Hot Carrier Trapping in High-Purity and Doped Germanium Crystals at Millikelvin Temperatures

A new set of experimental data is presented for the mean drift lengths and the drift velocities of hot electrons and holes as a function of the electric field in ultra-pure and in lightly doped (n- and p-type) germanium single crystals at mK temperatures. Measurements are made in the field range between \(\sim \) 0.1 and 15 V/cm, typical for the operation of cryogenic germanium detectors for dark matter search. The analysis of the experimental data strongly suggests that the dominant trapping centers are the dopant species in the neutral state.     

Capacitive Control of Spontaneously Induced Electrical Charge of Droplet by Electric Field-Assisted Pipetting

Nano-Micro Letters - The spontaneously generated electrical charge of a droplet dispensed from conventional pipetting is undesirable and unpredictable for most experiments that use pipetting....     

Noncontact Measurement of Charge Carrier Lifetime and Mobility in GaN Nanowires

The first noncontact photoconductivity measurements of gallium nitride nanowires (NWs) are presented, revealing a high crystallographic and optoelectronic quality achieved by use of catalyst-free molecular beam epitaxy. In comparison with bulk material, the NWs exhibit a long conductivity lifetime (>2 ns) and a high mobility (820 ± 120 cm(2)/(V s)). This is due to the weak influence of surface traps with respect to other III-V semiconducting NWs and to the favorable crystalline structure of the NWs achieved via strain-relieved growth.     

Charge Carrier Transport and Deep Levels Recharge in Avalanche S-Diodes Based on GaAs

Carrier transport and deep-level recharging in semiconductor avalanche S-diode structures have been investigated. Gallium-arsenide n⁺–π–ν–n structures with the diffusion distribution of deep iron acceptors have been studied. It has been found by solving the continuity and Poisson equations with the use of a commercial software that the electron injection affects the avalanche breakdown voltage and the spacecharge region broadens due to capture of avalanche holes on negative iron ions in the π-region. It is demonstrated by comparing the results of numerical calculation with the experimental data that the S-shaped I–V characteristic of the diffusion avalanche S-diodes cannot be explained within the previously proposed mechanism of capture of avalanche holes on the deep iron levels.     

Geant4 Simulations of the SuperCDMS iZIP Detector Charge Carrier Propagation and FET Readout

The SuperCDMS experiment aims to directly detect dark matter particles called WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles). The detectors measure phonon and ionization energy due to nuclear and electron recoils from incident particles. The SuperCDMS Detector Monte Carlo group uses Geant4 to simulate electron-hole pairs ( \(e^-/h^+\) ) and low temperature phonons. We use these simulations in order to study energy deposition in the detectors. Phonons and electron-hole pairs are tracked in a crystal detector. Because of the band structure of the crystals, the electrons undergo oblique propagation. The charge electrodes on each side of the detector are biased at different voltages while the phonon sensors are grounded. This creates a nearly uniform electric field through the bulk of the detector, with a complex shape near the surfaces. The electric field is calculated from interpolating on a tetrahedral mesh. The resulting TES phonon readout, as well as the FET charge readout are simulated. To calculate the FET readout, the Shockley-Ramo theorem is applied to simulate the current in the FET. The goal of this paper is to describe the theory and implementation of calculating the electric field, performing the charge carrier propagation, and simulating the FET readout of the SuperCDMS detectors.     

Trapping of water waves by moored bodies

Certain types of floating bodies are known to support trapped modes, with oscillatory fluid motion near the body and no energy radiation in the far field. Previous work has considered either fixed bodies, where the boundary conditions are homogeneous, or bodies which are freely floating and moving without any exciting force. For a fixed body the existence of a trapped mode implies that there is no unique solution of the boundary-value problem for the velocity potential with a prescribed body motion. For a free body which supports a trapped mode, the solution of the coupled problem for the motions of the fluid and body does not have a unique solution. A more general case is considered here, of a body with a linear restoring force such as an elastic mooring. The limiting cases of a fixed and free body correspond to infinite or zero values of the corresponding spring constant. A variety of body shapes are found including cylinders in two dimensions and axisymmetric bodies in three dimensions, which illustrate this more general case of trapping and provide a connection between the fixed and free cases.     

Investigation of Magnetic Memory Signals Induced by Dynamic Bending Load in Fatigue Crack Propagation Process of Structural Steel

Metal magnetic memory effect, induced by applied stress under the excitation of the geomagnetic field, has attracted a lot of attentions due to its unique advantages of stress concentration identification and early damage detection for ferromagnetic materials. To further investigate the regularity of magnetic memory signals in the fatigue crack propagation process under the dynamic bending load, the surface magnetic field intensity \(H_{p}(y)\) of ferromagnetic structural steel was measured throughout the dynamic three-point bending fatigue tests; variation of \(H_{p}(y)\) and its maximum gradient \(K_{max}\) were studied; meanwhile the possibility of using \(K_{max}\) to predict the fatigue crack propagation was discussed. The results showed that \(H_{p}(y)\) was relatively stable at different loading cycles and its maximum value appeared at the fatigue crack area before the specimen fractured; instead the \(K_{max}\) increased exponentially with the increase of loading cycles, and an approximate linear relationship was found between \(K_{max}\) and crack length 2a. The cause for this phenomenon was also discussed.     

Real-Time Current of a Charge Carrier in a Strongly Correlated System Coupled to Phonons, Driven by a Uniform Electric Field

We perform a quantum time evolution of a single charge carrier doped into strongly correlated system and coupled to phonons, driven by a uniform electric field. We study a two-dimensional t?CJ-Holstein model and calculate the real-time current. At large values of electric field, the response of the system exhibits damped Bloch oscillations, and the values of the steady current decrease with increasing electric field. On the other hand, the maximal amplitude of the real-time current increase with increasing field. We discuss the appearance of the negative differential resistivity regime, observed recently in various nonequilibrium studies of interacting many-body systems.     

Calculation of Charge Carrier Concentration Profile in a Wide Potential Well with Electric and Magnetic Fields

We investigated an equilibrium state of Fermi electrons in modulation doped structures with a wide quantum well in a strong parallel magnetic field. We studied the charge carrier system with a sufficiently high density, such that the de Broglie wavelength of electrons is smaller than the potential well width. We have formulated hydrodynamic equations for this carrier system both in the absence of magnetic field and in a parallel magnetic field. We have obtained analytical solutions for the charge carrier concentration as a function of coordinates in the potential well. In a quantum area near the interface, we carried out quantum mechanical calculations taking into account the effect of electric and magnetic fields. The concentration profile is presented for modulation doped Si/SiGe/Si heterostructures. We discuss large positive magnetoresistance in a strong parallel magnetic field in these structures.     

显微组织对X80钢氢致裂纹敏感性和氢捕获效率的影响

对以针状铁素体为主的X80管线钢进行不同工艺的热处理,分别得到具有多边形铁素体组织或板条马氏体组织的试样。研究了显微组织对不同试样在饱和H_2S环境中的氢致裂纹(HIC)敏感性和氢渗透行为的影响。结果表明:具有不同显微组织的X80钢其HIC敏感性从大到小的排序为:1水淬处理的板条马氏体组织试样,2空冷处理的多边形铁素体组织试样,3原始针状铁素体组织试样;氢在材料中的捕获效率是影响材料HIC敏感性的主要因素之一,渗氢通量J_∞、氢扩散系数D_(eff)越低,氢捕获效率越高,管线钢的氢致裂纹敏感性越高。     

Trapping and Near-Trapping by Arrays of Cylinders in Waves

In this paper, some recent developments and new results concerning the trapping of waves by arrays of vertical circular cylinders is presented. In particular, the cases are examined when there is a circular arrangement of cylinders and both finite and infinite periodic linear arrays of identical cylinders. Only for the infinite array is there pure trapping of waves – known as Rayleigh–Bloch or edge waves – which, for particular dominant wavenumbers, reduce to the well-known trapped-mode solutions for a cylinder between two parallel walls having either Neumann or Dirichlet conditions upon them. This latter case is considered separately and some new results are presented. In the circular array and finite linear array the concept of near-trapping is introduced where large resonant motions are found to occur at certain frequencies of the incident wave field. In the case of the finite linear array, these near-trapping frequencies are related to the Rayleigh–Bloch trapped-wave frequencies for the infinite array. Finally, the case when there are two or more lines of cylinders in the linear array is examined.     

Carrier scattering by dislocations in semiconductors

This paper reviews what is known about carrier scattering by dislocations in semiconductors, specifically the misfit dislocations formed at the interfaces of strain-relaxed heterostructures. Carrier scattering by these dislocations is the usual explanation for the poor transport characteristics found in such structures. However, awareness of the current state of the field appears to be poor; papers are often found to use inappropriate models or reference work which has since been substantially revised and updated. No doubt this is the result of the sparse and disparate nature of literature (the most recent review is twenty years old). With this in mind, this paper covers a broad range of topics, from the structure of the dislocation core and the associated energy levels, to various models used to describe carrier scattering, and effects due to screening and strain fields. The latest work on dislocation scattering in two-dimensional systems is also discussed. © 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers     

Trapping of solvent by a C60 fullerene film

Mass spectrometry was used over a wide temperature range to compare processes of solvent (toluene) release and desorption of C₆₀ fullerene molecules from a fullerite film formed from solution on an oxidized metal substrate. It is shown that toluene is strongly retained in the fullerite film and that it is almost impossible to remove the toluene from the film without damaging its structure. Quantitative characteristics of the toluene retention and trapping effect are determined. Pis’ma Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 24, 23–29 (December 12, 1998)     

Trapping of Vorticity by Îl-textures in 3He-A

No Heading Using a rotating cryostat, we have observed nucleation, annihilation and strong intrinsic pinning of continuous vortices in a slab of superfluid ³He-A containing stable textural defects. A model of a critical state set by either the critical velocity for vortex nucleation or pinning strength is developed. It predicts a hysteretic dependence of trapped vorticity on the angular velocity of rotation, in agreement with the observations. We argue that the static defects responsible for nucleation and trapping of vorticity are networks of domain walls between regions of opposite orientation of the Îl-vector.PACS numbers: 76.40.11f, 67.40.Bz, 67.40.Pm.     

Trapping heavy metals by using calcium hydroxyapatite and dielectrophoresis

We propose a novel technique for the removal of heavy metal waste from contaminated water. Our method consists in using dielectrophoresis (DEP) to trap hydroxyapatite (HAP) particles of 1 microm size in water after they have adsorbed heavy metal (Pb, Zn, Cu, Co and Cr). Although HAP can adsorb heavy metals in water and as such offers great promise as a waste-cleaning tool , one of the current challenges is the efficient removal of the HAP particles once they have adsorbed the heavy metals. We show in this paper that DEP can be used to concentrate such particles in certain regions, thus rendering the rest of the solution volume nearly free of contaminated particles. We present here both experimental and numerical results for suspensions at low concentrations.