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White Light Interferometry for Quantitative Surface Characterization in Ion Sputtering Experiments
White light interferometry (WLI) can be used to obtain surface morphology
information on dimensional scale of millimeters with lateral resolution as good
as ~1 {\mu}m and depth resolution down to 1 nm. By performing true
three-dimensional imaging of sample surfaces, the WLI technique enables
accurate quantitative characterization of the geometry of surface features and
compares favorably to scanning electron and atomic force microscopies by
avoiding some of their drawbacks. In this paper, results of using the WLI
imaging technique to characterize the products of ion sputtering experiments
are reported. With a few figures, several example applications of the WLI
method are illustrated when used for (i) sputtering yield measurements and
time-to-depth conversion, (ii) optimizing ion beam current density profiles,
the shapes of sputtered craters, and multiple ion beam superposition and (iii)
quantitative characterization of surfaces processed with ions. In particular,
for sputter depth profiling experiments of 25Mg, 44Ca and 53Cr ion implants in
Si (implantation energy of 1 keV per nucleon), the depth calibration of the
measured depth profile curves determined by the WLI method appeared to be
self-consistent with TRIM simulations for such projectile-matrix systems. In
addition, high depth resolution of the WLI method is demonstrated for a case of
a Genesis solar wind Si collector surface processed by gas cluster ion beam: a
12.5 nm layer was removed from the processed surface, while the transition
length between the processed and untreated areas was 150 {\mu}m.Comment: Applied Surface Science, accepted: 7 pages and 8 figure
Modeling the actinides with disordered local moments
A first-principles disordered local moment (DLM) picture within the
local-spin-density and coherent potential approximations (LSDA+CPA) of the
actinides is presented. The parameter free theory gives an accurate description
of bond lengths and bulk modulus. The case of -Pu is studied in
particular and the calculated density of states is compared to data from
photo-electron spectroscopy. The relation between the DLM description, the
dynamical mean field approach and spin-polarized magnetically ordered modeling
is discussed.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
Using an Observational Framework to investigate adult language input to young children in a naturalistic environment
The correlation between the communicative intent of parents, in terms of their expectation of a response and the response patterns of young children aged 23—25 months during parent—child interactions, was investigated. An Observational Framework was used to code these parameters in interactions between 36 children and their mothers. The children were assigned by cluster analysis to `advanced', `typical' and `delayed' language groups and their responses were coded with respect to the degree of correctness or appropriateness within the interaction. Differences in both the parental response expectations and the children's response patterns across the three clusters are discussed
Attentive Learning of Sequential Handwriting Movements: A Neural Network Model
Defense Advanced research Projects Agency and the Office of Naval Research (N00014-95-1-0409, N00014-92-J-1309); National Science Foundation (IRI-97-20333); National Institutes of Health (I-R29-DC02952-01)
Measurement of charm production at central rapidity in proton-proton collisions at TeV
The -differential production cross sections of the prompt (B
feed-down subtracted) charmed mesons D, D, and D in the rapidity
range , and for transverse momentum GeV/, were
measured in proton-proton collisions at TeV with the ALICE
detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The analysis exploited the hadronic
decays DK, DK, DD, and their charge conjugates, and was performed on a
nb event sample collected in 2011 with a
minimum-bias trigger. The total charm production cross section at TeV and at 7 TeV was evaluated by extrapolating to the full phase space
the -differential production cross sections at TeV
and our previous measurements at TeV. The results were compared
to existing measurements and to perturbative-QCD calculations. The fraction of
cdbar D mesons produced in a vector state was also determined.Comment: 20 pages, 5 captioned figures, 4 tables, authors from page 15,
published version, figures at
http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/307
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