Low thermal conductivity is an important materials property for thermoelectricity. The lattice thermal conductivity (LTC) can be reduced by introducing sublattice disorder through partial isovalent substitution. Yet, large-scale screening of materials has seldom taken this opportunity into account...
Al 2 O 3 has rapidly become the surface passivation material of choice for p + layers of solar cells because of its high negative fixed charge, good long-term and thermal stability, and no parasitic absorption. In this article, the surface saturation current density, fixed charge, and interface...
The capability of battery materials to deliver not only high lithium storage capacity, but also the ability to operate at high charge/discharge rates is an essential property for development of new batteries. In the present work, the influence on the charge/discharge rate behaviour of...
We report the first nanoscale investigation of FeCoNi(AlMn)x high-entropy alloys (HEAs) processed by laser metal deposition. The structural evolution of the alloy upon chemical composition variation (0.2 ≤ x ≤ 1.5) was investigated by combining imaging and spectroscopies in (scanning) transmission...
Oxide-containing films were made by reactively sputtering a high-entropy alloy target of CrFeCoNiCu. We report on a wide range of changes to the electrical properties made by different heat treatments in oxidizing and reducing atmospheres, respectively. We combine temperature-dependent Hall effect...
High entropy alloy (HEA) films of CrFeCoNiCu were deposited by sputtering. Their structure was characterized and their electric transport properties were studied by temperature-dependent Hall and Seebeck measurements. The HEA films show a solid solution with an fcc structure. The residual electrical...
In this paper, we explore the synthesis of new antimonide compounds based upon concepts of high entropy alloys (HEA). HEAs are usually multi-element (⪆5) alloys with near the equiatomic composition. They have been given very large attention due to their vast potential within many fields. We...
Chromium (II) fluoroperovskites A CrF 3 ( A = Na + , K + ) are strongly correlated Jahn-Teller active materials at low temperatures. In this paper, we examine the role that the A -site ion plays in this family of fluoroperovskites using both experimental methods (x-ray diffraction...
Films were reactively sputtered from a high entropy alloy (HEA) FeCoNiCuGe target in an Ar/O2 plasma. The case of zero O2 gas flow yielded HEA films of FeCoNiCuGe. These as-deposited HEA films have a face centered cubic (FCC) structure, showing a texture with columnar grains containing many planar...
Fourteen alloys of the FeCoNiAlxMnx system were processed by laser metal deposition (LMD). The feedstock was a weighted and proportional blend of the containing elemental powders, targeting the nominal alloy compositions. Prior to processing, the composition and particle characteristics of the...
Low lattice thermal conductivity is essential for high thermoelectric performance of a material. Lattice thermal conductivity is often computed using density functional theory (DFT), typically at a high computational cost. Training machine learning models to predict lattice thermal conductivity...
Boron (B) and phosphorus (P) are the most problematic impurities to be removed in the production of solar-grade silicon by the metallurgical process. In this work, the distribution of B and P between CaO-(La2O3)-SiO2 slags and Si-10 mass pct Sn melt was experimentally studied. B distribution...
The ATLAS experiment will undergo a full replacement of its inner detector to face the challenges posed by the High Luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). The new Inner Tracker (ITk) will have to deal with extreme particle fluences. Due to its superior radiation hardness the 3D...
We present a framework for deriving anomaly detection algorithms on timeseries data when the time and expression of anomalous behaviour is unknown. The framework is suited for problems in which individual machine learning paradigms cannot be directly implemented: supervised learning is not...
The prediction of material properties based on density-functional theory has become routinely common, thanks, in part, to the steady increase in the number and robustness of available simulation packages. This plurality of codes and methods is both a boon and a burden. While providing great...
High-Entropy Alloys are advanced technological materials composed of several (typically five) elements in nearly equal atomic concentration. By forming these alloys, previously unknown phase fields of multidimensional phase diagrams are explored. The large number of possible substitutions of...
Elasto-plastic fracture toughness tests of a commercially pure iron were performed in air and in hydrogen gas at two different pressures. Some unique characteristics of hydrogen-enhanced cracking were exhibited at both the macroscopic and microscopic length scales, based on the observation of...
The effect of the native silicon oxide layer on the passivation properties of Al2O3 on p-type Si surfaces has been investigated. This was done by comparing effective carrier lifetime, surface saturation current density, fixed charge, and density of interface states of samples, where the native oxide...
Human motion analysis is a valuable tool for assessing disease progression in persons with conditions such as multiple sclerosis or Parkinson’s disease. Human motion tracking is also used extensively for sporting technique and performance analysis as well as for work life ergonomics evaluations...
The oxygen nonstoichiometry in the misfit calcium cobaltite (Ca2CoO3)0.62(CoO2) has been studied experimentally and by density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The standard oxidation enthalpy ΔH0Ox of oxygen deficient (Ca2CoO3)0.62(CoO2) was measured directly using simultaneous thermogravimetry...