Hydrogen Passivation Kinetics of Si Nanocrystals in SiO2

2003 ◽  
Vol 770 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew R. Wilkinson ◽  
Robert G. Elliman

AbstractHydrogen passivation of non-radiative defects increases the luminescence intensity from silicon nanocrystals. In this study, photoluminescence (PL) and time-resolved PL were used to investigate the chemical kinetics of the hydrogen passivation process. Isochronal and isothermal annealing sequences were used to determine the reaction kinetics for the absorption and desorption of hydrogen, using the generalised consistent simple thermal (GST) model proposed by Stesmans for Pb defects at planar Si/SiO2 interfaces. This included determination of the activation energies and rate constants for the forward and reverse reactions as well as the associated spread in activation energies. The reaction kinetics determined from such measurements were found to be in excellent agreement with those for the passivation of Pb defects at planar Si/SiO2 interfaces, suggesting the nanocrystal emission process is also limited by such defects. These results provide useful model data as well as insight into the processing conditions needed to achieve optimum passivation in H2. As an extension to the work, a preliminary study into passivation by atomic hydrogen was pursued via a post-metallization Al anneal (alneal). A considerable gain in luminescence efficiency was achieved over the previously optimised passivation in H2.

1990 ◽  
Vol 68 (6) ◽  
pp. 881-885 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas L. Huizenga ◽  
Howard H. Patterson

The reaction of Cr(III) with chelate-forming carboxylate ligands can be monitored at the low ligand concentrations typical of natural waters by chemiluminescence analysis of unreacted Cr(III). This technique is utilized here for the measurement of Cr(III) reaction kinetics with oxalate, salicylate, and humic acid over a wider ligand concentration range than previously reported. Variation of the pH and ligand concentrations allowd the determination of rates of reaction by three pathways with different pH dependencies. The magnitude of rate constants of these pathways for Cr(III) with inorganic (Cl−, SCN−) and carboxylate ligands gives insight into the reaction pathways for the environmentally important ligand humic acid. Keywords: Cr(III), oxalate, salicylate, humic acid.


Author(s):  
Diana Spiegelberg ◽  
Jonas Stenberg ◽  
Pascale Richalet ◽  
Marc Vanhove

AbstractDesign of next-generation therapeutics comes with new challenges and emulates technology and methods to meet them. Characterizing the binding of either natural ligands or therapeutic proteins to cell-surface receptors, for which relevant recombinant versions may not exist, represents one of these challenges. Here we report the characterization of the interaction of five different antibody therapeutics (Trastuzumab, Rituximab, Panitumumab, Pertuzumab, and Cetuximab) with their cognate target receptors using LigandTracer. The method offers the advantage of being performed on live cells, alleviating the need for a recombinant source of the receptor. Furthermore, time-resolved measurements, in addition to allowing the determination of the affinity of the studied drug to its target, give access to the binding kinetics thereby providing a full characterization of the system. In this study, we also compared time-resolved LigandTracer data with end-point KD determination from flow cytometry experiments and hypothesize that discrepancies between these two approaches, when they exist, generally come from flow cytometry titration curves being acquired prior to full equilibration of the system. Our data, however, show that knowledge of the kinetics of the interaction allows to reconcile the data obtained by flow cytometry and LigandTracer and demonstrate the complementarity of these two methods.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1010-1012 ◽  
pp. 528-531
Author(s):  
Chao Yin ◽  
Jia Lu ◽  
Xiao Hou Shao ◽  
Xin Yu Mao ◽  
Long Wang ◽  
...  

EM enrichment culture liquid was immobilized on nano-silica carrier to form microbial nano ball, so as to investigate the reaction kinetics of ammonia nitrogen (NH4+-N) by microbial nano ball. The results showed that first order reaction kinetics model could describe NH4+-N removal by different diameter microbial nano-silica balls well. And the microbe could keep higher biological activity between 0-72h. Reaction kinetic equations of NH4+-N were: (1) when diameter was 10mm, (0-48h), (48-72h); (2) when diameter was 20mm, (0-48h), (48-72h); (3) (0-48h), (48-72h).


2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 953-961 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Lladó Maldonado ◽  
J. Krull ◽  
D. Rasch ◽  
P. Panjan ◽  
A. M. Sesay ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 259-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ramezani ◽  
Priscilla Tremain ◽  
Elham Doroodchi ◽  
Behdad Moghtaderi

2006 ◽  
Vol 103 (25) ◽  
pp. 9410-9415 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. K. Kim ◽  
M. Lorenc ◽  
J. H. Lee ◽  
M. Lo Russo ◽  
J. Kim ◽  
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