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In high-voltage direct current transmission systems, charges accumulate at the gas-solid interface, distorting the local field strength, causing a reduction in the flashover voltage, and threatening the safe and reliable operation of the power system. The latest research has found that doping metal nanoparticles into an epoxy resin effectively suppresses the surface charge accumulation on insulators and improves their flashover voltage. This paper further analyzes the microscopic mechanism of this phenomenon, establishes a single-electron tunneling mode, and draws two conclusions when there is no agglomeration of the doped nanoparticles, a higher doping concentration can be achieved, which provides a better insulative performance. The optimal metal nanoparticle radius is several to tens of nanometers. D-Luciferin purchase This work provides theoretical guidance for the future improvement of insulating materials through metal nanoparticle doping and has good prospects in engineering applications.The development of multi-role flexible thermal films embedded with single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) exhibiting an adjustable temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR) is presented. The composite film is prepared by an alternating electric field to assembling CNTs on Ni conductive layer and polyimide. Modified vacuum thermal treatment is then conducted to adjust the TCR behavior of films, thereby gaining the positive, negative and near-zero TCR ranging from -1.5% °C-1 to nearly 1.0% °C-1 at different annealing conditions, respectively. The changes of morphologies, tube crystallinity and chemical elements in films are investigated. The enhanced intertube couplings in bundles of CNTs, formations of chemical bonds and recrystallization in heat-treated films, resulting in the change of charge transport, play a dominant role in the evolution of the TCR behavior. Heat-treated films also exhibit linear temperature dependence and high stability while operating at wide ambient temperature, leading to broad prospects in flexible electronic thermal applications.Microdosimetry has been traditionally performed through gaseous proportional counters, although in recent years different solid-state microdosimeters have been proposed and constructed for this task. In this paper, we analyze the response of solid-state devices of micrometric size with no intrinsic gain developed by CNM-CSIC (Spain). There are two major aspects of the operation of these devices that affect the reconstruction of the probability distributions and momenta of stochastic quantities related to microdosimetry. For micrometric volumes, the drift and diffusion of the charge carriers gives rise to a partial charge collection efficiency in the peripheral region of the depleted volume. This effect produces a perturbation of the reconstructed pulse height (i.e. imparted energy) distributions with respect to the actual microdosimetric distributions. The relevance of this deviation depends on the size, geometry and operating conditions of the device. On the other hand, the electronic noise from the single-event readout set-up poses a limit on the minimum detectable lineal energy when the microdosimeter size is reduced. This article addresses these issues to provide a framework on the physical constraints for the design and operation of solid-state microdosimeters.Friction measurement via atomic force microscope (AFM) relies on accurate calibration for the torsional spring constant of the AFM cantilever and its lateral deflection sensitivity. Here we describe a method that employs a suspended nanowire (SNW) as a reference beam to quantify the torsional spring constant of AFM cantilevers. Based on the fact that a uniform SNW with cylindrical symmetry has an identical spring constant when bent in any direction perpendicular to its axis, the spring constant of the SNW in a normal direction is determined by an AFM cantilever with a known normal spring constant, and is subsequently used as a force transfer standard to calibrate the torsional spring constant of the AFM cantilever. The lateral deflection sensitivity can be accurately measured by pushing the AFM tip laterally on the groove edge. The calibration result is compared to the well-known diamagnetic lateral force calibrator method and shows an uncertainty of 15% or better. The presented method is applicable for the lateral force calibration of AFM cantilevers in a wide range of instruments including inverted configurations and in an ultrahigh vacuum.One of the nanowire (NW) characteristics is its preferred elongation direction. Here, we investigated the impact of Si substrate crystal orientation on the growth direction of GaAs NWs. We first studied the self-catalyzed GaAs NW growth on Si (111) and Si (001) substrates. SEM observations show GaAs NWs on Si (001) are grown along four directions depending on the Si substrate orientation. To verify the prevalence of the model, NWs were grown on Si (311) substrates. The results are in good agreement with the three-dimensional mapping of surface free energy by our model. This general model can also be applied to predictions of NW preferred growth directions by the vapor-liquid-solid growth mode on other group IV and III-V substrates.We fabricate AlGaN nanowires by molecular beam epitaxy and we investigate their field emission properties by means of an experimental setup using nano-manipulated tungsten tips as electrodes, inside a scanning electron microscope. The tip-shaped anode gives access to local properties, and allows collecting electrons emitted from areas as small as 1 µm2. The field emission characteristics are analysed in the framework of Fowler-Nordheim theory and we find a field enhancement factor as high as β = 556 and a minimum turn-on field [Formula see text] = 17 V µm-1 for a cathode-anode separation distance [Formula see text] = 500 nm. We show that for increasing separation distance, [Formula see text] increases up to about 35 V µm-1 and β decreases to ∼100 at [Formula see text] = 1600 nm. We also demonstrate the time stability of the field emission current from AlGaN nanowires for several minutes. Finally, we explain the observation of modified slope of the Fowler-Nordheim plots at low fields in terms of non-homogeneous field enhancement factors due to the presence of protruding emitters.
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