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India News: Ankush Bag, Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering and Centre for Nanotechnology at the Indian Institute of T

A specific technique for the cross-sectional specimen preparation for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has been developed during the recent years, mainly applied to thin film stacks of solar-cell devices.

In a preproof in journal Thin Solid Films, researchers have realized the epitaxial TiN films on (100) Si by reactive pulsed laser deposition (PLD).

Nanowires have piqued the interest of nanotechnology enthusiasts due to their applications in electronic and optoelectronic devices. Here, we discuss how they are synthesized.

SUMMARY Electrolytic codeposition is a promising alternative low-cost process for fabricating MCrAlY coatings.  In this process, CrAlY particles are codeposited with the (Ni,Co) to form an (Ni,Co)-CrAlY composite coating, which is subsequently heat treated at elevated temperatures to be transformed to the MCrAlY coating containing phases of β-NiAl, γ-(Ni,Co), etc.  Two types of CrAlY-based particles (made by ball milling and gas atomization) were employed.  The effects of several key proce...