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Chemical Engineering

2015

Thin films

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Low Cost Schottky Barrier Solar Cells Fabricated On Cdse And Sb2S3 Films Chemically Deposited With Silicotungstic Acid, O. Savadogo, K. C. Mandal Apr 2015

Low Cost Schottky Barrier Solar Cells Fabricated On Cdse And Sb2S3 Films Chemically Deposited With Silicotungstic Acid, O. Savadogo, K. C. Mandal

Krishna C. Mandal

No abstract provided.


Applications Of High Throughput Screening Tools For Thermoelectric Materials, W. Wong-Ng, H. Joress, J. Martin, Y. Yan, M. Otani, E. Thomas, M. Green, Jason Hattrick-Simpers Mar 2015

Applications Of High Throughput Screening Tools For Thermoelectric Materials, W. Wong-Ng, H. Joress, J. Martin, Y. Yan, M. Otani, E. Thomas, M. Green, Jason Hattrick-Simpers

Jason R. Hattrick-Simpers

No abstract provided.


Applications Of High Throughput (Combinatorial) Methodologies To Electronic, Magnetic, Optical, And Energy-Related Materials, Martin L. Green, Ichiro Takeuchi, Jason R. Hattrick-Simpers Mar 2015

Applications Of High Throughput (Combinatorial) Methodologies To Electronic, Magnetic, Optical, And Energy-Related Materials, Martin L. Green, Ichiro Takeuchi, Jason R. Hattrick-Simpers

Jason R. Hattrick-Simpers

High throughput (combinatorial) materials science methodology is a relatively new research paradigm that offers the promise of rapid and efficient materials screening, optimization, and discovery. The paradigm started in the pharmaceutical industry but was rapidly adopted to accelerate materials research in a wide variety of areas. High throughput experiments are characterized by synthesis of a “library” sample that contains the materials variation of interest (typically composition), and rapid and localized measurement schemes that result in massive data sets. Because the data are collected at the same time on the same “library” sample, they can be highly uniform with respect to …


Combinatorial Approach To Turbine Bond Coat Discovery, Christopher Metting, Johnathan Bunn, Ellen Underwood, Stephen Smoak, Jason Hattrick-Simpers Mar 2015

Combinatorial Approach To Turbine Bond Coat Discovery, Christopher Metting, Johnathan Bunn, Ellen Underwood, Stephen Smoak, Jason Hattrick-Simpers

Jason R. Hattrick-Simpers

No abstract provided.


Giant Magnetostriction In Annealed Co1-XFeX Thin-Films, Dwight Hunter, Will Osborn, Ke Wang, Nataliya Kazantseva, Jason R. Hattrick-Simpers, Richard Suchoski, Ryota Takahashi, Marcus L. Young, Apurva Mehta, Leonid A. Bendersky, Same E. Lofland, Manfred Wuttig, Ichiro Takeuchi Mar 2015

Giant Magnetostriction In Annealed Co1-XFeX Thin-Films, Dwight Hunter, Will Osborn, Ke Wang, Nataliya Kazantseva, Jason R. Hattrick-Simpers, Richard Suchoski, Ryota Takahashi, Marcus L. Young, Apurva Mehta, Leonid A. Bendersky, Same E. Lofland, Manfred Wuttig, Ichiro Takeuchi

Jason R. Hattrick-Simpers

Chemical and structural heterogeneity and the resulting interaction of coexisting phases can lead to extraordinary behaviours in oxides, as observed in piezoelectric materials at morphotropic phase boundaries and relaxor ferroelectrics. However, such phenomena are rare in metallic alloys. Here we show that, by tuning the presence of structural heterogeneity in textured Co1−xFex thin films, effective magnetostriction λeff as large as 260 p.p.m. can be achieved at low-saturation field of ~10 mT. Assuming λ100 is the dominant component, this number translates to an upper limit of magnetostriction ofλ100≈5λeff >1,000 p.p.m. Microstructural analyses …


An Infrared Imaging Method For High-Throughput Combinatorial Investigation Of Hydrogenation-Dehydrogenation And New Phase Formation Of Thin Films, H. Oguchi, Jason Hattrick-Simpers, I. Takeuchi, E. Heilweil, L. Bendersky Mar 2015

An Infrared Imaging Method For High-Throughput Combinatorial Investigation Of Hydrogenation-Dehydrogenation And New Phase Formation Of Thin Films, H. Oguchi, Jason Hattrick-Simpers, I. Takeuchi, E. Heilweil, L. Bendersky

Jason R. Hattrick-Simpers

We have developed an infrared imaging setup enabling in situ infrared images to be acquired, and expanded on capabilities of an infrared imaging as a high-throughput screening technique, determination of a critical thickness of a Pd capping layer which significantly blocks infrared emission from below, enhancement of sensitivity to hydrogenation and dehydrogenation by normalizing raw infrared intensity of a Mg thin film to an inert reference, rapid and systematic screening of hydrogenation and dehydrogenation properties of a Mg–Ni composition spread covered by a thickness gradient Pd capping layer, and detection of formation of a Mg2Si phase in a Mg thin …


Electrochemical Characterization Of Electronically Conductive Polypyrrole On Cyclic Voltammograms, Taewhan Yeu, Ken-Ming Yin, Jose Carbajal, Ralph E. White Mar 2015

Electrochemical Characterization Of Electronically Conductive Polypyrrole On Cyclic Voltammograms, Taewhan Yeu, Ken-Ming Yin, Jose Carbajal, Ralph E. White

Ralph E. White

Experimental and theoretical cyclic voltammograms for electronically conducting polypyrrole film are obtained from the identical conditions and compared to each other to characterize electrochemical behavior of the polymer. A comparison of the simulated and experimental cyclic yoltammograms shows quantitative agreement. The profiles of the dependent variables show that the switching process is governed by the availability of the counter ion to the polypyrrole electrode and the amount of electroactive sites. Sensitivity analysis shows that the double layer effects have more influence in the cyclic voltammograms than the electrokinetic effects.