre-treatments and two coating post-treatment on the formation, composition and corrosion protection of a trivalent chromium conversion coating on AA2024-T351 alloy was made.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present how thin films of SnS-CUB and SnSe-cUB can be stacked in different sequences to thickness of 450nm by chemical deposition.

TL;DR: In this paper, a sol-gel process is presented for fabricating homogeneous thin film Li7La3Zr2O12 (LLZ) layers using dip-coating and spincoating methods.

TL;DR: In this article, a thermoelectric device made of aluminum-doped zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods on the glass substrate has been investigated and the Seebeck coefficient was found to increase proportionally with the doping concentration.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of Gd concentration on crystal phase formation and subsequent changes in optical and photocatalytic properties were determined, based on a joint use of PL and XPS analyses.

TL;DR: In this article, a single-step deposition of Mn2O3 thin films by spray pyrolysis on glass substrates at temperatures lower than 450°C was presented, which is an ideal and cost effective fabrication technique for large scale manufacture.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of the substrate bias on the structure and properties of the TiCN thin films were investigated by growing them on silicon and steel substrates by reactive magnetron sputtering from a pure titanium target in Ar-CH 4 -N 2 gas mixture.

TL;DR: In this paper, a complexing reaction between silver tartrate and various amines in ethyl alcohol solvent was used to obtain high conductive silver patterns that can be cured at low temperatures.

TL;DR: The influence of dopant species and concentration on the grain boundary scattering of differently doped In 2 O 3 thin films is studied by means of room temperature and temperature dependent Hall effect measurements.

TL;DR: In this paper, laser surface treatment of amorphous Ti-Al-C (50:25:25 ) coating deposited on Zircaloy-4 substrate by dc magnetron sputtering was parametrically investigated as a function of surface temperature and dwell time.