The capacitance-voltage (C-V) characteristics of thin films of ZrO2 deposited by thermal metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) have been analyzed. The films were grown at three different temperatures (500, 550 ...

Nanoparticle-based polymer memory devices (PMDs) are a promising technology that could replace conventional silicon-based electronic memory, offering fast operating speeds, simple device structures and low costs. Here we ...

Dry rolling-sliding wear tests have been carried out in the present work to investigate the tribological behavior of the novel surface engineered layers produced on AISI 316 austenitic stainless steel by the low-temperature, ...

The ever-increasing demands for combined properties in modern machinery operating under ever more severe conditions have been the driver for the rapid developments of many advances surface engineering technologies. Designers ...

The sliding frictional behaviour of oxide films formed on low alloy steel by the combined plasma nitrocarburising and post oxidation treatment has been investigated. Unlubricated sliding tests of the as-nitrocarburised ...

A hybrid plasma surface alloying process has recently been developed for austenitic stainless steels to improve their surface hardness, wear resistance and corrosion resistance. The process is carried out in nitrogen and ...

We consider a state of the art system that uses layered source coding and forward error correction with Reed- Solomon codes to efficiently transmit 3D meshes over lossy packet networks. Given a transmission bit budget, ...

This study investigates the electrical and morphological properties of polystyrene layers in the nanometre thickness range for organic and polymer based electronic applications. The paper aims to providing conduction data ...

Significant progresses have been made in the past decades in the discipline of materials science, which include, but not limit to, the synthesis of new materials, advancement in analytical and experimental techniques, ...