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HUNTING -- Elk hunting permits will be increased in the Colockum and Yakima areas along with antlerless deer permits in northeastern Washington under 2014-15 hunting regulations adopted by the state Fish and Wildlife Commission Friday and Saturday in Olympia.
The continued growth of many state deer and elk populations will support increases in the number of hunting permits issued this year, Dave Ware, Fish and Wildlife Department game manager, said at the public meeting.
"After a five-year stretch of mild winters, surveys show that most big game populations are stable or growing," Ware said. "That bodes well for hunting opportunities this year."
The commission approved additional permits in three key areas:
- Colockum elk herd: With the herd continuing to exceed population objectives, WDFW will increase the number special permits, primarily for antlerless elk, to 1,016 from 374.
- Yakima elk herd: The commission approved 130 additional permits for antlered elk and 1,440 for antlerless elk in response to the herd's continuing growth in central Washington.
- Northeast white-tailed deer: Buck harvest levels have increased as the herd starts to rebound from harsh winters of 2007-08. WDFW will make 120 additional antlerless special permits available this year to youth, senior, and disabled hunters.
The only significant reduction made in special permits this year is in the Mount St. Helens area, where the elk herd has reached WDFW's management objective after six years of elevated permit levels.
That strategy, designed to bring the herd into balance with available habitat, has reduced the herd by 25 to 30 percent. At WDFW's request, the commission approved a reduction of 400 permits this year.
Fee reductions for some special permits and tags, which were raised in 2009, were approved by the commission. Ware said WDFW proposed those reductions to encourage participation in certain hunts and address concerns raised about the cost of certain permits.
Under the new fee schedule adopted by the commission, the cost of a second-deer tag will be reduced to $43.40 from $68, while the price of a multi-season deer tag drops to $139.10 from $182.
The cost will also be reduced for second-deer "damage tags" used by hunters working with property owners with damage-prevention or kill permits.
Disabled hunters will benefit from a streamlined process for issuing hunters with disabilities special-use permits. The commission also approved rules that will enable the hunters to use modified hunting equipment such as crossbows equipped with a scope.
In other business, the commission approved WDFW's proposal to acquire 640 acres near Wenatchee to provide a migratory corridor for deer, elk and other wildlife. Working in partnership with Chelan County and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, WDFW secured the property with funding provided by the Washington Recreation and Conservation Office and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Other transactions approved by the commission will allow WDFW to:
- Accept the transfer from the Washington State Department of Transportation of a one-acre inholding to WDFW's Oak Creek Wildlife Area near Yakima.
- Exchange three-quarters of an acre with the City of Sumner, which will allow WDFW to construct a parking lot near a water-access site on the Puyallup River.
- Acquire a pipeline easement to improve the water supply at the Aberdeen Hatchery in Grays Harbor County.
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Solid Lubrication Mechanisms in Laser Deposited Nickel-titanium-carbon Metal Matrix Composites
Date: December 2012
Creator: Mogonye, Jon-Erik
Description: A Ni/TiC/C metal matrix composite (MMC) has been processed using the laser engineered net shaping (LENS) process from commercially available powders with a Ni-3Ti-20C (atomic %) composition. This processing route produces the in-situ formation of homogeneously distributed eutectic and primary titanium carbide and graphite precipitates throughout the Ni matrix. The composite exhibits promising tribological properties when tested in dry sliding conditions with a low steady state coefficient of friction (CoF) of ~0.1 and lower wear rates in comparison to LENS deposited pure Ni. The as deposited and tribologically worn composite has been characterized using Auger electron spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction, high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) with energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), dual beam focused ion beam SEM (FIB/SEM) serial sectioning and Vickers micro-hardness testing. The evolution of subsurface stress states and precipitate motion during repeated sliding contact has been investigated using finite element analysis (FEA). The results of FIB/SEM serial sectioning, HRTEM, and Auger electron spectroscopy in conjunction with FEA simulations reveal that the improved tribological behavior is due to the in-situ formation of a low interfacial shear strength amorphous carbon tribofilm that is extruded to the surface via refined Ni grain boundaries.
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Surface Engineering and Characterization of Laser Deposited Metallic Biomaterials
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Amorphization and De-vitrification in Immiscible Copper-Niobium Alloy Thin Films
Date: May 2007
Creator: Puthucode Balakrishnan, Anantharamakrishnan
Description: While amorphous phases have been reported in immiscible alloy systems, there is still some controversy regarding the reason for the stabilization of these unusual amorphous phases. Direct evidence of nanoscale phase separation within the amorphous phase forming in immiscible Cu-Nb alloy thin films using 3D atom probe tomography has been presented. This evidence clearly indicates that the nanoscale phase separation is responsible for the stabilization of the amorphous phase in such immiscible systems since it substantially reduces the free energy of the undercooled liquid (or amorphous) phase, below that of the competing supersaturated crystalline phases. The devitrification of the immiscible Cu-Nb thin film of composition Cu-45% Nb has been studied in detail with the discussion on the mechanism of phase transformation. The initial phase separation in the amorphous condition seems to play a vital role in the crystallization of the thin film. Detailed analysis has been done using X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy and 3D atom probe tomography.
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Processing, Structure, and Tribological Property Interrelationships in Sputtered Nanocrystalline ZnO Coatings
Date: August 2009
Creator: Tu, Wei-Lun
Description: Solid lubricant coatings with controlled microstructures are good candidates in providing lubricity in moving mechanical assembly applications, such as orthopedics and bearing steels. Nanocrystalline ZnO coatings with a layered wurtzite crystal structure have the potential to function as a lubricious material by its defective structure which is controlled by sputter deposition. The interrelationships between sputtered ZnO, its nanocrystalline structure and its lubricity will be discussed in this thesis. The nanocrystalline ZnO coatings were deposited on silicon substrates and Ti alloys by RF magnetron sputtering with different substrate adhesion layers, direct current biases, and temperatures. X-ray diffraction identified that the ZnO (0002) preferred orientation was necessary to achieve low sliding friction and wear along with substrate biasing. In addition, other analyses such as scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and selected area electron diffraction (SAED) were utilized to study the solid lubrication mechanisms responsible for low friction and wear.
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Mist Characterization in Drilling 1018 Steel
Date: August 2012
Creator: Cole, Ian
Description: Minimum quantity lubrication replaces the traditional method of flood cooling with small amounts of high-efficient lubrication. Limited studies have been performed to determine the characteristics of mist produced during MQL. This study investigated the mist concentration levels produced while drilling 1018 steel using a vegetable based lubricant. ANOVA was performed to determine whether speed and feed rates or their interactions have a significant effect on mist concentration levels and particle diameter. It was observed that the concentration levels obtained under all four speed and feed rate combinations studied exceeded the current OSHA and NIOSH standards.
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Microstructure Evolution in Laser Deposited Nickel-Titanium-Carbon in situ Metal Matrix Composite
Date: December 2010
Creator: Gopagoni, Sundeep
Description: Ni/TiC metal matrix composites have been processed using the laser engineered net shaping (LENS) process. As nickel does not form an equilibrium carbide phase, addition of a strong carbide former in the form of titanium reinforces the nickel matrix resulting in a promising hybrid material for both surface engineering as well as high temperature structural applications. Changing the relative amounts of titanium and carbon in the nickel matrix, relatively low volume fraction of refined homogeneously distributed carbide precipitates, formation of in-situ carbide precipitates and the microstructural changes are investigated. The composites have been characterized in detail using x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy (including energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS) mapping and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD)), Auger electron spectroscopy, and transmission (including high resolution) electron microscopy. Both primary and eutectic titanium carbides, observed in this composite, exhibited the fcc-TiC structure (NaCl-type). Details of the orientation relationship between Ni and TiC have been studied using SEM-EBSD and high resolution TEM. The results of micro-hardness and tribology tests indicate that these composites have a relatively high hardness and a steady-state friction coefficient of ~0.5, both of which are improvements in comparison to LENS deposited pure Ni.
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Tribological Behavior of Spark Plasma Sintered Tic/graphite/nickel Composites and Cobalt Alloys
Date: December 2013
Creator: Kinkenon, Douglas
Description: Monolithic composites are needed that combine low friction and wear, high mechanical hardness, and high fracture toughness. Thin films and coatings are often unable to meet this engineering challenge as they can delaminate and fracture during operation ceasing to provide beneficial properties during service life. Two material systems were synthesized by spark plasma sintering (SPS) and were studied for their ability to meet these criteria. A dual hybrid composite was fabricated and consisted of a nickel matrix for fracture toughness, TiC for hardness and graphite for solid/self‐lubrication. An in‐situ reaction during processing resulted in the formation of TiC from elemental Ti and C powders. The composition was varied to determine its effects on tribological behavior. Stellite 21, a cobalt‐chrome‐molybdenum alloy, was also produced by SPS. Stellite 21 has low stacking fault energy and a hexagonal phase which forms during sliding that both contribute to low interfacial shear and friction. Samples were investigated by x‐ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive x‐ray spectroscopy (EDS), and electron back‐scattered diffraction (EBSD). Tribological properties were characterized by pin on disc tribometry and wear rates were determined by profilometry and abrasion testing. Solid/self‐lubrication in the TiC/C/Ni system was investigated by Raman and Auger ...
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Surface Modifications to Enhance the Wear Resistance and the Osseo-integration Properties of Biomedical Ti-alloy
Date: August 2013
Creator: Kami, Pavani
Description: The current study focuses on improving the wear resistance of femoral head component and enhancing the osseo-integration properties of femoral stem component of a hip implant made of a new generation low modulus alloy, Ti-35Nb-7Zr-5Ta or TNZT. Different techniques that were adopted to improve the wear resistance of low-modulus TNZT alloy included; (a) fabrication of graded TNZT-xB (x= 0, 1, 2 wt%) samples using LENS, (b) oxidation, and (c) LASER nitriding of TNZT. TNZT-1B and TNZT-O samples have shown improved wear resistance when tested against UHMWPE ball in SBF medium. A new class of bio-ceramic coatings based on calcium phosphate (CaP), was applied on the TNZT sample surface and was further laser processed with the objective of enhancing their osseo-integration properties. With optimized LASER parameters, TNZT-CaP samples have shown improved corrosion resistance, surface wettability and cellular response when compared to the base TNZT sample.
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Characterization of Ti-6al-4v Produced Via Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing
Date: December 2015
Creator: Hayes, Brian J.
Description: In recent years, additive manufacturing (AM) has become an increasingly promising method used for the production of structural metallic components. There are a number of reasons why AM methods are attractive, including the ability to produce complex geometries into a near-net shape and the rapid transition from design to production. Ti-6Al-4V is a titanium alloy frequently used in the aerospace industry which is receiving considerable attention as a good candidate for processing via electron beam additive manufacturing (EBAM). The Sciaky EBAM method combines a high-powered electron beam, weld-wire feedstock, and a large build chamber, enabling the production of large structural components. In order to gain wide acceptance of EBAM of Ti-6Al-4V as a viable manufacturing method, it is important to understand broadly the microstructural features that are present in large-scale depositions, including specifically: the morphology, distribution and texture of the phases present. To achieve such an understanding, stereological methods were used to populate a database quantifying key microstructural features in Ti-6Al-4V including volume fraction of phases, a lath width, colony scale factor, and volume fraction of basket weave type microstructure. Microstructural features unique to AM, such as elongated grains and banded structures, were also characterized. Hardness and tensile testing were ...
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Microstructural Phase Evolution In Laser Deposited Compositionally Graded Titanium-Chromium Alloys
Date: May 2016
Creator: Thomas, Jonova
Description: A compositionally graded Ti-xCr (10≤x≤30 wt%) alloy has been fabricated using Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENSTM) to study the microstructural phase evolution along a compositional gradient in both as-deposited and heat treated conditions (1000°C followed by furnace cooling or air cooling). The alloys were characterized by SEM BSE imaging, XRD, EBSD, TEM and micro-hardness measurements to determine processing-structure-property relations. For the as-deposited alloy, α-Ti, β-Ti, and TiCr2 (C15 Laves) phases exist in varying phase fractions, which were influential in determining hardness values. With the furnace cooled alloy, there was more homogeneous nucleation of α phase throughout the sample with a larger phase fraction of TiCr2 resulting in increased hardness values. When compared to the air cooled alloy, there was absence of wide scale nucleation of α phase and formation of ω phase within the β phase due to the quicker cooling from elevated temperature. At lower concentrations of Cr, the kinetics resulted in a diffusionless phase transformation of ω phase with increased hardness and a lower phase fraction of TiCr2. In contrast at higher Cr concentrations, α phase separation reaction occurs where the β phase is spinodally decomposed to Cr solute-lean β1 and solute-rich β2 resulting in reduced hardness.
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Study of Novel Ion/surface Interactions Using Soft-landing Ion Mobility
Date: December 2012
Creator: Hoffmann, William Darryle
Description: Preparative mass spectrometry is a gas-phase ion deposition technique aimed at deposition of monodisperse ion beams on a surface. This is accomplished through the implementation of a soft-landing ion mobility system which allows for high ion flux of conformationally selected ion packets. The soft-landing ion mobility system has been applied to a number of unique chemical problems including the deposition of insulators on graphene, the preparation of reusable surface enhanced Raman spectroscopic substrates, and the deposition of uranium nanoparticles. Soft-landing ion mobility provided a platform for the quick deposition of usable amounts of materials, which is the major objective of preparative mass spectrometry. Soft-landing ion mobility is unique when compared to other preparative mass spectrometric techniques in that the ion packets are conformationally separated, not separated on mass to charge ratio. This provides orthogonal complementary data to traditional mass spectrometric techniques and allows for the study of conformationally monodisperse surfaces. The diversity of problems that have been and continued to be explored with soft-landing ion mobility highlight the utility of the technique as a novel tool for the study of multiple ion/surface interactions.
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Effects of Plasma, Temperature and Chemical Reactions on Porous Low Dielectric Films for Semiconductor Devices
Date: December 2010
Creator: Osei-Yiadom, Eric
Description: Low-dielectric (k) films are one of the performance drivers for continued scaling of integrated circuit devices. These films are needed in microelectronic device interconnects to lower power consumption and minimize cross talk between metal lines that "interconnect" transistors. Low-k materials currently in production for the 45 and 65 nm node are most often organosilicate glasses (OSG) with dielectric constants near 2.8 and nominal porosities of 8-10%. The next generation of low-k materials will require k values 2.6 and below for the 45 nm device generation and beyond. The continuous decrease in device dimensions in ultra large scale integrated (ULSI) circuits have brought about the replacement of the silicon dioxide interconnect dielectric (ILD), which has a dielectric constant (k) of approximately 4.1, with low dielectric constant materials. Lowering the dielectric constant reduces the propagation delays, RC constant (R = the resistance of the metal lines; C = the line capacitance), and metal cross-talk between wires. In order to reduce the RC constants, a number of low-k materials have been studied for use as intermetal dielectrics. The k values of these dielectric materials can be lowered by replacing oxide films with carbon-based polymer films, incorporating hydrocarbon functional groups into oxide films (SiOCH ...
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Materials properties of ruthenium and ruthenium oxides thin films for advanced electronic applications.
Date: May 2006
Creator: Lim, ChangDuk
Description: Ruthenium and ruthenium dioxide thin films have shown great promise in various applications, such as thick film resistors, buffer layers for yttrium barium copper oxide (YBCO) superconducting thin films, and as electrodes in ferroelectric memories. Other potential applications in Si based complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices are currently being studied. The search for alternative metal-based gate electrodes as a replacement of poly-Si gates has intensified during the last few years. Metal gates are required to maintain scaling and performance of future CMOS devices. Ru based materials have many desirable properties and are good gate electrode candidates for future metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) device applications. Moreover, Ru and RuO2 are promising candidates as diffusion barriers for copper interconnects. In this thesis, the thermal stability and interfacial diffusion and reaction of both Ru and RuO2 thin films on HfO2 gate dielectrics were investigated using Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). An overview of Ru and RuO2/HfO2 interface integrity issues will be presented. In addition, the effects of C ion modification of RuO2 thin films on the physico-chemical and electrical properties are evaluated.
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Structure and Low-temperature Tribology of Lubricious Nanocrystalline ZnO/Al2O3 Nanolaminates and ZrO2 Monofilms Grown by Atomic Layer Deposition
Date: December 2008
Creator: Romanes, Maia Castillo
Description: Currently available solid lubricants only perform well under a limited range of environmental conditions. Unlike them, oxides are thermodynamically stable and relatively inert over a broad range of temperatures and environments. However, conventional oxides are brittle at normal temperatures; exhibiting significant plasticity only at high temperatures (>0.5Tmelting). This prevents oxides' use in tribological applications at low temperatures. If oxides can be made lubricious at low temperatures, they would be excellent solid lubricants for a wide range of conditions. Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a growth technique capable of depositing highly uniform and conformal films in challenging applications that have buried surfaces and high-aspect-ratio features such as microelectromechanical (MEMS) devices where the need for robust solid lubricants is sometimes necessary. This dissertation investigates the surface and subsurface characteristics of ALD-grown ZnO/Al2O3 nanolaminates and ZrO2 monofilms before and after sliding at room temperature. Significant enhancement in friction and wear performance was observed for some films. HRSEM/FIB, HRTEM and ancillary techniques (i.e. SAED, EELS) were used to determine the mechanisms responsible for this enhancement. Contributory characteristics and energy dissipation modes were identified that promote low-temperature lubricity in both material systems.
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Miniature Mass Spectrometry: Theory, Development and Applications
Date: December 2013
Creator: Fox, James D.
Description: As mass analyzer technology has continued to improve over the last fifty years, the prospect of field-portable mass spectrometers has garnered interest from many research groups and organizations. Designing a field portable instrument entails more than the scaling down of current commercial systems. Additional considerations such as power consumption, vacuum requirements and ruggedization also play key roles. In this research, two avenues were pursued in the initial development of a portable system. First, micrometer-scale mass analyzers and other electrostatic components were fabricated using silicon on insulator-deep reactive ion etching, and tested. Second, the dimensions of an ion trap were scaled to the millimeter level and fabricated from common metals and commercially available vacuum plastics. This instrument was tested for use in ion isolation and collision induced dissociation for secondary mass spectrometry and confirmatory analyses of unknowns. In addition to portable instrumentation, miniature mass spectrometers show potential for usage in process and reaction monitoring. To this end, a commercial residual gas analyzer was used to monitor plasma deposition and cleaning inside of a chamber designed for laser ablation and soft landing-ion mobility to generate metal-main group clusters. This chamber was also equipped for multiple types of spectral analysis in order to ...
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Characterization and Mechanical Properties of Nanoscale Precipitates in Modified Al-Si-Cu Alloys Using Transmission Electron Microscopy and 3D Atom Probe Tomography.
Date: May 2007
Creator: Hwang, Junyeon
Description: Among the commercial aluminum alloys, aluminum 319 (Al-7wt%Si-4wt%Cu) type alloys are popularly used in automobile engine parts. These alloys have good casting characteristics and excellent mechanical properties resulting from a suitable heat treatment. To get a high strength in the 319 type alloys, grain refining, reducing the porosity, solid solution hardening, and precipitation hardening are preferred. All experimental variables such as solidification condition, composition, and heat treatment are influence on the precipitation behavior; however, precipitation hardening is the most significant because excess alloying elements from supersaturated solid solution form fine particles which act as obstacles to dislocation movement. The challenges of the 319 type alloys arise due to small size of precipitate and complex aging response caused by multi components. It is important to determine the chemical composition, crystal structure, and orientation relationship as well as precipitate morphology in order to understand the precipitation behavior and strengthening mechanism. In this study, the mechanical properties and microstructure were investigated using transmission electron microscopy and three dimensional atom probe tomography. The Mn and Mg effects on the microstructure and mechanical properties are discussed with crystallographic study on the iron intermetallic phases. The microstructural evolution and nucleation study on the precipitates in the ...
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Precession Electron Diffraction Assisted Characterization of Deformation in Α and Α+β Titanium Alloys
Date: August 2015
Creator: Liu, Yue
Description: Ultra-fine grained materials with sub-micrometer grain size exhibit superior mechanical properties when compared with conventional fine-grained material as well as coarse-grained materials. Severe plastic deformation (SPD) techniques have been shown to be an effective way to modify the microstructure in order to improve the mechanical properties of the material. Crystalline materials require dislocations to accommodate plastic strain gradients and maintain lattice continuity. The lattice curvature exists due to the net dislocation that left behind in material during deformation. The characterization of such defects is important to understand deformation accumulation and the resulting mechanical properties of such materials. However, traditional techniques are limited. For example, the spatial resolution of EBSD is insufficient to study materials processed via SPD, while high dislocation densities make interpretations difficult using conventional diffraction contrast techniques in the TEM. A new technique, precession electron diffraction (PED) has gained recognition in the TEM community to solve the local crystallography, including both phase and orientation, of nanocrystalline structures under quasi-kinematical conditions. With the assistant of precession electron diffraction coupled ASTARÔ, the structure evolution of equal channel angular pressing processed commercial pure titanium is studied; this technique is also extended to two-phase titanium alloy (Ti-5553) to investigate the existence of ...
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First Principles Study of Metastable Beta Titanium Alloys
Date: August 2015
Creator: Gupta, Niraj
Description: The high temperature BCC phase (b) of titanium undergoes a martensitic transformation to HCP phase (a) upon cooling, but can be stabilized at room temperature by alloying with BCC transition metals such as Mo. There exists a metastable composition range within which the alloyed b phase separates into a + b upon equilibrium cooling but not when rapidly quenched. Compositional partitioning of the stabilizing element in as-quenched b microstructure creates nanoscale precipitates of a new simple hexagonal w phase, which considerably reduces ductility. These phase transformation reactions have been extensively studied experimentally, yet several significant questions remain: (i) The mechanism by which the alloying element stabilizes the b phase, thwarts its transformation to w, and how these processes vary as a function of the concentration of the stabilizing element is unclear. (ii) What is the atomistic mechanism responsible for the non-Arrhenius, anomalous diffusion widely observed in experiments, and how does it extend to low temperatures? How does the concentration of the stabilizing elements alter this behavior? There are many other w forming alloys that such exhibit anomalous diffusion behavior. (iii) A lack of clarity remains on whether w can transform to a -phase in the crystal bulk or if it ...
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Thin Films As a Platform for Understanding the Conversion Mechanism of Fef2 Cathodes in Lithium-ion Microbatteries
Date: August 2015
Creator: Santos-Ortiz, Reinaldo
Description: Conversion material electrodes such as FeF2 possess the potential to deliver transformative improvements in lithium ion battery performance because they permit a reversible change of more than one Li-ion per 3d metal cation. They outperform current state of the art intercalation cathodes such as LiCoO2, which have volumetric and gravimetric energy densities that are intrinsically limited by single electron transfer. Current studies focus on composite electrodes that are formed by mixing with carbon (FeF2-C), wherein the carbon is expected to act as a binder to support the matrix and facilitate electronic conduction. These binders complicate the understanding of the electrode-electrolyte interface (SEI) passivation layer growth, of Li agglomeration, of ion and electron transport, and of the basic phase transformation processes under electrochemical cycling. This research uses thin-films as a model platform for obtaining basic understanding to the structural and chemical foundations of the phase conversion processes. Thin film cathodes are free of the binders used in nanocomposite structures and may potentially provide direct basic insight to the evolution of the SEI passivation layer, electron and ion transport, and the electrochemical behavior of true complex phases. The present work consisted of three main tasks (1) Development of optimized processes to deposit ...
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Effect of Friction-stir Processing on the Wear Behavior of Titanium (Ti-1al-8v-5fe) and Stainless Steel (A-286) Alloys
Date: May 2015
Creator: Tinubu, Olusegun Olukunle
Description: The effect of friction stir processing (FSP) on the mechanical wear behavior was investigated for Ti-1Al-8V-5Fe (Ti-185) and stainless steel (Incoloy® A-286) alloys. The Ti-185 and A-286 alloys were tested in different processing conditions, including as rolled (AR), AR+FSP, and AR+FSP+aged. A high frequency reciprocating rig was used to simulate fretting-type wear of these alloys at room temperature. The Vickers micro-hardness and wear rates were calculated and compared for each processing condition. It was determined that along with increasing hardness in the stir zones, FSP resulted in improved wear resistance for both alloys. Specifically, wear rates in the stir zones were reduced to lowest values of 1.6 x 10-5 and 5.8 x 10-7 mm3/N·m for the AR+FSP+aged Ti-185 and A-286 alloys, respectively, despite lower hardness for A-286 alloy. Mechanistic studies were conducted to determine the reason behind these improvements in wear resistance and the effect of FSP on the microstructural evolution during wear. For the Ti-185 alloy, x-ray diffraction revealed that there was a phase transformation from β-Ti (AR+FSP) to α-Ti (AR+FSP+aged). This phase decomposition resulted in the harder and stiffer Ti phase responsible for lowering of wear rate in Ti-185. While x-ray diffraction confirmed the A-286 alloy retains its ...
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The Role of Crystallographic Texture in Achieving Low Friction Zinc Oxide Nanolaminate Films
Date: December 2015
Creator: Mojekwu, Nneoma
Description: Metal oxide nanolaminate films are potential high temperature solid lubricants due to their ability to exhibit significant plasticity when grain size is reduced to the nanometer scale, and defective growth structure is achieved by condensation of oxygen vacancies to form intrinsic stacking faults. This is in contrast to conventional microcrystalline and single crystal oxides that exhibit brittle fracture during loading in a sliding contact. This study emphasizes the additional effect of growth orientation, in particular crystallographic texture, on determining the sliding friction behavior in nanocolumnar grain zinc oxide films grown by atomic layer deposition. It was determined that zinc oxide low (0002) versus higher (101 ̅3) surface energy crystallographic planes influenced the sliding friction coefficient. Texturing of the (0002) grains resulted in a decreased adhesive component of friction thereby lowering the sliding friction coefficient to ~0.25, while the friction coefficient doubled to ~0.5 with increasing contribution of surface (101 ̅3) grains. In addition, the variation of the x-ray grazing incident angle from 0.5° to 5° was studied to better understand the surface grain orientation as a function of ZnO layer thickness in one versus four bilayer nanolaminates where the under layer (seed layer) was load-bearing Zn(Ti,Zr)O3.
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Growth, Structure and Tribological Properties of Atomic Layer Deposited Lubricious Oxide Nanolaminates
Date: December 2010
Creator: Mensah, Benedict Anyamesem
Description: Friction and wear mitigation is typically accomplished by introducing a shear accommodating layer (e.g., a thin film of liquid) between surfaces in sliding and/or rolling contacts. When the operating conditions are beyond the liquid realm, attention turns to solid coatings. Solid lubricants have been widely used in governmental and industrial applications for mitigation of wear and friction (tribological properties). Conventional examples of solid lubricants are MoS2, WS2, h-BN, and graphite; however, these and some others mostly perform best only for a limited range of operating conditions, e.g. ambient air versus dry nitrogen and room temperature versus high temperatures. Conversely, lubricious oxides have been studied lately as good potential candidates for solid lubricants because they are thermodynamically stable and environmentally robust. Oxide surfaces are generally inert and typically do not form strong adhesive bonds like metals/alloys in tribological contacts. Typical of these oxides is ZnO. The interest in ZnO is due to its potential for utility in a variety of applications. To this end, nanolaminates of ZnO, Al2O3, ZrO2 thin films have been deposited at varying sequences and thicknesses on silicon substrates and high temperature (M50) bearing steels by atomic layer deposition (ALD). The top lubricious, nanocrystalline ZnO layer was structurally-engineered ...
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Advanced Technology for Source Drain Resistance Reduction in Nanoscale FinFETs
Date: May 2008
Creator: Smith, Casey Eben
Description: Dual gate MOSFET structures such as FinFETs are widely regarded as the most promising option for continued scaling of silicon based transistors after 2010. This work examines key process modules that enable reduction of both device area and fin width beyond requirements for the 16nm node. Because aggressively scaled FinFET structures suffer significantly degraded device performance due to large source/drain series resistance (RS/D), several methods to mitigate RS/D such as maximizing contact area, silicide engineering, and epitaxially raised S/D have been evaluated.
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The origins of Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Free Bird' are pretty brief. In this 1970 demo (source), you can hear a short version, with the opening question but no piano intro and extended jam at the end. Though they recorded a long version for their debut album, they also cut a short version for the single. But people want "guitar sagas", such as "Whipping Post," by the Allman Brothers Band,and "Smoke on the Water," by Deep Purple, or maybe it was a silly thing to heckle Florence Henderson and other uncool cats. Decades later, people are still yelling "Freebird!" Sometimes people snap back, like Bill Hicks (NSFW), and sometimes people oblige, like Bob Dylan recently. In case that's not enough, there's (always) more! [more inside]
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Ten points to Gryffindor!
Simon Pegg as drunk Ron Weasley wishing Harry Potter a happy 35th Birthday. Weasley previously got smashed to celebrate the occasion back in 2013.
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Lip Flip with Jiimmy Fallon & Tina Fey: After Tina expresses interest in interviewing herself, she and Jimmy swap mouths for an in-depth chat that ends with a duet of Endless Love. [SLYT]
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The 1960s experimental collaborations of Raymond Scott and Jim Henson
"Gentlemen: I have a story that may be of interest to you. It is not widely known who invented the circuitry concept for the automatic sequential performance of musical pitches - now well known as a sequencer. I, however, do know who the inventor was - for it was I who first conceived and built the sequencer." This is the opening to an undated, unaddressed letter, found in Raymond Scott's personal papers (yes, the same fellow whose kooky soundtracks scored everything from Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies to Ren & Stimpy, The Simpson, and Animaniacs). You can read the rest of Scott's letter, along with Bob Moog's recollections of visiting Raymond's electronics laboratory in the mid-1950s. Or you could jump ahead to the mid-1960s, when Jim Henson was in his late 20s to early 30s, and he was working on a variety of odd projects after a successful run with Sam and Friends, but before he it it big with Sesame Street. It was at this point that he teamed up with Scott on a few short, experimental films. [more inside]
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I read an article posted on Guardian Media recently that claimed 20% of students viewed university social media as untrustworthy or irrelevant meaning students don't look for information there, but used better, these channels could count. Universities should be looking at social media content as part of a wider immersive and rounded experience for prospective students, and should also think about how much of the information they are pushing out is relevant to new or potential students.
Facebook – Whilst a few Facebook posts are unlikely to be the sole reason for choosing a particular university, a positive, responsive and relevant social media presence does have the potential to convert prospective students into enrolled students. Alumni affairs offices have made efforts to reconnect graduates to one another, find jobs, and fundraise through popular social networking sites like Facebook. Some colleges and universities have utilized podcasts, video blogs, and webcasts to share the work of students, faculty, visiting scholars, and alumni with the broader world
Twitter This has provided an opportunity for institutions to create live, up-to-the-minute notices of commencement programs, homecoming events, class reunions, and live chat sessions as well as campus emergency alerts. Tweeting has also found its place prominently in online courses as a discussion medium for faculty and students. Many institutions have encouraged student athletes, coaches and athletic offices to utilize Twitter as a platform to engage with fans. It is important to talk about things the student community need to know, information that relates to them. Don't try to engage with too many stakeholder groups all at once because you will not. Tailor your output to meet your audience's needs.
Pinterest – Now the third-largest social network behind only Facebook and Twitter. In the higher education marketing industry, Pinterest presents an interesting opportunity, which can help reach a completely different segment of your prospect population. First figure out the core of your brand. Then share that brand ideology, and that's where Pinterest can be very powerful. Creating 'on-campus' boards. Tell "people" stories about faculty members, a board for I TEACH or ALUMNI Board. Attract prospects with high quality images. Use all types of visual content and represent thoughts or views that are inherent to your university brand.
Blogs – College and university faculty have also used blogs as a pedagogical strategy. Recent studies have investigated the use of blogs in academic disciplines. WordPress is a very popular tool for this it produces SEO friendly and shareable content which is extremely important.
It's important to remember that social media is usually a marketing channel that creates POTENTIAL for future leads. With that said, there are still a few important KPIs we can monitor to gage social media success. How much referral traffic did your website/landing page generate from social media channels? How active are your social platforms, and is your follower/fan count growing? Social Engagement – Are your posts or Tweets being shared, +1′d, liked, and retweeted? Social Content – How is the content produced through social networks performing? How many links has it generated? how many times was it shared?
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There are 18 comments on the Akron Beacon Journal story from May 16, 2008, titled defense does it for cavs. In it, Akron Beacon Journal reports that:Published on Saturday, May 17, 2008 The NBA, at least in this year's playoffs, is where the predictable happens.
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#1 May 16, 2008
I'm a Cavs fan, living in New England, watching the playback of the game at 2:45 a.m. Right now, we're at the two minute mark in the first half, down by one, getting ready to take over.
The Celtics and their fans can cry "foul" on the fouls if they want to (and they are, believe me, I've been getting emails.) But this game was won by our D jamming the Celts at this very point in the game.
Ugly. Gritty. But gutsy, too. Let's take it in Game Seven. Go Cavs!
#2 May 17, 2008
What an effort! It wasn't pretty but when you battle the same team for seven games, it sometimes isn't! I don't think the Cavs can pull it off in Boston, but the effort they have put forth in this series has been spectacular! Boston had the best record in the NBA this year for a reason! The Cavs don't match the talent level the Celtics have, but still have a chance to advance!
In closing, game six was tight until the end, when Lebron reaches in for a steal against Pierce and a charging foul is called. Seems like the refs play a major part in who wins as well. Let's see how a call like that goes in Boston. But, it's still been a great season, but we need to make some changes in the off season next year! No excuses this time.
#3 May 17, 2008
Hope they have something left in the tank. Got a few breaks on calls down the stretch. Offense kept trying to get into the usual funk. Can't tell you how much I hate that Lebron point-forward [email protected] Joe Smith is one of the few player who can successfully come off a screen. I was the D. Still think either Pavlovic or Damon Jones is going to have to step-up in the end. I'm still sure tis team can win in Boston. Boston can be beat mentally. Cleveland is stronger in that way.
#4 May 17, 2008
Pierce lowered his shoulder and tried to run over Lebron, who kept in front of him step for step. It's a charge, plain & simple.
As for Boobie's replacement, DJ doesn't have the D, and Sasha doesn't have the 3. I think Devin Brown matches up better with Allen & Rondo, and can knock down the jumper better than Sasha.
Also, it seems like Lebron trusts him to run the offense.
When they all stand around waiting for Lebron to do something, it makes me want to puke. Lebron needs to grow up and accept some coaching. I wish that Mike Brown, just once, would get in Lebron's face and read him the riot act. Of course management won't allow it. They don't want the kid to be uncomfortable - he might leave. Well, if he doesn't get a ring here, he'll leave anyway to pick up his championship bling elsewhere.
#5 May 17, 2008
Excellent win Cavs! Stay focused and play your game on Sunday. Offense, defense, and free throws is a must. You can do it, this is a team effort. We're ready for round 3. Go Cavs beat the Celtics!!!!!!!!!
#6 May 17, 2008
You are assuming that Lebron is not doing what Brown wants him to do on offense Spud. Until either Lebron or Brown publicly calls out the other (which will probably never happen) I put the blame on Brown. He is the coach, he needs to make sure there is an effective offensive scheme in place that is run consistently!
That being said, a win is a win! Man was it hard to watch though.
Their gonna have to perform much better offensively tomorrow in a hostile environment.
Go Cavs!
#7 May 17, 2008
for once it would be good to hear brown say "we played well tonight defensively , but if we go up in boston and play with the same offensive effort tonight , we might not win" . in boston scoring 74 points will not cut it , the crowd will be in a frenzy and there is no way the celtics are only going to score 69 points . if the cavs can only muster 74 points AT HOME , then they're in trouble for game 7
#8 May 17, 2008
Michael Wilbon is from Chicago, works in D.C., and lives in Phoenix...
So how is it that he's the most blatant Boston HOMER on TV?
Even Bob Ryan is more objective.
Sad, just sad.
#9 May 17, 2008
Another thing:
If you watched the 2nd half of the Lakers-Jazz game last night, they kept putting up a lower-third graphic promoting Game 7...
But for some reason the only player pictured was Garnett...?
Has the league already determined our fate?
Such that it need not market its MOST MARKETABLE player?
If I EVEN hear the names Javie, Delaney, Crawford or Tony Brothers tomorrow I will watch the Tribe instead.
#10 May 17, 2008
Cavs will win game seven. You heard it here!
#11 May 17, 2008
It amazes me that with only 74 points can get a win it was a real low scoring game. 74-69 it was though. So defense did the real job what you have here is two very defensive teams. I think the Cavs will come up with the win in game 7.
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#12 May 17, 2008
Absolutely amazing that it was agame involving Bavetta in which the celtics were actually called for a lot of the fouls they usually get away with.He has areputation for swallowing his whistle.Doc Rivers cries and whines and stamps his feet even when his team is getting all the calls!....John Barry and Tim Legler are ridiculously biased against Cleveland also.
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#13 May 17, 2008
Garnett plays like a pig these days,it looks like he's always trying to hurt someone.Even so he is carrying his team.A Cleveland native I know said the big three are more like the big one and the little two!
#14 May 17, 2008
Why is nobody talking about the Garnot elbow in Ben's face that was called a blocking foul,that also turned the game for Boston,then on the next rebound Ape man held and pushed Ben to the ground and a no call,so it goes both ways,the fact is the Cavs 3,Boston 3,come on Cavs,turn their lights out I'm so sick of hearing about these,big 3.
#15 May 17, 2008
"Big 3"? lol More like the Big 1.5.. Ray Allen has yet to show up to a game in the playoffs this year and Paul Pierce has only had only 1 Superior game (game 5). KG cant do this by himself which is why I think the Cavs have a legitmate chance of beating the C's in Boston. Lebron will do his thing.
#16 May 17, 2008
,then on the next rebound Ape man held and pushed Ben to the ground and a no call,
Funny, Ben Wallace looks more like an ape than anybody on the court. And I don't hear anybody giving props to Mike Brown for the defense, you all would be whining about him if the Cavs lost. I guess I'll wait until about 6:00 tomorrow for that.
#17 May 17, 2008
Another boring performance by LeBraun. Stand, dribble, shoot. Stand, dribble, spin, shoot. Etc.
#18 May 17, 2008
If what you mean by boring is watching your team lose to the Cavs in 6 games then I would agree with you.
You and 'Sheed stay classy.
Thanks for playing!
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You had to peer through a telescope and a microscope to get a full sweep of science this year in Orange County. Local biologists were busier than ever studying the itsy-bitsy stem cells that someday might cure disease. A UC Irvine physicist went to the Antarctic to stake out space for an observatory. And for a couple of weeks in August, a Cal State Fullerton graduate circled Earth in the space shuttle, helping expand the International Space Station.
Here's a closer look at the highlights, which are introduced by numbers that helped define the events and the people involved.
She's a rookie? No way.
Way. Cal State Fullerton graduate Tracy Caldwell was poised and professional last August when she choreographed four very long and very difficult spacewalks during her first trip into space. One walk ended early when an astronaut noticed a tear in his glove. Another involved patching a worrisome gash that had appeared in the heat shield of shuttle Endeavour during liftoff. And Caldwell had to help crewmates guide a two-ton girder built at Boeing-Huntington Beach to precisely the right spot on the International Space Station.
Nothing seemed to worry her; during lulls in the action, Caldwell merrily floated through Endeavour's interior, listening to Gwen Stefani music on her iPod. She also managed to stay in touch with friends and mentors. Caldwell swapped e-mail with UC Irvine chemist Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, who served as her adviser when Caldwell was a postdoctoral researcher at Irvine in the late '90s.
Caldwell later visited UCI to describe her experience. The crowd greeted her with warm applause. She smiled and said that it was good to know that she was actually welcome on campus, having gotten a parking ticket shortly after she arrived.
Cal State Fullerton psychologist Richard Lippa caused a stir when he published the results of a survey that concluded that gay men are more likely than heterosexual men to be left-handed. The numerical difference wasn't huge; 13 percent for gays, 11 percent for straights. But the difference was distinct, and mysterious. "There seems to be something biological going on here," says Lippa, an expert on gender differences. "It might involve prenatal hormones, but we just don't know."
It's a bird. It's a ray. It's a … oh, never mind. Let's just call it cool. There's no better word for the X-48B Blended Wing Body, a revolutionary unmanned aircraft that was developed at Boeing-Huntington Beach. The company rolled the prototype onto a runway at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in July. Soon, the oddly shaped plane was breaking aviation records as it arced through the same skies once dominated by such legendary test pilots as Chuck Yeager and Scott Crossfield.
The X-48B flew six successful test missions before being taken out of service for some technical tweaks. The tweaking is pretty much done, and the aircraft is scheduled to resume performance flights next month, which pleases Boeing. The hope is that the aircraft could evolve into everything from a spy plane to an in-flight refueler to a regional bomber.
$17.5 million
California is in the midst of another gold rush, and UCI is proving to be a savvy prospector. The campus gathered up $17.5 million in state money this year for research and training in the burgeoning field of human embryonic stem cells. That brings Irvine's total support from the state's stem cell agency to $19.6 million - ranking UCI fifth among the 22 institutions that have received money made available through Proposition 71. The coming year could be even more fruitful; the state just notified the campus that it's eligible to apply for up to $50 million to build a permanent stem cell research center.
20 by 20
As we noted in an earlier story about globe-trotting professors at UCI, astrophysicist Steve Barwick traveled to the Ross Ice Shelf in the Antarctic to measure the reflection and transparency of radio waves as they travel through ice." Barwick says he wants to turn a 20-mile-by-20-mile expanse of the shelf into a neutrino detector, enhancing science's understanding of one of the fundamental elements in the universe. That alone is interesting. But we were stunned to learn that he slept in an unheated tent, waking up each morning with icicles on his hood and face.
Peter Burke, an electrical engineer at UC Irvine, built a radio that's 1,000 times smaller than a human hair. The campus describes the device as "a simple circuit that decodes radio waves and turns them into audio signals. By hooking the decoder up to two metal wires, he was able to transmit music via AM radio waves from an iPod to speakers across the room."
$2.6 million
Remember little Chapman University in Orange? It's not so little anymore. And it no longer focuses on teaching to the virtual exclusion of research. In the last six months of this year, Chapman has obtained $2.6 million in grants and contracts. That's pocket change to major research schools like UCI. But it's a major change at Chapman, which had been averaging less than $400,000 a year for research until the school's leaders decided they wanted their faculty to be top scholars as well as outstanding teachers. The $2.6 million is funding everything from a study of people in Orange County who suffer from osteoporosis to an examination of why common loons are so cantankerous.
The National Science Foundation gave Cal State Fullerton almost $340,000 to buy a powerful spectrometer to study electrons, which are about .000000000000001 of a millimeter in diameter. The instrument becomes even more powerful when paired with a different type of spectrometer. "With these two instruments, and others we share at other universities, we're trying to probe the very structure of matter," chemist Harold Rogers said in a news release. It was quite a coup for Fullerton, whose workman-like science programs are often overshadowed by the research at UCI.
In a bit of hyperbole, Cal State Fullerton claimed that humans might live 12 years longer if biochemist Chandra Srinivasan's work on prolonging life in the worm species C. elegans can be applied to people. Such applications are notoriously difficult. Which is to say, they rarely happen. Especially when it comes to aging. But Srinivasan and other scientists are extending the natural lives of many small creatures. So maybe she's on to something.
Many of you look at Sesame Street characters and laugh. Executives of the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana do the same. But they also see box office. Big box-office, as it turns out.
Between Jan. 1 and Dec. 16, the science center attracted a record 406,873 visitors, smashing its previous attendance record by 67,000. Like bees to honey, visitors were attracted to such large and well-done exhibits as "Sesame Streets Presents: The Body" and "Pirates - Featuring Treasure!" On April 14, the science center also recorded its largest single-day attendance when 3,372 people showed up.
Leslie Perovich, the vice president of marketing, says that, "Although we don't anticipate seeing 500,000 visitors, we do think that with such large-scale (upcoming) exhibitions as "Tigers - Tracking a Legend", "Animal Grossology" and "Masters of the Night: The True Story of Bats," we will exceed (this year's) record attendance."
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I once had the chance to tour Waterfront Square, the condominium complex on the Delaware River in Northern Liberties, between Sugarhouse Casino and the Festival Pier at Spring Garden Street. It was for a story I never ended up writing.
The three 25-story towers there are some of the tallest buildings on the waterfront, and the views near the top are, as realtors like to say, spectacular, but not just in the real-estate-listing sense. They also provide a better vantage of Philadelphia's place in the region than most other big vistas you can find around the city. At that height, that close to the river, it becomes very plain why Philadelphia is where it is: There's all this fresh water flowing down from the Catskills in an ever-widening channel that eventually dumps into the Delaware Bay. And at the wide mouth, boats coming from the Atlantic Ocean can enter the river and float upstream as far as the river is deep enough to carry them. Philadelphia is well-positioned to take advantage of all of that. There are good views of Old City and broad swaths of New Jersey, and the city appears related to its surroundings in a way that it rarely does from other viewpoints.
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