Elastic Mid-Infrared Light Scattering: a Basis for Microscopy of Large-Scale Electrically Active Defects in Semiconducting Materials

A method of the mid-IR-laser microscopy has been proposed for the investigation of the large-scale electrically and recombination active defects in semiconductors and non-destructive inspection of semiconductor materials and structures in the industries of microelectronics and photovoltaics. The basis for this development was laid with a wide cycle of the investigations on the low-angle mid-IR-light scattering in semiconductors. The essence of the technical idea was to apply the dark-field method for spatial filtering of the scattered light in the scanning mid-IR-laser microscope. This approach enabled the visualization of large-scale electrically active defects which are the regions enriched with ionized electrically active centers. The photoexcitation of excess carriers within a small volume located in the probe mid-IR-laser beam enabled the visualization of the large-scale recombination-active defects like those revealed in the optical or electron beam induced current methods. Both these methods of the scanning mid-IR-laser microscopy are now introduced in detail in the present paper as well as a summary of techniques used in the standard method of the lowangle mid-IR-light scattering itself. Besides the techniques for direct observations, methods for analyses of the defect composition associated with the mid-IR-laser microscopy are also discussed in the paper.Comment: 44 pages, 13 figures. A good oldi

Conformational analysis of 1-sila-4-phospha-2,5-cyclohexadienes

Conformational analysis of 1-sila-4-phospha-2,5-cyclohexadienes was performed using the methods of dipole moments and quantum-chemicall calculations (DFT B3LYP/6-31G*). Irrespective of the degree of coordination of the phosphorus atom (3 or 4) the unsaturated six-membered heterocycles adopt the conformation of a flattened boat with the exocyclic phenyl group oriented perpendicular to the double bonds of the heterocycle. This conformation rules out the possibility of intramolecular transannular interaction between the phosphorus and silicon atoms. © Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2011

Conformational analysis of 1,4-heterophosphinanes

Structure of 1,4-heterophosphinanes in solution was studied by the methods of dipole moments, Kerr effect, molecular mechanics, and density functional theory calculations. It was determined that chair conformation with an equatorial orientation of the exocyclic phenyl substituent is preferred for 1,4-heterophosphinanes independent of the second heteroatom in six-membered phosphorus heterocycle (oxygen, sulfur or silicon), and the coordination state of the phosphorus atom (σ3P or σ4P). Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC

High-velocity OH megamasers in IRAS 20100-4156: Evidence for a Supermassive Black Hole

We report the discovery of new, high-velocity narrow-line components of the OH megamaser in IRAS 20100-4156. Results from the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP)'s Boolardy Engineering Test Array (BETA) and the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) provide two independent measurements of the OH megamaser spectrum. We found evidence for OH megamaser clumps at $-$409 and $-$562 km/s (blue-shifted) from the systemic velocity of the galaxy, in addition to the lines previously known. The presence of such high velocities in the molecular emission from IRAS 20100$-$4156 could be explained by a ~50 pc molecular ring enclosing an approximately 3.8 billion solar mass black hole. We also discuss two alternatives, i.e. that the narrow-line masers are dynamically coupled to the wind driven by the active galactic nucleus or they are associated with two separate galactic nuclei. The comparison between the BETA and ATCA spectra provides another scientific verification of ASKAP's BETA. Our data, combined with previous measurements of the source enabled us to study the variability of the source over a twenty-six year period. The flux density of the brightest OH maser components has reduced by more than a factor of two between 1988 and 2015, whereas a secondary narrow-line component has more than doubled in the same time. Plans for high-resolution VLBI follow-up of this source are discussed, as are prospects for discovering new OH megamasers during the ASKAP early science program.Comment: Accepted to MNRAS. Seven pages, three figure