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Novel Plasmon Coupled Nanophotonic Devices and Sensors Based on Encapsulated 2-D Silver Nanoparticle arrays

Tzeng Y., Liu C-Y, Chui H.C., Huang C., Tu C-H, Chen G.W.L., Chen S., Chen G.W.L., Chen S., Liang K-C, Chu Y., Chui H.C., National Cheng Kung University, TW

2-D silver nanoparticle arrays are encapsulated in transparent materials such as aluminum oxide, diamond, and graphene for applications to plasmonic coupling based optoelectronic devices and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) sensor for detection and identification [...]

Effects of Random Work Function Fluctuations in Nanoszied Metal Grains on Electrical Characteristic of 16 nm High-/Metal Gate Bulk FinFETs

Cheng H-W, Chiu Y-Y, Lee Y-H, Li Y., National Chiao Tung University, TW

High-/metal gate (HKMG) is one of key technologies for sub-45-nm generations in nano-CMOS era [1-2]. However, using HKMG may introduce random work functions (WKs) on device’s metal gate due to various metal grain orientations [3-5]. [...]

Comprehensive Study on Reflectance of Si3N4 Subwavelength Structures for Silicon Solar Cell Applications Using 3D Finite Element Analysis

Lu Z-L, National Chiao Tung University, TW

Solar cell is one of the most promising renewable energy technologies in order to relieve the impact of the climate change. In semiconductor based solar cells, electron-hole pairs are generated via absorption of impinging photons. [...]

The Characteristics and Photocatalytic Activity of Visible Light Driven N-doped TiO2

Hsu H-J, Lin Y-H, Lin Y.-T., Lin Y-H, Lin Y.-T., National Chung Hsing University, TW

In the recent decades, titanium dioxide (TiO2) nano-material was received widely attention because of its good chemical stability, low-toxicity, self-cleaning, anti-bacteria and deodorant. However, its photocatalytic activity was limited only by ultraviolte (UV) light irradiation [...]

Catalytic activities of sputtered p-type Cu2O electrode in connection with TiO2 thin film for dye degradation

Wu K.R., Hung C.H., Yeh C.W., Sun J.C., Hsu C.J., National Kaohsiung Marine University, TW

In this study, a p/n-type photoelectrocatalytic (PEC) cell was used to enhance the photocatalytic (PC) and PEC activities towards the degradation of methylene blue (MB) solution under ultraviolet (UV) irradiation. The PEC cell consists of [...]

Oxygen Reduction Reaction Enhancement of PdCo/C Electrocatalysts Driven by Oxidation Treatment

Wang K-W, National Central University, TW

One of the key issues for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) is to reduce or replace expensive Pt cathode catalysts. Although the development of non-Pt, such as Pd-Co catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction [...]

Pt-Au Core/Shell Nanorods: Preparation and Applications as Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Liu C-W, National Central University, TW

Nanostructured materials have been studied intensively due to their board potential applications in the energy field. A great deal of effort has been devoted to developing high efficient nanocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). In [...]

Charge Confinement in Silicon Nanowires by Surface Functionalization

Shih Y.-C., Lee J-H., Lin C-T, Chen C-S, Wu K.-C., National Center for High-performance Computing, TW

Silicon nanowires (SiNWs) are expected to play an important role in nanotechnology because they possess remarkable physical property and compatibility with current Si-based fabrication. They have been successfully used in advance applications such as biosensors, [...]

White-Light Emission Characteristics of Nanoporous Silicon Membrane by Post-Treatment of Supercritical Fluid Technology

Lin J.C., Hsu M-K, Hou H-T, Wu J-Y, St. John’s University, TW

Nanoporous silicon (NPS) membrane with white-light emission property, including red, green and blue (RGB) colors by using the glucose post-treatment of supercritical fluid technology (SCF) is originally proposed in this paper. The electrochemical anodization with [...]

Fabrication of the Two-Dimensional Nanostructure on Dye-Doped Polymer Film by Multiple Holographic Recording

Huang B-Y, Yu K-Y, Kuo C-T, National Sun Yat-San University, TW

we demonstrate that the 2D-SRGs structures can be fabricated easier and faster by using pulsed laser with two-stage instantaneous writing. The structures of 2D-SRGs fabricated with the interface of nematic liquid crystals become more perfect [...]