Journals

Structural Characterization of Porous Low-K Thin Films Prepared by Different Processing Techniques Using X-Ray Porosimetry

March 1, 2004

Author(s)

V. J. Lee, Christopher Soles, D W. Liu, Barry J. Bauer, Eric K. Lin, Wen-Li Wu, A Grill

Three different types of porous low-k dielectric films, with similar dielectric constants, are characterized using X-ray porosimetry (XRP). XRP is used to...

Finite-Size Effects on Surface Segregation in Polymer Blend Films Above and Below the Critical Point of Phase Separation

March 1, 2004

Author(s)

H Grull, Li Piin Sung, Alamgir Karim, Jack F. Douglas, Sushil K. Satija, Makoto Hayashi, H Jinnai, TT Hashimoto, Charles C. Han

We investigate the influence of temperature and confinement on surface segregation in thin films of deuterated polybutadiene and polyisoprene near the critical...

Brillouin Scattering Studies of Polymeric Nanostructures

March 1, 2004

Author(s)

R Hartschuh, A Mahorowala, Y Ding, J H. Roh, A Kisliuk, Alexei Sokolov, Christopher Soles, Ronald L. Jones, T J. Hu, Wen-Li Wu

Polymers are now being patterned into nanometer-sized features via optical and/or imprint lithography for a range of applications, including semiconductors...

A Numerical Investigation of Aerosol Dynamics in a Wall-Less Reactor

March 1, 2004

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D M. Kremer, R W. Davis, Elizabeth F. Moore, S H. Ehrman

This paper describes a numerical investigation of aerosol formation during silane decomposition in a wall-less reactor. The wall-less reactor is amenable to...

The First Industrial Fluid Properties Simulation Challenge

March 1, 2004

Author(s)

F Case, Anne M. Chaka, Daniel G. Friend, David Frurip, J Golab, R Johnson, J Moore, Raymond D. Mountain, J Olson, Martin Schiller, J Storer

The Industrial Fluid Properties Simulation Challenge [1] was established to promote the use of molecular simulation methods to predict industrially relevant...

Report on the 34th IUVSTA Workshop 'XPS: From Spectra to Results - Towards an Expert System'

March 1, 2004

Author(s)

J E. Castle, Cedric J. Powell

A summary is given of a Workshop titled XPS: From Spectra to Results Towards an Expert System that was held in St. Malo, France on April 22-26, 2002 under the...

Effect of Water Vapor on the Combination and Disproportionation of Ethyl Radicals in the Gas Phase

March 1, 2004

Author(s)

P -. Howe, Askar Fahr, Allan H. Laufer

The role of H2O vapor on the disproportionation/combination ratio (kd/kc) of C2H5 radical reactions in the gas phase has been investigated experimentally and...

Enthalpies of Dilution of NdCl₃(aq) at Temperatures from 297.89 K to 372.08 K and an Extended Pitzer Ion-Interaction Model for the NdCl₃ + H₂O System

March 1, 2004

Author(s)

C S. Oakes, J A. Rard, Donald G. Archer

Enthalpy of dilution measurements were made for NdCl 3(aq) over the molality range 0.0080 mol.kg -1 to 2.6883 mol.kg -1 at temperatures from 297.89 K to 372.08...

Faradaic Current Detection During Anodic-Oxidation of the H-Passivatedp-Si(001) Surface With Controlled Relative Humidity

March 1, 2004

Author(s)

H Kuramochi, F Perez-murano, John A. Dagata, H Yokoyama

Excitonic Transitions in B-FeSi₂ epitaxial films and single crystals

March 1, 2004

Author(s)

Anthony G. Birdwell, Thomas J. Shaffner, Deane Chandler-Horowitz, Gyoung H. Buh, W Henrion, M Rebien, P Stauss, G Behr, L Malikova, F H. Pollak, Chris L. Littler, R Glosser, S. Collins

Asymmetric Energy Distribution of Interface Traps in n- & p- MOSFETs with HfO2 Gate Dielectric on Ultra-thin SiON Buffer Layer

March 1, 2004

Author(s)

Jin-Ping Han, Eric M. Vogel, Evgeni Gusev, C. D'Emic, Curt A. Richter, Da-Wei Heh, John S. Suehle

The variable rise/fall-time charge pumping technique has been used to determine the energy distribution of interface trap density (Dit) in MOSFETs with HfO2...

Single-electron transistor spectroscopy of InGaAs self-assembled quantum dots

March 1, 2004

Author(s)

Kevin Osborn, Mark W. Keller, Richard Mirin

A single-electron transistor (SET) is used to detect tunneling of single electrons into individual InGaAs self-assembled quantum dots (QDs). By using an SET...

X-ray Microcalorimeter Arrays Fabricated by Surface Micromachining

March 1, 2004

Author(s)

Gene C. Hilton, James A. Beall, Steven Deiker, Leila R. Vale, W.Bertrand (Randy) Doriese, Joern Beyer, Joel Ullom, Carl D. Reintsema, Yizi Xu, Kent D. Irwin

We are developing arrays of Mo/Cu TES-based detectors for use as as x-ray microcalorimeters and sub-mm bolometers. We have fabricated 8 x 8 pixel x-ray...

Temperature Control of Pulse Heated Specimens in a Kolsky Bar Apparatus Using Microsecond Time-Resolved Pyrometry

March 1, 2004

Author(s)

D Basak, Richard L. Rhorer, H W. Yoon, Timothy J. Burns, T Matsumoto

Analysis of maching processes is important in the understanding and improving of manufacturing methods. The modeling of machining processes relies on high...

Superconformal Deposition and the CEAC Mechanism

February 27, 2004

Author(s)

Thomas P. Moffat, Daniel Wheeler, Daniel Josell

The mechanism and modeling of superconformal film growth used in the electrochemical fabrication of 3-D Cu interconnects is briefly reviewed. The central role...

EBSD Measurement of Strains in GaAs due to Oxidation of Buried AlGaAs Layers

February 27, 2004

Author(s)

T Keller, Alexana Roshko, R.H. Geiss, Kristine A. Bertness, T.P. Quinn

We have characterized elastic strain fields associated with the wet-thermal oxidation of buried Al xGa 1-xAs (x 0.98) layers of thickness 80 nm, situated...

Micellar Affinity Gradient Focusing

February 25, 2004

Author(s)

K M. Balss, P B. Howell, David J. Ross

This report describes a novel method for the concentration and separation of neutral and/or hydrophobic analytes based on a combination of the analytes...

Dynamics of Proton Transfer in Bacteriorhodopsin

February 25, 2004

Author(s)

Y. S. Lee, Morris Krauss

Proton transfer from the cyctoplasm to the extracellular side is initiated from protonated asp96 in the cytoplasmic region towards the deprotonated Schiff base...

Photon antibunching at high temperature from a single InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot

February 23, 2004

Author(s)

Richard P. Mirin

We report the observation of photon antibunching from a single, self-assembled InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot at temperatures up to 135 K. The second order intensity...

Current quantization due to single-electron transfer in Si-wire charge-coupled devices

February 23, 2004

Author(s)

Akira Fujiwara, Neil M. Zimmerman, Yukinori Ono, Yasuo Takahashi

We observe a quantized current due to single-electron transfer in a small charge-coupled device, which consists of a narrow Si-wire channel with fine gates; the...

Crystal Structure and Properties of Ba₁₁FeTi₂₇O_66.5

February 18, 2004

Author(s)

Terrell A. Vanderah, T Siegrist, Robert S. Roth, A P. Ramirez, Richard G. Geyer

The crystal structure

Segmentation for Robust Tracking in the Presence of Severe Occlusion

February 18, 2004

Author(s)

Camillo A. Gentile, M Sznaier, O Camps

Tracking an object in a sequence of images can fail due to partial occlusion or clutter. Robustness to occlusion can be increased by tracking the object as a...

Isostructural Self-Assembled Monolayers, Part 2. Methyl-1-(3-Mercaptopropyl)-Oligo(Ethylene Oxide)s

February 17, 2004

Author(s)

David J. Vanderah, T Parr, Vitalii I. Silin, Curtis W. Meuse, Richard S. Gates, H La, Gintaras Valincius

The structural order and, for some, the ordering conditions of the self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of HSCH2CH2CH2O(EO)xCH3, where EO = CH2CH2O, and x = 3 to 9...

Broadband phase-coherent optical frequency synthesis with actively linked Ti:sapphire and Cr:forsterite femtosecond lasers

February 15, 2004

Author(s)

A Bartels, Nathan R. Newbury, I Thomann, Leo W. Hollberg, Scott A. Diddams

Absolute frequency measurements with a stabilized near-infrared optical frequency comb from a Cr:forsterite laser

February 15, 2004

Author(s)

Kristan L. Corwin, I Thomann, A Bartels, Tasshi Dennis, W. Fox, William C. Swann, E. A. Curtis, C. W. Oates, G Wilpers, Sarah L. Gilbert, Leo W. Hollberg, Nathan R. Newbury, Scott A. Diddams, Jeffrey W. Nicholson, M. Yan

A frequency comb is generated with a chromium-doped forsterite femtosecond laser, spectrally broadened in dispersion-shifted highly nonlinear fiber, and...

Broadband Phase-Coherent Optical Frequency Synthesis with Actively Linked Ti:Sapphire and Cr:Forsterite Femtosecond Lasers

February 15, 2004

Author(s)

A Bartels, Nathan R. Newbury, I Thomann, Leo W. Hollberg, Scott Diddams

We link the output spectra of a Ti:Sapphire and a Cr:forsterite femtosecond laser phase coherently to form a continuous frequency comb with a wavelength...

Absolute-frequency measurements with a stabilized near-infrared optical frequency comb from a Cr:forsterite laser

February 15, 2004

Author(s)

K L. Corwin, I Thomann, A Bartels, T Dennis, Richard W. Fox, W C. Swann, E A. Curtis, Christopher W. Oates, G Wilpers, S L. Gilbert, Leo W. Hollberg, Nathan R. Newbury, Scott Diddams, J Nicholson, M. F. Yan

Phenomenological Theory of Current-Induced Magnetization Precession

February 13, 2004

Author(s)

Mark D. Stiles, J Xiao, A Zangwill

We solve appropriate drift-diffusion and Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equations to demonstrate that unpolarized current flow from a non-magnet into a ferromagnet can...

Nonequilibrium Quasiparticles and Periodicity in Single-Cooper-Pair Transistors

February 13, 2004

Author(s)

Joe Aumentado, Mark W. Keller, John M. Martinis, Michel H. Devoret

We have made single-Cooper-pair transistors in which we control the spatial profile of the superconducting gap energy by oxygen doping. The profile dramatically...

High-Resolution Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy of H216O at 10687.36 cm-1

February 11, 2004

Author(s)

Joseph T. Hodges

We describe a frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectroscopy apparatus enabling high-resolution line shape measurements of water vapor. The measured line...