Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) are wide spread, cheap, easy-to-build and large size detectors, used mainly to reveal ionising particles in high-energy physics experiments. Here a technique, consisting in coating the inner surface of the bakelite electrodes with a mixture of linseed oil and Gd2O3 is reported. This allows to make RPCs sensitive also to thermal neutrons, making them suitable to b...

Recently, very promising properties of epitaxially grown, crystalline rare-earth metal-oxides have been reported [1] and the integration of Pr2O3 dielectric in a conventional polysilicon CMOS process was successfully demonstrated [2]. However, high temperature annealing [3] and aggressive reactive ion etching (RIE) was found to degrade the initial quality of the sensitive high-K gate stack [2]....

The charge-trapping characteristics of Ga2O3 (Gd2O3 ) (denoted as GGO) with and without nitrogen incorporation were investigated based on Al/Al2O3 / GGO/SiO2 /Si (metalalumina-nitride-oxide-silicon) capacitors. Compared with the capacitor without nitrogen incorporation, the one with nitrided GGO showed a larger memory window (10 V at ±16 V, 1 s), a higher program speed with a low gate voltage (...

Solid solutions of CeO2 with Yb2O3, Y2O3, Sm2O3, Gd2O3, La2O3, Nb2O5, Ta2O5, and Pr6O11 were prepared by sol-gel methods. All of the samples exhibited a single, cubic phase in x-ray diffraction and the lattice parameters were consistent with formation of the solid solutions. Surprisingly, all of the mixed oxides exhibited a much lower catalytic activity for n-butane oxidation than that of pure ...