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The exact mechanism of creep resistance enhancement due to yttrium (Y) doping in a-alumina is still subject to speculation, although it is known that dopants segregate strongly to grain boundaries. The current work applies atomistic simulation techniques t ...
Erbium-doped amorphous aluminum oxide layers deposited on Si or oxidized silicon substrates are promising construction pieces for future monolytic integrated optoelectronics devices. In a novel high-vacuum chemical vapor deposition setup the alumina films ...
structural defects induced by He implantation in GaN epilayer at high fluence (1 X 10(17) He/cm(2)) and elevated temperature (750 degrees C) have been studied by conventional and high resolution transmission electron microscopy. In addition to the planar i ...
In this work, mineral sacrificial pastes (MSP) previously developed for standard thick-film technology (alumina substrates) are extended to LTCC in order to make a capacitive anemometer. Application of MSP materials on free-sintering (unconstrained and not ...
Polycrystalline zirconia (3Y-TZP grade) unreinforced and reinforced with multiwalled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) or silicon carbide whiskers (SiCw) or silicon carbide particles (SiCp) have been processed and studied by mechanical spectroscopy with complementar ...
The growth of ruthenium (Ru) nanocrystals on the SiO2 and Al2O3 films has been investigated using atomic layer deposition (ALD) method, indicating that much higher density Ru nanocrystals are grown on the Al2O3 film compared with the SiO2 film. Ru nanocrys ...
A novel cathodic arc evaporation process operated in pure oxygen forms corundum-type micro-crystalline structures at temperatures below 600°C. Thermally stable crystalline solid solutions of corundum-type (Al 1-xCrx)2Oy have been prepared with this method ...
The oxygen transmission rate of 48 nm thick SiO2 coatings on a poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) substrate was reduced by a factor of three after applying an 8 nm thick layer of oligomerized gammaaminopropyltriethoxysilane (γ-APS). Increasing the thicknes ...
The prediction of the rheological properties of concentrated suspensions is of great importance both in industrial processes (ceramics, cements, and pharmaceutics) and natural phenomena (debris flow, soil erosion). In a previous paper, we presented a new m ...
Fully epitaxial germanium-on-insulator structures have been grown for the first time on (001) Si substrates by using a perovskite oxide template. Detailed transmission electron microscopy analysis revealed that a two-temperature growth procedure is require ...
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