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A key cause of chemo-mechanical degradation in battery electrodes is that they undergo abrupt phase transformation during the charging/discharging cycle. This phase transformation is accompanied by lattice misfit strains that nucleate…
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We present a simple method for accessing the elastic properties of microscopic deformable particles. This method is based on measuring the pressure-induced deformation of soft particles as they are forced through a tapered glass…
Although monocrystalline oxide films offer broad functional capabilities, their practical use is hampered by challenges in patterning. Traditional patterning relies on etching, which can be costly and prone to issues like film or substrate…
Titanium nitride (TiN) presents superior electrical conductivity with mechanical and chemical stability and compatibility with the semiconductor fabrication process. Here, we fabricated epitaxial and polycrystalline TiN (111) thin films on…
When a suspension dries, the suspending fluid evaporates, leaving behind a dry film composed of the suspended particles. During the final stages of drying, the height of the fluid film on the substrate drops below the particle size,…
There is a demand for the manufacture of ultra low-loss metallic films with high-quality single crystals and surface for quantum optics and quantum information processing. Many researches are devoted to alternative materials, but silver is…
Thermoelectric films and periodic structures have particularly intriguing electrical and thermal transport features due to their low dimensionality. As a result, they have piqued the attention of researchers from across the spectrum of…
Flow in thin films is highly dependent on the boundary conditions. Here, we study the capillary levelling of thin bilayer films composed of two immiscible liquids. Specifically, a stepped polymer layer is placed atop another, flat polymer…
High quality metal thin films and nanostructures are critical building blocks for next generation nanotechnologies. They comprise low-loss circuit elements in nanodevices, provide new catalytic pathways for water splitting and $CO_2$…
We report on a parylene chemical vapor deposition system custom designed for producing ultra-thin parylene films (5-100 nm thickness) for use as an electrical insulator in nanoscale electronic devices, including as the gate insulator in…
Structural and electronic properties of homogeneous poly(3-Hexylthiophene) (P3HT) films ob- tained from the electro-spray method were presented by means of grazing incidence x-ray diffrac- tion, atomic force microscopy, optical absorption,…
Tuning the local film stress (and associated strain) provides a universal route towards exerting dynamic control on propagating fields in nanoscale geometries, and engineering controlled interactions between them. The majority of existing…
A femtosecond laser focused inside bulk GaN was used to slice a thin GaN film with an epitaxial device structure from a bulk GaN substrate. The demonstrated laser slicing lift-off process did not require any special release layers in the…
Due to the shorter channel length allowing faster ion/charge movement, nanoscale molecular thin films can be attractive electronic components for next-generation high-performing energy storage devices. However, controlling chemical…
This research introduces a new drop fluidics, which uses a deformable and stretchable elastomeric film as the platform, instead of the commonly used rigid supports. Such a soft film impregnated with magnetic particles can be modulated with…
Electronic devices are progressively fabricated on flexible substrates allowing new fields of applications. A maskless and very flexible structuring process is offered by ablation using ultra-short pulse laser irradiation. Usually, certain…
Combining chemical vapor deposition (CVD) with electrochemical polish (EP) operations is a promising route to producing performance-capable superconducting films for use in the fabrication of cost-effective components for superconducting…
Thin polymer films are widely used as functional and protective coatings. However, determining the composition and processing conditions that produce a desired function is a tedious process due to the large number of factors that must be…
Sustainable liquid cooling solutions are recognized as the future of thermal management in the chip industry. Among them, the phase change heat transfer devices such as heat pipes and vapour chambers have shown tremendous potential. These…