We report the first demonstration of operational InGaN-based thin-film transistors (TFTs) on glass substrates. The key to our success was coating the glass substrate with a thin amorphous layer of HfO2, which enabled a highly c-axis-oriented growth of InGaN films using pulsed sputtering deposition. The electrical characteristics of the thin films were controlled easily by varying their In conte...

Screen-printing provides an economically attractive means for making Ag electrical contacts to Si solar cells, but the use of Ag substantiates a significant manufacturing cost, and the glass frit used in the paste to enable contact formation contains Pb. To achieve optimal electrical performance and to develop pastes with alternative, abundant and non-toxic materials, a better understanding the...

The ITO (indium tin oxide) conductive glass-matrix CuS-GeO2-TiO2 composite coating was generated via EPD (electrophoretic deposition) and followed by a sintering treatment at 450°C for 40 minutes. Characterizations of the CuS-GeO2-TiO2 composite coating were taken by SEM (scanning electron microscope), XRD (X-ray diffraction), EDX (energy dispersive X-ray), UV-Vis DRS (ultraviolet-visible diffu...

This paper presents for the first time the preparation of glass layers, suitable for the anodic bonding of two silicon substrates using a spin-on glass. In this process a liquid sol solution is used within a spin coating process. The solution is a mixture based on silica sol, organic silicon containing compounds, like TEOS (Tetraethylorthosilicate), and a sodium salt all dissolved in ethanol. A...

Photonic glass is a material class that can be used as photonic broadband reflectors, for example in the infrared regime as thermal barrier coating films. Photonic properties such as the reflectivity depend on the ordering and material packing fraction over the complete film thickness of up to 100 µm. Nanotomography allows acquiring these key parameters throughout the sample volume at the requi...

Pure and antimony doped SnO2 thin films have been prepared by the sol-gel dip coating technique on glass substrate using starting material SnCl2.2H2O as a host and SbCl3 as a dopant. Our experimental results revealed that, the quality of the coated films on the glass depends on process parameters. The effect of annealing temperature, dipping numbe...

The utility of X-ray fluorescence spectrometry in the study of stable and degraded glass as well as coatings applied to ethnographic costume is discussed. South African Ndebele costume and ceremonial regalia were studied from the collection of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, as part of a larger condition survey of the entire beaded collection. The susceptibility of ...

Glass/ceramic composite coatings were prepared on 40Cr steel matrix by thermo-chemical reaction with fly ash and a small amount of SiO2, Al2O3, MgO, and albite as main raw materials. On this basis, adding 10% Al-TiO2-B2O3 exothermic system, the morphology, phase, thermal shock resistance, and corrosion resistance of the coating were tested, and the influence of exothermic system on the structur...

A difficulty with the design and operation of an electrokinetically operated DNA hybridization microfluidic chip is the opposite direction of the electroosmotic flow and electrophoretic mobility of the oligonucleotides. This makes it difficult to simultaneously deliver targets and an appropriate hybridization buffer simultaneously to the probe sites. In this work we investigate the possibility ...