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Vijay NK, Maya PN, Mukherjee S, Liedke MO, Butterling M, Attallah AG, Hirschmann E, Wagner A, Benoy MD. Effect of annealing temperature on the structure and optical properties of ZnO thin films. J Phys Condens Matter 2023; 36:135002. [PMID: 38061063 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ad1361] [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: 10/09/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 12/22/2023]
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The effect of annealing temperature on the microstructure, defects and optical properties of ZnO thin films are investigated using sol-gel based spin coating method for a range of annealing temperatures from 200∘C to 500∘C. The correlation among the microstructure, defects, impurity content and the optical band gap of films of thickness about 10-12 nm is elucidated. The particle size increases and the optical band gap reduces with the annealing temperature. At 200∘C, amorphous films were formed with particle size less than 10 nm with an optical band gap of about 3.41 eV. As the temperature increases the grain size increases and the defect, impurity content as well as the optical band gap reduces. This could be due to the reduction in the lattice strain. For an average grain size of about 35 nm and above, the band gap asymptotically approaches the theoretical value of ZnO (3.37 eV). The photoluminescence (PL) spectra show a systematic red-shift in the excitonic levels corresponding to the variation in the optical band-gap. The defect emission from Zn-vacancies is observed in the PL spectra and are further supported by the positron annihilation measurements.
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- Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar 382428, India
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- Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Trombay, Mumbai 400085, India
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics, Bautzner Landstraße, 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics, Bautzner Landstraße, 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics, Bautzner Landstraße, 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics, Bautzner Landstraße, 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics, Bautzner Landstraße, 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Mar Athanasius College, Kothamangalam 686666, India
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Steuer O, Liedke MO, Butterling M, Schwarz D, Schulze J, Li Z, Wagner A, Fischer IA, Hübner R, Zhou S, Helm M, Cuniberti G, Georgiev YM, Prucnal S. Evolution of point defects in pulsed-laser-melted Ge 1-xSn xprobed by positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy. J Phys Condens Matter 2023; 36:085701. [PMID: 37931296 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ad0a10] [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: 08/21/2023] [Accepted: 11/06/2023] [Indexed: 11/08/2023]
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Direct-band-gap Germanium-Tin alloys (Ge1-xSnx) with high carrier mobilities are promising materials for nano- and optoelectronics. The concentration of open volume defects in the alloy, such as Sn and Ge vacancies, influences the final device performance. In this article, we present an evaluation of the point defects in molecular-beam-epitaxy grown Ge1-xSnxfilms treated by post-growth nanosecond-range pulsed laser melting (PLM). Doppler broadening - variable energy positron annihilation spectroscopy and variable energy positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy are used to investigate the defect nanostructure in the Ge1-xSnxfilms exposed to increasing laser energy density. The experimental results, supported with ATomic SUPerposition calculations, evidence that after PLM, the average size of the open volume defects increases, which represents a raise in concentration of vacancy agglomerations, but the overall defect density is reduced as a function of the PLM fluence. At the same time, the positron annihilation spectroscopy analysis provides information about dislocations and Ge vacancies decorated by Sn atoms. Moreover, it is shown that the PLM reduces the strain in the layer, while dislocations are responsible for trapping of Sn and formation of small Sn-rich-clusters.
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- O Steuer
- Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstrasse 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
- Institute of Materials Science, Technische Universität Dresden, Budapester Str. 27, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstrasse 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstrasse 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- University of Stuttgart, Institute of Semiconductor Engineering, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology IISB, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstrasse 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstrasse 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Experimental Physics and Functional Materials, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg, 03046 Cottbus, Germany
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- Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstrasse 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstrasse 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstrasse 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
- Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden, Helmholtzstraße 18, 01062 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Materials Science, Technische Universität Dresden, Budapester Str. 27, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstrasse 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
- Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 72, Tsarigradsko Chausse Blvd., 1784 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstrasse 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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Beiranvand A, Liedke MO, Haalisto C, Lähteenlahti V, Schulman A, Granroth S, Palonen H, Butterling M, Wagner A, Huhtinen H, Paturi P. Manipulating magnetic and magnetoresistive properties by oxygen vacancy complexes in GCMO thin films. J Phys Condens Matter 2022; 34:155804. [PMID: 35078169 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ac4eac] [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: 11/17/2021] [Accepted: 01/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The effect ofin situannealing is investigated in Gd0.1Ca0.9MnO3(GCMO) thin films in oxygen and vacuum atmospheres. We show that the reduction of oxygen content in GCMO lattice by vacuum annealing induced more oxygen complex vacancies in both subsurface and interface regions and larger grain domains when compared with the pristine one. Consequently, the double exchange interaction is suppressed and the metallic-ferromagnetic state below Curie temperature turned into spin-glass insulating state. In contrast, the magnetic and resistivity measurements show that the oxygen treatment increases ferromagnetic phase volume, resulting in greater magnetization (MS) and improved magnetoresistivity properties below Curie temperature by improving the double exchange interaction. The threshold field to observe the training effect is decreased in oxygen treated film. In addition, the positron annihilation spectroscopy analysis exhibits fewer open volume defects in the subsurface region for oxygen treated film when compared with the pristine sample. These results unambiguously demonstrate that the oxygen treated film with significant spin memory and greater magnetoresistance can be a potential candidate for the future memristor applications.
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- A Beiranvand
- Wihuri Physical Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics, Bautzner Landstraße 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Laboratory of Materials Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland
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- Wihuri Physical Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland
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- Wihuri Physical Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland
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- Laboratory of Materials Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland
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- Wihuri Physical Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics, Bautzner Landstraße 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics, Bautzner Landstraße 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Wihuri Physical Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland
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- Wihuri Physical Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland
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Beiranvand A, Liedke MO, Haalisto C, Lähteenlahti V, Schulman A, Granroth S, Palonen H, Butterling M, Wagner A, Huhtinen H, Paturi P. Tuned AFM-FM coupling by the formation of vacancy complex in Gd 0.6Ca 0.4MnO 3thin film lattice. J Phys Condens Matter 2021; 33:255803. [PMID: 33878744 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/abf9ba] [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: 01/21/2021] [Accepted: 04/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The effect ofin situoxygen and vacuum annealings on the low bandwidth manganite Gd1-xCaxMnO3(GCMO) thin film withx= 0.4 was investigated. Based on the magnetic measurements, the AFM-FM coupling is suppressed by the vacuum annealing treatment via destroying the double exchange interaction and increasing the unit cell volume by converting the Mn4+to the Mn3+. Consequently, resistance increases significantly compared to pristine film. The results are explained by a model obtained from the positron annihilation studies, where the vacuum annealing increased the annihilation lifetime in A and B sites due to the formation of vacancy complexesVA,B-VO, which was not the case in the pristine sample. The positron annihilation analysis indicated that most of the open volume defects have been detected in the interface region rather than on the subsurface layer and this result is confirmed by detailed x-ray reflection analysis. On the other hand, the effect of oxygen annealing on the unit cell volume and magnetization was insignificant. This is in agreement with positron annihilation results which demonstrated that the introduction of oxygen does not change the number of cation vacancies significantly. This work demonstrates that the modification of oxygen vacancies and vacancy complexes can tune magnetic and electronic structure of the epitaxial thin films to provide new functionalities in future applications.
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- A Beiranvand
- Wihuri Physical Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics, Bautzner Landstraße 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Laboratory of Materials Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland
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- Wihuri Physical Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland
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- Wihuri Physical Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland
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- Laboratory of Materials Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland
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- Wihuri Physical Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics, Bautzner Landstraße 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics, Bautzner Landstraße 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Wihuri Physical Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland
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- Wihuri Physical Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland
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Andresen JR, Scheer F, Schlöricke E, Sallakhi A, Liedke MO, Andresen R. CT-guided thoracic sympathicolysis versus VATS sympathectomy in the therapeutic concept for severe primary palmar Hyperhidrosis. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2021; 70:152-158. [PMID: 33860510 DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1725205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND The objective was to compare computed tomography (CT)-guided thoracic sympathicolysis (CTSy) and video-assisted thoracoscopic sympathectomy (VATS) with regard to their feasibility, the occurrence of minor and major complications, and the clinical outcome. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study, 88 patients treated by CTSy and 86 patients treated by VATS were retrospectively included. CTSy was performed after establishing the entry plane below the level of the intervertebral space T2/3 via a dorsolateral approach using a 22-G coaxial needle. On average of 5 mL of a sympathicolytic mixture was instilled. VATS was performed under intubation anesthesia. After insertion of the instruments via a minithoracotomy, the parietal pleura was dissected and the sympathetic trunk severed below T2. The interventions were performed unilaterally, the contralateral side being treated after approximately 6 weeks. All patients evaluated their sense of discomfort before treatment as well as 2 days, 6, and 12 months after, on the basis of a Dermatology Quality of Life Index and additionally the side effects that occurred. RESULTS Both treatments led to a marked reduction of symptoms, whereby mild recurrent sweating occurred over the further course, significantly higher in the CTSy patient group. Short-term miosis and ptosis were rarely found in both groups. As the most common side effect, transient compensatory sweating was reported by 16/88 patients after CTSy and 10/86 patients after VATS. Pneumothoraces developed postoperatively in 7/86 cases. Temporary pain after thoracotomy was experienced by 12/86 patients. CONCLUSION For patients with palmar hyperhidrosis, CTSy and VATS represented a minimally invasive treatment option that provided a high and largely equivalent level of benefit.
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- Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology/Neuroradiology, Westkuestenklinikum Heide, Academic Teaching Hospital of the Universities of Kiel, Luebeck and Hamburg, Heide, Germany
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- Department of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Westkuestenklinikum Heide, Academic Teaching Hospital of the Universities of Kiel, Luebeck and Hamburg, Heide, Germany
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- Medical School, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Westkuestenklinikum Heide, Academic Teaching Hospital of the Universities of Kiel, Luebeck and Hamburg, Heide, Germany
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- Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology/Neuroradiology, Westkuestenklinikum Heide, Academic Teaching Hospital of the Universities of Kiel, Luebeck and Hamburg, Heide, Germany
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Pietrow M, Zaleski R, Wagner A, Słomski P, Hirschmann E, Krause-Rehberg R, Liedke MO, Butterling M, Weinberger D. An experimental investigation of light emission produced in the process of positronium formation in matter. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:11264-11271. [PMID: 33950060 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp00755f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The excess energy emitted during the positronium (Ps) formation in condensed matter may be released as light. Spectroscopic analysis of this light can be a new method of studying the electronic properties of materials. We report the first experimental attempt, according to our knowledge, to verify the existence of this emission process. As a result, the possibility of the emission of photons during Ps formation is within the experimental uncertainty in two different solids: an n-alkane and porous silica. However, it seems that the Ps formation on the alkane surface is not accompanied by the emission of photons with energy in the detection range of 1.6-3.8 eV. Various processes that can influence the energy of the photon emitted during the Ps formation are discussed to elucidate this issue. To aid future experiments, equations were developed to estimate the expected ratio of light emission events to annihilation events with the presence or absence of a photon during the Ps formation.
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- M Pietrow
- Institute of Physics, M. Curie-Skłodowska University, ul. Pl. M. Curie-Skłodowskiej 1, 20-031 Lublin, Poland.
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- Institute of Physics, M. Curie-Skłodowska University, ul. Pl. M. Curie-Skłodowskiej 1, 20-031 Lublin, Poland.
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- Institut für Strahlenphysik/Institute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstr. 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- IT Company Martinex, ul. Mełgiewska 95, 21-040 Swidnik, Poland
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- Institut für Strahlenphysik/Institute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstr. 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Institut für Physik, Universität Halle, von-Danckelmann-Platz 3, 06120 Halle, Germany
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- Institut für Strahlenphysik/Institute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstr. 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Institut für Strahlenphysik/Institute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstr. 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Institut für Strahlenphysik/Institute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstr. 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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Agarwal S, Liedke MO, Jones ACL, Reed E, Kohnert AA, Uberuaga BP, Wang YQ, Cooper J, Kaoumi D, Li N, Auguste R, Hosemann P, Capolungo L, Edwards DJ, Butterling M, Hirschmann E, Wagner A, Selim FA. A new mechanism for void-cascade interaction from nondestructive depth-resolved atomic-scale measurements of ion irradiation-induced defects in Fe. Sci Adv 2020; 6:eaba8437. [PMID: 32832684 PMCID: PMC7439404 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba8437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2020] [Accepted: 06/16/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The nondestructive investigation of single vacancies and vacancy clusters in ion-irradiated samples requires a depth-resolved probe with atomic sensitivity to defects. The recent development of short-pulsed positron beams provides such a probe. Here, we combine depth-resolved Doppler broadening and positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopies to identify vacancy clusters in ion-irradiated Fe and measure their density as a function of depth. Despite large concentrations of dislocations and voids in the pristine samples, positron annihilation measurements uncovered the structure of vacancy clusters and the change in their size and density with irradiation dose. When combined with transmission electron microscopy measurements, the study demonstrates an association between the increase in the density of small vacancy clusters with irradiation and a remarkable reduction in the size of large voids. This, previously unknown, mechanism for the interaction of cascade damage with voids in ion-irradiated materials is a consequence of the high porosity of the initial microstructure.
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- S Agarwal
- Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA
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- Institute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstr. 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
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- Department of Nuclear Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27607, USA
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- Department of Nuclear Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27607, USA
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Materials Physics and Applications Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
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- Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
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- Nuclear Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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- Institute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstr. 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstr. 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstr. 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA
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Jakubowski MM, Liedke MO, Butterling M, Dynowska E, Sveklo I, Milińska E, Kurant Z, Böttger R, von Borany J, Maziewski A, Wagner A, Wawro A. On defects' role in enhanced perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in Pt/Co/Pt, induced by ion irradiation. J Phys Condens Matter 2019; 31:185801. [PMID: 30699388 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ab0351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Modifications of magnetic and magneto-optical properties of Pt/Co(d Co )/Pt upon Ar+ irradiation (with energy 1.2, 5 and 30 keV) and fluence, F at the range from 2 · 1013-2 · 1016 Ar+ cm-2) were studied. Two 'branches' of increased perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) and enhanced magneto-optical response are found on 2D (d Co , F) diagrams. The difference in F between 'branches' is driven by ion energy. Structural features correlated with magnetic properties have been analysed thoroughly by x-ray diffraction, Rutherford backscattering spectrometry and positron annihilation spectroscopy. Experimental results are in agreement with TRIDYN numerical calculations of irradiation-induced layers intermixing. Our work discusses particularly structural factors related to crystal lattice defects and strain, created and modified by irradiation, co-responsible for the increase in the PMA.
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- M M Jakubowski
- Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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Clift AK, Faiz O, Al-Nahhas A, Bockisch A, Liedke MO, Schloericke E, Wasan H, Martin J, Ziprin P, Moorthy K, Frilling A. Role of Staging in Patients with Small Intestinal Neuroendocrine Tumours. J Gastrointest Surg 2016; 20:180-8; discussion 188. [PMID: 26394880 DOI: 10.1007/s11605-015-2953-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2015] [Accepted: 09/14/2015] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Small bowel neuroendocrine tumours are the commonest malignancy arising in the small intestine and have substantially increased in incidence in recent decades. Patients with small bowel neuroendocrine tumours commonly develop lymph node and/or distant metastases. Here, we examine the role of staging in 84 surgically treated patients with small bowel neuroendocrine tumours, comparing diagnostic information yielded from morphological, functional and endoscopic modalities. Furthermore, we correlate pre-operative staging with intra-operative findings in a sub-cohort of 20 patients. The vast majority of patients had been histologically confirmed to have low-grade (Ki-67 <2%) disease; however, lymph node and distant metastases were observed in 74 (88.1%) and 51 (60.7%) of patients at presentation, respectively. Liver metastases were evident in 48 (57.1%) patients, with solely peritoneal and bone metastases observed in 2 (2.4%) and 1 (1.2%) patients, respectively. Forty patients (47.6%) received multimodal treatment. In our sub-cohort analysis, pre-operative imaging understaged disease in 14/20 (70%) when compared with intra-operative findings. In patients with multifocal primary tumours and miliary liver metastases, no imaging modality was able to detect entire disease spread. Overall, presently available imaging modalities heavily underestimate disease stage, with meticulous intra-operative abdominal examination being superior to any imaging technology. Multimodal treatment has an important role in prolonging survival.
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- Ashley Kieran Clift
- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0HS, UK
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- Department of Surgery, St. Mark's Hospital, London, UK
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Department of Surgery, Westkuesten Klinikum Heide, Heide, Germany
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- Department of Surgery, Westkuesten Klinikum Heide, Heide, Germany
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0HS, UK
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0HS, UK
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0HS, UK
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0HS, UK.
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Görges R, Liedke MO, Worm K, Frilling A, Bockisch A, Schmid KW. [Rapid diagnosis of recurrence of a tall cell variant of papillary thyroid cancer by endogenous TSH stimulation]. Nuklearmedizin 2003; 42:N15-8. [PMID: 12848153] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/03/2023]
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- R Görges
- Klinik und Poliklinik für Nuklearmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Essen, Germany
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- A Frilling
- Abteilung für Allgemeinchirurgie, Universitäts-Krankenhaus Eppendorf, Hamburg
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