The microstructural and stress evolution in sputter deposited Ni thin films

TR Koenig, Z Rao, E Chason, GJ Tucker… - Surface and Coatings …, 2021 - Elsevier
We report the stress and microstructural evolution for a series of Ni thin films sputter
deposited over a range of rates (0.076 and 0.250 nm/s), pressures (0.27, 0.67 and 1.33 Pa) …

Tailoring the mechanical properties of sputter deposited nanotwinned nickel-molybdenum-tungsten films

GD Sim, JA Krogstad, KY Xie, S Dasgupta… - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Advanced metallic alloys are attractive in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
applications that require high density, electrical and thermal conductivity, strength, and …

Nanocrystalline grain boundary engineering: Increasing Σ3 boundary fraction in pure Ni with thermomechanical treatments

DB Bober, M Kumar, TJ Rupert - Acta Materialia, 2015 - Elsevier
Grain boundary networks should play a dominant role in determining the mechanical
properties of nanocrystalline metals. However, these networks are difficult to characterize …

Properties of ultra-thin Cu films grown by high power pulsed magnetron sputtering

AA Solovyev, VA Semenov, VO Oskirko, KV Oskomov… - Thin Solid Films, 2017 - Elsevier
Because of the superior properties of copper, it has been of great interest as a conducting
material to replace Al in device manufacturing and Ag in multilayer low-emission coatings. In …

Temperature‐driven perturbations in growth kinetics, structural and optical properties of NiO thin films

M Mishra, S Barthwal, BR Tak… - physica status solidi (a …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nickel (II) oxide (NiO) is an emerging transparent semiconducting oxide with potential
applications in modern‐world ultraviolet active solar cells and visible‐blind photodetectors …

Ultrasensitive Strain Sensors Based on Cu‐Al Alloy Films with Voided Cluster Boundaries

X Wu, H Chen, X Luo, D Wang… - Advanced Materials …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Stimulated by the requirement for wearable electronics, crack‐based strain sensors made
from polymer‐supported metal films have been reported as a prospective structure for …

Nickel-based bilayer thin-film anodes for low-temperature solid oxide fuel cells

Y Lee, J Park, W Yu, WH Tanveer, YH Lee, GY Cho… - Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, we investigate the possibility of using Ni-based anodes as alternatives to the Pt-
based anodes for thin-film solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) operating at low temperatures …

Effect of low and high heating rates on reaction path of Ni (V)/Al multilayer

Ł Maj, J Morgiel, M Szlezynger, P Bała… - Materials Chemistry and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The effect of heating rates of Ni (V)/Al NanoFoils® was investigated with transmission
electron microscopy (TEM). The Ni (V)/Al were subjected to heating by using differential …

Thickness-related variation in the structure, morphology and optical characteristics of nickel thin films for neutral density filtering

M Yadav, S Yadav, A Shankar, R Bala, M Rani - Physica Scripta, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper we fabricate neutral density filter (NDF) for the visible region on the Borosilicate
glass substrate at room tempreature. E-Beam coating unit is used for fabrication of Nickel …

Fabrication of ultrashort sub-meter-radius x-ray mirrors using dynamic stencil deposition with figure correction

T Shimamura, Y Takeo, T Kimura, F Perrin… - Review of Scientific …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents nanometer-scale production and metrology methods for elliptic-
cylindrical x-ray mirrors with an unprecedentedly small tangential radius of curvature of 160 …