Physical Structure and Inversion Charge at a Semiconductor Interface with a Crystalline Oxide

ABSTRACTIn this work, we report on an instability which affects the field effect mobility in 4HSiC MOSFETs. The devices (MOSFETs and capacitors) were subjected to a biastemperature stress (BTS) for 30 minutes at 150°C at stress voltages corresponding to oxide fields upto 1MV/cm. Following a positive BTS(i.e. gate voltage positive), the field effect mobility increased by upto two orders of magnitude from the original value; upon application of a negative BTS to the MOSFET, the device characteristics degraded to the unstressed state. The high mobility state could be recovered by a positive BTS and was reversible with repeated bias stressing. An explanation of this phenomenon is proposed based on the effect of interfacial ions on the dependence of both trapped charge and inversion charge densities on gate bias.

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The Fine Structure of the Sheath of Volvox Carteri f. Weismannia

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100079231 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 35 ◽

pp. 346-347

Author(s):

Regina Birchem

Keyword(s):

Developmental Stages ◽

Ruthenium Red ◽

Sulfated Polysaccharides ◽

Volvox Carteri ◽

High Voltage Electron Microscopy ◽

Ultrastructural Studies ◽

Voltage Electron ◽

Sheath Formation ◽

And Inversion ◽

Sheath Material

Spheroids of the green colonial alga Volvox consist of biflagellate Chlamydomonad-like cells embedded in a transparent sheath. The sheath, important as a substance through which metabolic materials, light, and the sexual inducer must pass to and from the cells, has been shown to have an ordered structure (1,2). It is composed of both protein and carbohydrate (3); studies of V. rousseletii indicate an outside layer of sulfated polysaccharides (4).Ultrastructural studies of the sheath material in developmental stages of V. carteri f. weismannia were undertaken employing variations in the standard fixation procedure, ruthenium red, diaminobenzidine, and high voltage electron microscopy. Sheath formation begins after the completion of cell division and inversion of the daughter spheroids. Golgi, rough ER, and plasma membrane are actively involved in phases of sheath synthesis (Fig. 1). Six layers of ultrastructurally differentiated sheath material have been identified.

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Exsolution and inversion in pigeonite from the Whin Sill, Northern England

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100109513 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 36 (1) ◽

pp. 474-475

Author(s):

P.P.K. Smith

Keyword(s):

High Temperature ◽

Low Temperature ◽

Homogeneous Nucleation ◽

Silicate Mineral ◽

Antiphase Boundaries ◽

Two Phase ◽

Primitive Form ◽

The Core ◽

Nucleation Mechanisms ◽

And Inversion

Grains of pigeonite, a calcium-poor silicate mineral of the pyroxene group, from the Whin Sill dolerite have been ion-thinned and examined by TEM. The pigeonite is strongly zoned chemically from the composition Wo8En64FS28 in the core to Wo13En34FS53 at the rim. Two phase transformations have occurred during the cooling of this pigeonite:- exsolution of augite, a more calcic pyroxene, and inversion of the pigeonite from the high- temperature C face-centred form to the low-temperature primitive form, with the formation of antiphase boundaries (APB's). Different sequences of these exsolution and inversion reactions, together with different nucleation mechanisms of the augite, have created three distinct microstructures depending on the position in the grain.In the core of the grains small platelets of augite about 0.02μm thick have farmed parallel to the (001) plane (Fig. 1). These are thought to have exsolved by homogeneous nucleation. Subsequently the inversion of the pigeonite has led to the creation of APB's.

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