邻晶面外延生长机制的动力学Monte Carlo模拟

用动力学Monte Carlo模拟方法研究了GaAs(001)邻晶面的外延生长机制.Ehrlich-Schwoebel势垒对邻晶面外延机制有重要的影响.模拟结果显示，低温下Ehrlich-Schwoebel势垒几乎能完全阻止原子向下一台阶面的迁移，高温下原子已能有效地克服势垒的影响并向下一台阶面迁移.在外延生长初期，原子几乎在台阶面上均匀分布.当表面覆盖度达到一定数量后，台阶成核开始.而由于Ehrlich-Schwoebel势垒的存在，在台阶的上侧台阶面上开始有原子的积累，而如果没有Ehrlich-Schwoebel势垒，台阶上侧台阶面上的原子也能被有效地耗尽.Ehrlich-Schwoebel势垒对邻晶面上的外延生长模式有显著的影响，将明显提高达到台阶生长模式的温度. 关键词： 外延生长模式 动力学Monte Carlo Ehrlich-Schwoebel势垒     

Characteristics of sputtered Ta-B-N thin films as diffusion barriers between copper and silicon

Ta-B-N thin films were prepared by rf-magnetron sputtering from a TaB₂ target in N₂/Ar reactive gas mixtures and then used as diffusion barriers between Cu and Si substrates. In order to investigate the performance of Cu/Ta-B-N/Si contact systems, X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), four-point probe measurement, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy (XTEM), and Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) depth profile were used. Results of this study indicate that the barrier characteristics are significantly affected by the nitrogen content. In addition, the failure mechanism for the Cu/Ta-B-N/Si contact systems is also discussed herein.     

Barrier variational generation of quasi‐isometric grids

A grid generation method based on the minimization of the discrete barrier functional with feasible set consisting of quasi‐isometric grids is suggested. The deviation from isometry for given grid connectivity and prescribed boundary conditions is minimized via the contraction of the feasible set into a small vicinity of the optimal grid. Formulation of functional with given metrics in both physical and logical spaces allows to consider the adaptive grid generation in terms of quasi‐isometric grids and cover many practical applications. A fast and reliable grid untangling procedure based on the penalty‐like reformulation of barrier functional and the continuation technique is described. Numerical experiments demonstrate that the suggested functional produces high‐quality grids with small global condition numbers. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Thermal stability of W2B and W2B5 contacts on ZnO

Rectifying contact formation on n-type bulk single crystal ZnO using novel W₂B or W₂B₅ metallization schemes was studied using current-voltage, scanning electron microscopy and Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) measurements. When a single Au overlayer was used to reduce the metal sheet resistance, the contacts were ohmic for all annealing conditions due to outdiffusion of Zn through the metal. By sharp contrast, when a bilayer of Pt/Au was used on top of the boride layers, rectifying contacts with barrier heights of ∼0.4 eV for W₂B were obtained. The highest barrier height of 0.66 eV was achieved for W₂B₅ annealed at 600 °C, although at this condition the contact showed a reacted appearance and AES showed almost complete intermixing of the metallization.     

The Utilization of Electrokinetics in Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering

Electrokinetics can be utilized to solve many problems in geotechnical and environmental engineering. The processes which occur in association with electrokinetics are complicated and difficult to control. The success of the application depends on certain conditions which are controlled by many parameters. It is therefore important to understand these processes so that methods and procedures can be optimized. In this paper theoretical considerations, results of tests and examples of in situ applications are presented and discussed. The presented examples show ways of controlling and improving the efficiency of electrokinetic processes.     

1.625-μm high-power strained multiple quantum well lasers for optical time-domain reflectometers

An optical output power exceeding 210 mW has been achieved using 1.625-μm strained multiple quantum well lasers at a forward current of 800 mA under pulsed operation. We introduced tensile-strained barrier layers to increase internal quantum efficiency. High quantum efficiency is attributed to improved of hole injection efficiency and suppressed electron overflow from wells. The 1.625-μm high-power lasers are expected to be applied to optical time-domain reflectometers, which enable regular communication light to be used.     

Effect of surface fields on luminescence of ZnS and ZnO crystals

It is shown that changes in luminescence characteristics of zinc sulfide and oxide in the presence of external effects that alter the surface charge are associated with a change in the parameters of surface barriers and can be explained within the framework of a model that takes into account separation of recombining partners in the Schottky barriers. We suggest a barrier mechanism for the effect of the surface region of a crystal on experimentally measured luminescence parameters and show that errors occuring in the measurement of these parameters can reach 10% and greater, depending on the depth of penetration of light. Moscow State University of Railways, 15 Obraztsov Str., Moscow, 103055, Russia. Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 66, No. 6, pp. 804–808, November–December, 1999.     

Optimal reactions for the synthesis of superheavy nucleus 270Hs

The superheavy nucleus 270 Hs iS expected to be a "double-magic" deformed nucleus.We have calculated its cross sections of evaporation residue for the reactions 248Cm(26Mg,4n)270Hs,244pu(30Si,4n)270Hs,238U(36S,4n)270Hs and 226Ra(48Ca,4n)270Hs using a two-parameter Smoluchowski equation.It is found from our results that 226Ra(48Ca,4n)270Hs and 238U(36S,4n)270Hs are two optimal reactions for the synthesis of the superheavy nucleus 270Hs due to their large negative Q-values.     

New Self-Concordant Barrier for the Hypercube

We introduce a new barrier function to build new interior-point algorithms to solve optimization problems with bounded variables. First, we show that this function is a (3/2)n-self-concordant barrier for the unitary hypercube [0,1] ⁿ , assuring thus the polynomial property of related algorithms. Second, using the Hessian metric of that barrier, we present new explicit algorithms from the point of view of Riemannian geometry applications. Third, we prove that the central path defined by the new barrier to solve a certain class of linearly constrained convex problems maintains most of the properties of the central path defined by the usual logarithmic barrier. We present also a primal long-step path-following algorithm with similar complexity to the classical barrier. Finally, we introduce a new proximal-point Bregman type algorithm to solve linear problems in [0,1] ⁿ and prove its convergence. P.R. Oliveira was partially supported by CNPq/Brazil.