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Xinqi Chen, Wei Dai, Tian Wu, Wei Luo, Jianping Yang, Wan Jiang and Lianjun Wang
Thermoelectric technology has the ability to convert heat directly into electricity and vice versa. With the rapid growth of portable and wearable electronics and miniature devices, the self-powered and maintenance of free thermoelectric energy harvester...
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Lucia V. Mercaldo, Iurie Usatii and Paola Delli Veneri
The conversion efficiency of thin-film silicon solar cells needs to be improved to be competitive with respect to other technologies. For a more efficient use of light across the solar spectrum, multi-junction architectures are being considered. Light-ma...
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Hiroyuki Kaneko, Tsutomu Minegishi and Kazunari Domen
Copper chalcopyrite is a promising candidate for a photocathode material for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting because of its high half-cell solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency (HC-STH), relatively simple and low-cost preparation process, an...
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Yishu Wang, Minghui Zhang and Efstathios I. Meletis
We report on a novel method to fabricate composition gradient, epitaxial La1-xSrxMnO3 thin films with the objective to alleviate biaxial film strain. In this work, epitaxial, composition gradient La1-xSrxMnO3, and pure LaMnO3 and La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 thin fi...
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I. M. Dharmadasa, P. A. Bingham, O. K. Echendu, H. I. Salim, T. Druffel, R. Dharmadasa, G. U. Sumanasekera, R. R. Dharmasena, M. B. Dergacheva, K. A. Mit, K. A. Urazov, L. Bowen, M. Walls and A. Abbas
Thin film solar cells based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) are complex devices which have great potential for achieving high conversion efficiencies. Lack of understanding in materials issues and device physics slows down the rapid progress of these devices...
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Arjaan Kooijman, Loreta A. Muscarella and René M. Williams
Doping lead perovskite materials with a few percent of zinc-halides increases their stability at ambient conditions, enhances their properties and improves the efficiency of the corresponding solar cell devices.
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Dongkyu Kim and Choongik Kim
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Toru Nikaido, Rena Takahashi, Meu Ariyoshi, Alireza Sadr and Junji Tagami
It has been proposed that a resin coating can serve as a means to protect dental structure after preparation of the tooth for indirect restorations, sealing the exposed dentin. The resin coating is applied on the cut surfaces immediately after tooth prep...
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Dongai Wang and Meihua Liu
The amount of wear is one of the most important indicators for assessing the wear resistance of materials, controlling product quality and studying the mechanisms of frictional wear of materials. Due to the limitations of the friction and wear test equip...
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Roberto Baca-Arroyo
Analog computing from recycling principle for next circular economy scenario has been studied with an iron oxide-coupled graphite/Fe?Si steel structure which was built using recycled waste materials, such as lead pencil and 3% Si steel (Fe?Si steel) foil...
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Samira Naghdi, Kyong Yop Rhee, David Hui and Soo Jin Park
With ever-increasing demand for lightweight, small, and portable devices, the rate of production of electronic and optoelectronic devices is constantly increasing, and alternatives to the current heavy, voluminous, fragile, conductive and transparent mat...
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Michael E. A. Warwick, Ian Ridley and Russell Binions
Due to increasing pressure to reduce the energy demand in buildings, thermochromic thin film based glazing has become a recognized potential solution due to the intrinsic ability to modulate the solar heat gain of a window as a function of the materials ...
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Michael E. A. Warwick, Ian Ridley and Russell Binions
Due to increasing pressure to reduce the energy demand in buildings, thermochromic thin film based glazing has become a recognized potential solution due to the intrinsic ability to modulate the solar heat gain of a window as a function of the materials ...
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Kwok Wei Shah, Su-Xi Wang, Yun Zheng and Jianwei Xu
Metal chalcogenide materials are current mainstream thermoelectric materials with high conversion efficiency. This review provides an overview of the scalable solution-based methods for controllable synthesis of various nanostructured and thin-film metal...
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Hao-Kai Peng, Yanting Wang, Ting-Ting Li, Ching-Wen Lou, Qi He and Jia-Horng Lin
Electromagnetic pollution interferes with electronic equipment in proximity and jeopardizes human health, which urges the development of electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding materials. It is urgent to develop electromagnetic interference (EMI) sh...
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Miia Mäntymäki, Mikko Ritala and Markku Leskelä
Lithium-ion batteries are the enabling technology for a variety of modern day devices, including cell phones, laptops and electric vehicles. To answer the energy and voltage demands of future applications, further materials engineering of the battery com...
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Simone Di Mare, Daniele Menossi, Andrei Salavei, Elisa Artegiani, Fabio Piccinelli, Arun Kumar, Gino Mariotto and Alessandro Romeo
Thin film solar cells have reached commercial maturity and extraordinarily high efficiency that make them competitive even with the cheaper Chinese crystalline silicon modules. However, some issues (connected with presence of toxic and/or rare elements) ...
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Nicodemus Edwin Widjonarko
X-ray diffraction has been a standard technique for investigating structural properties of materials. However, most common applications in the organic materials community have been restricted to either chemical identification or qualitative strain analys...
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Satwik Kundu, Rupshali Roy, M. Saifur Rahman, Suryansh Upadhyay, Rasit Onur Topaloglu, Suzanne E. Mohney, Shengxi Huang and Swaroop Ghosh
The size of transistors has drastically reduced over the years. Interconnects have likewise also been scaled down. Today, conventional copper (Cu)-based interconnects face a significant impediment to further scaling since their electrical conductivity de...
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Violeta Purcar, Valentin Raditoiu, Florentina Monica Raduly, Alina Radi?oiu, Mihai Anastasescu, Monica Popa, Simona Caprarescu, Raluca Somoghi, Mariana Constantin, Cristina Firinca and Georgiana Cornelia Ispas
The main goal of this study was to present a facile and inexpensive approach for the preparation of hybrid coatings by the deposition under ambient air conditions of silver-based silica materials on glass substrates, which can be used to improve solar ce...
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