The use of nonequilibrium annealing approaches can produce very high levels of arsenic electrical activation in Si. However, subsequent thermal treatments between 500 and 800 °C easily deactivate the dopant to a level one order of magnitude below the solid solubility. In this work, the authors study the deactivation of laser annealed LA ultrashallow arsenic distributions in silicon using Hall e...

Offset pulse position modulation (OPPM) and Dicode (DiPPM) have been introduced as new attractive techniques, however, they are suffering from erasure, wrong slot, false alarm errors. in this paper, two types of error correction (EC) codes, Low-Density Parity Check (LDPC) code Reed Solomon (RS) code, where paired the OPPM DiPPM systems to reduce bugs, analyze best EC parameters, choose superlat...

The effects of bedroom air quality on sleep and next-day performance were examined in two field-intervention experiments in single-occupancy student dormitory rooms. The occupants, half of them women, could adjust an electric heater to maintain thermal comfort but they experienced two bedroom ventilation conditions, each maintained for 1 week, in balanced order. In the initial pilot experiment ...

In this paper we study the effect of hexamethyldisiloxane (HMDSO) vapor on an SnO2-based gas sensor (GGS 1330, UST Umweltsensortechnik GmbH, Geschwenda, Germany) in a temperature cycled operation (TCO). We show that HMDSO poisoning can be quantified at early stages (85 to 340 ppm×min) with a resolution of ±85 ppm×min using TCO. This novel approach for sensor self-monitoring provides a simple me...

In order to erase reactive oxygen species (ROS) related with the proliferation of tumor cells by reducing activity of hydrogen, we developed functional water containing nano-bubbles (diameters: <900 nm for 71%/population) hydrogen of 1.1-1.5 ppm (the theoretical maximum: 1.6 ppm) with a reducing ability (an oxidation-reduction potential -650 mV, normal water: +100-200 mV) using a microporous-fi...

Foraminiferal oxygen isotopes from deep-sea sediment cores suggest that a rapid expansion of the Antarctic ice sheet took place in the Middle Miocene around 13.9 million years ago. The origin for this transition is still not understood satisfactorily. One possible cause is a drop in the partial pressure of atmospheric carbon dioxide (pCO2) in combination with orbital forcing. A complication is ...

Particle size, pH and Fe(III) ions affect the process of bioleaching of copper from chalcopyrite ores. In the study presented herein a copper sulfide ore was subjected to bioleaching process using a mixed microbial consortium obtained from a biotrickling filter treating high loads of H2S at different mineral particle size, distinct medium pH and various additional Fe(III) ion concentrations as ...

Copper-containing single-source precursors for preparation of SiCuCN-based ceramic nanocomposites were successfully synthesized the first time using polysilazane, copper acetate monohydrate and 2-aminoethanol via nucleophilic substitution reaction at Si centers polysilazane. The synthesis process, polymer-to-ceramic transformation high-temperature microstructural evolution prepared ceramics cha...