Silver-copper alloys are condensed in a liquid-solid domain of the phase diagram on a tilted molybdenum substrate regulated in temperature. After a droplets regime, a film which contains a monolayer of nodular solid crystals forms. The size distribution and density of the particles in the film are measured after different condensation times. Results show that in our experimental conditions a ri...

Workers exposed to toluene develop many central and autonomic nervous symptoms. It has been suggested that the effects of toluene on the central nervous system may be detectable by EEG. In the present experiments, changes in EEG and behaviour of rats exposed to toluene were monitored in an attempt to clarify the relationship between exposure to toluene and central nervous system reaction. Chron...

The stability of an evaporating thin liquid film on a solid substrate is investigated within lubrication theory. The heat flux due to evaporation induces thermal gradients; the generated Marangoni stresses are accounted for. Assuming the gas phase at rest, the dynamics of the vapour reduces to diffusion. The boundary condition at the interface couples transfer from the liquid to its vapour and ...

Nanoporous SnO2 thin films were elaborated to serve as sensing electrodes for label-free DNA detection using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). Films were deposited by an electrodeposition process (EDP). Then the non-Faradic EIS behaviour was thoroughly investigated during some different steps of functionalization up to DNA hybridization. The results have shown a systematic decrease ...

In order to establish the growth of nonpolar GaN templates for subsequent overgrowth via hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) or subsequent device epitaxy we studied the growth of a-plane oriented samples on r-plane sapphire via metal organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE). The growth parameters like reactor pressure, growth temperature and V/IIIratio for the nucleation layer as well as for the GaN ...