Growth of epitaxial gold silicide islands on bromine-passivated Si(111) substrates has been studied by optical and electron microscopy, electron probe micro analysis and helium ion backscattering. The islands grow in the shape of equilateral triangles up to a critical size beyond which the symmetry of the structure is broken, resulting in a shape transition from triangle to trape-zoid. The isla...

We propose to investigate the possibility of Compton backscattering low energy laser pulses off the spent electron and positron beams at the International Linear Collider. The hot backscattered photons would then scatter off fixed targets for a rich variety of physics studies in a scheme dubbed BACKGAMMON, for BACKscattered GAMMas On Nucleons. The first objective would be to operate a heavy qua...

Indium-tin-oxide (ITO) nanowhiskers with attractive electrical and anti-reflection properties were prepared by the glancing-angle electron-beam evaporation technique. Structural and crystalline properties of such nanostructures were examined by scanning transmission electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction. Their frequency-dependent complex conductivities, refractive indices and absorption coe...

The reactions in the Si/TaC/Cu and Si/Ta2N/Cu metallisation systems were investigated by x-ray diffraction, Rutherford backscattering, scanning electron microscope and the transmission electron microscopy. The results were then combined with the assessed ternary SiTa-C, Ta-C-Cu, Si-Ta-N and Ta-N-Cu phase diagrams. It was found that both barriers ultimately failed due to diffusion of Cu through ...

Experimental and theoretical results are presented on the electronic structure of molybdenum tris[1,2-bis(trifluoromethyl) ethane-1,2-dithiolene] (Mo(tfd)(3)), a high electron-affinity organometallic complex that constitutes a promising candidate as a p-dopant for organic molecular semiconductors. The electron affinity of the compound, determined via inverse photoemission spectroscopy, is 5.6 e...

We introduce a quantitative method that utilizes scanning electron microscopy for the analysis of protein chips (SEMPC). SEMPC is based upon counting target-coated gold particles interacting specifically with ligands or proteins arrayed on a derivative microscope glass slide by utilizing backscattering electron detection. As model systems, we quantified the interactions of biotin and streptavid...

We have irradiated Czochralski silicon (Cz-Si) and Float Zone silicon (Fz-Si) detectors with 24GeV=c and 10MeV protons. Samples were characterized with Capacitance-Voltage measurements (CV), Transient Current Technique (TCT) and secondary electron backscattering recorded by Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). We present the evolution of the effective doping concentration as a function of irradi...

Indium tin oxide (ITO) thin films were prepared by the sol–gel dip-coating (SGDC) technique. The microstructure and electrical properties of ITO thin films crystallized using rapid thermal annealing (RTA) were compared with those of films prepared by classic thermal annealing (CTA). ITO thin films were successfully prepared by CTA at 500 jC for 30–60 min. At the same temperature of 500 jC and w...

In this paper, the backscattering properties of a perfect electric conducting sphere coated with layered anisotropic media whose constitutive parameters are close to nihility are investigated. We show that the backscattering is more sensitive to the radial constitutive parameters than to the tangential ones. Compared with isotropic case, the anisotropic media with small axial parameters have th...