Effect of In Situ Thermal Annealing on Structural, Optical, and Electrical Properties of CdS/CdTe Thin Film Solar Cells Fabricated by Pulsed Laser Deposition by Alaa Ayad Al-mebir, Paul Harrison, Ali Kadhim, Guanggen Zeng, Judy Wu

“…Atomic force microscopy and Raman spectroscopy show that the iTAP in the optimal processing window produces considerable CdTe grain growth and improves the CdTe crystallinity, which results in significantly improved optoelectronic properties and quantum efficiency of the CdS/CdTe solar cells. …”
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Study on the Weight and Patterns of Key Controlling Factors for Corrosion in Gathering and Transportation Pipelines of the Sulige Gas Field by JIANG Chengyin, LI Qiongwei, BAI Zilong, HAN Zizi, HUI Baoping, ZHANG Ruoyin, LIU Wei

“…Since the western part of the Sulige Gas Field is a water-bearing gas reservoir， the pipelines are prone to corrosion， which severely affects the normal production operations of the gas field and results in significant economic losses and safety risks.In this study， the corrosion of gathering and transportation pipelines in the target gas field was analyzed.Based on this analysis， corrosion coupon experiments， scanning electron microscopy (SEM)， confocal Raman microscopy and X-ray diffraction (XRD) techniques were employed， combined with water and gas quality analyses， to investigate the corrosion patterns of the pipelines.The primary controlling factors of corrosion， including chloride ions，microorganisms， CO2 partial pressure， total pressure and flow rate， were identified.Furthermore， the weight of each controlling factor was determined according to different corrosion characteristics.Results showed that when uniform corrosion of the samples was used as the evaluation criterion， the CO2 partial pressure had the greatest influence on the corrosion rate， accounting for 58.00%of the weight.When pitting corrosion of the samples was used as the evaluation criterion， microorganisms had the greatest influence on the corrosion rate， accounting for 34.00%of the weight.…”
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Enhancing thermoelectric properties of ScN films through twin domains by J. More-Chevalier, U.D. Wdowik, J. Martan, T. Baba, S. Cichoň, P. Levinský, D. Legut, E. de Prado, P. Hruška, J. Pokorný, J. Bulíř, C. Beltrami, T. Mori, M. Novotný, I. Gregora, L. Fekete, L. Volfová, J. Lančok

“…The effect of temperature on the phonon properties of ScN layers, having implications for their thermoelectric properties, is explored by Raman spectroscopy. The results of our experiments are confronted with those following from the first-principles studies. …”
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Adversarial example generation method for SAR images based on mask extraction by ZHANG Jianwu, NAI Hao, LI Jie, QIAN Jianhua, FANG Yinfeng

“…Secondly, the improved relativistic average GAN (RaGAN) loss was introduced into AdvGAN, and the relative mean discriminator was used to make the discriminator rely on both real data and generated data during training, which improved the stability of training and the attack effect. …”
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Investigations on Wear Behavior of Aluminium Composites at Elevated Temperature by B. R. Senthil Kumar, G. Gopalarama Subramaniyan, N. Pragadish, P. M. Venkatesh, Soni Sanjay, C. M. Velu, G. Navaneethakrishnan, Suresh Vellingiri, Venkatesan Govindarajan

“…The wear resistance at 300°C was 100% higher in comparison with resistance at 150°C. Because of the Orowan strengthening and Hall–Petch effect, the tensile strength and hardness of composites enhanced. …”
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Thermal behavior of polymeric nickel(II) oxalate complex obtained through nickel(II) nitrate/ethylene glycol reaction by Niculescu Mircea, Pascariu Mihai-Cosmin, Racu Andrei, Taranu Bogdan-Ovidiu

“…The solid- -state decomposition products formed during heating were investigated by chemical analysis, FTIR, Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The structure, morphology and properties of the final decomposition products were characterized by XRD, FTIR, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). …”
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Effect of Coexisting TiO2 Powder on Ionic Conduction of Highly Concentrated LiTFSA Aqueous Electrolyte (20.5 mol kg−1) by Jingchao XU, Hideshi MAKI, Hiro MINAMIMOTO, Minoru MIZUHATA

“…Various spectroscopic measurement, such as Raman, near-infrared (NIR), and NMR spectra indicated that the presence of TiO2 disrupts the nanoscale water channel structure in the water-enriched regions of the bulk solution in the TiO2 powder/20.5 mol kg−1 LiTFSA solid-liquid coexistence system with a liquid phase volume fraction below 40 vol%, resulting in an unusual decrease in the electrical conductivity. …”
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Investigation of MWCNT Reinforcement on the Strain Hardening Behavior of Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene by Hassan Mahfuz, Mujibur R. Khan, Theodora Leventouri, Efthymios Liarokapis

“…Close interaction between UHMWPE and nanotubes was further evidenced by Raman spectral distribution as a positive shift in the D-band suggesting compressive stress on nanotubes by lateral compression of polymer. …”
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Presentación del número 13 by Begoña Sánchez Torrejón

“… Este segundo número del monográfico “Diversidades sexogenéricas y pedagogias queer: hacia una educación contrahegemónica” nos muestra distintos artículos que nos retan a la transformación de la educación desde la óptica de la pedagogía queer. …”
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Characterization of WO3 Thin Films Grown on Silicon by HFMOD by Joel Díaz-Reyes, Roberto Castillo-Ojeda, Miguel Galván-Arellano, Orlando Zaca-Moran

“…The monoclinic single-phase nature of the as-deposited films, structure was changed to triclinic structure by annealing them at higher temperatures than 400°C, which has been determined by the X-ray diffraction analysis. By Raman scattering is confirmed the change of crystalline phase, of monoclinic to triclinic, since that lattice vibrational modes of as-deposited WO3 and annealed at 500°C present clearly differences. …”
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Caractérisation physico-chimique de pigments de peintures murales mochica : San José de Moro (viiie-xe siècles apr. J.-C.) by Nicola Sardos, Nino Del-Solar-Velarde, Rémy Chapoulie, Luis Jaime Castillo Butters

“…Analyses by SEM-EDS, X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy were conducted on the samples, completing the analyses by portable X-ray fluorescence made in situ. …”
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Recent advances of photodiagnosis and treatment for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma by Yining Zhang, Zhenfang Li, Chengchi Zhang, Chengying Shao, Yanting Duan, Guowan Zheng, Yu Cai, Minghua Ge, Jiajie Xu

“…Fluorescence imaging, narrow-band imaging, Raman spectroscopy, optical coherence tomography, hyperspectral imaging, and photoacoustic imaging have been reported for imaging HNSCC. …”
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Multi-walled carbon nanotubes reinforced Inconel 718 superalloy fabricated by spark plasma sintering: Microstructure and mechanical property by Z.J. Han, L.Y. Ma, Q.S. Feng, B. Meng, M. Wan

“…The incorporation of MWCNTs, though impeding material density by affecting the bonding of powder particles, can enhance the mechanical properties of the composites through load transfer and Orowan strengthening mechanisms. The composites prepared at 1050 °C with 0.5% MWCNTs content show a high relative density of 97%, a flexural strength of 1090 MPa, a compressive strength of 1523 MPa, and a high-temperature (1200 K) compression strength of 138.5 MPa, which are all much higher than that of Inconel 718 alloy. …”
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Structure and Physical Properties of PZT-PMnN-PSN Ceramics Near the Morphological Phase Boundary by Nguyen Dinh Tung Luan, Le Dai Vuong, Truong Van Chuong, Nguyen Truong Tho

“…At this ratio, the ceramic has the optimal electromechanical properties: the kp=0.61, the εmax=29520, the d31=-236 pC/N, the Qm=2400, high remanent polarization (Pr=49.2 μC·cm−2), and low coercive field Ec=10.28 kV·cm−1.…”
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Controlled Oxidation of Metallic Molybdenum Patterns via Joule Heating for Localized MoS₂ Growth by Norah Aldosari, William Poston, Gregory Jensen, Maryam Bizhani, Muhammad Tariq, Eric Stinaff

“…The properties of the grown MoS₂ films were investigated using Raman spectroscopy and photoluminescence measurements, showing promising film quality. …”
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Synthesis, crystal structure and properties of catena-poly[[bis(4-methylpyridine-κN)cobalt(II)]-di-μ-thiocyanato-κ2N:S;κ2S:N], which shows a rare coordination geometry by Christian Näther, Jan Boeckmann

“…Powder X-ray diffraction proves that a pure crystalline phase has been obtained and the values of the CN stretching vibrations of the anionic ligands observed in the IR and the Raman spectra are in agreement with the presence of bridging anionic ligands.…”
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Photocatalytic Performance of Carbon Monolith/TiO2 Composite by Marina Maletić, Marija Vukčević, Ana Kalijadis, Zoran Laušević, Mila Laušević

“…The presence of TiO2 on CM carrier was confirmed by Raman spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy. …”
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Electrophoretic Deposition of Chitosan Films Doped with Nd2Ti2O7 Nanoparticles as Protective Coatings against Corrosion in Saline Solutions by M. Martinez-Gomez, A. Quinto-Hernandez, N. S. Flores-Garcia, Jan Mayén, M. Dominguez-Diaz, H. Martinez, J. Porcayo-Calderon, J. G. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, L. Martinez-Gomez

“…According to the FT-IR (Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy), Raman, and XRD (X-ray diffraction) analyses, it was observed that the presence of the nanoparticles modified the properties of the chitosan films, that is, their crystallinity was increased and their moisture absorption capacity was reduced. …”
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Photon antibunching in single-molecule vibrational sum-frequency generation by Moradi Kalarde Fatemeh, Ciccarello Francesco, Sánchez Muñoz Carlos, Feist Johannes, Galland Christophe

“…Recent research indicates that plasmonic nanocavities, which confine light to extremely small volumes, can facilitate the detection of vibrational SFG signals from individual molecules by leveraging surface-enhanced Raman scattering combined with mid-infrared laser excitation. …”
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Detection of Water Contamination Events Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Alternating Trilinear Decomposition Algorithm by Jie Yu, Xiaoyan Zhang, Dibo Hou, Fang Chen, Tingting Mao, Pingjie Huang, Guangxin Zhang

“…The Delaunay triangulation interpolation method was used to make the pretreatment of three-dimensional fluorescence spectra data, in order to estimate the effect of Rayleigh and Raman scattering; ATLD model was applied to establish the model of normal water sample, and the residual matrix was obtained by subtracting the measured matrix from the model matrix; the residual sum of squares obtained from the residual matrix and threshold was used to make qualitative discrimination of test samples and distinguish drinking water samples and organic pollutant samples. …”
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