... components are planes, then X is called a planar Zappatic surface THE K OF DEGENERATIONS OFSURFACES 337 We will mainly concentrate on the so called good Zappatic surfaces, i.e Zappatic surfaces having ... singularities that the total space ofa degeneration ofsurfaces has at the Zappatic singularities of its central fibre We need to recall a few general facts about reduced Cohen-Macaulay singularities and ... recall the notions of minimal singularity and quasi-minimal singularity, which are needed to study the singularities ofthe total space X ofa degeneration ofsurfaces at a good Zappatic singularity...
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... because WO3 has a coefficient thermal expansion smaller than glass does and because ofthe heteroepitaxial growth of films WO3 in which the parameters of plane ITO (440) are slightly larger than ... spectra expose a gradual decrease ofthe magnitude of peak (200) anda raise of peak (001) Moreover, peak (020) is shown obviously in the case of 250 nm When the ITO layer have a thickness about ... eliminate a probability of orthorhombic phase in these films because the parameters of orthorhombic and monoclinic primary cells are nearly the same 51 L.V Ngoc et al / VNU Journal of Science, Mathematics...
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... the case of BaO termination and parallel in the remaining case As a result, the total surface dipole ofthe BaO terminated film is smaller than the TiO2 one vii From thesurfaces to centre, the ... terminated film than the BaO one as shown above Due to the conservation of TiO6 octahedral coordination at the surface offilm A, the asymmetry of Ti and O sites only lead to some small change ofthe ... conducting bands and two additional peaks at -2.7 and -0.4 eV (no.2d and 2f) which have the origin of STUDY ON LATTICE AND ELECTRONIC STRUCTURES AT THE SURFACE OF 219 the asymmetry ofthe pyramidal-bottom...
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... crystallite size andthe lattice strain caused by the defect and/ or dislocations [16] The average particle sizes and FWHM values ofthe films are summarized in Table Table shows the variation of ... designed and carried out the experiments and wrote the first draft ofthe manuscript JHA analyzed the properties and helped draft the manuscript KNH and KSH detailed the original idea and modified the ... an average transmittance of above 70% Thefilm formed at 350°C was relatively higher than the spectral transmittance for the other films prepared at other growth temperatures; moreover, the average...
... SAA and MSA performed the thermal studies MAMK and MA also involved in writing ofthe manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that ... preparation of silver nanoparticles and their thin films is simple, convenient, and viable which allows nanocrystalline silver particles of spherical shape and almost narrow size distribution The ... the band gap, which are localized and close to either the conduction or the valence band Since the energy difference between these levels and band edges is very small, a slight thermal excitation...
... has four cycles, so each cycle gives a value of CE, based on these values an average deviation ofthe CE of TiO2 doped WO3 is obtained and shown in the above image The value of 23.8 is the average ... prospect of allowing the wide usage of glasses without the drawback of solar heating The critical technique applied on “Smart Windows” is to add a controllable layer ofthinfilm which can regulate the ... dimensional nano-belts and nano-plates [85-86] Besides the capping agents, other hydrothermal parameters also play important roles in shaping and controlling the morphologies These parameters are pH of...
... particular, an important issue in all ofthe thin- film/ substrate systems is the adhesion ofthe interface between thefilmandthe substrate, as the interfacial failure may lead to a system failure ... thin- film/ substrate systems is the adhesion ofthe interface between thefilmandthe substrate, as the interfacial failure may lead to a system failure even though thefilmandthe substrate have ... included in the tractionseparation law, it can capture and predict the onset andthe propagation of delamination of an interface Using this traction-separation law, Zhang et al have modeled the wedge...
... of ABO3, where A represents a divalent or monovalent cation with a large radius and B is typically a tetravalent or pentavalent cation with a small radius, and O is the oxygen anion The idealized ... Interaction of ablated species with the substrate; (4) Nucleation and growth ofthin films on the surface ofthe substrate Conditions of deposition such as density and surface topography ofthe target, ... nucleation rate A decrease ofthe substrate temperature also causes the decrease of surface diffusion coefficient of adatoms At a low substrate temperature, the mean adatom diffusion distance...