Advantage of In-situ over Ex-situ techniques as reliability tool: Aging kinetics of Imec’s MCM-D discrete passives devices.

2003 ◽  
Vol 43 (9-11) ◽  
pp. 1785-1790
Author(s):  
P. Soussan ◽  
G. Lekens ◽  
R. Dreesen ◽  
W. De Ceuninck ◽  
E. Beyne
Keyword(s):  
Ex Situ ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Arzilli ◽  
Giuseppe La Spina ◽  
Mike R. Burton ◽  
Margherita Polacci ◽  
Nolwenn Le Gall ◽  
...  

<p>Basaltic eruptions are the most common form of volcanism on Earth and planetary bodies. The low viscosity of basaltic magmas generally favours effusive and mildly explosive volcanic activity. Highly explosive basaltic eruptions occur less frequently and their eruption mechanism still remains subject to debate, with implications for the significant hazard associated with explosive basaltic volcanism. Particularly, highly explosive eruptions require magma fragmentation, yet it is unclear how basaltic magmas can reach the fragmentation threshold.</p><p>In volcanic conduits, the crystallisation kinetics of an ascending magma are driven by degassing and cooling. So far, the crystallisation kinetics of magmas have been estimated through ex situ crystallization experiments. However, this experimental approach induces underestimation of crystallization kinetics in silicate melts. The   crystallization experiments reported in this study were performed in situ at Diamond Light Source (experiment EE12392 at the I12 beamline), Harwell, UK, using basalt from the 2001 Etna eruption as the starting material. We combined a bespoke high-temperature environmental cell with fast synchrotron X-ray microtomography to image the evolution of crystallization in real time. After 4 hours at sub-liquidus conditions (1170 °C and 1150 °C) the system was perturbed through a rapid cooling (0.4 °C/s), inducing a sudden increase of undercooling. Our study reports the first in situ observation of exceptionally rapid plagioclase and clinopyroxene crystallisation in trachybasaltic magmas. We combine these constraints on crystallisation kinetics and viscosity evolution with a numerical conduit model to show that exceptionally rapid syn-eruptive crystallisation is the fundamental process required to trigger basaltic magma fragmentation under high strain rates. Our in situ experimental and natural observations combined with a numerical conduit model allow us to conclude that pre-eruptive temperatures <1,100°C can promote highly explosive basaltic eruptions, such as Plinian volcanism, in which fragmentation is induced by fast syn-eruptive crystal growth under high undercooling and high decompression rates. This implies that all basaltic systems on Earth have the potential to produce powerful explosive eruptions.</p>


2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (S2) ◽  
pp. 408-409
Author(s):  
J. Lian ◽  
L. M. Wang ◽  
S. X. Wang ◽  
R. C. Ewing

The ion irradiation-induced crystalline-to-amorphous transformation has been studied in many complex ceramics. Direct impact amorphization has been considered to be one of the fundamental amorphization mechanisms for complex ceramics under heavy ion irradiation . Based on the directimpact model, a highly energetic incident ion transfers its kinetic energy to the target as a thermal spike within 10“13 sec creating a “molten-like” displacement cascade, typically nanometer-scaled in diameter (as indicated by the result of a computer simulation in Fig. 1). This “molten” zone quickly quenches to a small amorphous domain within a few pico-seconds. Epitaxial recrystallization occurs around the amorphous/crystalline interface, so that the size of amorphous domains decrease with time. The accumulation and overlap of small amorphous domains eventually leads to complete amorphization of the irradiated material. Although the in-situTEM technique with the setup shown in Fig. 2 has been extensively applied to the study of the amorphization process in complex ceramics, most of the previous studies relied on in-situobservation of the electron diffraction pattern, and there has been a lack of solid evidence of direct impact amorphization due to the small nature of the cascades and the rapid kinetics of its evolution.


2007 ◽  
Vol 47 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 657-659 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Zenkevich ◽  
Yu. Lebedinskii ◽  
G. Scarel ◽  
M. Fanciulli ◽  
A. Baturin ◽  
...  

Oil Shale ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 392
Author(s):  
Q Hong ◽  
Z Lei ◽  
Z Lidong ◽  
L Hongpeng ◽  
J Chunxia ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 1796-1808 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulia I Denisova ◽  
Maria L Gringolts ◽  
Alexander S Peregudov ◽  
Liya B Krentsel ◽  
Ekaterina A Litmanovich ◽  
...  

The cross-metathesis of polynorbornene and polyoctenamer in d-chloroform mediated by the 1st generation Grubbs’ catalyst Cl2(PCy3)2Ru=CHPh is studied by monitoring the kinetics of carbene transformation and evolution of the dyad composition of polymer chains with in situ 1H and ex situ 13C NMR spectroscopy. The results are interpreted in terms of a simple kinetic two-stage model. At the first stage of the reaction all Ru-benzylidene carbenes are transformed into Ru-polyoctenamers within an hour, while the polymer molar mass is considerably decreased. The second stage actually including interpolymeric reactions proceeds much slower and takes one day or more to achieve a random copolymer of norbornene and cyclooctene. Its rate is limited by the interaction of polyoctenamer-bound carbenes with polynorbornene units, which is hampered, presumably due to steric reasons. Polynorbornene-bound carbenes are detected in very low concentrations throughout the whole process thus indicating their higher reactivity, as compared with the polyoctenamer-bound ones. Macroscopic homogeneity of the reacting media is proved by dynamic light scattering from solutions containing the polymer mixture and its components. In general, the studied process can be considered as a new way to unsaturated multiblock statistical copolymers. Their structure can be controlled by the amount of catalyst, mixture composition, and reaction time. It is remarkable that this goal can be achieved with a catalyst that is not suitable for ring-opening metathesis copolymerization of norbornene and cis-cyclooctene because of their substantially different monomer reactivities.


2020 ◽  
Vol 175 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xizhi Yao ◽  
Fang Xia ◽  
Artur P. Deditius ◽  
Joël Brugger ◽  
Barbara E. Etschmann ◽  
...  

2000 ◽  
Vol 648 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Yakimov ◽  
V. Tokranov ◽  
S. Oktyabrsky

AbstractWe have studied the formation of InAs quantum dots (QDs) grown by molecular beam epitaxy on top of GaAs and 2 ML-thick AlAs layers in the temperature range from 350 to 500°C. In-situ reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED) patterns were recorded in real time during the growth and analyzed to characterize the 2D-to-3D transition on the surface, including QD formation, and ripening process. The kinetics of QD formation was studied using the InAs growth rates ranging from 0.01 to 1 ML/s and different ratios of As2/In fluxes. RHEED patterns and ex-situ atomic force microscopy images were analyzed to reveal the development of sizes and shapes of the single-layer and stacked QD ensembles. The critical InAs coverage for QD formation was shown to be consistently higher for dots grown on the AlAs overlayer than for those grown on GaAs surface. Self-assembly of multilayer QD stacks revealed the reduction of the critical thickness for dots formed in the upper layers.


2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (a1) ◽  
pp. C505-C505
Author(s):  
Cecilia Granados ◽  
Espen Bøjesen ◽  
Kirsten Jensen ◽  
Mogens Christensen

SrFe12O19 is a highly anisotropic ferrimagnetic compound with relatively high remanence and high coercivity, which is used in permanent magnets. Permanent magnets are everywhere in our daily life and they are responsible for the interconversion between motion and electricity in electrical components ranging from headphones to wind turbines. Three key parameters, important for making permanent magnets, are an anisotropic structure, size of the nanocrystallites and the microstructure. In situ X-ray powder diffraction has been used to follow the growth kinetics of SrFe12O19 under hydrothermal conditions. Synthesis of SrFe12O19 (Sr-Hexaferrite) nanocrystals by hydrothermal methods have the advantage of allowing exhaustive control of the reaction parameters. We have studied the growth and kinetics of SrFe12O19 by carring out time resolved synchrotron experiments at MAX-lab, Sweden. The experiments were carried out at elevated pressure (250 bar) and in temperatures ranging from 250 to 400 oC. The diffraction data allow us to follow the evolution of the crystallite size as function of temperature, time and composition. By controlling the composition of the precursor we can tailor the size of the nanocrystallites. The obtained data have shown that the synthesis takes place through a conversion of tiny hexagonal shaped FeOOH nanocrystallites into the SrFe12O19. Several ex situ studies under comparable conditions have been carried out to compare the magnetic properties and the obtained nanocrystallites have been investigated using high resolution laboratory powder diffraction data.


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