Scattering parameters from an analysis of the hall electron mobility in Ga1−xAlxAs alloys

Hall mobilities in high purity epitaxial layers of n-type Ga_1?xA_xAs alloys with room-temperature electron concentrations in the range (5–10) × 10¹⁵ cm^?3 have been measured at 300 K for alloy compositions in the range 0? x ? 0.78. Models for the variation of various material parameters with composition are developed. The acoustic deformation potentials for the Π and X conduction band minima, the intervalley coupling constants for electron scattering among the X-X and L-X minima and the longitudinal optical phonon temperature for these scatterings and the polar optical scattering in the X minima have been determined from a theoretical fit to the experimental data. The electron mobilities in the Π, L and X minima are found to decrease with the composition in the range 0≦ x ? 0.45, show a minimum at x ? 0.50 and then increase again with composition. These mobility variations are reflected in the minimum in the Hall mobility at x ? 0.5 due to intense non-equivalent electron scattering involving the L and x minima. The minimum in the electron mobilities in the Π and X minima have been identified to occur mainly due to the space charge and intervalley scattering among the L and X minima, respectively. The number of equivalent x minima in Ga_1?x Al_x As alloys are estimated to be three and are, thus, situated at the zone edge.     

Synthesis and spectral studies of 2-mercapto-benzimidazole derivatives. II

This communication describes synthesis and spectral data of new 2-mercaptobenzimidazole derivatives.     

CoMFA and docking studies on glycogen phosphorylase a inhibitors as antidiabetic agents

Glycogen phosphorylase (GP(a)) is a specific target for the design of inhibitors and may prevent glycogenolysis under high glucose conditions in type II diabetes. The carboxamides first reported by Hoover D. J. et al. (J. Med. Chem. 1998, 41, 2934-2938) are one of the major classes of GP(a) inhibitors other than glucose derivatives. The recent, X-ray crystallographic analyses (Oikonomakos et al. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 2003, 1647, 325-332) have revealed a distinct mechanism of action for these inhibitors, which bind at a new allosteric site away from the inhibitory and catalytic sites. To elucidate the essential structural and physicochemical requirements responsible for binding to the GP(a) enzyme and to develop predictive models, CoMFA and docking studies have been carried out on a series of indole-2-carboxamide derivates. The CoMFA model developed using pharmacophoric alignments and hydrogen-bonding fields demonstrated high predictive ability against the training (r2 = 0.98, q2 = 0.68) and the test set (r2pred = 0.85). Further the superimposition of PLS coefficient contour maps from CoMFA with the GP(a) active site (PDB: 1lwo) has shown a high level of compatibility.     

Elastic deformation of polycrystals

We propose a framework to model elastic properties of polycrystals by coupling crystal orientational degrees of freedom with elastic strains. Our model encodes crystal symmetries and takes into account explicitly the strain compatibility induced long-range interaction between grains. The coupling of crystal orientation and elastic interactions allows for the rotation of individual grains by an external load. We apply the model to simulate uniaxial tensile loading of a 2D polycrystal within linear elasticity and a system with elastic anharmonicities that describe structural phase transformations. We investigate the constitutive response of the polycrystal and compare it to that of single crystals with crystallographic orientations that form the polycrystal.     

Investigation of Hyperfine Interactions in CeIn3 byTDPAC

Magnetic hyperfine fields (mhf) at ¹¹¹Cd and ¹⁴⁰Ce nuclei, dilutely substituting the In and Ce sites, respectively, have been measured in the intermetallic compound CeIn₃ using perturbed angular correlation technique. A pure electric quadrupole interaction with an axially symmetric electric field gradient was observed at ¹¹¹In(EC)¹¹¹Cd probe nuclei at room temperature while a combined magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole interaction is observed below 10K. Below the ordering temperature, only a magnetic interaction is observed at ¹⁴⁰La(^–)¹⁴⁰Ce probe. The values of mhf measured experimentally as a function of temperature are discussed in terms of critical behavior.     

Observation of the transverse optical plasmon in SmLa0.8Sr0.2CuO4-delta

We present microwave and infrared measurements on SmLa0.8Sr0.2CuO4-delta, which are direct evidence for the existence of a transverse optical plasma mode, observed as a peak in the c-axis optical conductivity. This mode appears as a consequence of the existence of two different intrinsic Josephson couplings between the CuO2 layers, one with a Sm2O2 block layer, and the other one with a (La,Sr)2O2-delta block layer. From the frequencies and the intensities of the collective modes we determine the value of the compressibility of the two dimensional electron fluid in the copper oxygen planes.     

Characterization of ZnO and Zn0.95Co0.05O prepared by sol-gel method using PAC spectroscopy

We report on the first NMR study of ⁷³Ge nuclear spin decoherence in germanium single crystals with different abundance of the ⁷³Ge isotope. Hahn echo decays are well fit by a superposition of two exponentials. The deviation from the single exponential is more pronounced in the more spin-diluted sample, causing long-lived echoes. We show that the decay of these echoes becomes slower with the reduction of ⁷³Ge abundance and is therefore caused by dipole–dipole interaction, reflecting the fundamental decoherence process in the spin system. The fast decay at the beginning of the relaxation process is shown to be mainly caused by the quadrupole interaction. Our experimental findings are supported by the calculations of Hahn echo decays in the germanium crystals under study. Quite good agreement between the theory and experiment is demonstrated.