Profex - How to import .str files properly?

I am using Profex software to analyze XRD. It works fine for materials whose .str file are available in package. But fails when I use imported .str I downloaded .cif file and converted to...

02 March 2018 7,275 5 View

How to quantify defect state density from PL spectra?

How to quantify the defect state density from PL spectra for a semiconducting thin film?

03 April 2017 4,393 6 View

Publication details I have list of papers in DOI/EID form. Can I get publication month and impact factor of the corresponding journals?

I have list of papers in DOI/EID form. Can I get publication month/year and impact factor of the corresponding journals? May be by using SciVal or Scopus

31 December 2016 6,392 0 View

Can II-VI compound semiconductors show metallic behavior (from R-T study) at very low temperature?

Whether II-VI compound semiconductors exhibit metal-insulator transition (R-T measurement) at very low temperature (10K to 50K)

03 April 2016 2,744 0 View

Suggest free simulation software to simulate optical transmittance of thin film samples?

I would like to simulate bi-layer thin film transmittance. Any free software?

01 February 2016 2,995 11 View

What do Raman spectra intensity indicate?

I have Raman data for thin films deposited under the same condition but that have undergone different post-deposition treatments. Along with peak shifts, there is a considerable change in peak...

02 March 2014 1,854 5 View

How can I decide scan range in Raman spectroscopy?

I have thin film samples whose composition is known. When samples were sent for Raman Spectroscopy, operator is for the asking scan range. How do I decide it?

05 June 2013 6,420 5 View

how to find r.i (n) of thin film from A, R%,T% data?

I have absorbance, reflectance% and transmittance% data. How to calculate refractive index from this. I tried with R = [(n - 1)^2 + K^2 ] / [(n + 1)^2 + K^2] where K is extinction coefficient....

11 December 2011 2,664 24 View

Why can't make aluminum nitride film successfully by use sputter?

We use reactive sputtering process to make aluminum nitride film, and want to make c-axis aluminum nitride film on a silicon substrate, but the crystal orientation cannot be seen with...

03 March 2021 7,975 3 View

12% ledeburitic cold work tool steel, etched for revealing retained austenite, any help for clarifying?

Hello everyone. Given microstructure image belongs to a 12% ledeburitic cold work tool steel (annealed and tempered). The sample was etched with picral (100 mL ethanol and 4 g picric acid). I...

02 March 2021 4,119 3 View

How to check the uv-vis absorption of nanoparticle by surface plasmon resonance?

I try to check the uv-vis absorption of Indium nanoparticle. Now I am measuring in solution, can I measure it in the form of a film?

01 March 2021 930 3 View

1 nm thick MgO thin-film to be deposited on Si wafer using thermal evaporation. What will be the optimum deposition conditions?

Favourable conditions of base pressure, rate of deposition. Also, by which characterisation technique to be used to verify the thickness of the deposited film.

28 February 2021 3,640 3 View

How can we simulate an hyperelastic-viscoelastic behavor with Ansys APDL?

I am working on modeling and simulation of biomecanical material behaviour, I have succeded on simulating skin using anisotropic hyperelastic material, on APDL and in our lab's finite element...

28 February 2021 552 3 View

LEDs on Vis Light photo degradation of MB water sol via N doped TiO2 in a mini flume?

Good day to all, I have no experience with light emitting diodes. I am building a glass mini flume to demonstrate the photo degradation of Methylene Blue in water running over self cleaning...

26 February 2021 4,026 5 View

Can anyone share his experience regards Smoothing in origin?

I am working on TiO2 composite material and the results of XRD have a lot of small/junk peaks and while I apply a smooth filter in Origin then the other characteristics peaks disappear so anyone...

26 February 2021 8,183 3 View

How to prepare a thin polymer film by post-polymerization/crosslinking?

24 February 2021 2,362 5 View

How to delaminate copper in water-based anodes?

Hello everyone, I'm looking for a way to delaminate copper current collector of water-based anodes in Li-ion batteries without damaging the graphite film. I tried different materials such as HNO3...

24 February 2021 3,785 3 View

Is is possible to pole with corona poling pellets of the sample material instead of thin films?

As it is highly probable that pellets will have a higher degree of air gaps and voids than thin films, is it possible to pole the samples with corona poling nevertheless? Or is there the...

24 February 2021 1,349 1 View