Publications related to Film theory

Piezoelectric and elastic properties of Al0.60Sc0.40N thin films deposited on patterned metal electrodes

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Silvan Stettler, Marco Liffredo, Nan Xu, Federico Peretti

Sc-doped aluminum nitride (AlScN) allows for piezoelectric devices with large electromechanical coupling and the benefits increase with larger Sc doping in the film. However, with a larger Sc concentration, the process window narrows, and it is necessary t ...

2024

Drops on the Underside of a Slightly Inclined Wet Substrate Move Too Fast to Grow

François Gallaire, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Pier Giuseppe Ledda

Pendant drops suspended on the underside of a wet substrate are known to accumulate fluid from the surrounding thin liquid film, a process that often results in dripping. The growth of such drops is hastened by their ability to translate over an otherwise ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Bretherton's buoyant bubble

John Martin Kolinski, Wassim Dhaouadi

When a buoyant bubble is inserted into a closed capillary that is slightly smaller than the capillary length, it appears stuck; exactly why this is so is a puzzle that has remained unanswered over the past 50 years. Recent calculations suggest that the bub ...

2019

Digital transformation and open innovation ecosystems in the tilm industry: the case of the Movieday platform

Christopher Tucci, Gianluigi Viscusi

Digital technologies are transforming the film industry. Up until roughly a decade ago, the business model for film exhibition was based on theatrical release in combination with television sales and home cinema releases (video and DVD). Recently, many que ...

2017

Three-dimensional Rayleigh–Taylor instability under a unidirectional curved substrate

François Gallaire, Gioele Mariano Nicolò Balestra, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Nicolas Igor Jacques Kofman

We investigate the Rayleigh–Taylor instability of a thin liquid film coated on the inside of a cylinder whose axis is orthogonal to gravity. We are interested in the effects of geometry on the instability, and contrast our results with the classical case o ...

Cambridge University Press2017

Engineering reversible elasticity in ductile and brittle thin films supported by a plastic foil

Stéphanie Lacour, Nicolas Vachicouras, Christina Myra Tringides

Reversible deformation is a unique property of elastic materials. Here, we design and fabricate highly stretchable multilayered films by patterning Y-shaped motifs through films of non- elastic materials, e.g. plastics, metals, ceramics. By adjusting the g ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Zinc blende-wurtzite polytypism in nanocrystalline ZnO films

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Cécile Hébert, Sylvain Nicolay, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Lorenzo Fanni, Arthur Brian Aebersold

ZnO is commonly observed and assumed to crystallize fully in a wurtzite structure. Indeed, While polytypism between a wurtzite and a zinc blende phase is often seen in some II-VI compounds, it has only rarely been observed in ZnO. Here, by means of automat ...

Elsevier2017

Method for the preparation of a coating

Yves Leterrier, Holger Frauenrath, Stephen Schrettl, Bjoern Schulte

The invention relates to a method for the preparation of a coating comprising at least one coating layer on a solid substrate, said method comprising the steps of a, providing monomers of the type R-(N)x-(L)m-(C≡C)n-(L']o(N')y-R', wherein R is a head moiet ...

2016

Automatic Detection of Dust and Scratches in Silver Halide Film using Polarized Dark-Field Illumination

Sabine Süsstrunk, Dominic Rüfenacht

We present a method to automatically detect dust and scratches on photographic material, in particular silver halide film, where traditional methods for detecting and removing defects fail. The film is digitized using a novel setup involving crosspolarizat ...

2013

Formation of (113) texture in fcc nitride thin films and its influence on the film properties

Ayat Karimi, Alireza Karimi, Akshath Raghu Shetty

This work presents a study of XRD measurements on the development of the (113) preferential orientation with film thickness for Ti0.67Al0.33N films grown on Si(100) substrates by pulsed DC magnetron sputtering. The buildup of (113) texture was observed usi ...

Elsevier Science Sa2013

Incremental Model Identification of Fluid-Fluid Reaction Systems – Dynamic Accumulation and Reactions in the Diffusion Layer

Dominique Bonvin, Julien Léo Billeter, Sriniketh Srinivasan

The identification of kinetic models is an important step for the monitoring, control and optimization of industrial processes. This is particularly the case for highly competitive business sectors such as chemical and pharmaceutical industries, where the ...

2013

Incremental Model Identification of Gas-Liquid Reaction Systems with Unsteady-State Diffusion

Dominique Bonvin, Julien Léo Billeter, Sriniketh Srinivasan, Benoit Till Cretegny

Identification of kinetic models and estimation of reaction and mass-transfer parameters can be performed using the extent-based identification method, whereby each chemical/physical process is handled separately [1-3]. This method is used here to analyze ...

2013

Light trapping in solar cells at the extreme coupling limit

Christophe Ballif, Hans Peter Herzig, Franz-Josef Haug, Corsin Battaglia, Ali Naqavi

We calculate the maximal absorption enhancement obtainable by guided mode excitation in a weakly absorbing dielectric slab over wide wavelength ranges. The slab mimics thin film silicon solar cells in the low absorption regime. We consider simultaneously w ...

Optical Soc Amer2013

Study of Amyloid beta-Peptide (A beta 12-28-Cys) Interactions with Congo Red and beta-Sheet Breaker Peptides Using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy

Hubert Girault, Raheleh Partovi Nia

A surface-based approach is presented to study the interactions of A beta 12-28-Cys assembled on gold surfaces with Congo red (CR) and a beta-sheet breaker (BSB) peptide. The various aspects of the peptide film have been examined using different electroche ...

American Chemical Society2012

Microchannel plate and its manufacturing method

The present invention relates to a microchannel plate (1) having an array of channels (5), wherein said microchannel plate comprises a substrate (2) and, deposited on said substrate, a hydrogenated amorphous silicon film (3) having a thickness comprised be ...

2011

Fast and robust hydrogen sensors based on discontinuous palladium films on polyimide, fabricated on a wafer scale

Jürgen Brugger, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Thomas Kiefer

Fast hydrogen sensors based on discontinuous palladium (Pd) ﬁlms on supporting polyimide layers, fabricated by a cost-efﬁcient and full-wafer compatible process, are presented. The ﬁlms, deposited by electron-beam evaporation with a nominal thickness of 1. ...

Institute of Physics2010

Organic Thin Film Transistors on Flexible Polyimide Substrates Fabricated by Full Wafer Stencil Lithography

Jürgen Brugger, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Andreea Veronica Savu, Dimitrios Tsamados, Katrin Sidler Arnet, Nenad Cvetkovic

This paper presents new results on miniaturized organic thin film transistors (TFT) fabricated on a spin coated polyimide (PI) film. Patterning steps, that are vital for the integrity and electrical performances of the organic TFT, were performed using res ...

Elsevier2010

Design and fabrication of compositionally graded inorganic oxide thin films: Mechanical, optical and permeation characteristics

Yves Leterrier, Xavier Bulliard, Ji Hyun Kim

Different types of inorganic oxide films composed of a chemical composition gradient single layer were designed, fabricated and characterized. Compositionally graded thin films were created by power-controlled co-sputtering of alumina (Al2O3) and silica (S ...

Elsevier2010