Chemical functionalization of the technologically important face of silicon, Si(100), to form a passivated semiconductor/organic interface would enable a wide variety of applications, including microelectronic devices with integrated chemical or biological functionality; however, this goal has been stymied by the sterically hindered structure of the (100) surface, which impedes uniform chemical reaction. Here we demonstrate production of near-atomically flat H-functionalized Si(100) surfaces from a self-propagating chemical reaction that targets a previously unrecognized reactive pair of silicon atoms. Scanning tunneling microscopy, infrared spectroscopy, and kinetic Monte Carlo simulations are used to measure the surface-site-specific rates of chemical reaction and to quantitatively explain the observed morphologies. The production of uniform H-terminated Si(100) surfaces is controlled primarily by two aspects of dihydride reactivity. First, row-end dihydrides are 1000 times more reactive than similar midrow dihydrides. Second, dihydride reactivity is not monotonically correlated with interadsorbate strain of the reacting site. Instead, dihydride reactivity is correlated with interadsorbate strain release by adjacent dihydrides during the chemical reaction. This unusual dependence on interadsorbate strain produces a characteristic alternating row morphology dominated by single-atom-wide rows. The proposed reaction mechanism, which involves a silanone intermediate, explains the etch morphology, the site-specific reactivities, the reaction kinetics, the production of H 2 , and the hydrogen termination of the reacted surfaces. Strategies for the production of uniformly functionalized Si(100) surfaces based on this reaction are discussed.
Multilayer elements are used to miniaturize the size of highly efficient wireless power transfer systems based on the Strongly Coupled Magnetic Resonance (SCMR). Specifically, inspired by miniaturization techniques used in antennas, multilayer resonators in conformal SCMR systems (instead of singlelayer resonators traditionally used) are tightly stacked to significantly shrink the size of CSCMR systems. An analytical methodology is developed, based on Kirchhoff's law and Maxwell's mutual inductance formula using elliptic integrals, which can predict the system's resonance. Excellent agreement is shown between analytical, simulated and measured results. Based on our results the proposed multilayer CSCMR systems can operate at significantly lower frequencies than traditional CSCMR systems, while maintaining significantly smaller size as well as providing significantly higher efficiency and transmission range than traditional CSCMR systems.
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