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4071. Growth and characterization of a-axis textured ZnO thin films

Authors: Nistor, LC; Ghica, C; Matei, D; Dinescu, G; Dinescu, M; Van Tendeloo, G

Published: APR 15 2005, JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH, 277, 31, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2004.12.162

Smooth a-axis oriented ZnO thin films are grown on (001) MgO substrates by pulsed laser deposition assisted by a very directional radio frequency oxygen plasma. The structure of the film is examined by X-ray diffraction, electron diffraction and high resolution electron microscopy. The film grows with vertical columns and is highly textured. Two preferential orientation relations between the ZnO film and the MgO substrate are observed: (10010)(ZnO) vertical bar vertical bar (002)(MgO); [0002](ZnO)vertical bar vertical bar[2 0 0](MgO) and (1010)(ZnO) vertical bar (002)(ZnO) vertical bar vertical bar [200](MgO) [1210](MgO). The film/substrate interface is flat and strained because of the rather large lattice mismatch between the (1010) plane of ZnO and the (002) plane of MgO. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

4072. Crystallographic aspects related to the high pressure-high temperature phase transformation of boron nitride

Authors: Nistor, LC; Van Tendeloo, G; Dinca, G

Published: APR 11 2005, PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE, 85, 1158, DOI: 10.1080/14786430412331325058

Crystallographic relations between different forms of boron nitride ( BN) appearing at the high pressure-high temperature structural phase transformation have been revealed by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy ( HRTEM). As starting materials, crystalline hexagonal BN ( hBN) with different degrees of crystallinity, or with defects intentionally introduced, were used. Cubic BN ( cBN) is formed only as a minor component, the rest consisting of different forms of sp(2) bonded BN: hBN, compressed, monoclinic deformed hBN, or turbostratic BN ( tBN). The small cBN crystallites ( 300-400 nm) contain many defects such as twins, stacking faults and nanoinclusions of other BN forms: tBN, rhombohedral BN ( rBN) and wurtzite BN ( wBN). The cBN phase grows epitaxially on the basal plane of hBN. The nucleation sites for cBN are revealed by HRTEM. They consist of nanoarches ( sp(3) hybridized, highly curved nanostructures), frequently observed at the edges of the hBN crystallites in the starting materials. Based on HRTEM observations of specimens not fully transformed, a nucleation and growth model for cBN is proposed which is consistent with existing theoretical and experimental models.

4073. Reply to comment on 'magnetic relaxation phenomena and inter-particle interactions in nanosized gamma-Fe2O3 systems'

Authors: Predoi, D; Kuncser, V; Filoti, G

Published: APR 6 2005, JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER, 17, 2254, DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/17/13/N02

4074. Radiation-hard semiconductor detectors for SuperLHC

Authors: Bruzzi, M; Adey, J; Al-Ajili, A; Alexandrov, P; Alfieri, G; Allport, PP; Andreazza, A; Artuso, M; Assouak, S; Avset, BS; Barabash, L; Baranova, E; Barcz, A; Basile, A; Bates, R; Belova, N; Biagi, SF; Bilei, GM; Bisello, D; Blue, A; Blumenau, B; Boisvert, V; Bolla, G; Bondarenko, G; Borchi, E; Borrello, L; Bortoletto, D; Boscardin, M; Bosisio, L; Bowcock, TJV; Brodbeck, TJ; Broz, J; Brukhanov, A; Brzozowski, A; Buda, M; Buhmann, P; Buttar, C; Campabadal, F; Campbell, D; Candelori, A; Casse, G; Cavallini, A; Chilingarov, A; Chren, D; Cindro, V; Citterio, M; Collins, P; Coluccia, R; Contarato, D; Coutinho, J; Creanza, D; Cunningham, W; Cvetkov, V; Dalla Betta, GF; Davies, G; Dawson, I; de Boer, W; De Palma, M; Demina, R; Dervan, P; Dierlamm, A; Dittongo, S; Dobrzanski, L; Dolezal, Z; Dolgolenko, A; Eberlein, T; Eremin, V; Fall, C; Fasolo, F; Ferbel, T; Fizzotti, F; Fleta, C; Focardi, E; Forton, E; Franchenko, S; Fretwurst, E; Gamaz, F; Garcia, C; Garcia-Navarro, JE; Gaubas, E; Genest, MH; Gill, KA; Giolo, K; Glaser, M; Goessling, C; Golovine, V; Sevilla, SG; Gorelov, I; Goss, J; Gouldwell, A; Gregoire, G; Gregori, P; Grigoriev, E; Grigson, C; Grillo, A; Groza, A; Guskov, J; Haddad, L; Harkonen, J; Harding, R; Hauler, F; Hayama, S; Hoeferkamp, M; Honniger, F; Horazdovsky, T; Horisberger, R; Horn, M; Houdayer, A; Hourahine, B; Hruban, A; Hughes, G; Ilyashenko, I; Irmscher, K; Ivanov, A; Jarasiunas, K; Jin, T; Jones, BK; Jones, R; Joram, C; Jungermann, L; Kalinina, E; Kaminski, P; Karpenko, A; Karpov, A; Kazlauskiene, V; Kazukauskas, V; Khivrich, V; Khomenkov, V; Kierstead, J; Klaiber-Lodewigs, J; Kleverman, M; Klingenberg, R; Kodys, P; Kohout, Z; Korjenevski, S; Kowalik, A; Kozlowski, R; Kozodaev, M; Kramberger, G; Krasel, O; Kuznetsov, A; Kwan, S; Lagomarsino, S; Lari, T; Lassila-Perini, K; Lastovetsky, V; Latino, G; Latushkin, S; Lazanu, S; Lazanu, I; Lebel, C; Leinonen, K; Leroy, C; Li, Z; Lindstrom, G; Lindstrom, L; Linhart, V; Litovchenko, A; Litovchenko, P; Litvinov, V; Lo Giudice, A; Lozano, M; Luczynski, Z; Luukka, P; Macchiolo, A; Mainwood, A; Makarenko, LF; Mandic, I; Manfredotti, C; Garcia, SM; Marunko, S; Mathieson, K; Mozzanti, A; Melone, J; Menichelli, D; Meroni, C; Messineo, A; Miglio, S; Mikuz, M; Miyamoto, J; Moll, M; Monakhov, E; Moscatelli, F; Murin, L; Nava, F; Naoumov, D; Nossarzewska-Orlowska, E; Nummela, S; Nysten, J; Olivero, P; Oshea, V; Palviainen, T; Paolini, C; Parkes, C; Passeri, D; Pein, U; Pellegrini, G; Perera, L; Petasecca, M; Piatkowski, B; Piemonte, C; Pignatel, GU; Pinho, N; Pintilie, I; Pintilie, L; Polivtsev, L; Polozov, P; Popa, AI; Popule, J; Pospisil, S; Pucker, G; Radicci, V; Rafi, JM; Ragusa, F; Rahman, M; Rando, R; Roeder, R; Rohe, T; Ronchin, S; Rott, C; Roy, P; Roy, A; Ruzin, A; Ryazanov, A; Sadrozinski, HFW; Sakalauskas, S; Scaringella, M; Schiavulli, L; Schnetzer, S; Schumm, B; Sciortino, S; Scorzoni, A; Segneri, G; Seidel, S; Seiden, A; Sellberg, G; Sellin, P; Sentenac, D; Shipsey, I; Sicho, P; Sloan, T; Solar, M; Son, S; Sopko, B; Spencer, N; Stahl, J; Stavitski, I; Stolze, D; Stone, R; Storasta, J; Strokan, N; Strupinski, W; Sudzius, M; Surma, B; Suuronen, J; Suvorov, A; Svensson, BG; Tipton, P; Tomasek, M; Troncon, C; Tsvetkov, A; Tuominen, E; Tuovinen, E; Tuuva, T; Tylchin, M; Uebersee, H; Uher, J; Ullan, M; Vaitkus, JV; Vanni, P; Velthuis, J; Verzellesi, G; Verbitskaya, E; Vrba, V; Wagner, G; Wilhelm, I; Worm, S; Wright, V; Wunstorf, R; Zablerowski, P; Zaluzhny, A; Zavrtanik, M; Zen, M; Zhukov, V; Zorzi, N

Published: APR 1 2005, NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, 541, 201, DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2005.01.056

An option of increasing the luminosity of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN to 1035 cm-2 s-1 has been envisaged to extend the physics reach of the machine. An efficient tracking down to a few centimetres from the interaction point will be required to exploit the physics potential of the upgraded LHC. As a consequence, the semiconductor detectors close to the interaction region will receive severe doses of fast hadron irradiation and the inner tracker detectors will need to survive fast hadron fluences of up to above 1016cm-2. The CERN-RD50 project "Development of Radiation Hard Semiconductor Devices for Very High Luminosity Colliders" has been established in 2002 to explore detector materials and technologies that will allow to operate devices up to, or beyond, this limit. The strategies followed by RD50 to enhance the radiation tolerance include the development of new or defect engineered detector materials (SiC, GaN, Czochralski and epitaxial silicon, oxygen enriched Float Zone silicon), the improvement of present detector designs and the understanding of the microscopic defects causing the degradation of the irradiated detectors. The latest advancements within the RD50 collaboration on radiation hard semiconductor detectors will be reviewed and discussed in this work. 2005 Published by Elsevier B.V.

4075. Thermal behavior of substituted FeCo-based metallic glasses

Authors: Sorescu, M; Um, CY; McHenry, ME; Diamandescu, L

Published: APR 1 2005, JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS, 351, 667, DOI: 10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2005.01.062

Three compositions of metallic glasses, Fe58Co24Nb3Ta1Mo1B13, Fe61.5Co20.5Nb3Ta1Mo1B13 and Fe66Co18Si1B15 were prepared by rapid quenching from the melt and subsequently annealed for 1 hour at 450, 650 and 750 degrees C. The samples were analyzed by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Mossbauer spectroscopy. All Mossbauer spectra were fitted with a six-line pattern corresponding to the crystalline alpha-(FeCo) phase and a hyperfine magnetic field distribution representing the amorphous component. The Moss-bauer spectra of annealed Fe66CO18B15 revealed the presence of a secondary crystalline phase, namely (FeCO)(3)(BSi). Moreover, the last Mossbauer spectrum in the set was fitted with an additional sextet, corresponding to the appearance of hematite in the system. It is inferred that the addition of Nb, Ta and Mo considerably delays the onset of bulk crystallization and iron oxidation in these systems. The XRD patterns are in qualitative agreement with the Mossbauer results and are consistent with a surface layer of hematite nanoparticles in the system. The activation energy of 4.34 eV for oxidation was estimated from the Mossbauer results. (c) 2005 Published by Elsevier B.V..

4076. Heavy ion induced damage in NaCl and KCl crystals

Authors: Enculescu, M; Schwartz, K; Trautmann, C; Toulemonde, M

Published: APR 2005, NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION B-BEAM INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS AND ATOMS, 229, 405, DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2004.12.131

NaCl and KCI single crystals were irradiated with swift heavy ions (An, Ph, Bi and U) of energy between 560 and 2640 MeV. The damage induced by the ions was studied using optical absorption spectroscopy, chemical etching and small-angle X-ray scattering. The damage in the tracks is dominated by the creation of simple color centers (F and V-3 centers). Their concentration increases as a function of fluence, saturating when single tracks overlap. The F-center containingly track zone extends up to several tens of nanometers. In addition to this large track halo, there exists also a much smaller region (1-2 nm) close to the ion trajectory in which defect aggregates are formed. Indications for this track core are given by the preferential chemical etchability of ion tracks and also by the anisotropic pattern produced by small-angle X-ray scattering. This halo-core track structure is very similar as in LiF, however given by the higher mobility of the primary hole centers in NaCl and KCl, recombination with electrons is facilitated resulting in a lower efficiency for defect creation. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

4077. The dynamics of one-dimensional Bloch electrons in constant electric fields

Authors: Bentosela, F; Duclos, P; Moldoveanu, V; Nenciu, G

Published: APR 2005, JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, 46, DOI: 10.1063/1.1870732

We study the dynamics of a one-dimensional Bloch electron subjected to a constant electric field. The periodic potential is supposed to be less singular than the delta-like potential (Dirac comb). We give a rigorous proof of Ao's result that for a large class of initial conditions (high momentum regime) there is no localization in momentum space. The proof is based on the mathematical substantiation of the two simplifying assumptions made in physical literature: the transitions between far away bands can be neglected and the transitions at the quasicrossing can be described by Landau-Zener-type formulas. Using the connection between the above model and the driven quantum ring (DQR) shown by Avron and Nemirovski, our results imply the increase of energy for weakly singular such DQR and appropiate initial conditions. (C) 2005 American Institute of Physics.

4078. Anisotropic vortex channeling in YBa2Cu3O7-delta thin films with ordered antidot arrays

Authors: Crisan, A; Pross, A; Cole, D; Bending, SJ; Wordenweber, R; Lahl, P; Brandt, EH

Published: APR 2005, PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 71, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.144504

Scanning Hall probe microscopy has been used to make a microscopic study of flux structures and dynamics in yttrium barium copper oxide thin-film disks containing a regular 10-mu m-period square array of 2.5-mu m-sized holes (antidots). Images obtained after field cooling the sample to 77 K in very low fields reveal that the holes can trap two flux quanta at this temperature. Scans obtained after zero-field cooling (ZFC) to 77 K and a subsequent applied field cycle clearly display preferential flux channeling along chains of antidots in the direction of maximum induction gradient. Remarkably, upon reversal of field sweep direction, we observe flux "streaming" out of the holes towards the sample edges with almost uniform density flux "stripes" bridging the holes in the exit direction. We estimate that the antidots can preferentially trap about 15 flux quanta in these ZFC experiments. Classical electrodynamics simulations of our samples appear to be in good qualitative agreement with our results, indicating that many of the observed phenomena may be geometrical effects that depend primarily on the shape and topology of the sample, and potential applications are discussed.

4079. Microchemical and mechanical characteristics of arc plasma deposited TiAlN and TiN/TiAlN coatings

Authors: Braic, M; Braic, V; Balaceanu, M; Pavelescu, G; Vladescu, A; Tudor, I; Popescu, A; Borsos, Z; Logofatu, C; Negrila, CC

Published: APR 2005, JOURNAL OF OPTOELECTRONICS AND ADVANCED MATERIALS, 7, 676, DOI:

Single layer TiAlN and alternate TiN/TiAlN multilayered hard coatings were deposited on Si, plain carbon steel and high-speed steel substrates by the cathodic are technique. Chemical composition, phase composition, texture, Vickers microhardness, adhesion, bilayer period, sliding friction coefficient and wear resistance were investigated by XPS, EDX and XRD analyses, microhardness measurements, scratch and tribological tests.

4080. On the relaxation mechanisms of some radiation induced free radicals in polymers

Authors: Velter-Stefanescu, M; Duliu, OG; Preda, N

Published: APR 2005, JOURNAL OF OPTOELECTRONICS AND ADVANCED MATERIALS, 7, 989, DOI:

Electronic spin-lattice relaxation measurements performed in X and Q bands on electrons irradiated polyethylene, polycarbonate and polymethylmethacrylate have shown that at liquid helium temperatures and higher, up to 12K, the spin-lattice relaxation time of radiation induced free radicals does not depend on the magnetic. field but varies inverse proportionally with the square of absolute temperature and free radicals concentration. These peculiarities have been well explained by admitting that below 77 K there is a considerable amount of stable free radicals coupled in pairs that mediate the spin-lattice relaxation process of single radicals. Consequently, we have proposed an analytical equation that, within this hypothesis, quantitatively describes all these particularities.