Experiments on Electrical Dislodging of Dust Layer

Mars Boundary Layer Stability Experiments of Dust Threshold

Dip coating of silica layer on melt-spun Finemet ribbons: surface morphology and electrical resistivity changes

In this study, melt-spun Finemet ribbons were coated by a thin layer of SiO2 using dip coating method. Amorphous ribbon prepared by melt spinning method and dip coating were done by using a solution of tetraethylen orthosilicate as a SiO2 precursor, ethanol as solvent and distilled water for hydrolysis. Different thicknesses of SiO2 layer, namely 304, 349, 451, 526 and 970 nm were obtained prop...

Electrical Double Layer

Observations of Saharan dust layer electrification

Electrification of atmospheric dust influences the coagulation, wet removal and fall speeds of dust particles. Alignment of dust particles can also occur in fair weather atmospheric electrical conditions if the particles are charged. However, very few electrical measurements made in elevated dust layers exist. Balloon-borne charge and particle instrumentation have been used to investigate the e...

Electrical Transport and Photoemission Experiments of Alkylphosphonate Monolayers on GaAs

We report on electronic transport measurements through dense monolayers of CH3(CH2)nPO3H2 molecules of varying chain lengths, with a strong and stable bond through the phosphonic acid end group to a <100> GaAs surface and a Hg top contact. The monolayers maintain their high quality during and after the electrical measurements. Analyses of the electronic transport measurements of junctions, and ...