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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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Influence of Viscoelastic Behavior on Curl of Paper
The influence of viscoelastic stress relaxation on the curlresponse of paper subjected to transient humidity changes wasinvestigated numerically and experimentally. We considered asymmetrictwo-ply paper sheets...
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Effect of interfacial interaction on morphology and mechanical properties of PP/POE/BaSO4 ternary composites
Ternary composites of Polypropylene (PP)/ethylene-octene copolymer (POE)/Barium Sulfate (BaSO4)(PP/POE/BaSO4) were prepared through a two-step process: BaSO4 master-batches were first prepared through blending of...
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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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Growth of SiGe film by using a single-wafer rapid thermal processing UHV/CVD system
Ultra-high-vacuum chemical vapor deposition (UHV/CVD) system displays excellent performance for the growth of high-quality SiGe film. Investigations have shown that have shown that SiGe film grown by this syst...
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Composition determination of Si/Si1−xGex/Si by photoreflectance spectroscopy
UHVCVD-grown Si/Si1−xGex/Si heterostructure is investigated by photoreflectance spectroscopy (PR). The principle of PR in determining Ge content of a Si1−xGex epilayer is thoroughly described. The unambiguous E1 ...
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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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Synthesis, structure and nonlinear optical properties of a two-photon photopolymerization initiator
The target compound, Trans-4-(N-2-hydroxyethyl-N-ethyl amino)-4′-(diethyl amino)stilbene, has been synthesized and characterized. The one-photon fluorescence and its lifetimes, two-photon fluorescence and solvent...
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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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Mesocarbon microbeads supported PtSn catalysts for electrochemical oxidation of ethanol
Mesocarbon microbeads (MCMB) supported PtSn catalysts were prepared by alcohol reduction method and characterized by XRD, FESEM and EDX. XRD results show that the addition of Sn to Pt/MCMB extends the fcc latt...
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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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Morphology studies of poly(ethylene terephthalate)/silica nanocomposites
Poly(ethylene terephthalate)/silica nanocomposites have been prepared through in situ polymerization. The morphology was investigated by atomic force microscopy in the tap** mode and scanning electron micros...
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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...