Swift heavy ions-induced degradation on the electrical characteristics of silicon NPN power transistors

ABSTRACT

The pre- and post-irradiation effects on the DC electrical characteristics of 100?MeV Phosphorous (P⁷⁺) and 80?MeV Nitrogen (N⁶⁺) ion-irradiated NPN transistors were studied in the dose range from 600?krad (Si) to 100?Mrad (Si). The different electrical characteristics, such as Gummel characteristics, excess base current (ΔI_B?=?I_B-Post?–?I_B-Pre), current gain (h_FE), damage constant (K) and output characteristics, were measured in situ after ion irradiation. The considerable increase in the base current (I_B) at lower V_BE and slight decrease in the collector current (I_C) at higher V_BE were observed after ion irradiation. The C–V measurements revealed that the doping concentration (N_d) was found decreased, while the built-in potential (V_bi) increased after irradiation. The ion-irradiated results are compared with ⁶⁰Co gamma-irradiated results in the same dose range. The SRIM simulation was performed to understand the range of ions and energy loss in the transistor structure. The SRIM simulation showed that 100?MeV P⁷⁺ and 80?MeV N⁶⁺ ions can easily pass through the active region of transistors by creating ionization and displacement damages in the device structure. The irradiation results showed that ions induce more degradation in the electrical characteristics when compared to ⁶⁰Co gamma radiation at the same dose range.     

Flow compensation for the fast spin echo triple-echo Dixon sequence

The fast spin echo (FSE) triple-echo Dixon (FTED) sequence uses bipolar triple-echo readout during each echo-spacing period of FSE to collect all the images necessary for Dixon water and fat separation in a single scan. In comparison to other FSE implementations of the Dixon technique, the triple echo readout used in FTED incurs minimal deadtime in the pulse sequence design and thus greatly enhances the overall scan efficiency. A potential drawback of FTED is that the time dependence of the gradient moment along the frequency encode direction becomes more complicated than in FSE and flow compensation based on the gradient moment (GM) nulling is difficult to achieve. In this work, the first order GM along the frequency encode direction of FTED was examined and two different methods to minimize the GM were proposed. The first method nulls the GM at all the locations of the refocusing radiofrequency pulses so that the Carr-Purcell Meiboom-Gill condition is always maintained. The second method minimizes the GM of the spin echo component of the FSE signal at the echo locations. The efficacy of both methods in reducing the first order GM and flow-related artefacts was demonstrated both in phantom and in images in vivo.     

Synthesis of novel twisted carbazole-quinoxaline derivatives with 1,3,5-benzene core: bipolar molecules as hosts for phosphorescent OLEDs

A series of carbazole/quinoxaline hybrids have been synthesized by classic Ullmann and Pd/Cu-catalyzed Sonogashira coupling reaction. Their photophysical, thermal, and electrochemical properties were investigated. The introduction of electron rich carbazole and electron deficient quinoxaline on to the 1,3,5-benzene center leads to a twisted structure with good glass forming property and imparts a bipolar character. The triplet energies in the range of 2.34-2.53 eV indicate them as potential host materials in phosphorescent OLEDs.     

Convergence of Nonlinear Schrödinger–Poisson Systems to the Compressible Euler Equations

Abstract

The combined semi-classical and quasineutral limit in the bipolar defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger–Poisson system in the whole space is proven. The electron and current densities, defined by the solution of the Schrödinger–Poisson system, converge to the solution of the compressible Euler equation with nonlinear pressure. The corresponding Wigner function of the Schrödinger–Poisson system converges to a solution of a nonlinear Vlasov equation. The proof of these results is based on estimates of a modulated energy functional and on the Wigner measure method.     

Global well-posedness of compressible bipolar Navier-Stokes-Poisson equations

We consider the initial value problem for multi-dimensional bipolar compressible Navier-Stokes-Poisson equations, and show the global existence and uniqueness of the strong solution in hybrid Besov spaces with the initial data close to an equilibrium state.     

CO2激光器高压脉冲触发系统的设计

为了稳定可靠地触发CO2激光器旋转火花开关,设计了一套高压脉冲触发系统并且提出了一种新型的绝缘栅双极晶体管（IGBT）驱动与保护方法。根据CO2激光器中旋转火花开关的触发结构,应用复杂可编程逻辑器件（CPLD）芯片EPM3512开发了可以输出100～500 Hz重频脉冲信号以及单次脉冲信号的触发信号源;应用光耦HCPL-3120设计了具有过流、过压保护功能兼有电磁兼容（EMC）设计的IGBT驱动电路;对高压脉冲变压器进行建模并通过PSPICE软件仿真;搭建了实验平台,进行了联机性能测试。实验结果表明：在500 Hz的重复频率下,高压脉冲触发系统可连续稳定地输出高于38 kV的高压重频脉冲,基本满足CO2激光器的旋转火花开关稳定可靠触发的要求。     

Modeling of clarified tropical fruit juice deacidification by electrodialysis

Electrodialysis (ED) using two-stack configurations with homopolar or bipolar membranes was investigated for deacidification of tropical fruit juices (passion fruit, mulberry, naranjilla). The objective was to develop a mathematical treatment for ED to predict the behavior of a fruit juice at industrial scale from ED performances at laboratory scale. From parameters such as current efficiency, electric resistance of the anion exchange membrane, and coefficients of variation with temperature determined in a laboratory-scale stack, modeling was applied to a pilot-scale stack that has a total effective membrane area 70 times larger. If no fouling took place, and except for conductivity at pH higher than 3.8, the differences between the experimental and simulated values for pH, titrable acidity, voltage, and energy consumption were inferior to 7%, 16%, 20%, and 15%, respectively, for all the fruit juices and operating conditions. Moreover, the average electrical charge of citric acid species transferred was 2.16 for all fruit juices, indicating that the current transport was mainly due to the ionic species issued from the secondary dissociation of the citric acid.     

多羧基酞菁铜、乙酰基二茂铁改性CMC/CS双极膜的制备及表征

柔性链高分子聚乙二醇(PEG)分别与阳离子交换膜层羧甲基纤维素钠(CMC)、阴离子交换膜层壳聚糖(CS)共混以增强界面的相容性和膜的机械性能.以金属有机高分子多羧基酞菁铜(CuPc)改性CMC、乙酰基二茂铁改性CS,采用流延法制备了CuPc-mCMC/mCS双极膜.双极膜溶胀性和热重分析结果表明膜改性后稳定性能得到提高.膜交流阻抗、I-V工作曲线的测定结果表明该双极膜阻抗及工作电压均较小.双极膜经改性具有较高的离子渗透性能。     

Complement and Isomorphism on Bipolar Fuzzy Graphs

In this paper, we discuss some properties of the self complement and self weak complement bipolar fuzzy graphs, and get a sufficient condition for a bipolar fuzzy graph to be the self weak complement bipolar fuzzy graph. Also we investigate relations between operations union, join, and complement on bipolar fuzzy graphs.