Sentences with phrase «of aluminum oxide»

It consists of small clusters of four copper atoms each, supported on a thin film of aluminum oxide.

Using a technique common in the semiconductor industry called atomic layer deposition (ALD), they coated pieces of silver with layers of aluminum oxide only 1 atom thick.

The DOE believes such a canister of aluminum oxide with 100 mm thick walls can conservatively withstand the action of groundwater for thousands of years.»

By manipulating the structure of aluminum oxide, a dielectric material, researchers were able to improve its optical and mechanical properties.

If your soles snag on the sheets when you slide into bed, buff away calluses and dry skin with the Artemis Woman Pedi - Buffer ($ 19.99), a pedicure «power tool» that uses a rotating tip made of aluminum oxide crystals.

The mixture then passes through a porous plug of aluminum oxide covered with rhodium and cerium oxide, which catalyzes reactions that yield hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

At the annual meeting of the American Physical Society and in the 12 March issue of Physical Review Letters, Kociak and his colleagues at the French national research agency CNRS and the Russian Academy of Sciences in Chernogolovka showed that empty nanotubes can also carry electron pairs between nonsuperconducting electrodes (in this case, metal pads made from a sandwich of aluminum oxide, platinum, and gold).

Swearer began by synthesizing 100 - nanometer - diameter aluminum crystals that, once exposed to air, develop a thin 2 - to 4 - nanometer - thick coating of aluminum oxide.

The addition of a few nanometers of a thin layer of aluminum oxide protects a perovskite solar cell against humidity — still a major stumbling block to the commercial application of this new type of solar cell.

«We are able to control the thickness of the aluminum oxide, creating a coating between two nanometers and 20 nanometers thick,» Zhang says.

That porous polymer then serves as a template, which the researchers coats with a thin layer of aluminum oxide using atomic layer deposition.

Nelson's team used agoniometric photopolarimeter to study thirteen sorted particle size fractions of aluminum oxide.

The NMR provided unprecedented resolution of the aluminum oxide support, which allowed the team to identify aluminum atoms with certain properties.

In October 2010, a reservoir at an aluminum oxide refinery in Western Hungary broke open, releasing 185 million gallons of corrosive red sludge, a waste product of the aluminum oxide refining process.

Sapphires and rubies are both forms of Corrundum, a crystalline form of Aluminum Oxide.

«By manipulating the structure of the aluminum oxide, which is dielectric, we've improved both its optical and mechanical properties,» says Chih - Hao Chang, corresponding author of a paper on the work and an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State.

But now researchers have developed a film made of aluminum oxide that has a refractive index as low as 1.025 but that is mechanically stiff.

In the findings just published, the researchers have covered the sensitive layer of perovskite with a few atomic layers of aluminum oxide to protect against degradation caused by humidity.

Nanostructured, enhanced with silicon oxide, covered with a nanometer - thin layer of aluminum oxide and cobalt oxide — these treatments optimize the electrochemical properties of the material, but are nonetheless simple to apply.