Pseudomorphic Growth of a Single Element Quasiperiodic Ultrathin Film on a Quasicrystal Substrate

Pseudomorphic growth of a single element quasiperiodic ultrathin film on a quasicrystal substrate.

An ultrathin film with a periodic interlayer spacing was grown by the deposition of Cu atoms on the fivefold surface of the icosahedral Al70Pd21Mn9 quasicrystal. For coverages from 5 to 25 monolayers, a distinctive quasiperiodic low-energy electron diffraction pattern is observed. Scanning tunneling microscopy images show that the in-plane structure comprises rows having separations of S=4.5+/-...

Single-element rotating-polarizer ellipsometer for film-substrate systems

Modeling of Substrate Noise Impact on a Single-Ended Cascode LNA in a Lightly Doped Substrate (RESEARCH NOTE)

Substrate noise generated by digital circuits on mixed-signal ICs can disturb the sensitiveanalog/RF circuits, such as Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), sharing the same substrate. This paperinvestigates the adverse impact of the substrate noise on a high frequency cascode LNA laid out on alightly doped substrate. By studying the major noise coupling mechanisms, a new and efficientmodeling method is p...

Driven, underdamped Frenkel-Kontorova model on a quasiperiodic substrate.

We consider the underdamped dynamics of a chain of atoms subject to a dc driving force and a quasiperiodic substrate potential. The system has three inherent length scales which we take to be mutually incommensurate. We find that when the length scales are related by the spiral mean (a cubic irrational) there exists a value of the interparticle interaction strength above which the static fricti...

An unusual magnetoresistance effect in the heterojunction structure of an ultrathin single-crystal Pb film on silicon substrate.

Superconductor films on semiconductor substrates have drawn much attention recently since the derived superconductor-based electronics have been shown to be promising for future data processing and storage technologies. By growing atomically uniform single-crystal epitaxial Pb films of several nanometers thick on Si wafers to form a sharp superconductor-semiconductor heterojunction, we have obt...