Thin-film coating methods: a successful marriage of high-quality and cost-effectiveness—a brief exploration

MA Butt - Coatings, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this review, several cost-effective thin-film coating methods, which include dip-coating,
spin-coating, spray-coating, blade-coating, and roll-coating, are presented. Each method …

Optical thin films fabrication techniques—Towards a low-cost solution for the integrated photonic platform: A review of the current status

MA Butt, C Tyszkiewicz, P Karasiński, M Zięba… - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the past few decades, several methods concerning optical thin films have been
established to facilitate the development of integrated optics. This paper provides a brief …

Functional photocatalytically active and scratch resistant antireflective coating based on TiO2 and SiO2

M Mazur, D Wojcieszak, D Kaczmarek… - Applied Surface …, 2016 - Elsevier
Antireflection (AR) multilayer coating, based on combination of five TiO 2 and SiO 2 thin
films, was deposited by microwave assisted reactive magnetron sputtering process on …

Room temperature deposition of XRD-amorphous TiO2 thin films: Investigation of device performance as a function of temperature

ML Grilli, M Yilmaz, S Aydogan, BB Cirak - Ceramics International, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, TiO 2 thin films were fabricated by radio frequency sputtering at room
temperature in pure Ar atmosphere starting from a 6 in. TiO 2 target. The thickness of the …

Annealing influence on optical performance of HfO2 thin films

SB Khan, Z Zhang, SL Lee - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2020 - Elsevier
Hafnium oxides (HfO 2) retain mechanical resilience, thermal stability, and chemical
resistivity due to which it is used diversely in various high-tech applications in optics and …

Energy-absorption-based explanation of the TiO2/C photocatalytic activity enhancement mechanism

Y Yuan, ZH Ruan, X Huang, YQ Jiang, HP Tan - Journal of Catalysis, 2017 - Elsevier
The reason for the significant photocatalytic activity improvement exhibited by TiO 2/C is
currently a topic of great research interest, and many different explanations of this …

Enhanced performance of planar perovskite solar cells using dip-coated TiO2 as electron transporting layer

A El Haimeur, M Makha, H Bakkali, JM Gonzalez-Leal… - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Nanostructured titanium dioxide thin films (TiO 2) have been deposited on indium tin oxide
(ITO) substrate, using dip-coating process from partial hydrolysis and condensation of …

TiO2–SiO2 nanocomposite thin films deposited by direct liquid injection of colloidal solution in an O2/HMDSO low-pressure plasma

M Mitronika, J Profili, A Goullet, N Gautier… - Journal of Physics D …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract TiO 2 nanoparticles (NPs), 3 nm in size, were injected inside a very-low-pressure O
2 plasma reactor using a liquid injector and following an iterative injection sequence …

Structure and optical properties of HfO2 films on Si (100) substrates prepared by ALD at different temperatures

S Li, Y Zhang, D Yang, W Yang, X Chen, H Zhao… - Physica B: Condensed …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, HfO 2 thin films were deposited on Si (100) wafer by using reactive atomic layer
deposition at different temperatures. By characterizing the Raman spectroscopy and XRD …

A simple new method for retrieving spectral changes of the refractive index of thin films from transmission spectra

GA Alharshan, MAM Uosif, M Emam-Ismail… - Optical Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
A new method for calculating the refractive index spectral behaviour of thin films is
presented. The method is based on introducing the idea of the order of appearance …