We investigate the vibrational properties of ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) using molecular dynamics simulations. We compare the vibrational spectra of two UNCD models of average grain size 2 and 4 nm with single crystal diamond and an isolated nanodiamond (ND) particle. The vibrational spectra of the ND particle and UNCD models exhibit the effect of phonon confinement as well as undercoor...

Micro-scale laser shock peening LSP can potentially be applied to metallic structures in microdevices to improve fatigue and reliability performance. Copper thin films on a single-crystal silicon substrate are treated by using LSP and characterized using techniques of X-ray microdiffraction and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD). Strain field, dislocation density, and microstructure change...

A simple approach based on centroidal Voronoi tessellation (CVT) is proposed here to create three-dimensional microstructures, for crystal plasticity finite element (CPFE) simulations. In the proposed approach, the grain morphology for any given specimen geometry is created with a predetermined grain size. Instead of using the conventional way that generates the Voronoi cells first and then mes...

A rapid, wafer-level, dry process for in-situ synthesis, deposition of stable nanostructured, porous metal-oxide films for gas sensors is presented. Lace-like, nanostructured films of pure SnO2 featuring high porosity (98%) are selfassembled on a target substrate by flame spray pyrolysis (FSP). The nanoparticles are mainly polyhedral and monocrystalline with a grain size of 8.7 nm and crystal s...

Since its invention by Goss in 1934, grain-oriented (GO) electrical steel has been widely used as a core material in transformers. GO exhibits a grain size of over several millimeters attained by secondary recrystallization during high-temperature final batch annealing. In addition to the unusually large grain size, the crystal direction in the rolling direction is aligned with <001>, which is ...

Nano-sized BaTiO3 powders with particular Nb concentrations were prepared by Rotary- Hydrothermal (RH) method. Hydrothermal method was used at 180 °C for 5 hours with new Ti pressure and the teflon vessel was rotated at a speed of 160 rpm during the hydrothermal reaction. New hydrothermal method was used instead of previous solid state reaction for the system BaTiO3±Nb<sub...

Nano-sized BaTiO3 powders with particular Nb concentrations were prepared by Rotary- Hydrothermal (RH) method. Hydrothermal method was used at 180 °C for 5 hours with new Ti pressure and the teflon vessel was rotated at a speed of 160 rpm during the hydrothermal reaction. New hydrothermal method was used instead of previous solid state reaction for the system BaTiO3±Nb<sub...

A three-dimensional cellular automata (CA) with rectilinear layout is used in this work to create and cleave polycrystalline microstructures. Each crystal is defined by a unique randomly generated orientation tensor. Separate states for grains, grain boundaries, crack flanks and crack fronts are created. Algorithms for progressive cleavage propagation through crystals and across grain boundarie...