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The feasibility of potato-based bioplastics as food or fresh produce packaging materials was investigated using glycerol and sorbitol plasticizers at three different concentrations (30, 50, and 70%). The effec...
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Optical and Electrical Characterization of Annealed Silicon-implanted GaN
In this paper, we investigate the effect of post-implant annealing on the optical and electrical properties of Si-implanted GaN films. Results from several measurement techniques including room temperature pho...
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Laser nano-fabrication of large-area plasmonic structures and surface plasmon resonance tuning by thermal effect
A simple and flexible technique aimed to generate large-area periodic nano-dot array features on metal thin films by laser interference lithography (LIL) has been demonstrated. In this paper, gold nano-dot arr...
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PLD synthesis of GaN nanowires and nanodots on patterned catalyst surface for field emission study
Patterned gallium nitride nanowires and nanodots have been grown on n-Si (100) substrates by pulsed laser deposition. The nanostructures are patterned using a physical mask, resulting in regions of nanowire gr...
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Mechanisms of Intersubband Transition in n-Type III-V Quantum Well Superlattice and Improvement on Absorption for TE Polarized Field
In this paper, the theoretical study of intersubband transitions in quantum well infrared photodetectors (QWIPs) applying the eight bands k.p model incorporated with envelope function approximation is describe...
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The role of particle size and polymer molecular weight in the formation and properties of an organo-ceramic composite
The role of particle size and polymer molecular weight in the formation and properties of a calcium aluminate cement-poly(vinyl alcohol) composite was investigated. Banbury mixing studies, in combination with ...
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Evolution of mechano-chemistry and microstructure of a calcium aluminate-polymer composite: Part II. Mixing rate effects
Microstructure, microchemistry and mechanical properties of hardened macro-defect-free (MDF) composites processed at various rotor rates in a Banbury mixer were investigated. A quiescently formed calcium alumi...
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Evolution of mechano-chemistry and microstructure of a calcium aluminate-polymer composite: Part I. Mixing time effects
Paste development and evolution of microstructure, microchemistry, and mechanical properties of macro-defect-free composites were investigated. Mixing torque plots from a Banbury mixer showed a “window of proc...
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Effects of Low-Temperature Grown GaAs Intermediate Layers on the Crystalline Quality of GaAs-on-Si Epilayers
The incorporation of low-temperature (LT) GaAs intermediate layers grown at 230°C had been shown to have the effects of improving the crystalline quality of GaAs epilayers on Si. The use of this LT-GaAs interm...
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Processing-Property Interactions in Macro-Defect-Free Cements
Relationships between mixing conditions, viscoelastic paste properties and flexural strength of hardened matrices have been investigated for an MDF cement. The correlation of paste relaxation times and matrix ...
