The effect of fluorine addition on morphological, structural and electrical properties of superconducting samples of composition Y3Ba5Cu8Oy-xFx (x = 0.0, 0.2, 0.4 & 0.6) were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transition temperature (Tc) measurements. The samples were synthesized by solid state reaction method. The XRD of the samples revealed a struc...

The scanning electron microscope (SEM) has gone through a tremendous evolution to become indispensable for many and diverse scientific and industrial applications. The improvements have significantly enriched and augmented the overall SEM performance and have made the instrument far easier to operate. But, the ease of operation also might lead, through operator complacency, to poor results. In ...

At the last international meeting on recrystallisation and grain growth there was general consensus that there was a need to incorporate experimental microstructures as starting configurations for computer models of various kinds. In two dimensions (2D) this is relatively straight forward since microstructures can be imaged in 2D at various length scales by a number of well know techniques such...

nanoparticles of mn0.5zn0.5-xcdxfe2o4 with x varying from x = 0.0 to 0.3 were prepared by wet chemical co-precipitation method. the structural and magnetic properties were studied by using x-ray diffraction (xrd), scanning electron microscope (sem), transmission electron microscopy (tem) and electron paramagnetic resonance (epr) technique. the lattice constant increases with increase in cd cont...

we report the growth by ion exchange synthesis of zns nanoparticles in mcm-41 matrices using zn (ch3coo)2 and na2s starting sources. the final product (zns/mcm-41) was characterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd) pattern, transmission electron microscopy (tem), scanning electron microscopy (sem), infrared spectrometry (ir) and uv-vis spectroscopy. its crystalline structure and morphology was studie...

A novel photocatalyst based on TiO2-PANI composite supported on small pieces of cork has been reported. It was prepared by simple impregnation method of the polyaniline (PANI)-modified TiO2 on cork. The TiO2-PANI/Cork catalyst shows the unique feature of floating on the water surface. The as-synthesized catalyst was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron micrograph (SEM), t...

The SiO2-CaCl2 hybrid porous materials were prepared by the sol-gel method. This process was conducted by the hydrolysis and condensation of Tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) by replacement of ethanol from alcogel and drying at the ambient temperature to obtain xerogel structure. The alcogel samples were synthesized from TEOS, EtOH, H2O, HCl, NH4OH and CaCl2, while the total molar ratio of the co...

This is the third of a series of papers discussing various causes of measurement uncertainty in scanned particle beam instruments, and some of the solutions researched and developed at NIST. Scanned particle beam instruments especially the scanning electron microscope (SEM) have gone through tremendous evolution to become indispensable tools for many and diverse scientifi c and industrial appli...

synthesis, identification and thermal behavior studies of nanoparticles cobalt (ii) bromide has been studied in this research. cobalt (ii) bromide was synthesized by planetary high-energy ball mill. the general formula of this compound is cobr2.6h2o. the synthesized nanoparticles were characterized by fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and also size and structure of synthesized nanoparticl...