One Pot Synthesis of Octahydroquinazolinone Derivatives Using (Me (Im)<Superscript>12</Superscript>) H<Subscript>4</Subscript>CuPW<Subscript>11</Subscript>O<Subscript>39</Subscript> as a Surfactant Type Catalyst

This study is aimed at proposing a practical green procedure for the synthesis of octahydroquinazolinone derivatives using benzaldehyde, dimedone and urea under microwave irradiation in water. A surfactant type polyoxometalate-based organic–inorganic hybrid was able to efficiently catalyze this synthesis. The catalyst was prepared and characterized by Fourier transform infrared, UV–Vis, X-ray diffraction, and thermogravimetric analysis. The employed catalyst exerted a synergistic effect; the anion part acted as a catalyst while the cation part acted as a surfactant in order to increase the concentration of organic reactants in water. The main advantage of this method is its remarkable yield in short reaction periods, which results in the rendering of products with high purity. Moreover, this heterocatalyst is capable of being easily recovered and reused several times. The influences of reaction conditions were studied systematically, and a possible catalysis mechanism was proposed for understanding the highly efficient heterogeneous catalytic behavior.     

Hawking radiation of some black holes via the non-equilibrium Landauer transport model

Recently, Nation et al. confirmed that fluxes of Hawking radiation energy and entropy from a black hole can be regarded as a one-dimensional (1D) non-equilibrium Landauer transport process. Their work can be extended to background space-times with gauge potential. The result shows that the energy flux of charged particles, which is shown to be equal to the energy–momentum tensor flux, contains not only the contribution of thermal flux but also that of particle flux. It is found that the charge can also be transported by the 1D quantum channel. Moreover, the entropy production rate is also investigated, which is shown to be larger than the case without chemical potential.     

Microstructural and mechanical analysis of Cu and Au interconnect on various bond pads

Effects of High Temperature Storage (HTS) and bonding toward microstructure change of intermetallic compound (IMC) at the wire bonding interface of 3 types of bond pad (Al, AlSiCu and NiPdAu) were presented in this paper. Optical and electron microscope analyses revealed that the IMC growth rate of samples under 175 and 200 °C HTS increased in the order of Al > AlSiCu > NiPdAu. Besides, higher HTS and bonding temperatures also promoted higher IMC thickness. The compositional study showed that higher HTS and bonding temperature developed rapid interdiffusion in bonding interface. In the mechanical ball shear test, a decrease of the shear force of Al and AlSiCu bond pads after 500 h HTS was believed due to poorly developed IMC at bonding interface. On the other hand, shear force degradation at 1000 h was due to excessive growth of IMC that in turn causes the formation of defects. For NiPdAu bond pad, increasing trend of shear force with HTS duration at 175 °C implied a good reliability of the Cu wire bonding. The rapid microscopic inspection on Cu wired Al bond pad under HTS 175 °C showed the IMC development from the periphery to the center of the ball bond. However, after 500 h voids started to develop until the crack was observed at 1000 h.