Academic Articles & Research Papers

On the Structure of Oxygen Deficient Amorphous Oxide Films

Abstract Understanding defects in amorphous oxide films and heterostructures is vital to improving performance of microelectronic devices, thin‐film transistors, and electrocatalysis. However, to what extent the structure and properties of ...

Second hyperpolarizability of hexagonal graphene quantum dots: Effects of size and structural defects

Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) are nanosized fragments of graphene containing a bandgap caused by edge effects and quantum confinement. These features enable GQDs to have attractive photonics applications. During the preparation of graphene n...

Recent advances in the Biosynthesis of Zirconium Oxide Nanoparticles and their Biological Applications

A critical milestone in nano-biotechnology is establishing reliable and ecological friendly methods for fabricating metal oxide NPs. Because of their great biodegradable, electrical, mechanical, and optical qualities, zirconia NPs (ZrO2NPs)...

Comparative Study of Field-Effect Transistors Based on Graphene Oxide and CVD Graphene in Highly Sensitive NT-proBNP Aptasensors

Graphene-based materials are actively being investigated as sensing elements for the detection of different analytes. Both graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and graphene oxide (GO) produced by the modified Hummers’ method ar...

Machine Learning–Based Prediction of Organic Solar Cell Performance Using Molecular Descriptors

The performance of Organic Solar Cells (OSCs) is intrinsically linked to the molecular, electronic, and structural properties of donor and acceptor materials. This study employs various machine learning techniques, namely the Generalized Re...

Fe-W co-doped V2O5 nanostructures with enhanced oxygen vacancy generation for photocatalytic dye degradation

Abstract Nanoparticles of V2O5 with dilute doped Fe-, W-, and Fe-W co-doped were prepared by using wet chemical sol–gel method. Structural analysis confirmed the dominant orthorhombic α-V2O5 phase with a minor monoclinic V3O7 phase, whose f...

Correlation between molar concentration and properties of sprayed copper oxide thin films

Copper oxide precursor solutions containing 0.10 M, 0.15 M, 0.20 M and 0.25 M concentration of copper were deposited on a glass substrate using the spray pyrolysis method. The structural, optical and surface properties of the resulting copp...

New Insights into Cd²⁺/Fe³⁺ Co-Doped BiOBr for Enhancing the Photocatalysis Efficiency of Dye Decomposition under Visible-Light

Uniform flowerlike microspheres Cd2+/Fe3+ co-doped BiOBr were prepared with the aid of the microwave hydrothermal process. The results indicate that the degradation performance of Bi1−xCdxOBr and Bi1−xFexOBr are 1.31 and 2.05 times that of ...

Exploring Ru 4d oxide Ba2XRuO6 (X = Y, Lu, Sc) for spintronics: pressure-dependent first-principles study

Recent advances in the precise control of electromagnetic and transport properties, and the miniaturization of electronic devices, have introduced new prospects in the development of practical quantum computing. Double perovskites have gain...

Efficient thermal dissipation in wafer-scale heterogeneous integration of single-crystalline β-Ga2O3 thin film on SiC

The semiconductor, β-Ga2O3 is attractive for applications in high power electronic devices with low conduction loss due to its ultra-wide bandgap (∼4.9 eV) and large Baliga's figure of merit. However, the thermal conductivity of β-Ga2O3 is ...

Elastic modulus of β-Ga2O3 nanowires measured by resonance and three-point bending techniques

Due to the recent interest in ultrawide bandgap β-Ga2O3 thin films and nanostructures for various electronics and UV device applications, it is important to understand the mechanical properties of Ga2O3 nanowires (NWs). In this work, we inv...

Photocatalytic degradation using Bi-doped SnS Quantum dots and phytotoxicity evaluation of treated effluents through seed germination

Quantum dots (QDs) are employed in photocatalytic applications because of their distinctive optical characteristics, such as high absorption coefficients and tunable bandgaps, enabling efficient visible light absorption and charge carrier g...

Bandgap engineering of CuGaS(2)–CuInS(2) heterostructures for efficient thin-film photovoltaics.

Data-driven performance prediction of polymer solar cells using multi-layer perceptron with Bayesian hyperparameter tuning

Polymer solar cells (PSCs) rely on labor-intensive trial-and-error experiments to optimize power conversion efficiency (PCE), due to complex coupling of molecular electronic properties, blend morphology and fabrication parameters. This work...

Self-Consistent Model for the Compositional Profiles in Vapor–Liquid–Solid III–V Nanowire Heterostructures Based on Group V Interchange

Due to the very efficient relaxation of elastic stress on strain-free sidewalls, III–V nanowires offer almost unlimited possibilities for bandgap engineering in nanowire heterostructures by using material combinations that are attainable in...