Local Ions Distribution Inhomogeneities in Polymer Based Light Emitting Cells

 In the last years the development of light emitting electrochemical cells on a polymer base has made a great progress. They are extremely interesting due to their low cost, but still, problems concerning the stability and lifetime of these elements remain. The performance of light-emitting electrochemical cells (LEC) is strongly influenced by the inhomogeneous distribution of the three main components (light emitting polymer, ion conductive polymer, ionic molecules) in the device. The local ions distribution of lithium and triflate (short for the CF₃SO₃ ⁻ species) ions in a blend with the ionic conducting polymer poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) and the conjugated polymer m-LPPP (methyl substituted poly(para phenylene)) throughout the polymer layer has been investigated by secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS). Different combinations of top- and base-electrodes have been investigated and have been found to influence the distribution of the ions strongly. Received January 13, 1999. Revision June 16, 2000.     

Investigation and application of point implicit Runge–Kutta methods to inviscid flow problems

We derive and investigate point implicit Runge–Kutta methods to significantly improve the convergence rate to approximate steady‐state solutions of inviscid flows. It turns out that the point implicit Runge–Kutta can be interpreted as a preconditioned explicit Runge–Kutta method, where the preconditioner arises naturally as local derivative of the residual function. Moreover, many preconditioners suggested in the literature so far are identified as special case of our general ansatz. Conditions will be formulated such that explicit Runge–Kutta methods with local time stepping are equivalent to point implicit methods. In numerical examples, we will demonstrate the improved convergence rates. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The application of Stille cross-coupling reactions with multiple nitrogen containing heterocycles

Substituted imidazoles and purine bioisosteres have been widely studied in the literature. We endeavored to combine these heterocyclic core structures into precursors, especially 7-azaindoles, of previously unknown pharmacologically relevant lead structures. A highly flexible synthetic procedure was developed, derived from investigations of the influence of the substrates, solvents, ligand systems, and side reactions.     

The Three-Wave Resonant Interaction Equations: Spectral and Numerical Methods

The spectral theory of the integrable partial differential equations which model the resonant interaction of three waves is considered with the purpose of numerically solving the direct spectral problem for both vanishing and non vanishing boundary values. Methods of computing both the continuum spectrum data and the discrete spectrum eigenvalues are given together with examples of such computations. The explicit spectral representation of the Manley-Rowe invariants is also displayed.     

Electrochemical etching of silicon carbide

Both n- and p-type SiC of different doping levels were electrochemically etched by HF. The etch rate (up to 1.5 μm/min) and the surface morphology of p-type 6H-SiC were sensitive to the applied voltage and the HF concentration. The electrochemical valence of 6.3 ± 0.5 elementary charge per SiC molecule was determined. At p-n junctions (p-type layer on a n-type 6H-SiC substrate) a selective etching of the p-type epilayer could be achieved. For a planar 6H-4H polytype junction (n-type, both polytypes with equal doping concentrations) the 4H region was selectively etched under UV illumination. Thus polytype junctions could be marked by electrochemical etching. With HCl instead of HF no etching of SiC occurs, but a SiO₂ layer (thickness up to 8 μm) is formed by anodic oxidation. Received: 29 October 1998 / Accepted: 27 January 1999