The influence of a thin porous SiNX interlayer on the growth of GaN by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) has been studied. The interlayer is deposited on a GaN template by introducing silane in the presence of ammonia into the MOCVD chamber, and a GaN overlayer is deposited on the interlayer. The SiNX interlayer produces inhomogeneous nucleation and lateral growth of the overlayer,...

We study the Joshepson-like interlayer tunneling signature of the strongly correlated νT = 1 quantum Hall phase in bilayer two-dimensional electron systems as a function of the layer separation, temperature and interlayer charge imbalance. Our results offer strong evidence that a finite temperature phase transition separates the interlayer coherent phase from incoherent phases which lack strong...

Electroluminescence efficiency is crucial for the application of quantum-dot light-emitting diodes (QD-LEDs) in practical devices. We demonstrate that nitrogen-doped carbon nanodot (N-CD) interlayer improves electrical and luminescent properties of QD-LEDs. The N-CDs were prepared by solution-based bottom up synthesis and were inserted as a hole transport layer (HTL) between other multilayer HT...

Introduction The extraction of alumina from bauxite by the Bayer process produces a slurry by-product referred to as ‘bauxite residue’ or ‘red mud’. The liquid component of the slurry is highly alkaline and requires neutralisation to render it environmentally benign. A common practice is neutralisation using Mg rich seawater, which results in the formation of the layered double hydroxide (LDH) ...

Transport behavior of '37Cs in the environment is regulated by surface sorption reactions on clay mineral surfaces. To provide greater understanding of Cs transport processes, XAFS investigations of the local environments of 133Cs sorbed to clay minerals were conducted on Cs-Ca exchanged clay suspensions at the Cs LIII-edge. With decreased surface loadings of Cs, the Cs local environment exhibi...

At small layer separations, the ground state of a nu = 1 bilayer quantum Hall system exhibits spontaneous interlayer phase coherence. The evolution of this state with increasing layer separation d has been a matter of controversy. We report on small system exact diagonalization calculations which suggest that a single-phase transition, likely of first order, separates incompressible states with...

We study the effects of disorder on the interlayer transport properties of disordered semiconductor bilayers by performing self-consistent quantum transport calculations. We find that the addition of material disorder to the system affects the interlayer interactions leading to significant deviations in the interlayer transfer characteristics. In particular, we find that disorder decreases and...

Based on ab initio calculations of both the ABC- and AB-stacked graphites, interlayer potentials (i.e., graphene-graphene interaction) are obtained as a function of the interlayer spacing using a modified Möbius inversion method, and are used to calculate basic physical properties of graphite. Excellent consistency is observed between the calculated and experimental phonon dispersions of AB-sta...

the accumulative roll bonding (arb) as a severe plastic deformation (spd) procedure aimed at enhancing the mechanical properties of metals and alloys. in the present study, a new slab method is proposed for estimating the forming stress field for cold extrusion of metals cross the alumina interlayer powder particles by accumulative roll bonding process. plastic deformation behavior of the metal...

Laminated safety glass is used in the automobile industry and in architectural applications. Laminated safety glass consists of a plastic interlayer, such as a layer of poly vinyl butyral (PVB) or Butacite, surrounded by two adjacent glass plates as shown in Figure 1. The glass can be float glass, plate glass, tempered glass, or sheet glass, and the plastic interlayer is made of a viscoelastic ...