Browsing by Subject "Substrates"
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The Active Site Structure of Heme a3 3+-C≡N-CuB2+ of Cytochrome aa 3 Oxidase as Revealed from Resonance Raman Scattering
(2003)Resonance Raman and FTIR spectroscopies have been employed to investigate the structure of the heme a3-C≡N-CuB complex of oxidized cytochrome aa3 oxidase. The characterization of this complex is essential since a central ...
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Ambiguous Role of Growth-Induced Defects on the Semiconductor-to-Metal Characteristics in Epitaxial VO2/TiO2 Thin Films
(2018)Controlling the semiconductor-to-metal transition temperature in epitaxial VO2 thin films remains an unresolved question both at the fundamental as well as the application level. Within the scope of this work, the effects ...
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Composite DLC-metal/metal-carbide coatings produced by electron enhanced unbalanced magnetron sputtering
(1997)Composite coatings consisting of metal containing diamond like carbons were produced by unbalanced magnetron sputtering in a closed field magnetic configuration. Targets of Pta and W were poisoned with acetylene during the ...
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Growth and structural characterization of orthorhombic and tetragonal SrCuO2 thin films
(2013)Epitaxial SrCuO2 thin films were grown on (0 0 1) SrTiO 3 substrates by pulsed laser deposition using a stoichiometric target. X-ray diffraction indicated that the SrCuO2 films undergo a structural phase transition as a ...
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Growth and transport properties of HT-Li xCoO 2 thin films deposited by pulsed laser deposition
(2012)The successful in situ growth of single phase, c-axis oriented, layered structured Li xCoO 2 thin films on (0 0 0 1) Al 2O 3 substrates by pulsed laser deposition is reported. Thin films were grown in an oxygen pressure ...
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Growth of polycrystalline LaNi 1-xCo xO 3 (x = 0.3, 0.5) thin films on Si(100) by pulsed laser deposition
(2004)Polycrystalline LaNi 1_xCo xO 3 (x = 0.5, 0.3) thin films have been deposited on polished Si(lOO) substrates by pulsed laser deposition. The films are grown at 650°C in ambient oxygen pressure of 0.4 mbar with an incident ...
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High-resolution quadrature photopyroelectric spectroscopy of a-Si:H thin films deposited on silicon wafers
(1995)The recently developed photothermal technique of quadrature photopyroelectric spectroscopy (Q-PPES) has been applied to measurements of amorphous Si thin films deposited on crystalline Si substrates. Direct, meaningful ...
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Influence of nanoreactor environment and substrate location on the activity of horseradish peroxidase in olive oil based water-in-oil microemulsions
(2011)Oxidative enzymatic reactions using horseradish peroxidase (HRP) were carried out in water-in-oil (w/o) microemulsions composed of olive oil/lecithin/1-propanol/water, a model biomimetic system. The substrates used (gallic ...
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KrF pulsed laser deposition of La5Ca9Cu24O41 thin films on various substrates
(2009)Recent studies on single crystals of cuprate oxides containing spin chains and ladders have reported large anisotropic magnon-mediated thermal conductivity. A potential use of thin films of such materials could be in the ...
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Low-temperature growth of NiMnSb thin films by pulsed-laser deposition
(2002)We report the growth of thin films of the ferromagnetic half-Heusler alloy NiMnSb by pulsed-laser deposition on Si (111) and polycrystalline InAs substrates. Highly crystalline films are grown using low substrate temperatures ...
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Matrix assisted pulsed laser evaporation of Mn 12(Propionate) thin films
(2012)Single molecule magnets are of great interest due to a multitude of potential applications for some of which thin films are required. Traditional physical vapor deposition techniques are not suitable for the deposition of ...
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Matrix assisted pulsed laser evaporation of Mn 12(Propionate) thin films
(2012)Single molecule magnets are of great interest due to a multitude of potential applications for some of which thin films are required. Traditional physical vapor deposition techniques are not suitable for the deposition of ...
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Measurement of liquid crystal film thickness using interferometry
(2010)Thickness measurements of thin films having thickness less than 1 µm are difficult to obtain by an interferometer. These difficulties arise from the overlap of the fringes from the upper and lower surfaces of the thin ...
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Optical properties of conjugated poly(3-hexylthiophene)/ [6,6] -phenyl C61 -butyric acid methyl ester composites
(2007)In this work, we present the evolution of optical constants as a function of [6,6] -phenyl C61 -butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) concentration for conjugated poly(3-hexylthiophene)/ [6,6] -phenyl C61 -butyric acid methyl ...
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Optically thin palladium films on silicon-based substrates and nanostructure formation: effects of hydrogen
(2000)Optically thin palladium films evaporated on different silicon-based substrates are investigated following exposure to different concentrations of hydrogen gas in air. Laser modulated reflectance off the palladium surface ...
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Origin of the stabilization of the metastable tetragonal high-pressure phase in SrCuO2 thin films grown on SrTiO3 substrates by pulsed laser deposition
(2014)In this work we have systematically investigated the evolution of structure and stoichiometry in SrCuO2 films grown on TiO2-terminated SrTiO3 substrates as a function of the substrate temperature. Depending on the growth ...
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Partially yttria-stabilized zirconia coatings produced under plasma-assisted EBPVD with bipolar pulsed bias and under electron bombardment-assisted positive bias conditions
(1997)Previous research using radio frequency (rf) plasma-assisted electron beam (EB) PVD to deposit partially yttria-stabilized zirconia (PYSZ) thermal barrier coatings has shown the benefits of this method in terms of structure ...
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Pulsed laser deposition of highly textured La 5Ca 9Cu 24O 41 films on SrLaAlO 4 (1 0 0) and Gd 3Ga 5O 12 (1 0 0) substrates
(2012)The growth of La 5Ca 9Cu 24O 41 thin films on SrLaAlO 4 (1 0 0) and Gd 3Ga 5O 12 (1 0 0) substrates by pulsed laser deposition is reported in this paper. The influence of deposition process parameters, such as oxygen ...
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Pulsed-laser deposition of NiMnSb thin films at moderate temperatures
(2002)Thin films of the half-Heusler alloy NiMnSb, which is predicted by band-structure calculations to be a half-metallic ferromagnet, were grown on various substrates (Si and InAs) using pulsed-laser deposition. The growth ...
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Stoichiometry issues in pulsed laser deposition of the ferromagnetic alloy NiMnSb
(Affiliation: NIRDO, BucharestAffiliation: MADIREL, Univ. Provence Centre St. Charles, Marseille, FranceAffiliation: Natl. Inst. Res. Devmt. Mat. Phy., BucharestAffiliation: Foundation for Res. and Technology, HELLAS, Inst. Electron. Structure and Laser, Heraklion, Crete, GreeceCorrespondence Address: Grigorescu, C.E.A.NIRDO, Bucharest, 2002)We report on the reproducible growth of stoichiometric thin films of ferromagnetic intermetallic compound NiMnSb by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) on various substrates. The films are grown at moderate temperature (around ...