We present the first-principles calculation of transport properties of a semiconducting carbon nanotube connected to aluminum metallic electrodes. The transmission spectrum of the nanotube shows a decrease in the band-gap energy level but has a finite value due to the hybridization of the...

The commercial purity dibromobenzene (DBB) and succinonitrile (SCN) were purified using a columnar distillation system. Thin walled rectangular specimen cells (60–80 μm thick) were fabricated and filled with the purified materials under the vacuum. The specimen cell was placed in a horizontal...

Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs), used in gas turbine blades, are exposed to oxidation and thermal fatigue conditions. The characterization of TBCs was often performed in laboratory experiments, therefore, its detail failure mechanism is not quite obvious. For better understanding of the...