Abstract The goal of this study is to see how different chemically modified nanoparticles affect the performance and characteristics commercial cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) as a polymeric insulator used in insulating power cables compare their properties order figure out what factors are most important improving XLPE properties. Silicon dioxide or silica, titanium dioxide, zinc oxide nanopa...

A versatile fabrication process that allows users to quickly construct micromachined structures using a one metal, one silicon dioxide film stack on a silicon wafer is presented in this technical report. This simplified process, called Mock CMOS, (a) starts from pre-processed wafers and requires only one photolithography step, (b) provides a conductor material for actuating electrostatic and th...

One of major approaches to cheaper solar cells is reducing the amount of semiconductor material used for their fabrication and making cells thinner. To compensate for lower light absorption such physically thin devices have to incorporate light-trapping which increases their optical thickness. Light scattering by textured surfaces is a common technique but it cannot be universally applied to al...

Metal nanoparticles have been investigated as an efficient method to enhance the light absorption in thin film solar cell due to the surface plasmonic scattering. In this paper, we studied the light trapping by modifying the common silicon-nanoparticle-dielectric-back reflector structure. We reported the short circuit current (Jsc) enhancement of a two-layer nanoparticle structure, coated with ...

Inkjet printing is an attractive deposition tool to complement the traditional processing methods used in microelectronics integration. Its maskless, digital and non-contact nature provides many generic benefits, such as savings in processing steps and material usage, production flexibility and scalability to large areas. In addition, inkjet printing can be utilized in the integration of e.g. s...

Water-soluble silicon nanoparticles were synthesized by grafting PEG polymers onto functionalized silicon nanoparticles with distal alkyne or azide moieties. The surface-functionalized silicon nanoparticles were produced in one step from the reactive high-energy ball milling (RHEBM) of silicon wafers with a mixture of either 5-chloro-1-pentyne in 1-pentyne or 1,7 octadiyne in 1-hexyne to afford...

E' centers (trivalent silicons) in two silicate systems, thermally grown SiO 2 films on silicon and high surface area bulk sol-gel silicates, have been investigated. In the thermally grown silicon dioxide films, earlier work is extended by demonstrating that the hole trapping process is reversible; no complex structural rearrangement occurs at the hole trapping site (E' centers) after subsequen...

The thickness of silicon dioxide that is used as the transistor gate dielectric in most advanced memory and logic applications has decreased below 7 nm. Unfortunately, the accuracy and reproducibility of metrology used to measure gate dielectric thickness during manufacture of integrated circuits remains in some dispute. In addition, detailed materials characterization studies have resulted in ...

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Porous silicon nanowires are synthesized through metal assisted wet-chemical etch of highly-doped silicon wafer. The resulted porous silicon nanowires exhibit a large surface area of 337 m(2)·g(-1) and a wide spectrum absorption across the entire ultraviolet, visible and near infrared regime. We further demonstrate that platinum nanoparticles can be loaded onto the surface of the porous silicon...