SiC polytypes process affected by Ge predeposition on Si(111) substrates

Structural and optical measurements were performed on silicon carbide (SiC) samples containing several polytypes. The SiC samples investigated were grown on (111) Si substrates by solid source molecular beam epitaxy (SSMBE). Several quantities of Ge were predeposited before the growth procedure. The influence of Ge on the SiC polytypes formation was studied by X-Ray, FTIR and μ-Raman characterizations methods. The spectra of the samples with less than one Ge monolayer exhibit a mixture of 2H, 15R and 3C–SiC polytypes. This mixture is due to the mismatch between the heterostructure layers. We propose that the Ge predeposition in the heterostructure can be used to stabilize and unify the polytypes formation.     

Sur des familles remarquables d'hypersurfaces isoparamétriques dans les espaces sphériques

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Synthesis,Crystal Structure and IR Spectra of Complexes of Mn(II) by Indole-2-Carboxylic or Isoquinoline-1-Carboxylic Acids and 1,10-Phenanthroline

Abstract  

Two ternary complexes of manganese(II) indole-2-carboxylate (2-IC⁻) or isoquinolinecarboxylate (IQC⁻) with 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) in methanol or in dimethylacetamide (DMA) were synthesized and studied by X-ray diffraction and IR spectra. [Mn(C₉H₆NO₂)₂(C₁₂H₈N₂)₂]·CH₄O (1) crystallizes in the triclinic space group P-1 with cell parameters of a = 10.548(2) ?, b = 14.168(3) ?, c = 14.580(3) ?, α = 62.35(2)°, β = 69.16(2)°, γ = 78.61(2)°, V = 1802.4(6) ?³ and Z = 2; [Mn(C₁₀H₆NO₂)₂(C₁₂H₈N₂)].C₄H₉NO (2) crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P2₁/a with cell parameters of a = 15.304(5) ?, b = 12.871(5) ?, c = 17.421(5) ?, β = 114.39(1), V = 3125(2) ?³ and Z = 4. In 1, Mn is six-coordinate by two bidentate phen ligands and two 2-IC⁻ ligands and exhibits a very distorted octahedral geometry. This complex is solvated by methanol involved in hydrogen bonding. In 2, Mn atom is surrounded by one bidentate phen ligand and two bidentate IQC⁻ ligands. The complex exhibits a distorted octahedral geometry around the Mn^II atom. The crystal structure is completed by a disordered DMA solvate molecule. The IR spectra of both compounds are slightly different in the range 4000–2400 cm⁻¹ which may be attributed to hydrogen bond lack in 2.     

Polarization control in spun and telecommunication optical fibers

We consider the counterpropagating interaction of a signal and a pump beam in a spun fiber and in a randomly birefringent fiber, the latter being relevant to optical telecommunication systems. On the basis of a geometrical analysis of the Hamiltonian singularities of the system, we provide a complete understanding of the phenomenon of polarization attraction in these two systems, which allows to achieve a control of the polarization state of the signal beam by adjusting the polarization of the pump. In spun fibers, all polarization states of the signal beam are attracted toward a specific line of polarization states on the Poincaré sphere, whose characteristics are determined by the polarization state of the injected backward pump. In randomly birefringent telecommunication fibers, we show that an unpolarized signal beam can be repolarized into any particular polarization state, without loss of energy.     

Méthode particulaire anisotropeAnisotropic particle method

A particle method has been used to simulate the vorticity transport in a two-dimensional flow of an incompressible inviscid fluid. In this method, not only the location and the circulation of the particle are used but also the moments of the internal vorticity. The transport equation for these moments has been derived from the vorticity transport equation. The method has been compared to the usual particle method as well as to Teng's elliptic vortex model. The test case is that of the evolution of two circular patches of vorticity already used by Teng. To cite this article: A. Beaudoin et al., C. R. Mecanique 330 (2002) 51–56     

Changes in the morphology of interstellar ice analogues after hydrogen atom exposure

The morphology of water ice in the interstellar medium is still an open question. Although accretion of gaseous water could not be the only possible origin of the observed icy mantles covering dust grains in cold molecular clouds, it is well known that water accreted from the gas phase on surfaces kept at 10 K forms ice films that exhibit a very high porosity. It is also known that in the dark clouds H(2) formation occurs on the icy surface of dust grains and that part of the energy (4.48 eV) released when adsorbed atoms react to form H(2) is deposited in the ice. The experimental study described in the present work focuses on how relevant changes of the ice morphology result from atomic hydrogen exposure and subsequent recombination. Using the temperature-programmed desorption (TPD) technique and a method of inversion analysis of TPD spectra, we show that there is an exponential decrease in the porosity of the amorphous water ice sample following D-atom irradiation. This decrease is inversely proportional to the thickness of the ice and has a value of ?(0) = 2 × 10(16) D-atoms cm(-2) per layer of H(2)O. We also use a model which confirms that the binding sites on the porous ice are destroyed regardless of their energy depth, and that the reduction of the porosity corresponds in fact to a reduction of the effective area. This reduction appears to be compatible with the fraction of D(2) formation energy transferred to the porous ice network. Under interstellar conditions, this effect is likely to be efficient and, together with other compaction processes, provides a good argument to believe that interstellar ice is amorphous and non-porous.     

Cleavage of the C---Se bond of cyclic selenoacetals derived from 4-t-butyl cyclohexanone with butyllithiums and tin and silyl hydrides

Selenoacetals derived from 1,3-propanediselenol and 1,2-ethanediselenol are much less prone to be cleaved by butyllithiums than their open chain analogues. The stereochemistry of the products resulting from these reactions as well as from the cleavage of the C---Se bond under radical conditions is disclosed.     

Determination de Susceptibilites Paramagnetiques par les Methodes de RMN

Magnetic susceptibilities play a very important part in NMR spectra, but their values are not always known; here, the authors give a method for the measurement of paramagnetic susceptibilities and suggest an explanation about linear dependence of magnetic susceptibility vs. observed shift.     

Resolution of Eigen fuzzy sets equations

When R is a fuzzy relation between the elements of a finite set X, the fuzzy subsets A of X such that R·A = A (max-min composition) are called eigen fuzzy sets. In this paper we describe algorithms for the determination of the greatest eigen fuzzy set associated with a given fuzzy relation, thinking of medical diagnosis applications.