The formation of TiSi2 thin films using the SALICIDE process on doped and undoped silicon substrates was studied. XRD TEM, AES, RBS and four probe Rs were used to characterize the material. Unit cell parameters and energetics were determined. Results confirm electrical and chemical signatures consistent with the known C49 conversion to C54. However, XRD indicated a structurally different intermediate phase occurs during the C49 to C54 transformation. Modeling was performed based on C11b structure (14/mmm) type, with the Ti and Si atoms arranged similarly to those in MoSi2. The unit cell was determined to be a = 4.428 Å, b = 4.779 Å, c = 9.078 Å with a Fmmm space group and total pseudo-potential plane wave calculations based on crystallographic simulations of −103.96 ev/Atom.
The One of the most colourful neighbourhoods in the great Shoe City of Brockton, Massachusetts, the Tip was home to Irish Americans who lived, dreamed, and ultimately prospered. They worked to ensure a more comfortable life for their children, and their success can be measured by the versions of the American dream lived by their descendants south of Boston and across the country; for the most part, happily ignorant of how those dreams came to be. This irony frames the story of a neighbourhood populated by successive generations of IrishAmericans, and the larger narrative of Irish-American history. We are well-versed in the major themes anchoring the Irish-American historical narrative-the story of an immigrant people who rose on the cornerstones of church, labour, education and politics to acceptability and assimilation. We are familiar with Irish-American progress in Boston, New York, and Chicago, and in the other major centres of immigrant settlement. Persistent attention to the Irish experience in these cities has produced a venerable ethnic narrative populated by prominent churchmen, journalists, labour activists and politicians. But what of smaller centres of Irish settlement? Should places like Brockton, Massachusetts, and its Irish neighbourhood The Tip be considered microcosms of large metropolitan areas like New York or Boston? While twentieth-century records allow us to track the progress of the Irish through
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