Calibration Method for Confocal X-Ray Microanalysis with Polychromatic Excitation by C. Sosa, V. Stoytschew, J. Leani, H. J. Sánchez, C. A. Pérez, R. D. Perez

“…The experimental parameters of the sensitivity were obtained from depth profile analysis of several pure thin films. The calibrated confocal setup was used to quantify reference standards in order to validate the calibration procedure. …”
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Phase Composition, Surface Morphology, and Dielectric Properties of Poly(Vinylidene Fluoride)–Cobalt Ferrite Composite Films Depending on Thickness by Pavel A. Vorontsov, Vitalii D. Salnikov, Valerii V. Savin, Stanislav A. Vorontsov, Alexander S. Omelyanchik, Petr V. Shvets, Larissa V. Panina, Petr A. Ershov, Valeria V. Rodionova

“…A more uniform microstructure and an increased electroactive phase in thin films result in increased permittivity, which is critical for PVDF-based sensors and energy devices.…”
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Arsenic Transfer from As-Rich Sediments to River Water in the Presence of Biofilms by Diego Martiñá Prieto, Verónica Martín-Liñares, Verónica Piñeiro, María Teresa Barral

“…Control systems exhibited higher As mobility in water, in sulphate solution, and in weak acid medium and higher bioavailability in diffusive gradient in thin films (DGT) devices. Arsenic retained by the biofilm was equally distributed between extracellular and intracellular compartments. …”
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Adsorption of Saliva Related Protein on Denture Materials: An X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Quartz Crystal Microbalance Study by Akiko Miyake, Satoshi Komasa, Yoshiya Hashimoto, Yutaka Komasa, Joji Okazaki

“…The XPS survey spectra of the thin films coated on the sensors were similar to the binding energy of the characteristic spectra of PMMA and Ti. …”
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Analysis of Structural, Optical, and Aquaphobic Properties of Zirconium Oxide Nanofilms by Varying Sputtering Gas by Kumar Sujit, Dave Vikramaditya, K. Vetri Velmurugan, Yakkala Bhaskarrao, Rupali Singh, Bhasker Pant, Amit Kumar Sharma, Hari Kumar Singh, Lijalem Mulugeta

“…The key aim was to develop aquaphobic zirconium oxide (ZrO2) thin films using DC reactive magnetron sputtering over glass insulators to mitigate contamination problems. …”
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Artificial intelligence-driven phase stability evaluation and new dopants identification of hafnium oxide-based ferroelectric materials by Shaoan Yan, Pei Xu, Gang Li, Yuchun Li, Yingfang Zhu, Xiaona Zhu, Qiong Yang, Meng Li, Minghua Tang, Hongliang Lu, Sen Liu, Qingjiang Li, David Wei Zhang, Zhigang Chen

“…This work provides a new perspective from machine learning to deepen the understanding of the ferroelectric properties of HfO2 materials, offering fresh insights into the design and performance prediction of HfO2 ferroelectric thin films.…”
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The interaction and photostability of some xanthenes and selected azo sensitizing dyes with TiO2 nanoparticles by D. EL Mekkawi, M. S. A. Abdel-Mottaleb

“…We have tested simple Graetzel-type solar cells using semiconductor thin films consisting of TiO2 nanoparticles and some electron injecting dyes. …”
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High-Tc Superconducting YBa2Cu3O7-δ Films and YBa2Cu3O7-δ/PrBa2Cu3O7-δ Superlattices Deposited by Laser Ablation by J. Levoska, S. Leppävuori

“…High Tc superconducting YBa2Cu3O7-d thin films and YBa2Cu37-δ/PrBa2Cu3O7-δ superlattices with various periods and layer thicknesses were deposited by laser ablation on SrTiO3 (100) single crystal substrates using an XeCl excimer laser (λ = 308 nm). …”
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Reconfigurable inverse-designed phase-change photonics by Changming Wu, Ziyu Jiao, Haoqin Deng, Yi-Siou Huang, Heshan Yu, Ichiro Takeuchi, Carlos A. Ríos Ocampo, Mo Li

“…However, conventional designs are limited by global phase control over entire PCM thin films between fully amorphous and fully crystalline states, which restricts device functionality and confines design flexibility and programmability. …”
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Effect of Ar/CH4 Mixture Ratio on Properties of Ag/C:H Nanocomposite Prepared by DC Sputtering by E. Mohsen Soltani, Z. Ghorannevis, M. Shirazi

“…From SEM and AFM micrographs, size of the grains also became smaller on the surface of the films, which will lead to decreasing the roughness of the deposited thin films.…”
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Organic Photovoltaic Cells Based on PbPc Nanocolumns Prepared by Glancing Angle Deposition by Yang Liu, Fujun Zhang, Jian Wang

“…Organic electron acceptor materials fullerene (C60) was evaporated onto the nanocolumn PbPc thin films to prepare heterojunction structure ITO/PbPc/C60/Bphen/Al organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs). …”
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Estimation of Copper and Cadmium Bioavailability in Contaminated Soil Remediated by Different Plants and Micron Hydroxyapatite by Lei Xu, Xiangyu Xing, Jianbiao Peng, Mingfei Ji

“…The results showed that the four plants combined with micron hydroxyapatite significantly increased soil pH and soil organic carbon (SOC), and decreased Cu and Cd fractions extracted by CaCl2 and diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT) than the untreated soils, respectively. …”
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Picosecond Photovoltaic Response in Tilted Lanthanum Doped Manganite Films by Zhiqing Lu, Hao Ni, Jianfeng Xi, Xiaoming Li, Kun Zhao

“…Anisotropic picosecond photovoltaic responses were observed in lanthanum doped manganite LaxCa1-xMnO3 (x=0.67 and 0.4) thin films, which were deposited on miscut LaSrAlO4 substrates under ultraviolet pulsed laser irradiation without external bias. …”
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Investigating Impacts of Local Pressure and Temperature on CVD Growth of Hexagonal Boron Nitride on Ge(001)/Si by Max Franck, Jarek Dabrowski, Markus Andreas Schubert, Dominique Vignaud, Mohamed Achehboune, Jean‐François Colomer, Luc Henrard, Christian Wenger, Mindaugas Lukosius

“…Abstract The chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) on Ge substrates is a promising pathway to high‐quality hBN thin films without metal contaminations for microelectronic applications, but the effect of CVD process parameters on the hBN properties is not well understood yet. …”
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Tailoring Bimetallic Pt/Pd Cryogels for Efficient Ethanol Electro‐Oxidation by Hadir Borg, Dániel Zámbó, Patrick Bessel, Daniel Kranz, Marina Rosebrock, Franziska Lübkemann‐Warwas, Nadja C. Bigall, Dirk Dorfs

“…Fine‐tuning the concentration of the building blocks, the structure, thickness, and composition of the porous coatings enables high electrocatalytic activity to be achieved. Cryogel thin films with an atomic ratio of 1 : 4 Pt : Pd have the highest electrocatalytic activity for EOR.…”
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MEMS Acoustic Sensors: Charting the Path from Research to Real-World Applications by Qingyi Wang, Yang Zhang, Sizhe Cheng, Xianyang Wang, Shengjun Wu, Xufeng Liu

“…They utilize various sensitive structures such as thin films, cantilever beams, or cilia to collect acoustic energy, and use certain transduction principles to read out the generated strain, thereby obtaining the targeted acoustic signal’s information, such as its intensity, direction, and distribution. …”
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Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Behavior of Novel Polythiophene Derivatives Functionalized with Disperse Red 19 Chromophore by Marilú Chávez-Castillo, Arelis Ledesma-Juárez, Marisol Güizado-Rodríguez, Jesús Castrellón-Uribe, Gabriel Ramos-Ortiz, Mario Rodríguez, José-Luis Maldonado, Jorge-Antonio Guerrero-Álvarez, Victor Barba

“…For instance, the third-order nonlinear electric susceptibility (χ3) of solid thin films made of these copolymers exhibited an increment of nearly 60% when TDR19 incorporation increased from 3% to 5%. …”
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Tuning electronic structure and carrier transport properties through crystal orientation control in two-dimensional Dion-Jacobson phase perovskites by Byunggeol Kim, Jeehong Park, Donghee Kang, Na Eun Jung, Kitae Kim, Hongsun Ryu, Joon Ik Jang, Soohyung Park, Yeonjin Yi

“…This work presents a rational strategy to control parallel and perpendicular crystal growth in C6N2H16PbI4 (4AMPPbI4)-based DJ phase perovskite thin films. We demonstrate that crystal orientation depends on crystal growth rates, which can be controlled by varying the solvent composition, antisolvent, and annealing temperature. …”
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Determining Parameters of Metal-Halide Perovskites Using Photoluminescence with Bayesian Inference by Manuel Kober-Czerny, Akash Dasgupta, Seongrok Seo, Florine M. Rombach, David P. McMeekin, Heon Jin, Henry J. Snaith

“…Via studying a set of halfstacks, comprising electron- and hole-transport materials contacting perovskite thin films, we determine surface recombination velocities at these interfaces with high precision. …”
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Ultrafast Charge and Triplet State Formation in Diketopyrrolopyrrole Low Band Gap Polymer/Fullerene Blends: Influence of Nanoscale Morphology of Organic Photovoltaic Materials on C... by René M. Williams, Hung-Cheng Chen, Daniele Di Nuzzo, Stephan C. J. Meskers, René A. J. Janssen

“…Femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy of thin films of two types of morphologies of diketopyrrolopyrrole low band gap polymer/fullerene-adduct blends is presented and indicates triplet state formation by charge recombination, an important loss channel in organic photovoltaic materials. …”
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