Showing papers in "Thin Solid Films in 2018"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used halide vapor phase epitaxy to grow silicon doped homoepitaxial films on gallium oxide (001) substrates using gallium monochloride, oxygen and silicon tetrachloride gases as precursors.

TL;DR: In this paper, nanostructured aluminum-doped zinc oxide (AZO) coatings were sputter-deposited onto extruded PLA film to functionalize its surface, using different sputtering power.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the first-principles approach to study the vacancy mechanism and the influence of vacancies on the mechanical properties of IrAl and found that those vacancies are thermodynamically and dynamically stables.

TL;DR: In this paper, the micro-structural, antibacterial potential and corrosion resistance of silver-doped diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings deposited by Thermionic Vacuum Arc on titanium substrates were investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, a facile and controllable electrospinning technology was used to fabricate polyvinylidenefluoride (PVDF)/stearic acid (SA) nanofibers onto metal substrates for long-time anti-corrosive protection.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate the use of O-CVD for polydopamine thin-films and obtain the desired consistent biopolymer thinfilms as shown by structural analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, a composite TiSiN/Ag/TiSiN multilayer coating was deposited on a Ti6Al4V substrate by multi-arc ion plating system.

TL;DR: In this article, structural, morphological and optical properties of ZnO thin films deposited on glass substrates by radio frequency magnetron sputtering technique were discussed, and it was shown that an increase in deposition time leads to a change in the film growth mechanism.

TL;DR: In this article, the surface morphology of nanoporous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) was analyzed using the field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) and X-ray diffraction pattern measurements.

TL;DR: In this paper, the evolution of phase-separated morphologies in co-sputtered Cu-Mo films as a result of varying substrate temperature and deposition rate during deposition was reported.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple and economical method was used to fabricate a super-hydrophobic Zn coating with ZnO nanosheets on steel substrates.

TL;DR: In this paper, the synthesis and characterization of carbon quantum dots (QDs) from citric acid and ethanediamine was reported, which had various wavelengths and improved electron extraction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the feasibility to enhance the photocatalytic activity of nanostructured TiO2 thin films through embedding the free spaces with sol-gel TiO 2 nanoparticles was established.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of applied negative charge on the as-deposited Cu2O films was investigated, resulting in an increase in film thickness with increasing applied charge.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of a biaxial tensile strain and an external electric field (E-field) on the electronic properties of silicane monolayer and bilayer are investigated using density functional theory computations with the van der Waals (vdW) correction.

TL;DR: In this article, three-body abrasive experiments were conducted on three hard coatings with application in oil and gas industry and the results revealed the importance of the crystalline phase formation on the wear rate of the coatings under the tested condition.

TL;DR: In this article, an anti-oxidative copper nano-ink was synthesized by dispersing the coated copper powder in 1-octanol solvent at a concentration of 18.5wt%.

TL;DR: In this article, a reaction gas mixture of TiCl4, CH3CN, H2 and N2 was investigated with respect to gas phase composition and kinetics, and the phase composition was shown to be similar to ours.

TL;DR: In this paper, the room temperature thermal conductivity of amorphous TiO2 and Al2O3 thin films is investigated as a function of film thickness and atomic density.

TL;DR: In this paper, thermal evaporated MoO3 layer was used as a primary back contact for pure sulphide Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells to improve the power conversion efficiency.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of Ni doping on the self-cleaning properties of TiO2 thin film under visible light is reported, where the Ni-doped tiles were heat-treated at 550 and 650°C with 15 min soaking.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of substrate on the growth of SnS thin films has been studied thoroughly and X-Ray Diffractrometry pattern shows that the deposited films are showing (111) orientation having primitive type orthorhombic structure and those deposited on glass/ZnO:Al has better crystallinity and less dislocation density than the others.

TL;DR: In this article, the density of surface-related trap states is analyzed by transient UV photoconductivity and temperature-dependent admittance spectroscopy, and the application of thin films on shaped substrates is the deposition of catalytic layers on hollow glass microspheres for hydrogen storage controlled exothermal hydrolytic release.

TL;DR: In this article, a post-deposition annealing of ZnSe thin films was carried out in air at various temperatures to refine the crystalline phase refinement, which resulted in an increase of conductivity and optical bandgap of the samples.

TL;DR: The influence of crystallinity on the electron transport and electrochromic properties of sol-gel WO3 thin films has been investigated in this article, where the diffusion coefficient of electrons was studied by monitoring an electron-diffusion-controlled electro-chromic process.

TL;DR: Li2MoO4 was used as the coating material of Li[Ni0.8Co0.15Al0.05]O2 cathode to stabilize the unstable cathode/sulfide electrolyte interface as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that silver segregation plays a crucial role in microstructure, mechanical, chemical and biological properties of the antibacterial Ag-containing diamond-like carbon (DLC) films.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of Ga dopant on resistive switching behavior of ZnO-nanorods film conducting bridge random access memory was investigated using a hydrothermal process.

TL;DR: In this article, an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) study was performed on CIGSe thin films as-deposited by a three-stage co-evaporation process and after the consecutive RbF-PDT.

TL;DR: In this article, the incorporation of varying amounts of graphene oxide (GO) into conventional Sn coating electrodeposited over mild steel resulted in significant changes in the corrosion resistance performance of the coatings.