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Full-Text Articles in Physics
Simulation Of Polycapillary And Multichannel Plate X-Ray Optics, Robert Schmitz
Simulation Of Polycapillary And Multichannel Plate X-Ray Optics, Robert Schmitz
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Simulation of x-ray optical systems is an important tool for optics design for known applications, and optic development for potential applications. Polycapillary optics are thin glass cylinders containing hundreds of thousands of hollow channels that transmit x rays using total external reflection. These optics have been developed for many applications, from beam filtering to x-ray collimating or focusing. A Monte Carlo based ray-tracing simulation was developed to model a wide range of polycapillary optic geometries. The simulation uses a vector-based approach to model all photons and optical geometries in three dimensions. Simulation verification was performed for a wide range of …
Band Structures Of Layered Carbon/Boron Nitride Materials With Commensurate Lattices, Christopher C. Wells
Band Structures Of Layered Carbon/Boron Nitride Materials With Commensurate Lattices, Christopher C. Wells
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The electronic structures of systems consisting of hexagonal boron nitride layers and graphite sheets have been investigated in detail using density functional theory methods with two exchange correlation functions (local density approximation and generalized gradient approximation). The experimental data of graphene, graphite, monolayer hexagonal BN, and hexagonal BN were reproduced well with computational models. The commensurate models used in the investigation were generated by taking the averages of the lattice constants for graphite and h-BN.
Pvd Cu Trench-Fill By Viscous Flow At High Temperatures, Zhiyuan Wu
Pvd Cu Trench-Fill By Viscous Flow At High Temperatures, Zhiyuan Wu
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The scaling of integrated circuits has led to new challenges in Cu interconnect fabrication. It is getting difficult to fill narrow trenches, e.g. 20 nm wide, by Cu electroplating. In this work, a high temperature PVD Cu viscous flow trench fill process was explored to overcome the difficulties of filling narrow and high aspect ratio trenches.
Susy Based Displaced Vertices In Atlas Detector, Selim Unal
Susy Based Displaced Vertices In Atlas Detector, Selim Unal
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN collides protons at 7 TeV center-of-mass energy. ATLAS is a large multipurpose detector sited at one of the interactions points in the LHC beam and is designed to collect the particles produced by the collisions. We expect the data to yield important advances in the field of particle physics.
Generalized Galilean Transformations And The Measurement Problem In The Entropic Dynamics Approach To Quantum Theory, David Terence Johnson
Generalized Galilean Transformations And The Measurement Problem In The Entropic Dynamics Approach To Quantum Theory, David Terence Johnson
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Quantum mechanics is an extremely successful and accurate physical theory, yet since its inception, it has been afflicted with numerous conceptual difficulties. The primary subject of this thesis is the theory of entropic quantum dynamics (EQD), which seeks to avoid these conceptual problems by interpreting quantum theory from an informational perspective.
Electron-Phonon Interactions And Quantum Confinement Effects On Optical Transitions In Nanoscale Silicon Films, Vimal Kumar Kamineni
Electron-Phonon Interactions And Quantum Confinement Effects On Optical Transitions In Nanoscale Silicon Films, Vimal Kumar Kamineni
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Theoretical studies have attributed the temperature dependence of the linear optical response (dielectric function) of bulk semiconductors to electron-phonon interactions and thermal expansion of the lattice. However, the role of phonons in the optical properties of nanoscale structures is often overlooked. This thesis systematically investigates the impact of both carrier confinement and electron-phonon interactions using nanoscale films of silicon in crystalline silicon quantum wells (c-Si QW). Spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) is a linear optical technique used to of extract the dielectric function and thickness of very thin films. X-ray reflectivity (XRR) was used as the complementary thickness metrology method. The dielectric …
Nucleation, Wetting And Agglomeration Of Copper And Copper-Alloy Thin Films On Metal Liner Surfaces, Stephanie Florence Labarbera
Nucleation, Wetting And Agglomeration Of Copper And Copper-Alloy Thin Films On Metal Liner Surfaces, Stephanie Florence Labarbera
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
One of the key challenges in fabricating narrower and higher aspect ratio interconnects using damascene technology has been achieving an ultra-thin (~2 nm) and continuous Cu seed coverage on trench sidewalls. The thin seed is prone to agglomeration because of poor Cu wetting on the Ta liner. Using in-situ conductance measurements, the effect of lowering the substrate temperature during Cu seed deposition has been studied on tantalum (Ta) and ruthenium (Ru) liner surfaces. On a Ta surface, it was found that lowering the deposition temperature to -65°C increases the nucleation rate of the Cu thin film, and reduces the minimum …
Optimization And Development Of Silicon-Based Semiconductor Devices Using Tcad, Changwoo Lee
Optimization And Development Of Silicon-Based Semiconductor Devices Using Tcad, Changwoo Lee
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Computer simulation of the electrical and optical properties of semiconductor devices has been became as an essential tool for developing new device as well as for improving existing device. This presentation describes applications of physical device simulation: (1) design optimization of power MOSFET, which is single crystalline based silicon semiconductor device, for cryogenic temperature application and (2) two-dimensional device simulation of amorphous silicon based solar cell to develop novel photovoltaic device with high efficiency.
Albany Particle Training And Testing Tower (Apt3) : A Remote Interactive Lab, Hasan Mahmood
Albany Particle Training And Testing Tower (Apt3) : A Remote Interactive Lab, Hasan Mahmood
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
We have built a prototype time-of-flight system named Albany Particle Testing and Training Tower (APT3) based on scintillation counters (Lucite or Poly-methyl methacrylate (PMMA)) with dimensions (50 × 8 × 5 cm3). The CAMAC based data acquisition (DAQ) system and control setup to collect and process information from a scintillation detector using LabVIEW (v.8.5) has been developed. We have also studied the timing resolution of APT3 setup as a function of the hit position of the particle beam (cosmic muons) from the scintillation counter and as a function of the high voltage applied to the scintillation counter. After locating the …
Autonomous Entropy-Based Intelligent Experimental Design, Nabin Kumar Malakar
Autonomous Entropy-Based Intelligent Experimental Design, Nabin Kumar Malakar
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The aim of this thesis is to explore the application of probability and information theory in experimental design, and to do so in a way that combines what we know about inference and inquiry in a comprehensive and consistent manner.