Surface Plasmon Interference Lithography Assisted by a Fabry-Perot Cavity Composed of Subwavelength Metal Grating and Thin Metal Film

A surface plasmon interference lithography assisted by a Fabry-Perot （F-P） cavity composed of subwavelength metal gratings and a thin metal fihn is proposed to fabricate high-quality nanopatterns. The calculated results indicate that uniform straight interference fringes with high contrast and high electric-field intensity are formed in the resist under the F-P cavity. The analyses of spatial frequency spectra illuminate the physical mechanism of the formation for the interference fringes. The influence of the F-P cavity spacing is discussed in detail. Moreover, the error analyses reveal that all parameters except the metal grating period in this scheme can bear large tolerances for the device fabrication.

Competing failure mechanisms of thin metal films on polymer substrates under tension

The ductility of thin metal films on polymer substrates reported in recent experiments has a huge disparity,ranging from less than 1 % up to more than 50 %.To reveal the underpinning origins for such a large variation,this paper reports a systematic computational study of two competing failure mechanisms:metal film necking and grain boundary cracking.The quantitative results suggest that strong grain boundaries and metal/polymer interfacial adhesion are keys to achieve high ductility of polymer-supported metal films.

Numerical analysis of surface plasmons excited on a thin metal grating

The authors numerically investigated the characteristics of surface plasmons excited on a thin metal grating placed in planer or conical mounting. After formulating the problem, the solution method, Yasuura＇s method （a modal expansion approach with least-squares boundary matching） was described. Although the grating is periodic in one direction, coupling between TE and TM waves Occurs because arbitrary incidence is assumed. This requires the employment of both TE and TM vector modal functions in the analysis. Numerical computations showed： （l） the excitation of surface plasmons with total or partial absorption of incident light; （2） the resonance character of the coefficient of an evanescent order that couples the plasmon surface wave; （3） the field profile and Poynting＇s vector. The plasmons excited on the surfaces of a thin metal grating are classified into three types： SISP, SRSP, and LRSP, different from each other in the feature of field profile and energy flow. In addition, the eigenvalue of a plasmon mode was obtained by solving a sequence of diffraction problems with complex-valued angles of incidence and using the quasi-Newton algorithm to predict the real angle of incidence at which the absorption occurs.

PETALLING OF A THIN METAL PLATE STRUCK BY A CONICAL-NOSED PROJECTILE

A theoretical study is presented herein on the petalling of a fully-clamped thin metal plate struck by a rigid conical-nosed projectile. It is assumed that the energy absorbed in the petalling process consists of two parts, one part is due to the local deformation during the hole formation and the other is from the global response such as bending and membrane stretching. Various energy absorbing mechanisms are delineated and an approximate equation for the ballistic limit is obtained. It transpires that the predictions from the present model are in good agreement with test data available when the is taken into account. sensitivity of the strain rate of the material

Study on buffering performance of thin-walled metal tube with different angles

High frequency shock load is often generated during pyrotechnic device working, which is detrimental to spacecraft structures and electric devices. Therefore, it is valuable to reduce the shock load in pyrotechnic device design. Actually, there are several ways to decrease pyroshock loads, such as reduction of powder,installation of buffering structure, insulation of damageable devices, and so on. Considered assuring the function of pyrotechnic device and minimum of structure modification, shock absorbing structure is more propitious to be introduced in pyrotechnic device. In this paper, based on the method of thinwalled metal tube diameter-expanding, a thin-walled tube shock buffering structure was designed on a separate bolt. Built on the simplified structure of a separate bolt, the model of cone piston impacting thin-walled tube absorber was established, and the thin-walled tube shock absorbing characteristics and the relation between cone angles and absorber performance were analyzed. The results showed that the change of buffering force of thin-walled tube could be divided into four phases, and each phase was correspondent to the cone piston structure. In addition, as the cone angle increases, the max shock acceleration changes in the style of decrease-increase-decrease-increase, which is the result of coupled effects of cone piston max enter depth, buffering force and energy loss. In short, these results could establish the relationships between thin-walled tube absorbing performance and its structure, which is of significance to develop low-shock pyrotechnic device.

Encapsulation of metal layers within metal-organic frameworks as hybrid thin films for selective catalysis

A facile encapsulation strategy for the preparation of metal layer/metal-organic framework （metal/MOF） hybrid thin films, by alternately growing MOF thin films and sputter-coating metal layers, is reported. The controlled species of the MOF thin films and metal layers, as well as the designed thickness of MOF thin films, endow the resulting hybrid thin films with improved functional and design flexibility. Importantly, the metaL/MOF hybrid thin films, with well-defined sandwich structures, exhibit excellent selective catalytic activity, derived from MOFs acting as molecular sieves and the metal layers providing active sites.

The effect of fiber orientation on fracture response of metallic fiber-reinforced adhesive thin films

Incorporation of metallic fibers into the adhesive layer can significantly improve the mechanical behavior of the adhesive joint. This paper aims to assess the fracture behavior of an epoxy adhesive reinforced by longitudinal and lateral metallic fibers. Double cantilever beam(DCB) specimens were used to obtain the fracture energy of both non-reinforced and reinforced adhesives under mode I loading condition. In addition to the fiber orientation, the distance between the metal fibers was considered as the second key parameter in the experiments. It was concluded that although incorporation of metallic fibers in the adhesive layer improves the fracture behavior of neat adhesive, however, higher improvements were observed for the adhesive reinforced with longitudinal fibers. Furthermore, reducing the fiber distances resulted in higher values of fracture energy.

NUMERICAL SIMULATION FOR MEASURING YIELD STRENGTH OF THIN METAL FILM BY NANOINDENTATION METHOD

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Influence of Zr(50)Cu(50) thin film metallic glass as buffer layer on the structural and optoelectrical properties of AZO films

Aluminum-doped ZnO(AZO) thin films with thin film metallic glass of Zr(50)Cu(50) as buffer are prepared on glass substrates by the pulsed laser deposition. The influence of buffer thickness and substrate temperature on structural, optical, and electrical properties of AZO thin film are investigated. Increasing the thickness of buffer layer and substrate temperature can both promote the transformation of AZO from amorphous to crystalline structure, while they show(100)and(002) unique preferential orientations, respectively. After inserting Zr(50)Cu(50) layer between the glass substrate and AZO film, the sheet resistance and visible transmittance decrease, but the infrared transmittance increases. With substrate temperature increasing from 25℃ to 520℃, the sheet resistance of AZO(100 nm)/Zr(50)Cu(50)(4 nm) film first increases and then decreases, and the infrared transmittance is improved. The AZO(100 nm)/Zr(50)Cu(50)(4 nm) film deposited at a substrate temperature of 360℃ exhibits a low sheet resistance of 26.7 ?/, high transmittance of 82.1% in the visible light region, 81.6% in near-infrared region, and low surface roughness of 0.85 nm, which are useful properties for their potential applications in tandem solar cell and infrared technology.

Design of periodic metal-insulator-metal waveguide back structures for the enhancement of light absorption in thin-film solar cells

To increase the absorption in a thin layer of absorbing material （amorphous silicon, a-Si）, a light trapping design is presented. The designed structure incorporates periodic metal-insulator-metal waveguides to enhance the optical path length of light within the solar cells. The new design can result in broadband optical absorption enhancement not only for transverse magnetic （TM）-polarized light, but also for transverse electric （TE）-polarized light. No plasmonic modes can be excited in TE-polarization, but because of the coupling into the a-Si planar waveguide guiding modes and the diffraction of light by the bottom periodic structures into higher diffraction orders, the total absorption in the active region is also increased. The results from rigorous coupled wave analysis show that the overall optical absorption in the active layer can be greatly enhanced by up to 40%. The designed structures presented in this paper can be integrated with back contact technology to potentially produce high-efficiency thin-film solar cell devices.

Synthesis of Metal/Poly(diphenylsilylenemethylene) Nanocomposite Thin Films by Pulsed Laser Ablation

A new technique to synthesize poly（diphenylsilylenemethylene） （PDPhSM） matrix nanocomposite thin films containing metal nanoparticles such as Ni, AI, Zn, and W produced by pulsed laser ablation has been developed. First, 1,1,3,3-tetra- phenyl-1,3-disilacyclobutane （TPDC） films were deposited on 4 cm2 silicon substrates cut from c-Si wafers by conventional vacuum evaporation under a pressure of 4.0×10^-3 Pa; then metal nanoparticles were deposited onto the TPDC films by pulsed laser ablation; finally the TPDC films with metal nanoparticles were heated in an electric furnace in an air atmosphere at 553 K for 10 rain to induce ring-opening polymerization of TPDC. The results indicate that it is easy to synthesize metal/ PDPhSM nanocomposite thin films by pulsed laser ablation. The morphologies and size of metal nanoparticles are closely related to the kinds of metal. Also, the polymerization efficiency depends on the kinds of metal nanoparticles deposited on the TPDC monomer films by pulsed laser ablation. In addition, The laser ablated metal nanoparticles penetrate into the TPDC monomer films during pulsed laser ablation while the DC sputtered metal nanoparticles just lay on the surface of TPDC films.

Synthesis and Characterization of Metal Organic Chemical Vapour Deposited Chromium Doped Zinc Oxide Thin Film for Gas Sensing Applications

Chromium (Cr) doped Zinc oxide ZnO thin films were deposited onto glass substrates by Metal Organic Chemical Vapour Deposition (MOCVD) technique with varying dopant concentration at a temperature of 420°C. The effect of the chromium concentration on morphological, structural, optical, electrical and gas sensing properties of the films were investigated. The scanning electron microscopy results revealed that the Cr concentration has great influence on the crystallinity, surface smoothness and grain size. X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies shows that films were polycrystalline in nature and grown as a hexagonal wurtzite structure. A direct optical band energy gap of 3.32 to 3.10 eV was obtained from the optical measurements. The transmission was found to decrease with increasing Cr doping concentration. Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy (RBS) analysis also demonstrates that Cr ions are substitutionally incorporated into ZnO. I-V characteristic of the film shows a resistivity ranges from 1.134 × 10-2 · cm to 1.24 × 10-2 · cm at room temperature. The gas sensing response of the films were enhanced with incorporation of Cr as a dopant with optimum operating temperature around 200°C.

Metal Organic Chemical Vapour Deposited Thin Films of Cobalt Oxide Prepared via Cobalt Acetylacetonate

The single solid source precursor, cobalt （Ⅱ） acetylacetonate was prepared and characterized by infrared spectroscopy. Thin films of cobalt oxide were deposited on soda lime glass substrates through the pyrolysis （metal organic chemical vapour deposition （MOCVD）） of single solid source precursor, cobalt acetylacetonate, Co[C5H7O2]2 at a temperature of 420℃. The compositional characterization carried out by rutherford backscattering spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction （XRD）, showed that the films have a stoichiometry of Co2O3 and an average thickness of 227±0.2 nm. A direct energy gap of 2,15±0.01 eV was calculated by the data obtained by optical absorption spectroscopy. The morphology of the films obtained by scanning electron microscopy, showed that the grains were continuous and uniformly distributed at various magnifications, while the average grain size was less than i micron for the deposited thin films of cobalt oxide.

Various Metal Sandwich Layer Oriented Efficiency Enhancement Superiority on CuInGaSe2 Thin Film Solar Cells

The good quality CuInGaSe2 (CIGS) thin film solar cells were fabricated on molybdenum metal coated soda lime glass substrate. Three-stage co-evaporation method was utilized for the fabrication of high quality p-type CIGS thin film absorber layer. Further, n-type CdS layer, high resistive intrinsic ZnO layer and transparent conducting AlZnO layers were fabricated by CBD method and vacuum sputtering methods. We made three various top metal sandwich grid patterns, i.e. Al, Al/Cu and Cu/Al which were utilized to investigate the metal sandwich layer oriented efficiency enhancement superiority on CuInGaSe2 thin film solar cells. The investigated specific CIGS solar cell device efficiency with respect to various top metal grid sandwich patterns is presented and discussed.

具有多MO喷嘴垂直MOCVD反应腔外延层厚度均匀性的优化理论及应用

金属有机物化学气相淀积(metal organic chemical vapor deposition,MOCVD)作为异质结半导体材料外延的关键手段,其外延层厚度均匀性会直接影响产品的良率.本文将理论与实验相结合,针对3个MO源喷嘴的垂直反应腔MOCVD,将各MO源喷嘴等效为蒸发面源,并引入一等效高度来涵盖MOCVD的相关外延参数,建立外延层厚度与各MO源喷嘴流量间的定量关系,设计并利用EMCORE D125 MOCVD系统外延生长了AlGaAs谐振腔结构,根据实验测得的外延层厚度分布结果,利用最小二乘法对模型参数进行了拟合提取,基于提取的模型参数,给出了优化外延层厚度均匀性的方法.4 in(1 in=2.54 cm)外延片mapping反射谱的统计结果为,腔模的平均波长为651.89 nm,标准偏差为1.03 nm,厚度均匀性达到0.16%.同时外延生长了GaInP量子阱结构,4 in外延片mapping荧光光谱的统计结果为,峰值波长平均值为653.3 nm,标准偏差仅为0.46 nm,厚度均匀性达到0.07%.本文提出的调整外延层厚度均匀性的方法具有简单、有效、快捷的特点,且可以进一步推广至具有4个MO喷嘴以上的垂直反应腔MOCVD系统.

Metal Uptake by Plants from Soil Contaminated by Thin-Film Solar Panel Material

Various metals, including zinc (Zn), nickel (Ni), aluminum (Al), chromium (Cr), gallium (Ga), lead (Pb), copper (Cu) and indium (In), may be released and cause contamination when scrapped end-of-life (EoL) Cu(InGa)Se2 thin-film solar panel (CIGS TFSP) is buried in the soil. In this study, we grew Brassica parachinensis L. H. Bariley (VegBrassica) in three different types of soils, namely, a commercial soil, a Mollisol, and an Oxisol, which had been contaminated by CIGS TFSP to various extents. The concentrations of contaminants in these soils were positively correlated with both the amount of CIGS TFSP added and the burial period. Plants grew well in commercial soil and Mollisol, but those in Oxisol showed prominent signs of chlorosis and died after 30 days. The bioaccumulation factor (BF) and concentration of Zn in VegBrassica grown in commercial soil with 10% of CIGS TFSP added were 3.61 and 296 mg/kg, respectively, while the BF and concentration of In of VegBrassica grown in Mollisol were 3.80 and 13.72 mg/kg, respectively. The results showed that soils were contaminated by metals released from CIGS TFSP, and different adsorption patterns were observed for VegBrassica?depending on which types of metals associated with the soil properties.

Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(x)超薄纳米片高效率去除废水中重金属的研究

通过刻蚀剥离法制备了Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(x)超薄纳米片,探究了其对废水中重金属离子的吸附特性。通过SEM、XRD、AFM、FT-IR、Raman对Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(x)超薄纳米片的形貌和结构进行了表征,通过ICP-MS对处理前后水体中重金属离子的含量进行了测试。结果表明剥离的Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(x)超薄纳米片表面含有结构缺陷和羟基,当水体中Cu(Ⅱ)、Pb(Ⅱ)、Cr(Ⅵ)初始浓度为50 mg/L时,47.5 mg Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(x)超薄纳米片对其的去除效率高达90%以上,尤其是对Pb(Ⅱ)的去除效率达到了98.81%,吸附性能远高于大孔树脂、硅藻土和活性炭等常见吸附试剂。在Na(Ⅰ)、Cu(Ⅱ)、Pb(Ⅱ)、Cr(Ⅵ)4种离子共存溶液中,Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(x)超薄纳米片对于Pb(Ⅱ)和Cr(Ⅵ)的去除依然可以达到92%以上。通过动力学和吸附等温拟合,Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(x)纳米片对Pb(Ⅱ)的吸附符合拟二级动力学模型和Langmuir等温模型,对Pb(Ⅱ)的最大吸附量和最低检出限分别为81.7 mg/g和0.0094 mg/L。Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(x)超薄纳米片对重金属离子的吸附特性在化学工业、食品加工的废水处理中具有良好的应用前景。

用于液体容器内液位测量的金属薄壁梁振动模态仿真研究

为实现用于液体容器内液位测量的金属薄壁梁振动模态的准确模拟,构建金属薄壁梁的有限元圆梁模型。该模型采用有限元法对金属薄壁梁纵向振动模型的特征频率进行分析,从而对金属薄壁梁暴露于外部刺激时所产生的纵向振动进行准确模拟。在所开展研究中,对薄壁梁采用圆梁分布质量模型,分析模型的前4种振动模态的特征频率。为验证该模型的有效性,将该模型对金属薄壁梁前4种纵向振动模态的模拟结果与理论模型结果、实际金属薄壁梁试验结果及其他两种仿真模型的模拟结果进行了对比。对比结果表明,所构建圆梁模型对金属薄壁梁纵向振动模态的模拟结果与理论、试验分析结果高度一致,且模拟结果效果明显优于其他两种模型。

简单液压加载条件下金属薄壁管摩擦因数测量方法研究

金属薄壁管液压成形技术适合于制造长径比大、周向截面复杂的中空零件,在液压成形过程中,摩擦特性和加载条件等对零件的成形过程、成形性能、零件的精度及表面质量等有显著影响。以金属薄壁管液压胀形工艺为研究对象,从胀形区中截面节点的应力和应变状态分析出发,确定金属薄壁管胀形件的摩擦分区范围,并对胀形件中截面的受力状况进行分析。针对简单液压加载情况下金属薄壁管的摩擦特性,提出一种胀形区摩擦因数的测量方法。通过简单液压加载下金属薄壁管摩擦特性试验,验证该方法的准确性,并探究摩擦因数对胀形件成形精度的影响规律。