A heat treatment process known as annealing is emerging as a low-cost way to enhance the strength and heat resistance of 3D printed parts made from common filaments like PLA and PETG. Originally used ...

The major factors affecting the performance of crystalline thin films are the presence of grain boundaries and inherent crystal structure. Post-deposition annealing is frequently employed to improve ...

Chinese researchers, led by a research team from PV Technology Center of Tongwei Co., Ltd, used a sequential annealing process in the fabrication of tandem solar cells, featuring a wide bandgap ...

RTP is a semiconductor manufacturing technique in which silicon wafers are heated at temperatures above 1000 o C using lasers or high-intensity lamps for a few seconds. During the cooling of the ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to implement simulated annealing for the Traveling Salesman Problem (find the best ordering of a set of discrete items). The goal of a combinatorial ...