2419 results about "Se element" patented technology

A system and method for etching a material, including a compound having a formulation of XYZ, wherein X and Y are one or more metals and Z is selected from one or more Group 13-16 elements, such as carbon, nitrogen, boron, silicon, sulfur, selenium, and tellurium, are disclosed. The method includes a first etch process to form one or more first volatile compounds and a metal-depleted layer and a second etch process to remove at least a portion of the metal-depleted layer.

The metallic components of a IB-IIIA-VIA photovoltaic cell active layer may be directly coated onto a substrate by using relatively low melting point (e.g., less than about 500° C.) metals such as indium and gallium. Specifically, CI(G)S thin-film solar cells may be fabricated by blending molten group IIIA metals with solid nanoparticles of group IB and (optionally) group IIIA metals. The molten mixture may be coated onto a substrate in the molten state, e.g., using coating techniques such as hot-dipping, hot microgravure and / or air-knife coating. After coating, the substrate may be cooled and the film annealed, e.g., in a sulfur-containing or selenium-containing atmosphere.

The method of manufacturing a light absorbing layer for a solar cell by performing thermal treatment on a specimen configured to include thin films of one or more of copper, indium, and gallium on a substrate and element selenium, includes steps of: (a) heating a wall of a chamber up to a predefined thin film formation temperature in order to maintain a selenium vapor pressure; (b) mounting the specimen and the element selenium on the susceptor at the room temperature and loading the susceptor in the chamber; and (c) heating the specimen in the lower portion of the susceptor and, at the same time, heating the element selenium in the upper portion of the susceptor, wherein, in the step (c), in order for liquefied selenium not to be condensed on the specimen which is loaded at the room temperature and is not yet heated, the temperature of the element selenium and the specimen loaded in the chamber are individually controlled, so that the selenium vapor pressure of an inner space of the chamber does not exceed a saturation vapor pressure corresponding to the temperature of the specimen.

The present invention pertains to composite cathodes suitable for use in an electrochemical cell, said cathodes comprising: (a) an electroactive sulfur-containing cathode material, wherein said electroactive sulfur-containing cathode material, in its oxidized state, comprises a polysulfide moiety of the formula —Sm—, wherein m is an integer equal to or greater than 3; and, (b) an electroactive transition metal chalcogenide composition, which encapsulates said electroactive sulfur-containing cathode material, and which retards the transport of anionic reduction products of said electroactive sulfur-containing cathode material, said electroactive transition metal chalcogenide composition comprising an electroactive transition metal chalcogenide having the formula MjYk(OR)l wherein: M is a transition metal; Y is the same or different at each occurrence and is oxygen, sulfur, or selenium; R is an organic group and is the same or different at each occurrence; j is an integer ranging from 1 to 12; k is a number ranging from 0 to 72; and l is a number ranging from 0 to 72; with the proviso that k and l cannot both be 0. The present invention also pertains to methods of making such composite cathodes, cells comprising such composite cathodes, and methods of making such cells.

A low-hydrogen photovoltaic cell is disclosed. The photovoltaic cell may contain less than 5% hydrogen. In one aspect, the photovoltaic cell may contain substantially no hydrogen, that is, the photovoltaic cell may be substantially hydrogen free. The photovoltaic cell includes a substrate and an absorber deposited on to the substrate. The absorber may typically include elements from group 11, group 12, and group 13 of the Periodic Table, for example, copper, indium, and gallium. The absorber may be treated with selenium and / or sulfur to produce a CIGS or CIGSS-type photovoltaic cell. The low-hydrogen photovoltaic cell may fabricated by a method and apparatus adapted to control metalloid vapor delivery, for example, in a low-hydrogen or hydrogen free atmosphere.

Metabolic energy capacity enhancing compositions and methods for reducing oxidative stress and improving vitality in a mammal are disclosed. A composition for increasing metabolic energy capacity may be in a palatable liquid formulation or a solid dosage form and typically includes an anti-oxidant containing phytonectar and an energy catalyst. An anti-oxidant may include a polyphenol, anthrocyanin, bioflavonoid, proanthocyanidin, and a xanthone. An energy catalyst may include a mineral, vitamin, co-vitamin, carbohydrate and a lipid. In a presently preferred embodiment a composition includes phytonectar extracts from grape, aloe vera, apple, morinda citrifolia, scullcap, blueberry, prune, cranberry, elderberry, bilberry, and gentain and a mineral blend containing calcium, magnesium, manganese, zinc, chromium, selenium, iron, copper, molybdenum, vanadium, potassium, iodine, and cobalt. A method for increasing metabolic energy capacity in a mammal may include consuming a chemical component having the ability to undergo oxidation, producing free radicals and administering a composition having an anti-oxidant containing phytonectar and an energy catalyst.

A method of administering parenterally, particularly intramuscularly, glutamine and cystine and glycine plus selenium; or lactalbumin plus selenium; or lactalbumin and glutamine and cystine and glycine plus selenium, through a long-acting pharmaceutically acceptable carrier to a patient. The method comprises injecting a mixture of glutamine, cystine, glycine, lactalbumin and selenium in order to maintain the mixture systemically or locally for a sufficient time period so as to maintain blood levels of glutathione within an improved therapeutic range.

Adsorbents for removing anions of a heavy metals comprise a porous carbon in which at least one oxygen-containing compound of iron, copper, and / or aluminum is incorporated. The oxygen-containing compound may be incorporated into the porous carbon by impregnation or dispersion of a suitable precursor of such a compound. The precursor may be further treated to yield the oxygen-containing compound. Such adsorbents are particularly useful for removing arsenic and / or selenium from the environment and may be used in treating drinking water sources.

The capability of retaining a resistance value of a stored state and an erased state is improved in a resistance variation-type memory device. A memory layer 5 including a high-resistance layer 2 and an ion source layer 3 is provided between a lower electrode 1 and an upper electrode 4. The ion source layer 3 contains Al (aluminum) as an additive element together with an ion conductive material such as S (sulfur), Se (selenium), and Te (tellurium) (chalcogenide element) and a metal element to be ionized such as Zr (zirconium). Since Al is included in the ion source layer 3, the high-resistance layer which includes Al (Al oxide) is formed on an anode in erasing operation. Thus, a retaining property in a high-resistance state improves, and at the same time, an operating speed is improved.

In an energetic-beam detection apparatus having a selenium detector which includes a substrate and an energetic-beam absorber being formed on the substrate and containing selenium, a temperature detecting unit detects a temperature of the selenium detector, and a temperature control unit controls the temperature of the selenium detector so that the temperature is maintained in a predetermined range when the selenium detector is in operation. Alternatively, when the temperature of the selenium detector is outside a predetermined range, an operation suppressing unit suppresses the operation of the selenium detector, or a notification unit notifies a user of the deviation of the temperature of the selenium detector from the predetermined range.

The invention relates to a layer foodstuff used for producing health care eggs, consisting of the following components in weight portion: 120 to 160 portions of calcium hydrogen phosphate, 250 to 350 portions of mountain flour, 50 to 60 portions of common salt, 20 to 40 portions of saleratus, 15 to 20 portions of choline, 35 to 40 portions of complex trace elements, 8 to 10 portions of complex vitamins, 10 to 15 portions of lysine, 25 to 30 portions of methionine, 220 to 400 portions of pine needle meal, 1 to 3 portions of bacillus subtilis, 8 to 10 portions of copper sulfate, 2 to 5 portions of phytase, 1 to 5 portions of yeast selenium, 3 to 6 portions of vitamin E, and 250 to 400 portions of Chinese traditional herbal medicine preparation. The invention adds nutritive additives etc. into the foodstuff; therefore the egg laid by the layer contains such beneficial elements as selenium, vitamin E, and is rich in Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid and low in cholesterol.

The invention discloses zinc-enriched selenium-enriched lentinus edodes and a cultivation method thereof. In the cultivation process of common lentinus edodes, a water solution of Na2SeO3 and ZnSO3 is added according to a certain proportion when a cultivation material is prepared, and the selenium content and the zinc content of the selenium-enriched zinc-enriched lentinus edodes cultivated in this way are several tens of times to hundreds of times higher than the selenium content and the zinc content of the common lentinus edodes. The invention provides a very good selenium-replenished zinc-replenished green health-care product to people.

Integrated circuits, including field emission devices, have a resistor element of amorphous SixC1-x wherein 0<x<1, and wherein the SixC1-x incorporates at least one impurity selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, halogens, nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur, selenium, transition metals, boron, aluminum, phosphorus, gallium, arsenic, lithium, beryllium, sodium and magnesium.

A method for making adsorbents for removing anions of a heavy metals is provided. In an example the method includes impregnating an adsorbent material with a solution comprising at least one compound of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of iron (II), aluminum, titanium, zirconium, and combinations thereof; and converting the compound into an oxygen-containing compound of said metal to produce said adsorbent capable of interacting with anions of the heavy metal. Such adsorbents are particularly useful for removing arsenic and / or selenium from the environment and may be used in treating drinking water sources.

A method for producing a semiconductor film having a chalcopyrite structure including a Ib group element, a IIIb group element and a VIb group element including selenium, the method including cracking selenium with plasma to generate radical selenium, and using the radical selenium in the process of forming the semiconductor film.

The selenium-rich rice cultivating process includes conventional cultivation and features that the selenium-rich agent is sprayed once during the earing up and flowering period of rice. The selenium-rich agent comprising selenium-containing inorganic compound and phosphate is dissolved in water of 50-90 times and sprayed to leaf of rice during the earing up and flowering period of rice. In case of rainy day after spraying, replenished selenium-rich agent is sprayed timely. The sprayed inorganic selenium will be converted completely into natural organic selenium, and the produced selenium-rich rice is non-toxic, and has the health functions of preventing common cold, preventing and treating hypertension and myocardial pathological changes, etc.

Adsorbents for removing anions of a heavy metals and methods for using same are provided. Metal removing adsorbents comprise a porous material in which at least one oxygen-containing compound of iron, copper, aluminum, titanium, and / or zirconium is incorporated. The oxygen-containing compound may be incorporated into the porous media by impregnation or dispersion of a suitable precursor of such a compound. The precursor may be further treated to yield the oxygen-containing compound. Such adsorbents are particularly useful for removing arsenic and / or selenium from the environment and may be used in treating drinking water sources.

The invention relates to a method for planting pollution-free rice rich in selenium by adopting biotechnology, belonging to a planting method of plants; the planting method comprises the steps of land selection, soil preparation, application of the soil activator Medina, variety selection and seed treatment, seedling strengthening by means of dry raising and spaced planting cultivation, timely rice transplanting and reasonable compact planting, adequate fertilization, scientific irrigation, adoption of selenium supplementing and transforming technology, comprehensive prevention and control of diseases and pests, harvesting and threshing, drying and storing. The method of the invention has obvious effect; proved by field production trials, the application of the biologics of the Medina can increase the plant yield by 20 percent to 40 percent and decrease the fertilizer dosage by 25 percent to 50 percent and improve the rate of emergence in saline and alkali waste lands by 40 percent to 80 percent; the method can overcome diseases of continuous cropping effectively, eliminate soil crusting and optimizing greenhouses, etc. so as to preserve the soil properties of land capability.

Disclosed is a fertilizer containing rich selenium and its preparing process, wherein the constituents include (by weight ratio): N 39.7-42.77, P 16.1-16.8, K 16.8-18.2, Se 1.0-1.9, Zn 1.9-2.98, Fe 2.4-2.8, Mg 0.9-0.96, Mn 1.4-1.58, Cu 1.2-1.44, Mo 0.08-0.09, B 1.48-1.58, Na 8.2-9.1, Ge 0.3-0.6, Ca 1.8-3.96 and V 0.5-1.1.

An improved braze alloy is microalloyed to include about 0.0005 wt % to about 0.5 wt % of at least one aggressively surface acting element selected from tellurium (Te), selenium (Se), antimony (Sb), bismuth (Bi), and gallium (Ga), or any combination thereof. The braze alloys may include at least about 30% by weight of at least one base metal selected from the group of silver (Ag), copper (Cu), gold (Au), nickel (Ni), or aluminum (Al). In one example, a silver braze alloy suitable for brazing a cutter to a drill bit body is microalloyed to improve a characteristic of the braze material.

Provided is a heavy metal treating agent and a heavy metal pollutants treating method. The invention provides a medicament and a treating method thereof. The medicament is used for treating heavy metal pollutants, like burning ash and fly ash discharged from a garbage burning field, soil polluted by heavy metal, sludge generated from waste water treatment, and heavy metal contained in the waste water discharged by factories. Heavy metal treating agent comprising piperazine dithiocarboxylic acids salt and reductible composition is used. In terms of reductible composition, water soluble bivalent iron compound and aliphatics Alpha - hydroxycarboxylic acid and / or salt, or sulfurated bi-alkali metal salt are preferably used. With the heavy metal treating agent, harmful cation species heavy metal like lead, zincum, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, selenium, and hexavalent chromium can be treated by encapsulation in a high concentration, and harmful anion species heavy metal like hexavalent chromium, arsenic and selenium can be treated by encapsulation in a high concentration.

A photovoltaic cell exhibiting an overall conversion efficiency of at least 9.0% is prepared from a copper-indium-gallium-diselenide thin film. The thin film is prepared by simultaneously electroplating copper, indium, gallium, and selenium onto a substrate using a buffered electro-deposition bath. The electrodeposition is followed by adding indium to adjust the final stoichiometry of the thin film.

The invention relates to a preparation method for a zinc-iron-selenium-rich biological fertilizer and a usage, which belongs to the technical field of crop production. Water is added into pig manure, silkworm excrement, human excrement and colza cakes for a fermentation to get mother liquor of the biological fertilizer; zinc sulfate, green copperas, sodium selenite are added into the mother liquor for reactions to get zinc-iron-selenium-rich biological foliar fertilizer for the rice. The fertilizer is separately sprayed in the booting stage and the full heading stage of the rice, with an amount of 1000ml per mu. The function rice, with zinc content 19.4 to 28.7mg / kg, iron content 7.0 to 20.2mg / kg, and selenium content 0.08 to 0.15 mg / kg, measures up to the limit standards of zinc, iron, and selenium in the national food standards. Organic selenium accounts for more than 99% of the total selenium in the zinc-iron-selenium-rich function nutritive rice. The preparation method for the zinc-iron-selenium-rich biological fertilizer proves effective, economical, safe and non-polluted through twice foliage sprays with zinc-iron-selenium fertilizer for the rice as an experiment.

A film solar battery with copper, indium, gallium selenium and its parparing method relates to semiconductor film preparation and structure design of semiconductor film device. It has the characteristics as using n-ZnS as a window layer, CuIn GaSe P-semiconductor film as an absorption layer and to form ZnS / Cu (In,Ga) Sezp-n junction with ZnS, of which metal back electrode is Mo-Cu alloy. In present invention. ZnS has been used as a window layer of film solar battery to replace ZnO material so as to increase absorption spectral region of sun light at absorption layer and to avoid the application of hazardous material of Cd, furthermore Mo-Cu alloy has been used as a back electrode to replace Mo for making joint between battery and backing more solid to raise the yield of battery production.

A particle having a core of elemental chalcogen elements, such as sulfur, selenium and tellurium, and a coating of at least one polymeric layer on the core. A functionalized conductive carbon material is dispersed in the core. A cathode containing the particles and a battery constructed with the cathode are also provided.

This invention discloses the synthesis of metal chalcogenides using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process, atomic layer deposition (ALD) process, or wet solution process. Ligand exchange reactions of organosilyltellurium or organosilylselenium with a series of metal compounds having neucleophilic substituents generate metal chalcogenides. This chemistry is used to deposit germanium-antimony-tellurium (GeSbTe) and germanium-antimony-selenium (GeSbSe) films or other tellurium and selenium based metal compounds for phase change memory and photovoltaic devices.

The present invention relates to a method of stabilizing a biological sample, having the steps of preparation of a biological sample, and of contacting the biological sample with a composition, having a substance according to the following structural formula:in which R1 is a hydrogen residue or a methyl residue, R2 and R3 are identical or different hydrocarbon residues with a length of the carbon chain of 1-20, and R4 is an oxygen, sulfur or selenium residue (FIG. 1).

The present invention pertains to composite cathodes suitable for use in an electrochemical cell, said cathodes comprising: (a) an electroactive sulfur-containing cathode material, wherein said electroactive sulfur-containing cathode material, in its oxidized state, comprises a polysulfide moiety of the formula —Sm—, wherein m is an integer equal to or greater than 3; and, (b) an electroactive transition metal chalcogenide composition, which encapsulates said electroactive sulfur-containing cathode material, and which retards the transport of anionic reduction products of said electroactive sulfur-containing cathode material, said electroactive transition metal chalcogenide composition comprising an electroactive transition metal chalcogenide having the formula Mj Yk (OR)l wherein: M is a transition metal; Y is the same or different at each occurrence and is oxygen, sulfur, or selenium; R is an organic group and is the same or different at each occurrence; j is an integer ranging from 1 to 12; k is a number ranging from 0 to 72; and l is a number ranging from 0 to 72; with the proviso that k and l cannot both be 0. The present invention also pertains to methods of making such composite cathodes, cells comprising such composite cathodes, and methods of making such cells.

The invention provides a selenium-rich coating agent, a selenium-rich seed and a preparation method of the selenium-rich seed. The selenium-rich coating agent comprises, by weight, 0.1-1.5 parts of selenium fertilizer, 0.1-8 parts of microelements, 1.5-100 parts of film-forming agents, 0.02-2 parts of insecticide, 0.03-4 parts of sterilizing agents and 0.03-4 parts of plant growth regulators. The selenium-rich coating agent is rich in selenium elements and matched with different proportions of other microelements, can provide nutrition and protection for the seeds and has the advantage of slow release. The selenium-rich seed wrapping the selenium-rich coating agent absorbs slowly released selenium and other microelements in the growth process, nutrition needed by various stages in the growth process of crops is provided, selenium content of agricultural products can be effectively improved, and crop yield is improved.

A chitin-nano selenium compound for regulating immunity, delaying sanility and preventing cancer and cardiovascular disease is prepared from chitin (chitosan, water-soluble chitosan, or chitoligose) and Se compound through reaction.