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    Design and formation of SiC (0001)/SiO2 interfaces via Si deposition followed by low-temperature oxidation and high-temperature nitridation

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    逆転の発想でSiCパワー半導体の高品質化に成功 --非酸化による酸化膜形成で高品質化10倍--. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2020-08-24.We report an effective approach to reduce defects at a SiC/SiO2 interface. Since oxidation of SiC may inevitably lead to defect creation, the idea is to form the interface without oxidizing SiC. Our method consists of four steps: (i) H2 etching of SiC, (ii) Si deposition, (iii) low-temperature (~750 °C) oxidation of Si to form SiO2, and (iv) high-temperature (~1600 °C) N2 annealing to introduce nitrogen atoms. The interface state density estimated by a high (1 MHz)–low method is in the order of 1010 cm−2 eV−1, two orders of magnitude lower than that of an interface formed by SiC oxidation

    Increased concentrations of protein gene product 9.5 in the synovial fluid from horses with osteoarthritis

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    Our previous study established protein gene product 9.5 (PGP 9.5), a ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase, as a specific cytochemical marker of synovial lining cells (type B synoviocytes) in the horse joint. The present study aimed to detect PGP 9.5 in the synovial fluid and shows that PGP 9.5 is a valuable marker of osteoarthritis in the horse. Immunohistochemical staining confirmed rich and consistent localization of PGP 9.5 immunoreactivity in the cytoplasm of synovial lining cells in the normal horse joint. Western blot analysis of synovial fluid from normal joints could detect a significant band corresponding to that contained in the brain and synovial membrane extracts. When 60 synovial fluid samples from normal and abnormal joints were assayed with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) system, the concentration of PGP 9.5 tended to be elevated in osteochondrosis dissecance, inflammatory arthropathy and intra-articular fracture, among which a statistically significant elevation was recognizable between the intra-articular fracture and the control. Thus, this study demonstrated the possibility that PGP 9.5, derived from synovial lining cells, may be a new biochemical marker for arthritic disorders of the horse

    Inversion of Circularly Polarized Luminescence in Phenylethynyl-substituted Binaphthol Derivatives

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    An inversion in the sign of circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) was achieved by strategically varying the substitution positions of phenylethynyl (PE) groups on the binaphthyl backbone while maintaining consistent axial chirality. Theoretical investigations indicated that the substitution position of PE groups on binaphthyl significantly influence the orientation of the transition dipole moments in the excited state, resulting in the sign inversion of CPL in 7-PEn compared with other substrates
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