In situ TEM of silicon oxidation

Author(s):  
J. Murray Gibson ◽  
F.M. Ross ◽  
R.D. Twesten

Oxidation is an important process in materials science. Silicon oxidation is particularly relevant for electronic device fabrication, but it also provides a model system. We report here the use of in-situ TEM for the examination of the microstructural details of the oxidation process.

Author(s):  
F. M. Ross ◽  
R. Hull ◽  
D. Bahnck ◽  
J. C. Bean ◽  
L. J. Peticolas ◽  
...  

We describe an investigation of the electrical properties of interfacial dislocations in strained layer heterostructures. We have been measuring both the structural and electrical characteristics of strained layer p-n junction diodes simultaneously in a transmission electron microscope, enabling us to correlate changes in the electrical characteristics of a device with the formation of dislocations.The presence of dislocations within an electronic device is known to degrade the device performance. This degradation is of increasing significance in the design and processing of novel strained layer devices which may require layer thicknesses above the critical thickness (hc), where it is energetically favourable for the layers to relax by the formation of misfit dislocations at the strained interfaces. In order to quantify how device performance is affected when relaxation occurs we have therefore been investigating the electrical properties of dislocations at the p-n junction in Si/GeSi diodes.


1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph W. Lyding ◽  
Roger T. Brockenbrough ◽  
Patrick J. Fay ◽  
John R. Tucker ◽  
Karl Hess

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (37) ◽  
pp. 14979-14990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rakesh Purkait ◽  
Arka Dey ◽  
Sunanda Dey ◽  
Partha Pratim Ray ◽  
Chittaranjan Sinha

Designing a small organic molecule for fluorescence sensing and electrical conductivity is a challenging task.


RSC Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (86) ◽  
pp. 54491-54499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikhail Shekhirev ◽  
Timothy H. Vo ◽  
Donna A. Kunkel ◽  
Alexey Lipatov ◽  
Axel Enders ◽  
...  

Atomically precise chevron graphene nanoribbons can form bulk π–π stacked aggregates as well as few-μm-long one-dimensional structures on surfaces that could be used for electronic device fabrication.


1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (S2) ◽  
pp. 736-737
Author(s):  
J.S. Yin ◽  
Z.L. Wang

Nanocrystal materials are an emerging research field of chemistry, physics and materials science. The size and shape specificity of nanocrystals suggests them as building blocks for constructing selfassembly passivated nanocrystals superlattices (NCS's) or nanocrystals arrays (NCA) [1-6]. In this paper, NCAs of CoO with controlled tetrahedral shape are reported and their structural stability is examined by in-situ TEM.Cobalt oxide nanocrystals were synthesized by chemical decomposition of Co2(CO)8 in toluene under oxygen atmosphere, as given in detail elsewhere [1].Sodium bis(2-ethylhexyl) sulfosuccinate (Na(AOT)) was added as a surface active agent, forming an ordered monolayer passivation (called the thiolate) over the nanocrystal surface. The particle size was controlled by adjusting the wt.% ratio between the precursor and Na(AOT). The as-prepared solution contained Co, CoO and possibly C03O4 nanoparticles, and pure CoO nanoparticles were separated by applying a small magnetic field, which is generated by a horseshoe permanent magnet in vertical direction.


2014 ◽  
Vol 116 (2) ◽  
pp. 403-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Garner ◽  
Scott Glaesemann ◽  
Xinghua Li

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