A fast response/recovery of hydrophobic Pd/V2O5 thin films for hydrogen gas sensing

A Sanger, A Kumar, A Kumar, J Jaiswal… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2016 - Elsevier
We have developed a fast and highly sensitive gas sensor based on the Pd/V 2 O 5 thin
films for the low temperature detection of hydrogen in the range 2–500 ppm in air. Sensor …

Determination of optical constants including surface characteristics of optically thick nanostructured Ti films: analyzed by spectroscopic ellipsometry

J Jaiswal, S Mourya, G Malik, S Chauhan, A Sanger… - Applied Optics, 2016 - opg.optica.org
In the present work, optically thick nanostructured titanium (Ti) films of thickness ranging
from∼ 100 to 900 nm were deposited on a glass substrate by DC magnetron sputtering at …

Control of YH3 formation and stability via hydrogen surface adsorption and desorption

O Soroka, JM Sturm, RWE van de Kruijs, CJ Lee… - Applied surface …, 2018 - Elsevier
Yttrium is known to form two hydrides: YH 2, a metal, and YH 3, which is dielectric. However,
the stability of YH 3 is not fully understood, especially in the context of thin films, where the …

Chemical state and atomic structure in stoichiovariants photochromic oxidized yttrium hydride thin films

H Arslan, A Kuzmin, I Aulika, D Moldarev… - Zeitschrift für …, 2024 - degruyter.com
We investigate the effective oxidation state and local environment of yttrium in photochromic
YHO thin film structures produced by e-beam evaporation, along with their chemical …

Comparative study of furnace and flash lamp annealed silicon thin films grown by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition

M Shrestha, K Wang, B Zheng, L Mokrzycki, QH Fan - Coatings, 2018 - mdpi.com
Low-temperature growth of microcrystalline silicon (mc-Si) is attractive for many
optoelectronic device applications. This paper reports a detailed comparison of optical …

Deposition of Y thin films by nanosecond UV pulsed laser ablation for photocathode application

A Lorusso, M Anni, AP Caricato, F Gontad, A Perulli… - Thin Solid Films, 2016 - Elsevier
In this work, yttrium (Y) thin films have been deposited on Si (100) substrates by the pulsed
laser deposition technique. Ex-situ morphological, structural and optical characterisations of …

Hydrogenation dynamics of Ru capped Y thin films

O Soroka, JM Sturm, RWE Van De Kruijs… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The structural changes in Ru-coated Y films during hydrogenation were studied in this work.
In situ XRD data were used to show that the Y to YH 2 transition requires significant …

Transition metal oxides and their use as hole extraction materials in organic photovoltaic devices

J Griffin - 2014 - etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
One of the limiting factors in the efficiency of organic photovoltaic devices utilising new
generations of donor polymers is the ability to obtain Ohmic contacts between the electrodes …

Nanomechanical and optical properties of yttrium thin films by magnetron sputtering

R Ramaseshan, S Tripura Sundari, AK Balamurugan… - Optics Letters, 2014 - opg.optica.org
This Letter reports on nanomechanical and optical properties of yttrium thin films deposited
on an Si (100) wafer. Elemental depth profiling by a secondary ion mass spectrometer …