Crystallographic phase separation and optical properties of ZnO1-xSx (x=0.1-0.3) alloy thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) on c-plane sapphire substrate have been investigated with and without using ZnO buffer ...

It is thought that the proposed new family of multi-functional materials, namely, the ferroelectric thermoelectrics may exhibit enhanced functionalities due to the coupling of the thermoelectric parameters with ferroelectric ...

The addition of B, up to about 0.1 wt%, to Ti-6Al-4V (Ti64) reduces its as-cast grain and colony sizes by an order of magnitude. In this paper, the creep resistance of this alloy modified with 0.06 and 0.11 wt% B additions ...

The direct liquid injection chemical vapor deposition (DLI-CVD) technique has been used for the growth of cobalt ferrite (CFO) films on (100) oriented MgAl2O4 (MAO) substrates. Smooth and highly epitaxial cobalt ferrite ...

High thermoelectric figure of merit, zT, of similar to 1.85 at 725 K along with significant cydable temperature stability was achieved in Pb-free p-type Ge1-xSbxTe samples through simultaneous enhancement in Seebeck ...

Layer specific direct measurement of optical band gaps of two important van der Waals compounds, MoS2 and ReS2, is performed at nanoscale by high resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy. For monolayer MoS2, the twin ...

For decades it has been a well-known fact that among the few ferroelectric compounds in the perovskite family, namely, BaTiO3, KNbO3, PbTiO3, and Na1/2Bi1/2TiO3, the dielectric and piezoelectric properties of BaTiO3 are ...

We report on the observation of Co vacancy (VCo) induced charge ordering and ferromagnetism in CoO epitaxial thin film. The ordering is associated with the coexistence of commensurate, incommensurate, and discommensurate ...

Inorganic solids with low thermal conductivity are of great interest for thermoelectric applications. The formation of synthetic nanostructures by matrix encapsulation is one of the important strategies for thermal ...

ZnS0.3O0.7 alloy thin film with and without Ag and Li co-doping are grown by pulsed laser deposition on c-plane sapphire substrate. The films are phase separated in S-rich and S-poor regions. Two and four different phases ...