The research in permanent magnet thin films focuses on the search of new materials and methods to increase the prevalent data storage limit. In the recent past the work towards the application of these films to micro systems ...

The basic necessities to sustain life are – air, water and food. Although the harmful effects due to contaminated food or water are dangerous to life, these can be reduced/avoided by controlling the intake. Whereas, in ...

Shape memory alloys (SMAs) have been recognized as one of the most promising materials for MEMS micro-actuator applications. Among the available materials, Nickel/Titanium (NiTi) SMAs are more popular because, they exhibit ...

Recently the increasing demand for miniaturized electronic gadgets has raised the interest in searching the high dielectric constant (K) materials for memory elements. Among the investigated high dielectric constant metal ...

The scaling down of Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) transistors to sub-100nm requires replacement of conventional Silicon dioxide layer with high dielectric constant (K) material for gate dielectric. Among ...

A sensor is a technological device or biological organ that detects, or senses, a signal or physical condition and chemical compounds. Technological developments in the recent decades have brought along with it several ...

Recently, there has been a growing interest in semiconductor and semiconducting oxide nanowires for applications in electronics, energy conversion, energy storage and optoelectronic devices such as field effect transistors, ...

Current gas sensor technology, although meeting the minimum requirements in many instances, suffers for a number of limitations. Hence, there is currently a considerable volume of research being undertaken at many ...