Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) is a vital technique in modern engi- neering, enabling the monitoring of the structural health of a com- ponent and therefore enabling the prediction of component failure. Once the structural ...

This thesis concerns the processing of thick lead zirconate titanate (PZT) films integrated with rigid substrates. The aim was to better understand the evolution of the microstructure, stress, and electrical properties of ...

This paper reports the use of a printing technique, called electrohydrodynamic jet printing, for producing PZT thick film micro-scale structures without additional material removing processes. The PZT powder was ball-milled ...

Improvements to the efficiency of Solar Power Plants are a key objective as the technology matures. Oneopportunity yet to be explored involves energy harvesting from hot components located within the powerplant, utilizing ...

Purpose Nanosized zero valent iron (nZVI) is an effective land remediation tool, but there remains little information regarding its impact upon and interactions with the soil microbial community. Methods nZVI stabilised ...

Efficiency of particulate semiconductors for driving photocatalytic reactions is impractically low due to the recombination of excited carriers and intermediate species at the interface. In the literature it has been ...

The power generation efficiency of piezoelectric energy harvesters is dependent on the coupling of their resonant frequency with that of the source vibration. The mechanical design of the energy harvester plays an important ...

Conventional thermoelectric materials found in many thermoelectric devices have unfavourable properties; they often suffer instability at high temperatures and contain toxic metals which pose a hazard to the environment. ...

Pyroelectric infra-red detector arrays provide an attractive solution to the problem of collecting spatial information in the far IR. They are only sensitive to changes in the IR flux and are well suited to sensing ...