Effect of Multijunction Approach on Electrical Measurements of Silicon and Germanium Alloy Based Thin-Film Solar Cell Using AMPS-1D by Somenath Chatterjee, Sumeet Singh, Himangshu Pal

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Study of Electrical Transport Properties of Thin Films Used as HTL and as Active Layer in Organic Solar Cells, through Impedance Spectroscopy Measurements by Camilo A. Otalora, Andres F. Loaiza, Gerardo Gordillo

“…In addition, it was found that the electrical properties of P3HT:PCBM thin films can be improved by removing the solvent slowly which is achieved by increasing the pressure inside the system of spin-coating during the film growth.…”
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Fabrication of Ag:TiO2 Nanocomposite Thin Films by Sol-Gel Followed by Electron Beam Physical Vapour Deposition Technique by Manish Kumar, Krishna Kumar Parashar, Sushil Kumar Tandi, Tanuj Kumar, D. C. Agarwal, Abhishek Pathak

“…Surface morphological studies indicate that deposited films are uniform and intact to the substrate and have very low value of root mean square roughness. …”
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Surface roughness and material removal of Si3N4 cylindrical rollers using double-side grinding with diamond film pads by Fenfen Zhou, Yongkang Jin, Qi Shao, Weifeng Yao, Hongyun Wang

“…This study introduces a novel double-side grinding method using Diamond Film Pads (DFPs) to process Si3N4 cylindrical rollers. …”
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High-Performance Hydrogen Sensing at Room Temperature via Nb-Doped Titanium Oxide Thin Films Fabricated by Micro-Arc Oxidation by Chilou Zhou, Zhiqiu Ye, Yue Tan, Zhenghua Wu, Xinyi Guo, Yinglin Bai, Xuying Xie, Zilong Wu, Ji’an Feng, Yao Xu, Bo Deng, Hao Wu

“…The characterization results revealed that the incorporation of Nb₂O₅ altered the film’s morphology and phase composition, increasing the Nb content and forming a homogeneous composite thin film. …”
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Evaluation of frost heave model using measured values for temperature and water intake rate near the freezing front by Takeshi Ishizaki, Satoshi Nishimura

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Effects of Bioactive Packaging Films Incorporated with Bifidocin A on Microbial Reduction and Quality Parameters of Chill-Stored Spanish Mackerel (Scomberomorus niphonius) Fillets by Guorong Liu, Xue Li, Xu Hao, Chengtao Wang, Baoguo Sun

“…Results showed that the incorporation of bifidocin A in cellulosic matrix films did not affect the thickness and elongation of the films, but reduced slightly the tension strength. …”
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The enhanced ferroelectric properties of flexible Hf0.85Ce0.15O2 thin films based on in situ stress regulation by Jinglin Pang, Tianpeng Duan, Min Liao, Limei Jiang, Yichun Zhou, Qiong Yang, Jiajia Liao, Jie Jiang

“…Specifically, under the influence of a small electric field, the 2P r values of thin films annealed at +10 and −10 mm increased by 87.1% and 71.1%, respectively, compared with the unbent films. …”
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Comparison of Optimal Homotopy Asymptotic and Adomian Decomposition Methods for a Thin Film Flow of a Third Grade Fluid on a Moving Belt by Fazle Mabood, Nopparat Pochai

“…We have investigated a thin film flow of a third grade fluid on a moving belt using a powerful and relatively new approximate analytical technique known as optimal homotopy asymptotic method (OHAM). …”
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In Situ and Ex Situ Studies of Molybdenum Thin Films Deposited by rf and dc Magnetron Sputtering as a Back Contact for CIGS Solar Cells by K. Aryal, H. Khatri, R. W. Collins, S. Marsillac

“…The values were fitted to a conical growth mode and demonstrated that the rf-deposited films have already smaller grains than the dc films when the bulk layer thickness is 30 nm.…”
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Physical properties of nanostructured ZnO thin films deposited by DC magnetron sputtering method with different volume of O2 in carrier gas by Asgary Somayeh, Ramezani Amir Hoshang, Mahmoodi Azam

“…High-quality ZnO thin films with polycrystalline hexagonal structure and (101) preferentially oriented were deposited on Si and corning glass substrates by reactive direct current magnetron sputtering. …”
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Enhancing mechanical properties of (HfMoNbZrTa)1-xNx films through multi-phase structures in substoichiometric compositions by Yiming Ruan, Jigang Xie, Lin He, Fugui Zhang, Jie Shi, Hengning Hu, Yun Chen, Rui Shu, Liuquan Yang, Hao Du

“…Hardness and wear rates both reached their optimal values at RN = 20–25%. The strengthening mechanism was elucidated through density functional theory (DFT) calculations, which suggest that higher H of the substoichiometric film is mainly associated with the increased local lattice distortion and the formation of a multi-phase structure.…”
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And the Oscar Goes to Peripheral Blood Film for the Detection of Lead Poisoning in a Complicated Toxic Patient: A Case Report with a Review of Laboratory Clues by Amir Zamani, Ehsan Sarraf Kazerooni, S. Saeed Kasaee, Mohammad Hossein Anbardar, Sahand Mohammadzadeh, Golsa Shekarkhar, Neda Soleimani

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Ultrathin skin-conformable electrodes with high water vapor permeability and stretchability characteristics composed of single-walled carbon nanotube networks assembled on elastome... by Tatsuhiro Horii, Kai Yamashita, Marimo Ito, Kei Okada, Toshinori Fujie

“…Abstract Herein, we report on conductive ultrathin films (nanosheets) with the characteristics of stretchability and water vapor permeability for skin-conformable bioelectrodes. …”
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Microplastics contamination in two peripheral fish species harvested from a downstream river by M.R. Maulana, S. Saiful, Z.A. Muchlisin

“…The fourier transform infrared spectrum showed several wavenumber peaks signifying alkane compounds’ presence, which are microplastic characteristics. Based on the peak values, the presence of two polymer types was suspected, namely polyethylene, and polypropylene.CONCLUSION: Fiber and film microplastics were found in the digestive tract of mullet and bagok catfish, where the number of particles was most abundant in the mullet. …”
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Structural, Optical, and Electrical Characterization of β-Ga2O3 Thin Films Grown by Plasma-Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy Suitable for UV Sensing by Abraham Arias, Nicola Nedev, Susmita Ghose, Juan Salvador Rojas-Ramirez, David Mateos, Mario Curiel Alvarez, Oscar Pérez, Mariel Suárez, Benjamin Valdez-Salas, Ravi Droopad

“…Spectroscopic ellipsometry was used to determine the film thicknesses, giving values in the 11.6–18.8 nm range and the refractive index dispersion curves. …”
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A green route of antibacterial films production from shrimp (Penaeus monodon) shell waste biomass derived chitosan: Physicochemical, thermomechanical, morphological and antimicrobi... by Md. Mahmudur Rahman, Mohd. Maniruzzaman, Ripon Kumar Saha

“…By this study a green route of production of antibacterial films from the agro-waste biomass has been developed. …”
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Electrically reconfigurable surface acoustic wave phase shifters based on ZnO TFTs on LiNbO3 substrate by Yi Zhang, Zilong Xiong, Lewei He, Yang Jiang, Chenkai Deng, Fangzhou Du, Kangyao Wen, Chuying Tang, Qiaoyu Hu, Mujun Li, Xiaohui Wang, Wenhui Wang, Han Wang, Qing Wang, Hongyu Yu, Zhongrui Wang

“…This system incorporates an atomic layer deposition ZnO thin-film transistors on LiNbO _3 structure. This structure combines the benefits of LiNbO _3 ’s high electromechanical coupling coefficient ( K ^2 ) and ZnO’s superior conductivity adjustability. …”
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Morphological, Structural, and Optical Properties of Single-Phase Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Thin Films from the Selenization of Thermally Evaporated InSe/Cu/GaSe Precursors by Francis B. Dejene

“…The relatively small band gap values (~1 eV) of CuInSe2 thin films limit the conversion efficiencies of completed CuInSe2/CdS/ZnO solar cell devices. …”
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Fabrication of self-standing hyperbranched poly(ethyleneimine) film with shape-memory and copper adsorption behavior via simple polymer reaction with tetraazacalix[2]arene[2]triazi... by Tomohiro Suzuki, Ryota Shibata, Tadashi Tsukamoto, Yuji Shibasaki

“…By virtue of these two relaxation phenomena, the PEI modified films exhibited shape-memory properties. Since the films were insoluble in water, their copper adsorption behavior was studied, finding that the modified polymer powder rapidly adsorbed 1.5 mg/g copper ion within 1 h.…”
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