Thick GaN layers were grown by hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) with the aim of using these layers as a homoepitaxial substrate to improve device quality of laser diodes or light emitting diodes. HVPE is very useful for thick layer growth since the growth rate can reach from several ten up to one hundred micron per hour. In this experiment, the growth began as selective growth through openings formed in a SiO2 mask. Facets consisting of {1101} planes were formed in the early stage and a continuous film developed from the coalescence of these facets on the SiO2 mask. As a result, GaN layers with a dislocation density as low as 6×107 cm-2 were grown on 2-inch-diameter sapphire wafers. These GaN layers were crack-free and had mirror-like surface.
The structure of acetonitrile−water mixtures has been investigated by X-ray diffraction with an imaging
plate detector and IR spectroscopy over a wide range of acetonitrile mole fractions (0.0 ≤ X
AN ≤ 1.0). Reichardt
E
T
N and Sone-Fukuda D
II,I values were also measured for the mixtures. It has been found from the X-ray
data that in pure acetonitrile an acetonitrile molecule interacts with two nearest neighbors by antiparallel
dipole−dipole interaction together with a small shift of the two molecular centers and that two acetonitrile
molecules in the second-neighbor shell interact with a central molecule through parallel dipole−dipole
interaction. Thus, acetonitrile molecules are alternately aligned to form a zigzag cluster. On addition of
water into pure acetonitrile, water molecules interact with acetonitrile molecules through a dipole−dipole
interaction in an antiparallel orientation. The IR spectra of O−D and C⋮N stretching vibrations, observed
for mixtures of acetonitrile AN and water containing 20% D2O, suggested that hydrogen bonds are also
formed between acetonitrile and water molecules in the mixtures at X
AN ≤ 0.8. The average numbers of the
first- and second-neighbor acetonitrile molecules gradually increase with increasing water content with an
almost constant first-neighbor distance and slightly decreased second-neighbor ones. Thus, acetonitrile
molecules are assembled to form three-dimensionally expanded clusters; the acetonitrile clusters are surrounded
by water molecules through both hydrogen bonding and dipole−dipole interaction. The X-ray radial distribution
functions and IR spectra suggest that the hydrogen bond network of water is enhanced in the mixtures at X
AN
< 0.6. The concentration dependence of E
T
N and D
II,I values determined reflects well the above-mentioned
behavior of water molecules in the mixtures. These findings suggest that both water and acetonitrile clusters
coexist in the mixtures in the range of 0.2 ≤ X
AN < 0.6, i.e., “microheterogeneity” occurs in the acetonitrile−water mixtures.
Completely vertical trench gate metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) have been produced using gallium nitride (GaN) for the first time. These MOSFETs exhibited enhancement-mode operation with a threshold voltage of 3.7 V and an on-resistance of 9.3 mΩ·cm2. The channel mobility was estimated to be 131 cm2/(V·s) when all the resistances except for that of the channel are considered. Such structures, which satisfy the key words “vertical”, “trench gate”, and “MOSFET”, will enable us to fabricate practical GaN-based power switching devices.
The crystal structure of ionic nanocrystals (NCs) is usually controlled through reaction temperature, according to their phase diagram. We show that when ionic NCs with different shapes, but identical crystal structures, were subjected to anion exchange reactions under ambient conditions, pseudomorphic products with different crystal systems were obtained. The shape-dependent anionic framework (surface anion sublattice and stacking pattern) of Cu2O NCs determined the crystal system of anion-exchanged products of CuxS nanocages. This method enabled us to convert a body-centered cubic lattice into either a face-centered cubic or a hexagonally close-packed lattice to form crystallographically unusual, multiply twinned structures. Subsequent cation exchange reactions produced CdS nanocages while preserving the multiply-twinned structures. A high-temperature stable phase such as wurtzite ZnS was also obtained with this method at ambient conditions.
Thorium-229 is a unique case in nuclear physics: it presents a metastable first excited state 229m Th, just a few electronvolts above the nuclear ground state. This so-called isomer is accessible by VUV lasers, which allows transferring the amazing precision of atomic laser spectroscopy to nuclear physics. Being able to manipulate the 229 Th nuclear states at will opens up a multitude of prospects, from studies of the fundamental interactions in physics to applications as a compact and robust nuclear clock. However, direct optical excitation of the isomer or its radiative decay back to the ground state has not yet been observed, and a series of key nuclear structure parameters such as the exact energies and half-lives of the low-lying nuclear levels of 229 Th are yet unknown. Here we present the first active optical pumping into 229m Th. Our scheme employs narrow-band 29 keV synchrotron radiation to resonantly excite the second excited state, which then predominantly decays into the isomer. We determine the resonance energy with 0.07 eV accuracy, measure a half-life of 82.2 ps, an excitation linewidth of 1.70 neV, and extract the branching ratio of the second excited state into the ground and isomeric state respectively. These measurements allow us to re-evaluate gamma spectroscopy data that have been collected over 40 years.
To search for the lowest energy nuclear isomeric transition in 229 Th in solid samples, a novel adsorption technique which prepares 229 Th atoms on a surface of CaF 2 is developed. Adsorbed 229 Th is exposed to highly intensive undulator radiation in the wavelength range between 130 and 320 nm, which includes the indirectly measured nuclear resonance wavelength 160(10) nm. After the excitation, fluorescence from the sample is detected with a VUV sensitive photomultiplier tube. No clear signal relating to the nuclear transition is observed and possible reasons are discussed.
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