Thermal and carrier transport originating from photon recycling and non-radiative recombination in laser micromachining of GaAs thin films

Coupled thermal and carrier transports (electron/hole generation, recombination, diffusion and drifting) in laser photoetching of GaAs thin film is investigated. A new volumetric heating mechanism originating from SRH (Shockley–Read–Hall) non-radiative recombination and photon recycling is proposed and modeled based on recent experimental findings. Both volumetric SRH heating and Joule heating are found to be important in the carrier transport, as well as the etching process. SRH heating and Joule heating are primarily confined within the space-charge region, which is about 20 nm from the GaAs surface. The surface temperature rises rapidly as the laser intensity exceeds 10⁵ W/m². Below a laser intensity of 10⁵ W/m², the thermal effect is negligible. The etch rate is found to be dependent on the competition between photovoltaic and photothermal effects on surface potential. At high laser intensity, the etch rate is increased by more than 100%, due to SRH and Joule heating. Received: 24 January 2002 / Accepted: 11 April 2002 / Published online: 10 September 2002 RID="*" ID="*"Corresponding author. Fax: +1-310/206-2302, E-mail: xiang@seas.ucla.edu     

Does Solvent Influence the Ground-state Tautomeric Population of Hypericin?¶

Nuclear magnetic resonance measurements indicate that hypericin exists in the same "normal" tautomeric form irrespective of whether the solvent is dimethyl sulfoxide or tetrahydrofuran. This result is discussed in the context of previous experimental and theoretical work. It is concluded that solvent perturbations cannot induce tautomerization in hypericin.     

Protonation and bromination of an osmabenzyne: reactions leading to the formation of new metallabenzynes

The reactivities of benzynes and metal-carbyne complexes are normally associated with the triple bond units. However, we have now found that electrophiles do not attack the formal osmium-carbon triple bond of osmabenzyne complex 1. Instead, 1 undergoes electrophilic substitution reactions-the typical reactions of aromatic systems.     

Effects of Osmotic Pressure on Water Transport in W(1)/O/W(2) Emulsions

In a W(1)/O/W(2) double-emulsion globule, when the W(1) phase was made of pure water while salt (NaCl) was present only in the W(2) phase, water was transported from W(1) to W(2) at a constant transport rate, -dR/dt. In the case of hydrated-surfactant transport, rates rose linearly with increasing salt concentration in W(2) through acceleration of the dehydration process of the hydrated surfactants at the O/W(2) interface. When the water was transported through spontaneous emulsification and reverse micellization, the water transport rates were independent of the osmotic pressure over a significant range of salt concentration in W(2). When salt was present in both the W(1) and W(2) phases-though at a higher concentration in W(2)-water transport stopped when the salt concentrations in W(1) and W(2) equalized, indicating that only water may transport through the oil phase while salt stays trapped in the W compartments. In visual-contact experiments, where transport was controlled by the hydrated-surfactant mechanism, the water transport rates were initially constant to then decreased asymptotically to zero. This showed that, as salt concentration in W(1) increased with time, the controlling process shifted from surfactant dehydration at the O/W(2) interface to hydration at the W(1)/O interface. For the spontaneous emulsification and reverse-micellar mechanisms at visual noncontact, water transport rates remained constant during a given experiment and decreased with increasing initial salt concentration in W(1), indicating that the formation process of emulsified water droplets and reverse micelles at the W(1)/O interface was the rate-controlling step. Copyright 2001 Academic Press.     

Configuration assignments of yrare high-spin structures in 126Cs

High-spin states in ¹²⁶Cs were populated in the reaction ¹¹⁶Cd(¹⁴N, 4n) at a beam energy of 65 MeV. About 50 new transitions were placed in a level scheme that consists of six rotational structures, three of which have been observed for the first time. The newly observed bands and a previously reported but uninterpreted band were assigned configurations based on their population, aligned angular momentum, energy signature splitting and B(M1)/B(E2) ratios (for the strongly coupled bands).Received: 16 September 2002, Revised: 10 March 2003, Published online: 1 July 2003PACS: 21.10.Re Collective levels - 27.60.+j      

Invariant Mean—Value Property and M—Harmonicity in the Unit Ball of R^n

In 1993,Ahern,Flores and Rudin showed that,if f is integrable over the unit ball BC^n of C^n and satisfies∫BC^nfoφdv=f（φ（0)) for every φ∈Aut(BC^n),then f is M-harmonic if and only if n≤11.The present paper is about an analogous question in the context of the unit ball Bn of R^n as well as in the weighted setting.     

Staggered local density of states around the vortex in underdoped cuprates

We have studied a single vortex with the staggered flux (SF) core based on the SU(2) slave-boson theory of high T(c) superconductors. We find that, whereas the center in the vortex core is a SF state, as one moves away from the core center a correlated staggered modulation of the hopping amplitude chi and pairing amplitude Delta becomes predominant. We predict that in this region the local density of states exhibits staggered modulation when measured on the bonds, which may be directly detected by STM experiments.     

Bistability in cell signaling: How to make continuous processes discontinuous,and reversible processes irreversible

Xenopus oocyte maturation is an example of an all-or-none, irreversible cell fate induction process. In response to a submaximal concentration of the steroid hormone progesterone, a given oocyte may either mature or not mature, but it can exist in intermediate states only transiently. Moreover, once an oocyte has matured, it will remain arrested in the mature state even after the progesterone is removed. It has been hypothesized that the all-or-none character of oocyte maturation, and some aspects of the irreversibility of maturation, arise out of the bistability of the signal transduction system that triggers maturation. The bistability, in turn, is hypothesized to arise from the way the signal transducers are organized into a signaling circuit that includes positive feedback (which makes it so that the system cannot rest in intermediate states) and ultrasensitivity (which filters small stimuli out of the feedback loop, allowing the system to have a stable off-state). Here we review two simple graphical methods that are commonly used to analyze bistable systems, discuss the experimental evidence for bistability in oocyte maturation, and suggest that bistability may be a common means of producing all-or-none responses and a type of biochemical memory. (c) 2001 American Institute of Physics.     

Connecting Lemmas

Like the closing lemma, the connecting lemma is of fundamental importance in dynamical systems. Hayashi recently proved the connecting lemma for stable and unstable manifolds of a hyperbolic invariant set. In this paper, we prove several very general connecting lemmas. We simplify Hayashi's proof and extend the results to more general cases.