High energy synchrotron diffraction is introduced as a new method for residual stress analysis in the bulk of materials. It is shown that energy dispersive measurements are sufficiently precise so that strains as small 10-4 can be determined reliably. Due to the high intensity and the high parallelism of the high energy synchrotron radiation the sample gauge volume can be reduced to approximate...

The Fe nanowires were prepared by Ac electrodeposition method. The two steps anodized aluminum oxides (alumina) were used as templates for electrodeposition of magnetic nanowires. Sulfuric acid was used to anodize aluminum. The pours diameter and growth rate of alumina were investigated. The FeSO4 electrolyte was used for growth of nanowires. The prepared magnetic nanowires were characterized b...

The results from various samples reported here show that energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy is available as an efficient analytical method; one that has emerged from the qualitative and semiquantitative overview analysis phase. Particularly the ability to improve sensitivity or reduce statistical error using optimized excitation has led to an important advancement in capturing the primary sig...

Although polycrystalline lead oxide (PbO) belongs to the most promising photoconductors for optoelectronic and large area detectors applications, the charge transport mechanism in this material still remains unclear. Combining the conventional time-of-flight and the photo-generated charge extraction by linear increasing voltage (photo-CELIV) techniques, we investigate the transport of holes whi...

High quality x-ray mapping (XRM) has been used for over 30 years by experienced wavelength dispersive spectroscopy (WDS) operators. Manufacturers have been developing similar techniques using energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) over the last 20 years. This has been generally unsuccessful due to a number of problems such as poor computer specifications, cost, time to map and generally poor peak...

Due to a variety of potential scientific and industrial applications, a new phase of titanium dioxide (TiO2) would be very exciting. I have investigated a powder sample, which based on preliminary chemical and structural analyses, appeared to be such a new phase. Through subsequent high-resolution x-ray powder diffraction, energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy, and electron diffraction measureme...

The diffusion characteristics of Mg–rare-earth diffusion couples were studied. Cylinders of pure Mg and rare earth (Dy, Nd, and Pr) were abutted and annealed at 500 °C for 100 h or 300 h. Point-by-point composition profiles were collected starting in pure Mg, across the diffusion zone, and ending in the pure rare earth, using energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy with a scanning electron microsc...

We show existence of global solutions for the gravity water waves equation in dimension 3, in the case of small data. The proof combines energy estimates, which yield control of L 2 related norms, with dispersive estimates, which give decay in L ∞. To obtain these dispersive estimates, we use an analysis in Fourier space; the study of space and time resonances is then the crucial point.