AES Depth profiling of semiconducting multilayer structures using an ion beam bevelling technique

An ion beam technique has been developed which allows the preparation of bevels from semiconducting heteroepitaxial structures with smooth surfaces and very flat angles in the order of 0.1°. The bevels are used for AES depth profiling of heterostructures by the line scan technique. Measured and calculated line scans from (Al,Ga)As/GaAs and SiGe/Si test structures are compared to estimate the contributions of the electron escape depth and the ion beam mixing to the depth resolution. Received: 21 August 1996 / Revised: 14 January 1997 / Accepted: 18 January 1997     

The umbral calculus and orthogonal polynomials

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Polyethene with pendant fullerene moieties

Polyethene with fullerene moieties pendant on short-chain branches was prepared by the catalytic copolymerization of ethene and a fullerene-containing vinylic comonomer, yielding polyethene copolymers containing up to 25 wt% of C60.     

Near-infrared absorption spectroscopy of toluene-sulfonate-diacetylene crystals

The near-infrared (NIR) absorption of toluene-sulfonate-diacetylene crystals (PTS) has been investigated during thermal polymerization. It is shown by comparative NIR and IR spectroscopy of deuterated and of protonated PTS at various temperatures, that these absorptions are vibronic in nature. They can be assigned unambiguously to distinct parts of the molecule. No low-lying electronic state has been found.     

Thermal Stability Of Folic Acid in the solid-state

This study attempts to identify the degradative process which folic acid undergoes in the solid-state under thermal stress. In order to facilitate the process, the various pieces of the chemical structure, namely, p-amino benzoic acid, pterin and glutamic acid as both its d- and l-isomers were investigated as separate entities. These structured solid-state pieces were then compared to the composite solid state folic acid degradative curves in order to identify the peaks seen and provide direction for the interpolation of the degradative mechanism. It was observed that none of the structural pieces could be superimposed as assumed earlier and hence an attempt was made to identify the decomposition products using various analytical techniques such as infrared spectroscopy, mass spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction which suggested that the glutamic acid fragment is lost first as evidenced by acid loss and amide enhancement in the IR spectra. The vitamin was ultimately degrading to carbon fragments and that further identification was not necessary. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Characterization of some essential oils and their key components: Thermoanalytical techniques

The present study was aimed at determining the kinetics of evaporation and establishing vapor pressure curves for both single and multi-component systems by thermogravimetry (TG) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Essential oils (e.g. lavender oil, orange oil, clove oil and eucalyptus oil, etc.) are typically multi-component systems consisting of various volatile pure components (e.g. linalyl acetate, limonene, cinnamaldehyde, etc.) which resemble single component systems. In this study linalyl acetate was taken as the calibration compound for TG. The vapor pressure curves for the pure substances were plotted using TG and vapor pressure plots for clove oil and eucalyptus oil were constructed using DSC. The thermodynamic and kinetic parameters of the pure compounds were compared to that of the multi-component systems to quantitatively and qualitatively measure the influence of different compounds on each other. The k-value from the vapor pressure data for linalyl acetate was calculated as 112006 Pa kg^0.5mol^0.5s^-1 m^-2 K^-0.5. The vapor pressure values were used to determine the Antoine constants using the SPSS 10.0 software.This revised version was published online in November 2005 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Das Grenzflächenverhalten von Carboxymethylcellulose an Baumwolle

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Comparative Photophysical Study of Disulfonated Aluminum Phthalocyanine in Unilamellar Vesicles and Leukemic K562 Cells

Abstract— The photophysical properties of cis -disulfonated aluminum phthalocyanine (AlPcS₂) in unilamellar vesicles (liposomes) of DL-a-dipalmitoyl-phosphatidylcholine have been measured. Both the fluorescence and triplet quantum yields decreased with increasing sensitizer concentration. The time-resolved fluorescence decays, analyzed by both the sum of exponentials and decay time distribution analyses, are compared with those reported for AlPcS₂ in leukemic K562 cells. Information on the pho-todynamic transport and localization mechanism has been obtained by drawing correlations between the two systems, indicating active transport of the phthalocyanine into tumor cells involving lysosomal accumulation.