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Nanocrystalline — A nanocrystalline material is a polycrystalline material with a crystallite size of only a few nanometers. These materials fill the gap between amorphous materials without any longe range order and crystalline materials with a clear three… … Wikipedia
Nanocrystalline silicon — Main article: Silicon thin film cell Silicon nanopowder Nanocrystalline silicon (nc Si), sometimes also known as microcrystalline silicon (μc Si), is a form of porous silicon.[1] It is an allotropic form of silicon wi … Wikipedia
Nanogeoscience — is the study of nanoscale phenomena related to geological systems. Predominantly, this is interrogated by studying environmental nanoparticles between 1 100 nanometers in size. Other applicable fields of study include studying materials with at… … Wikipedia
Grain boundary strengthening — (or Hall Petch strengthening) is a method of strengthening materials by changing their average crystallite (grain) size. It is based on the observation that grain boundaries impede dislocation movement and that the number of dislocations within a … Wikipedia
Dieter Gruen — Dieter M. Gruen, an internationally respected innovator[peacock term], is a senior scientist in the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He received B.S. (1944, cum laude) and M.S. (1947) degrees in chemistry from… … Wikipedia
Solar cell — A solar cell made from a monocrystalline silicon wafer … Wikipedia
ESAVD — (Electrostatic Spray Assisted Vapour Deposition) is a technique (developed by a company called IMPT) to deposit both thin and thick layers of a coating onto various substrates. In simple terms chemical precursors are sprayed across an… … Wikipedia
Synthetic diamond — Synthetic diamonds of various colors grown by the high pressure high temperature technique Synthetic diamond is diamond produced in a technological process; as opposed to natural diamond, which is created in geological processes. Synthetic… … Wikipedia
Cerium(IV) oxide — Cerium(IV) oxide … Wikipedia
Dye-sensitized solar cell — A selection of dye sensitized solar cells A dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC, DSC or DYSC[1]) is a low cost solar cell belonging to the group of thin film solar cells.[2] … Wikipedia
