Research
HiPIMS deposition of conductive, infrared transparent tin oxide films for high performance electronic applications
Tin oxide (SnO2) has been widely explored for applications such as transparent electrodes, n-type thin-film transistor (TFT) solar cells,...
An Experiment Simulating Titan’s Atmosphere, as Probed by a Hiden Mass Spectrometer
In the recent paper “An atmospheric origin for HCN-derived polymers on Titan” by Perrin et al. 2021 published in Processes MDPI, we highlighted that...
Low-temperature N2O decomposition catalysts
Nitrous oxide is known as a greenhouse gas and a severe contributor to ozone layer destruction, thus its decomposition into N2 and O2 is a topic of...
Dynamic structure of active sites in ceria-supported Pt catalysts for the water gas shift reaction
The WGS reaction (CO + H2O → CO2 + H2) is an essential processing step in the industrial production of synthesis gas—one used both to purify and to...
The Development of an Improved Radiation Resistant RGA System for the Analysis of Deuterium, Tritium and Impurities in the ITER Device
ITER Radiation Hardness Assurance Policy was recently revised calling for stricter neutron exposure limits for the electronics in systems critical...
Nitride formation during reactive sputter deposition of multi-principal element alloys in argon/nitrogen mixtures
Multi-principal element alloys (MPEAs) are alloys that consist of 5 or more elements with a concentration between 5 and 35 atom percent, and for...
Operando Studies of a Co/TiO2 Fischer-Tropsch Catalyst
Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) is a process used to synthesize ultra-clean diesel from crude-oil alternative feedstocks, such as biomass, municipal...
Activity/selectivity of transition metal carbides for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction
An overarching challenge of electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction (eCO2RR) is to find a highly active catalyst that can produce...
Reactive high-power impulse magnetron sputtering of stoichiometric ZrO2 films
In spite of several successful applications of high-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) systems to reactive sputter depositions of...