Download or read book Synthesis and Characterization of Pure LaS and Growth of CdS Thin film by RF Sputtering written by Hai Tang and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Simple Chemical Methods for Thin Film Deposition written by Babasaheb R. Sankapal and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-02 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores chemical methods for thin film deposition with diverse nanostructured morphology and their applications. Unlike top-down techniques, chemical methods offer low cost, simplicity, and growth of nanostructured surface architecture with ease of small to large-scale area deposition. The book primarily focuses on innovative twelve chemical methods for thin-film deposition on one platform. Since each method has its own advantages and disadvantages, it is crucial to select the specific method for specific material to be deposited depending upon what type of application is targeted. Due to inclusive of diverse chemical deposition methods, researcher will have knowledge about best choice of the deposition method to be adopted. Inclusive methods discussed in the book are chemical bath deposition, successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction, ion exchange, electroless deposition, electrodeposition, hydrothermal, spray pyrolysis, spin coating, dip coating, doctor blade, screen printing, and sol-gel. The selection of the correct procedure for material to be deposited in thin film form depends on its unique process parameters based on the kind of application and its requirement. The role of preparative factors necessary for thin film alters properties related to structure and surface morphology, electrical conductivity and optical band gap which have been extensively discussed along with the underlying science of film synthesis. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the field of chemical methods for thin film synthesis to applications. In addition to synthesis, the book covers characterization, instrumentation, and industrial application of thin films. As a result, concentrated techniques will be of great interest to university/college professors, students and new engineers as well as postdocs and scientists in the area.
Download or read book Preparation and Characterization of Lithium Thiogermanate Thin Films Using RF Magnetron Sputtering written by Bryce W. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preparation and Characterization of Dielectric Thin Films by RF Magnetron Sputtering with Ba0 3Sr0 7 Zn1 written by Feng Shi and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Synthesis and Characterization of Pure and Doped Ceria Films by Sol Gel and Sputtering written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pure and doped Ceria are known for their ability to gain or lose Oxygen, which is of interest to the Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) and catalyst community. Current efforts are focused in SOFCs to reduce the operating temperature of the cell while maintaining ionic conduction. Ceria is known for its high ionic conductivity in the intermediate temperature region. (600-800° C) We have prepared pure and doped Ceria films by Sol-gel and magnetron sputtering methods. Enhanced grain-boundary contribution in the conductivity can be studied in the Sol-gel process due to excellent control over the synthesis conditions, which enabled us to control the average grain size. Sputtered films were grown and investigated as a prelude to possible multi-layered CeO2 structures in the near future. These films were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), nuclear reaction analysis (NRA), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), atomic force microscopy (AFM), and Oxygen conduction measurements. We have observed greater volume diffusion in nanocrystalline Ceria compared to bulk polycrystalline films as a result of low density. Near surface diffusion properties with increasing temperature indicate a decrease in the volume diffusion as a result of grain growth. However, a linear increase in O2 content at 6̃00nm depth was observed and can be correlated to the redistribution of O2 in the samples. Surface roughness of 111 and 200 oriented Ceria films on Al2O3 and YSZ was observed to be 0.13nm and 0.397nm, respectively. In the case of Ceria grown on YSZ, structural properties from XRD results showed a highly oriented structure with cube on cube growth. XRD results from Ceria grown on Al2O3 showed an oriented structure whose degree of orientation appeared to be partially dependent on substrate temperature. Preliminary XPS results indicate reduction in Ceria from the Ce4+ to Ce3+ state near the surface.
Download or read book Development of Synthesis Routes for Epitaxial Oxide Thin Films written by Jonathon Lee Schad and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the deposition method best suited for depositing an oxide thin film can be the difference between measuring the intrinsic properties of the thin film and measuring extrinsic properties arising from defects, impurity phases, and contamination. In this work, unique synthesis routes for the deposition of three epitaxial oxide thin films is presented. Applying these new routes, new material properties were able to be discerned that had been concealed in thin films deposited utilizing conventional methods. Dual off-axis RF sputtering of Bi-rich BiFeO3̳ targets was employed to deposit a 1 [mu]m-thick multiferroic BiFeO3̳ film on various (111)p̳c̳-orientated substrates with cubic and orthorhombic symmetries. Using non-resonant x-ray magnetic scattering (NXMS) and neutron diffraction, the magnetic domain populations in the BiFeO3̳ were measured. We found that growing on reduced-symmetry substrate NdGaO3̳ (011)o̳, yields a BiFeO3̳ film with a single ferroelectric, structural, and magnetic domain consistent across the whole sample. The single domain remains stable even after switching a region of the sample ferroelectrically up to 10,000 times. Using NXMS polarimetry we confirm that there is a change in the magnetic polarity of the BiFeO3̳ domain after ferroelectric switching, demonstrating the coupling of the magnetic and ferroelectric orders in monodomain (111)p̳c̳-orientated BiFeO3 ̳ thin films. Using reactive RF sputtering of a pure Fe target, phase pure deposition of antiferromagnetic insulator [alpha]-Fe2O3̳ was achieved. SQUID magnetometry confirms the absence of any ferromagnetic minority domains in the film. We showed that the Morin transition temperature, above which [alpha]-Fe2̳O3̳ has a weak canted moment, decreases when reducing the thickness of the film. For films 10 nm and thinner, the Morin transition was suppressed completely. Using the XMLD contrast of the 10 nm-thick [alpha]-Fe2̳O3̳ film, X-ray Photoemission Electron Microscopy (PEEM) measurements uncovered a complex mosaic of sub-micron size antiferromagnetic domains connected by a network of antiferromagnetic spin vortices. The vortices were mostly found in vortex/antivortex pairs which could be annihilated through the application of an external magnetic field. When a 1 nm-thick Co layer was overlayed, the mosaic of domains present in the [alpha]-Fe2̳O3̳ was coupled to the Co which takes on the same mosaic pattern. Pulsed laser deposition of SrO and chemical vapor deposition of a TiO2̳ precursor gas were used simultaneously to deposit high quality SrTiO3 thin films in a hybrid deposition technique we called metal-organic pulsed laser deposition (MOPLD). We demonstrated a conductive 2-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) at the interface between MOPLD-grown SrTiO3 and PLD-grown LaAlO3̳, indicative that the SrTiO3̳ thin film is highly stoichiometric. The increased stoichiometry control afforded by MOPLD also grants the ability to control the point defects in the system. By decreasing the abundance of point defects, quantum properties of SrTiO3̳ become accessible.
Download or read book The Preparation Characterization and Tribological Study of RF Sputtered Thin Films for Magnetic Memory Disk written by Chengyea Leu and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Synthesis and Characterization of Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Thin Films written by Sindhura Vadlamani and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ceramic Abstracts written by American Ceramic Society and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Metals Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evolution of Thin Film Morphology written by Matthew Pelliccione and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-01-29 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book is on modeling and simulations used in research on the morphological evolution during film growth. The authors emphasize the detailed mathematical formulation of the problem. The book will enable readers themselves to set up a computational program to investigate specific topics of interest in thin film deposition. It will benefit those working in any discipline that requires an understanding of thin film growth processes.
Download or read book Fractal Concepts in Surface Growth written by A.- L. Barabási and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-13 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together two of the most exciting and widely studied subjects in modern physics: namely fractals and surfaces. To the community interested in the study of surfaces and interfaces, it brings the concept of fractals. To the community interested in the exciting field of fractals and their application, it demonstrates how these concepts may be used in the study of surfaces. The authors cover, in simple terms, the various methods and theories developed over the past ten years to study surface growth. They describe how one can use fractal concepts successfully to describe and predict the morphology resulting from various growth processes. Consequently, this book will appeal to physicists working in condensed matter physics and statistical mechanics, with an interest in fractals and their application. The first chapter of this important new text is available on the Cambridge Worldwide Web server: http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/onlinepubs/Textbooks/textbookstop.html
Download or read book Metals Abstracts Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Design and Development of Nanostructured Thin Films written by Antonella Macagnano and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to their unique size-dependent physicochemical properties, nanostructured thin films are used in a wide range of applications from smart coating and drug delivery to electrocatalysis and highly-sensitive sensors. Depending on the targeted application and the deposition technique, these materials have been designed and developed by tuning their atomic-molecular 2D- and/or 3D-aggregation, thickness, crystallinity, and porosity, having effects on their optical, mechanical, catalytic, and conductive properties. Several open questions remain about the impact of nanomaterial production and use on environment and health. Many efforts are currently being made not only to prevent nanotechnologies and nanomaterials from contributing to environmental pollution but also to design nanomaterials to support, control, and protect the environment. This Special Issue aims to cover the recent advances in designing nanostructured films focusing on environmental issues related to their fabrication processes (e.g., low power and low cost technologies, the use of environmentally friendly solvents), their precursors (e.g., waste-recycled, bio-based, biodegradable, and natural materials), their applications (e.g., controlled release of chemicals, mimicking of natural processes, and clean energy conversion and storage), and their use in monitoring environment pollution (e.g., sensors optically- or electrically-sensitive to pollutants)
Download or read book Solar Cells and Modules written by Arvind Shah and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a comprehensive introduction to the field of photovoltaic (PV) solar cells and modules. In thirteen chapters, it addresses a wide range of topics including the spectrum of light received by PV devices, the basic functioning of a solar cell, and the physical factors limiting the efficiency of solar cells. It places particular emphasis on crystalline silicon solar cells and modules, which constitute today more than 90 % of all modules sold worldwide. Describing in great detail both the manufacturing process and resulting module performance, the book also touches on the newest developments in this sector, such as Tunnel Oxide Passivated Contact (TOPCON) and heterojunction modules, while dedicating a major chapter to general questions of module design and fabrication. Overall, it presents the essential theoretical and practical concepts of PV solar cells and modules in an easy-to-understand manner and discusses current challenges facing the global research and development community.
Download or read book The Materials Science of Thin Films written by Milton Ohring and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepared as a textbook complete with problems after each chapter, specifically intended for classroom use in universities.
Download or read book The Foundations of Vacuum Coating Technology written by Donald M. Mattox and published by William Andrew. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Foundations of Vacuum Coating Technology, Second Edition, is a revised and expanded version of the first edition, which was published in 2003. The book reviews the histories of the various vacuum coating technologies and expands on the history of the enabling technologies of vacuum technology, plasma technology, power supplies, and low-pressure plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition. The melding of these technologies has resulted in new processes and products that have greatly expanded the application of vacuum coatings for use in our everyday lives. The book is unique in that it makes extensive reference to the patent literature (mostly US) and how it relates to the history of vacuum coating. The book includes a Historical Timeline of Vacuum Coating Technology and a Historical Timeline of Vacuum/Plasma Technology, as well as a Glossary of Terms used in the vacuum coating and surface engineering industries. History and detailed descriptions of Vacuum Deposition Technologies Review of Enabling Technologies and their importance to current applications Extensively referenced text Patents are referenced as part of the history Historical Timelines for Vacuum Coating Technology and Vacuum/Plasma Technology Glossary of Terms for vacuum coating
