Providing insider viewpoints and perspectives unavailable in any other text, this book
presents useful guidelines and tools to produce effective coatings and films. Covering …

A detailed experimental investigation of the short-range structural properties in condensed
phases of germanium is presented. X-ray-absorption measurements at the Ge K edge have …

We review our recent results on Ge-based near-infrared photodetectors grown on silicon.
We fabricated metal-semiconductor-metal photodetectors based on epitaxial pure-Ge grown …

Poly-crystalline germanium (poly-Ge) thin films have potential for lowering the
manufacturing cost of photovoltaic devices especially in tandem solar cells, but high …

We discuss thermal evaporation of Germanium thin films as a suitable route to realizing near-
infrared detectors integrated on a Silicon platform. We study the structural properties of …

First, an introductory review of deposition-dependent microstructural peculiarities of real
optical thin films is presented. Then, some physical and chemical properties of particular …

To improve the c-axis oriented columnar growth, the nucleation of CoCr crystals on various
underlayers which are formed on substrates prior to CoCr alloy deposition is studied …

The understanding of germanium Li-ion insertion/extraction reaction mechanism is drawing
more and more attention in the field of Li-ion batteries. When a germanium thin film …

Amorphous hydrogenated carbon− germanium films (a-Ge XCY: H) were fabricated by
plasma chemical vapor deposition in an audio frequency (af) three-electrode reactor using …

The incubation time for the crystallization of amorphous Ge (a‐Ge) films was studied as a
function of temperature between 150 and 500° C by means of both in situ transmission …