Laminated Si/SiC ceramics were synthesized from porous preforms of biogenous carbon impregnated with Si slurry at a temperature of 1500 °C for 2 h. Due to the capillarity infiltration with Si, both intrinsic micro- and macrostructure in the carbon preform were retained within the final ceramics. The SEM micrographs indicate that the final material exhibits a distinguished laminar structure with...

On May 3, 2011, under authority of Clean Air Act (CAA) sections 111 and 112, the EPA proposed both national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) from coaland oil-fired electric utility steam generating units (EGUs) and standards of performance for fossil-fuelfired electric utility, industrialcommercial-institutional, and small industrial-commercial-institutional steam genera...

We introduce an object-oriented design of a universal control system based on standard hardware like workstations or PCs. This system supports the control of industrial devices such as robot arms, Cartesian systems or I/O units. The new architecture merges the bonds of the traditional control components such as robot controls (RC), numeric controls (NC) or programmable logic controllers (PLC). ...

In a standard technical or PLC programmer praxis we meet in our daily with an obligation to know to diagnose control processing units CPUs, industrial network or devices which are connected to the CPU. We can remove failures very quickly in dependence on the right fault recognition. There is a lot of industrial applications which are required continuous production. Stop such production can mean...

it is fair to say that the man by including agricultural, industrial activities and exploitation-of natural resources in his survival agenda is the most responsible of all for environmental changes. fundamentall development in various parts of a watershed is unavoidable and sometimes necessary. in recent years, large number of environmentally improper developments including new town development...

A study of structural relaxations of Si(n)C(m) clusters corresponding to different compositions, different relative arrangements of Si/C atoms, and different types of initial structure, reveals that the Si(n)C(m) bucky-diamond structure can be obtained for an initial network structure constructed from a truncated bulk 3C-SiC for a magic composition corresponding to n = 68 and m = 79. This stud...

We fabricated a three-dimensional (3D) stacked Si nanodisk (Si-ND) array with a high aspect ratio and uniform size by using our advanced top-down technology consisting of bio-template and neutral beam etching processes. We found from conductive atomic microscope measurements that conductivity became higher as the arrangement was changed from a single Si-ND to two-dimensional (2D) and 3D arrays ...

In 2004 the discovery of superconductivity in heavily boron-doped diamond (C:B) led to an increasing interest in the superconducting phases of wide-gap semiconductors. Subsequently superconductivity was found in heavily boron-doped cubic silicon (Si:B) and recently in the stochiometric ”mixture” of heavily boron-doped silicon carbide (SiC:B). The latter system surprisingly exhibits type-I super...

The measured photomultiplication and excess noise characteristics of two 4H-SiC p-i-n diodes, with i-region widths of 0.105 μm and 0.285 μm, were modelled using a nonlocal multiplication model to determine the ionization threshold energies and the impact ionization coefficients of 4H-SiC. The modelled ionization coefficients accurately predicted the breakdown voltage of a 0.485 μm p-i-n structu...