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Surface Corrosion Response Of Al Alloys A383 And Aural 2 With Ce Additions In Aqueous Nacl And Salt-Fog Environments, Michael James Thompson
Surface Corrosion Response Of Al Alloys A383 And Aural 2 With Ce Additions In Aqueous Nacl And Salt-Fog Environments, Michael James Thompson
Masters Theses
Copper is commonly used in aluminum alloys to increase its strength by solid solution and precipitation strengthening, however, the corrosion resistance is inversely related to the amount of copper in the alloy. Over 70 percent of material used to produce aluminum alloys in the US come from recycled (secondary) alloys, many of which have a copper content of more than one percent by weight. Alloys with tightly controlled tolerances, where copper is seen as an impurity, are unable to utilize many of the recycling feedstock without adding newly processed (primary) aluminum to dilute impurities to within specifications. Primary aluminum is …
Thin Film Combinatorial Synthesis Of Advanced Scintillation Materials, Jonathan Daniel Peak
Thin Film Combinatorial Synthesis Of Advanced Scintillation Materials, Jonathan Daniel Peak
Doctoral Dissertations
The development and application of a combinatorial sputtering thin film technique to screen potential scintillation material systems was investigated. The technique was first benchmarked by exploring the binary lutetium oxide-silicon oxide material system, which successfully identified the luminescence phases of the system, Lu2SiO5 (LSO) and Lu2Si2O7 (LPS). The second application was to optimize the activator concentration in cerium doped LSO. The successfully optimized cerium concentration in the thin film LSO of 0.34 atomic percent was much greater than the standard cerium concentration in single crystal LSO. This lead to an intensive study based on temperature dependent steady-state and lifetime photoluminescence …