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The influence of conditions of heat treatment of a solution [Zn(H2O)(O2C5H7)(2)] in 1-butanol (temperature 125-185 degrees C, treatment times 2, 4, and 6 h) on dispersion and microstructure of the formed nanocrystalline and poorly aggregated zinc oxide, pr ...

MAIK NAUKA/INTERPERIODICA/SPRINGER2018

Thermochromic coatings for overheating protection of solar thermal collectors - novel type of doping (TARGET95)

Andreas Schueler, Anna Krammer

Overheating and the resulting stagnation of solar thermal collectors is a common problem even in central European latitudes. During stagnation, high temperatures lead to water evaporation, glycol degradation and stresses in the collector with increasing va ...

2018

22% Efficient Dopant-free Interdigitated Back Contact Silicon Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Sihua Zhong, Wenjie Lin, Weiliang Wu, Hui Shen

In this study, we present dopant-free back contact heterojunction silicon solar cells employing MoOx and MgFx based stacks as hole-and electron-selective contacts deposited using a thermal evaporation process at low temperature. Only two masking steps and ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2018

Impact of the fiber coating on the temperature response of distributed optical fiber sensors at cryogenic ranges

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Xin Lu

The thermomechanical behavior of a standard single mode fiber with different coating materials is theoretically analyzed under different temperature conditions. Results show that the thermal expansion/shrinkage of the fiber coating introduces an extra stra ...

2018

Coating for optical and electronic applications

Anna Krammer, Josef Andreas Schuler, Antonio Paone

Single- or multilayered coating, such as a selective solar absorber coating or a coating being part of an integrated electronic circuit, comprising one or more layers containing germanium (Ge) doped VO2+x, where -0.1 ≤ x ≤ 0.1. ...

2017

Structured transparent low emissivity coatings with high microwave transmission

Andreas Schueler, Olivia Valérie Charlotte Bouvard, Luc Burnier

Abstract In order to reduce the energy consumption of buildings, modern windows include metal-containing coatings. These coatings strongly attenuate the microwaves used for mobile communications. Here, we present a novel approach to improve radio signal tr ...

Springer Verlag2017

Plasmonic Nanohole Arrays on Hybrid Substrate For Highly Sensitive Label-Free Biosensing

Arif Engin Cetin

A biosensor device including a metal layer, a transparent substrate layer, and a dielectric layer, wherein the metal layer includes a plurality of sub-wavelength apertures, and wherein the dielectric layer is located between the metal layer and the transpa ...

2017

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