If you own agricultural land, would you use natural practices or rather you will use pesticides and chemical fertilizers to increase crop's yields?

By being aware of the harmful effects of all that is fertilizers and chemical pesticides on the soil, the environment and the health and if one day we would be owners of agricultural land, how...

21 December 2020 9,899 23 View

Importance of the tunnel effect on the solar cells performance?

Does the tunnel effect play a major role in the performance of solar cells? Especially when the device is heavily doped so the depletion layer can be thin enough for tunneling. Are there any...

10 December 2020 5,518 10 View

Are open access journal articles more cited than non-open access articles?

Ph.D. candidate Ronald Snijder of the University of Leiden studied the effects of making academic books available through open access. He found that open access books had 10% more citations than...

02 August 2020 8,989 24 View

How can I measure the contact angle value using image J software?I tried contact angle plugin, snake and LBADSA but i didn't get a good fitting ??

contact angle hydrophobic coat drop snake analysis LBADSA method contact angle plugin

23 February 2020 4,866 3 View

The best and easiest VANET simulator?

Hello everyone, I'm working on VANET networks, and i'm trying to simulate some scenarios (benign and malicious application). I tried to start with ns3. However: it is so complicated and needs too...

01 November 2019 2,344 7 View

What can we conclude from this Pareto front ?

11 June 2017 9,884 11 View

What is the interpretation of high values of anodic tafel slope in Na2SO4...but its neither a passive nor a quasi passive ?

anodic tafel slopes

25 May 2017 5,514 1 View

How can we disperse nanoparticles in a solution for corrosion inhibition? Other than the use of ultrasonic dispersion?

nanoparticles dispersion ultrasonic corrosion inhibition

22 April 2017 5,673 4 View

Why the addition of nanoparticles sometimes decrease the specific capacitance of superconductors?

neutral media nanoparticles supercapacitors

06 January 2017 969 3 View

How can i choose endogenous control for TaqMan miRNA analysis for plasmatic samples?

29 December 2016 2,352 7 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 to prepare a thin polymer film by post-polymerization/crosslinking?

24 February 2021 2,362 5 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

How to troubleshoot Electrochromic Films and Electrochromic Devices?

I am trying to characterize an electrochromic system. The system uses ITO electrodes on glass, WO3 as the electrochromic film, and NiO as the ion storage layer. When I deposit NiO and WO3 and...

23 February 2021 9,592 2 View

Is there an ideal incubation time of RGO-modified SPCE before subsequent use, i.e., electrochemical characterization or further modification?

I notice that upon washing and air-drying of my RGO/SPCE surface and characterizing again via DPV, the current response towards ferricyanide probe significantly decreases. My worry is that the...

22 February 2021 5,324 3 View

How to improve the adhesion between germanium and silicon monoxide thin film layers using EBEAM evaporation?

I want to deposit multilayer coating of germanium and silicon monoxide on silicon wafer using ebeam evaporation?

21 February 2021 2,141 3 View

How can I measure the thickness of thin layers deposited on textured glass susbtrates?

I want to measure the thickness of aluminum oxide and titanium oxide layers deposited on textured glass substates. The layer thicknesses are typically below 100nm.

21 February 2021 5,465 4 View

Resistivity of PVD TiNx thin films vs. N2 flow?

In the PVD of TiN thin films (~100A), I've found the resistivity of the TiN films dropped from ~100 to 60um*cm with N2 flow increasing up to the metallic mode ending point; then the resistivity...

21 February 2021 1,864 2 View

What is the best etching method for Mg-Ca alloy?

I have used Picral etchant (4.2 g Picric acid, 10 mL Acetic acid, 70 mL Ethanol, 10 mL distilled water) but it didn't work. Is there any alternative?

21 February 2021 2,558 5 View

How do I calculate absorption coefficient of my thin film if I dont know the thickness? Or how can I calculate the thickness of my sample?

I have done Uv-vis characterisation of my thin film and have received absorbance and transmittance data. Now I want to calculate the absorption coefficient but I dont know the thickness of my...

21 February 2021 7,148 8 View