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High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope Analysis of Tungsten Carbide Thin Films
Electron diffraction patterns and high-resolution transmission electron microscope (HREM) images show that the dominant phase in tungsten carbide thin films grown by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition i...
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Process Control of Epi-Layers for SiGe:C Hetero-Structure Bipolar Transistors
The SiGe:C hetero-structure bipolar transistor (HBT) has turned into a key technology for wireless communication. This paper describes the metrology tools for SiGe epitaxy process control. Two types of analysi...
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Surface Oxide Evolution on Al-Si Bond Wires
Al-Si wires are often used to make contact to bond-pads of semiconductor chips and devices. During operation in certain types of devices the wires typically reach relatively high temperatures. Under such circu...
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Oxide Reduction in Advanced Metal Stacks for Microelectronic Applications
Aluminum and copper are widely used for microelectronic interconnect applications. Interfacial oxides can cause device performance degradation and failure by significantly increasing electrical resistance. Int...
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Optical and Dielectric Properties of Eu- and Y-Polytantalate Thin Films
Due to their highly efficient photo-luminescent (PL) characteristics, the physical properties of rare-earth polytantalates, RETa7O19 (RE=Eu and Y) were further studied. AFM, SEM, HRTEM, x-ray reflectometry, spect...
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Structure Analysis of Co/Re Superlattice Grown on an Al2O3 (110) Substrate
The structure of a Re(5 nm)/(Co(2 nm)/Re(3 nm))19 sample grown via magnetron sputtering was thoroughly analyzed via x-ray reflectivity (XRR) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Cross-sectional TEM results...
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Novel Method for Spectrophotometric Determination of L-Tryptophan in the Enzymatic Resolution of DL-N-Acetyl-Tryptophan
A novel spectrophotometric method for the determination of tryptophan (Trp) has been proposed. The sensitive and simple method was based upon the finding that NaNO2 and Trp formed a diazotized product in nitric a...
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Towards 3D image-based nanocrystallography by means of transmission electron goniometry
It is well known that the crystallographic phase and morphology of many materials changes with the crystal size in the tens of nanometer range and that many nanocrystals possess structural defects in excess of...
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Uniform dome-shaped self-assembled Ge islands by UHV/CVD after boron pre-deposition
Effect of pre-deposited boron atoms on self-assembled growth of Ge islands on Si(100) substrate by UHV/CVD was investigated by atomic force microscopy (AFM). Proportion of dome-shaped Ge islands increases with...
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Preparation of Highly Dispersed Iron Oxide Nanoparticles in Amine-Modified SBA-15
Silica-supported iron oxide nanoparticles are prepared by precipitation within the pores of amine-functionalized SBA-15 silica. The loading of the iron oxide possible by this method is at least 11 wt%. STEM an...
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Amphiphilic norbornene-based diblock copolymers containing polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane prepared by living ring opening metathesis polymerization
We report the successful synthesis of poly(NBECOOH-b-NBEPOSS) copolymers, taking advantage of the sequential, living ring opening metathesis polymerization of NBETMS and NBEPOSS using the RuCl2 (=CHPh)(PCy3)2/CH2
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Preparation and characterization of LiFePO4/graphene-oxide composites
LiFePO4/graphene-oxide (GNO) composites were prepared by co-precipitation method. Their structure and morphology were investigated by X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectra, field emission scanning...
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Application of FIB/SEM and TEM to Bit Failure Analyses in SRAM Arrays
Many microelectronic chips contain embedded memory arrays. A single SRAM bit-cell contains several transistors. Failure of any of the transistors makes the entire bit-cell inoperable. Dual-beam Focused Ion Bea...
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Template synthesis of braided gold nanowires with gemini surfactant–HAuCl4 aggregates
One-dimensional braided gold nanowires with 40–50 nm in width and several micrometers in length which were fabricated by using cationic gemini surfactant hexamethylene-1,6-bis (dodecyl dimethylammonium bromide...
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Numerical Simulations of Inclusion Behavior in Gas-Stirred Ladles
A computation fluid dynamics–population balance model (CFD–PBM) coupled model has been proposed to investigate the bubbly plume flow and inclusion behavior including growth, size distribution, and removal in g...
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Numerical Simulation of Gas and Liquid Two-Phase Flow in Gas-Stirred Systems Based on Euler–Euler Approach
Based on the Euler–Euler approach, a mathematical model is established to describe gas and liquid two-phase flow in the gas-stirred system for steelmaking, and the influences of the interphase force including ...
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A SERS-based immunoassay for porcine circovirus type 2 using multi-branched gold nanoparticles
We report on a facile immunoassay for porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) based on surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) using multi-branched gold nanoparticles (mb-AuNPs) as substrates. The mb-AuNPs in the im...
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Numerical Simulation of Desulfurization Behavior in Gas-Stirred Systems Based on Computation Fluid Dynamics–Simultaneous Reaction Model (CFD–SRM) Coupled Model
A computation fluid dynamics–simultaneous reaction model (CFD–SRM) coupled model has been proposed to describe the desulfurization behavior in a gas-stirred ladle. For the desulfurization thermodynamics, diffe...
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Colorimetric and visual determination of total nereistoxin-related insecticides by exploiting a nereistoxin-driven aggregation of gold nanoparticles
We describe a method for the visual and colorimetric determination of total nereistoxin-related insecticide residues. It is based on the nereistoxin-induced aggregation of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). The nerei...
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Fluorescence aggregation assay for the protein biomarker mucin 1 using carbon dot-labeled antibodies and aptamers
We have developed a sensitive fluorescence assay for the protein biomarker mucin 1 (MUC1). It is based on the aggregation of functionalized carbon dots (CDs) in the presence of MUC1. The CDs with a size of ~2 ...