In this work, nanostructured TiO2 and Cr-doped TiO2 thin films were deposited on glass substrate through sonochemical-chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method. The resulting thin films were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), UV-visible absorption spectroscopy, and photoluminescence spectroscopy techniques. The TiO2 thin film has nanocubic morphology and ...

thin film phthalocyanines(pc), incloding zinc, iron, and magnesium phthalocyani-nes, were prepared by vacuum deposition method. chronocoulometry was used to study the charge transfer reaction mechanism of ionic species through the thin films. the results obtained in chronocoulometric studies shows that the thin film phthalocyanines could operate via two mechanisms.the first mechanism metal pc t...

The paper describes new approach of potentiostat for very low sensor current measurements. Recent potentiostats were used as measurement devices which were standalone and sensors were connected by a screened wire. These concepts are inconvenient for the presented very low current measurements. The new approach is based on the potentiostat circuitry integrated on a chip that should be directly c...

Current methodologies used for the inference of thin film stress through curvature measurements are strictly restricted to stress and curvature states which are assumed to remain uniform over the entire film/substrate system. Recently Huang, Rosakis and co-workers [Huang, Y., Ngo, D., Rosakis, A.J., 2005. Non-uniform, axisymmetric misfit strain: in thin films bonded on plate substrates/substrat...

Delivery quality assurance (DQA) of tomotherapy plans is routinely performed with silver halide film which has a limited range due to the effects of saturation. DQA plans with dose values exceeding this limit require the dose of the entire plan to be scaled downward if film is used, to evaluate the dose distribution in two dimensions. The potential loss of fidelity between scaled and unscaled D...

Our institution delivers TBI using a modified Theratron 780 60Co unit. Due to limitations of our treatment planning system in calculating dose for this treatment, we have developed a fast Monte Carlo code to calculate dose distributions within the patient. The algorithm is written in C and uses voxel density information from CT images to calculate dose in heterogeneous media. To test the algori...

The Cromaglass® Corporation, based in Williamsport, PA, manufactures Sequence Batch Reactor (SBR) systems for domestic wastewater treatment. A Cromaglass® CA-60, capable of treating 6,000 gallons of wastewater per day, was installed in 2005 at Hepburn-Lycoming Elementary School, part of the Williamsport School District. This SBR was the subject of a study by the Lycoming College Clean Water Ins...

background and purpose:moving bed biofilm reactor is an aerobic attached growth with better biofilm thickness control, lack of plugging and lower head loss. consequently, this system is greatly used by different wastewater treatment plants. high tds wastewater produced petrochemical, leather tanning, sea food processing, cannery, pickling and dairy industries. the aim of this study was to evalu...