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Light Induced Chemical Vapour Deposition (LICVD) of titanium dioxide thin films is studied in this work. It is shown that this technique enables to deposit locally and selectively a chosen crystalline phase with a precise controlled thickness at low substr ...
Conventional equipment for plasma spraying can be adapted for operation at low pressure so that PECVD-like processing can be performed. The plasma jet generated by the torch is characterized by a high convective velocity and a high gas temperature. The inf ...
Recently, some research effort has been instigated towards micro and nano patterning of curved surfaces, as system miniaturization by means of patterned planar surfaces has practically reached its limits. In contrast to the more practical approach of exist ...
Nanowire superconducting single photon detectors (SSPDs) [1] are characterized by very high sensitivity in the near infrared (detection efficiency η up to 30%, for a dark count rate DK of few Hz), speed (up to ∼1 GHz repetition rate) and time resolution (j ...
We analyzed along this work the feasibility to produce high quality alumina thin films by High Vacuum Chemical Vapor Deposition (HV-CVD). We study the influence of various parameters on the growth process and on the film quality, such as substrate temperat ...
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 ...
Focused Electron Beam Induced Deposition (FEBID) is a rapid prototyping technique for the investigation, production and modification of 2 and 3-D nanostructures. The process takes place at room temperature, in the high-vacuum chamber of a Scanning Electron ...
Strontium barium niobate (SrxBa1-xNb2O6, shortly SBN) is a solid solution system with tetragonal tungsten bronze crystal structure. It exhibits a ferroelectric phase with only one polar axis and a transition temperature depending on the Sr/Ba ratio. This t ...
The Swiss snow-cover model SNOWPACK is presently used in many applications from snow sports and engineering to climate change assessment but also for avalanche warning. The core routines are packed in a library that also serves as the basic module for the ...
DC reactive magnetron sputtering was used for the deposition of Zr–Si–N thin films. Four series of samples have been deposited at various substrate temperatures TS: 300 K, 510 K, 710 K and 910 K. Depending on TS, different N2 partial pressures pN2 were req ...