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Open AccessDistinct ERG rearrangement prevalence in prostate cancer: higher frequency in young age and in low PSA prostate cancer
The TMPRSS2-ERG gene fusion resulting in ERG overexpression has been found in around 50% of prostate cancers (PCa) and is a very early event in tumorigenesis. Most studies have reported on selected surgical cohor...
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Structural and Electrical Properties of Undoped Microcrystalline Silicon Grown by 70 MHz and 13.56 MHz PECVD
Microcrystalline silicon films deposited by plasma methods have an optical absorption for photon energies above 2.0 eV lower than a-Si:H films and can be efficiently doped with boron or phosphorus. The most wi...
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Effect of Carbon Content on the Optical Properties of a-CSiSn:H Alloy
A careful study of the optical constants of a-CSiSn:H films prepared under very similar conditions with varying C or Sn concentration is here presented. Results of an attempt via the use of an effective medium...
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Erratum: TMPRSS2:ERG gene fusion associated with lethal prostate cancer in a watchful waiting cohort
Correction to: Oncogene (2007) 26, 4596–4599. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1210237; published online 22 January 2007 Owing to a typesetting error, the abbreviation ERG was incorrectly expanded in the abstract and text o...
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TMPRSS2:ERG gene fusion associated with lethal prostate cancer in a watchful waiting cohort
The identification of the TMPRSS2:ERG fusion in prostate cancer suggests that distinct molecular subtypes may define risk for disease progression. In surgical series, TMPRSS2:ERG fusion was identified in 50% of t...
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Simple Methods for Peak and Valley Detection in Time Series Microarray Data
Given a set of gene expression time series obtained by a microarray experiment, this work proposes a novel quality control procedure that exploits six analytical methods, each of which allows for the identific...
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The virtual case: a new method to completely digitize cytological and histological slides
The purpose of this study was to present a new method for handling histological/cytological cases. Thanks to the introduction of information technology in pathology, including the amenities afforded by robotic...
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Brightness Degradation Controlled by Current Induced Metastable Defect Creation in a-SiC:H Based Light Emitting Diodes
A study of the electroluminescence degradation of a-SiC:H based light emitting devices (LED) is presented for the first time. The best initial peak brightness obtained is 4.2 cd/m2. All LEDs reported in this pape...
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Thermal Modulated Esr For The Study Of Defects In a-SiC:H Films
In this work we present Thermal Modulation Electron Spin Resonance Measurements performed on a-SiC:H films prepared by Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition with energy gap in the range 1.8–2.5 eV. The re...
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Boron and Phosphorus Ion Implantation In a-SixC1−x:H Thin Films
In this paper we report results on the optoelectronic and structural properties of device-quality a-SixC1−x:H intrinsic films with energy gap of 1.94 eV and Urbach energy of 70 MeV, grown by PECVD of SiH4+CH4 Mix...
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Silicon Carbon Alloys Produced by VHF and Conventional PECVD. A Comparison of their Properties.
The Very High Frequency (70 MHz) PECVD has recently proven its ability to produce Amorphous silicon with high deposition rates (10 Å/s) without affecting the quality of the Material. A comparative study of the...
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Defect Distribution and Bonding Structure in High Band Gap a-Si1−xCx:H Films Deposited in H2
AMorphous silicon carbide films were deposited by the PECVD technique in SiH4+CH4 gas mixtures at various CH4 flow rates with and without H2 dilution of the reactive Mixture. A detailed analysis of defect distrib...
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Study on Structural, Electrical and Optical Properties of Microcrystalline Si:H and SiC:H Films
We report results on a study on μc-Si.H and μc-SiC:H films deposited by PECVD. The crystallinity fraction and the crystal sizes have been evaluated by X-ray diffractometry, Raman spectroscopy and Transmission ...
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Undoped and Phosphorus Doped µ-SiC:H Films: Investigation of Electrical Properties and Hall Effect
We have deposited by Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition (PECVD), under particular conditions of high H2 dilution and high power density, undoped and phosphorus doped μc-SiC:H films. We have obtained n-dop...
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Optimization of Optoelectronic Properties of a-SiC:H Films
Amorphous silicon carbide films have been deposited by PECVD in SiH4+CH4+H2 mixtures at different hydrogen dilutions. The optoelectronic properties of the films have been measured by transmittance-reflectance spe...
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Effects of Electrode Spacing and Hydrogen Dilution on a-SiC:H and a-Si:H Layers
A series of hydrogenated amorphous silicon carbide (a-Si1−xCx:H) films was deposited by rf glow discharge deposition using various pressures, electrode spacings and hydrogen dilution ratios. We found that improve...
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Characterization of the Structure of Carbon Material Through the sp3/sp2 Bonding Ratio Measurements
Hydrogenated amorphous carbon (a-C:H) films have been deposited by sputter assisted plasma chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The relative concentration of sp3 and sp2 hybridized carbon in samples is determined by ...
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Doped Amorphous and Microcrystalline Silicon Carbide as Wide Band-Gap Material
As a conclusion it can be deduced that in silicon-carbon alloys high optical band-gap can be achieved both in amorphous and in microcrystalline films. In amorphous films the high band-gap is coupled to a diffi...
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Structure and Morphology of μc-SiC:H Films Produced by Pecvd
Films of μc-SiC:H have been deposited in a conventional PECVD system in order to investigate their structural and morphological properties. They consist of a mixed phase of Si crystallites (50-200 Å), surround...
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Effect of Boron and Phosphorus Ion Implantation on a-SixC1-x:H Thin Films
Ion implantation of boron and phosphorus in device quality a-SixC1-x:H films deposited by Ultra High Vacuum Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (UHV PECVD) has been performed. The effects of damage and of d...
