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Atomic force microscopes (AFM) have been used to measure adhesion at nanoscale between two surfaces. Colloidal probes are often utilized for such measurements because they provide much lower contact pressures and controlled contact geometry, facilitating
TEM has been used to characterize the defect structures produced in Si and Mgo by Berkovich indentation at loads ranging from 0.1 mN to 5 mN. Plane-section observations are used to describe the nature of the defects and their spatial distribution about the
T J. Haugan, Winnie Wong-Ng, Lawrence P. Cook, H J. Brown, L Swartzendruber
To improve the critical current density of Bi 2Sr 2CaCu 2O 8+x high temperature superconductors (HTS) in high magnetic field applications (> 1 T from 20 K to 50 K), it is necessary to introduce a high density (approximately equal to} 5 per 100 nm in a
Igor Levin, Albert Davydov, O M. Kryliouk, Hyun Jong Park, YongSun Won, T J. Anderson, J P. Kim, J A. Freitas
Single-crystalline InN nanorods were successfully grown on c-Al203, GaN, and Si substrates by non catalytic, template-free hydride metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy (H-MOVPE). Stable gas-phase oligomer formation is proposed as the nucleation mechanism for
Igor Levin, M Stennett, D I. Woodward, A R. West, I Reaney
Strong coupling between local polar displacements and a commensurate octahedral tilting is proposed to explain the onset of classic ferroelectric behavior in tetragonal tungsten bronze-like dielectrics BaLaxNd1-xNb3Ti2O15. The ferroelectric phase
The effect of Sb5+ substitution on the crystal chemistry and dielectric properties of Ba3MNb2-xSbxO9 (M = Mg, Zn, Ni) was investigated using a combination of X-ray and neutron powder diffraction, and dielectric property measurements at microwave
The preparation, modeled and refined crystal structures, and structure-dielectric property relationships of five Ba3MM 2O9 (M = Mg, Ni, Zn; M = Nb, Ta) perovskites are reported. Crystal structure modeling was used to generate initial structure models for
Crystallography has a long and successful history of self-organization and was one of the first areas to create numerical scientific databases. Virtually all structure determinations have been archived in databases that allow ready access and complete
Winnie Wong-Ng, James A. Kaduk, Debra L. Kaiser, Julia Frank
This paper reports an investigation of the homogeneity range, crystal chemistry and crystallography of a technologically-important (Ba2-xSrx)TiO4 solid solution series. Since the end members of the series - Ba2TiO4 (Pnma (No.62)) and Sr2TiO4 (I4/mmm (No
Biomaterials are nonviable materials used in medical devices, that are intended to interact with biological systems. In 2002 the total U.S. Medical device market stood at $77 billion, with global sales estimated at 2-3 times this figure. Approximately 40
TEM has been used to characterize residual defect structures produced in 111} Si and 001] MgO by Berkovich nanoindentation at loads ranging from 5 mN to 0.1 mN. The plane-section observations provide a description of the primary defects, found to be
A Method is described for reconstructing the crystal habit from the observations of many random planar sections of known orientation. We have generated simulated observations based on five different assumed crystal habits and found that it is possible to
K Zhang, G Rosenbaum, R Liu, G Bunker, C Y. Liu, Daniel A. Fischer
The development of Multilayer Analyzer Array Detector (MADD) for X-ray fluorescence is to eliminate the count rate limitation encountered with the multi-element Ge detector. A 24-element multilayer detector has been fabricated which is tunable in a large