Browsing by Author "Wang, C. -T."

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Influence of annealing temperature on the structural, optical and mechanical properties of ALD-derived ZnO thin films
(2011-06-15)
Yen, C. -Y.
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Jian, S. -R.
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Chen, G. -J.
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Lin, C. -M.
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Lee, H. -Y.
ZnO thin films grown on Si(1 1 1) substrates by using atomic layer deposition (ALD) were annealed at the temperatures ranging from 300 to 500 degrees C. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) results show that the annealed ZnO thin films are highly (0 0 2)-oriented, indicating a well ordered microstructure. The film surface examined by the atomic force microscopy (AFM), however, indicated that the roughness increases with increasing annealing temperature. The photoluminescence (PL) spectrum showed that the intensity of UV emission was strongest for films annealed at 500 degrees C. The mechanical properties of the resultant ZnO thin films investigated by nanoindentation reveal that the hardness decreases from 9.2 GPa to 7.2 GPa for films annealed at 300 degrees C and 500 degrees C, respectively. On the other hand, the Young's modulus for the former is 168.6 GPa as compared to a value of 139.5 GPa for the latter. Moreover, the relationship between the hardness and film grain size appear to follow closely with the Hall-Petch equation. (C) 2011 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
The nanoindentation responses of nickel surfaces with different crystal orientations
(2007)
Ju, S. -P.
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Wang, C. -T.
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Chien, C. -H.
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Huang, J. C.
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Jian, S. -R.
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are applied to elucidate the anisotropic characteristics in the material responses for crystallographic nickel substrates with (100), (110) and (111) surface orientations during nanoindentation, compensating for the experimental limitation of nanoindentation-particularly for pure nickel substrates of three crystallographic orientations. This study examines several factors under indentation: three-dimensional phases of plastic deformation which correspond to atomic stress distributions, pile-up patterns at maximum indentation depth, and extracted material properties at different crystallographic orientations. The present results reveal that the strain energy of the substrate exerted by the tip is stored by the formation of the homogeneous nucleation, and is dissipated by the dislocation sliding of the {111} plane. The steep variations of the indentation curve from the local peak to the local minimums are affected by the numbers of slip angle of {111} sliding plane. The pile-up patterns of the three nickel substrates prove that the crystalline nickel materials demonstrate the pile-up phenomenon from nanoindentation on the nano-scale. The three crystallographic nickel substrates exhibit differing amounts of pile-up dislocation spreading at different crystallographic orientations. Finally, the effects of surface orientation in material properties of FCC nickel material on the nano-scale are observable through the slip angle numbers of {111} sliding planes which influence hardness values, as well as the cohesive energy of different crystallographic surfaces that indicate Young's modulus.
Transient drawdown solution for a constant pumping test in finite two-zone confined aquifers
(2012)
Wang, C. -T.
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Yeh, H. -D.
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Tsai, C. -S.
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環境工程研究所
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Institute of Environmental Engineering
The drawdown solution has been widely used to analyze pumping test data for the determination of aquifer parameters when coupled with an optimization scheme. The solution can also be used to predict the drawdown due to pumping and design the dewatering system. The drawdown solution for flow toward a finite-radius well with a skin zone in a confined aquifer of infinite extent in radial direction had been developed before. To our best knowledge, the drawdown solution in confined aquifers of finite extent with a skin zone so far has never before been presented in the groundwater literature. This article presents a mathematical model for describing the drawdown distribution due to a constant-flux pumping from a finite-radius well with a skin zone in confined aquifers of finite extent. The analytical solution of the model is developed by applying the methods of Laplace transforms, Bromwich contour integral, and residue theorem. This solution can be used to investigate the effects of finite boundary and conductivity ratio on the drawdown distribution. In addition, the inverse relationship between Laplace- and time-domain variables is used to develop the large time solution which can reduce to the Thiem solution if there is no skin zone.