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 ...

Recently there has been great interest in using patterned ferroelectric materials for the photochemical growth of metal nanostructures. Variations in surface and sub-surface structure influence the photochemical processes. ...

Perovskite ferroelectric materials such as PZT have long been known to have wideband semiconducting properties. It has also been found that they have interesting spatially controllable surface photochemical effects that ...

This paper presents the work undertaken to determine the influences on the photo-induced growth of silver nanoclusters on the surfaces of lead zirconate titanate thin films. The lead zirconate titanate films were grown on ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) allows for remote management and monitoring of many aspects of everyday life at the individual and industrial levels. However, designing these systems within constraints of cost and operational ...