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Eliminating the spin-down critical angle in polarizing neutron optics for expanding the polarization bandwidth
A. Zubayer, N. Ghafoor, A. Glavic +6
Polarized neutron scattering is a very important analysis technique for studies of magnetism, spintronics, and high-sensitivity measurements, among others, offering invaluable info…
Electronic structure and thermoelectric properties of epitaxial Sc1-xVxNy thin films grown on MgO(001)
Susmita Chowdhury, Niraj Kumar Singh, Sanath Kumar Honnali +4
The electronic structure of Sc1-xVxNy epitaxial films with different alloying concentrations of V are investigated with respect to effects on thermoelectric properties. Band struct…
Effects of W alloying on the electronic structure, phase stability and thermoelectric power factor in epitaxial CrN thin films
Niraj Kumar Singh, Victor Hjort, Sanath Kumar Honnali +5
CrN-based alloy thin films are of interest as thermoelectric materials for energy harvesting. Ab initio calculations show that dilute alloying of CrN with 3 at.% W substituting Cr,…
Thermoelectric properties and electronic structure of Cr(Mo,V)Nx thin films studied by synchrotron and lab-based X-ray spectroscopy
Susmita Chowdhury, Victor Hjort, Rui Shu +4
Chromium-based nitrides are used in hard, resilient coatings, and show promise for thermoelectric applications due to their combination of structural, thermal, and electronic prope…
Reflective, polarizing, and magnetically soft amorphous Fe/Si multilayer neutron optics with isotope-enriched 11B4C inducing atomically flat interfaces
A. Zubayer, N. Ghafoor, K. A. Thórarinsdóttir +11
The utilization of polarized neutrons is of great importance in scientific disciplines spanning materials science, physics, biology, and chemistry. Polarization analysis offers ins…
Valence electron concentration- and N vacancy-induced elasticity in cubic early transition metal nitrides
Soheil Karimi Aghda, Dimitri Bogdanovski, Lukas Loefler +7
Motivated by frequently reported deviations from stoichiometry in cubic transition metal nitride (TMNx) thin films, the effect of N-vacancy concentration on the elastic properties…
Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties By Embedding Fe Nanoparticles Into CrN Films For Energy Harvesting Applications
Daria Pankratova, Khabib Yusupov, Alberto Vomiero +6
Nanostructured materials and nanocomposites have shown great promise for improving the efficiency of thermoelectric materials. Herein, Fe nanoparticles were imbedded into a CrN mat…
Phase formation in CrFeCoNi nitride thin films
Smita G. Rao, Boburjon Mukhamedov, Gyula Nagy +9
As a single-phase alloy, CrFeCoNi is a face centered cubic (fcc) material related to the archetypical high-entropy Cantor alloy CrFeCoNiMn. For thin films, CrFeCoNi of approximatel…
Influence of generated defects by Ar-implantation on the thermoelectric properties of ScN
R. Burcea, J. -F. Barbot, P. -O. Renault +9
Nowadays, making thermoelectric materials more efficient in energy conversion is still a challenge. In this work, to reduce the thermal conductivity and thus improve the overall th…
P-type behavior of CrN thin films by control of point defects
Arnaud le Febvrier, Davide Gambino, Fabien Giovannelli +5
We report the results of a combined experimental and theoretical study on nonstoichiometric CrN1+d thin films grown by reactive magnetron sputtering on c-plane sapphire, MgO (100)…
Solid-state Janus nanoprecipitation enables amorphous-like heat conduction in crystalline Mg3Sb2-based thermoelectric materials
Rui Shu, Zhijia Han, Anna Elsukova +12
Solid-state precipitation can be used to tailor materials properties, ranging from ferromagnets and catalysts to mechanical strengthening and energy storage. Thermoelectric propert…
An upgraded ultra-high vacuum magnetron-sputtering system for high-versatility and software-controlled deposition
Arnaud le Febvrier, Ludvig Landalv, Thomas Liersch +3
Magnetron sputtering is a widely used physical vapor deposition technique. Reactive sputtering is used for the deposition of, e.g, oxides, nitrides and carbides. In fundamental res…