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    <language>eng</language>
    
      <publisher>Oriental Scientific Publishing Company</publisher>
    
    <journalTitle>Material Science Research India</journalTitle>
    
      <issn>0973-3469</issn>
    
    
    <publicationDate>2014-12-30</publicationDate>
    

        <volume>11</volume>

        <issue>2</issue>

 

    <startPage>98</startPage>
    <endPage>101</endPage>

   
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    <publisherRecordId>830</publisherRecordId>
    <documentType>article</documentType>
    <title language="eng">Sized WS2 Lamellae and their Texture Orientations Growth</title>

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      <author>
       <name>Khalil El-Hami</name>

 
		

	<affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
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      <author>
       <name>Cristina Louro</name>


		

	<affiliationId>2</affiliationId>

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      <author>
       <name>Albano Cavaleiro</name>

		

	<affiliationId>2</affiliationId>
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		<affiliationName affiliationId="1">Univ. Hassan 1, Faculty of Khouribga, Laboratory of Nanosciences and Modeling,PB:145,Khouribga City, MOROCCO</affiliationName>
    


		

		<affiliationName affiliationId="2">Univ. Coimbra, SEG-CEMUC, Center of Mechanical Engineering, Polo II, 3030-788, Coimbra city, PORTUGAL</affiliationName>
    

		

		

		

		

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    <abstract language="eng"><p>The tungsten disulfide (WS<sub>2</sub>) thin films, considered as inert, non-toxic, non-corrosive lubrication that is resistant to most fuel solvents, is the best solid lubricant for general industry. In this paper, WS<sub>2</sub> thin films were deposited on steel and silicon &lt;110&gt; type substrates by DC sputtering methods with optimized experimental conditions and parameters. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) were employed to characterize the surface morphology and determine the geometrical size of WS<sub>2</sub> lamellae or microtubes. The investigation showed that both SEM and AFM analysis revealed oriented WS<sub>2</sub> crystalline lamellae on silicon substrate while they are entangled on the steel substrate. This result leads to say precociously that the WS<sub>2</sub> thin films deposition depend on the substrate type. Moreover, using the AFM results, we could determine the average lamella (or microtube) size which has from 200 nm to 500 nm in width and from 1mm to 1.5mm in length. The EDS tool allows attaining the composition of deposited WS<sub>2</sub> where the tungsten and the disulfide represent about 40 and 55%, respectively.</p></abstract>

    <fullTextUrl format="html">https://www.materialsciencejournal.org/vol11no2/sized-ws2-lamellae-and-their-texture-orientations-growth/</fullTextUrl>




      <keywords language="eng">
        <keyword>Tungsten disulfide</keyword>
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      <keywords language="eng">
        <keyword> Scanning Electron Microscopy</keyword>
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      <keywords language="eng">
        <keyword> Atomic Force Microscopy</keyword>
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      <keywords language="eng">
        <keyword> EDS</keyword>
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      <keywords language="eng">
        <keyword> WS2 lamellae</keyword>
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      <keywords language="eng">
        <keyword> texture orientations</keyword>
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