Unique chemistries of metal-nitrate precursors to form metal-oxide thin films from solution: materials for electronic and energy applications

EA Cochran, KN Woods, DW Johnson… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal-oxide thin films are used extensively in electronic and energy applications. Solution
processing offers a potentially scalable and inexpensive deposition method to expand the …

Advanced applications of amorphous alumina: From nano to bulk

A Mavrič, M Valant, C Cui, ZM Wang - Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 2019 - Elsevier
In modern technologies, the researchers are keen on top-down approaches to tailor the
materials from bulk into their nanometer forms. For the amorphous alumina, this is the other …

Electronic conduction mechanisms in insulators

TH Chiang, JF Wager - IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The current density-electric field (J-ξ) characteristics of four insulators of dramatically
different electrical qualities are assessed in terms of their operative electronic conduction …

Tuning of the plasmon resonance location in Au nanostructures coated with a ultrathin film of Al2O3–Optical measurements and FDTD simulations

M Łapiński, R Kozioł, P Syty, S Patela, JE Sienkiewicz… - Surface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
The Au nanostructures have been coated with an ultra-thin films of amorphous aluminium
oxide. Optical absorption spectra show the influence of the thickness of Al 2 O 3 on plasmon …

Synthesis of an aluminum hydroxide octamer through a simple dissolution method

CK Perkins, ES Eitrheim, BL Fulton… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Multimeric oxo‐hydroxo Al clusters function as models for common mineral structures and
reactions. Cluster research, however, is often slowed by a lack of methods to prepare …

Demonstration of Fowler–Nordheim tunneling in simple solution-processed thin films

CK Perkins, MA Jenkins, TH Chiang… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The production of high-quality thin-film insulators is essential to develop advanced
technologies based on electron tunneling. Current insulator deposition methods, however …

Precise control of the optical refractive index in nanolattices

VA Premnath, CH Chang - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Recent developments in photonic devices, light field display, and wearable electronics have
resulted from a competitive development toward new technologies to improve the user …

Minerals to materials: Bulk synthesis of aqueous aluminum clusters and their use as precursors for metal oxide thin films

BL Fulton, CK Perkins, RH Mansergh… - Chemistry of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We describe a process to produce aqueous precursor solutions of the flat-Al 13 hydroxo
cluster (Al13 (μ3-OH) 6 (μ2-OH) 18 (H2O) 24 (NO3) 15) via stoichiometric dissolution of bulk …

Superhydrophobic coatings based on pseudoboehmite nanoflakelets for sustainable photovoltaic energy production

SH Joghee, KM Uthandi, N Singh, S Katti… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Scalability, transparency, and robustness are the bottlenecks for superhydrophobic (SH)
coatings, which restrict its use in commercial solar panel applications. Herein, a systematic …

Caseyite, a new mineral containing a variant of the flat-Al13 polyoxometalate cation

AR Kampf, MA Cooper, JM Hughes… - … : Journal of Earth …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Caseyite,[(V5+ O2) Al10–x (OH) 20–2 x (H2O) 18–2 x] 2 [H2V4+ V 9 5+ O28][V 10
5+ O28] 2 [(Na, K, Ca) 2–y (SO4) 2–z⋅(60+ 8x+ y+ 4 z) H2O], where x= 0–2.5, y= 0–2, z= 0 …