Investigation of organic impurities adsorbed on and incorporated into electroplated copper layers

At room temperature electroplated copper layers exhibit changes in resistivity, residual stress, and microstructure. This process, known as self-annealing, is intimately linked to the release of organic impurities, which stem from the incorporation of organic additives into the Cu layer in the course of the electroplating process. The behavior of these impurities during self-annealing, represented by the carbon content, could be detected by analytical radio frequency glow discharge optical emission spectrometry (GD-OES) and carrier gas hot extraction (CGHE). The precondition of a quantitative determination is a surface cleaning procedure to remove adsorbed organics from the copper surface. It was observed that at first almost all impurities have to leave the Cu metallization before an accelerated abnormal grain growth can start. The small amount of remaining organic species after self-annealing could be quantified by both examination techniques, GD-OES and CGHE.     

Post deposition purification of PTCDA thin films

The decomposition of perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic dianhydride (PTCDA) molecules during evaporation of unpurified raw material in ultra high vacuum was studied. The fragments were identified by mass spectrometry and the influence of these fragments and further contaminations of the raw material on the electronic structure of PTCDA thin films was measured by photoemission spectroscopy. Annealing of contaminated PTCDA films was tested as cheap and easy to perform method for (partial) post deposition purification of the contaminated films.     

Rietveld refinement of CdSe phases annealed under argon atmosphere

Hexagonal and cubic cadmium selenide were prepared from a chemical route by using cadmium chloride and potassium selenium hydride obtained from reaction of selenium powder and potassium boron hydride. The product obtained was thermally treated under argon flux at 300, 500 and 600 °C for 2 h and characterized by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction. The X-ray diffraction data were refined by Rietveld method and the structural parameters were determined for the phases of each annealed samples. At 300 °C five phases were identified: Cubic and hexagonal cadmium selenides and the contaminants: Potassium chloride, boron oxide and cadmium boron oxide. At 500 and 600 °C only the hexagonal cadmium selenide phase was identified besides the other above mentioned contaminant.     

Nanoclusteration of DNA with dendronized polymer in terms of free energy

A thermodynamic cycle for the nanoclusteration between DNA and dendronized polymer is proposed and electrostatic free energies of a series of DNA- dendronized polymer nanoclusteration processes are calculated. The free energies for assembling fixed charges and mobile ions, and the bending energies of the DNA chain wrapped around the dendronized polymer are taken into consideration. The free energies of nanoclusteration are calculated for a number of nanoclusters with different conformations at constant temperature and constant ionic strength. The effects of temperature and ionic strength on the free energy of nanoclusteration and stability of their conformations are also investigated.     

Upper triangular matrix operators with diagonal (T_1,T_2), T_2 k-nilpotent

If \(T=\left(\begin{array}{clcr}T_1&\quad C\\ 0&\quad T_2\end{array}\right) \in B(\mathcal{X }_1\oplus \mathcal{X }_2)\) is a Banach space upper triangular operator matrix with diagonal \((T_1, T_2)\) such that \(T_2\) is \(k\)-nilpotent for some integer \(k\ge 1\), then \(T\) inherits a number of its spectral properties, such as SVEP, Bishop’s property \((\beta )\) and the equality of Browder and Weyl spectrum, from those of \(T_1\). This paper studies such operators. The conclusions are then applied to provide a general framework for results pertaining (for example) to Browder, Weyl type theorems and supercyclicity for classes of Hilbert space operators, such as \(k\)-quasi hyponormal, \(k\)-quasi isometric and \(k\)-quasi paranormal operators, defined by a positivity condition.     

Equilibrium Problems with Applications to Eigenvalue Problems

In this paper, we consider equilibrium problems and introduce the concept of (S)₊ condition for bifunctions. Existence results for equilibrium problems with the (S)₊ condition are derived. As special cases, we obtain several existence results for the generalized nonlinear variational inequality studied by Ding and Tarafdar (Ref. 1) and the generalized variational inequality studied by Cubiotti and Yao (Ref. 2). Finally, applications to a class of eigenvalue problems are given.     

Explicit Formulas for Generalized Action–Angle Variables in a Neighborhood of an Isotropic Torus and Their Application

Different versions of the Darboux–Weinstein theorem guarantee the existence of action–angle-type variables and the harmonic-oscillator variables in a neighborhood of isotropic tori in the phase space. The procedure for constructing these variables is reduced to solving a rather complicated system of partial differential equations. We show that this system can be integrated in quadratures, which permits reducing the problem of constructing these variables to solving a system of quadratic equations. We discuss several applications of this purely geometric fact in problems of classical and quantum mechanics.