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Liao CT, Kao CY, Su ZT, Lin YS, Wang YW, Yang CF. Investigations of In 2O 3 Added SiC Semiconductive Thin Films and Manufacture of a Heterojunction Diode. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 14:881. [PMID: 38786836 PMCID: PMC11123852 DOI: 10.3390/nano14100881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2024] [Revised: 05/15/2024] [Accepted: 05/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024]
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This study involved direct doping of In2O3 into silicon carbide (SiC) powder, resulting in 8.0 at% In-doped SiC powder. Subsequently, heating at 500 °C was performed to form a target, followed by the utilization of electron beam (e-beam) technology to deposit the In-doped SiC thin films with the thickness of approximately 189.8 nm. The first breakthrough of this research was the successful deposition of using e-beam technology. The second breakthrough involved utilizing various tools to analyze the physical and electrical properties of In-doped SiC thin films. Hall effect measurement was used to measure the resistivity, mobility, and carrier concentration and confirm its n-type semiconductor nature. The uniform dispersion of In ions in SiC was as confirmed by electron microscopy energy-dispersive spectroscopy and secondary ion mass spectrometry analyses. The Tauc Plot method was employed to determine the Eg values of pure SiC and In-doped SiC thin films. Semiconductor parameter analyzer was used to measure the conductivity and the I-V characteristics of devices in In-doped SiC thin films. Furthermore, the third finding demonstrated that In2O3-doped SiC thin films exhibited remarkable current density. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and Gaussian-resolved spectra further confirmed a significant relationship between conductivity and oxygen vacancy concentration. Lastly, depositing these In-doped SiC thin films onto p-type silicon substrates etched with buffered oxide etchant resulted in the formation of heterojunction p-n junction. This junction exhibited the rectifying characteristics of a diode, with sample current values in the vicinity of 102 mA, breakdown voltage at approximately -5.23 V, and open-circuit voltage around 1.56 V. This underscores the potential of In-doped SiC thin films for various semiconductor devices.
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- Chia-Te Liao
- Department of Aviation Communication and Electronics, Air Force Institute of Technology, Kaohsiung 820, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan
- Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung 413, Taiwan
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Kumar A, Sevilla MD, Sanche L. How a Single 5 eV Electron Can Induce Double-Strand Breaks in DNA: A Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory Study. J Phys Chem B 2024; 128:4053-4062. [PMID: 38652830 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c08367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2024]
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Low-energy (<20 eV) electrons (LEEs) can resonantly interact with DNA to form transient anions (TAs) of fundamental units, inducing single-strand breaks (SSBs), and cluster damage, such as double-strand breaks (DSBs). Shape resonances, which arise from electron capture in a previously unfilled orbital, can induce only a SSB, whereas a single core-excited resonance (i.e., two electrons in excited orbitals of the field of a hole) has been shown experimentally to cause cluster lesions. Herein, we show from time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) that a core-excited resonance can produce a DSB, i.e., a single 5 eV electron can induce two close lesions in DNA. We considered the nucleotide with the G-C base pair (ds[5'-G-3']) as a model for electron localization in the DNA double helix and calculated the potential energy surfaces (PESs) of excited states of the ground-state TA of ds[5'-G-3'], which correspond to shape and core-excited resonances. The calculations show that shape TAs start at ca. 1 eV, while core-excited TAs occur only above 4 eV. The energy profile of each excited state and the corresponding PES are obtained by simultaneously stretching both C5'-O5' bonds of ds[5'-G-3']. From the nature of the PES, we find two dissociative (σ*) states localized on the PO4 groups at the C5' sites of ds[5'-G-3']. The first σ* state at 1 eV is due to a shape resonance, while the second σ* state is induced by a core-excited resonance at 5.4 eV. As the bond of the latter state stretches and arrives close to the dissociation limit, the added electron on C transfers to C5' phosphate, thus demonstrating the possibility of producing a DSB with only one electron of ca. 5 eV.
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- Anil Kumar
- Department of Chemistry, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan 48309, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan 48309, United States
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology and Clinical Research Center, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada
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Low-Energy Electron Generation for Biomolecular Damage Inquiry: Instrumentation and Methods. BIOPHYSICA 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/biophysica2040041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Technological advancement has produced a variety of instruments and methods to generate electron beams that have greatly assisted in the extensive theoretical and experimental efforts devoted to investigating the effect of secondary electrons with energies approximately less than 100 eV, which are referred as low-energy electrons (LEEs). In the past two decades, LEE studies have focused on biomolecular systems, which mainly consist of DNA and proteins and their constituents as primary cellular targets of ionizing radiation. These studies have revealed that compared to other reactive species produced by high-energy radiation, LEEs have distinctive pathways and considerable efficiency in inducing lethal DNA lesions. The present work aims to briefly discuss the current state of LEE production technology and to motivate further studies and improvements of LEE generation techniques in relation to biological electron-driven processes associated with such medical applications as radiation therapy and cancer treatment.
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Gao Y, Zheng Y, Sanche L. Low-Energy Electron Damage to Condensed-Phase DNA and Its Constituents. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:7879. [PMID: 34360644 PMCID: PMC8345953 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22157879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2021] [Revised: 06/30/2021] [Accepted: 06/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The complex physical and chemical reactions between the large number of low-energy (0-30 eV) electrons (LEEs) released by high energy radiation interacting with genetic material can lead to the formation of various DNA lesions such as crosslinks, single strand breaks, base modifications, and cleavage, as well as double strand breaks and other cluster damages. When crosslinks and cluster damages cannot be repaired by the cell, they can cause genetic loss of information, mutations, apoptosis, and promote genomic instability. Through the efforts of many research groups in the past two decades, the study of the interaction between LEEs and DNA under different experimental conditions has unveiled some of the main mechanisms responsible for these damages. In the present review, we focus on experimental investigations in the condensed phase that range from fundamental DNA constituents to oligonucleotides, synthetic duplex DNA, and bacterial (i.e., plasmid) DNA. These targets were irradiated either with LEEs from a monoenergetic-electron or photoelectron source, as sub-monolayer, monolayer, or multilayer films and within clusters or water solutions. Each type of experiment is briefly described, and the observed DNA damages are reported, along with the proposed mechanisms. Defining the role of LEEs within the sequence of events leading to radiobiological lesions contributes to our understanding of the action of radiation on living organisms, over a wide range of initial radiation energies. Applications of the interaction of LEEs with DNA to radiotherapy are briefly summarized.
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- Yingxia Gao
- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China;
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China;
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- Département de Médecine Nucléaire et Radiobiologie et Centre de Recherche Clinique, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada;
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Hahn MB, Dietrich PM, Radnik J. In situ monitoring of the influence of water on DNA radiation damage by near-ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Commun Chem 2021; 4:50. [PMID: 36697687 PMCID: PMC9814248 DOI: 10.1038/s42004-021-00487-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2021] [Accepted: 03/10/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Ionizing radiation damage to DNA plays a fundamental role in cancer therapy. X-ray photoelectron-spectroscopy (XPS) allows simultaneous irradiation and damage monitoring. Although water radiolysis is essential for radiation damage, all previous XPS studies were performed in vacuum. Here we present near-ambient-pressure XPS experiments to directly measure DNA damage under water atmosphere. They permit in-situ monitoring of the effects of radicals on fully hydrated double-stranded DNA. The results allow us to distinguish direct damage, by photons and secondary low-energy electrons (LEE), from damage by hydroxyl radicals or hydration induced modifications of damage pathways. The exposure of dry DNA to x-rays leads to strand-breaks at the sugar-phosphate backbone, while deoxyribose and nucleobases are less affected. In contrast, a strong increase of DNA damage is observed in water, where OH-radicals are produced. In consequence, base damage and base release become predominant, even though the number of strand-breaks increases further.
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- Marc Benjamin Hahn
- grid.14095.390000 0000 9116 4836Institut für Experimentalphysik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany ,grid.71566.330000 0004 0603 5458Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, Berlin, Germany
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- grid.71566.330000 0004 0603 5458Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, Berlin, Germany
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Rosenberg RA, Rozhkova EA, Novosad V. Investigations into Spin- and Unpolarized Secondary Electron-Induced Reactions in Self-Assembled Monolayers of Cysteine. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2021; 37:2985-2992. [PMID: 33621100 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c00068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Cysteine is the simplest thiolated, chiral amino acid and is often used as the anchor for studies of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of complex biomolecules such as peptides. Understanding the interaction of SAMs of cysteine with low-energy secondary electrons (SEs) produced by X-rays can further our understanding of radiation damage in biomolecules. In particular, if the electrons are polarized, chiral-selective chemistry could have bearing on the origin of homochirality in nature. In the present paper, we use synchrotron radiation-based X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to determine the changes that occur in the bonding of self-assembled layers of cysteine on gold as a result of soft X-ray irradiation. To investigate the possibility of chiral selectivity resulting from the interaction of low-energy, spin-polarized SEs (SPSEs), measurements were conducted on cysteine adsorbed on a 3 nm-thick gold layer deposited on a CoPt thin-film multilayer with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Time-dependent measurements of the C 1s, N 1s, O 1s, S 2p, and Au 4f core levels are used to follow the changes in surface chemistry and determine reaction cross-sections as a function of SE exposure. Analysis of the data results in cross-sections in the range of 5-7 Mb and suggests possible reaction pathways. Changing the magnetization direction of the CoPt multilayer produces SPSEs with opposite polarity. Some evidence of spin-dependent reactions is indicated but is inconclusive. Possible reasons for the discrepancy are posited.
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- R A Rosenberg
- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont Illinois 60439, United States
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont Illinois 60439, United States
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- Material Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont Illinois 60439, United States
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Schaible MJ, Rosenberg RA, Kundu S, Orlando TM. Electron Spin-Polarization Dependent Damage to Chiral Amino Acid l-Histidine. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:10182-10187. [PMID: 33200930 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The damage of approximately monolayer films of l-histidine by low-energy spin-polarized electrons (SPE) ejected from a magnetized cobalt substrate has been probed using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Average damage cross sections for N-containing motifs of l-histidine are 25-30 and 2-5 Mb for zwitterions and neutral molecules, respectively. The magnetization direction of the substrate, which controls the ejected SPE helicity, was reversed in situ, and statistically significant differences in the damage cross sections of 10-30% were measured between positive and negative electron helicities. This is the first measurement of spin dichroism (SD) in an amino acid. The differential cross sections suggest that inelastic scattering of SPE with chiral molecules could contribute to the persistence of one enantiomer vs the other under certain irradiation conditions, particularly for the zwitterionic species.
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- M J Schaible
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
- School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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Możejko P, Stefanowska-Tur S, Ptasińska-Denga E, Szmytkowski C. Electron scattering from tin tetrachloride (SnCl 4) molecules. J Chem Phys 2019. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5116307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Paweł Możejko
- Department of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Gdańsk University of Technology, ul. Gabriela Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Gdańsk University of Technology, ul. Gabriela Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Gdańsk University of Technology, ul. Gabriela Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Gdańsk University of Technology, ul. Gabriela Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland
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Clustered DNA Damages induced by 0.5 to 30 eV Electrons. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:ijms20153749. [PMID: 31370253 PMCID: PMC6695612 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20153749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2019] [Revised: 07/26/2019] [Accepted: 07/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Low-energy electrons (LEEs) of energies ≤30 eV are generated in large quantities by ionizing radiation. These electrons can damage DNA; particularly, they can induce the more detrimental clustered lesions in cells. This type of lesions, which are responsible for a large portion of the genotoxic stress generated by ionizing radiation, is described in the Introduction. The reactions initiated by the collisions of 0.5-30 eV electrons with oligonucleotides, duplex DNA, and DNA bound to chemotherapeutic platinum drugs are explained and reviewed in the subsequent sections. The experimental methods of LEE irradiation and DNA damage analysis are described with an emphasis on the detection of cluster lesions, which are considerably enhanced in DNA-Pt-drug complexes. Based on the energy dependence of damage yields and cross-sections, a mechanism responsible for the clustered lesions can be attributed to the capture of a single electron by the electron affinity of an excited state of a base, leading to the formation of transient anions at 6 and 10 eV. The initial capture is followed by electronic excitation of the base and dissociative attachment-at other DNA sites-of the electron reemitted from the temporary base anion. The mechanism is expected to be universal in the cellular environment and plays an important role in the formation of clustered lesions.
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