Enhanced carbon solubility in solvent for SiC rapid solution growth:Thermodynamic evaluation of Cr-Ce-Si-C system

The carbon dissolution in solvent plays a key role in the process of solution growth route for SiC single crystal,which could determine the growth rate and quality of the products.However,the carbon dissolving ability of binary alloy solvent still needs to be improved.Here,we demonstrate the improved carbon dissolution and enlarged carbon supersaturation in Cr-Ce-Si ternary solvent,showing great potential for SiC solution growth.The phase relations of Cr-Ce-Si-C system were determined by using CALPHAD method based on thermodynamic parameters of CeCr_(2)Si_(2)C.It is indicated that the Cr-Ce-Si ternary solvent shows much larger carbon solubility in temperature range from 1700 to 2000℃compared to Cr-Si binary one,Furthermore,the carbon supersaturation in solvent is also significantly increased in low temperature range after the addition of Ce,leading to a rapid growth rate.Our work not only demonstrates the feasibility of adding Ce in the alloy solvent for rapid growth of SiC crystal,but also provides an example for investigating the C solubility in ternary solvent.

Steady-state solution growth of microcrystalline silicon on nanocrystalline seed layers on glass

The growth of polycrystalline silicon layers on glass from tin solutions at low temperatures is presented.This approach is based on the steady-state solution growth of Si crystallites on nanocrystalline seed layers, which are prepared in a preceding process step. Scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy investigations reveal details about the seed layer surfaces, which consist of small hillocks, as well as about Sn inclusions and gaps along the glass substrate after solution growth. The successful growth of continuous microcrystalline Si layers with grain sizes up to several ten micrometers shows the feasibility of the process and makes it interesting for photovoltaics.

A PRIORI ESTIMATES TO THE MAXIMUM MODULUS OF GENERALIZED SOLUTIONS OF A CLASS OF QUASILINEAR ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS WITH ANISOTROPIC GROWTH CONDITIONS

In this paper we give a priori estimates for the maximum modulus of generalizedsolulions of the quasilinear elliplic equations irith anisotropic growth condition.

ZTE Records Highest Industry Growth for Optical Networking Solutions

ZTE Corporation has the highest industry sales growth in the area of Optical Networking (ON)last year,according tothe report published by

EXISTENCE OF NONTRIVIAL SOLUTION OF QUASILINEAR ELLIPTIC EIGENVALUE PROBLEM ON R^n WITH NATURAL GROWTH CONDITIONS

In this paper, we get the existence result of the nontrivial weak solution (λ, u) of the following eigenvalue problem with natural growth conditions.

Assembling ZnO Nanorods into Microflowers through a Facile Solution Strategy: Morphology Control and Cathodoluminescence Properties

In this work, flowerlike ZnO micro/nanostructures assembled from nanorods are obtained through a facile hydrothermal route. The experimental results indicated that the as-synthesized ZnO microflowers have an average diameter of 2 μm, composed of nanorods of an average diameter of 200 nm and a tapered morphology.ZnO with other morphologies were also obtained by varying the reaction conditions. Systematical conditiondependent experiments were conducted to reveal the growth mechansim of the microflowers. It is suggested that the zinc source types, solution p H value, and reaction temperature, as well as reaction time are responsible for the variations of ZnO morphology. Luminescence properties of ZnO microflowers were investigated through monitoring different parts of nanorods, showing good optical quality.

One-Step Seedless and Catalyst—Free Growth of Hierarchical ZnO Film Promising for Photoelectrochemical Application

A facile one-step method was developed for the fabrication of hierarchical ZnO film on substrate. Neither seed nor catalyst layer is necessary for the growth of hierarchical ZnO film. Three kinds of nucleation process were found, and the influences of growth time, growth electrolyte, growth temperature on the morphology of ZnO film were evaluated. Hierarchical ZnO film can absorb more than 97% of incident photons with wavelength shorter than 380 nm. Such hierarchical ZnO film would be a promising scaffold for photoelectrochemical application.

Phase Diagram, Growth and Optical Property of the LaBWO_6 Crystal

The phase diagram, growth and optical property of LaBWO6 crystal are reported. LaBWO6 crystal melts congruently at 1078 ℃. Based on the pseudo-ternary phase diagram of LaBWO6-（Li2WO4/LiF） -B203, the LaBWO6 crystals have been firstly grown by the flux method. LaBWO6 crystal crystallizes in the orthorhombic system, space group P222 with a = 4.1, b = 10.31 and c = 21.71 A. LaBWO6 Crystal exhibits high transparency in a range from 327 to 1100 nm. The absorption edge of the crystal in the UV range is at 293 nm. The SHG efficient of LaBWO6 crystal is 0.3 times as large as that of the KDP crystal.

MAXIMAL SUBSPACES FOR SOLUTIONS OF THE SECOND ORDER ABSTRACT CAUCHY PROBLEM

For a continuous, increasing function ω ： R^＋ →R^＋／{0} of finite exponential type, this paper introduces the set Z（A, ω） of all x in a Banach space X for which the second order abstract differential equation （2） has a mild solution such that [ω（t）]^-1u（t,x） is uniformly continues on R^＋, and show that Z（A, ω） is a maximal Banach subspace continuously embedded in X, where A ∈ B（X） is closed. Moreover, A[z（A,ω） generates an O（ω（t）） strongly continuous cosine operator function family.

Synthesis, Growth and Characterization of Benzophenone Added Sodium Acid Phthalate Crystal—A Potential Material for Nonlinear Optical Applications

Sodium acid phthalate C8H5NaO4 is one of the suitable semiorganic single crystals hired in second harmonic generation conversion applications. In the present work, optically transparent Benzophenone doped with sodium acid phthalate (SAPB) single crystals were grown successfully by slow evaporation solution technique. Single crystal XRD analyses exposed that the crystal lattice of SAPB crystal is a monoclinic crystal system with unit cell parameters a = 6.77 Å, b = 9.31 Å, c = 13.58 Å, and space group B2cb. The crystalline nature of SAPB material was confirmed by powder XRD pattern. The functional groups present in the grown crystals were identified by the FTIR analysis ranging between 4000 and 500 cm−1. The optical transparency and band gap of grown crystals were measured from UV-Visible spectroscopy. The fluorescence emission spectrum of the SAPB crystal having a strong Yellow emission peak at 574 nm and the red emission at 631 nm are identified. The Vickers microhardness number (Hv) increases with increasing load. Meyer’s index number (n) calculated from Hv shows that the material belongs to the soft material category. Preliminary measurement using Kurtz powder technique with Nd-YAG laser light of wavelength 1064 nm indicates that their second harmonic generation (SHG) efficiencies of the grown crystals were presented 2 times in comparison with Potassium Dihydrogen Phosphate (KDP) was confirmed.

Growth and Study of ADP Crystal Doped with Acridine Orange

Materials with large non-linear optical properties are good candidates for applications in the fields of telecommunications, solar energy conversion, laser treatment and so on. In the present study, a crystal of Ammonium Dihydrogen Orthophosphate doped with Acridine Orange, possessing excellent nonlinear optical properties were grown by the slow solvent evaporation technique at 25°C using a constant temperature bath. Ammonium dihydrogen orthophosphate doped with Acridine Orange were synthesized in a large quantity via solution growth method using aqueous mixtures of Ammonium Dihydrogen Orthophosphate and Acridine Orange. The morphological characteristics were studied by field emission scanning electron microscopy which revealed that the synthesized product possesses needle shaped microstructures. The mechanical properties are studied by Vicker’s micro hardness test.

氨基酸系列改性TGS晶体研究

TGS (triglycine sulfate) is a pyroelectric crystal material which has an excllent pyroelectricity.The LATGS,a kind of doped TGS crystal,in which L α alanine (LA) substitues for glycine partially and induces an internal bias in TGS resulting in permanently poled single domain crystal,becomes the comprehensively used pyroelectric material. Based on the study which was about the locked polarization in LATGS,we select many kinds of aminoacids which have a strong polarity group and a unsymmetry atom to dope into TGS crystals.The aninoacids are LB (L asparagine),LL (L lysine),LH (L histidine) and LG (L glutamid acid).The saturated solutions for above four crystals growth are prepared by TGS doped with different aminoacids in water. Transparent crystals up to several centinetres in size have been grown by circling plate method and the reversible rotation rate of the platform with the crystal was about 90 r/min.There was a prefered growth in the b axis direction,with a growth rate of the b axis of about 1.0-1.2mm/day.The concentrations of aminoacids doped in TGS crystals were determined by a liquid chromatography,the concentrations of different aminoacids are about 10 -3 . It shows that the lattice parameters ( a,b and V )of TGS doped with aminoacids are significant longer than that of pure TGS crystal. We conclude that the pyroelectic cofficient,pyroelectric merit and the locked polarization of four TGS crystals,especially,the internal bield ( E b ) of LLTGS is larger than the LATGS,so that the LLTGS crystal is a promising pyroelectrc material for infrared detector.

氯酸钠晶体生长动力学的研究

Sodium chlorate is a no coloured,no smell and no poisonous transparent crystal with the formula of NaClO 3.Its structure belongs to the cubic( T 23)class and exhibits optical activity.The space group is P 2 13 and there are four molecules per cubic unit cell with a =0.6570nm.We chose the crystal as a research system based on two reasons:(1)since the crystal structure belongs to the cubic class,the crystal faces,such as(100),(010),(001)are possessed of homogeneity,it is the suitable system for studying kinetics of crystal growth;(2)since the solubility of the NaClO 3 is higher in the H 2O and the crystal could be grown from low temperature solution,this is a suitable system for studying a influence of gravity on the boundary layer characteristics of the crystal growth under the microgravity condition.

KLN晶体生长与蓝光SHG特性

In this paper,ferroelectric tetragonal tungsten bronze type potassium lithium niobate(KLN)crystal with a size of 20mm×8mm×43mm was grown from a melt with a composition of 32mol% K 2CO 3,24mol% Li 2CO 3 and 44mol% Nb 2O 5 by the top seeded solution growth (TSSG)method.The KLN crystal as grown along [110]axis has a perfect crystal melt interface dominated by {110} and {210} facets.Lattice constants were measured by X ray diffraction (XRD) analysis performed on {001}and {110}natural faces of single crystal samples.The anisotropic thermal expansion behavior of the crystal was also studied along [001] and [110] axes,respectively by using a Shimadzu TMA 50 thermomechnical analyzer.For the purpose of crystal poling,the dependence of crystal capacitance vs.temperature in both heating and cooling cycles was measured and the ferroelectric Curie temperature was determined to be 514℃.The crystal was poled at 506℃ with a dc field of about 250 V/cm along the c axis of the sample,for a time corresponding to about 1.5 h/cm.The blue second harmonic generation (SHG)characteristics of the KLN crystal were investigated by using a 3900s Ti∶sapphire CW tunable laser.Blue laser light at wavelength 432nm was obtained by the non critical phase matching (NCPM)SHG at room temperature.Based on the wavelength and temperature tuning curves for the NCPM SHG,the wavelength acceptance and temperature acceptance of this KLN crystal were measured.The crystal property homogeneity along the <110>growth axis was also studied by measuring the room temperature NCPM wavelength at different growth positions.

Inhibiting effect of short hairpin RNA on expression of transforming growth factor-β1 in human peritoneal mesothelial cells induced by peritoneal dialysis solution

The peritoneum response to peritoneal dialysis can lead to fibrosis. The transforming growth factor-β1 （TGF-β1） plays an important role in regulating tissue repair and remodeling after injury. Excessive synthesis and deposition of matrix proteins by peritoneal mesothelial cells can lead to structural and functional changes in the peritoneal membrane, jeopardizing the long-term efficacy of peritoneal dialysis （PD）. Prolonged exposure to high glucose concentrations in PD fluid has been implicated as a major stimulus to matrix accumulation, through the induction of transforming growth factor-β1 （TGF-β1）.

The Existence of a Weak Solution of Inhomogeneous Quasilinear Elliptic Equation with Critical Growth Conditions

In this paper, we get the existence of a weak solution of the following inhomogeneous quasilinear elliptic equation with critical growth conditions: where N≥2, f（x,u）～|u|m-1eb|u|γat +∞, with γ=N/N-1, m≥1, b】0.

Facile and green route to highly luminescent ZnS-shelled CdSe nanocrystals

Highly luminescent CdSe/ZnS nanocrystals were obtained by adapting non-TOP-based synthesis and a subsequent two-phase ZnS shelling procedure:the core CdSe nanocrystals were synthesized in sole solvent paraffin liquid with cadmium oxide,elemental sele-nium,and oleic acid; the deposition of the ZnS shell was conducted by using zinc stearate in toluene and sodium sulfide in deionized water. The green and low-cost route was proved to be more efficient to constrain the size of core nanocrystals while tuning the growth of shell particles,which results in high quantum yields of CdSe/ZnS nanocrystals. The present route is accessible to laboratories with limited synthetic expertise to create CdSe/ZnS nanocrystals and easily scaled up to industrial applications.

Preparation and characterization of nanostructured Bi_2Se_3 and Sn_(0.5)-Bi_2Se_3

Nanostructured Bi2Se3 and Sn0.5·Bi2Se3 were successfully synthesized by hydrothermal coreduction from SnCl2-H2O and the oxides of Bi and Se. The products were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD),transmission electron microscopy (TEM),and field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM). Bi2Se3 powders obtained at 180°C and 150°C consist of hexagonal flakes of 50-150 nm in side length and nanorods of 30-100 nm in diameter and more than 1 μm in length. The product obtained at 120°C is composed of thin irregular nanosheets with a size of 100-200 nm and several nanometers in thickness. The major phase of Sn0.5-Bi2Se3 synthesized at 180°C is similar to that of Bi2Se3. Sn0.5-Bi2Se3 powders are primarily nanorod structures,but small amount of powders demonstrate irregular morphologies.

大尺寸KDP晶体生长

KDP and its deuterated analog DKDP (K (D x H 1- x ) 2PO 4) are the first ch oice materials in the fabrication of optical switcher and frequency converter fo r inertial confinement fusion study.In the past years,the growth technique has b een d eveloped greatly.Large aperture crystals can be grown with various methods,such as,temperature decreasing,solution circular flow,and rapid growth method,which i ntend to reduce the cost of production and satisfy the requirement of ICF.As to rapid growth method,much attention has been paid to solution stability and the K DP crystal qualities of this method which has been proved that high speed can be obtained.LLNL has grown KDP crystal with dimension of 57mm×57mm×55mm,260 kil ogram in 59 days.This method is very different from conventional method for grow ing KDP crystal in three directions uniformly.In addition to the growth of the pyramidal faces,rapid crystallization from supersaturated solution results in si gnificant growth of prismatic faces.Inclusions of growth solution and incorporat ion of metal impurities will occur in the prism sector as prism extends very muc h by this method.Fast growth needs high supersaturation(10%—30%),so the grow th condition,such as ,raw materials,apparatus,temperature lowing proceed should be controlled very strictly.In order to improve the utilization of KDP crystal g rown by point seed method,we developed 4 vessels circular technique on the bas e of 3 vessels circular technique recently.

块状晶体生长中的输运现象——从数值的非线性分析到工艺的改进

The quality of substrate crystals is critical to the performance of devices used in electronic and optoelectronic applications.These bulk crystals are mostly grown from the melt or solution,with a well controlled solidification or supersaturation,which is affected significantly by the heat and mass flows.Particularly,in the melt growth,the interface kinetics is so fast that the growth is mainly controlled by the transport processes.Hence,the intricate coupling of heat and mass transfer and melt flow strongly influences the grown crystal quality,but its analysis and control is not a trivial task.For most materials,such as semiconductors and oxides,a detailed analysis of the transport processes through experiments is extremely difficult due to the long growth period at high temperature.Therefore,numerical simulation is inevitable.For the past ten years,crystal growth modeling has become one of the most active research fields in materials processing.Indeed,as long as the melt crystal growth of semiconductors remains a mainstay of the microelectronics industry,its modeling continues to be important.In this talk,the role of transport phenomena in bulk crystal growth and their detailed nonlinear analysis are illustrated through our research work over the years.Particular interests will be paid to the zone melting and Bridgman crystal growth.The control of convection and interface shape through external forces,such as rotation,magnetic fields,and vibration will be discussed.Interface instability leading to“pit formation”and interface breakdown due to thermal and solutal flows will also be illustrated.