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Item Open Access Artificial olfaction inside nanostructured infrared fiber arrays(IEEE, 2011) Yaman, Mecit; Yıldırım, Adem; Bayındır, MehmetNanostructured hollow core fibers are used to demonstrate a new infrared absorption based artificial nose. The sensor unit of the array is a hollow core Bragg fiber that selectively guides incident blackbody radiation and enhances absorption for enhanced sensitivity. © 2011 IEEE.Item Open Access Atomic layer deposition: an enabling technology for the growth of functional nanoscale semiconductors(Institute of Physics Publishing, 2017) Bıyıklı, Necmi; Haider A.In this paper, we present the progress in the growth of nanoscale semiconductors grown via atomic layer deposition (ALD). After the adoption by semiconductor chip industry, ALD became a widespread tool to grow functional films and conformal ultra-thin coatings for various applications. Based on self-limiting and ligand-exchange-based surface reactions, ALD enabled the low-temperature growth of nanoscale dielectric, metal, and semiconductor materials. Being able to deposit wafer-scale uniform semiconductor films at relatively low-temperatures, with sub-monolayer thickness control and ultimate conformality, makes ALD attractive for semiconductor device applications. Towards this end, precursors and low-temperature growth recipes are developed to deposit crystalline thin films for compound and elemental semiconductors. Conventional thermal ALD as well as plasma-assisted and radical-enhanced techniques have been exploited to achieve device-compatible film quality. Metal-oxides, III-nitrides, sulfides, and selenides are among the most popular semiconductor material families studied via ALD technology. Besides thin films, ALD can grow nanostructured semiconductors as well using either template-assisted growth methods or bottom-up controlled nucleation mechanisms. Among the demonstrated semiconductor nanostructures are nanoparticles, nano/quantum-dots, nanowires, nanotubes, nanofibers, nanopillars, hollow and core-shell versions of the afore-mentioned nanostructures, and 2D materials including transition metal dichalcogenides and graphene. ALD-grown nanoscale semiconductor materials find applications in a vast amount of applications including functional coatings, catalysis and photocatalysis, renewable energy conversion and storage, chemical sensing, opto-electronics, and flexible electronics. In this review, we give an overview of the current state-of-the-art in ALD-based nanoscale semiconductor research including the already demonstrated and future applications.Item Open Access A complementary electrochromic device with highly improved performance based on brick-like hydrated tungsten trioxide film(American Scientific Publishers, 2012) Jiao, Z.; Wang, J.; Ke, L.; Sun, X. W.; Demir, Hilmi VolkanUniform and well adhesive nanostructured hydrated tungsten trioxide (3WO 3•H 2O) films were grown on fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) substrate via a facile and template-free crystal-seed-assisted hydrothermal method by addition of ammonium sulfate ((NH 4) 2SO 4) and hydrogen peroxide (H 2O 2). X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies indicated that the films are of orthorhombic structure. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) analysis showed that the film was composed of brick-like nanostructures with a preferred growing direction along (002). The influence of seed layer, (NH 4) 2SO 4 and H 2O 2 on the products were also studied. The film showed good cyclic stability, comparable switching speed and coloration efficiency (30.1 cm 2 C -1). A complementary electrochromic device based on the film and Prussian blue depicted highly improved color contrast, coloration/bleaching response (1.8 and 3.7 s respectively) and coloration efficiency (164.6 cm 2 C -1).Item Open Access Conjugated polymer nanoparticles(2010) Tuncel, D.; Demir, Hilmi VolkanConjugated polymer nanoparticles are highly versatile nano-structured materials that can potentially find applications in various areas such as optoelectronics, photonics, bio-imaging, bio-sensing and nanomedicine. Their straightforward synthesis in desired sizes and properties, biocompatibility and non-toxicity make these materials highly attractive for the aforementioned applications. This feature article reviews the recent developments in the synthesis, characterization, properties and application of these exciting nanostructured materials.Item Open Access Fabrication of nanostructured medical-grade stainless steel by mechanical alloying and subsequent liquid-phase sintering(Springer, 2012-05-10) Salahinejad, E.; Hadianfard, M. J.; Ghaffari, Mohammad; Mashhadi, S. B.; Okyay, Ali KemalThis article focuses on the microstructure of medical-grade P558 (ASTM F2581) stainless steel produced by mechanical alloying and liquid-phase sintering. Rietveld X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy reflect that the mechanically alloyed stainless steel powder is a nanocrystal dispersed amorphous matrix composite.Mn-11.5 wt pct Si eutectic alloy as additive improves densification of the synthesized P558 alloy via liquid-phase sintering mechanism. X-ray mapping shows that after sintering at 1323 K (105°C) for 1 hour, a uniform distribution of dissolved Mn and Si is achieved. Moreover, the development of a nanostructured, fully austenitic stainless steel after sintering at the same temperature is realized by X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy.Item Open Access Strong nonradiative energy transfer from the nanopillars of quantum wells to quantum dots: Efficient excitonic color conversion for light emitting diodes(Optical Society of America, 2012) Güzeltürk, Burak; Nizamoglu, Sedat; Jeon, D. -W.; Lee, I. -H.; Demir, Hilmi VolkanEfficient nonradiative energy transfer is observed from nanopillars of InGaN/GaN quantum wells to colloidal CdSe/ZnS quantum dots up to 83% efficiency. Nanostructured architecture is shown to promote excitonic color conversion for LED applications. © OSA 2012.