Characterization of Multi-Component Polymer Systems by Field Emission-STEM at Low Accelerating Voltages.

Multi-Component Diffusion in Polymer-Solvent Systems

Sample preparation for atomic-resolution STEM at low voltages by FIB.

While FIB sample preparation for transmission electron microscopy is a well established technique, few examples exist of samples of sufficient quality for atomic resolution imaging by aberration corrected (scanning) transmission electron microscopy (STEM). In this work we demonstrate the successful preparation of such samples from five different materials and present the refined lift-out prepar...

O-5: Preparation of Multi-Component Drug Delivery Systems

Background: Despite global interest, the development of single step processes for the preparation of effective drug delivery systems still faces numerous challenges. There is great demand for processing methods that are efficient, flexible, scalable and economical for the generation of wide range of encapsulated structures. Over the past few decades, electrohydrodynamic (EHD) processing has rec...

Multi-barrier field-emission behavior in PBTTT thin films at low temperatures

We investigated the low-temperature transport mechanism for poly[2,5-bis(3-alkylthiophen-2-yl)thieno(3,2-b)thiophene] (PBTTT). The temperature-dependent transport behavior was studied by varying the drain-source electric field and gate bias. The results suggest that low-temperature charge transport is dominated by direct tunneling at low electric fields, while field emission is prevailing for h...

Low-Power Field-Programmable VLSI Using Multiple Supply Voltages

A low-power field-programmable VLSI (FPVLSI) is presented to overcome the problem of large power consumption in fieldprogrammable gate arrays (FPGAs). To reduce power consumption in routing networks, the FPVLSI consists of cells that are based on a bit-serial pipeline architecture which reduces routing block complexity. Moreover, a level-converter-less multiple-supply-voltage scheme using dynam...