The effect of hot isostatic pressure processing (HIP) on MnAl films has been compared to vacuum annealing for the purpose of obtaining substantial amounts of tau phase MnAl in films under 200 nm. Films were deposited ...
The effect of hot isostatic pressure processing (HIP) on MnAl films has been compared to vacuum annealing for the purpose of obtaining substantial amounts of tau phase MnAl in films under 200 nm. Films were deposited by dc sputtering from both MnAlNiC an MnAl targets. As-deposited films were nearly amorphous. Post deposition annealing in vacuum produced only small amounts of the ferromagnetic tau-phase in films thinner than 200 *** all instances, regardless of substrate and sputtering target, the use of HIP in place of vacuum annealing increased the degree of crystallinity of the samples when compared to those annealed in vacuum. For the 100 nm samples deposited from the MnAlNiC target, these changes in crystallinity were accompanied by changes in the M-H loops of the samples. MnAlNiC HIP samples had improved magnetic properties compared to those of equal thickness annealed in vacuum. The 100 nm HIP sample sputtered from the MnAl target also showed an increase in moment, though the changes were not as dramatic as those seen in the samples sputtered from the MnAlNiC *** 50 nm films from both targets also showed a change in crystallinity when compared to vacuum annealed samples. These films, unlike the 100 nm films, had ferromagnetic properties that were no better than those of the vacuum annealed samples. This suggests that while the 2 kbar of pressure used in this study assists in the formation of tau-phase in 100 nm films, the appropriate pressure for forming tau-phase in 50 nm films is yet to be determined.
Silicon carbide whisker reinforcement can significantly reduce creep rates in polycrystalline alumina [1], but the system SiC/Al2O3 is thermodynamically unstable in air and oxidizes to mullite during creep testing [2]...
Silicon carbide whisker reinforcement can significantly reduce creep rates in polycrystalline alumina [1], but the system SiC/Al2O3 is thermodynamically unstable in air and oxidizes to mullite during creep testing [2]. The system SiC/Si3N4 was investigated as a potentially more stable, high temperature structural composite. Silicon carbide whiskers were successfully incorporated into a silicon nitride matrix doped with alumina and yttria. Processing involved mixing dispersed slurries of silicon carbide and silicon nitride, adding the dopants as a solution of their nitrates and subsequently increasing the pH to precipitate the additive hydroxides. The resulting slurries were filter pressed at room temperature and hot pressed at 1650°C in graphite dies to full density. X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy confirmed the presence of β-Si3N4, α-SiC and trace quantities of α-Si3N4, confirming that the α-β Si3N4 reaction occurred. An additional, as yet unidentified, minor phase was also detected. Whisker reinforcement was shown to increase the room temperature flexural strength and fracture toughness but high temperature creep performance was unaffected by whisker reinforcement.
Structural characterization of phenylacetylene dendrimers (PADs) makes it possible to explore the relationship between molecular architecture and condensed phase organization. The size and geometry of the PAD series i...
Structural characterization of phenylacetylene dendrimers (PADs) makes it possible to explore the relationship between molecular architecture and condensed phase organization. The size and geometry of the PAD series is precisely controlled, with phenylacetylene units emanating from a central phenylene in the manner of a tridendron. The branched molecule rapidly increases in size with each synthetic generation. The “shape-persistent” nature of the phenylacetylene molecule makes it ideal for use in the construction of self-assembling supramolecular systems. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has been used to identify the crystal structure of lower generation PADs, and wide-angle X-ray studies confirm the decrease in crystallinity with size. Hot stage optical microscopy studies of thermal transitions reveal melting points for lower generation PADs, and an apparent glass transition for the amorphous higher generations. This type of structural information is essential to the rational design of self-assembling materials.
Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is used as the main memory in every personal computer, due to its high density, high speed and efficient memory function. The ever-shrinking dimensions of DRAM cells with increasing...
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Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is used as the main memory in every personal computer, due to its high density, high speed and efficient memory function. The ever-shrinking dimensions of DRAM cells with increasing packing density made the cell's capacitor size to be smaller. For successful operation of DRAM, a large cell capacitance (~ 25 fF) and low leakage current (10 -7 A/cm 2 or 1 fA/cell) are required. In a traditional Si-based capacitor, the target cell capacitance has been achieved by increasing the surface area of the capacitor. More recently, innovations have been made by development of the component materials. A metal electrode, TiN or Ru, and a dielectric material with a moderate-k value (k is the relative dielectric constant), such as HfO 2 (k ~ 25) and ZrO 2 (k ~ 40), are being explored in giga-bit scale DRAMs. The minimum achievable t ox is ~ 0.7 nm for ZrO 2 which is being used currently in DRAM industry. However, the technology road map for memory devices states that t ox of less than 0.45 nm is necessary for the DRAMs with a design rule of 3 (STO) and (Ba, Sr)TiO 3 were reported to exhibit k values of several hundreds. However, growth of these films showed very slow growth rate and much more complicated processes than growth of binary oxide with the atomic layer deposition (ALD) technique which is a method of choice for the growth of the dielectric films and electrodes in microelectronic devices. Therefore, material and process innovations are necessary for next generation DRAM capacitors.
Lithological information, rock mass fracture data and discontinuity shear strength obtained through field investigations have been used to conduct block theory analyses for the rock slopes that exist in the dam site t...
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The equations exist in the literature to estimate corrected mean trace length and corrected two dimensional density of a discontinuity set using area sampling technique are critically reviewed. A shortcoming that exis...
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Soft and high magnetic moment Co37Fe63 films were electro-deposited with variable additives on Cu/Ti/Si substrates. The correlation between structure and magnetic properties has been investigated. TEM showed the cryst...
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Soft and high magnetic moment Co37Fe63 films were electro-deposited with variable additives on Cu/Ti/Si substrates. The correlation between structure and magnetic properties has been investigated. TEM showed the crystal structure of the films to be BCC with a 〈111〉 texture, and a grain size in the range of 10-20 nm. Oxygen in the deposited films has been identified by EDS and EELS using HAADF STEM. SIMS analysis revealed the presence of hydrogen and oxygen in the deposited CoFe films. Electron microscopy results showed that the oxygen was mainly distributed along the grain boundaries in the CoFe film. In regions where oxygen was present in the films, the Fe content was enhanced relative to Co. The magnetic properties of the deposits have been measured by Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM), quantifying the impact of incorporated oxygen in the film on the saturation magnetization and the coercivity.
A series of thermo-responsive and water-soluble 4- and 8-arm star-branched poly(2-(2′-methoxyethoxy)ethyl methacrylate) (poly(1)) with well-defined structures were synthesized by living anionic polymerization of 1, f...
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We successfully engineered Si nano-columns with different cross-sectional geometries by e-beam evaporation with an angle between source and substrate. The Si nano-columns were grown as pillars with square, triangle an...
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We successfully engineered Si nano-columns with different cross-sectional geometries by e-beam evaporation with an angle between source and substrate. The Si nano-columns were grown as pillars with square, triangle and linear cross sections in in-plane. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) isolated from the bone marrow stroma of young adult rats were cultured on these different Si nanosurfaces. We found that the behaviour of MSCs highly depended on the geometry of nano-topography so that mesenchymal stem cells were differentiated and induced CaP precipitation on square-cross-sectional Si nano-columns without growth factor in the culture medium.
In most of the ternary (and higher-order) ferromagnetic shape memory alloys (FSMAs) with compositions close to the A2BC stoichiometry, the austenite phase exhibits L21-type ordering. Recent investigations of the Co-Ni...
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In most of the ternary (and higher-order) ferromagnetic shape memory alloys (FSMAs) with compositions close to the A2BC stoichiometry, the austenite phase exhibits L21-type ordering. Recent investigations of the Co-Ni-Ga FSMA system, however, suggest that the austenite phase has B2-type ordering, although definite confirmation remains elusive. In this work, we present a theoretical investigation of the effect of configurational order on the magnetic properties of the ordered (L21) and disordered (B2) FSMA Co2NiGa. Through the use of calculations based on density functional theory, we predict the structural and magnetic properties (including magnetic exchange constants) of ordered and disordered Co2NiGa alloys. We validate our calculation of the magnetic exchange constants by extracting the Curie temperatures of the austenite and martensite structures and comparing them to experimental results. By constructing a q-state Potts magnetic Hamiltonian and through the use of lattice Monte Carlo simulation, we predict the finite-temperature behavior of the magnetization and magnetic susceptibility as well as the magnetic specific heat and entropy. The role of configurational order in the magnetic properties of the phases involved in the martensitic phase transformation is discussed, and predictions of the magnitude of the magnetic contributions to the transformation entropy are presented. The calculations are compared to experimental information available in the literature as well as experiments performed by the authors. It is concluded that in FSMAs magnetism plays a fundamental role in determining the relative stability of the austenite and martensite phases, which in turn determines the martensitic transformation temperature Ms, irrespective of whether magnetic fields are used to drive the transformation.
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