Adopting recently developed clean laboratory techniques, antimony (Sb) and scandium (Sc) deposition were measured in a 63.72 m-long ice core (1842-1996) and a 5 m deep snow pit (1994-2004) collected on Devon Island, Canadian High Arctic. Antimony concentrations ranged from 0.07 to 108 pg g(-1) with a median of 0.98 pg g(-1)(N= 510). Scandium, used as a conservative reference element, revealed t...

[1] Phosphorus (P) availability constrains both carbon uptake and loss in some of the world’s most productive ecosystems. In some of these regions, atmospheric aerosols appear to be an important, if not dominant, source of new P inputs. For example, previous work suggests that mineral aerosols from North Africa bring significant amounts of new phosphorus to the P-impoverished soils of the Amazo...

A chamberless, remote plasma deposition process has been used to coat silicon and plastic substrates with glass at ambient conditions. The films were deposited by introducing an organosilane precursor into the afterglow of an atmospheric plasma fed with helium and 2 vol% oxygen. The precursors examined were hexamethyldisilazane, hexamethyldisiloxane, tetramethyldisiloxane, tetramethylcyclotetra...

Low operation voltage organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) were successfully fabricated with top contact structure at low fabrication temperature. The thin gate dielectric of OTFTs were deposited by atmospheric pressure plasma jet at the substrate temperature about 150 °C and under atmospheric pressure. The environment of processes would significantly improve the abilities of large area applic...

A laser-assisted plasma-coating technique at atmospheric pressure (LAPCAP) has been investigated. The electron temperature, electron density and gas temperature of the atmospheric-pressure plasma have been measured using optical emission spectroscopy (OES). LAPCAP utilizes laser ablation of 3 mol% yttria-stabilized zirconia into an atmospheric helium/nitrogen plasma to deposit thermal barrier c...