Adsorption and diffusion of Si adatom near single-layer steps on Si surface

By use of the empirical tight-binding （ETB） method, the adsorption and diffusion behaviours ot single sllmon adatom on the reconstructed Si（100） surface with single-layer steps are simulated. The adsorption energies around the SA step, nonrebonded SB step, rebonded SB step, and rough SB step with a kink structure are specially mapped out in this paper, from which the favourable binding sites and several possible diffusion paths are achieved. Because of the rebonded and kink structures, the SB step is more ~uitable for the attachment of Si adatom than the SA step or defective surface.     

Deposition behaviour of single Si adatom on p(2×2) Si(100) surface

The deposition of a single Si adatom on the p(2×2) reconstructed Si(100) surface has been simulated by an empirical tight-binding method. Using the perfect and defective Si surfaces as the deposition substrates, the deposition energies are mapped out around the research areas. From the calculated energy plots, the binding sites and several possible diffusion paths are achieved. The introduced defects will make the deposition behaviour different from that on the perfect surface.     

Shear-horizontal transverse-electric seismoelectric waves in cylindrical double layer porous media

The shear-horizontal(SH) waves excited by the shear source in a borehole are easy to analyze due to the simple waveform. The borehole-side structures make the formation properties discontinuous. We consider a cylindrical double layer structure and study the borehole shear-horizontal and transverse-electric(SH-TE) seismoelectric waves. We first derive the expressions of the basic field quantities, and simulate the acoustic field and electric field using the real axis integral method. Compared with the wave fields of an infinitely homogeneous porous medium outside the borehole, the cylindrical layered structure makes the multi-mode cylindrical Love waves and their accompanying electric fields excited.Next, in order to study the interface response law of the inducing electric fields, we use the secant integral method to calculate the interface converted electromagnetic waves and analyze the causes of each component. It is found that an interface response occurs each time the SH wave impinges the interface in the layered porous medium. The results show that the SH-TE mode has a potential application for borehole-side interface detection in geophysical logs.