Visible light emission from Si implanted SiO2 layers as a function of different annealing conditions ~temperature, time and ambient! is studied. It is shown that a 560 nm band, present in as implanted samples, increases its intensity for increasing annealing temperatures and is still observed after annealing at 1000 °C. The emission time is fast ~0.5–2 ns!. A second band centered at 780 nm is d...

The In2S3 thin film is prepared using sulfurate method under a vacuum in a sealed tube of amorphous indium thin film. The later film is pre-deposited on glass with thermal evaporation. We have studied the effect of the temperature and the annealing time on the structural and morphological properties In2S3 thin films. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) shows a good crystallinity found until the anneali...

The development, during annealing, of periodic one-dimensional ripple structure has been investigated. The nanoscale ripple array was fabricated on silicon(0 0 1) crystal surface using focused ion beam (FIB). Annealing was performed isothermally in a flowing argon gas ambient at 670 8C. The morphology of the ripple before and after annealing was analyzed by use of atomic force microscope. The h...

Beginning in 1983, simulated annealing was marketed as a global optimization methodology that mimics the physical annealing process by which molten substances cool to crystalline lattices of minimal energy. This marketing strategy had a polarizing effect, attracting those who delighted in metaphor and alienating others who found metaphor insufficient at best and facile at worst. In fact, the em...

introduction: we aimed to compare apical canal transportation of extracted teeth and two types of simulated resin blocks. materials and methods: mesiobuccal root of extracted maxillary molars, high hardness simulated resin blocks (knoop hardness=40) and low hardness simulated resin blocks (knoop hardness=22) were prepared with k-files using step-back technique (n=15 canals in each group). doubl...

Stochastic optimization methods such as evolutionary algorithms and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods usually involve a Markov search of the optimization domain. Evolutionary annealing is an evolutionary algorithm that leverages all the information gathered by previous queries to the cost function. Evolutionary annealing can be viewed either as simulated annealing with improved sampling or as a ...

Comparative study of optimization methods for estimation sea surface temperature and ocean wind with microwave radiometer data is conducted. The well known mesh method (Grid Search Method: GSM), regressive method, and simulated annealing method are compared. Surface emissivity is estimated with the simulated annealing and compared to the well known Thomas T. Wilheit model based emissivity. On t...

Infected cell protein 8 (ICP8) from herpes simplex virus 1 was first identified as a single-strand (ss) DNA-binding protein. It is essential for, and abundant during, viral replication. Studies in vitro have shown that ICP8 stimulates model replication reactions, catalyzes annealing of complementary ssDNAs and, in combination with UL12 exonuclease, will catalyze ssDNA annealing homologous recom...