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    Design and development of ITO/Ag/ITO spectral beam splitter coating for photovoltaic-thermoelectric hybrid systems
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2017) Sibin, K.P.; Selvakumar, N.; Kumar, A.; Dey, A.; Sridhara, N.; Shashikala, H.D.; Sharma, A.K.; Barshilia, H.C.
    ITO/Ag/ITO (IAI) multilayer coatings were designed for spectral beam splitter applications and these coatings were deposited on glass substrates by magnetron sputtering method. The thicknesses of the component layers, namely, Ag and ITO were varied to achieve high visible transmittance, high NIR-IR reflectance and optimum cut-off wavelength. The optimized ITO/Ag/ITO exhibits high visible transmittance (?88%) and high NIR-IR reflectance (>90%) with an optimum cut-off wavelength (?900 nm). A novel chemical etching method was used to improve the transmittance of the plain glass substrate. The optimized IAI multilayer coating deposited on single side etched glass substrate resulted in increase in transmittance (?91%), which is due to the nano-porous morphology of the etched glass substrate. The angular and polarization dependence studies of IAI multilayer coatings were also studied in detail. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd
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    Highly transparent and conducting ITO/Ag/ITO multilayer thin films on FEP substrates for flexible electronics applications
    (Elsevier B.V., 2017) Sibin, K.P.; Srinivas, G.; Shashikala, H.D.; Dey, A.; Sridhara, N.; Sharma, A.K.; Barshilia, H.C.
    Transparent and conducting ITO/Ag/ITO (IAI) multilayer coatings were deposited on glass and flexible fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP) substrates by reactive sputtering using metallic In:Sn (90%:10%) and Ag targets at room temperature. Middle Ag layer thickness was optimized to obtain maximum figure of merit (?) and the optimum Ag layer thickness was found to be ~13 nm. The optimized IAI multilayer on glass substrate showed transmittance of ~88.6% and sheet resistance of ~7.1 ?/sq. The transmittance increased to ~91.4% for the IAI multilayer deposited on one side etched glass. The optimized IAI multilayer coating was also deposited on flexible FEP substrates. The electrical, optical, structural and morphological properties of IAI deposited on glass and FEP substrates were compared. IAI deposited on FEP substrate showed transmittance of ~90.2% at ? = 550 nm, sheet resistance of ~6.9 ?/sq. and figure of merit of ~52 × 10?3 ??1. Bending test of IAI deposited FEP proved the high flexibility of IAI multilayer for the flexible transparent electrode applications. Solar selectivity study of IAI on FEP substrate showed it can effectively reflect the higher wavelength region of solar spectrum and can be used as a flexible solar spectrum segregator. Optical haze measurements of IAI coated glass and FEP show that high haze value can be achieved by increasing the roughness on non-coated side of the FEP substrate. © 2017
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    Finite element analysis of thermal residual stresses in SS-309Mo and Inconel-625 multilayer weld deposition on low carbon steel
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2019) Amudha, A.; Nagaraja, H.S.; Shashikala, H.D.
    ANSYS Finite Element Analysis is adopted for simulation of SS-309Mo and Inconel-625 deposition in single and double layers, on IS-2062 Grade-B low carbon steel base metal. The Von-Mises residual stress distribution is obtained for twelve different combinations of weld deposition techniques and weld materials. Aim is to obtain a combination with minimum residual stress, using a technique of alternate skip weld deposition and base metal preheating. Also, the effect of change in the thickness of the base metal on coating residual stress is studied. The best model has 18 MPa surface residual stress. The very low values of residual stress obtained in the top layer of the multilayer deposition is helpful in preventing corrosion problems like stress corrosion cracking and corrosion fatigue, resulting in lower equipment downtime and losses to industry. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd