Advanced Materials & Manufacturing – Page 222

Efficiency Enhancement of Dye-Sensitized Nanocrystalline Solar Cells Through Fabrication

Ilumoka A.A., UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD, US

This paper reports results obtained from the investigation of electrical performance of blueberry-based DSSCs and makes recommendations regarding their fabrication, specifically optimal sintering temperature and optimal sintering time. Electrical characteristics (open circuit voltage, short circuit [...]

Robust thin spin-coated silver films with polymer thin layers for SPR image sensor applications

Son J.-H., Cho Y-J, Lee M.H., Sungkyunkwan University, KR

We fabricated thin silver films with thicknesses of 20 nm, 40 nm, and 60 nm on a prism using a spin coating method for SPR image sensor module applications. An aqueous silver ionic complex solution [...]

Nanovias FIB-etching and filling in a micro-nano interposer for molecular electronics

Gac G.L., Audoit G., Thuaire A., Rauer C., Moriceau H., Baillin X., CEA-Grenoble, FR

As molecular electronics is getting more and more explored, a device enabling electrical characterization of the synthesized molecules becomes necessary. A micro-nano interposer is thus developed to allow connection between a molecular circuit and mesoscopic [...]

Characterization of Refined Beams of Neutral Free Radicals Produced by Photo-Deionization of Negative Ion Beams

Hayashi K., Tanaka F., Sugiura T., Matsuda T., Kanazawa Institute of Technology, JP

Ion-current difference measurement by light intensity modulation ( ICD ) is introduced as a convenient method to characterize a purified beam of momentum-controlled neutral free radicals produced by photo-deionization of a negative ion beam for [...]

Computer Simulations and Experimental Study of Graphane-Like Materials Produced by Electrolytic Hydrogenation

Ilyin A.M., Nemkaeva R.R., Guseinov N.R., Tsyganov I.A., Beall G.W., Kazakh National University, KZ

Graphane and graphane-like materials in spite of their recent origin [1,2] are objects of great interest for many researchers, because of very wide field of their potential applicability: hydrogen energetic, electronics, materials science etc. The [...]

Direct Manufacturing of Functional Structures on 3D microscale surfaces by Laser Dynamic Forming

Huang G., Cheng G.J., Purdue University, US

This paper demonstrates a scalable and fast-shaping top-down integration technique, Laser Dynamic Forming (LDF), capable of manufacturing 3D functional structures conformal to micro-to-mesoscale curvilinear features on various substrates by the laser-induced shockwave. The functional devices [...]

A novel cyclic forward-backward extrusion process for production of ultrafine grains materials

Alihosseini H., Asle Zaeem M., Dehghani K., Mississippi State Univeristy, US

A new cyclic forward-backward extrusion (CFBE) process was introduced as a severe plastic deformation (SPD) technique to produce ultrafine-grained aluminum rods. According to transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) results, the average [...]

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