Just a general observation: when your project’s BOM includes ytterbium metal, chances are pretty good that it’s something interesting. We’d say that making your own OLED displays at home definitely ...

Extremely thin films of material are used to make everything from potato chip bags to solar cells, and vapor deposition processes are the common techniques used to make thin layers. Vapor deposition ...

Definition: Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) is a sophisticated coating technology widely used to deposit thin films of materials onto various substrates. This technique involves the physical ...

Novel techniques for the production and deposition of nanoparticles have some exciting medical applications, according to Alistair Kean and Lars Allers Plasma-enhanced sputtering and nanoparticle ...

Anna Demming discovers why the vacuum-based technique of atomic-layer deposition – a variant of chemical-vapour deposition – holds so much promise for energy and environmental applications Greener ...

Copper’s resistivity depends on its crystal structure, void volume, grain boundaries and material interface mismatch, which becomes more significant at smaller scales. The formation of copper (Cu) ...