Advanced Materials & Manufacturing – Page 330

Synthesis of porous silicas with high surface area using renewable templates

Peña J.D., Rios L.A., Applied Physicochemical Processes Research Group, CO

Silicas are important supports in heterogeneous catalysis because they have very high specific surface areas, large pore volumes and offer the possibility of incorporating a variety of chemical moieties or heteroatoms within their structure or [...]

The influence of nanometric size on various properties of nanocrystalline Ti0.95Co0.05O2 diluted magnetic semiconductors

Srinivas K., Venugopal Reddy P., Osmania University, IN

The present work focused mainly to understand the influence of nanometric size on various properties of Co doped TiO2 system. several investigations were carried out. These results are original and never published earlier. For the [...]

Development of nanoenergetic materials based on Al/I2O5 system

Martirosyan K.S., Wang L., Luss D., University of Houston, US

This report presents a novel nanoenergetic system based on iodine oxide and aluminum thermite reaction and the study of their gas generation and thermal wave behavior during the detonation. The ignition of homogeneous mixture of [...]

A new technology for making advanced materials

Varyukhin V., Spuskanyuk V., Davydenko O., Donetsk Institute for Physics and Engineering, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, UA

A new combined technology including the equal channel angular hydroextrusion (ECAH), direct hydroextrusion (HE) and drawing (D) techniques for making nanostructure wire is for the first time proposed. The main purpose of our study is [...]

Development of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) for Pressure Sensing Application

Mohamed N.M., Lai M.K., Begam K.M., University Technology PETRONAS, MY

The paper reports on the investigation of using aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as the pressure sensing element. Besides the unique advantages of high sensitivity, small size, low power consumption, and strong mechanical stability, the driving [...]

Monte Carlo Simulation of Impact of Random Telegraph Noise in 45 nm MOSFET Due to Coupled Effects of Random Interface and Oxide Traps With Random Channel Dopant Distributions

Ashraf N.S., Vasileska D., Ma Z., Arizona State University, US

This paper presents a 3-D Ensemble Monte Carlo ( EMC ) based simulation for 45 nm gate length MOSFET to account for the fluctuations in drain current (saturation) and threshold voltage as causes of reliability [...]

Crystalline/amorphous silicon core/shell nanowires under external loads: An atomistic simulation study

Meng Q., Jing Y., Harbin Institute of Technology, CN

The nanomechanical properties of Si/a-Si core-shell NWs are investigated using molecular dynamics simulations with EDIP model. Under uniaxial compressive and tensile loading, the computed Young’s modulus increases as the radius of crystalline core increases and [...]

Structural and magnetic Properties of electrochemically grown Co-Fe and Ni-Fe alloy nanowire arrays

Pandya D.K., Kaur D., Chaudhary S., Kashyap S.C., IIT Delhi, IN

Magnetic nanowires are of immense importance in ultrahigh density magnetic storage media, micromagnetic sensors in read heads and spintronics devices. The nanowires of binary alloys of ferromagnetic metals like Co, Ni and Fe are particularly [...]

MOCVD Preparation and photoluminiscence of ZnS nanowires

Juarez F., Juarez J.M., Juarez F., Juarez J.M., Instituto Politecnico Nacional, MX

In this communication, we report a facile solution route to synthesize single crystalline wurtzite ZnS nanowires at low temperature (170 °C) using MOCVD system. Observations on the microstructure of the as-synthesized ZnS by high-resolution electron [...]

Novel metal nanoslit by dewetting of thermally activated Au film on CNT

Im H., Seoul National University, KR

It has been studied by many research groups to fabricate nano-sized hole or slit array of metal film. By using various fabrication methods, such as photolithography, and nano-imprint, have been studied. However, there still remain [...]