Mechanochemical activation of silicon photothermal material for efficient interfacial solar desalination and wastewater purification

TS Shridharan, A Sivanantham, JH Lee… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Solar steam generation (SSG) has emerged as a sustainable solution for addressing water
scarcity, and ongoing research has resulted in the development of various photothermal …

Silicon diatom frustules as nanostructured photoelectrodes

S Chandrasekaran, MJ Sweetman, K Kant… - Chemical …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
In the quest for solutions to meeting future energy demands, solar fuels play an important
role. A particularly promising example is photocatalysis since even incremental …

Functionally graded nanocrystalline silicon powders by mechanical alloying

A Goyal, PR Soni - Materials Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
Functionally graded nanocrystalline silicon powder, having varied bandgap. has been
prepared using mechanical alloying technique. The solar grade (99.999% pure) …

The possibility of reducing the reflectance and improving the tribological behavior of Si wafer by UNSM technique

A Amanov, HG Kwon, YS Pyun - Tribology International, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study, mono-and poly-crystalline Si wafers, which are widely used in the
manufacturing of high-performance solar cells, and nano-and micro-electromechanical …

High deposition rate nanocrystalline and amorphous silicon thin film production via surface wave plasma source

JA Peck, P Zonooz, D Curreli, GA Panici… - Surface and Coatings …, 2017 - Elsevier
A 900 MHz surface wave antenna was used for plasma-enhanced chemical vapor
deposition (PECVD) of silicon thin films in an H 2+ SiH 4 discharge, with an emphasis on …

Analysis of thickness-dependent optical parameters of a-Si: H/nc-Si: H multilayer thin films

A Kherodia, AK Panchal - Materials for Renewable and Sustainable …, 2017 - Springer
Multilayer thin films with alternate hydrogenated amorphous (a-Si: H) and nanocrystalline
silicon (nc-Si: H) layers are deposited in hot wire chemical vapor deposition (HWCVD) …

Raman study of phase transformation from diamond structure to wurtzite structure in the silicon nanowires

AK Shukla, S Dixit - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Hexagonal silicon has emerged as an exciting material due to its novel vibrational and
electronic properties. Synthesis of the wurtzite silicon nanowires (w-SiNWs) is studied here …

Effect of annealing temperature on the performance of water motion energy harvesting in n-type silicon thin film by magnetron sputtering

H Yao, L Wang, X Chen, Y Jiang, Y Liu… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - Springer
Harvesting energy through water motion on solid surface is significantly important due to the
energy generation intermittency of the usually used energy transducers. In this paper, n-type …

Effects of hydrogen-dilution on opto-structural properties of hot-wire CVD grown a-Si: H/nc-Si: H multilayer for photovoltaics

A Kherodia, V Kheraj, AK Panchal - Silicon, 2018 - Springer
The multilayered thin film structure of amorphous silicon (a-Si: H) and nanocrystalline silicon
(nc-Si: H) provides the possibility of bandgap tuning for fabrication of multijunction solar …

Plasma-enhanced reactive linear sputtering source for formation of silicon-based thin films

K Takenaka, Y Setsuhara, JG Han, G Uchida… - Review of Scientific …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
In this study, an inductively coupled plasma (ICP)-enhanced reactive sputter deposition
system with a rectangular target was developed as a linear plasma source for roll-to-roll …