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Investigation of dry sliding wear characteristics of Al 7075 reinforced with SiC-graphite hybrid composites: multi-parameter optimization using grey relational analysis
Metal matrix composites made of aluminium and ceramics reinforced with silicon carbide (SiC) have desirable mechanical characteristics. On the other...
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Thermodynamic modelling of Ag–Si nanophase diagram including shape effect
The CALPHAD method is an especially effective method to calculate the nanophase diagram of systems by combining the thermodynamic database for the...
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Composite cathode Gd0.2Ce0.8O1.9–SrFe1−xTixO3-δ for Nicotiana tabacum-derived carbon fuel-based direct carbon fuel cell
As an electrochemical device that converts the chemical energy of fuel directly into electrical energy, the fuel cell is a new alternative technology...
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A flexible glucose biosensor modified by reduced-swelling and conductive zwitterionic hydrogel enzyme membrane
This paper reports a flexible glucose biosensor which is modified by a reduced-swelling and conductive zwitterionic hydrogel enzyme membrane that...
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Controllable self-cleaning FET self-assembled RNA-cleaving DNAzyme based DNA nanotree for culture-free Staphylococcus aureus detection
Staphylococcus aureus (SA) poses a serious risk to human and animal health, necessitating a low-cost and high-performance analytical platform for...
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Electrical Characterization of Rare Earth Oxides Grown by Atomic Layer Deposition
In this contribution, we investigate the electrical properties of thin (3–30 nm) Lu2O3 and Yb2O3 oxides grown on silicon by atomic layer depostion.... -
Rare Earth Oxides Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy for Ultimate Scaling
Combination of lanthanum and other rare earth oxides with HfO2 yields stable compounds which withstand transistor processing and have low gate... -
Atomic Layer Deposition of Rare Earth Oxides
The principles of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) for thin film growth are briefly introduced, emphasizing the aspects of a self-limiting mechanism.... -
Sesquioxides as Host Materialsfor Rare-Earth-Doped Bulk Lasersand Active Waveguides
This Chapter focuses on the optical applications of rare-earth oxides. Due to their thermo-mechanical properties, the sesquioxides of yttrium,... -
Domain-Wall Dynamics in Nanowiresand Nanostrips
In nanowires or nanostrips, the magnetic domain walls have structures that depend sensitively on the transverse sizes of these samples. These... -
HgTe, CdTe, (Cd,Hg)Te, Cd(Te,Se), Cd(Te,S), ZnTe, HgSe, CdSe, Cd(Se,S), (Cd,Mn)Se, (Cd,Zn)Se quantum dots-nanocrystals
This document is part of subvolume C2 'Optical Properties', of volume 34 'Semiconductor quantum structures' of Landolt-Börnstein, Group III,... -
Domain-Wall Dynamicsin Magnetic Logic Devices
Domain walls propagate very well through magnetic nanowires and have been used to demonstrate a logic scheme in which the two stable magnetization... -
Local Structure, Composition and Electronic Properties of Rare Earth Oxide Thin Films Studied Using Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy Techniques (TEM-EELS)
This contribution aims to demonstrate the ability of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and its associated techniques, high-resolution... -
Electronic Structure of Rare Earth Oxides
The electronic structures of dioxides, REO2, and sesquioxides, RE2O3, of the rare earths, RE=Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy and Ho, are... -
Requirements of Precursors for MOCVDand ALD of Rare Earth Oxides
This Chapter gives an account of the coordination chemistry of precursors for MOCVD and ALD of rare earth oxides. It opens with a brief introduction... -
Empirical Molecular Dynamics: Possibilities, Requirements, and Limitations
Classical molecular dynamics enables atomistic structure simulations of nanoscopic systems to be made. The method is extremely powerful in solving... -
Light Induced Effects in Amorphous and Glassy Solids
In this Chapter, we discuss how exposure to light can affect the properties of disordered materials and review our recent computational studies of... -
Multiscale Modeling of Defectsin Semiconductors:A Novel Molecular-Dynamics Scheme
Now that the modeling of simple semiconductor systems has become reliable, accurate and routine, attention is focusing on larger scale, more complex... -
Defect Theory: An Armchair History
This introductory chapter begins with a summary of the developments of the theory of defects in semiconductors in the past 50 years. This is followed... -
Dynamical Matrices and Free Energies
The calculation of the entire dynamical matrix of a periodic supercell (containing a defect or not) provides several most useful pieces of...