The giant magnetoimpedance effect of multilayered thin films under stress has great application prospects in magnetic sensing, but related studies are rarely reported. Therefore, the giant magnetoimpedance effects in multilayered thin film meanders u...
This study aimed at optimizing horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetlands (CWs) to improve hydraulic performance and pollutant removal efficiency. A groundwater modeling package (MODFLOW) was used to optimize three design parameters (length-to-w...
A monochromatic parallel X-ray beam is essential for some X-ray applications and a multilayer on a parabolic cylinder substrate is a good choice to obtain it. In this work, an HfO2/Al2O3 multilayer with a period of 3.80 nm and a bilayer number of 60...
In this work, a masking technique was used to improve the thickness uniformity of a Mo/Si multilayer deposited on a curved spherical mirror by direct current (DC) magnetron sputtering with planetary rotation stages. The clear aperture of the mirror w...
The flexible transparent conductive films (TCFs) of a ZnS/Cu/Ag/TiO2 multilayered structure were deposited on a flexible PET substrate with high surface roughness using magnetic sputtering, and the effects of structural characteristics on the perform...
The marching-on-in-degree (MOD) method is applied in this paper to analyze the transient electromagnetic scattering of multilayer graphene and a dielectric substrate. The time domain resistive boundary condition (TD-RBC) integral equation and time do...
The development of a sample substrate with superior performance for desorption and ionization of analyte is the key issue to ameliorate the quality of mass spectra for measurements of small molecules in surface-assisted laser desorption/ionization ma...
This article presents a multiband bandpass filter structure with an in-line topology based on substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) technology. A multi-layer configuration is employed to achieve circuit miniaturization. By constructing the coupling ma...
A high bonding strength between graphene and a semiconductor surface is significant to the performance of graphene-based Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems/Nano-Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS/NEMS) devices. In this paper, by applying a series of cons...
This work compares the deposition of aluminum nitride by magnetron sputtering on silicon to multilayer ceramic substrates. The variation of sputter parameters in a wide range following a fractional factorial experimental design generates diverse crys...
The tribological protection of carbon fiber reinforced epoxy composites (CFC) is essential for broadening their use from structural to functional applications, e.g., to linear bearings in mechanical engineering. However, their wear resistance in slid...
Nanoparticle multilayer substrates usually exhibit excellent SERS activity due to multi-dimensional plasmon coupling. However, simply increasing the layers will lead to several problems, such as complex manufacturing procedures, reduced uniformity an...
Three types of gradient plasma-assisted chemical vapour deposition (PACVD) coatings were produced on WC-Co hardmetal substrates: a TiN coating, a gradient TiCN coating with alternating TiN/TiCN layers and a multilayer TiBN system of TiN/TiB2 layers....
Titanium alloys are widely used in biomedical applications, especially in dental implants. In this work, individual TiOxCy thin films and a novel multilayer coating approach were investigated to prevent early implant failure through surface propertie...
The Mo/Si multilayer mirror has been widely used in EUV astronomy, lithography, microscopy and other fields because of its high reflectivity at the wavelength around 13.5 nm. During the fabrication of Mo/Si multilayers on large, curved mirrors, shado...
Three-dimensional (3D) plasmonic metamaterials have become a trend in the application of nanophotonic devices. In this paper, a convenient and inexpensive method for the design of 3D multilayer plasmonic metamaterials is constructed using a one-step...
A numerical optimization technique of a three-dimensional (3D) SERS substrate with finite element analysis is proposed. Using the optical reciprocity theorem, we have shown that instead of the well-known local field enhancement criterion, it is more...
To meet the demands of highly integrated and miniaturized radio frequency front-end (RFFE) modules, multi-passband filters which support multi-channel compounding come to the foreground. In this work, we proposed a new design of a dual-passband surfa...
In this work, a series of mono-and multilayer coatings were considered. They consisted of CrN and Cr prepared by physical vapor deposition with a cathodic arc. The most common steels for molds of plastics were chosen as substrates: X37CrMoV5-1 (SMV3)...
In recent years, functional ceramic devices have become smaller, thinner, more refined, and highly integrated, which makes it difficult to realize their rapid prototyping and low-cost manufacturing using traditional processing. As an emerging technol...
Polyelectrolyte multilayers are coatings formed by the alternate deposition of polycations and polyanions on a charged surface. In this study we examined how the type of substrate affects a multilayer prepared from poly(allylamine hydrochloride) and...
The behavior of bi- and trilayer coating systems for flexible a-Si:H based solar cells consisting of a barrier, an electrode, and an absorption layer is studied under mechanical load. First, the film morphology, stress, Young’s modulus, and crack ons...
In this paper, we propose the analytical and numerical analyses of multilayer photonic metamaterial slab optical waveguide structures with Kerr-type nonlinear cladding and substrate. The multiple-quantum-well (MQW) photonic metamaterial optical waveg...
Graphene–metal substrates have received widespread attention due to their superior surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) performance. The strong coupling between graphene and metal particles can greatly improve the SERS performance and thus...
Titanium (Ti) film has been used as a hydrogen storage material. The effect of the thickness of a molybdenum (Mo) nano-interlayer on the cohesive strength between a Mo/Ti multilayer film and a single crystal silicon (Si) substrate was investigated by...
Polyelectrolyte multilayers (PEMs) deposited on porous composite polylactic acid/poly(ε-caprolactone) (PDLA/PEC) substrates were studied. The substrates were previously charged in a corona discharge. Time dependences of the normalized surface...
The microstructure of multiferroic LaFeO3-YMnO3 (LFO-YMO) multilayers grown on (001)- and (111)-SrTiO3 substrates is characterized by the transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Detailed TEM characterization reveals that LFO-YMO multilayers grown on...
Polyelectrolyte multilayers (PEMs) deposited on non-porous and porous blend substrates were studied. Films, prepared from two biodegradable polymers poly (D-lactic acid) (PDLA) and poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) and their blends were used as subs...
Textile-based sensors fabricated using the direct-coating method are the appropriate choice to meet the aspects of flexibility, non-invasiveness, and lightness for continuous monitoring of the human body. The characteristics of the sensor substrate a...
Experiments and numerical simulations demonstrate that when a silver nanowire is placed on a dielectric multilayer, but not the commonly used bare glass slide, the effective refractive index of the propagating surface plasmons along the silver nanowi...
The development of printing technologies has enabled the realization of electric circuit fabrication on a flexible substrate. However, the current technique remains restricted to single-layer patterning. In this paper, we demonstrate a fully solution...
In this study, an inorganic multilayer barrier film was fabricated on the polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) substrate, which was composed of a SiO2 layer prepared by inductively coupled plasma chemical vapor deposition (ICP-CVD) and a Al2O3/ZnO nanolami...
We investigated the effects of substrate rotation speed on the structural and mechanical properties of CrN/CrAlSiN multilayer coatings produced using high-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) on silicon and high-speed steel (HSS) substrates. S...
To develop the hard and self-lubricating coatings applied for the industrial dry-cutting and die-casting machining tool fields, a series of MoTiAlN/MoN/Mo multilayered coatings were deposited on Si substrates under low substrate rotation by cathodic...
Ti-Al thin films with a thickness of 200 nm were prepared either by co-sputtering from elemental Ti and Al targets or as Ti/Al multilayers with 10 and 20 nm individual layer thickness on thermally oxidized Si substrates. Some of the films were covere...
Renewable energy is the energy for future generations as it is clean and widely available. The solar absorber is a sustainable energy source that converts solar energy into heat energy. The structural optimization is analyzed to enhance the absorptio...
In this paper, the surface properties and selected mechanical and biological properties of various multi-layer systems based on diamond-like carbon structure deposited on low-density polyethylene (LDPE) substrate were studied. Plasma etching and laye...
The direct tailoring of the size, composition, or number of layers belongs to the advantages of 3D printing employment in producing orodispersible films (ODFs) compared to the frequently utilized solvent casting method. This study aimed to produce po...
This paper presents a miniaturized Doppler radar that can be used as a motion sensor for low-cost Internet of things (IoT) applications. For the first time, a radar front-end and its antenna are integrated on a multilayer cellulose-based substrate, b...
The integrity and reliability of surface protective coatings deposited on metal surface could be in-situ monitored via the attractive luminescence sensing technique. In this paper, we report the influence of substrate temperature on the properties of...
A millimeter-wave multi-layer and miniaturized multibeam antenna fed by an E-plane Butler matrix (BM) in substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) technology is proposed. For the beam-forming network (BFN), a folded E-plane 4 × 4 BM is proposed, who...
The terahertz (THz) band offers ultra-wide bandwidth for next-generation high-speed wireless communication systems. However, achieving compact, high-gain, and beam-symmetric THz antennas remains challenging due to fabrication and propagation constrai...
In this paper, a compact antenna design method is proposed for microstrip patch antennas using a double-layered defected ground structure (DGS) configuration. While a conventional single-layered defected ground structure yields a lower resonant frequ...
Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) sensors are small, passive and wireless devices. We present here the latest results obtained in a project aimed at developing a SAW-based implantable pressure sensor, equipped with a well-defined, 30 μm-thick, 4.7 mm-in...
The direct fabrication of micron-thickness patterned electronics consisting of patterned PVA films and CNT micropatterns still faces considerable challenges. Here, we demonstrated the integrated fabrication of PVA films of micron-thickness and CNT-ba...
In the present work, the electronic properties of doped silicene located on graphite and nickel substrates were investigated by first-principles calculations method. The results of this modeling indicate that the use of silicene as an anode material...
In this paper, a horn-shaped strip antenna exponentially tapered carved on a multilayer dielectric substrate for an indoor body position tracking system is proposed. The performance of the proposed antenna was verified by testing it as a tracking sta...
Mechanical and tribological properties of the hard-multilayer TiN-AlTiN/nACo-CrN/AlCrN-AlCrO-AlTiCrN coating deposited on WC-Co substrate were investigated. The sliding tests were carried out using ball-on-disc tribometer at room (25 °C) and high...
Nanoscale multilayers can be used as highly localized heat sources, making them attractive for several applications, in particular for joining and as igniters. Over the last decades, academia and industry have given particular emphasis to nanoscale m...
The terahertz plasmon dispersion of a multilayer system consisting of graphene on dielectric and/or plasma thin layers is systematically investigated. We show that graphene plasmons can couple with other quasiparticles such as phonons and plasmons of...
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