Study of a micro chamber quadrupole mass spectrometer

Copyright @ 2008 American Vacuum Society / American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology Part A: International Journal Devoted to Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films, 26(2), Article number 239 and may be found at http://scitation.aip.org/content/avs/journal/jvsta/26/2/10.1116/1.2827512.The design of a micro chamberquadrupolemass spectrometer (MCQMS) having a small total volume of only 20 cm3, including Faraday cup ion detector and ion source, is described. This MCQMS can resist a vacuum baking temperature of 400–500 °C. The quadrupole elements with a hyperbolic surface are made of a ceramic material and coated with a thin metal layer. The quadrupole mass filter has a field radius of 3 mm and a length of 100 mm. Prototypes of this new MCQMS can detect a minimum partial pressure of 10−8 Pa, have a peak width of ΔM=1 at 10% peak height from mass number 1 to 60, and show an excellent long-term stability. The new MCQMS is intended to be used in residual gas analyses of electron devices during a mutual pumping and baking process.National Key Basic Research Program, the Chinese 111 Project Grant and Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University

STRUCTURAL, DIELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF Fe-DOPED SrZrO₃ CERAMICS

SrZrO₃-based perovskite oxides have been extensively studied for their outstanding physical characteristics, chemical stability, and mechanical properties. With the recent development of multiferroics, room temperature ferromagnetism is expected to be introduced to ferroelectric or dielectric materials by magnetic ion doping in order to obtain single-phase magnetoelectric or magnetodielectric materials. In this work, SrZrO₃ and SrZr0.9375Fe0.0625O3 ceramics were fabricated by a conventional solid-state reaction method. Their structural, dielectric and magnetic properties were carefully investigated. It was found that Fe-doping could effectively improve the dielectric constant of SrZrO₃. Moreover, ferromagnetism with a Curie temperature of about 685 K was successfully introduced by a small amount of Fe dopant. The saturation magnetization and coercive field of SrZrO₃ and SrZr0.9375Fe0.0625O3 ceramics were 3.0 emu/g and 1.3 kOe, respectively, at room temperature. The origin and mechanism of ferromagnetism introduced by Fe dopant is discussed based on the valence fluctuation of Fe ions

High performance field emission of silicon carbide nanowires and their applications in flexible field emission displays

In this paper, a facile method to fabricate the flexible field emission devices (FEDs) based on SiC nanostructure emitters by a thermal evaporation method has been demonstrated. The composition characteristics of SiC nanowires was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), selected area electron diffraction (SAED) and energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer (EDX), while the morphology was revealed by field emission scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). The results showed that the SiC nanowires grew along the [111] direction with the diameter of ∼110 nm and length of∼30 μm. The flexible FEDs have been fabricated by transferring and screen-printing the SiC nanowires onto the flexible substrates exhibited excellent field emission properties, such as the low turn-on field (∼0.95 V/μm) and threshold field (∼3.26 V/μm), and the high field enhancement factor (β=4670). It is worth noting the current density degradation can be controlled lower than 2% per hour during the stability tests. In addition, the flexible FEDs based on SiC nanowire emitters exhibit uniform bright emission modes under bending test conditions. As a result, this strategy is very useful for its potential application in the commercial flexible FEDs