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This chapter summarizes some of the results related to the use of neutron imaging (radiography and tomography) as applied to the broad area of materials science and engineering research. These include multi-phase flow visualization in metal casting techniques, energy-selective imaging of materials and its use for texture and stress imaging in polycrystalline materials, characterization of discrete...
In 3D-IC packages, the Si-to-Si stacking is joint by u-bump which has fine gap structure and high bump count. Because of the high density structure, the flux clean process face challenges. So, non-clean flux is another alternative. However, the flux residue can cause reliability issue such as UF delamination, corrosive relation, electro-migration due to the residue from flux. To reduce the flux residue...
Shape-memory alloys have the potential to provide a large range of reconfigurability within mechanically reconfigurable antenna designs. This paper presents a study on the use of Shape-memory alloys in providing reconfigurability in antennas. First an assessment of the suitability of Shape-memory alloys for use within antenna design was conducted. Secondly a proof of concept reconfigurable square...
In electronic devices, the thermal characteristics of thermal interface materials are strongly affected by their heat sink contact conditions. In this study, we evaluate the thermal contact resistance between a heat sink and thermal interface materials and then present heat sink roughness levels using metal meshes. We also confirm the effectiveness of our new method via thermal resistance and electrical...
Self consistent first principle calculations on superconducting material WN in cubic phase (NaCl-type) have been performed to understand their fundamental characteristics of the structural, electronic and thermal properties. The bulk modulus (BO), Debye temperature (6D), density of states (N (EF)), electronic specific heat coefficient (γ) and electron-phonon coupling constant (λ) have been computed...
Hydrotalcite (HT) or hydrotalcite-like compounds (HTlc) are layered double hydroxides belonging to the class of anionic clays. The structure of these compounds are very similar to that of brucite, Mg(OH)2, where some of Mg2+ represented as [M(II)] are isomorphously replaced by Al3+ represented as [M(III)] and the net positive charge is compensated by the inter-layered exchangeable anion (An−).
The paper that is based on the mesoscopic damage evolution of metal explores the mechanism of Kaiser effect. Unidirectional and multidirectional tensile experiments of Q345 material were conducted to reveal the relationship between the internal damage evolution of mesoscopic holes and Kaiser effect. The results show that the forcewill cause the damage corresponding to the direction of force. When...
The III-nitride material system offers substantial potential to develop high-efficiency solar cells. The direct gap of the InxGa1−xN alloy system extends continuously from InN (0.7 eV, in the near IR) to GaN (3.4 eV, in the mid-ultraviolet). In this work, the performances of a solar cell based on InGaN were simulated under the illumination conditions of one sun by employing SILVACO software.
An alternative way of determining the temperature-dependent characteristics of metals is presented. The method that is relatively simple and cheap is suitable mainly for metals with lower melting points. The paper starts with the experimental investigation of the melting process of the Field metal in an induction furnace, which provides all necessary information for determining the above material...
the paper reported about new practical system for 3D three dimensional (3D) nano-manipulation. The system consists of advanced high precision nano-manipulators based on piezoelectric resonance motors and end-effectors. The end-effector is the bimetallic composite nanotweezers based on Ti2NiCu alloy with shape memory effect. This nano-tweezer is easy in use micron-size nano-tool controlled by semiconductor...
By using existing metal mesh technology we propose a new lens design that behaves in a similar way to a Wollaston Prism. That is, a device that separates out the two linear polarised states of the incident field and then focuses them separately on same focal plane. The design is an evolution of an existing GRIN lens based on the same technology. The proposed lens design has a diameter of 75mm while...
This paper focuses on development of a low contact resistance interconnection for low temperature bonding applications. Alternative to conventional display interconnection mechanisms using anisotropic conductive film (ACF), solder and underfill method using low melting point Bi58-Sn solder is suggested. Solder bumping is carried out using a maskless Solder-on-Pad technology. An average bump height...
Electrode material seriously influences the characteristics of vacuum arc and further affects the performance of switches. In this paper, thermal processes of six kinds of metal anodes (including pure metal and alloy anodes) are simulated and researched. Two kinds of temperature calculation methods are used. Simulation results show that W and Mo anodes have the higher temperature than Cu, Cr, CuCr25...
A novel method to achieve magnon lasing, accompanied by generation of THz radiation is proposed. The method is based on pumping of non-equilibrium electrons into the upper (spin-down) sub-band of spin-polarized half-metallic ferromagnets or ferromagnetic semiconductors, which makes it possible to build tunable, narrow-band, high-power THz sources.
Anode surface temperature after interrupting a vacuum arc has a significant impact on the interruption capacity of a vacuum circuit breaker (VCB) because it dominates metal vapor evaporation. The objective of this paper is to theoretically investigate the relationship between breakdown voltages and anode surface temperatures after current zero. A heat transfer model was established to describe the...
A coupled of ultrasonic transducer can act as a power transmission device by means of Acoustic Energy Transfer (AET). This method is relatively new method of contactless energy transfer and could be an alternative to the currently established technologies for the contactless transmission of power, such as inductive power transfer (IPT) and capacitive coupled power transfer (CPT). This paper presents...
The aim of this ethnographic study is to understand welding practices in shipyard environments with the purpose of designing an interactive robot welder. The robot is meant to help workers with their daily job while being deployed on a jack-up rig. The design of the robot, including its user interface turns out to be a challenging task due to several problematic conditions encountered on the shipyard:...
Over the last decade we developed methods for the fabrication of laser-structured electrode arrays for neural engineering. For these electrode arrays a metal foil was structured with a 1064 nm Nd:YAG laser in the nanosecond pulse regime and placed within a silicone rubber substrate. Due to process restrictions the individual electrode sites are not in plane with the upper layer of the silicone rubber...
Linked data is developing very fast and becomingmore and more important in different domains. As a relativelycomprehensive linked data set, DBpedia contains billions oftriples, which involves knowledge from diverse domains. This paper aims to utilize the metal materials knowledge in DBpeida to provide more useful services for materials experts. A knowledge extraction algorithm is designed to extract...
Being direct band-gap materials, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have a potential to be efficient optoelectronic detection material. In order to explore this potential application, a CNTs-based device is fabricated with micromachined techniques and depositing the CNTs on the substrate surface with CVD growth methods. The structure of the CNTs-based device is characterized with SEM picture. Normally CNTs forms...
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