Dielectric breakdown is a sudden and catastrophic increase in the conductivity of an
insulator caused by electrical stress. It is one of the major reliability issues in electronic …

The Handbook of Thin Film Deposition Techniques: Principles, Methods, Equipment and
Applications, Second Edition explores the technology behind the spectacular growth in the …

Epitaxial insulators have a number of potential applications in the semiconductor industry.
These include semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) structures, three-dimensional (3-D) and/or …

High-resolution core-level and Auger-electron spectroscopy, polarization-dependent near-
edge x-ray absorption, and angle-resolved photoemission are used to study the electronic …

accepted 11 January 1990) During the past decade, nonequilibrium techniques have been
developed for the growth of epitaxial semiconductors, insulators, and metals which have led …

The development of hydrophobic surfaces is an important factor for clean energy production
from solar arrays, enabling their operation at the highest possible efficiencies for the longest …

The bonding at the interface between calcium fluoride and the silicon (111) surface has
been studied with surface-sensitive core-level photoemission spectroscopy. The interface is …

Heteroepitaxial Al2O3 films were grown successfully on (100) Si substrates at substrate
temperatures above 1000° C by low‐pressure chemical vapor deposition with the use of N2 …

We demonstrate the epitaxial growth of hexagonal Pr 2 O 3 (001) on Si (111), with x-ray ω-
scan full width at half maximum values as low as 0.06°, which is comparable with Si …

The many fundamental roto-vibrational resonances of chemical compounds result in strong
absorption lines in the mid-infrared region (λ∼ 2–20 μm). For this reason, mid-infrared …