Semiconductor nanowires have been the subject of intensive research investment over the past few decades. Their physical properties afford, them applications in a vast network of active microelectronic research fields, i...
The photovoltaic properties of bulk heterojunction solar cells using indene-C60 bisadduct (ICBA) as the electron acceptor were investigated by using three donor-acceptor copolymers (PSEHTT, PSOTT, and PSOxTT) in comparis...
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) processes for the growth of ZrO2 and TiO2 were developed using novel precursors. The novel processes were based on cycloheptatrienyl (CHT, -C7H7) - cyclopentadienyl (Cp, -C5H5) compounds of ...
The tremendous growth of Li-ion batteries into a wide variety of applications is setting new requirements in terms of cost, energy density, safety, and power density. One route toward meeting these objectives consists in...
The use of a UV-sensitive self-assembled monolayer photoresist to selectively deposit single-walled carbon nanotubes from solution using heterogeneous surface wettability is reported. This process combines ubiquitous pho...
By electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), coupled to elemental and thermogravimetric analysis and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS), we investigated the unusual quasi-complete reduction of Cu2+ species in Cu-ZSM-5 z...
Bismuth pseudocubes were prepared by thermal decomposition of the novel subvalent metal organic precursor tetraethyldibismuthine Bi2Et4 under kinetic control at low temperatures. The pseudocubes were characterized by XRD...
We describe a surfactant-driven method to synthesize highly monodisperse CdSe-seeded CdS nanoheterostructures with conelike, tapered geometries in order to examine the effects of shape on the location-specific deposition...
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) of Al2O3 using trimethylaluminum (TMA) and water on Pd nanoparticles (NPs) was studied by combining in situ quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) measurements, in situ quadrupole mass spectromet...
Magnetic block ionomer complexes (MBICs) containing a combination of therapeutic and imaging agents are of great interest for delivering drugs and tracking their biodistribution with magnetic resonance imaging. With an a...
The size-dependent nature of the molar extinction coefficient of highly photoluminescent copper indium sulfide (CuInS2) quantum dots (CIS-QDs) is presented. We determined the extinction coefficients at both high photon e...
Various iron-based polycrystalline monoliths, Fe3O4, iron, and Fe3C, with hierarchically distributed pores have been synthesized from ionic precursors using a sol-gel process accompanied by phase separation. Propylene ox...
Various routes to new molecular bimetallic indium(III)-tin(II) alkoxides precursors for low-temperature synthesis of conducting tin-rich indium tin oxide were investigated. The studies include the facile syntheses, spect...
The Zintl compound Ca5Al2Sb6 has extremely low lattice thermal conductivity (<0.6 W/mK at 1000 K) and tunable electronic properties, making it a promising thermoelectric material for high temperature waste-heat recovery....
Phase change random access memory appears to be the strongest candidate for next-generation high density nonvolatile memory. The fabrication of ultrahigh density phase change memory (>> 1 Gb) depends heavily on the thin ...