We consider the dependence of the capacitance C of the semiconductor depletion layer versus the contact bias V . When the concentration of doping impurities varies in the plane parallel to the contact, we show that the standard Schottky dependence C−2(V ) is no longer a straight line. We compute the effective concentration Neff from the slope of the dependence C−2(V ) by using the perturbation ...

We show that well-defined three-dimensional nanostructures of functional enzymes can be controllably fabricated by layer-by-layer assembly of avidin and biotinylated horseradish peroxidase on micro-contact printing patterned surface templates.

In this paper, we investigate the cross-layer optimization problem of congestion and power control in cognitive radio ad hoc networks (CRANETs) under predictable contact constraint. To measure the uncertainty of contact between any pair of secondary users (SUs), we construct the predictable contact model by attaining the probability distribution of contact. In particular, we propose a distribut...

The underwater contact angle behavior on oxide layers of varying thicknesses was studied. These oxide layers were grown by thermally oxidizing C84400 copper alloys in N2-0.75 wt.% O2 and N2-5 wt.% O2 gas mixtures at 650 °C. Characterization of the oxidized specimens was effected using X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope (SEM) and contact angle goniometer. The results from the X-ray ...

For n-type solar cell concepts, B emitters are commonly diffused in a BBr3-based process. However, the metallization of these p layers is challenging. Up to now, low contact resistances on B emitters were only reported to be possible using Al-containing Ag screen-printing pastes. A drawback of the addition of Al to the paste is that, facilitated by the Al, deep metal spikes grow into the Si sur...

Sophisticated manipulation of surface roughness and solid surface energy are widely used to design super-hydrophobic layers. In this work, we designed highly porous silica layer with contact angle (CA) of 145°, and its robustness was promoted with thermal treatment. Wettability of coated layer is studied with CA measurement for different liquid surface tensions using diluted organi...

To achieve low contact resistance between metal and III-V material, transmission-line-model (TLM) structures of molybdenum (Mo) were fabricated on indium phosphide (InP) substrate on the top of an indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) layer grown by molecular beam epitaxy. The contact layer was prepared using a digital etch procedure before metal deposition. The contact resistivity was found to decr...