Polycrystalline graphite contains multi-scale defects, which are difficult to anneal thermally because of the extremely high temperatures involved in the manufacturing process. In this study, we demonstrate annealing of nuclear graphite NBG-18 at tem...
The optical properties, electronic structure and morphology of thin films of the polymer donor PTB7-Th blended with either the fullerene acceptor PC70BM or the non-fullerene acceptor ZY-4Cl were systematically investigated to evaluate their annealing...
A novel microwave annealing system and a specific processing condition are proposed for the pre-oxidation of carbon fiber. The microwave annealing system consists of a TM-mode resonant cavity and a silicon carbide (SiC) susceptor. The TM-mode cavity...
Ternary organic solar cells contain a single three-component photoactive layer with a wide absorption window, achieved without the need for multiple stacking. However, adding a third component into a well-known binary blend can influence the energeti...
Improvement in crystallinity was investigated by compensating for stoichiometric deviations of non-selenization processed Cu0.9In0.7Ga0.3Se2 (CIGS) thin films due to highly volatile Se by co-sputtering them with Te followed by rapid thermal annealing...
Thick-film organic photovoltaics (OPVs) are key for scalable manufacturing, but increasing active-layer thickness usually lowers power conversion efficiency (PCE) due to charge recombination and limited carrier extraction. We report high-efficiency t...
High-strength low-alloy steels are widely used, but their traditional heat-treatment process is complex, energy-intensive, and makes it difficult to fully exploit the material’s potential. In this paper, the electropulsing processing technology...
Ultrashort pulsed laser annealing is an efficient technique for crystallizing amorphous semiconductors with the possibility to obtain polycrystalline films at low temperatures, below the melting point, through non-thermal processes. Here, a multilaye...
Silicon–germanium multilayer structures consisting of alternating Si and Ge amorphous nanolayers were annealed by ultrashort laser pulses at near-infrared (1030 nm) and mid-infrared (1500 nm) wavelengths. In this paper, we investigate the effec...
This paper focuses on the effect of rapid annealing on Non-Grain Oriented Electrical Steel (NGO) in terms of microstructure, mechanical properties, and magnetic properties. The Ultra-Fast Heating (UFH) tests were performed by a transversal induction...
The thermochemical properties of Al micropowder after exposure to microwave irradiation were investigated. The Al micropowder was exposed to microwave irradiation in air with a frequency of 2.85 GHz, a power density of 8 W/cm2, and a pulse duration o...
A femtosecond laser could realize a high transition rate of the phase change material (PCM), and the properties of the amorphous and the crystalline Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST) induced by a femtosecond laser were studied, which was one of the candidates among th...
Thermal treatment is a post-synthesis treatment that aims to improve the crystallinity and interrelated physical properties of as-prepared materials. This process may also cause some unwanted changes in materials like their oxidation or contamination...
BN-based resistive random-access memory (RRAM) has emerged as a potential candidate for non-volatile memory (NVM) in aerospace applications, offering high thermal conductivity, excellent mechanical, and chemical stability, low power consumption, high...
High entropy alloys (HEAs) are multi-elemental alloy systems that exhibit a combination of exceptional mechanical and physical properties, and nowadays are validating their potential in the form of thermal sprayed coatings. In the present study, a no...
Improving thermal stability is of great importance for the industrialization of polymer solar cells (PSC). In this paper, we systematically investigated the high-temperature thermal annealing effect on the device performance of the state-of-the-art p...
Solvent vapor annealing is as an effective and versatile alternative to thermal annealing to equilibrate and control the assembly of polymer chains in thin films. Here, we present scientific and practical aspects of the solvent vapor annealing method...
Gallium nitride (GaN) nanopowder used as a blue fluorescent material was synthesized by using a direct current (DC) non-transferred arc plasma. Gallium nitrate hydrate (Ga(NO3)3∙xH2O) was used as a raw material and NH3 gas was used as a nitridation s...
The influence of annealing temperature on the chemical, structural, and electrophysical properties of porous OSG low-k films containing terminal methyl groups was investigated. The films were deposited via spin coating, followed by drying at 200 °...
High-power laser systems impose stringent requirements on the laser-induced damage threshold of optical thin films. Post-deposition thermal annealing has been demonstrated as an effective approach to enhancing the LIDT of HfO2-based coatings; however...
In this work, polyamide 11 (PA11) and stone ground wood fibres (SGW) were used, as an alternative to non-bio-based polymer matrices and reinforcements, to obtain short fibre reinforced composites. The impact of the reinforcement on the thermal degrad...
The effects of rapid thermal annealing (RTA) on Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) made from oxygenated aluminum nitride (AlN) thin films deposited on a silicon carbide (SiC) substrate using radio frequency sputtering were investigated. The annealed SBD...
Due to the high reflectivity of Ag to infrared lasers, there is little research focused on the manufacturing of Ag and Ag alloys by selective laser melting (SLM) technique. In this paper, the manufacturing characteristics, microstructure, and thermal...
There is growing interest in measuring the temperature-dependent dielectric properties of bio-tissues using dual-mode techniques (scattering measurements and thermal treatment). Uncooled coaxial antennas are preferred for their direct contact with th...
In this study, we investigate the changes in the crystalline structure of MBE-deposited SrTiO3 layers on Si with different deviations from Sr/Ti stoichiometry as deposited but also after annealing at high temperatures (>600 °C). We show that a...
The photoluminescence characteristics of films consisting of Si nanocrystals either coated with or embedded into Spin on Glass (SOG) were studied. Si nanocrystals showing red or blue luminescence when suspended in alcohol solution were obtained from...
Electron-beam evaporation (EBE) is a multi-energy conversion process in which electrons are accelerated by an electric field, transfer kinetic energy to the evaporation source, and generate localized thermal energy for material evaporation and film g...
The electrical and physical properties of the SiC/SiO2 interfaces are critical for the reliability and performance of SiC-based MOSFETs. Optimizing the oxidation and post-oxidation processes is the most promising method of improving oxide quality, ch...
The rectifying characteristics of a Mo/SiC Schottky contact fabricated by facing targets sputtering system were investigated through current–voltage measurement. The Schottky diode parameters were extracted from the forward current–voltag...
Residual stresses are a persistent challenge in the additive manufacturing of composite parts by FFF (Fused Filament Fabrication) and can impair dimensional accuracy and mechanical performance. This article evaluates reflection photoelasticity (Photo...
In the present work, the microstructure and texture of non-oriented 3.3% Si steel processed by asymmetric rolling (ASR) and subsequent annealing at different temperatures were compared with those obtained when using traditional symmetric rolling (SR)...
In this study, we first investigated changes seen in electrical and optical properties of a polymer light-emitting diode due to using different kinds of solvents and their mixture. Two-layer light emitting diodes with organic small molecules doped in...
In the present work, non-stoichiometric silicon oxide films (SiOx) deposited using a hot filament chemical vapor deposition technique at short time and simple parameters of depositions are reported. This is motivated by the numerous potential applica...
Hybrid bonding technology has recently emerged as a promising solution for advanced semiconductor packaging technologies. However, several reliability issues still pose challenges for commercialization. In this study, we investigated the possibility...
The compound BiFe0.7Mn0.3O3 consisting at room temperature of coexistent anti-polar orthorhombic and polar rhombohedral phases has a metastable structural state, which has been studied by laboratory X-ray, synchrotron and neutron diffraction, magneto...
The annealing process is one of the most common methods used to study the thermal stability of multilayers. To study the effect of the annealing process on the microstructural variation in NiV/B4C multilayers, different annealing experiments were per...
This study investigates the influence of annealing on the electrical, magnetoresistive, and structural properties of Ni–SiO2 nanocomposites fabricated by magnetron sputtering. Electrical measurements performed over the frequency range of 4 Hz t...
Rare earth-doped zinc oxide (ZnO:RE) systems are attractive for future optoelectronic devices such as phosphors, displays, and LEDs with emission in the visible spectral range, working even in a radiation-intense environment. The technology of these...
Titanium carbide (TiC) thin films were prepared by non-reactive simultaneous double magnetron sputtering. After deposition, all samples were annealed at different temperatures under high-vacuum conditions. This paper mainly discusses the influence of...
The use of lignocellulose-rich biowaste as reinforcing filler in biodegradable polymers represents a sustainable option to obtain cost-effective bio-based materials to be used for several applications. In addition, the scarce polymer–biofiller...
This review article provides a comprehensive analysis of the photonic sintering conditions necessary to process non-oxide ceramics, to obtain similar material properties when compared with those of thermally annealed ones, for various applications in...
This study investigates the subsequent stages of recrystallisation in Interstitial-Free (IF) steel subjected to an unconventional continuous annealing process with a controlled thermal gradient. A cold-rolled steel strip was exposed to varying anneal...
Electrospun membranes are gaining interest for use in membrane distillation (MD) due to their high porosity and interconnected pore structure; however, they are still susceptible to wetting during MD operation because of their relatively low liquid e...
The hot and dense plasma formed in modified dense plasma focus (DPF) device has been used worldwide for the nanofabrication of several materials. In this paper, we summarize the fabrication of III–V semiconductor nanostructures using the high fluence...
Highly Ti-doped ZnO films have been produced by a spin-casting sol-gel process. The spin-casted films show high in plane homogeneity and optical quality. However, when inspected in depth, the surface composition is Ti rich. We show that two possible...
Chitosan films obtained by solution casting were investigated by broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS) to explore both their glass transition and the effects of thermal annealing on molecular dynamics, deriving from residual water content as well a...
The grain refinement and thermal stability behavior of a spray-casted AZ91D magnesium alloy were investigated with the addition of 0.75 wt% Ce. The results showed that the adoption of non-equilibrium solidification leads to remarkable grain refinemen...
Si3N4 ceramics with a YF3-MgSiN2 binary additive system were fabricated by hot pressing (HP) and spark plasma sintering (SPS) at 1500–1700 °C, followed by annealing at 1850 °C for 6 h. The effects of sintering route and temperature on p...
This paper studied the structural and luminescent characteristics of undoped and doped-with-Tb3+-ions ZnO films of 200 nm and 600 nm thicknesses, grown via RF magnetron sputtering on (100) silicon substrate in Ar and Ar-O2 plasma. X-ray diffraction (...
In this paper, we investigate the effect of Pd thickness and heat treatment on Pd/Ni/Au/p-GaN metal contacts. The as-deposited samples exhibit a smooth morphology and non-linear I–V characteristics. Heat treatment in a N2 atmosphere leads to de...
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