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The Impact of the Crystallite Orientation Distribution on Exciton Transport in Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymers

December 30, 2015
Author(s)
Alexander L. Ayzner, Jianguo Mei, Anthony Appleton, Dean DeLongchamp, Alexandre Nardes, Stephanie Benight, Nikos Kopidakis, Michael F. Toney, Zhenan Bao
Conjugated polymers are widely used materials in organic photovoltaic devices. Owing to their extended electronic wavefunctions, they often form semicrystalline thin films. Although it is known that the polymer crystal orientation plays a large role in

Broadband Optical Properties of Graphene by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

December 11, 2015
Author(s)
Wei Li, Nhan Van Nguyen, Guangjun Cheng, Angela R. Hight Walker, David J. Gundlach, Yiran Liang, boyuan Tian, Xuelei Liang, Lian-Mao Peng
The broadband (0.7 eV to 9.0 eV) optical properties of chemical-vapor-deposition (CVD) grown graphene are determined by spectroscopic ellipsometry. The optical absorption follows the fine structure constant in the energy range from 1.0 eV to 2.0 eV, but

Shape critical properties of patterned Permalloy thin films

December 7, 2015
Author(s)
Robert D. Shull, Y. P. Kabanov, V S. Gornakov, Andrew P. Chen, Valerian I. Nikitenko
The effects of shape and edges in magnetic elements with reduced dimensions on the magnetization reversal of cross- and framed cross- shaped Ni(sub79)Fe(sub21) (30mn) films were studied. Remagnetization details in the stripes of the patterned structures

Quantized Hall resistance in large-scale monolayer graphene

November 28, 2015
Author(s)
Yanfei Yang, Chiashain Chuang, Chieh W. Liu, Randolph Elmquist
Abstract: Graphene is an atomic-thickness carbon lattice that can be exfoliated from solid graphite or grown using high temperature processing methods on a variety of substrates. Many practical applications of large-area graphene, however, are limited by

An apparatus for spatially resolved, temperature dependent near infrared reflectance measurements for identifying thermochromic transitions in combinatorial thin film libraries

November 18, 2015
Author(s)
Sara C. Barron, Nam T. Nguyen, Nhan V. Nguyen, Martin L. Green, Mitul P. Patel
A metrology and data analysis protocol is described for high throughput construction of thermochromic metal-insulator phase diagrams for lightly substituted VO2 thin films. The technique exploits the abrupt change in near infrared optical properties

Electrodeposition of Al-W-Mn Ternary Alloys from the Lewis Acidic Aluminum Chloride?1-Ethyl-3-methylimidazolium Chloride Ionic Liquid

November 16, 2015
Author(s)
Gery R. Stafford, Tetsuya Tsuda, Yuichi Ikeda, Akihito Imanishi, Shohei Kusumoto, Sudsumu Kuwabata, Charles Hussey
The electrodeposition of non-equilibrium ternary Al-W-Mn alloys was examined in the Lewis acidic 66.7-33.3 mole ratio aluminum chloride–1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride (AlCl3–[C2mim]Cl) ionic liquid (IL). K3[W2Cl9] and MnCl2 were added to provide

Gold Nanoparticle Quantitation by Whole Cell Tomography

November 13, 2015
Author(s)
Aric W. Sanders, Kavita M. Jeerage, Cindi Schwartz, Alexandra Curtin, Ann C. Chiaramonti Debay
Many proposed biomedical applications for engineered gold nanoparticles require their incorporation by mammalian cells in specific numbers and locations. Here, the number of gold nanoparticles inside of individual mammalian stem cells was characterized

The Occurrence of Repeated Fiber Breaks in Microcomposites

November 10, 2015
Author(s)
Gale A. Holmes, Edward D. McCarthy, Nathanael A. Heckert, Stefan D. Leigh, Jae Hyun Kim, Jeffrey W. Gilman
The mechanical integrity of a structural composite is strongly affected by the strength and toughness of the fiber–matrix interface/interphase (Norwood, 1994), with interfacial shear strength (IFSS) considered the best quantifying metric. IFSS outputs are

ROLE OF SALT ON ADHESION OF AN EPOXY/ALUMINUM (OXIDE) INTERFACE IN AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENTS

November 5, 2015
Author(s)
Kar T. Tan, Christopher C. White, Donald L. Hunston, Justin M. Gorham, Michael Imburgia, Aaron M. Forster, Vogt D. Bryan
Engineering joints consisting of polymer/inorganic interfaces are commonly exposed to less than ideal conditions during normal service; these environmental conditions present a significant challenge for maintaining the structural integrity of the interface

The Fiber Break Evolution Process in a 2-D Epoxy/Glass Multi-Fiber Array

November 2, 2015
Author(s)
Edward D. McCarthy, Jae H. Kim, N. Alan Heckert, Stefan D. Leigh, Jeffrey W. Gilman, Gale A. Holmes
The mechanical integrity of a structural composite is strongly affected by the strength and toughness of the fiber-matrix interface/interphase [1], with interfacial shear strength (IFSS) being the accepted quanti-fying metric. However, the value of the

Magnetocaloric Response Of Non-Stoichiometric Ni(sub2)MnGa Alloys and the Influence of Texture

November 1, 2015
Author(s)
Michael V. McLeod, Anit Giri, Brigitte A. Paterson, Cindi L. Dennis, H L. Zhou, S C. Vogel, Yong Ho Sohn, Robert D. Shull, B S. Majumdar
Currently, there is significant interest in magnetocaloric materials for solid state refrigeration. In this work, polycrystalline Heusler alloys belonging to the Ni(sub2+x)Mn(sub 1-x) Ga family, with x between 0.08 and 0.24, were evaluated for the purpose

Order-Disorder and Phase Separation

October 28, 2015
Author(s)
Benjamin P. Burton
Order-disorder and phase separation in condensed solutions of two or more components are similar processes that are typically driven by energetics of opposite sign. The components may be: different atomic species in alloys or solid solutions; atoms and
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