TL;DR: In this article, the XPS spectrum shows that the peak corresponding to C (1s) centered at 284.38 eV in pure nanotubes (graphitic C) is 0.4 eV downshifted in chlorinated sample.

TL;DR: In this paper, the actuation properties of carbon nanotubes are discussed, and a demonstration of an electromechanical actuator based on individual single walled carbon Nanotubes is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, electroconductive polymers of polyaniline and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) were prepared in micellar solution as a polymerization medium to overcome the poor processability of polymers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed two kinds of microscopic four-point probe methods for in situ measurements of local electrical conductivity of well-defined crystal surfaces in ultrahigh vacuum, which can be installed in scanning-electron-microscopy/electrondiffraction chambers, in which the structures of sample surfaces and probe positions were in situ observed.

TL;DR: In this article, two endohedral fractions can be isolated that have very different optical properties and stabilities: the first is a dimer species and the second fraction is the monomer, and the IR spectra of sublimed monomer films show a prominent peak at around 1.1 μm corresponding to the first electronic transition of the C60− anion.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of prepolymer molecular structure were studied in terms of reflection efficiency, polymer grating shrinkage and electro-optic property, especially, efforts have been made to quantify holographic GRATING shrinkage during fabrication by modifying the chemical structure of segmented polyurethane acrylates.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the field effect is strongly temperature dependent and is substantially reduced upon decreasing the temperature by only a 10 °C. This loss of current reduction upon application of a gate voltage is not due to the temperature dependence of the electrical conductivity of polymers of which the devices are made.

TL;DR: In this article, a novel pillaring process using an osmotic swelling was developed to prepare TiO 2 -pillared layered titanate with a large surface area, high thermal stability, and enhanced photocatalytic activity.

TL;DR: In this paper, a double bias-assisted hot-filament chemical vapor deposition method was used to coat WC-6%Co cutting tool inserts with diamond films using double bias assisted hotfilament.

TL;DR: In this paper, an ITO/CuPc/NPD/DPVBi/Alq3/LiF/Al:Li(0.1 wt%) diode panel with blue monochrome emission and resolution of 160×160 has been fabricated by using vacuum evaporation.

TL;DR: Amorphous Ge x S 1− x films ( x = 0.27, 0.32 and 0.4) were prepared by thermal evaporation and the values of the refractive index, the optical gap and the parameters of the Wemple-DiDomenico single oscillator model were determined using Miller's generalized rule.

TL;DR: Two-layer hybrid anti-reflection (AR) and anti-static (AS) films are formed on the flexible substrates such as polyethylene terephthalate and triacetyl cellulose.

TL;DR: In this article, a dc plasma technique and a Ni catalyst are used to produce arrays of field emitting microguns, based on carbon nanotubes, which can be used in the manufacture of large area field emitting displays, parallel e-beam lithography systems and electron sources for high frequency amplifiers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest a two-step process in depositing the SiNx consisting of a buffer-SiNx layer and a bulk-Si Nx layer, which can reduce the reduction of SiH4 flow rate.

TL;DR: In this paper, an X-ray structural study of thermally evaporated metal-free phthalocyanine thin films with various film thicknesses was performed, and the α-form unit cell was found to be of the α form.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of titanium powder content in an electroplating bath on the deposition process of Ni+Ti and Ni-P+Ti composite layers was examined by simultaneous electrodeposition of nickel and titanium on a steel substrate from a Watts bath in which 4, 12, 20, 28 and 40 g dm −3 ) of Ti powder were suspended.

TL;DR: In this article, an efficient white-light-emitting device using vacuum-deposited film of a hole-transporting layer of 4,4 ′ bis[N-(1-napthyl)-N-phenyl-amino]-biphenyl (α-NPD), a bluish green emitting layer of bis[2-hydroxyphenyl)benzothiazolate] zinc, a Zn(BTZ) 2, Zn-BTZ 2 doped with a red fluorescent dye of 4-dicyan

TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived the flow properties of thin Au thin films from the indentation load-depth curve obtained by nanoindentation technique, and considered the effects of pile-up or sink-in in determining real contact between the indenter and the specimen.

TL;DR: In this article, the symmetry changes for C 76 (from D 2 to C 2 ) induced by the endohedral scandium ions were explored and it was suggested from 13 C NMR spectroscopy that this metallofullerene has a C 2 symmetry, in contrast to the D 2 symmetry of an empty C 76 fullerene cage.

TL;DR: In this paper, the interlayer diffusion mechanism between an AlNd (alloy of 98 at.% Al and 2 at.%. Mo) main conducting layer and a Mo buffer layer has been studied.

TL;DR: In this paper, the activation energy for thermal relaxation and activation energy of crystallization in vacuum evaporated thin films of a (Se 70 Te 30 ) 100− x (Se 98 Bi 2 ) x system, in the temperature range (308-355 K).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose that the currentvoltage characteristics of individual nanofibres of lightly-doped polyacetylene show very strong nonlinearities and that this behaviour arises from tunnelling of a segment of the conjugated bond system in the presence of an electric field.

TL;DR: In this paper, the quality of GaN epilayers on sapphire substrates grown by N2 plasma-assisted MBE is improved by realizing Ga-polarity growth mode, which enables us to fabricate HFETs using the MBE-grown AIGaN/GaN 2DEG structures.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported the study of driving electrophosphorescent diode with all-organic TFT and obtained the maximum power luminance that was obtained about 90 cd/m 2.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the peak reported in the frequency-dependent conductivity of single-wall carbon nanotube networks is consistent with metallic conduction interrupted by nonmetallic defects that act as barriers.

TL;DR: In this article, in situ variation in resistance of camphoric carbon versus time of pyrolysis, temperature and effect of sintering were studied to perceive the time required for the completion and activation energy from the electrical conductance plot.

TL;DR: In this article, the synthesis and characterization of metallic sub-nanowire arrays is discussed. But the approach involved a novel strategy both of synthesizing and stabilizing the subnanowires.

TL;DR: In this paper, a high quality 4 ′ -dimethylamino-N -methyl-4-stilbazolium tosylate single crystal with dimension of 7×7×1 mm 3 was grown and polarized optic microscopy photograph showed that the surface of this crystal was ordered and flat.

TL;DR: In this article, the substitutional placement of boron within the lattice of carbon nanotubes yields quite different transport properties for single walled and multi-walled Nanotubes (MWNTs) as compared to MWNTs.