High transparent conductive indium tin oxide/titanium dioxide (ITO/TiO2) nanostructured thin film is prepared by sol-gel dip-coating technique. This method yielded monodisperse ITO nanoparticles with mean diameter of 12 nm. The atomic composition of the Sn within the ITO structure changed from 0-20 wt.%. Through controlled annealing temperature at 550 oC, the result...

High-resolution X-ray computed tomography is employed to obtain the exact 3D geometrical configuration of porous anisotropic ceria applied in solar-driven thermochemical cycles for splitting H2O and CO2. The tomography data are, in turn, used in direct pore-level numerical simulations for determining the morphological and effective heat/mass transport properties of porous ceria, namely: porosit...

Amorphous Se40-xTe60Snx glassy alloys have been synthesized by thermal evaporation technique under high vacuum conditions (~ 10 -5 torr). The optical spectra of amorphous Se40-xTe60Snx (x = 0, 2, 4, 6, 8) thin films have been measured by a double beam UV-VIS-NIR computer controlled spectrophotometer over the range of 200-3000 nm. Swanepole technique has been used to calculate the optical consta...

Lidar networks are essential to study the three-dimensional distribution of aerosols on a regional scale. At present, both Mie-scattering lidar (ML) and advanced lidars being used in networks. The latter can retrieve extinction coefficients without strict assumptions ratio, such as Raman (RL) or high-spectral-resolution (HSRL). In order balance data quality instrument costs for network, ratio t...

Cloud phase (CP) partitioning (e.g., supercooled water cloud fraction, SCF) is often misrepresented in model simulations. One of the remarkable uncertainties involves poor understanding SCF diurnal cycle due to lack observations. By using 33 months lidar observations from Cloud-Aerosol Transport System which provides top at different local times for a given grid and isotherm, this study first c...