scholarly journals Erratum to “Reliability Characterization of a Low-k Dielectric Using Magnetoresistance as a Diagnostic Tool”

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-661
Author(s):  
Philip A. Williams ◽  
James R. Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saleem Farooq ◽  
Ruqeya Nazir ◽  
Shabir Ahmad Ganai ◽  
Bashir Ahmad Ganai

AbstractAs an approach to the exploration of cold-active enzymes, in this study, we isolated a cold-active protease produced by psychrotrophic bacteria from glacial soils of Thajwas Glacier, Himalayas. The isolated strain BO1, identified as Bacillus pumilus, grew well within a temperature range of 4–30 °C. After its qualitative and quantitative screening, the cold-active protease (Apr-BO1) was purified. The Apr-BO1 had a molecular mass of 38 kDa and showed maximum (37.02 U/mg) specific activity at 20 °C, with casein as substrate. It was stable and active between the temperature range of 5–35 °C and pH 6.0–12.0, with an optimum temperature of 20 °C at pH 9.0. The Apr-BO1 had low Km value of 1.0 mg/ml and Vmax 10.0 µmol/ml/min. Moreover, it displayed better tolerance to organic solvents, surfactants, metal ions and reducing agents than most alkaline proteases. The results exhibited that it effectively removed the stains even in a cold wash and could be considered a decent detergent additive. Furthermore, through protein modelling, the structure of this protease was generated from template, subtilisin E of Bacillus subtilis (PDB ID: 3WHI), and different methods checked its quality. For the first time, this study reported the protein sequence for psychrotrophic Apr-BO1 and brought forth its novelty among other cold-active proteases.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Travis D. Frazer ◽  
Joshua L. Knobloch ◽  
Jorge N. Hernández-Charpak ◽  
Kathleen M. Hoogeboom-Pot ◽  
Damiano Nardi ◽  
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2006 ◽  
Vol 914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masazumi Matsuura ◽  
Kinya Goto ◽  
Noriko Miura ◽  
Shinobu Hashii ◽  
Koyu Asai

AbstractThis paper describes film characterization of Ultra Low-k (ULK) dielectrics modified by UV curing with different wavelength bands. We have demonstrated UV hardening of ULK-SiOC (k=2.65) with two types of UV bulbs (UV-X and UV-Y) and the UV modifications of ULK-SiOC film properties are characterized by using FT-IR spectroscopy, 29Si Solid-state NMR spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy. FT-IR and NMR analyses reveal that UV-Y curing is preferable for UV curing modification of ULK-SiOC. UV-Y curing increases Q mode peak in NMR, resulting in the enhanced Si-O crosslinking, while UV-X curing increases TH mode and TOR mode peaks. Spin lattice relaxation time T1 for 29Si is decreased with UV curing. This result indicates that UV curing enhances molecular motion in Si-O network. Raman analysis shows that UV curing increases amorphous carbon groups, which corresponds to the enhanced molecular motion in Si-O network.


2005 ◽  
Vol 82 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 368-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Chérault ◽  
G. Carlotti ◽  
N. Casanova ◽  
P. Gergaud ◽  
C. Goldberg ◽  
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1999 ◽  
Vol 565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuan Hu ◽  
Michael Morgen ◽  
Paul S. Ho ◽  
Anurag Jain ◽  
William. N. Gill ◽  
...  

AbstractA quantitative characterization of the thermal properties is required to assess the thermal performance of low dielectric constant materials. Recently we have developed a technique based on the 3-omega method for measuring the thermal conductivity of porous dielectric thin films. In this paper we present the results on the measurements of thermal conductivity of thin porous films using this method. A finite element method analysis is used to evaluate the approximations used in the measurement. Two porosity-weighted thermal resistor models are proposed to interpret the results. By studying the dependence of the thermal conductivity on porosity, we are able to discuss the scaling rule of thermal conductivity. Additionally, a steady state layered heater model is used for evaluating the significance of introducing porous ILDs into an interconnect structure.


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