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ZnO (Zinc-oxide) is a wide bandgap (Eg~3.3 ev ) semiconductor material , it is transparent in the visible region of the spectra and therefore, also less light sensitive. ZnO-based TFT can increase the field mobility, improve the opening of AMLCD pixel and the problem of photo-excited leakage current. Here we demonstrate ZnO-based TFT which was fabricated by sol-gel material through spin-coating deposition method. The process of spin-costing deposition provides a more efficient way for depositing device components and low cost than vacuum techniques. In the experiment we controlled the conductive and carrier concentration by different annealing temperature and different annealing equipment for optimizing our device characteristic. The material analysis of ZnO film is discussed by FTIR, SEM, and n&k. The electrical characteristic was measured by the I-V measurement system.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:41:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MoisesRCpdf.pdf: 4615723 bytes, checksum: 8e0d75d3465b34a6f59e81df4ba5830e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-02-04 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / The present work aims the preparation of filmes of strontium-doped lanthanum manganite (perovskita) yttria-stabilized zirconia (LSM-SDC) films deposited on substrate of YSZ by means of spin coating technique having as principal objective their application to solid oxide fuel cells of intermediate temperature. La0,8Sr0,2MnO3 and Ce0,8Sm0,2O1,9 were obtained by modified Pechini method by use of gelatin which act as polymerization agent. The powders obtained were characterized by Xray fluorescence, X ray diffraction, electronic scanning microscopy and the superficial area by BET method. The results obtained by X-ray fluorescence showed that the route adopted for obtention of powders was effective in the obtention of the compositions with close values to the stoichiometrics. Ethyl cellulose was used as pore-forming agent and mixed with the LSM-SDC powders in weight proportions of 1:24, 2:23 and 1:9. The films were sintered at 1150 ?C for 4 h and characterized by X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy technique (SEM) and atomic force. The phases quantification of the precursory powders and of the obtained films was carried through Rietveld method. According with the analysis of SEM, as the content of ethyl cellulose was increased, the pore distribution in films become more uniform and the pore size reduced. The methodology used for the obtention of the films was very efficient, considering a material was obtained with characteristics that were proper to the application as electrolyte/cathode system to solid oxide fuel cells / O trabalho trata da prepara??o de filmes de manganita de lant?nio dopado com estr?ncio (perovskita) c?ria dopada com sam?rio (LSM-SDC) sobre substrato de zirc?nia estabilizada com ?tria (YSZ) pela t?cnica spin coating, para utiliza??o em c?lulas a combust?vel de ?xido s?lido de temperatura intermedi?ria. Neste trabalho, La0,8Sr0,2MnO3 e Ce0,8Sm0,2O1,9 foram obtidos pelo m?todo Pechini modificado pelo uso de gelatina que atua como agente polimerizante e quelante. Os p?s obtidos foram caracterizados por fluoresc?ncia de raios-X, difra??o de raios-X, microscopia eletr?nica de varredura e determina??o da ?rea superficial pelo m?todo BET. Os resultados obtidos por fluoresc?ncia de raios-X mostraram que a rota adotada para obten??o dos p?s foi eficaz na obten??o da composi??o com valores pr?ximos ao estequiom?trico. A etilcelulose foi usada como agente formador de poros e foi misturada ao p?s de LSM-SDC em propor??es m?ssicas de 1:24, 2:23 e 1:9. Os filmes foram tratados termicamente a 1150 ?C por quatro horas e caracterizados estruturalmente pela t?cnica de difra??o de raios X e morfologicamente pelas t?cnicas de microscopia eletr?nica de varredura e for?a at?mica. A quantifica??o das fases dos p?s precursores e dos filmes obtidos foi realizada atrav?s do refinamento Rietveld. De acordo com a an?lise de MEV, quando a quantidade de etilcelulose foi aumentada, a distribui??o dos poros nos filmes tornou-se mais uniformes e o tamanho de poros reduzidos. A metodologia empregada para a obten??o dos filmes mostrou-se satisfat?ria, considerando que foi obtido um material com caracter?sticas apropriadas para a aplica??o como sistema eletrodo/eletr?lito em c?lulas a combust?vel de ?xido s?lido (SOFC)

Submitted by Rafael Santana (rafael.silvasantana@ufpe.br) on 2017-07-25T19:46:06Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Dissertacao PRONTA.compressed-2.pdf: 7340420 bytes, checksum: 27358d102b9b7c405f37c9e2a0ceb516 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-25T19:46:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Dissertacao PRONTA.compressed-2.pdf: 7340420 bytes, checksum: 27358d102b9b7c405f37c9e2a0ceb516 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-07-02 / Neste trabalho foi feito um estudo das propriedades estruturais e magnéticas de filmes granulares de cromita de cobalto sobre substrato de silicio. Aqui os filmes foram fabricados a partir do método químico sol‐gel, técnica de centrifugação spincoating e Tratamento térmico apropriado. Toda família de filmes foi fabricada sobre substrato de silício (100) e submetida a tratamento termico. A diferença de um filme para outro esta na quantidade de material depositado. Isto possibilitou o estudo das propriedades supracitadas em função da quantidade de material depositado para fabricação do filme. A cristalinidade de todas as amostras obtidas foi confirmada por difração de raios-X (XRD). A microscopia eletrônica de varredura (MEV) mostrou filmes granulares com boa homogeneidade e que a espessura de todas as amostras aumenta com a quantidade de gotas depositadas durante o spin‐coating. As propriedades magnéticas foram medidas usando magnetometria de amostra vibrante (VSM). O campo aplicado durante a medicao foi orientado paralelo ao plano do filme e observou‐se uma alta coercividade e que esta diminui quase linearmente com o aumento de temperatura. / In this work we have made a study of the structural and magnetic properties of cobalt chromite granular films over silicon substrate. Here the films were fabricated by the chemical method sol‐gel, spin coating technique and ppropriate heat treatment. The entire Family was deposited over silicon substrate (100) and submitted to heat treatment. The difference between a film to another is the quantity of deposited Material. This allowed the study of the above properties as a function of the deposited material. The crystallinity of all samples obtained was confirmed by X‐ray diffraction (XRD). The scanning electron microscopy (SEM) showed granular films with good homogeneity and the thickness of all samples increases when the number of drops increases during spin‐coating. The magnetic properties were measured using vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM). The applied field during the measurement was Oriented parallel to the film plane and observed a high coercivity and that decreases pproximately linearly with increasing temperature.

Various physical parameters of solvents within two component, PMMA + Solvent films are analyzed for their impact upon the coating uniformity of spin deposited PMMA films. Towards this end, a model is presented for describing the surface behavior of spin-on films during the latter stages of deposition, correlating the tendency of a film toward non-uniform deposition to physical characteristics of the spin-on solution. A finite difference solution to this model is presented for two-component, spin-on films that is shown to effectively predict the uniformity of the resulting thin-film layers. The model is then used to determine the impact of specific film parameters upon the predicted spin-on uniformity of the film. Based upon these results, the interdependency between evaporation rate, solvent viscosity, surface tension and rotation rate in determining the uniformity of the spin-on film is evaluated by comparing the model predictions against those found in actual spin-on, two component films. The results from this model are used to provide a physical explanation for why certain surface non-uniformities begin to develop during spin coating.

>Magister Scientiae - MSc / Photovoltaic (PV) devices based on inorganic-organic hybrid active layers have been extensively studied for over a decade now. However, photoactive hybrid layers of material combinations such as rr-P3HT and SiNWs still require further exploration as candidates for solar cell (SC) fabrication, due to favourable optical absorption and charge carrier mobility associated with them respectively. The ultimate goal of the study is to fabricate ITO/PEDOT:PSS/rr-P3HT:SiNWs/Al SCs with different SiNWs content and investigate the different parameters or factors influencing the performance of these cells. The vertically aligned SiNW arrays on a Si wafer were synthesised via metal assisted chemical etching (MACE) and a method of chemically detaching these wires was developed. The average length and the diameter of the SiNWs obtained were 4.5 μm and 0.2 μm, respectively. Different weight ratios of as-synthesised SiNWs were then incorporated within rr-P3HT to form different hybrid solutions, i.e. rr-P3HT: 0.3 wt% SiNWs, rr-P3HT: 0.7 wt% SiNWs and rr-P3HT: 1.3 wt% SiNWs. In addition, a pure rr- P3HT solution was made for reference purposes. SEM characterisation shows that the SiNWs are randomly distributed across the active area, and that the film becomes progressively inhomogeneous upon addition of SiNWs, whereas the TEM characterisation revealed that there is no chemical interaction between the rr-P3HT and SiNWs. The UV-Vis and PL spectra suggest that there are changes in absorption and emission characteristics upon SiNW incorporation into the rr-P3HT matrix, which may have impacted the charge transfer .The electrical properties of the different hybrid films were probed using Hall Effect measurements, which revealed that the conductivity increases with the increase in the concentration of nanowires (NWs). The increase in conductivity upon the addition of SiNWs in the rr-P3HT matrix was related to an increase of the mobility (μ) of charge carriers in the hybrid films.

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This work have served as a preliminary work for a more extensiveresearch on antimony- and nickel-doped tin dioxide electrodes used forozone generation in electrolytic reactions. The target has been to test themanufacturing process of Sb/Ni-doped SnO2 with spin-coating techniqueand succeed to make electrodes for anodic ozone evolution and tocharacterize them. Electrode manufacturing was made using sol-gelfrom chloride salts of tin, antimony and nickel, which were applied to atitanium substrate through spin-coating. The substrates were spun todifferent thickness followed by drying and baking of the substrate. A setof electrodes with three layers were made just with spin-coating, additionallya set of electrodes with twenty layers were made with bothspin-coating and dip-coating. To characterize physical properties of theelectrodes, x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy and transmissionelectron microscopy were conducted. Electrochemical measurementswere made in open beakers with a platinum cathode andsulphuric acid electrolyte using a galvanostatic measurement with afixed current. To measure the ozone evolution the optical absorbancedifference from the electrolyte compared to a clean electrolyte wasmeasured, this however only measures the amount of aqueous ozonepresent. Assembling of SnO2 electrodes for ozone evolution was successful.For the three-layered electrodes the absorbance readings wereinconclusive but with the twenty-layered electrodes there was a smell ofozone present within the electrolyte and absorbance reading of the dipcoatedelectrode presented a clear peak for ozone.