De Tian Wan、K. Komvopoulos2006-09-15Journal of Applied Physics
Thin films of amorphous carbon (a-C) were synthesized on smooth silicon substrates under different conditions of low-pressure radio-frequency discharge in pure Ar atmospheres. Transmission electron microscope and atomic force microscope studies provided insight into the dependence of the film thickness and roughness o…
Metal and Thin Film MechanicsDiamond and Carbon-based Materials ResearchIon-surface interactions and analysis
Hae‐Jeong Lee、Christopher L. Soles、Dawei Liu 等 7 位作者2006-09-15Journal of Applied Physics
Methylsilsesquioxane (MSQ) based porous low-k dielectric films are characterized by x-ray porosimetry (XRP) to determine their pore size distribution, average density, wall density, and porosity. By varying the porogen content from 1% to 30% by mass, the porosity changes from 12% to 34% by volume, indicating that the…
Metal and Thin Film MechanicsSemiconductor materials and devicesCopper Interconnects and Reliability
Sabrina Brieger、Oliver Dubbers、Sebastian Fricker 等 7 位作者2006-09-15Nanotechnology
An approach for the fabrication of hexagonally ordered arrays of cylindrical nanoholes in crystalline and amorphous silicon based on the self-organization of polymer micelles, Brieger, Sabrina, Dubbers, Oliver, Fricker, Sebastian, Manzke, Achim, Pfahler, Christian, Plettl, Alfred, Ziemann, Paul
Block Copolymer Self-AssemblyNanopore and Nanochannel Transport StudiesAnodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures
Alioscka A. Sousa、J. Schut、Joachim Kohn 等 4 位作者2006-09-15Macromolecules
The rate and mechanism of hydrolytic degradation and erosion determine the utility and performance of bioresorbable polymers for tissue-engineering and drug-delivery applications. Nevertheless, changes in polymer morphology at the nanoscale caused by degradation and erosion, particularly those associated with the spat…
Corrosion Behavior and InhibitionAdvanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and ApplicationsElectron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques
Joong Hwan Jun、Young‐Kook Lee、Jeongmin Kim 等 5 位作者2006-09-15Key engineering materials
Microstructures and damping properties have been investigated in Fe-23%Mn-(0~2)%Si and Fe-23%Mn-(0~2)%Co alloys, based on experimental results from metallography, X-ray diffractometry and vibration test in a flexural mode. The amount and number density of ε martensite are increased with an increase in Co content, resu…
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of SteelsMagnetic Properties and ApplicationsLaser and Thermal Forming Techniques
Zhenrui Yu、M. Aceves‐Mijares、A. Luna-López 等 5 位作者2006-09-15Nanotechnology
We report the preparation and characterization of Si nanoislands grown on a c-Si substrate by thermal annealing of silicon-rich oxide (SRO) films deposited using a conventional low pressure chemical vapour deposition (LPCVD) technique. Transmission electron microscopy revealed that a high density of Si nanoislands was…
Semiconductor materials and devicesSilicon Nanostructures and PhotoluminescenceNanowire Synthesis and Applications
Wei Pan、Jia Lu、Jing Chen 等 4 位作者2006-09-15Physical Review B
We have carried out a detailed investigation on the resonant tunneling in crystalline ($c$-) Si/nanocrystalline ($nc$-) Si heterostructure diodes, with the emphasis on doping concentration dependence. By the aid of the self-consistent calculation, together with a transfer matrix procedure, we are able to explain well…
Semiconductor materials and devicesSilicon Nanostructures and PhotoluminescenceSemiconductor materials and interfaces
Ghulam Shabbir、Seiji Kojima、Chude Feng2006-09-15Journal of Applied Physics
The complex dielectric permittivity of the morphotropic phase boundary [001]-oriented PMN–x%PT single crystal with x=33%, grown by the modified Bridgman technique, has been investigated as a function of both temperature and dc poling field. Structural phase transformation sequence is discussed in the light of polariza…
Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsPhotorefractive and Nonlinear OpticsMicrowave Dielectric Ceramics Synthesis
Nikhil Suri、K. S. Bindra、R. Thangaraj2006-09-15Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
The dark conductivity and photoconductivity of Se 80− x Te 20 Bi x (0≤ x ≤1) thin films have been studied. The values of dc activation energy, optical band gap and photoconduction activation energy are found to decrease with the addition of bismuth content. The optical energy gap has been found to be approximately equ…
Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin FilmsPhase-change materials and chalcogenidesNonlinear Optical Materials Studies
Sajanikumari Sadasivan、Karen Köhler、Gleb B. Sukhorukov2006-09-15Advanced Functional Materials
Abstract A facile method of connecting fluorescent meso ‐tetrakis(4‐sulfonatophenyl)porphine tetranion nanotubes to polyelectrolyte capsules is developed. Heat‐sensitive robust polyelectrolyte capsules consisting of poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) and poly(styrene sulfonate) multilayers have been fabricated usi…
Polymer Surface Interaction StudiesPorphyrin and Phthalocyanine ChemistryDendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers
Fuxing Yin、Satoshi Iwasaki、Takuya Sakaguchi 等 4 位作者2006-09-15Key engineering materials
M2052 alloy is a MnCu based high damping alloy that shows high damping capacity and the superior workability. In the present work, the microstructure and damping behavior of the alloy in different solidification cooling rates are investigated with directionally cast alloy plate. For the variation of solidification coo…
High Temperature Alloys and CreepSolidification and crystal growth phenomena
Enrique de Miguel、Felipe J. Blas、Elvira Martı́n del Rı́o2006-09-15Molecular Physics
We report a computer simulation study of systems of perfectly aligned molecules interacting through the Gay–Berne (GB) potential model for two different values of the molecular anisotropy parameter κ, namely 3 and 4.4. The models are appropriate to gauge the effects of strong aligning fields on the thermodynamics and…
Liquid Crystal Research AdvancementsMaterial Dynamics and PropertiesTheoretical and Computational Physics
Chung‐Hsin Lu、Wei-Tse Hsu、Bing‐Ming Cheng2006-09-15Journal of Applied Physics
The luminescence characteristics of europium-ion activated Y3Al5O12 (YAG:Eu3+) phosphors prepared via a sol-gel process were investigated in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) region using synchrotron radiation. An intense red emission due to D05→F17 transition of Eu3+ ions is produced under excitation at 147nm. The intensi…
Luminescence Properties of Advanced MaterialsRadiation Detection and Scintillator TechnologiesSolid-state spectroscopy and crystallography
F. Matthias Bickelhaupt、Miquel Solà、Célia Fonseca Guerra2006-09-15Faraday Discussions
The hydrogen-alkali metal bond is simple and archetypal, and thus an ideal model for studying the nature of highly polar element-metal bonds. Thus, we have theoretically explored the alkali metal hydride monomers, HM, and (distorted) cubic tetramers, (HM)4, with M = Li, Na, K, and Rb, using density functional theory (…
Hydrogen Storage and MaterialsAmmonia Synthesis and Nitrogen ReductionInorganic Chemistry and Materials
Tomoyuki Sasaki、Akira Hatayama、Akira Emoto 等 5 位作者2006-09-15Journal of Applied Physics
A simple procedure to detect light polarization by use of crossed polarization gratings in photo-cross-linkable liquid crystals is presented. Crossed polarization gratings consisting of four anisotropic gratings with different grating vectors were designed according to the theoretical expectation obtained on the basis…
Photonic and Optical DevicesLiquid Crystal Research AdvancementsPhotorefractive and Nonlinear Optics
Anatoli Serghei、Yu. N. Mikhailova、Klaus‐Jochen Eichhorn 等 5 位作者2006-09-15Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics
Abstract The dynamic glass transition and the dilatometric glass transition temperature are simultaneously characterized in thin films of hyperbranched aromatic polyesters by broadband dielectric spectroscopy and capacitive scanning dilatometry. A diverging thickness dependence is detected: while the temperature posit…
Polymer crystallization and propertiesMaterial Dynamics and PropertiesPolymer Nanocomposites and Properties
Jia‐Cherng Horng、Andrew J. Hawk、Qian Zhao 等 6 位作者2006-09-15Organic Letters
[structure: see text] Three strands of natural collagen are linked by covalent bonds prior to their folding into a triple helix. We report on a synthetic collagen in which the strands are pendent on a rigid macrocyclic scaffold of C(3) symmetry. The scaffold confers substantial conformational stability upon the collag…
Proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans researchSilk-based biomaterials and applicationsCollagen: Extraction and Characterization
Michał J. Chmielewski、Miłosz Pawlicki、Natasza Sprutta 等 5 位作者2006-09-15Inorganic Chemistry
The synthesis of 5,10,15,20-tetraphenyl-2-thia-21-carbaporphyrin [S-confused thiaporphyrin, (SCPH)H] was optimized. The formation of the phlorin was detected, which was saturated at the meso carbon adjacent to thiophene. Phlorin converted readily to (SCPH)H in the final oxidation process. Insertion of cadmium(II) and…
Photosynthetic Processes and MechanismsMolecular Sensors and Ion DetectionPorphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
Viachaslau Ksianzou、Rama Velagapudi、Bernd Grimm 等 4 位作者2006-09-15Journal of Applied Physics
Linear optical properties of two types of poly(phenylquinoxaline) (PPQ) are studied by multiwavelength prism coupling technique and optical absorption spectroscopy. Surface roughness measurements are done using atomic force microscopy. PPQs form smooth films of high optical quality having refractive indices above 1.7…
Organic Electronics and PhotovoltaicsMolecular Junctions and NanostructuresSynthesis and properties of polymers
U. Jäger-Fiedler、Martin Köckerling、Ralf Ludwig 等 5 位作者2006-09-15Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Reminiscent of a snowflake: The dimer of a hydroxy-substituted oligosilane dendrimer (see picture, left; Si yellow, C green, H white, O red) is remarkably stable according to IR spectroscopy and DFT calculations. Strong intermolecular hydrogen bonds are not only the glue that holds the “silicon snowflake” together, bu…
Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compoundsOrganoboron and organosilicon chemistrySilicone and Siloxane Chemistry