Bipolar Switching Properties of GdO_x:SiO₂ Thin Film Resistive Random Access Memory Using Co-Sputtering Technology by Kai-Huang Chen, Chien-Min Cheng, Na-Fu Wang, Jia-Cheng Zhou, Mei-Li Chen

“…Using two kinds of targets (gallium and silicon dioxide) and the rf magnetron sputtering deposited technique, GdO_x:SiO₂ thin film RRAM devices were deposited on TiN/Si substrate to form a metal–insulator–metal (MIM) structure. …”
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Indoor Air Quality Monitoring and Characterization of Airborne Workstations Pollutants within Detergent Production Plant by John Stephen Gushit, Salamatu Uba Mohammed, Haruna Musa Moda

“…Of the particulate matter components characterized, sodium oxide (Na₂O)—25.30 mg/m³, aluminum oxide (Al₂O₃)—22.93 mg/m³, silicon dioxide (SiO₂)—34.17 mg/m³, sulfur trioxide (SO₃)—41.57 mg/m³, calcium oxide (CaO)—10.94 mg/m³ and iron III oxide (Fe₂O₃)—19.23 mg/m³, were of significance. …”
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Fertilization Mapping Based on the Soil Properties of Paddy Fields in Korea by Juwon Shin, Jinho Won, Seong-Min Kim, Dae-Cheol Kim, Yongjin Cho

“…They were then analyzed for soil organic matter (SOM), silicon dioxide (SiO₂), total nitrogen (TN), and available phosphorus (Av.P₂O₅) in accordance with international standards. …”
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Entomotoxic efficacy of fungus-synthesized nanoparticles against immature stages of stored bean pests by Eman Ahmed Mohamed Helmy, Phyu Phyu San, Yao Zhuo Zhang, Charles Adarkwah, Midori Tuda

“…Here, we biosynthesized six types of nanoparticles (NPs) using extracts from the fungus Fusarium solani: silver (AgNPs), selenium (SeNPs), silicon dioxide (SiO2NPs), copper oxide (CuONPs), titanium dioxide (TiO2NPs) and zinc oxide (ZnONPs) ranging in size from 8 to 33 nm. …”
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Electronic properties of the n-type PDI8-CN2 organic semiconductor at the interface with SiO2: addressing the role of adsorbed water molecules by means of optical second-harmonic g... by F Ciccullo, L Santamaria, E Orabona, A Cassinese, P Maddalena, S Lettieri

“…We investigate the interfacial electronic properties of N,N’-bis(n-octyl)-(1,7&1,6)-dicyanoperylene-3,4:9,10-bisdicarboximide (PDI8-CN _2 ) organic semiconductor films grown on silicon dioxide (SiO _2 ) by polarization-resolved second harmonic generation optical spectroscopy. …”
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The Adhesion of Plasma Nanocoatings Controls the Shear Properties of GF/Polyester Composite by Tomas Plichta, Veronika Sirjovova, Milan Zvonek, Gerhard Kalinka, Vladimir Cech

“…First, oxygen-free (a-CSi:H) and oxygen-binding (a-CSiO:H) plasma nanocoatings of different mechanical and tribological properties were deposited on planar silicon dioxide substrates that closely mimic E-glass. …”
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Effect of Coating Shell on High-Frequency Polarization Loss of Core-Shell Filler Dielectric Composites: An Alternating-Field Polarization Phase-Field Simulation of BN@SiO<sub>2</su... by Wenhao He, Yu Qi, Jie Shen, Xian Chen, Ming Fan, Jing Zhou, Wen Chen

“…Here, a phase-field model for simulating high-frequency, alternating-field polarization is employed to study the relationship between high-frequency polarization loss and the coating shell in the silicon dioxide coating boron nitride polytetrafluoroethylene-based (BN@SiO₂/PTFE) composite. …”
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Specialized product in the form of a biotechnological complex of bacterial metafiltrates for selective sorption of endotoxins and metabolic correction of intestinal microflora by Poznyakovsky V. M., Zakharenko M. A., Avstrievskikh A. N., Zinov'eva E. N.

“…The qualitative and quantitative composition of the specialized product includes, mg/5.5 g, floration (soluble dietary fiber) – 1,375 (1,238); metafiltrates Bifidobacterium bifidum – 620, Bifidobacterium breve – 600, Lactobacillus delbrueckii – 500, Hericium coralloides – 242.5, Propionibacterium freudenreichii – 100; lactulose (50 %) – 400; postbiotic metafiltrate Subtizym – 200; silicon dioxide – 30; endofulvin (Endofulvin, humic acids) – 9.62 (7.5); chitosan – 5; para-aminobenzoic acid – 2; nicotinamide (vitamin B3) – 1.81 (1.8); cysteine – 1.25; calcium pantothenate (vitamin B5) – 0.654 (0.6); riboflavin (vitamin B2) – 0.16. …”
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Thermoelectric Energy Micro Harvesters with Temperature Sensors Manufactured Utilizing the CMOS-MEMS Technique by Yi-Xuan Shen, Yao-Chuan Tsai, Chi-Yuan Lee, Chyan-Chyi Wu, Ching-Liang Dai

“…The post-process utilizes an RIE (reactive ion etch) to etch the two sacrificial materials, which are silicon dioxide and silicon substrate. The results reveal that the structure of the thermocouples is completely suspended and does not show any injury. …”
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Structural and Insulating Behaviour of High-Permittivity Binary Oxide Thin Films for Silicon Carbide and Gallium Nitride Electronic Devices by Raffaella Lo Nigro, Patrick Fiorenza, Giuseppe Greco, Emanuela Schilirò, Fabrizio Roccaforte

“…High-κ dielectrics are insulating materials with higher permittivity than silicon dioxide. These materials have already found application in microelectronics, mainly as gate insulators or passivating layers for silicon (Si) technology. …”
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Optimization of Silicon Nitride Waveguide Platform for On-Chip Virus Detection by Raghi S. El Shamy, Mohamed A. Swillam, Xun Li

“…This work presents a rigorous and generic sensitivity analysis of silicon nitride on silicon dioxide strip waveguide for virus detection. In general, by functionalizing the waveguide surface with a specific antibodies layer, we make the optical sensor sensitive only to a particular virus. …”
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Uniform broad-area deposition and patterning of SiO2 nanofilms by 172 nm photochemical conversion of liquid tetraethoxysilane layers at 300 K by Jinhong Kim, Dane J. Sievers, Andrey E. Mironov, Sung-Jin Park, J. Gary Eden

“…We report the deposition and patterning of silicon dioxide (SiO2) films of high electrical and optical quality on Si(100) or polymer substrates in a N2 atmosphere and at 300 K by the photochemical conversion of thin liquid tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) layers with narrowband vacuum ultraviolet radiation [vacuum ultraviolet (VUV), 172 nm] provided by efficient microplasma lamps. …”
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Application of Renewable Natural Materials for Gas and Water Shutoff Processes in Oil Wells by Valery Meshalkin, Alfir Akhmetov, Lyubov Lenchenkova, Antony Nzioka, Anatoly Politov, Vladimir Strizhnev, Aleksey Telin, Alsu Fakhreeva

“…We used this approach to produce a hybrid sealing compound based on activated rice husks with up to 20% biogenic silicon dioxide combined with mechanically activated peat: the maximum shear strain of the hybrid sealant was 27.7 ± 1.7 Pa. …”
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Strength, durability, and microstructure properties of concrete containing bagasse ash – A review of 15 years of perspectives, progress and future insights by Tareg Abdalla Abdalla, Asma Abd Elhameed Hussein, Yousif Hummaida Ahmed, Oualid Semmana

“…The average chemical composition of BA used in the reviewed paper is 65% silicon dioxide (SiO2), 9.21% aluminium oxide (Al2O3), 4.64% iron (III) oxide (Fe2O3), and 8.31% LOI. …”
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Hybrid Polymer Composites Based on Polystyrene (PS) Used in the Melted and Extruded Manufacturing Technology by Katarzyna Bulanda, Mariusz Oleksy, Rafał Oliwa

“…For this purpose, the influence of modified fillers, such as alumina-modified silica, bentonite modified with quaternary ammonium salt, and lignin/silicon dioxide hybrid filler, on the functional properties of polystyrene-based composites was investigated. …”
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Heterogeneous Photocatalytic Chlorination of Methylene Blue Using a Newly Synthesized TiO₂-SiO₂ Photocatalyst by Collin G. Joseph, Yun Hin Taufiq-Yap, Elilarasi Letshmanan, Veena Vijayan

“…The titanium dioxide-silicon dioxide (TiO₂-SiO₂) nanocomposite used for the study was synthesized using a sol-gel method followed by UV-treatment. …”
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Impact of arrangement, length and chemical potential on the robustness of graphene induced photonic bandgap in photonic crystals by Rahul Bandyopadhyay, Abhishek Padhy, Ibrahim Mahariq, Bandaru Ramakrishna, Claudionor G. Bezerra, Carlos H. Costa, Chittaranjan Nayak, Oussama Accouche

“…The photonic crystals considered here are composed of two dielectric materials, namely, silicon dioxide (layer A=SiO2) and titanium dioxide (layer B=TiO2). …”
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Nanotip Contacts for Electric Transport and Field Emission Characterization of Ultrathin MoS₂ Flakes by Laura Iemmo, Francesca Urban, Filippo Giubileo, Maurizio Passacantando, Antonio Di Bartolomeo

“…We report a facile approach based on piezoelectric-driven nanotips inside a scanning electron microscope to contact and electrically characterize ultrathin MoS2 (molybdenum disulfide) flakes on a SiO2/Si (silicon dioxide/silicon) substrate. We apply such a method to analyze the electric transport and field emission properties of chemical vapor deposition-synthesized monolayer MoS₂, used as the channel of back-gate field effect transistors. …”
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Machine-Learning-Aided Prediction of Flexural Strength and ASR Expansion for Waste Glass Cementitious Composite by Junbo Sun, Yufei Wang, Xupei Yao, Zhenhua Ren, Genbao Zhang, Chao Zhang, Xianghong Chen, Wei Ma, Xiangyu Wang

“…However, its main ingredient is silicon dioxide, which can be utilised as a supplementary cementitious material. …”
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Wide-Oblique-Incident-Angle Stable Polarization-Insensitive Ultra-Wideband Metamaterial Perfect Absorber for Visible Optical Wavelength Applications by Mohammad Lutful Hakim, Touhidul Alam, Md. Shabiul Islam, M. Salaheldeen M., Sami H. A. Almalki, Mohd Hafiz Baharuddin, Haitham Alsaif, Mohammad Tariqul Islam

“…This paper presents a numerical study of an ultra-wide-band double square ring (DSR) metamaterial absorber (MMA) for the complete visible optical wavelength region, which is designed with a three-layer (tungsten-silicon dioxide-tungsten) substrate material. Due to the symmetricity, a polarization-insensitive absorption is obtained for both transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) modes by simulation. …”
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