Investigating Hydrogen in Zirconium Alloys by Means of Neutron Imaging
Published in Frontiers in Materials
In this paper we present results of the ongoing national research project ?Sound.Wood.Austria? operated by Holzforschung Austria and Graz University of Technology. First, we discuss the airborne sound insulation of timber frame walls with different ETICS (External Thermal Insulation Composite System) and ventilated Exterior Wooden Claddings, measur...
Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is increasingly used to quantify the environmental impacts of construction materials. However, the relationship between the durability and LCA of these complex products with long life-cycles must be analysed in detail, namely using stochastic data from service life prediction (SLP) studies. However, SLP uncertainty is no...
Crack-free GaN epitaxial layer was obtained through inserting 80 nm graded AlGaN buffer layer between GaN epilayer and high temperature AlN buffer on 2-in Si(111) substrates by metal organic chemical vapor deposition. This paper investigated the influence of AlGaN buffer thickness on the structural properties of the GaN epilayer. It was confirmed f...
We investigate the omnidirectional absorption enhancement induced by the excitation of the localized surface plasmon in the hybrid system consisting of a gold nanowire array embedded in a slab waveguide. Assisted by the waveguide layer, the hybrid system can support the localized waveguide-plasmon resonances for a wide range of incident angles. The...
The valence-band offset of the wurtzite ZnO/rutile TiO(2) heterojunction was directly determined by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The wurtzite ZnO (0001) layer was grown on commercial rutile (101) TiO(2) by metal-organic chemical-vapor deposition. The results show that the valence-band offset is 0.14 +/- 0.05 eV, which agrees well with previous...