Thesis (M.Sc.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2006. / "Master of Science in Materials Engineering & Nanotechnology dissertation." Title from title screen (viewed on Nov. 21, 2006) Includes bibliographical references.

This study presents thin film transistor (TFT) electrode structures in flat panel displays by imprint and electroless silver plating techniques. Imprint technique is not limited to the physical properties of optical lithography. In the imprinting process, the glass mold designed for imprinting process is fabricated by semiconductor manufacturing technology to imprint photoresist (AZ-650). The material is evaluated for imprint process. In addition, at present, electrode materials used in TFT process are aluminum (Al), chromium (Cr) and so on. In other research, the thin film plating technique adopts sputtering process to manufacture TFT electrode structures. This study uses electroless silver plating process to fabricate TFT electrode structures. The experimental result shows that the silver film can be deposited on the glass wafer by electroless plating, The mechanical properties of the silver films such as hardness, coefficient of elasticity and Young¡¦s module are measured by nanoindentation system,compared with the bulk materials.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(工学) / 甲第22068号 / 工博第4649号 / 新制||工||1725(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院工学研究科材料工学専攻 / (主査)教授 邑瀬 邦明, 教授 宇田 哲也, 教授 杉村 博之 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering) / Kyoto University / DFAM

The thesis deals with the topic of silver coating on the inner surface of the tubes made of aluminum alloy EN AW-6101B. The high affinity of the aluminum for the oxygen, the heterogeneity of the surface and the presence of the hydrogen in the base material, are the properties which hinder the formation of metallic coating on the surface of the aluminum alloy. The saturation of the base material with the hydrogen, e.g. due to the pretreatment of the surface or by the process of creating of coatings, may under certain conditions cause the defects of the silver coating in the form of the bubbles (blisters). Other factors that may affect the quality of the silver coating are the way of creating of the interlayer and the conditions for the electrolytic deposition of the silver.

Thesis (M.S.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

<p dir="ltr">Additive manufacturing has introduced new possibilities for the design and manufacturing of monolith catalyst beds. Many hydrogen peroxide monolith catalyst beds are made of ceramics and washcoated through a complex process. However, creating a metal monolith bed with the tried-and-true silver catalyst could provide an alternative decomposition method for 90 wt.% hydrogen peroxide with easier manufacturing methods and similar or better decomposition efficiency. 91.2 wt.% hydrogen peroxide was decomposed with a lattice-type monolithic catalyst bed additively manufactured out of 316L stainless steel that was electroplated with pure silver. The variables investigated included the catalyst bed’s mass loading, chamber pressure, pressure drop, and length-to-diameter ratio (L/D). The catalyst bed had loadings of 0.1 lb_m/s/inch², 0.25 lb_m/s/inch², and 0.4 lb_m/s/inch². One catalyst bed configuration had an L/D of 2.6, while the other configuration had an L/D of 0.85. A modular throat controlled the chamber pressures for each catalyst bed loading case. The decomposition efficiency was calculated with the theoretical and expected characteristic velocity (c*) of the catalyst beds. The chamber pressures for the lowest bed loading and highest L/D ratio varied from 52 psia to 202 psia. The hydrogen peroxide decomposition efficiency was approximately 85% for the lowest chamber pressure and approximately 100% for the highest chamber pressure. The chamber pressures for the middle and highest bed loading and high L/D were 193 psia at the lowest to 325 psia at the highest. The decomposition efficiencies for all middle and highest bed loading tests with high L/D were 90% or higher for all tests. For all of the highest L/D tests, decomposition was also confirmed by observing videos of the exhaust plume, which was clear and showed no sign of flow channeling. For all of the highest L/D tests, the pressure drops in all of the middle bed loading cases were at or below 30% of the chamber pressure. The high chamber pressure, highest bed loading cases also had a pressure loss below 30% of the chamber pressure. The smallest L/D configuration performed significantly worse than expected, with efficiencies between 15-25% at chamber pressures between 33-75 psi. The silver electroplated on the stainless steel survived the 143 s of lifetime on the catalyst bed during testing with minimal to no silver loss determined by weight and visual inspection with a microscope post-test. The higher L/D catalyst bed tests prove that silver electroplated on to an additively manufactured stainless steel monolith is a viable method for creating a catalyst bed. More research is required to determine the lowest L/D possible, which resides somewhere between the two L/D cases studied, and higher bed loadings also require investigation.</p>