Electron and hole mobility enhancement in strained SOI by waferbonding

N- and p-MOSFETs have been fabricated in strained Si-on-SiGe-on-insulator (SSOI) with high (15-25%) Ge content. Wafer bonding and H-induced layer transfer techniques enabled the fabrication of the high Ge content SiGe-on-insulator (SGOI) substrates. Mobility enhancement of 50% for electrons (with 15% Ge) and 15-20% for holes (with 20-25% Ge) has been demonstrated in SSOI MOSFETs. These mobility enhancements are commensurate with those reported for FETs fabricated on strained silicon on bulk SiGe substrates     

Effects of laser-shock processing on the microstructure and surface mechanical properties of hadfield manganese steel

The effects of laser-shock processing (LSP) on the microstructure, hardness, and residual stress of Hadfield manganese (1 pct C and 14 pct Mn) steels were studied. Laser-shock processing was performed using a Nd: glass phosphate laser with 600 ps pulse width and up to 120 J/pulse energy at power density above 10¹² W/cm². The effects of cold rolling and shot peening were also studied for comparison. Laser-shock processing caused extensive formation of ε hexagonal close-packed (hep) martensite (35 vol pct), producing up to a 130 pct increase of surface hardness. The surface hardness increase was 40 to 60 pct for the shot-peened specimen and about 60 pct for the cold-rolled specimen. The LSP strengthening effect on Hadfield steel was attributed to the combined effects of the partial dislocation/stacking fault arrays and the grain refinement due to the presence of the ε-hcp martensite. For the cold-rolled and shot-peened specimens, the strengthening was a result of ε-hcp martensite and twins with dislocation effects, respectively. Shot peening resulted in a relatively higher compressive residual stress throughout the specimen than LSP.     

The role of hydrogen in stress-corrosion cracking of austenitic stainless steel in hot MgCl2 solution

The role of hydrogen in stress-corrosion cracking (SCC) of austenitic stainless steel was investigated in boiling chloride solution. The tests in the mixed melted salt verified that hydrogen-induced cracking (HIC) could occur at 160 °C if sufficient hydrogen could be supplied continuously. It was found that the threshold SCC intensity factors of both 321 and 310 steels were lower than those of HIC during dynamic charging at high fugacity at 40 °C and 160 °C. In addition, anodic polarization decreased hydrogen concentration and promoted SCC in hot LiCl solution, while cathodic polarization increased hydrogen concentration and restrained SCC. Hydrogen could be introduced into the specimen and be concentrated at the crack tip during SCC. It could promote anodic dissolution and SCC remarkably, although it was not enough to produce cracking.     

Cell suppression methodology: the importance of suppressingmarginal totals

Safeguarding confidential information is of paramount concern to government agencies in publishing statistical data. Given a set of sensitive cells, the problem is to identify a set of complementary cells to suppress so as to mask the values of the sensitive cells. All of the existing cell suppression methods fail to consider the relationships among cell values and the representation of these relationships in marginal totals. That marginal totals may contain potent information has not been appreciated. The paper employs the theory of nominal data analysis to demonstrate that the disclosure of marginal totals can be very risky. It recommends adding a front end test to the existing methods. The goal is to identify a list of sensitive marginal totals that have to be suppressed. This increases the sophistication of cell suppression methodology by providing an extra layer of protection     

Fabrication of high concentration rare-earth-doped silica-basedwaveguide by MCVD method

Reports a technique of fabricating a buried channel silica-based optical waveguide containing the largest rare-earth concentration ever reported, i.e., 3 wt% in Nd₂O₃. Instead of the flame hydrolysis technique, these waveguides are manufactured by the standard MCVD method originally designed for fiber preform fabrication     

铠装热电偶的分流误差

详细探讨产生分流误差的主要因素:铠装热电偶的直径、种类、使用温度、中间部位加热带长 度、绝缘物种类及状态等,对分流误差的影响及其对策。其结论可供铠装热电偶的正确合理使 用及生产制造者参考。     

A unified closed-loop stability measure for finite-precision digital controller realizations implemented in different representation schemes

A computationally tractable unified finite word length closed-loop stability measure is derived which is applicable to fixed-point, floating-point and block-floating-point representation schemes. Both the dynamic range and precision of an arithmetic scheme are considered in this new unified measure. For each arithmetic scheme, the optimal controller realization problem is defined and a numerical optimization approach is adopted to solve it. Numerical examples are used to illustrate the design procedure and to compare the optimal controller realizations in different representation schemes.     

Sublexical and Lexical Representations in Speech Production: Effects of Phonotactic Probability and Onset Density.

Phonotactic probability, neighborhood density, and onset density were manipulated in 4 picture-naming tasks. Experiment 1 showed that pictures of words with high phonotactic probability were named more quickly than pictures of words with low phonotactic probability. This effect was consistent over multiple presentations of the pictures (Experiment 2). Manipulations of phonotactic probability and neighborhood density showed only an influence of phonotactic probability (Experiment 3). In Experiment 4, pictures of words with sparse onsets were named more quickly than pictures of words with dense onsets. The results of these experiments provide additional constraints on the architecture and processes involved in models of speech production, as well as constraints on the connections between the recognition and production systems. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)