Indium-Free PTB7/PC71BM Polymer Solar Cells with Solution-Processed Al:ZnO Electrodes on PET Substrates by P. Fuchs, A. Paracchino, H. Hagendorfer, L. Kranz, T. Geiger, Y. E. Romanyuk, A. N. Tiwari, F. Nüesch

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Spectroscopic investigation of two xanthane dyes and design of a FRET based pesticide sensor by Sangita Majumder, Subrata Deb, Shazidul Hussain, Dibyendu Dey, Debajyoti Bhattacharjee, Abdullah N. Alodhayb, Shamima Hussain, Syed Arshad Hussain

“…Abstract Layer-by-Layer (LbL) technique is the simplest and inexpensive method for preparartion of nano-dimensional thin films for tailoring material behavior having wide range of applications including sensors. …”
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Déposition par Pulvé Risation Cathodique Radio Fréquence et Caracté Risation Électronique, Structurale et Optique de Couches Minces du Dioxyde de Titane by K. Hafidi, M. Azizan, Y. Ijdiyaou, E. L. Ameziane

“…Deposited titanium oxide thin films are used as optical protector films for several materials and as energy converters for solar cells. …”
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Enhanced Power Conversion Efficiency of P3HT : PC71BM Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells by Doping a High-Mobility Small Organic Molecule by Hanyu Wang, Xiao Wang, Pu Fan, Xin Yang, Junsheng Yu

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Quantum-mechanical model of ion thruster for small spacecraft by V. V. Fedyanin, V. V. Shalay, V. K. Fedorov

“…Detector plates demonstrating the interference pattern in thin films are presented. A mathematical description of the relief of thin films is given using the resulting wave function. …”
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Annealing Heat Treatment of ZnO Nanoparticles Grown on Porous Si Substrate Using Spin-Coating Method by K. A. Eswar, J. Rouhi, H. F. Husairi, M. Rusop, S. Abdullah

“…The postannealing treatments were investigated on morphologies and photoluminescence (PL) properties of the ZnO thin films. Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) results indicate that the thin films composed by ZnO nanoparticles were distributed uniformly on PSi. …”
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Development and Prospect of Nanoarchitectured Solar Cells by Bo Zhang, Wenxu Xie, Yong Xiang

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Photo-Oxidation of Water Using Nanocrystalline Tungsten Oxide under Visible Light by J. W. J. Hamilton, J. A. Byrne, P. S. M. Dunlop, N. M. D. Brown

“…The tungsten oxide thin films were characterised by FESEM, Auger electron spectroscopy, and photoelectrochemical methods. …”
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Intrinsic and Extrinsic Ferromagnetism in Co-Doped Indium Tin Oxide Revealed Using X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism by A. M. H. R. Hakimi, F. Schoofs, M. G. Blamire, S. Langridge, S. S. Dhesi

“…The effects of high-temperature annealing on ferromagnetic Co-doped Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) thin films have been investigated using X-ray diffraction (XRD), magnetometry, and X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism (XMCD). …”
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Biotechnological melanin synthesized from tyrosine vs other precursors significantly affects its electrochemical response by J. Sayago, L. M. Martinez, G. Hernández, G. Gosset

“…These results aim toward the effective use of melanin thin-films for potential applications in organic biocompatible electronics.…”
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Photocatalytic Activity of Ag-TiO2 Composites Deposited by Photoreduction under UV Irradiation by Carlos Díaz-Uribe, Jose Viloria, Lorraine Cervantes, William Vallejo, Karen Navarro, Eduard Romero, Cesar Quiñones

“…In this work, we synthesized Ag nanoparticles on TiO2 thin films deposited on soda lime glass substrates. …”
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Effective-Range-Expansion Study of Near Threshold Heavy-Flavor Resonances by Rui Gao, Zhi-Hui Guo, Xian-Wei Kang, J. A. Oller

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Visible light photocatalytic efficiency and corrosion resistance of Zn, Ni, and Cu-doped TiO2 coatings by Mona Khalaghi, Masoud Atapour, Mohamad Mohsen Momeni, Mohammad Reza Karampoor

“…Titanium dioxide (TiO2) thin films exhibit encouraging photocatalytic activity for the degradation of dyes, organic compounds, and biological contaminants. …”
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TiO𝟐-Based Organic Hybrid Solar Cells with Mn+𝟐 Doping by Zühal Alparslan, Arif Kösemen, Osman Örnek, Yusuf Yerli, S. Eren San

“…A hybrid solar cell is designed and proposed as a feasible and reasonable alternative, according to acquired efficiency with the employment of TiO2 (titanium dioxide) and Mn-doped TiO2 thin films. In the scope of this work, TiO2 (titanium dioxide) and Mn:TiO2 hybrid organic thin films are proposed as charge transporter layer in polymer solar cells. …”
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ZnO:Al Grown by Sputtering from Two Different Target Sources: A Comparison Study by Abdalla A. Alnajjar

“…Al-doped ZnO thin films were deposited from two different targets. …”
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Raman Spectroscopy of Amorphous Carbon Prepared by Pulsed Arc Discharge in Various Gas Mixtures by M. Marton, M. Vojs, E. Zdravecká, M. Himmerlich, T. Haensel, S. Krischok, M. Kotlár, P. Michniak, M. Veselý, R. Redhammer

“…In this study, we used the Raman spectroscopy to investigate the a-C thin films structure dependence on the different deposition parameters. …”
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Optimization of the Cathode Arc Plasma Deposition Processing Parameters of ZnO Film Using the Grey-Relational Taguchi Method by Shuo-Fu Hsu, Jyh-Horng Chou, Chun-Hsiung Fang, Min-Hang Weng

“…The results indicate that, by using the grey-relational Taguchi method, the optical transmittance of ZnO thin films increases from 88.17% to 88.82% and the electrical resistivity decreases from 5.12×10-3Ω-cm to 4.38×10-3Ω-cm, respectively.…”
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Adjusting White OLEDs with Yellow Light Emission Phosphor Dye and Ultrathin NPB Layer Structure by Jun Wang, Weizhi Li

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OPTICAL METHOD AND SET-UP FOR THE THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY MEASURMENT OF SOLID STATE MATERIALS by I. G. Kisialiou, E. V. Ivakin

“…Application of light-induced thermal transient gratings for measurement of thermal diffusivity of solid state materials including thin films is presented. Laser-optical set-up, which allows non-contact measurement of thermal diffusivity by transient gratings′ method is described. …”
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Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with Anatase TiO2 Nanorods Prepared by Hydrothermal Method by Ming-Jer Jeng, Yi-Lun Wung, Liann-Be Chang, Lee Chow

“…Further, triple-layer structures of TiO2 thin films with different particle sizes were investigated to improve the solar efficiency.…”
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