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Lidsky D, Cain JM, Hutchins-Delgado T, Lu TM. Inverse metal-assisted chemical etching of germanium with gold and hydrogen peroxide. Nanotechnology 2022; 34:065302. [PMID: 35835063 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ac810c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2022] [Accepted: 07/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Metal-assisted chemical etching (MACE) is a flexible technique for texturing the surface of semiconductors. In this work, we study the spatial variation of the etch profile, the effect of angular orientation relative to the crystallographic planes, and the effect of doping type. We employ gold in direct contact with germanium as the metal catalyst, and dilute hydrogen peroxide solution as the chemical etchant. With this catalyst-etchant combination, we observe inverse-MACE, where the area directly under gold is not etched, but the neighboring, exposed germanium experiences enhanced etching. This enhancement in etching decays exponentially with the lateral distance from the gold structure. An empirical formula for the gold-enhanced etching depth as a function of lateral distance from the edge of the gold film is extracted from the experimentally measured etch profiles. The lateral range of enhanced etching is approximately 10-20μm and is independent of etchant concentration. At length scales beyond a few microns, the etching enhancement is independent of the orientation with respect to the germanium crystallographic planes. The etch rate as a function of etchant concentration follows a power law with exponent smaller than 1. The observed etch rates and profiles are independent of whether the germanium substrate is n-type, p-type, or nearly intrinsic.
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- D Lidsky
- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185, United States of America
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- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185, United States of America
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- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185, United States of America
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- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185, United States of America
- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87123, United States of America
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Chou CT, Jacobson NT, Moussa JE, Baczewski AD, Chuang Y, Liu CY, Li JY, Lu TM. Weak anti-localization of two-dimensional holes in germanium beyond the diffusive regime. Nanoscale 2018; 10:20559-20564. [PMID: 30256364 DOI: 10.1039/c8nr05677c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Gate-controllable spin-orbit coupling is often one requisite for spintronic devices. For practical spin field-effect transistors, another essential requirement is ballistic spin transport, where the spin precession length is shorter than the mean free path such that the gate-controlled spin precession is not randomized by disorder. In this letter, we report the observation of a gate-induced crossover from weak localization to weak anti-localization in the magneto-resistance of a high-mobility two-dimensional hole gas in a strained germanium quantum well. From the magneto-resistance, we extract the phase-coherence time, spin-orbit precession time, spin-orbit energy splitting, and cubic Rashba coefficient over a wide density range. The mobility and the mean free path increase with increasing hole density, while the spin precession length decreases due to increasingly stronger spin-orbit coupling. As the density becomes larger than ∼6 × 1011 cm-2, the spin precession length becomes shorter than the mean free path, and the system enters the ballistic spin transport regime. We also report here the numerical methods and code developed for calculating the magneto-resistance in the ballistic regime, where the commonly used HLN and ILP models for analyzing weak localization and anti-localization are not valid. These results pave the way toward silicon-compatible spintronic devices.
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- C-T Chou
- Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
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Lu TM, Tracy LA, Laroche D, Huang SH, Chuang Y, Su YH, Li JY, Liu CW. Density-controlled quantum Hall ferromagnetic transition in a two-dimensional hole system. Sci Rep 2017; 7:2468. [PMID: 28572640 PMCID: PMC5453979 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-02757-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2017] [Accepted: 04/18/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Quantum Hall ferromagnetic transitions are typically achieved by increasing the Zeeman energy through in-situ sample rotation, while transitions in systems with pseudo-spin indices can be induced by gate control. We report here a gate-controlled quantum Hall ferromagnetic transition between two real spin states in a conventional two-dimensional system without any in-plane magnetic field. We show that the ratio of the Zeeman splitting to the cyclotron gap in a Ge two-dimensional hole system increases with decreasing density owing to inter-carrier interactions. Below a critical density of ~2.4 × 1010 cm−2, this ratio grows greater than 1, resulting in a ferromagnetic ground state at filling factor ν = 2. At the critical density, a resistance peak due to the formation of microscopic domains of opposite spin orientations is observed. Such gate-controlled spin-polarizations in the quantum Hall regime opens the door to realizing Majorana modes using two-dimensional systems in conventional, low-spin-orbit-coupling semiconductors.
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- T M Lu
- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87185, USA.
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- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87185, USA
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- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87185, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan, ROC.,National Nano Device Laboratories, Hsinchu, 30077, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan, ROC.,National Nano Device Laboratories, Hsinchu, 30077, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan, ROC.,National Nano Device Laboratories, Hsinchu, 30077, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan, ROC.,National Nano Device Laboratories, Hsinchu, 30077, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan, ROC.,National Nano Device Laboratories, Hsinchu, 30077, Taiwan, ROC
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Jiang XY, Lu TM, Shu WH, Zhou HY. Correlation between IL-6 and invasiveness of ectoderm cells of embryo in early pregnancy. J BIOL REG HOMEOS AG 2016; 30:559-563. [PMID: 27358148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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This study aimed to explore the correlation between Interleukin-6 (IL-6) and invasiveness of ectoderm cells of embryo in early pregnancy, in order to further discuss whether IL-6 can enhance invasiveness of ectoderm cells. The study lays the foundation for determination of pathogenesis of some gestation period-related diseases. Differences in mRNA and protein expression of trophoblastic cell line JEG-3 cells in IL-6, matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) and MMP-9 were analyzed; the regulating effect of different concentrations of IL-6 on invasive ability of trophoblast cells was studied by Transwell assay; the effect of IL-6 on proliferation of ectodermal cell line JEG-3 of embryo was analyzed by methyl thiazolyl tetrazolium (MTT) assay. The invasive number of JEG-3 cells incubated by IL-6 (10 ng/ml) was higher than that of the control group, and the difference had statistical significance (p < 0.05). Results of using MMT assay to detect the effect of IL-6 on proliferation of trophoblastic cell line JEG-3 showed that JEG-3 cells before and after processing had no significant difference from the control group (p >0.05). Therefore, IL-6 can enhance invasiveness of ectoderm cells of embryo through activation of MMP-2.
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- X Y Jiang
- Gynecology and Obstetrics, Peoples Hospital of Liaocheng, Shandong, China
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- Gynecology and Obstetrics, Peoples Hospital of Liaocheng, Shandong, China
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- Teaching and Research Office of Medical Science, Nursing Academy, Binzhou Polytechnic, Shandong, China
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- Gynecology and Obstetrics, Peoples Hospital of Liaocheng, Shandong, China
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Lu TM, Laroche D, Huang SH, Chuang Y, Li JY, Liu CW. High-mobility capacitively-induced two-dimensional electrons in a lateral superlattice potential. Sci Rep 2016; 6:20967. [PMID: 26865160 PMCID: PMC4750089 DOI: 10.1038/srep20967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2015] [Accepted: 01/13/2016] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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In the presence of a lateral periodic potential modulation, two-dimensional electrons may exhibit interesting phenomena, such as a graphene-like energy-momentum dispersion, Bloch oscillations, or the Hofstadter butterfly band structure. To create a sufficiently strong potential modulation using conventional semiconductor heterostructures, aggressive device processing is often required, unfortunately resulting in strong disorder that masks the sought-after effects. Here, we report a novel fabrication process flow for imposing a strong lateral potential modulation onto a capacitively induced two-dimensional electron system, while preserving the host material quality. Using this process flow, the electron density in a patterned Si/SiGe heterostructure can be tuned over a wide range, from 4.4 × 10(10) cm(-2) to 1.8 × 10(11) cm(-2), with a peak mobility of 6.4 × 10(5) cm(2)/V·s. The wide density tunability and high electron mobility allow us to observe sequential emergence of commensurability oscillations as the density, the mobility, and in turn the mean free path, increase. Magnetic-field-periodic quantum oscillations associated with various closed orbits also emerge sequentially with increasing density. We show that, from the density dependence of the quantum oscillations, one can directly extract the steepness of the imposed superlattice potential. This result is then compared to a conventional lateral superlattice model potential.
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- T. M. Lu
- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185, USA
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- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, R.O.C
- National Nano Device Laboratories, Hsinchu 30077, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, R.O.C
- National Nano Device Laboratories, Hsinchu 30077, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, R.O.C
- National Nano Device Laboratories, Hsinchu 30077, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, R.O.C
- National Nano Device Laboratories, Hsinchu 30077, Taiwan, R.O.C
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Hsu HL, Hsu HP, Yu BF, Lu TM, Huang CY, Shih CC, Cheng BC, Hsu CP. Long-term results of coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with dialysis-dependent renal failure. J Cardiovasc Surg (Torino) 2015; 56:809-816. [PMID: 26088012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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AIM Coronary artery disease is the main cause of mortality and morbidity in dialysis-dependent renal failure patients. Both the prevalence and incidence of renal failure are high in Taiwan. However, there were few reports exploring the outcome of coronary aortic bypass grafting (CABG) in these patients. The aim of this study was to determine the survival outcome and risk factors for mortality from CABG in this population. METHODS The operative, early postoperative and late results of 170 dialysis patients undergoing isolated coronary artery bypass grafting from January, 2000 to January, 2012 were retrospectively reviewed. Operative mortality, long-term survival, and risk factors were analyzed. RESULTS One hundred and seventeen patients (68.8%) were male, and the mean age was 61.5±10.3 years (range, 34-86 years). Follow-up was 40.3±32.1 months. Operative mortality was 8.2%. Actuarial survival, including operative mortality, was 81±3% at 1 year, 68±4% at 3 years, 58±5% at 5 years and 49±6% at 10 years, better than the natural course of dialysis-dependent renal failure patients. Age, emergent operation, postoperative ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation, postoperative intra-aortic balloon pump insertion, gastrointestinal bleeding, and left internal mammary artery graft were significant predictors of operative or long term mortality. Most causes of late death were due to infection or cardiac events. CONCLUSION CABG in dialysis patients is associated with a higher incidence of complications, but has acceptable mortality. CABG is beneficial in this population. Internal mammary artery grafting may provide more favorable long term outcomes.
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- H L Hsu
- Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan -
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Lu TM, Pan W, Tsui DC, Liu PC, Zhang Z, Xie YH. Termination of two-dimensional metallic conduction near the metal-insulator transition in a Si/SiGe quantum well. Phys Rev Lett 2011; 107:126403. [PMID: 22026780 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.107.126403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We report in this Letter our recent low-temperature transport results in a Si/SiGe quantum well with moderate peak mobility. An apparent metal-insulating transition is observed. Within a small range of densities near the transition, the conductivity σ displays a nonmonotonic temperature dependence. After an initial decrease at high temperatures, σ first increases with decreasing temperature T, showing a metallic behavior. As T continues decreasing, a downturn in σ is observed. This downturn shifts to a lower T at higher densities. More interestingly, the downturn temperature shows a power-law dependence on the mobility at the downturn position, suggesting that a similar downturn is also expected to occur deep in the apparent metallic regime at albeit experimentally inaccessible temperatures. This thus hints that the observed metallic phase in 2D systems might be a finite temperature effect.
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- T M Lu
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
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Tang F, Parker T, Li HF, Wang GC, Lu TM. Unusual magnesium crystalline nanoblades grown by oblique angle vapor deposition. J Nanosci Nanotechnol 2007; 7:3239-3244. [PMID: 18019156 DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2007.665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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We observed the growth of unusual Mg nanoblades by oblique angle deposition. Although the vapor flux is obliquely incident, these nanoblades stand vertically on the substrates. The thickness of the Mg nanoblades along the incident vapor direction is reduced to approximately 15 nm to -30 nm at a vapor incident angle approximately 75 degrees, while the width perpendicular to the incident vapor direction is as wide as a few hundred nm. In addition to the anisotropic blade morphology, a (1010) [0001] biaxial (II-O) texture was observed using in situ reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED). The tilt angles of the texture axis and the nanoblades are correlated with the high surface diffusion on the (0001) surface along the [2130] direction. We also propose that the observed very thin thickness of the nanoblade along the vapor flux direction is due to the appearance of the surface steps parallel to the [0110] direction and the low surface diffusion on the top surface of the nanoblades.
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- F Tang
- Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180-3590, USA
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Singh JP, Karabacak T, Morrow P, Pimanpang S, Lu TM, Wang GC. Preferred orientation in Ru nanocolumns induced by residual oxygen. J Nanosci Nanotechnol 2007; 7:2192-6. [PMID: 17655016 DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2007.793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Ru nanocolumns were grown on a native oxide covered Si(100) substrate using an oblique angle sputter deposition technique with substrate rotation at room temperature. Scanning tunneling microscopy images of conventional Ru film show the presence of straight columnar features on the film surface, which are very different from the nearly circular features observed on the nanocolumns surface. X-ray diffraction spectra confirm that these nanocolumns have (100) as the preferred orientation instead of the (002) orientation observed for a conventional film. The oxygen to Ru atomic ratio was determined for both the nanocolumns and the conventional film by using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The nanocolumns were observed to incorporate about 6 times more oxygen than the conventional film near the surface region. We argue that the oxygen segregates onto the high-density (002) plane whereas it permeates through comparatively open planes like (100) and (101). The adsorbed oxygen atoms serve as a diffusion barrier for the landing Ru adatoms and inhibit the growth of the (002) plane. This results in the absence of the (002) plane and development of (100) and (101) planes in the nanocolumns. The oxygen plays a decisive role in determining the crystallographic orientation and the feature size/shape over the nanocolumns and conventional film surfaces.
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- J P Singh
- Physics Department, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India
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Xi JQ, Kim JK, Schubert EE, Ye D, Lu TM, Lin SY, Juneja JS. Very low-refractive-index optical thin films consisting of an array of SiO2 nanorods. Opt Lett 2006; 31:601-3. [PMID: 16570411 DOI: 10.1364/ol.31.000601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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The refractive-index contrast in dielectric multilayer structures, optical resonators, and photonic crystals is an important figure of merit that creates a strong demand for high-quality thin films with a low refractive index. A SiO2 nanorod layer with low refractive index of n = 1.08, to our knowledge the lowest ever reported in thin-film materials, is grown by oblique-angle electron-beam deposition of SiO2. A single-pair distributed Bragg reflector employing a SiO2 nanorod layer is demonstrated to have enhanced reflectivity, showing the great potential of low-refractive-index films for applications in photonic structures and devices.
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- J Q Xi
- Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA
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Mechanical testing was performed on a new class of nanostructures-amorphous Si slanted nanorods of rectangular cross section, fixed at one end to the substrate. These nanorods were grown spatially well separated on nano-pillars under the oblique angle physical vapor deposition technique. Various samples with different dimensions and inclination angles were tested in bending using an atomic force microscope. The material response was elastic up to large stresses/deflections. The Young's modulus was calculated from the slope of the experimentally observed stiffness versus the geometrical factor common to all the samples and was found to be (94.14 +/- 10.21) GPa. No size effect of this parameter was observed within the accuracy of the present measurement.
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- C Gaire
- Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180-3590, USA
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Liu DL, Ye DX, Khan F, Tang F, Lim BK, Picu RC, Wang GC, Lu TM. Mechanics of patterned helical Si springs on Si substrate. J Nanosci Nanotechnol 2003; 3:492-495. [PMID: 15002128 DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2003.235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The elastic response, including the spring constant, of individual Si helical-shape submicron springs, was measured using a tip-cantilever assembly attached to a conventional atomic force microscope. The isolated, four-turn Si springs were fabricated using oblique angle deposition with substrate rotation, also known as the glancing angle deposition, on a templated Si substrate. The response of the structures was modeled using finite elements, and it was shown that the conventional formulae for the spring constant required modifications before they could be used for the loading scheme used in the present experiment.
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- D L Liu
- Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA
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Lu TM, Hsu NW, Chen YH, Lee WS, Wu CC, Ding YA, Chang MS, Lin SJ. Pulsatility of ascending aorta and restenosis after coronary angioplasty in patients >60 years of age with stable angina pectoris. Am J Cardiol 2001; 88:964-8. [PMID: 11703990 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9149(01)01971-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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A recent study has demonstrated that the pulsatility of the ascending aorta is a strong predictive factor for restenosis after coronary angioplasty. However, whether the pulsatility of the ascending aorta is still a significant predictor for restenosis in elderly patients with a stiffer aorta is unknown. We investigated the relation between arterial pulsatility in the ascending aorta and restenosis after coronary angioplasty in patients aged > 60 years. Eighty-seven consecutive patients (80 men, aged 72.5 +/- 5.1 years) with stable angina were included. Before angioplasty, the arterial systolic, diastolic, and mean pressure waveforms of the ascending aorta were measured. We used fractional pulse pressure (PPf, the ratio of pulse pressure to mean pressure) and pulsatility index (PI, the ratio of pulse pressure to diastolic pressure) to estimate the pulsatility of the ascending aorta. Angiographic restenosis occurred in 39 patients. Pulse pressure, PPf, and PI were significantly higher in patients with restenosis after coronary angioplasty (restenosis vs without restenosis: pulse pressure, 77.6 +/- 12.2 vs 66.1 +/- 15.4 mm Hg [p < 0.001]; PPf, 0.80 +/- 0.09 vs 0.69 +/- 0.11 [p < 0.001]; PI, 1.19 +/- 0.20 vs 0.98 +/- 0.21 [p < 0.001]). After multivariate stepwise adjustment of risk factors of restenosis and using receiver-operating characteristic analysis, the odds ratio (OR) of restenosis was: pulse pressure > 66 mm Hg, OR 5.88 (95% confidence interval [CI] 2.17 to 15.93); PPf > 0.72, OR 13.71 (95% CI 4.81 to 39.05); PI > 1.06, OR 13.56 (95% CI 4.67 to 39.38). Moreover, among patients aged > 70 years (n = 60), the predictive values of PPf and PI were even higher than those in patients aged < or = 70 years (n = 27). Thus, in elderly patients with stable angina, the pulsatility of the ascending aorta is a powerful predictor of restenosis after coronary angioplasty.
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- T M Lu
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Zhao YP, Drotar JT, Wang GC, Lu TM. Morphology transition during low-pressure chemical vapor deposition. Phys Rev Lett 2001; 87:136102. [PMID: 11580608 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.87.136102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2000] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Assuming a reemission model, we have studied, in detail, the effect of sticking coefficient on the morphology evolution in low-pressure chemical vapor deposition processes. We have shown that the surface morphology changes from a self-affine fractal to a columnarlike morphology with increasing sticking coefficient, which agrees qualitatively with experimental observations.
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- Y P Zhao
- Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180-3590, USA
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Lu TM, Tai CT, Hsieh MH, Tsai CF, Lin YK, Yu WC, Tsao HM, Lee SH, Ding YA, Chang MS, Chen SA. Electrophysiologic characteristics in initiation of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation from a focal area. J Am Coll Cardiol 2001; 37:1658-64. [PMID: 11345381 DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(01)01182-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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OBJECTIVES We investigated the electrophysiologic characteristics in the initiation of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) from a focal area. BACKGROUND The electrophysiologic characteristics in the initiation of PAF are still not clear. METHODS The study group consisted of 77 patients (M/F = 65/12, age 66 +/- 12 years) with frequent episodes of PAF; we analyzed: 1) 15 cycle lengths of electrical activity before the onset of atrial fibrillation (AF); 2) coupling interval (CI) of the first ectopic beat just before the initiation of AF; and 3) the prematurity of an ectopic beat (prematurity index [PI] = CI/mean of preceding 15 cycle lengths). RESULTS A total of 111 episodes of sustained AF were identified. Two patterns of AF initiation were observed: group I (59/111, 53%) included the episodes preceded by cycle length oscillation, and group II (52/111, 47%) included the episodes initiated by a single ectopic beat with preceding cycle length relatively constant. The PI of group I episodes was significantly greater than that of group II (0.41 +/- 0.12 vs. 0.34 +/- 0.10, p < 0.01). The CI (267 +/- 54 ms vs. 217 +/- 55 ms, p < 0.05), AF1 (194 +/- 36 ms vs. 153 +/- 37 ms, p < 0.05) and PI (0.49 +/- 0.13 vs. 0.37 +/- 0.11, p < 0.01) of the AF episodes from the superior vena cava (SVC) were significantly longer and greater than those of AF episodes from pulmonary veins (PVs). CONCLUSIONS In patients with PAF originating from PVs or the SVC, two major initiating patterns were found. Moreover, the electrophysiologic characteristics in the initiation of AF originating from the SVC were also different from those of AF initiating from the PVs.
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- T M Lu
- Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Lu TM, Tai CT, Tsai CF, Chen SA. One or two tachycardias? Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 2000; 23:1683-5. [PMID: 11138306 DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2000.01683.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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- T M Lu
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine, and Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C
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Zhao YP, Fortin JB, Bonvallet G, Wang GC, Lu TM. Kinetic roughening in polymer film growth by vapor deposition. Phys Rev Lett 2000; 85:3229-3232. [PMID: 11019308 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.85.3229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2000] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The growth front roughness of linear poly( p-xylylene) films grown by vapor deposition polymerization has been investigated using atomic force microscopy. The interface width w increases as a power law of film thickness d, w approximately d(beta), with beta = 0. 25+/-0.03, and the lateral correlation length xi grows as xi approximately d(1/z), with 1/z = 0.31+/-0.02. This novel scaling behavior is interpreted as the result of monomer bulk diffusion, and belongs to a new universality class that has not been discussed previously.
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- Y P Zhao
- Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180-3590, USA
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An in-plane light scattering setup that is capable of measuring large azimuthal scattering angles is presented. This type of measurement makes it easier to probe large k(parallel) at a fixed k(perpendicular) value (k(parallel) and k(perpendicular) are momentum transfer vectors parallel and perpendicular to the surface, respectively). Therefore the system allows us to explore small lateral scale and large vertical roughness (approximately lambda, the wavelength of the probe beam) of a rough surface. In-plane intensity measurements from a rough backside Si wafer and a Cu thin-film surface are reported. The structure factor that is related to surface roughness parameters is obtained from the measured in-plane intensity profiles. Both scalar (Beckmann-Kirchhoff) and vector (Rayleigh-Rice) theories have been applied to interpret the experimental data. The roughness parameters obtained from the scattering measurements are compared with those measured by atomic-force microscopy.
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- T Karabacak
- Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180-3590, USA.
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- T M Lu
- Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine, and Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Hsieh M, Chiu MH, Lin YH, Lin CH, Lu TM, Li SY, Li C. Distribution of CAG repeat size in the dentatorubral and pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) gene in a normal population in Taiwan. Proc Natl Sci Counc Repub China B 2000; 24:76-80. [PMID: 10809084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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Dentatorubral and pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder with expansion of trinucleotide CAG repeats in the coding region of the gene. Expansion of the repeat tract beyond the normal range produces gene products with extended polyglutamine tracts. In this study, we analyzed the distribution of the CAG repeats in the DRPLA alleles in a normal Taiwanese population. We observed 15 different alleles and found that the range of the CAG repeat number was from 7-21. The most frequent allele contained 15 CAG repeats that represented 20% of the total analyzed alleles, followed by the 17 repeats (15.8%). The heterozygosity rate of this locus was 88%. Twelve parents-to-children transmissions of the DRPLA alleles in a Machado-Joseph disease family appeared to be normal without any alteration of the CAG repeat numbers. Phenotypes of DRPLA overlapped those of autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia (ADCA). In order to identify DRPLA patients in Taiwan, we screened six autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia patients without expansion in known spinocerebellar ataxia genes. All six patients had the repeat numbers within the normal range; thus, the possibility of DRPLA could be excluded.
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- M Hsieh
- Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical and Dental College, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC
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Zhao YP, Hopper AR, Wang GC, Lu TM. Monte Carlo simulation of submonolayer vapor-deposition polymerization. Phys Rev E Stat Phys Plasmas Fluids Relat Interdiscip Topics 1999; 60:4310-8. [PMID: 11970284 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.60.4310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/1998] [Revised: 06/16/1999] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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In this paper, we propose a Monte Carlo simulation model for the initial growth of polymer films by considering only monomer surface diffusion in the vapor-deposition polymerization process. In the model, monomers are deposited randomly on a two-dimensional square lattice with periodic boundary conditions and are allowed to diffuse with nearest neighbor hops. Whenever monomers meet, they stop diffusing and form a stable dimer. When a diffusing or deposited monomer encounters one of the ends of a polymer (L>1), it stops moving and attaches to the polymer. Attachment of monomers or other polymers is allowed only at the two ends of the polymer. We have shown that there are three distinct growth regimes for surface coverages theta<0.5: a low-coverage initiation regime (I), a chain propagation regime (P), and a saturation regime (S). In both regimes I and P, the growth is similar to the molecular beam epitaxy model. We examine in detail the scaling relations for the chain length distribution, which agree quite well with results of a rate equation. However, in regime S, our model gives very different kinetics. The breakdown of scaling at higher coverages is due to the fact that long-chain polymers have partitioned the lattice with inactive sites. This inhibits further polymer growth and enhances production of dimers, shifting the chain distribution to favor shorter polymers and driving the average molecular weight down. The chain configuration initially is similar to a path taken in a diffusion-limited self-avoiding walk. However, at high coverages, due to the correlation of long polymer chains, the polymer chains tend to be compact.
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- Y P Zhao
- Department of Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180-3590, USA
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The retinal manifestations of murine typhus have rarely been reported. We report a case of murine typhus with multiple retinal white dots, which are similar to the presentation of multiple evanescent white dot syndrome.
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- T M Lu
- Department of Internal Medicine, Veteran General Hospital-Taipei, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, ROC
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Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) is an autosomal dominant spinocerebellar degeneration characterized by cerebellar ataxia and pyramidal signs associated in varying degrees with a dystonic-rigid extrapyramidal syndrome or peripheral amyotrophy. Unstable CAG trinucleotide repeat expansion in the MJD gene on the long arm of chromosome 14 has been identified as the pathological mutation for MJD. While investigating the distribution of CAG repeat lengths of the MJD gene in Taiwan's population, we have identified 18 MJD-affected patients and 12 at-risk individuals in seven families. In addition, we have analyzed the range of CAG repeat lengths in 96 control individuals. The CAG repeat number ranged from 13 to 44 in the controls and 72-85 in the affected and at-risk individuals. Our results indicated that the CAG repeat number was inversely correlated with the age of onset. The differences in CAG repeat length between parent and child and between siblings are greater with paternal transmission than maternal transmission. Our data show a tendency towards the phenomenon of anticipation in the MJD families but do not support unidirectional expansion of CAG repeats during transmission. We also demonstrated that PCR amplification of the CAG repeats in the MJD gene from villous DNA was possible and might prove useful as a diagnostic tool for affected families in the future.
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- M Hsieh
- Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical and Dental College, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China
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