The study evaluated copper, boron, and silicon release from wood samples treated with sol-gel formulations based on tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) and 3aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES) functionalized with copper (II) chloride and boric acid, respectively. The adopted leaching procedure was Japanese protocol JIS K 1571 (2004). Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-AES) and Ele...

Ozone/TEOS thermal chemical vapor deposition ~CVD! has been investigated for SiO2 deposition on Si, using a cold-wall research reactor equipped to determine the effects of precursor concentration, deposition temperature ~300–500 °C!, and pressure ~30–200 Torr! on deposition rates, etch rates, and step coverage in the regime of subatmospheric CVD ~SACVD!. Deposition rates first increase with sub...

Highly monodisperse 1,3-phenylene-bridged hybrid organosilica spheres (m-PHS) were synthesized by co-condensation of tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) and 1,3-bis(triethoxysilyl)benzene (1,3-BTEB) using dodecylamine (DDA) and cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) as templates. In this method, three important factors are the surfactants, the ethanol–water volume ratio and the TEOS/1,3-BTEB molar ratio. T...

High resolution 295i and 170 NMR spectroscopy has been used to identify selfand cross-condensation products in sols prepared from tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) and organically modified triethoxysilanes (RTES, where R is a methyl, ethyl or phenyl group). The sols were prepared by the acid catalyzed hydrolysis of TEOS and RTES with H20/Si mole ratios of 0.15, 0.3 or 0.5. Resonance assignments were mad...

Interlaminar shear strength (ILSS) of fiber reinforced polymer composite is an important property for most of the structural applications. Matrix modification is an effective method used to improve the interlaminar shear strength of composite. In this paper, EPON 862/w epoxy system was modified using Tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) electrospun nanofibers (ENFs) which were produced using electro...

The effect of lowK polymer passivation on electrical leakage was investigated to evaluate the reliability of polymer integration on device wafers. Polyimide passivation over Al(0.5%Cu) interconnects inlaid in TEOS increases the intralevel leakage current mainly along the polyimide/ TEOS interface. Moisture absorbed in the polyimide, as confirmed by residual gas analysis, further increases the i...

Tetraethoxy orthosilicate (TEOS) was used not only as a precursor of silica, but also as an agent which reinforces the skeleton of silica-gel to prepare an aerogel and resultant silica and silica-alumina with large pore size and pore volume. In this gel skeletal reinforcement, the strength of silica aerogel skeleton was enhanced by aging with TEOS/2-propanol mixed solution to prevent the shrink...

Four-component xerogel films consisting of 1 mole-% n-octadecyltrimethoxysilane (C18) and 50 mole-% tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) in combination with 1-24 mole-% tridecafluoro-1,1,2,2-tetrahydrooctyltriethoxysilane (TDF) and 25-48 mole-% n-octyltriethoxysilane (C8) and a 1:49:50 mole-% C18/TDF/TEOS were prepared. Settlement of barnacle cyprids and removal of juvenile barnacles, settlement of zoospor...

Mesoporous silica materials with a variety of morphologies, such as monodisperse microspheres, gigantic hollow structures comprising a thin shell with a hole, and gigantic hollow structures consisting of an outer thin shell and an inner layer composed of many small spheres, have been readily synthesized in mixed water-ethanol solvents at room temperature using cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CT...

We present applications of the twoand three-dimensional general purpose topography simulator ELSA (Enhanced Level Set Applications) for semiconductor manufacturing processes. The first process considered is the deposition of silicon dioxide from TEOS for power MOSFETs. For backend processes in addition to a TEOS process, the deposition of silicon nitride into interconnect lines, where two and t...