Browsing SINTEF Industri by Journals "Journal of Applied Physics"
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Effect of amorphization-mediated plasticity on the hydrogen-void interaction in ideal lattices under hydrostatic tension
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)A thermodynamic model is derived to study the void nucleation in ideal lattices under hydrostatic tension loading and predicts that the plasticity has to be initiated before homogeneous nucleation of voids. Molecular ... -
Electrochemically driven degradation of chemical solution deposited ferroelectric thin-films in humid ambient
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The ambient humidity significantly accelerates the degradation of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) films in microelectromechanical systems; the cause of such degradation is under debate. Here, it is shown that the degradation ... -
Enhancement of thermoelectric properties by energy filtering: Theoretical potential and experimental reality in nanostructured ZnSb
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Energy filtering has been suggested by many authors as a means to improve thermoelectric properties. The idea is to filter away low-energy charge carriers in order to increase Seebeck coefficient without compromising ... -
Enhancement of thermoelectric properties by energy filtering: Theoretical potential and experimental reality in nanostructured ZnSb
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Energy filtering has been suggested by many authors as a means to improve thermoelectric properties. The idea is to filter away low-energy charge carriers in order to increase Seebeck coefficient without compromising ... -
High performance multicrystalline silicon: Grain structure and iron precipitation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)A study of the spatial occurrence of iron precipitation in a high performance multicrystalline silicon (HPMC-Si) sample is presented. The separated effects of grain-boundaries, sparse intra-granular dislocations, and ... -
Interfacial characterization of Al-Al thermocompression bonds
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Interfaces formed by Al-Al thermocompression bonding were studied by the transmission electron microscopy. Si wafer pairs having patterned bonding frames were bonded using Al films deposited on Si or SiO2 as intermediate ... -
Investigation of veryintenseD3-band emission in multi-crystalline silicon wafers using electron microscopy and hyperspectral photoluminescence imaging
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Defects in high performance multi-crystalline silicon wafers can be detrimental to the lifetime of the solar cell. It is, therefore, important to study and understand the underlying structure and chemical elements present ... -
Recombination activity of grain boundaries in high-performance multicrystalline Si during solar cell processing
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)In this work, we applied internal quantum efficiency mapping to study the recombination activity of grain boundaries in High Performance Multicrystalline Silicon under different processing conditions. Wafers were divided ... -
Shallow Impurity Band in ZrNiSn
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)ZrNiSn and related half Heusler compounds are candidate materials for efficient thermoelectric energy conversion with a reported thermoelectric figure-of-merit of n-type ZrNiSn exceeding unity. Progress on p-type materials ... -
Thermoelectric transport trends in group 4 half-Heusler alloys
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The thermoelectric properties of 54 different group 4 half-Heusler (HH) alloys have been studied from first principles. Electronic transport was studied with density functional theory using hybrid functionals facilitated ...