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Dielectric properties of barium strontium titanate / non ferroelectric oxide ceramic composites
2001
International audience; Barium strontium titanate ceramics present high dielectric permittivity and tunability. In order to reduce their permettivity and loss tangent while keeping tunability, various composites of barium strontium titanate oxide...
Ozone-Based Atomic Layer Deposition of Al2O3 from Dimethylaluminum Chloride and Its Impact on Silicon Surface Passivation
2017
Dimethylaluminum chloride (DMACl) as an aluminum source has shown promising potential to replace more expensive and commonly used trimethylaluminum in the semiconductor industry for atomic layer deposited (ALD) thin films. Here, the Al2O3 DMACl-process is modified by replacing the common ALD oxidant, water, by ozone that offers several benefits including shorter purge time, layer-by-layer growth, and improved film adhesion. It is shown that the introduction of the ozone instead of water increases carbon and chlorine content in the Al2O3, while long ozone pulses increase the amount of interfacial hydrogen at silicon surface. These are found to be beneficial effects regarding the surface pass…
Surface investigation of plasma HMDSO membranes post-treated by CF4/Ar plasma
2002
Fluorination treatment has been performed on polysiloxane membranes using a plasma glow discharge of a gases mixture CF4 and argon (plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition). Atomic force microscopy, XPS analyses and contact angle measurements have been undertaken to explain the surface transformation and behavior, which strongly depend on the morphology, the composition and the hydrophilic/hydrophobic character of the plasma-polymerized initial membranes. Main result is that fluorination, which leads to hydrophobic membranes, has a more relevant effect on amorphous silica-like membranes than on polymer-like ones, according to their chemical composition whereas the plasma surface reaction …
Erosion and screening of tungsten during inter/intra-ELM periods in the JET-ILW divertor
2020
Abstract Intra-ELM tungsten sources, which dominate the total W source, are quantified in the inner and outer divertor of JET-ILW. The amount of the sputtered W atoms for individual ELMs demonstrates a clear dependence on the ELM frequency. It decreases when the pedestal temperature is lower and, correspondingly, the ELM frequency is higher. Nevertheless, the entire gross erosion W source (the number of eroded W atoms per second due to ELMs) increases initially with ELM frequency and reaches its maximum at fELM ≈ 50–55 Hz followed by its reduction in the high frequency range. The in/out asymmetry of the intra-ELM W sources during ELMs is a critical issue and is investigated in this contribu…
Experimental quantification of useful and parasitic absorption of light in plasmon-enhanced thin silicon films for solar cells application
2016
AbstractA combination of photocurrent and photothermal spectroscopic techniques is applied to experimentally quantify the useful and parasitic absorption of light in thin hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si:H) films incorporating optimized metal nanoparticle arrays, located at the rear surface, for improved light trapping via resonant plasmonic scattering. The photothermal technique accounts for the total absorptance and the photocurrent signal accounts only for the photons absorbed in the μc-Si:H layer (useful absorptance); therefore, the method allows for independent quantification of the useful and parasitic absorptance of the plasmonic (or any other) light trapping structure. W…
A PDE model for the spatial dynamics of a voles population structured in age
2020
Abstract We prove existence and stability of entropy weak solutions for a macroscopic PDE model for the spatial dynamics of a population of voles structured in age. The model consists of a scalar PDE depending on time, t , age, a , and space x = ( x 1 , x 2 ) , supplemented with a non-local boundary condition at a = 0 . The flux is linear with constant coefficient in the age direction but contains a non-local term in the space directions. Also, the equation contains a term of second order in the space variables only. Existence of solutions is established by compensated compactness, see Panov (2009), and we prove stability by a doubling of variables type argument.
Existence and uniqueness for the Prandtl equations
2001
International audience; Under the hypothesis of analyticity of the data with respect to the tangential variable we prove the existence and uniqueness of the mild solution of Prandtl boundary layer equation. This can be considered an improvement of the results of [8] as we do not require analyticity with respect to the normal variable. (C) 2001 Academie des sciences/Editions scientifiques et medicales Elsevier SAS.
On the local and semilocal convergence of a parameterized multi-step Newton method
2020
Abstract This paper is devoted to a family of Newton-like methods with frozen derivatives used to approximate a locally unique solution of an equation. We perform a convergence study and an analysis of the efficiency. This analysis gives us the opportunity to select the most efficient method in the family without the necessity of their implementation. The method can be applied to many type of problems, including the discretization of ordinary differential equations, integral equations, integro-differential equations or partial differential equations. Moreover, multi-step iterative methods are computationally attractive.
Regularity and polar sets for supersolutions of certain degenerate elliptic equations
1988
On considere l'equation ⊇•⊇ h F(x,⊇u(x))=0. Cette equation est non lineaire et degeneree avec des coefficients mesurables. On etudie la regularite des supersolutions
SPECIAL SPLINES OF HYPERBOLIC TYPE FOR THE SOLUTIONS OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER 3-D PROBLEMS IN POROUS MULTI-LAYERED AXIAL SYMMETRY DOMAIN
2017
In this paper we study the problem of the diffusion of one substance through the pores of a porous multi layered material which may absorb and immobilize some of the diffusing substances with the evolution or absorption of heat. As an example we consider circular cross section wood-block with two layers in the radial direction. We consider the transfer of heat process. We derive the system of two partial differential equations (PDEs) - one expressing the rate of change of concentration of water vapour in the air spaces and the other - the rate of change of temperature in every layer. The approximation of corresponding initial boundary value problem of the system of PDEs is based on the cons…