Near-monodisperse Pd and PdCo nanoclusters were synthesized by physical vapor deposition using a plasma-gas-condensation cluster deposition system and tested for catalyzing formic acid oxidation. Under the condition of high vacuum and inert gas, NCs with clean surface and uniform size were obtained. The cyclic voltammetry tests revealed that the electrochemical surface area was increased from 49.7 m2g-1to 51.7 m2g-1and the peak current density of catalyzing FAO was raised from 0.115 mA cm-2to 0.125 mA cm-2when about 12wt. % Co element was added. Additionally, the tolerance to CO poisoning of Pd could also be improved by the addition of Co. The result indicated that this method offered a chemical-free way to prepare clean and efficient Pd-based nanoscale catalytics and encouraged deeper exploration for electrochemichal catalytic reactions.
In this research, a series of [Fe80Ni20-O/NiZn-ferritn multilayer thin films with different insulation layer thickness were prepared by magnetron sputtering at room temperature. The high frequency soft magnetic properties of [Fe80Ni20-O/NiZn-ferritn multilayer thin films were investigated. It was found that the in-plane magnetic anisotropy field (Hk) and saturation magnetizations (4πMs) can be adjusted by changing the insulation layer thickness, and the optimal Hk and 4πMs can be obtained as the insulation layer thickness of 2.5 nm. The adjustment of insulation layer thickness is essential to obtain low coercivity (Hc) and high permeability (μ) of the multilayer thin films. The measured resistivity (ρ) of [Fe80Ni20-O/NiZn-ferritn multilayer thin films was increased from 211 to 448 μΩcm with increasing the insulation layer thickness.
In this work, we explored the solenoid inductor integrated [FeCoSiN/SiNx]18 multilayer magnetic film as magnetic core used in GHz range. The multilayer magnetic film was employed due to its high resistivity and excellent soft magnetic properties even in GHz range. It was found that this magnetic core material can dramatically increase the performance of the solenoid inductor, which presenting a 10-fold improvement in the inductance and a 23-fold enhancement in the quality factor at 1.67 GHz in comparison to those of the air core solenoid inductor. Besides, an inductance density of 27 nH/mm2 and a self-resonant frequency of 3 GHz were also achieved. The results indicated that the solenoid inductor with multilayer magnetic core showed good high frequency characteristics.
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