Browsing by Subject "Transport properties"
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Application of the Sharp Front Model to capillary absorption in a vuggy limestone
(2009)The unusual pore size distribution and in particular the presence of large pores in certain construction materials, results in an anomalous sorptivity and a marked deviation from the standard t1/2 law. In this paper, we ...
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Capillary absorption of water and n-decane by autoclaved aerated concrete
(2008)An autoclaved aerated concrete was one of three construction materials used in the round-robin study of hygral properties carried out in the European Commission funded Heat, Air and Moisture Standards Development [HAMSTAD] ...
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Catalytic removal of nitrates from waters
(2010)The selective catalytic reduction of nitrates (NO3 -) in pure water towards N2 formation by the use of gaseous H2 and in the presence of O2 (air) at 1 atm total pressure and 25 °C has been investigated over Pd-Cu supported ...
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Current Transport Properties of CuS/Sn:In2O3 versus CuS/SnO2 Nanowires and Negative Differential Resistance in Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells
(2016)The structural, optical, and electrical transport properties of nanowires obtained by the deposition of Cu over Sn doped In2O3 and SnO2 nanowires followed by processing under H2S between 100 and 500°C have been investigated ...
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Dielectron production in C12+C12 collisions at 2AGeV with the HADES spectrometer
(2007)The invariant-mass spectrum of e+e- pairs produced in C12+C12 collisions at an incident energy of 2 GeV per nucleon has been measured for the first time. The measured pair production probabilities span over 5 orders of ...
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Evolution of osmotic pressure in solid tumors
(2014)The mechanical microenvironment of solid tumors includes both fluid and solid stresses. These stresses play a crucial role in cancer progression and treatment and have been analyzed rigorously both mathematically and ...
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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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Highly anisotropic crystal growth and thermoelectric properties of K 2Bi 8-xSb xSe 13 solid solutions: Band gap anomaly at low x
(2002)The thermoelectric properties of solid solutions of the type β-K 2Bi 8-xSb xSe 13 (0<x<8) were studied with respect to thermal behavior, band gap variation, and charge transport properties as a function of x. At x values ...
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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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Low-threshold lasers based on a high-mobility semiconducting polymer
(2006)Progress toward electrically driven conjugated polymer lasers should benefit from the identification of materials that exhibit good charge transport properties coupled with large optical gain. Here, we report a detailed ...
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Spin polarisation and anomalous Hall effect in NiMnSb films
(2004)NiMnSb has attracted a great deal of interest as a spin injector/detector in spintronic devices because it has a Curie temperature of 728 K and is predicted to be half-metallic (100% spin polarized). NiMnSb has been reported ...
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Structure inhomogeneities, shallow defects, and charge transport in the series of thermoelectric materials K2Bi8-xSb xSe13
(2006)The charge transport properties of the low-dimensional thermoelectric materials K2 Bi8-x Sbx Se13 (0<x≤8) were studied as a function of temperature and composition. The Seebeck coefficient shows an evolution from n - to p ...
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Structure-based turbulence modeling for wall-bounded flows
(2000)The performance of Reynolds stress transport (RST) models in non-equilibrium flows is limited by the lack of information about two dynamically important effects: The role of energy-containing turbulence structure ...
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Thermoelectric materials and applications on the recovery of waste heat energy
(Affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Cyprus, 1678, Nicosia, CyprusCorrespondence Address: Kyratsi, T.Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Cyprus, 1678, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2010)Today, thermoelectric (TE) technology offers a solution regarding large amounts of energy that are lost as waste heat from various applications. In this paper, the need for better thermoelectric materials is addressed and ...
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Thermoelectric module for low temperature applications
(2002)The possibility of a prototype thermoelectric cooling device for operation near liquid nitrogen temperatures has been explored. In these devices, the figure of merit involves a combination of the properties of the two ...
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Ultrafast dynamics of localized and delocalized polaron transitions in P3HT/PCBM blend materials: The effects of PCBM concentration
(2009)Nowadays, organic solar cells have the interest of engineers for manufacturing flexible and low cost devices. The considerable progress of this nanotechnology area presents the possibility of investigating new effects from ...