Aluminum castings have played an integral role in the growth of the aluminum industry since its inception in the late 19th century. The first commercial aluminum products were castings, such as cooking utensils and decorative parts, which exploited the novelty and utility of the new metal. Those early applications rapidly expanded to address the requirements of a wide range of engineering speci...

Three-dimensional bulk alumina and its two-dimensional thin films show great structural diversity, posing considerable challenges to their experimental structural characterization and computational modeling. Recently, structural diversity has also been demonstrated for zero-dimensional gas phase aluminum oxide clusters. 4] Mass-selected clusters not only make systematic studies of the structura...

Copper oxide (Cu2O)-based heterojunction solar cells were fabricated by spin-coating and electrodeposition methods, and photovoltaic properties and microstructures were investigated. Zinc oxide (ZnO) and Cu2O were used as nand p-type semiconductors, respectively, to fabricate photovoltaic devices based on In-doped tin oxide/ZnO/Cu2O/Au heterojunction structures. Short-circuit current and fill f...

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