247 research outputs found
Concentration of atomic hydrogen diffused into silicon in the temperature range 900â1300 °C
Boron-doped Czochralski silicon samples with [B]~1017 cmâ3 have been heated at various temperatures in the range 800â1300 °C in an atmosphere of hydrogen and then quenched. The concentration of [H-B] pairs was measured by infrared localized vibrational mode spectroscopy. It was concluded that the solubility of atomic hydrogen is greater than [Hs] = 5.6 Ă 1018 exp( â 0.95 eV/kT)cmâ3 at the temperatures investigated
A Survey for Outer Satellites of Mars: Limits to Completeness
We surveyed the Hill sphere of Mars for irregular satellites. Our search
covered nearly the entire Hill Sphere, but scattered light from Mars excluded
the inner few arcminutes where the satellites Phobos and Deimos reside. No new
satellites were found to an apparent limiting red magnitude of 23.5, which
corresponds to radii of about 0.09 km using an albedo of 0.07.Comment: 5 figures (1 color), 2 Tables, to appear in AJ Nov. 200
Terahertz amplification in delta-doped germanium films with in-plane transport
Amplification of terahertz radiation on intersubband transitions has been analyzed by numerical Monte Carlo simulation for p-type delta-doped Ge films with in-plane transport configuration of applied electric and magnetic fields. A significant increase of the gain is found, compared to existing bulk p-Ge lasers, due to spatial separation of light and heavy hole streams, which reduces scattering of light holes on ionized impurities and heavy holes. The considered device has potential as a widely tunable (2-4 THz) laser with high duty cycle and operating temperatures up to 50 K
Terahertz gain on intersubband transitions in multilayer delta-doped p-Ge structures
A far-infrared laser concept based on intersubband transitions of holes in p-type periodically delta-doped semiconductor films is studied using numerical Monte Carlo simulation of hot-hole dynamics. The considered device consists of monocrystalline pure Ge layers periodically interleaved with delta-doped layers and operates with vertical hole transport in the presence of an in-plane magnetic field. Population inversion on intersubband transitions arises due to light-hole accumulation in E perpendicular to B fields, as in the bulk p-Ge laser. However, the considered structure achieves spatial separation of hole accumulation regions from the doped layers, which reduces ionized-impurity and carrier-carrier scattering for the majority of light holes. This allows a remarkable increase of the gain in comparison with bulk p-Ge lasers. Population inversion and gain sufficient for laser operation are expected up to 77 K. Test structures grown by chemical-vapor deposition demonstrate feasibility of producing the device with sufficient active thickness to allow quasioptical electrodynamic cavity solutions
Site-Selective Spectroscopy And Crystal-Field Analysis For Nd3+ In Strontium Fluorovanadate
Siteâselective spectroscopy reveals that Nd3+ ions occupy more than 40 different crystalâfield environments in Sr5(VO4)3F. Preferential energy transfer to the site responsible for 1 ÎŒm lasing occurs but becomes less complete with increasing temperature. The 4I and 4F3/2 Stark levels of the lasing site have been determined and an analysis of the crystal field performed. From the crystalâfield fitting parameters Bkq, a calculated energyâlevel spectrum is determined up to 17â500 cmâ1 with a rms deviation from the available experimental levels of 6 cmâ1
The potential for tidally heated icy and temperate moons around exoplanets
Moons of giant planets may represent an alternative to the classical picture
of habitable worlds. They may exist within the circumstellar habitable zone of
a parent star, and through tidal energy dissipation they may also offer
alternative habitable zones, where stellar insolation plays a secondary, or
complementary, role. We investigate the potential extent of stable satellite
orbits around a set of 74 known extrasolar giant planets located beyond 0.6 AU
from their parent stars - where moons should be long-lived with respect to
removal by stellar tides. Approximately 60% of these giant planets can sustain
satellites or moons in bands up to AU in width. For comparison, the
Galiean satellites extend to AU. We investigate the stellar
insolation that moons would experience for these exoplanet systems, and the
implications for sublimation loss of volatiles. We find that between 15 and 27%
of {\em all} known exoplanets may be capable of harboring small, icy, moons. In
addition, some 22-28% of all known exoplanets could harbor moons within a
``sublimation zone'', with insolation temperatures between 273 K and 170 K. A
simplified energy balance model is applied to the situation of temperate moons,
maintained by a combination of stellar insolation and tidal heat flow. We
demonstrate that large moons (M), at orbital radii
commensurate with those of the Galilean satellites, could maintain temperate,
or habitable, surface conditions during episodes of tidal heat dissipation of
the order 1-100 times that currently seen on Io. (Abridged).Comment: 28 pages, 8 Figures, AASTex, Accepted for publication in the
Astrophysical Journa
Precession of a Freely Rotating Rigid Body. Inelastic Relaxation in the Vicinity of Poles
When a solid body is freely rotating at an angular velocity ,
the ellipsoid of constant angular momentum, in the space , has poles corresponding to spinning about the minimal-inertia and
maximal-inertia axes. The first pole may be considered stable if we neglect the
inner dissipation, but becomes unstable if the dissipation is taken into
account. This happens because the bodies dissipate energy when they rotate
about any axis different from principal. In the case of an oblate symmetrical
body, the angular velocity describes a circular cone about the vector of
(conserved) angular momentum. In the course of relaxation, the angle of this
cone decreases, so that both the angular velocity and the maximal-inertia axis
of the body align along the angular momentum. The generic case of an asymmetric
body is far more involved. Even the symmetrical prolate body exhibits a
sophisticated behaviour, because an infinitesimally small deviation of the
body's shape from a rotational symmetry (i.e., a small difference between the
largest and second largest moments of inertia) yields libration: the precession
trajectory is not a circle but an ellipse. In this article we show that often
the most effective internal dissipation takes place at twice the frequency of
the body's precession. Applications to precessing asteroids, cosmic-dust
alignment, and rotating satellites are discussed.Comment: 47 pages, 1 figur
Injection-seeded internal-reflection-mode p-Ge laser exceeds 10 W peak terahertz power
Injection seeding of a large active p-Ge laser crystal operating on total internal reflection modes is demonstrated with peak output power at the level of 40 W in the 1.5-4.2 THz spectral range. The improvement over traditional 1 W axial mode p-Ge lasers is due both to spatially and temporally more efficient use of the available population inversion
Pulse separation control for mode-locked far-infrared p-Ge lasers
Active mode locking of the far-infrared p-Ge laser giving a train of 200 ps pulses is achieved via gain modulation by applying an rf electric field together with an additional bias at one end of the crystal parallel to the Voigt-configured magnetic field. Harmonic mode locking yields a train of pulse pairs with variable time separation from zero to half the roundtrip period, where pulse separation is electrically controlled by the external bias to the rf field
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