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    Driving forces of Antarctic krill abundance (2023)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    In:  EPIC3Science Advances, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 9(50), ISSN: 2375-2548
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-18
    Description: Antarctic krill, crucial to the Southern Ocean ecosystem and a vital fisheries resource, is endangered by climate change. Identifying drivers of krill biomass is therefore essential for determining catch limits and designating protection zones. We present a modeling approach to pinpointing effects of sea surface temperature, ice cover, chlorophyll levels, climate indices, and intraspecific competition. Our study reveals that larval recruitment is driven by both competition among age classes and chlorophyll levels. In addition, while milder ice and temperature in spring and summer favor reproduction and early larval survival, both larvae and juveniles strongly benefit from heavier ice and colder temperatures in winter. We conclude that omitting top-down control of resources by krill is only acceptable for retrospective or single-year prognostic models that use field chlorophyll data but that incorporating intraspecific competition is essential for longer-term forecasts. Our findings can guide future krill modeling strategies, reinforcing the sustainability of this keystone species.
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    Retrieving a “Weather Balloon” from the last Ice Age (2023)
    American Geophysical Union
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-28
    Description: © The Author(s), 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Seltzer, A. M., & Tyne, R. L. Retrieving a “Weather Balloon” from the last Ice Age. AGU Advances, 3(4), (2022): e2022AV000747, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022AV000747.
    Description: “How cold was the last ice age?” is a question that paleoclimate scientists have been trying to answer for decades. Constraining the magnitude of climate change since the Last Glacial Maximum (∼20,000 years ago) can help improve our understanding of Earth's climate sensitivity and, therefore enhance our ability to predict future change (Tierney et al., 2020). Of course, there is no single answer to this question: there is spatial structure to LGM temperature change that is linked to fundamental climate system properties and processes. Consequently, paleoclimate scientists have focused on variations of this question, like “What was the latitudinal gradient of LGM temperature change?” (Chiang et al., 2003), “What was the land-sea contrast?” (Rind & Peteet, 1985) or “What was the change in ocean heat content?” (Bereiter et al., 2018). These questions inform large-scale atmospheric and oceanic circulation, the intensity of the water cycle, and planetary energy balance; the answers to these questions come from proxies like planktic and benthic foraminifera, speleothems, ice cores, pollen records, ancient groundwater, lake sediments, and glacial moraines, to name a few. In short, the paleoclimate community has developed a proxy “tool kit” equipped to map changes across the Earth's surface and into the ocean interior; but, until now, no “tool” existed for the upper atmosphere.
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    Sediments in sea ice drive the Canada Basin surface Mn maximum: insights from an Arctic Mn Ocean model (2023)
    American Geophysical Union
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-28
    Description: Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2022. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles 36(8), (2022): e2022GB007320, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GB007320.
    Description: Biogeochemical cycles in the Arctic Ocean are sensitive to the transport of materials from continental shelves into central basins by sea ice. However, it is difficult to assess the net effect of this supply mechanism due to the spatial heterogeneity of sea ice content. Manganese (Mn) is a micronutrient and tracer which integrates source fluctuations in space and time while retaining seasonal variability. The Arctic Ocean surface Mn maximum is attributed to freshwater, but studies struggle to distinguish sea ice and river contributions. Informed by observations from 2009 IPY and 2015 Canadian GEOTRACES cruises, we developed a three-dimensional dissolved Mn model within a 1/12° coupled ocean-ice model centered on the Canada Basin and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA). Simulations from 2002 to 2019 indicate that annually, 87%–93% of Mn contributed to the Canada Basin upper ocean is released by sea ice, while rivers, although locally significant, contribute only 2.2%–8.5%. Downstream, sea ice provides 34% of Mn transported from Parry Channel into Baffin Bay. While rivers are often considered the main source of Mn, our findings suggest that in the Canada Basin they are less important than sea ice. However, within the shelf-dominated CAA, both rivers and sediment resuspension are important. Climate-induced disruption of the transpolar drift may reduce the Canada Basin Mn maximum and supply downstream. Other micronutrients found in sediments, such as Fe, may be similarly affected. These results highlight the vulnerability of the biogeochemical supply mechanisms in the Arctic Ocean and the subpolar seas to climatic changes.
    Description: This work was funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Climate Change and Atmospheric Research Grant: GEOTRACES (RGPCC 433848-12) and VITALS (RGPCC 433898), an NSERC Discovery Grant (RGPIN-2016-03865) to SEA, and by the University of British Columbia through a four year fellowship to BR. Computing resources were provided by Compute Canada (RRG 2648 RAC 2019, RRG 2969 RAC 2020, and RRG 1541 RAC 2021).
    Keywords: GEOTRACES ; Arctic Ocean ; Trace elements ; Canadian Arctic Archipelago ; Ocean modeling ; Micronutrients
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    WISTFUL: whole‐rock interpretative seismic toolbox for ultramafic lithologies (2023)
    American Geophysical Union
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-28
    Description: © The Author(s), 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Shinevar, W., Jagoutz, O., & Behn, M. WISTFUL: whole‐rock interpretative seismic toolbox for ultramafic lithologies. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23(8), (2022): e2022GC010329, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022gc010329.
    Description: To quantitatively convert upper mantle seismic wave speeds measured into temperature, density, composition, and corresponding and uncertainty, we introduce the Whole-rock Interpretative Seismic Toolbox For Ultramafic Lithologies (WISTFUL). WISTFUL is underpinned by a database of 4,485 ultramafic whole-rock compositions, their calculated mineral modes, elastic moduli, and seismic wave speeds over a range of pressure (P) and temperature (T) (P = 0.5–6 GPa, T = 200–1,600°C) using the Gibbs free energy minimization routine Perple_X. These data are interpreted with a toolbox of MATLAB® functions, scripts, and three general user interfaces: WISTFUL_relations, which plots relationships between calculated parameters and/or composition; WISTFUL_geotherms, which calculates seismic wave speeds along geotherms; and WISTFUL_inversion, which inverts seismic wave speeds for best-fit temperature, composition, and density. To evaluate our methodology and quantify the forward calculation error, we estimate two dominant sources of uncertainty: (a) the predicted mineral modes and compositions, and (b) the elastic properties and mixing equations. To constrain the first source of uncertainty, we compiled 122 well-studied ultramafic xenoliths with known whole-rock compositions, mineral modes, and estimated P-T conditions. We compared the observed mineral modes with modes predicted using five different thermodynamic solid solution models. The Holland et al. (2018, https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egy048) solution models best reproduce phase assemblages (∼12 vol. % phase root-mean-square error [RMSE]) and estimated wave speeds. To assess the second source of uncertainty, we compared wave speed measurements of 40 ultramafic rocks with calculated wave speeds, finding excellent agreement (Vp RMSE = 0.11 km/s). WISTFUL easily analyzes seismic datasets, integrates into modeling, and acts as an educational tool.
    Description: Funding for this study was provided by NSF Grants EAR-17-22935 (OJ) and EAR-18-44340 (MB).
    Keywords: Seismic velocity ; Seismic wave speed ; Thermodynamic modeling ; Density ; Composition ; Elastic moduli
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    Contributions of different sea-level processes to high-tide flooding along the US coastline (2022)
    American Geophysical Union
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    Publication Date: 2023-01-14
    Description: Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2022. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 127(7), (2022): e2021JC018276, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC018276.
    Description: Coastal communities across the United States (U.S.) are experiencing an increase in the frequency of high-tide flooding (HTF). This increase is mainly due to sea-level rise (SLR), but other factors such as intra- to inter-annual mean sea level variability, tidal anomalies, and non-tidal residuals also contribute to HTF events. Here we introduce a novel decomposition approach to develop and then analyze a new database of different sea-level components. Those components represent processes that act on various timescales to contribute to HTF along the U.S. coastline. We find that the relative importance of components to HTF events strongly varies in space and time. Tidal anomalies contribute the most along the west and northeast coasts, where HTF events mostly occur in winter. Non-tidal residuals are most important along the Gulf of Mexico and mid-Atlantic coasts, where HTF events mostly occur in fall. We also quantify the minimum number of components that were required to cause HTF events in the past and how this number changed over time. The results highlight that at present, due to SLR, fewer components are needed to combine to push water levels above HTF thresholds, but tidal anomalies alone are still not sufficient to reach HTF thresholds in most locations. Finally, we explore how co-variability between different components leads to compounding effects. In some places, positive correlation between sea-level components leads to significantly more HTF events than would be expected if sea-level components were uncorrelated, whereas in other places negative correlation leads to fewer HTF events.
    Description: his work was supported by NASA's Sea Level Change Team award number 80NSSC20K1241. S.L. also acknowledges support by the China Scholarship Council (no. 201904910413) and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (grant no. 2011YQ120045).
    Description: 2023-01-14
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    Accuracy and reproducibility of coral Sr/Ca SIMS timeseries in modern and fossil corals (2023)
    American Geophysical Union
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    Publication Date: 2023-03-08
    Description: © The Author(s), 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Sayani, H., Cobb, K., Monteleone, B., & Bridges, H. Accuracy and reproducibility of coral Sr/Ca SIMS timeseries in modern and fossil corals. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23(9), (2022): e2021GC010068, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021gc010068.
    Description: Coral strontium-to-calcium ratios (Sr/Ca) provide quantitative estimates of past sea surface temperatures (SST) that allow for the reconstruction of changes in the mean state and climate variations, such as the El Nino-Southern Oscillation, through time. However, coral Sr/Ca ratios are highly susceptible to diagenesis, which can impart artifacts of 1–2°C that are typically on par with the tropical climate signals of interest. Microscale sampling via Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) for the sampling of primary skeletal material in altered fossil corals, providing much-needed checks on fossil coral Sr/Ca-based paleotemperature estimates. In this study, we employ a set modern and fossil corals from Palmyra Atoll, in the central tropical Pacific, to quantify the accuracy and reproducibility of SIMS Sr/Ca analyses relative to bulk Sr/Ca analyses. In three overlapping modern coral samples, we reproduce bulk Sr/Ca estimates within ±0.3% (1σ). We demonstrate high fidelity between 3-month smoothed SIMS coral Sr/Ca timeseries and SST (R = −0.5 to −0.8; p 〈 0.5). For lightly-altered sections of a young fossil coral from the early-20th century, SIMS Sr/Ca timeseries reproduce bulk Sr/Ca timeseries, in line with our results from modern corals. Across a moderately-altered section of the same fossil coral, where diagenesis yields bulk Sr/Ca estimates that are 0.6 mmol too high (roughly equivalent to −6°C artifacts in SST), SIMS Sr/Ca timeseries track instrumental SST timeseries. We conclude that 3–4 SIMS analyses per month of coral growth can provide a much-needed quantitative check on the accuracy of fossil coral Sr/Ca-derived estimates of paleotemperature, even in moderately altered samples.
    Description: We'd also like to thank Yolande Berta and Georgia Tech's Center for Nanostructure Characterization for providing access to their SEM facilities, and the Khaled bin Sultan Living Ocean Foundation and The Nature Conservancy for financial and logistical support for field excursions to Palmyra. Funding for this work was provided by the National Science Foundation (Award Numbers 1502832 and 2002458 to K.M.C) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Award Number: NA11OAR4310165 to K.M.C).
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    Observational and modeling evidence of seasonal trends in sediment-derived material inputs to the Chukchi Sea (2020)
    American Geophysical Union
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    Publication Date: 2023-03-08
    Description: Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2020. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 125(5), (2020): e2019JC016007, doi:10.1029/2019JC016007.
    Description: Benthic inputs of nutrients help support primary production in the Chukchi Sea and produce nutrient‐rich water masses that ventilate the halocline of the western Arctic Ocean. However, the complex biological and redox cycling of nutrients and trace metals make it difficult to directly monitor their benthic fluxes. In this study, we use radium‐228, which is a soluble radionuclide produced in sediments, and a numerical model of an inert, generic sediment‐derived tracer to study variability in sediment inputs to the Chukchi Sea. The 228Ra observations and modeling results are in general agreement and provide evidence of strong benthic inputs to the southern Chukchi Sea during the winter, while the northern shelf receives higher concentrations of sediment‐sourced materials in the spring and summer due to continued sediment‐water exchange as the water mass traverses the shelf. The highest tracer concentrations are observed near the shelfbreak and southeast of Hanna Shoal, a region known for high biological productivity and enhanced benthic biomass.
    Description: This study presents data from multiple Arctic expeditions over the past two decades, and we are indebted to the captains, crews, and scientific parties that made this data collection possible. This work was funded by NSF awards OCE‐1458305 to M. Charette, OCE‐1458424 to W. Moore, OCE‐1434085 to D. Kadko, PLR‐1504333 to R. Pickart, and OPP‐1822334 to M. Spall. Funding was also provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Grant NA14‐OAR4320158 to R. Pickart. L. Kipp was supported by an Ocean Frontier Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship. Radium data used in this manuscript are available in Table S1.
    Description: 2020-10-27
    Keywords: Chukchi Sea ; Benthic flux ; Radium‐228 ; GEOTRACES
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    Drifter observations reveal intense vertical velocity in a surface ocean front (2023)
    American Geophysical Union
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    Publication Date: 2023-03-11
    Description: © The Author(s), 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Tarry, D., Ruiz, S., Johnston, T., Poulain, P., Özgökmen, T., Centurioni, L., Berta, M., Esposito, G., Farrar, J., Mahadevan, A., & Pascual, A. Drifter observations reveal intense vertical velocity in a surface ocean front. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(18), (2022): e2022GL098969, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022gl098969.
    Description: Measuring vertical motions represent a challenge as they are typically 3–4 orders of magnitude smaller than the horizontal velocities. Here, we show that surface vertical velocities are intensified at submesoscales and are dominated by high frequency variability. We use drifter observations to calculate divergence and vertical velocities in the upper 15 m of the water column at two different horizontal scales. The drifters, deployed at the edge of a mesoscale eddy in the Alboran Sea, show an area of strong convergence (urn:x-wiley:00948276:media:grl64766:grl64766-math-0001(f)) associated with vertical velocities of −100 m day−1. This study shows that a multilayered-drifter array can be an effective tool for estimating vertical velocity near the ocean surface.
    Description: This research was supported by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Departmental Research Initiative CALYPSO under program officers Terri Paluszkiewicz and Scott Harper. The authors' ONR Grant No. are as follows: DT, SR, AM, and AP N000141613130, TMSJ N000146101612470, PP N000141812418, TO N000141812138, LRC N000141712517, and N00014191269, MB and GE N000141812782 and N000141812039, and JTF N000141812431.
    Keywords: Drifters ; Vertical velocity ; Submesoscale ; Kinematic properties ; Fronts ; Alboran Sea
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    Volcano monitoring with magnetic measurements: a simulation of eruptions at axial seamount, Kilauea, Baroarbunga, and Mount Saint Helens (2023)
    American Geophysical Union
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    Publication Date: 2023-03-11
    Description: © The Author(s), 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Biasi, J., Tivey, M., & Fluegel, B. Volcano monitoring with magnetic measurements: a simulation of eruptions at axial seamount, Kilauea, Baroarbunga, and Mount Saint Helens. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(17), (2022): e2022GL100006, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100006.
    Description: Monitoring of active volcanic systems is a challenging task due in part to the trade-offs between collection of high-quality data from multiple techniques and the high costs of acquiring such data. Here we show that magnetic data can be used to monitor volcanoes by producing similar data to gravimetric techniques at significantly lower cost. The premise of this technique is that magma and wall rock above the Curie temperature are magnetically “transparent,” but not stationary within the crust. Subsurface movements of magma can affect the crustal magnetic field measured at the surface. We construct highly simplified magnetic models of four volcanic systems: Mount Saint Helens (1980), Axial Seamount (2015–2020), Kīlauea (2018), and Bárðarbunga (2014). In all cases, observed or inferred changes to the magmatic system would have been detectable by modern magnetometers. Magnetic monitoring could become common practice at many volcanoes, particularly in developing nations with high volcanic risk.
    Description: This work was supported by the NSF Grant No 2052963 to J. Biasi and an internal Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution grant to M. Tivey.
    Keywords: Magnetism ; Volcanic hazards ; Hawaii ; Iceland ; Volcanology ; Monitoring
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    Radium inputs into the Arctic Ocean from rivers a basin‐wide estimate (2023)
    American Geophysical Union
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    Publication Date: 2023-03-11
    Description: © The Author(s), 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Bullock, E., Kipp, L., Moore, W., Brown, K., Mann, P., Vonk, J., Zimov, N., & Charette, M. Radium inputs into the Arctic Ocean from rivers a basin‐wide estimate. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127(9), (2022): e2022JC018964, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jc018964.
    Description: Radium isotopes have been used to trace nutrient, carbon, and trace metal fluxes inputs from ocean margins. However, these approaches require a full accounting of radium sources to the coastal ocean including rivers. Here, we aim to quantify river radium inputs into the Arctic Ocean for the first time for 226Ra and to refine the estimates for 228Ra. Using new and existing data, we find that the estimated combined (dissolved plus desorbed) annual 226Ra and 228Ra fluxes to the Arctic Ocean are [7.0–9.4] × 1014 dpm y−1 and [15–18] × 1014 dpm y−1, respectively. Of these totals, 44% and 60% of the river 226Ra and 228Ra, respectively are from suspended sediment desorption, which were estimated from laboratory incubation experiments. Using Ra isotope data from 20 major rivers around the world, we derived global annual 226Ra and 228Ra fluxes of [7.4–17] × 1015 and [15–27] × 1015 dpm y−1, respectively. As climate change spurs rapid Arctic warming, hydrological cycles are intensifying and coastal ice cover and permafrost are diminishing. These river radium inputs to the Arctic Ocean will serve as a valuable baseline as we attempt to understand the changes that warming temperatures are having on fluxes of biogeochemically important elements to the Arctic coastal zone.
    Description: This study was a broad, collaborative effort that would not have been possible without contributions from numerous funding sources, including the National Science Foundation (NSF-0751525, NSF-1736277, NSF-1458305, NSF-1938873, NSF-2048067, NSF-2134865), the NERC-BMBF project CACOON [NE/R012806/1] (UKRI NERC) and BMBF-03F0806A, and an EU Starting Grant (THAWSOME-676982).
    Keywords: Radium isotopes ; Arctic Ocean ; River fluxes
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    Antarctic marine life under pressure (2022)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    In:  EPIC3Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 378(6617), pp. 230-230, ISSN: 0036-8075
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    Publication Date: 2023-05-10
    Description: 〈jats:p〉 Next week, the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) convenes in Hobart, Tasmania, to examine the state of marine life in the Southern Ocean. As part of the Antarctic Treaty System, this convention entered into force in 1982, and its focus on the region’s environmental integrity has never been more important, given the increasing effects of climate change and commercial fishing. An important focus over the past 40 years has been Antarctic krill, 〈jats:italic〉Euphausia superba〈/jats:italic〉 (hereafter krill), a keystone species that helps to hold this marine ecosystem together. Climate and fishing stresses should prompt the CCAMLR to address whether management of krill fishing is at a level that protects the Southern Ocean from losing its overall balance of marine life and the oceanic processes that regulate global climate. 〈/jats:p〉
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    Monitoring volcanic activity through combined measurements of CO2 efflux and (222Rn) and (220Rn) in soil gas: an application to Mt. Etna (Italy) (2023)
    American Geophysical Union
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-07
    Description: We present measurements of soil CO2 effluxes combined with soil (222Rn) and (220Rn) from two high-degassing areas on the lower flanks of Mt. Etna volcano (ZE-SV on the E flank and PAT on the SW flank). Measurements were conducted periodically from June 2006 to January 2009 in the ZE-SV area and January 2007 to January 2009 in the PAT area. The results showed significant variations in discharge activity and style. Log values of (220Rn)/(222Rn) and CO2 efflux generally follow a negative correlation, herein parameterized as the Soil Gas Disequilibrium Index (SGDI). Deviations of the SGDI from this negative correlation provide insight into variance of localized and shallow system conditions, namely rock fracturing, residual magma degassing, and near surface interactions between magmatic gases and groundwater. Statistical analysis highlighted signal anomalies, both negative and positive, that were modeled according to the physical properties and the modes of transport for each of the SGDI gas components. The revealed anomalies show correspondence with episodes of magma ascent and eruption, thereby demonstrating the potential of using the SGDI as another instrument for forecasting volcanic activity. An important strength of the SGDI, compared to other magma gas proxies like CO2 or SO2, is that the very short and very different half-lives of 222Rn (t1/2 = 3.85 days) and 220Rn (t1/2 = 55 seconds) provide unique information on the timescales of soil gas transport. Coupling the SGDI with other pre-eruptive proxies enhances the volcanological community’s response capabilities, which is critical for effective hazard mitigation.
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    Description: 4V. Processi pre-eruttivi
    Keywords: Soil gases ; radon ; carbon dioxide ; volcano monitoring ; 04.08. Volcanology
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    A Review of Arctic–Subarctic Ocean Linkages: Past Changes, Mechanisms, and Future Projections (2023)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    In:  EPIC3Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2, ISSN: 2771-0378
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    Publication Date: 2023-08-08
    Description: 〈jats:p〉Arctic Ocean gateway fluxes play a crucial role in linking the Arctic with the global ocean and affecting climate and marine ecosystems. We reviewed past studies on Arctic–Subarctic ocean linkages and examined their changes and driving mechanisms. Our review highlights that radical changes occurred in the inflows and outflows of the Arctic Ocean during the 2010s. Specifically, the Pacific inflow temperature in the Bering Strait and Atlantic inflow temperature in the Fram Strait hit record highs, while the Pacific inflow salinity in the Bering Strait and Arctic outflow salinity in the Davis and Fram straits hit record lows. Both the ocean heat convergence from lower latitudes to the Arctic and the hydrological cycle connecting the Arctic with Subarctic seas were stronger in 2000–2020 than in 1980–2000. CMIP6 models project a continuing increase in poleward ocean heat convergence in the 21st century, mainly due to warming of inflow waters. They also predict an increase in freshwater input to the Arctic Ocean, with the largest increase in freshwater export expected to occur in the Fram Strait due to both increased ocean volume export and decreased salinity. Fram Strait sea ice volume export hit a record low in the 2010s and is projected to continue to decrease along with Arctic sea ice decline. We quantitatively attribute the variability of the volume, heat, and freshwater transports in the Arctic gateways to forcing within and outside the Arctic based on dedicated numerical simulations and emphasize the importance of both origins in driving the variability.〈/jats:p〉
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    Skillful long-lead prediction of summertime heavy rainfall in the US Midwest from sea surface salinity (2022)
    American Geophysical Union
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    Publication Date: 2023-01-07
    Description: Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2022. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Research Letters 49(13), (2022): e2022GL098554, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098554.
    Description: Summertime heavy rainfall and its resultant floods are among the most harmful natural hazards in the US Midwest, one of the world's primary crop production areas. However, seasonal forecasts of heavy rain, currently based on preseason sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTAs), remain unsatisfactory. Here, we present evidence that sea surface salinity anomalies (SSSAs) over the tropical western Pacific and subtropical North Atlantic are skillful predictors of summer time heavy rainfall one season ahead. A one standard deviation change in tropical western Pacific SSSA is associated with a 1.8 mm day−1 increase in local precipitation, which excites a teleconnection pattern to extratropical North Pacific. Via extratropical air-sea interaction and long memory of midlatitude SSTA, a wave train favorable for US Midwest heavy rain is induced. Combined with soil moisture feedbacks bridging the springtime North Atlantic salinity, the SSSA-based statistical prediction model improves Midwest heavy rainfall forecasts by 92%, complementing existing SSTA-based frameworks.
    Description: This study is supported by the NSF PREEVENTS program under ICER-1663138 (LL) and ICER-1663704 (RWS and CCU).
    Description: 2023-01-07
    Keywords: Sea surface salinity ; Midwest precipitation ; Heavy rainfall ; Long-lead prediction
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    Can we estimate air‐sea flux of biological O2 from total dissolved oxygen? (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2023-03-02
    Description: Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2022. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles 36(9), (2022): e2021GB007145, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021gb007145.
    Description: In this study, we compare mechanistic and empirical approaches to reconstruct the air-sea flux of biological oxygen (F[O2]bio-as) by parameterizing the physical oxygen saturation anomaly (ΔO2[phy]) in order to separate the biological contribution from total oxygen. The first approach matches ΔO2[phy] to the monthly climatology of the argon saturation anomaly from a global ocean circulation model's output. The second approach derives ΔO2[phy] from an iterative mass balance model forced by satellite-based physical drivers of ΔO2[phy] prior to the sampling day by assuming that air-sea interactions are the dominant factors driving the surface ΔO2[phy]. The final approach leverages the machine-learning technique of Genetic Programming (GP) to search for the functional relationship between ΔO2[phy] and biophysicochemical parameters. We compile simultaneous measurements of O2/Ar and O2 concentration from 14 cruises to train the GP algorithm and test the validity and applicability of our modeled ΔO2[phy] and F[O2]bio-as. Among the approaches, the GP approach, which incorporates ship-based measurements and historical records of physical parameters from the reanalysis products, provides the most robust predictions (R2 = 0.74 for ΔO2[phy] and 0.72 for F[O2]bio-as; RMSE = 1.4% for ΔO2[phy] and 7.1 mmol O2 m−2 d−1 for F[O2]bio-as). We use the empirical formulation derived from GP approach to reconstruct regional, inter-annual, and decadal variability of F[O2]bio-as based on historical oxygen records. Overall, our study represents a first attempt at deriving F[O2]bio-as from snapshot measurements of oxygen, thereby paving the way toward using historical O2 data and a rapidly growing number of O2 measurements on autonomous platforms for independent insight into the biological pump.
    Description: N. Cassar was supported by the “Laboratoire d'Excellence” LabexMER (ANR-10-LABX-19) and co-funded by a grant from the French government under the program “Investissements d'Avenir.” Y. Huang was supported by grants from the China NSF (Nos. 42130401 and 42141002). Y. Huang was also partly supported by Chinese State Scholarship Fund to study at Duke University as a joint PhD student (No. 201806310052). R. Eveleth was supported by the NSF GRFP under grant (No. 1106401). D. Nicholson was supported by the NSF OCE-1129973 and OCE-1923915.
    Keywords: Air-sea gas biological oxygen flux ; Physical oxygen saturation anomaly ; Total dissolved oxygen ; Mechanistic and empirical models
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    Carbonation of serpentinite in creeping faults of California (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-21
    Description: Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2022. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Research Letters 49(15), (2022): e2022GL099185, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022gl099185.
    Description: Several large strike slip faults in central and northern California accommodate plate motions through aseismic creep. Although there is no consensus regarding the underlying cause of aseismic creep, aqueous fluids and mechanically weak, velocity-strengthening minerals appear to play a central role. This study integrates field observations and thermodynamic modeling to examine possible relationships between the occurrence of serpentinite, silica-carbonate rock, and CO2-rich aqueous fluids in creeping faults of California. Our models predict that carbonation of serpentinite leads to the formation of talc and magnesite, followed by silica-carbonate rock. While abundant exposures of silica-carbonate rock indicate complete carbonation, serpentinite-hosted CO2-rich spring fluids are strongly supersaturated with talc at elevated temperatures. Hence, carbonation of serpentinite is likely ongoing in parts of the San Andres Fault system and operates in conjunction with other modes of talc formation that may further enhance the potential for aseismic creep, thereby limiting the potential for large earthquakes.
    Description: This work was supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) grants NSF-EAR-1220280 to F. K. and J. L., NSF-EAR-1219908 to D. G., and NSF-OCE-2001728 to J. L.
    Keywords: Mineral carbonation ; Serpentinite ; Talc ; CO2 ; Aseismic creep ; San Andreas Fault
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    Does sea spray aerosol contribute significantly to aerosol trace element loading? a case study from the US GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect (GP15) (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-21
    Description: © The Author(s), 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Marsay, C. M., Landing, W. M., Umstead, D., Till, C. P., Freiberger, R., Fitzsimmons, J. N., Lanning, N. T., Shiller, A. M., Hatta, M., Chmiel, R., Saito, M., & Buck, C. S. Does sea spray aerosol contribute significantly to aerosol trace element loading? a case study from the US GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect (GP15). Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36(8), (2022): e2022GB007416. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GB007416.
    Description: Atmospheric deposition represents a major input for micronutrient trace elements (TEs) to the surface ocean and is often quantified indirectly through measurements of aerosol TE concentrations. Sea spray aerosol (SSA) dominates aerosol mass concentration over much of the global ocean, but few studies have assessed its contribution to aerosol TE loading, which could result in overestimates of “new” TE inputs. Low-mineral aerosol concentrations measured during the U.S. GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect (GP15; 152°W, 56°N to 20°S), along with concurrent towfish sampling of surface seawater, provided an opportunity to investigate this aspect of TE biogeochemical cycling. Central Pacific Ocean surface seawater Al, V, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, and Pb concentrations were combined with aerosol Na data to calculate a “recycled” SSA contribution to aerosol TE loading. Only vanadium was calculated to have a SSA contribution averaging 〉1% along the transect (mean of 1.5%). We derive scaling factors from previous studies on TE enrichments in the sea surface microlayer and in freshly produced SSA to assess the broader potential for SSA contributions to aerosol TE loading. Maximum applied scaling factors suggest that SSA could contribute significantly to the aerosol loading of some elements (notably V, Cu, and Pb), while for others (e.g., Fe and Al), SSA contributions largely remained 〈1%. Our study highlights that a lack of focused measurements of TEs in SSA limits our ability to quantify this component of marine aerosol loading and the associated potential for overestimating new TE inputs from atmospheric deposition.
    Description: This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) grants OCE-1756103 to C. S. Buck, OCE-1756104 to W. M. Landing, OCE-1737024 to A.M. Shiller, OCE-1736906 to M. Hatta, OCE-1736875 to C. P. Till, OCE-1737167 to J. N. Fitzsimmons, and OCE-1736599 to M. Saito. In addition, N. T. Lanning was supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program award 1746932.
    Keywords: Aerosols ; Trace elements ; GEOTRACES ; Sea spray aerosol ; Pacific Ocean
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    Using misorientation and weighted burgers vector statistics to understand intragranular boundary development and grain boundary formation at high temperatures (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-21
    Description: Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2022. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 127(8), (2022): e2022JB024497, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB024497.
    Description: During plastic deformation, strain weakening can be achieved, in part, via strain energy reduction associated with intragranular boundary development and grain boundary formation. Grain boundaries (in 2D) are segments between triple junctions, that connect to encircle grains; every boundary segment in the encircling loop has a high (〉10°) misorientation angle. Intragranular boundaries terminate within grains or dissect grains, usually containing boundary segments with a low (〈10°) misorientation angle. We analyze electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) data from ice deformed at −30°C (Th≈ 0.9). Misorientation and weighted Burgers vector (WBV) statistics are calculated along planar intragranular boundaries. Misorientation angles change markedly along each intragranular boundary, linking low- (〈10°) and high-angle (10–38°) segments that exhibit distinct misorientation axes and WBV directions. We suggest that these boundaries might be produced by the growth and intersection of individual intragranular boundary segments comprising dislocations with distinct slip systems. There is a fundamental difference between misorientation axis distributions of intragranular boundaries (misorientation axes mostly confined to ice basal plane) and grain boundaries (no preferred misorientation axis). These observations suggest during progressive subgrain rotation, intragranular boundaries remain crystallographically controlled up to large misorientation angles (〉〉10°). In contrast, the apparent lack of crystallographic control for grain boundaries suggests misorientation axes become randomized, likely due to the activation of additional mechanisms (such as grain boundary sliding) after grain boundary formation, linking boundary segments to encircle a grain. Our findings on ice intragranular boundary development and grain boundary formation may apply more broadly to other rock-forming minerals (e.g., olivine, quartz).
    Description: This work was supported by a NASA fund (Grant No. NNX15AM69G) to David L. Goldsby and two Marsden Funds of the Royal Society of New Zealand (Grant Nos. UOO1116, UOO052) to David J. Prior. Sheng Fan was supported by the University of Otago doctoral scholarship, the Antarctica New Zealand doctoral scholarship, a research grant from New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment through the Antarctic Science Platform (ANTA1801) (Grant No. ASP-023-03), and a New Zealand Antarctic Research Institute (NZARI) Early Career Researcher Seed Grant (Grant No. NZARI 2020-1-5). Open access publishing facilitated by University of Otago, as part of the Wiley – University of Otago agreement via the Council of Australian University Librarians.
    Keywords: High temperature deformation ; Misorientation ; Weighted Burgers vector ; Intragranular boundary ; Grain boundary ; Boundary geometry
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    Relative timing of off‐axis volcanism from sediment thickness estimates on the 8°20’N seamount chain, East Pacific Rise (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-16
    Description: © The Author(s), 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Fabbrizzi, A., Parnell‐Turner, R., Gregg, P., Fornari, D., Perfit, M., Wanless, V., & Anderson, M. Relative timing of off‐axis volcanism from sediment thickness estimates on the 8°20’N seamount chain, East Pacific Rise. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23(9), (2022): e2022GC010335, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022gc010335.
    Description: Volcanic seamount chains on the flanks of mid-ocean ridges record variability in magmatic processes associated with mantle melting over several millions of years. However, the relative timing of magmatism on individual seamounts along a chain can be difficult to estimate without in situ sampling and is further hampered by Ar40/Ar39 dating limitations. The 8°20’N seamount chain extends ∼170 km west from the fast-spreading East Pacific Rise (EPR), north of and parallel to the western Siqueiros fracture zone. Here, we use multibeam bathymetric data to investigate relationships between abyssal hill formation and seamount volcanism, transform fault slip, and tectonic rotation. Near-bottom compressed high-intensity radiated pulse, bathymetric, and sidescan sonar data collected with the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry are used to test the hypothesis that seamount volcanism is age-progressive along the seamount chain. Although sediment on seamount flanks is likely to be reworked by gravitational mass-wasting and current activity, bathymetric relief and Sentry vehicle heading analysis suggest that sedimentary accumulations on seamount summits are likely to be relatively pristine. Sediment thickness on the seamounts' summits does not increase linearly with nominal crustal age, as would be predicted if seamounts were constructed proximal to the EPR axis and then aged as the lithosphere cooled and subsided away from the ridge. The thickest sediments are found at the center of the chain, implying the most ancient volcanism there, rather than on seamounts furthest from the EPR. The nonlinear sediment thickness along the 8°20’N seamounts suggests that volcanism can persist off-axis for several million years.
    Description: This work was supported by National Science Foundation awards OCE-1356610, OCE-1356822, OCE-1357150, OCE-1754419, OCE-1834797, OCE-2001314, and OCE-2001331.
    Keywords: Off-axis seamounts ; East Pacific Rise ; Sediment thickness ; Seafloor morphology ; Autonomous underwater vehicle ; Eruption history
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    Seismic imaging of Dante’s Domes oceanic core complex from streamer waveform inversion and reverse time migration (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-25
    Description: Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2022. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 127(8), (2022): e2021JB023814, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021jb023814.
    Description: Early arrival traveltime tomography and full waveform inversion were conducted on downward continued streamer seismic data at Dante's Domes oceanic core complex (OCC), providing unprecedented details of shallow P wave velocity structure. Together with reverse time migration images, seafloor morphology, in situ geological samples, magnetic and gravity data, the seismic constraints are used to infer the lithological distribution along the seismic profiles. Based on the striking similarity in velocity structure beneath the corrugated domes with other OCCs and drilling results from Atlantis Massif, we confidently reconfirmed the Southern Dome as dominantly gabbroic rocks, and the Northern Dome as serpentinized peridotites. A series of isolated gabbroic bodies embedded in the diabase and basaltic layers is observed in the breakaway zone, suggesting that the initiation of Dante's Domes OCC occurred over a long period during which there were several failed attempts to form a long-lived detachment fault. This early development of the OCC probably occurred under a regime of alternating magma starvation and magma replenishment. The predominantly gabbroic section, beneath the Southern Dome and extending to termination, indicates the OCC has been created with relatively high magma flux. We also imaged distinct shallow subseafloor reflections which are also termed as D reflectors underneath the corrugated domes. The location of the D reflectors is similar to those in the Atlantis Massif, with depths well correlated with the top of exhumed gabbroic bodies and the discontinuities in the D reflectors between gabbroic bodies. Our findings contribute to the understanding of processes controlling the OCCs initiation and evolution at slow spreading ridges.
    Description: This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (91858207), Key Special Project for Introduced Talents Team of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (GML2019ZD0205), and Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (2021B1515020023). M. X. acknowledges support from Special Foundation for National Science and Technology Basic Research Program of China (2018FY100505), Guangdong NSF research team project (2017A030312002), K. C. Wong Education Foundation (GJTD-2018-13), and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y4SL021001, QYZDY-SSWDQC005, 133244KYSB20180029, 131551KYSB20200021, and ISEE2021PY03). J. P. C. acknowledges support from the Independent Research and Development Program at WHOI.
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    Spatial variability of movement, structure, and formation of Warm Core Rings in the Northwest Atlantic Slope Sea (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-25
    Description: Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2022. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 127(8),(2022): e2022JC018737, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jc018737.
    Description: Gulf Stream Warm Core Rings (WCRs) have important influences on the New England Shelf and marine ecosystems. A 10-year (2011–2020) WCR dataset that tracks weekly WCR locations and surface areas is used here to identify the rings' path and characterize their movement between 55 and 75°W. The WCR dataset reveals a very narrow band between 66 and 71°W along which rings travel almost due west along ∼39°N across isobaths – the “Ring Corridor.” Then, west of the corridor, the mean path turns southwestward, paralleling the shelfbreak. The average ring translation speed along the mean path is 5.9 cm s−1. Long-lived rings (lifespan 〉150 days) tend to occupy the region west of the New England Seamount Chain (NESC) whereas short-lived rings (lifespan 〈150 days) tend to be more broadly distributed. WCR vertical structures, analyzed using available Argo float profiles indicate that rings that are formed to the west of the NESC have shallower thermoclines than those formed to the east. This tendency may be due to different WCR formation processes that are observed to occur along different sections of the Gulf Stream. WCRs formed to the east of the NESC tend to form from a pinch-off mechanism incorporating cores of Sargasso Sea water and a perimeter of Gulf Stream water. WCRs that form to the west of the NESC, form from a process called an aneurysm. WCRs formed through aneurysms comprise water mostly from the northern half of the Gulf Stream and are smaller than the classic pinch-off rings.
    Description: AS and AG are grateful for financial support from NOAA (NA11NOS0120038), NSF (OCE-1851242 and OCE-2123283), SMAST, and UMass Dartmouth. GG was supported by NSF under grant OCE-1657853. MA was supported by NSF under grant OCE-2122726 and by ONR under grant N00014-22-1-2112.
    Keywords: Gulf Stream ; Warm core rings ; Trajectories ; Eddies ; Aneurysm ; Ring formation
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    Eruption rates, tempo, and stratigraphy of Paleocene flood basalts on Baffin Island, Canada (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-25
    Description: © The Author(s), 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Biasi, J., Asimow, P., Horton, F., & Boyes, X. Eruption rates, tempo, and stratigraphy of Paleocene flood basalts on Baffin Island, Canada. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23(9), (2022): e2021GC010172, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021gc010172.
    Description: High-temperature melting in mantle plumes produces voluminous eruptions that are often temporally coincident with mass extinctions. Paleocene Baffin Island lavas—products of early Iceland mantle plume activity—are exceptionally well characterized geochemically but have poorly constrained stratigraphy, geochronology, and eruptive tempos. To provide better geologic context, we measured seven stratigraphic sections of the volcanic deposits and collected paleomagnetic data from 38 sites in the lavas and underlying Cretaceous sediments (Quqaluit Fm.). The average paleomagnetic pole from this study does not overlap with the expected pole for a stable North American locality at 60 Ma, yet the data have sufficient dispersion to average out secular variation. After ruling out other possibilities, we find that the picrites were probably erupted during a polarity transition, over less than 5 kyr. If so, the average eruption interval was ∼67 years per flow for the thickest sequence of exposed lavas. We also calculate that the flood basalts had a minimum total volume of ∼176 km3 (excluding submerged lavas in Baffin Bay). This implies a minimum eruption rate of ∼0.035 km3 yr−1, which is similar to rates found in West Greenland lavas but less than rates found in larger flood basalts. Despite this, the Baffin and West Greenland lavas temporally correlate with the “End C27n event” (a period of ∼2°C global warming) and may be its underlying cause.
    Description: his work was supported by the National Science Foundation (award #1911699 to F. Horton and award #2052963 to J. Biasi), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Endowed Fund for Innovative Research, a National Geographic Society grant (#CP4-144R-18), and internal funding from the Caltech Geological and Planetary Sciences Division.
    Keywords: Baffin island ; North Atlantic ; Flood basalt ; Paleomagnetism ; Volcanology ; Secular variation
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    Size-differentiated export flux in different dynamical regimes in the ocean (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-17
    Description: Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2021. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles 35(3), (2021): e2020GB006764, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GB006764
    Description: Export of Particulate Organic Carbon (POC) is mainly driven by gravitational sinking. Thus, traditionally, it is thought that larger, faster-sinking particles make up most of the POC export flux. However, this need not be the case for particles whose sinking speeds are comparable to the vertical velocities of a dynamic flow field that can influence the descent rate of particles. Particles with different settling speeds are released in two process-oriented model simulations of an upper ocean eddying flow in the Northeast Pacific to evaluate the impact of (1) ocean dynamics on the respective contribution of the different sinking-velocity classes to POC export, and (2) the particle number size-spectrum slope. The analysis reveals that the leading export mechanism changes from gravitationally driven to advectively driven as submesoscale dynamics become more active in the region. The vertical velocity associated with submesoscale dynamics enhances the contribution of slower-sinking particles to POC export flux by a factor ranging from 3 to 10, especially where the relative abundance of small particles is large (i.e., steep particle size-spectrum slope). Remineralization generally decreases the total amount of biomass exported, but its impact is weaker in dynamical regimes where submesoscale dynamics are present and export is advectively driven. In an advectively driven export regime, remineralization processes counter-intuitively enhance the role of slower-sinking particles to the point where these slower-sinking velocity classes dominate the export, therefore challenging the traditional paradigm for POC export. This study demonstrates that slow-sinking particles can be a significant contribution, and at times, even dominate the export flux.
    Description: The work was funded by NASA grant NNX16AR48 G, to complement the EXport Processes in the global Ocean from RemoTe Sensing (EXPORTS) program.
    Description: 2021-08-17
    Keywords: Export ; Flux ; Particulate organic carbon ; Sinking rates ; Submeso-scales ; Vertical velocities
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    The influence of ocean topography on the upwelling of carbon in the Southern Ocean (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-17
    Description: Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2021. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Research Letters 48(19), (2021): e2021GL095088, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL095088.
    Description: The physical circulation of the Southern Ocean sets the surface concentration and thus air-sea exchange of CO2. However, we have a limited understanding of the three-dimensional circulation that brings deep carbon-rich waters to the surface. Here, we introduce and analyze a novel high-resolution ocean model simulation with active biogeochemistry and online Lagrangian particle tracking. We focus our attention on a subset of particles with high dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) that originate below 1,000 m and eventually upwell into the near-surface layer (upper 200 m). We find that 71% of the DIC-enriched water upwelling across 1,000 m is concentrated near topographic features, which occupy just 33% of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Once particles upwell to the near-surface layer, they exhibit relatively uniform pCO2 levels and DIC decorrelation timescales, regardless of their origin. Our results show that Southern Ocean bathymetry plays a key role in delivering carbon-rich waters to the surface.
    Description: Riley X. Brady was supported by the Department of Energy's Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DE-FG02-97ER25308), and particularly benefited from the fellowship's summer practicum at Los Alamos National Lab. Nicole S. Lovenduski and Riley X. Brady were further supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Biological and Environmental Research program (DE-SC0022243) and by the National Science Foundation (NSF-PLR 1543457; NSF-OCE 1924636; NSF-OCE 1752724; NSF-OCE 1558225). Mathew E. Maltrud and Phillip J. Wolfram were supported as part of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) project, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research. This research used resources provided by the Los Alamos National Laboratory Institutional Computing Program, which is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration under Contract No. 89233218CNA000001.
    Keywords: Southern Ocean ; Carbon cycle ; Upwelling ; Lagrangian modeling ; Ocean biogeochemistry ; Climate modeling
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    Submarine groundwater discharge in the northern Bohai Sea, China: Implications for coastal carbon budgets and buffering capacity (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2023-01-20
    Description: Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2022. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 127(8), (2022): e2022JG006810, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jg006810.
    Description: Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) has been widely recognized as an important source of dissolved nutrients in coastal waters and affects nutrient biogeochemistry. In contrast, little information is available on SGD impacts on coastal carbon budgets. Here, we assessed the SGD and associated carbon (dissolved inorganic carbon [DIC] and total alkalinity [TA]) fluxes in Liaodong Bay (the largest bay of the Bohai Sea, China) and discussed their border implications for coastal DIC budget and buffering capacity. Based on 223Ra and 228Ra mass balance models, the SGD flux was estimated to be (0.92–1.43) × 109 m3 d−1. SGD was the largest contributor of DIC, accounting for 55%–77% of the total DIC sources. The low ratio (〈1) of SGD-derived TA to DIC fluxes and negative correlation between radium isotopes and pH in seawater implied that SGD would potentially reduce seawater pH in Liaodong Bay. Combining the groundwater carbon data in Liaodong Bay with literature data, we found that the SGD-derived DIC flux off China was 4–9 times greater than those from rivers. By analyzing the TA/DIC ratios in groundwater along the Chinese coast and related carbon fluxes, SGD was thought to partially reduce the CO2 buffer capacity in receiving seawater. These results obtained at the bay scale and national scale suggest that SGD is a significant component of carbon budget and may play a critical role in modulating coastal buffering capacity and atmospheric CO2 sequestration.
    Description: his research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 42130703, 42007170) and the Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen (Grant No. 20200925174525002.
    Description: 2023-01-20
    Keywords: Submarine groundwater discharge ; Radium isotopes ; Dissolved inorganic carbon ; Total alkalinity ; Carbon budgets ; Buffering capacity
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    Erratum to “A Review of Arctic–Subarctic Ocean Linkages: Past Changes, Mechanisms, and Future Projections” (2023)
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    In:  EPIC3Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2, ISSN: 2771-0378
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    Global and regional temperature change over the past 4.5 million years (2024)
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    In:  EPIC3Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 383(6685), pp. 884-890, ISSN: 0036-8075
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-21
    Description: Much of our understanding of Cenozoic climate is based on the record of δ18O measured in benthic foraminifera. However, this measurement reflects a combined signal of global temperature and sea level, thus preventing a clear understanding of the interactions and feedbacks of the climate system in causing global temperature change. Our new reconstruction of temperature change over the past 4.5 million years includes two phases of long-term cooling, with the second phase of accelerated cooling during the Middle Pleistocene Transition (1.5 to 0.9 million years ago) being accompanied by a transition from dominant 41,000-year low-amplitude periodicity to dominant 100,000-year high-amplitude periodicity. Changes in the rates of long-term cooling and variability are consistent with changes in the carbon cycle driven initially by geologic processes, followed by additional changes in the Southern Ocean carbon cycle. 〈/jats:p〉
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    Structure-informed microbial population genetics elucidate selective pressures that shape protein evolution (2023)
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    In:  EPIC3Science Advances, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 9(8), pp. eabq4632-eabq4632, ISSN: 2375-2548
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    Description: 〈jats:p〉Comprehensive sampling of natural genetic diversity with metagenomics enables highly resolved insights into the interplay between ecology and evolution. However, resolving adaptive, neutral, or purifying processes of evolution from intrapopulation genomic variation remains a challenge, partly due to the sole reliance on gene sequences to interpret variants. Here, we describe an approach to analyze genetic variation in the context of predicted protein structures and apply it to a marine microbial population within the SAR11 subclade 1a.3.V, which dominates low-latitude surface oceans. Our analyses reveal a tight association between genetic variation and protein structure. In a central gene in nitrogen metabolism, we observe decreased occurrence of nonsynonymous variants from ligand-binding sites as a function of nitrate concentrations, revealing genetic targets of distinct evolutionary pressures maintained by nutrient availability. Our work yields insights into the governing principles of evolution and enables structure-aware investigations of microbial population genetics.〈/jats:p〉
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    Carbon Stocks and Potential Greenhouse Gas Production of Permafrost-Affected Active Floodplains in the Lena River Delta (2024)
    American Geophysical Union
    In:  EPIC3Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Biogeosciences, American Geophysical Union, 129, ISSN: 2169-8953
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-19
    Description: Arctic warming increases the degradation of permafrost soils but little is known about floodplain soils in the permafrost region. This study quantifies soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil nitrogen stocks, and the potential CH4 and CO2 production from seven cores in the active floodplains in the Lena River Delta, Russia. The soils were sandy but highly heterogeneous, containing deep, organic rich deposits with 〉60% SOC stored below 30 cm. The mean SOC stocks in the top 1 m were 12.9 ± 6.0 kg C m−2. Grain size analysis and radiocarbon ages indicated highly dynamic environments with sediment re-working. Potential CH4 and CO2 production from active floodplains was assessed using a 1-year incubation at 20°C under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. Cumulative aerobic CO2 production mineralized a mean 4.6 ± 2.8% of initial SOC. The mean cumulative aerobic:anaerobic C production ratio was 2.3 ± 0.9. Anaerobic CH4 production comprised 50 ± 9% of anaerobic C mineralization; rates were comparable or exceeded those for permafrost region organic soils. Potential C production from the incubations was correlated with total organic carbon and varied strongly over space (among cores) and depth (active layer vs. permafrost). This study provides valuable information on the carbon cycle dynamics from active floodplains in the Lena River Delta and highlights the key spatial variability, both among sites and with depth, and the need to include these dynamic permafrost environments in future estimates of the permafrost carbon-climate feedback.
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    Spatial heterogeneity and environmental predictors of permafrost region soil organic carbon stocks (2021)
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    In:  EPIC3Science Advances, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-22
    Description: Large stocks of soil organic carbon (SOC) have accumulated in the northern hemisphere permafrost region, but their current mounts and future fate remain uncertain. By analyzing an unprecedented dataset combining 〉2,700 soil profiles with environmental variables in a geospatial framework, we generated spatially explicit estimates of permafrost-region SOC stocks, quantified spatial heterogeneity, and identified key environmental predictors. We estimated 1014−175+194 Pg C are stored in the top 3 m of permafrost region soils. The greatest uncertainties occurred in circumpolar toe-slope positions and in flat areas of the Tibetan region. We found that soil wetness index and elevation are the dominant topographic controllers and surface air temperature (circumpolar region) and precipitation (Tibetan region) are significant climatic controllers of SOC stocks. Our results provide the first high-resolution geospatial assessment of permafrost region SOC stocks and their relationships with environmental factors, which are crucial for modeling the response of permafrost affected soils to changing climate.
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    Chasing iron bioavailability in the Southern Ocean: Insights from Phaeocystis antarctica and iron speciation (2023)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    In:  EPIC3Science Advances, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 9(26), pp. eadf9696-eadf9696, ISSN: 2375-2548
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-01
    Description: Dissolved iron (dFe) availability limits the uptake of atmospheric CO2 by the Southern Ocean (SO) biological pump. Hence, any change in bioavailable dFe in this region can directly influence climate. On the basis of Fe uptake experiments with Phaeocystis antarctica, we show that the range of dFe bioavailability in natural samples is wider (〈1 to ~200% compared to free inorganic Fe′) than previously thought, with higher bioavailability found near glacial sources. The degree of bioavailability varied regardless of in situ dFe concentration and depth, challenging the consensus that sole dFe concentrations can be used to predict Fe uptake in modeling studies. Further, our data suggest a disproportionately major role of biologically mediated ligands and encourage revisiting the role of humic substances in influencing marine Fe biogeochemical cycling in the SO. Last, we describe a linkage between in situ dFe bioavailability and isotopic signatures that, we anticipate, will stimulate future research.
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    Improving Arctic sea-ice thickness estimates with the assimilation of CryoSat-2 summer observations (2023)
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    In:  EPIC3Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2, ISSN: 2771-0378
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    Publication Date: 2024-02-13
    Description: 〈jats:p〉Rapidly shrinking Arctic sea ice has had substantial impacts on the Earth system. Therefore, reliably estimating the Arctic sea-ice thickness (SIT) using a combination of available observations and numerical modeling is urgently needed. Here, for the first time, we assimilate the latest CryoSat-2 summer SIT data into a coupled ice-ocean model. In particular, an incremental analysis update scheme is implemented to overcome the discontinuity resulting from the combined assimilation of biweekly SIT and daily sea-ice concentration (SIC) data. Along with improved estimates of sea-ice volume, our SIT estimates corrected the overestimation of SIT produced by the reanalysis that assimilates only SIC in summer in areas where the sea ice is roughest and experiences strong deformation, e.g., around the Fram Strait and Greenland. This study suggests that the newly developed CryoSat-2 SIT product, when assimilated properly using our approach, has great potential for Arctic sea-ice simulation and prediction.〈/jats:p〉
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    Genomic evidence for West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse during the Last Interglacial (2023)
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    In:  EPIC3Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 382(6677), pp. 1384-1389, ISSN: 0036-8075
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    Description: The marine-based West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is considered vulnerable to irreversible collapse under future climate trajectories, and its tipping point may lie within the mitigated warming scenarios of 1.5° to 2°C of the United Nations Paris Agreement. Knowledge of ice loss during similarly warm past climates could resolve this uncertainty, including the Last Interglacial when global sea levels were 5 to 10 meters higher than today and global average temperatures were 0.5° to 1.5°C warmer than preindustrial levels. Using a panel of genome-wide, single-nucleotide polymorphisms of a circum-Antarctic octopus, we show persistent, historic signals of gene flow only possible with complete WAIS collapse. Our results provide the first empirical evidence that the tipping point of WAIS loss could be reached even under stringent climate mitigation scenarios.
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    Constraints on the Cryohydrological Warming of Firn and Ice in Greenland From Rayleigh Wave Ellipticity Data (2024)
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    Description: Rayleigh wave ellipticity measurements from seismic ambient noise recorded on the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) show complex and anomalous behavior at wave periods sensitive to ice (T 〈 3–4 s). To understand these complex observations, we compare them with synthetic ellipticity measurements obtained from synthetic ambient noise computed for various seismic velocity and attenuation models, including surface wave overtone effects. We find that in dry snow conditions within the interior of the GrIS, to first order the anomalous ellipticity observations can be explained by ice models associated with the accumulation and densification of snow into firn. We also show that the distribution of ellipticity measurements is strongly sensitive to seismic attenuation and the thermal structure of the ice. Our results suggest that Rayleigh wave ellipticity is well suited for monitoring changes in firn properties and thermal composition of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets in a changing climate.
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    Description: e2023GL103673
    Description: OST1 Alla ricerca dei Motori Geodinamici
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    Keywords: 04.06. Seismology
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    Caribbean salinity anomalies contributed to variable North Atlantic circulation and climate during the Common Era (2023)
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    In:  EPIC3Science Advances, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 9(44), pp. eadg2639-eadg2639, ISSN: 2375-2548
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-24
    Description: Paleoceanographic reconstructions show that the strength of North Atlantic currents decreased during the Little Ice Age. In contrast, the role of ocean circulation in climate regulation during earlier historical epochs of the Common Era (C.E.) remains unclear. Here, we reconstruct sea surface temperature (SST) and salinity in the Caribbean Basin for the past 1700 years using the isotopic and elemental composition of planktic foraminifera tests. Centennial-scale SST and salinity variations in the Caribbean co-occur with (hydro)climate changes in the Northern Hemisphere and are linked to a North Atlantic SST forcing. Cold phases around 600, 800, and 1400 to 1600 C.E. are characterized by Caribbean salinification and Gulf of Mexico freshening that implies reductions in the strength of North Atlantic surface circulation. We suggest that the associated changes in the meridional salt advection contributed to the historical climate variability of the C.E.
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    Heatwave responses of Arctic phytoplankton communities are driven by combined impacts of warming and cooling. (2024)
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    In:  EPIC3Sci Adv, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 10(20), pp. eadl5904-eadl5904, ISSN: 2375-2548
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-22
    Description: Marine heatwaves are increasing in frequency and intensity as climate change progresses, especially in the highly productive Arctic regions. Although their effects on primary producers will largely determine the impacts on ecosystem services, mechanistic understanding on phytoplankton responses to these extreme events is still very limited. We experimentally exposed Arctic phytoplankton assemblages to stable warming, as well as to repeated heatwaves, and measured temporally resolved productivity, physiology, and composition. Our results show that even extreme stable warming increases productivity, while the response to heatwaves depends on the specific scenario applied and is not predictable from stable warming responses. This appears to be largely due to the underestimated impact of the cool phase following a heatwave, which can be at least as important as the warm phase for the overall response. We show that physiological and compositional adjustments to both warm and cool phases drive overall phytoplankton productivity and need to be considered mechanistically to predict overall ecosystem impacts.
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    A large-scale transcontinental river system crossed West Antarctica during the Eocene (2024)
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    In:  EPIC3Science Advances, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 10(23), pp. eadn6056-, ISSN: 2375-2548
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    Publication Date: 2024-07-05
    Description: 〈jats:p〉Extensive ice coverage largely prevents investigations of Antarctica’s unglaciated past. Knowledge about environmental and tectonic development before large-scale glaciation, however, is important for understanding the transition into the modern icehouse world. We report geochronological and sedimentological data from a drill core from the Amundsen Sea shelf, providing insights into tectonic and topographic conditions during the Eocene (~44 to 34 million years ago), shortly before major ice sheet buildup. Our findings reveal the Eocene as a transition period from >40 million years of relative tectonic quiescence toward reactivation of the West Antarctic Rift System, coinciding with incipient volcanism, rise of the Transantarctic Mountains, and renewed sedimentation under temperate climate conditions. The recovered sediments were deposited in a coastal-estuarine swamp environment at the outlet of a >1500-km-long transcontinental river system, draining from the rising Transantarctic Mountains into the Amundsen Sea. Much of West Antarctica hence lied above sea level, but low topographic relief combined with low elevation inhibited widespread ice sheet formation.〈/jats:p〉
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    Estimating Bioturbation From Replicated Small‐Sample Radiocarbon Ages (2021)
    American Geophysical Union
    In:  EPIC3Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, American Geophysical Union, 36(7), ISSN: 2572-4517
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    Publication Date: 2024-06-22
    Description: Marine sedimentary records are a key archive when reconstructing past climate; however, mixing at the seabed (bioturbation) can strongly influence climate records, especially when sedimentation rates are low. By commingling the climate signal from different time periods, bioturbation both smooths climate records, by damping fast climate variations, and creates noise when measurements are made on samples containing small numbers of individual proxy carriers, such as foraminifera. Bioturbation also influences radiocarbon-based age-depth models, as sample ages may not represent the true ages of the sediment layers from which they were picked. While these effects were first described several decades ago, the advent of ultra-small-sample $^{14}$C dating now allows samples containing very small numbers of foraminifera to be measured, thus enabling us to directly measure the age-heterogeneity of sediment for the first time. Here, we use radiocarbon dates measured on replicated samples of 3-30 foraminifera to estimate age-heterogeneity for five marine sediment cores with sedimentation rates ranging from 2-30 cm kyr$^{-1}$. From their age-heterogeneities and sedimentation rates we infer mixing depths of 10-20 cm for our core sites. Our results show that when accounting for age-heterogeneity, the true error of radiocarbon dating can be several times larger than the reported measurement. We present estimates of this uncertainty as a function of sedimentation rate and the number of individuals per radiocarbon date. A better understanding of this uncertainty will help us to optimise radiocarbon measurements, construct age models with appropriate uncertainties and better interpret marine paleo records.
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    Semi-insulating properties and photoluminescence quenching in Cu-diffused InP (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 4546-4550 
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    Notes: The properties of high-resistivity InP with resistivity up to 107 Ω cm, obtained by thermal diffusion of Cu at 800 °C for over 20 h into undoped and p-type InP samples, are investigated. Hall-effect measurements showed that the compensation mechanism in the slowly cooled sample is different from that in the quickly cooled samples. Photoluminescence was quenched in the quickly cooled samples when annealed at 350 °C and the anneal temperature at which the sample resistivity and carrier mobility reached the maximum. It is shown that the electrical compensation in the slowly cooled sample could be understood by a simple deep-level compensation model. However, the semi-insulating behavior of the quickly cooled samples appears to be consistent with an internal Schottky depletion model associated with the Cu precipitates. The photoluminescence quenching is due to the Cu precipitates acting as effective nonradiative recombination centers.
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    Pyrite thin films: Improvements in their optical and electrical properties by annealing at different temperatures in a sulfur atmosphere (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 4551-4556 
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    Notes: Iron pyrite thin films prepared by flash evaporation of pyrite powder have been annealed at different temperatures in a sulfur atmosphere. We present some results on the influence of the annealing temperature (from 250 to 450 °C) on the optical and electrical properties of three groups of samples with different thicknesses ((approximately-equal-to)0.3, 0.6, and 1 μm, respectively). Sulfuration temperature has a clear influence on the optical absorption and electrical resistivity of the films, with some differences in their behavior depending on the film thickness. In light of the available present knowledge of pyrite thin films, interpretation of the obtained results is difficult, it suggests that the shape of the optical absorption curves (and their absorption edge) at low photon energies is determined by the density of point defects, which decreases on increasing the annealing temperature. On the other hand, the electrical resistivity seems to be influenced by both the film grain size and point defect density.
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    Comparisons of one- and two-dimensional three-moment fluid models for rf glow discharges (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 839-847 
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    Notes: Self-consistent nonequilibrium fluid models of both the two-dimension (2D) and one-dimension (1D) are presented. In the 2D simulations, the models evaluate the quantitative effects of both radial and axial flow dynamics inside a cylindrically symmetric parallel-plate geometry. The 1D model assumes that the radius of the electrode is much larger than the electrode gap and the moment distributions are uniform along the radial direction. The models are based on the first three moments of the Boltzmann equation and Poisson's equation. Radio frequency (rf) glow discharge simulations from those two fluid models are presented and compared in this study. The comparisons are presented in terms of plasma density, electric field, mean energy, and ionization rate. Results of the 1D fluid model are close to those at the center of the reactor from the 2D simulations. Nonuniform profiles along the radial direction are obtained from the 2D simulations due to the radial dynamics. Higher electron mean energy in the middle region of the radial sheath is observed. The maximum ionization rate is located in the radial sheath region and agrees with the experimental observation.
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    Transport model of charged particle behavior in the afterglow region of a microwave generated oxygen plasma (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 825-831 
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    Notes: In this paper a model of charged particle behavior in a low-pressure oxygen plasma is developed, and compared with experimental results. Agreement is excellent. It is demonstrated that the extremely high temperature ((approximately-greater-than)1 eV) of electrons in these plasmas results in diffusion totally dominating the transport of charged species. It is also shown that charged particle recombination on the walls of a quartz reactor is insignificant. Finally, the influence of the electron temperature profile must be fully considered for accurate results. This work complements an earlier model of radical behavior in these plasmas. Both are needed to fully understand materials modification in these plasmas, which has been shown to involve a synergism between radicals and charged species.
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    The role of negative ions in the formation of particles in low-pressure plasmas (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 853-861 
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    Notes: Large particles (tens of nm to tens of μm in diameter) are problematic in low-pressure (〈1 Torr) plasma processing (etching, deposition) discharges because they can contaminate the product and can perturb electron transport. Although the source of these particles has been studied by a number of groups, a definitive explanation is still lacking. In this paper, we theoretically investigate the role of negative ions in the formation of large clusters, the precursors to particles, in low-pressure plasmas. We find that the formation of particles requires a critically large cluster. Forming the critically large cluster requires longer residence times in the plasma than is usually possible if clustering involves only neutral particles. We propose that negatively charged intermediates, which are trapped in electropositive plasmas, increase the average residence time of clusters to allow the growth of critically large clusters.
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    Deep level transient spectroscopy of high-energy heavy ion irradiation-induced defects in n-type germanium (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 868-871 
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    Notes: Swift heavy ion irradiation-induced defects have been studied in n-type germanium at room temperature using deep level transient spectroscopy. Several electron traps have been observed after irradiation. The corresponding energies have been determined to be at Ec−0.22, Ec−0.275, Ec−0.29, Ec−0.32, and Ec−0.465 eV. The isochronal annealing behavior of these traps has been studied in detail between room temperature and 200 °C. Comparison of our results with previously published ones allowed an identification of these defects with complexes like divacancies or associations of vacancies with impurities.
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    Time-resolved electric-field measurements in 30 kHz hydrogen discharges by optical emission Stark spectroscopy (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 862-867 
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    Notes: The temporal behavior of the cathode sheath in 30 kHz 0.4–1 Torr H2 discharges has been investigated by optical emission spectroscopy. Analysis of the Stark splitting of plasma-induced H Balmer delta emission was used to measure the electric field with spatial and temporal resolution in the instantaneous cathode sheath. The location of the plasma/sheath boundary was determined from the position of the maximum of the H2 d 3Πu→a 3Σg+ (0,0) Q1 emission at 622.5 nm. Both methods showed that the sheath width increases as the cathode voltage becomes more negative, whereas the width remains constant as the applied voltage drops off. Analysis of the electric-field profile provided information on the time evolution of the ion density close to the electrode during the cathode half-cycle, in agreement with recent numerical calculations. At the beginning of the anodic half-cycle an intense flash of plasma-induced emission was observed, localized within 3 mm from the electrode.
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    Surface roughness and the scattering of glancing-angle x rays: Application to x-ray lenses (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 877-883 
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    Notes: Hollow glass fibers can guide x rays because glancing-angle collisions with a smooth glass surface are highly reflective. Surface roughness decreases this reflectivity. We have developed relatively simple expressions for the effects of surface roughness on x-ray scattering, and we relate our results to the theoretical efficiency of x-ray lenses formed from bundles of hollow glass fibers.
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    Vacancy-type defects in crystalline and amorphous SiO2 (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 884-890 
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    Notes: Positron lifetime spectroscopy and two-dimensional angular correlation of annihilation radiation have been used to investigate grown-in vacancy structures in synthetic crystalline α-SiO2, synthetic fused quartz, and in a 60-μm-thick chemical-vapor-deposited amorphous SiO2 film. For α-SiO2 a ∼300 ps lifetime component suggests trapping by either silicon monovacancies or by oxygen divacancies (or both). The vacancies are neutral and present at a concentration level of 1017/cm3. The positron bulk lifetime for α-SiO2 is estimated to be ∼238 ps in good agreement with semiempirical predictions. In the fused quartz significant positronium formation is found (80%) and the remaining positrons annihilate in voids yielding a lifetime of ∼500 ps. The amorphous SiO2 film contains a mixture of small vacancy clusters and voids and ∼30% of the positrons form positronium. Heat treatment above 950 °C results in a substantial reduction in defect concentration, but up to 1100 °C a small vacancy cluster contribution persists. The positron data indicate that positronium formation in the fused quartz and in the amorphous film takes place in the voids.
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    Surface properties of perovskites and their response to ion bombardment (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 872-876 
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    Notes: X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy has been used to study the surface composition and chemistry of two perovskites: SrTiO3 and Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 (commonly known as PZT). It is seen that ion bombardment, which is a common surface modification technique, can cause substantial changes in these oxides. The PZT surface undergoes surface depletion of lead along with chemical reduction of the Pb2+ ion to its metallic state. The Zr/(Ti+Zr) ratio also changes with sputtering, but the total oxygen to cation ratio is unchanged. On the other hand, the surface stoichiometry of SrTiO3 is almost unaffected by ion bombardment. In all the perovskites, irrespective of whether the composition changes or not, a substantial amount of surface Ti is reduced to a lower valency state on sputtering. Most of this component is restored back to the original Ti4+ state when Ni is evaporated on these surfaces, indicating that the reduced state is associated with a damaged outermost surface that can be repaired with an adsorbate. The implication of these results to the bonding properties of these materials have been discussed.
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    Investigation of the oxide surface layer on fine iron particles (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 4102-4104 
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    Notes: The spin pinning in the oxide surface layer has been observed directly, and it is considered a possible reason why the oxide layer leads to the decrease of the specific saturation magnetization for fine iron particles. The pinning depth has been estimated by means of a Mössbauer effect under an applied field of 6 T in a thermal-cycle process. The Debye temperature of the oxide layer and the temperature dependence of f2/f1 have been obtained, where f1 and f2 are the Mössbauer recoilless fractions for the inner α-Fe core and the oxide layer, respectively. Furthermore, the estimation for the thickness of an oxide layer has been improved.
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    Forced translational vibrations of 90° domain walls and the dielectric dispersion in ferroelectric ceramics (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 4105-4112 
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    Notes: A theory of collective translational vibrations of 90° domain walls (DWs) in ferroelectric ceramics is presented. Vibrational motions of DWs forming a regular domain structure of a representative grain are assumed to be completely correlated but independent of DW oscillations in other grains. A dynamic mechanical stress field appearing in a ceramic because of DW vibrations is calculated. In contrast to former studies, this calculation takes into account effects due to the lagging of sound waves emitted by oscillating DWs and gives a general expression for the dynamic mechanical restoring force acting on DWs. From this expression we derive the equation of sustained forced DW vibrations in an oscillating external electric field that is valid for a wide frequency range including microwave frequencies. A general solution of this equation is found, which enables us to compute numerically the dependencies of amplitude and phase of DW vibrations on the frequency ω of the applied electric field. It is shown that in the low-frequency range ω〈ω*=ct/g (ct=velocity of transverse sound wave, g=grain size) the general equation of DW vibrations can be reduced to a simplified equation that includes the static restoring force, the inertial reaction, and the radiation reaction self-force of the DWs emitting sound waves. Analytic expressions are derived for the DW effective mass and for the factors characterizing the static restoring force and the radiation reaction. The contribution of DW vibrations to the complex dielectric constants of ferroelectric ceramics is calculated. It is predicted that at very high frequencies ω(very-much-greater-than)ω* the DW contribution to the real part of permittivity strongly decreases due to clamping of DWs. In this frequency range a peak of dielectric losses should also arise being caused by the emission of sound waves from oscillating DWs. It is emphasized that the above effects can be correctly described on the base of the general equation of DW vibrations only.
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    Compositional instability and the resultant charge variations in mixed B-site cation relaxer ferroelectrics (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 4121-4124 
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    Notes: A phenomenological model has been applied in an attempt to explain the inability of the ordered regions in the lead magnesium niobate family of relaxor ferroelectrics to coarsen. This approach is based on the concept that the free energy is lowered by an embryonic decomposition along a non-neutral direction. It is proposed that the excess free energy associated with the formation of the non-neutral phase is offset by the distortability of the perovskite structure toward the pyrochlore. The lack of coarsening is then explained as a balance of the electrostatic energy and gradient energy terms, following an earlier published report. This model is then applied to the La-modified (donor-doped) lead magnesium niobate, to explain the dependence of the size of the ordered regions on the degree of doping as observed by other workers.
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    Breakdown mechanism in buried silicon oxide films (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 4113-4120 
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    Notes: Charge injection leading to catastrophic breakdown has been used to study the dielectric properties of the buried oxide layer in silicon implanted with high-energy oxygen ions. Current versus gate bias, current versus time, and capacitance versus gate bias were used to characterize, at various temperatures, MOS metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors with areas in the 1×10−4–1×10−2 cm2 range fabricated with commercially available single- or triple-implant separation by implanted oxygen silicon wafers. The data show that injected charge accumulates in the buried oxide at donorlike oxide traps ultimately leading to catastrophic breakdown. Both Poole–Frenkel and Fowler–Nordheim conduction, as well as impact-ionization mechanisms, have been identified in the oxide. The charge and field to breakdown in the best buried oxides are, respectively, near 1 C cm−2 and 10 MV cm−1, similar to the thermally grown oxide parameters. Cumulative distributions of these parameters measured over a large number of capacitors show that the frequency of breakdown events caused by extrinsic defects is scaled with the capacitor area. Intrinsic and extrinsic defect distributions are broader than with thermally grown oxides.
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    Optical and electrical properties of layer semiconductor p-GaSe doped with Zn (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 4125-4129 
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    Notes: Zinc (Zn) is doped into GaSe single crystals grown by the Bridgman technique in a wide range from 0.005 to 0.5 at. % to the stoichiometric melt. Radiative recombination mechanisms have been investigated by using photoluminescence (PL) measurements. The PL spectra in Zn-doped samples at 77 K are dominated by three emission bands at 1.75, 1.63, and 1.27 eV. The 1.63 and 1.27 eV emission bands are enhanced with the increase in the amount of Zn. In addition to the results of Hall effect measurements, it is found that the 1.63 and 1.27 eV emission bands are associated with the acceptor levels at 0.12 and 0.3 eV above the valence band, respectively. For the 1.27 eV emission band, the temperature dependences of the PL intensity, peak energy, and half-width are characterized by the configurational coordinate model.
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    Degradation of oxides in metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors under high-field stress (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 4598-4607 
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    Notes: High-field effects in metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors have been studied in detail. A comprehensive set of experiments, stressing identically fabricated capacitors on both P-type and N-type silicon, both in accumulation and in inversion, has been made to study defect generation in the oxide at high fields. There is clear experimental evidence that both bulk hole and electron traps are generated under all stress conditions. High-field prebreakdown properties depend mainly upon the dynamics of generation of traps, trapping and detrapping at these and in previously existing traps. It has been found that of several processes, some dominate, depending upon the type of silicon and polarity during stressing, and this is also true for the final breakdown mechanism. In this paper the dominant mechanisms are identified for each of the field stress conditions that have been studied.
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    Pressure tuning of strain in CdTe/InSb epilayer: A photoluminescence and photomodulated reflectivity study (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 4136-4144 
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    Notes: The heavy-hole and light-hole excitons of a CdTe epilayer, pseudomorphically grown on an InSb epilayer by molecular beam epitaxy, are studied with a diamond anvil cell as a function of applied hydrostatic pressure via photoluminescence (PL) and photomodulated reflectivity (PR) spectroscopies. They are compared with the excitonic features in the simultaneously measured PL spectra of a sample of bulk CdTe. Under applied pressure, the lattice mismatch-induced splitting between the light-hole and heavy-hole related transitions increases in a continuous and reversible manner because of the additional pressure-induced compression due to the difference in the compressibilities of CdTe and InSb. The unusually large strain sustained by the CdTe epilayer under pressure is discussed in the light of various models. The PR signal vanishes after the InSb epilayer goes through a structural phase transition at approximately 20 kbar, while the PL signal persists until it is irreversibly quenched by the CdTe epilayer undergoing a structural phase transition at approximately 30 kbar. For pressures between 20 and 30 kbar, the behavior of the CdTe epilayer is similar to that of the bulk sample; the strain appears to have been relaxed due to the structural phase transition which has taken place in InSb. Values of the first- and second-order pressure coefficients for bulk CdTe and for the CdTe epilayer as well as values of the hydrostatic and shear deformation potentials are obtained at 14 and 80 K and compared with previously quoted values.
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    Observation by electroabsorption of strain-enhanced interface roughening in GaxIn1−xAs/Ga0.22In0.78As0.48P0.52 quantum wells prepared by gas-source molecular beam epitaxy (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 4149-4152 
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    Notes: This article discusses a low-temperature photoluminescence (PL) and electroabsorption (EA) study of GaxIn1−xAs/Ga0.22In0.78As0.48P0.52 single quantum well (QW) samples prepared by gas-source molecular beam epitaxy. The linewidth of PL emitted from these single QW samples increases monotonically with increasing QW strain. EA measurements on the same samples reveal a multipeaked response on the high energy side of the PL spectrum. The energy separation of the EA features corresponds to that expected for differences in QW thickness of one monolayer. The observed PL broadening results from PL emanating from different regions of the same well, differing in thickness, while the Stokes shift results from migration of excitons to wider well regions. Spectral features are lost at large strain which is attributed to strain-enhanced roughening of the QW surface during the crystal deposition.
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    An optical method for evaluation of the net acceptor concentration in p-type ZnSe (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 4153-4157 
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    Notes: We report photoluminescence (PL) results obtained on p-type ZnSe epilayers grown by molecular beam epitaxy. As an acceptor dopant, we used an active nitrogen beam produced by a free radical nitrogen source. On the basis of a detailed analysis of PL data we propose a simple semiquantitative method for a quick and contactless evaluation of the net acceptor concentration in p-type ZnSe. In particular, we show that the intensity ratio of the donor–acceptor pair (DAP) emission to the acceptor-bound exciton (I1) emission strongly depends on both the excitation power and the quality of the sample, and because of that it cannot by itself be regarded as a good measure of the net acceptor concentration. On the other hand, the intensity of the DAP emission under saturation excitation shows a simple direct proportionality to the net acceptor concentration, thus providing a reliable tool for determining the relative doping level in p-type ZnSe films.
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    Thermo-optic effects of 4-alkoxy-3-chlorobenzoic acids in polymeric matrices (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 4158-4162 
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    Notes: Polymer films containing 4-alkoxy-3-chlorobenzoic acid heated to 140 °C showed two optically different states at room temperature depending on the cooling rate. If after heating the film cooled rapidly, it froze in the transparent state. In contrast, it reverted to the light scattering state when cooled slowly. Cycles between the two optical states were reproducible, therefore these films may offer potential as a rewritable recording material. The reversibility in the optical transmittance may be caused by a reversible change in the crystal size of the acid in the polymer matrix.
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    Kinetics of pulsed ultraviolet laser induced oxidation of c-Ge: The role of optical coupling and material losses (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 963-968 
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    Notes: Ultraviolet pulsed laser induced oxidation kinetics of crystalline germanium (c-Ge) is determined from real-time optical measurements in conjunction with absolute measurements of the oxygen incorporation performed by nuclear reaction analysis. Although the oxidation process can be triggered at laser fluences initially below the melting threshold of c-Ge, it is strongly activated when surface melting occurs and therefore the fast oxidation process observed is mainly a thermally activated process. Because an optical coupling between the oxide layer and the c-Ge underneath, the growth kinetics is complex and leads to nonconstant rates. The oxygen incorporation reaches a saturation value which depends both on the laser fluence and the oxygen pressure. The results show that the oxygen incorporation is limited by an overlapped laser-induced material removal process rather than by the diffusion length of oxygen species.
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    Melt-spun PrCo5 and related magnet materials: Coercivity enhancement by carbon addition (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 4651-4659 
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    Notes: We have investigated melt-spun Pr-Co alloys with the objective of optimizing their permanent magnet characteristics. Among a variety of elemental additives studied, carbon was found capable of significantly improving the properties, the coercivity in particular. For binary Pr-Co systems optimum values of the remanence, Br=5.7 kG, intrinsic coercivity, Hci=5.8 kOe, and energy product, (BH)max=4.7 MG Oe, were obtained from the Pr16Co84 composition. These values were enhanced to Br=5.8 kG, Hci=16.5 kOe, and (BH)max=7.4 MG Oe for Pr18Co76C6. In both cases the melt-spun ribbons were principally composed of PrCo5. The 16.5 kOe coercivity of the carbon-containing ribbons is the highest ever reported for a PrCo5-based material. Two new rare earth-cobalt phases were tentatively identified during the course of this work: PrCo7 (hexagonal TbCu7 structure) and PrCo2Cx (cubic MgCu2 structure). Survey results for other melt-spun, RCo5-based alloys are also described.
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    Microstructural origin of in-plane magnetic anisotropy in magnetron in-line sputtered CoPtCr thin-film disks (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 4643-4650 
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    Notes: The microstructural origin of magnetic anisotropy in a magnetron in-line sputter-deposited CoPtCr/Cr magnetic thin-film disk was examined by mapping magnetic properties and microstructure. The film coercivity (Hc), remanence-thickness product (Mrδ), and coercivity squareness (S*) were determined as a function of radial (r) and angular (θ) co-ordinates using a transfer curve magnetometer. The observed variations in Hc, Mrδ, and S* across the disk were 85 Oe, 0.15 emu/cm2, and 0.03, respectively. The angular variation in magnetic properties showed a sinusoidal pattern with the maxima corresponding to the regions where the tracks were parallel (θ=270°) to the pallet movement direction. High-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy showed subtle differences in the Co-alloy grain morphology and crystallographic orientation between θ=270° and θ=360° locations. The grains were equiaxed in general except for a small fraction of grains elongated in the direction of pallet movement. Lattice images clearly showed that about 45% of the Co-alloy grains had in-plane c axes and a preferred alignment of the c axes along the texture groove. A greater preference for the c axes to lie along the texture line was observed for the θ=270° location. A coherency stress-based model is proposed to explain the preferred c-axis alignment. While the crystalline anisotropy appears to be the main factor responsible for the magnetic anisotropy, both crystalline and shape anisotropies contribute to the magnetic anisotropy variations.
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    Hydrothermal BaTiO3 films on silicon: Morphological and chemical characterization (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 4664-4672 
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    Notes: Insulating barium titanate films were successfully grown on Ti-deposited silicon substrates using the hydrothermal method. The film thickness was 35 and 49 nm for films treated at 200 and 250 °C, respectively, in a 0.25 M Ba(OH)2 solution for 8 h. The BaTiO3 films did not reach the Ti/Si interface. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy revealed OH-free and nearly carbon-free films, which was corroborated using Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) depth analysis. AES revealed that the oxygen and barium concentrations are correlated throughout the film, and the existence of a diffuse BaTiO3/Ti interface. A discussion on the film growth mechanism is made using existing information on the subject.
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    Giant magnetoresistance in Co/Cu superlattices with mixed interfaces (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 4660-4663 
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    Notes: Magnetoresistance, antiferromagnetic coupling, and crystallographic orientation of Co/Cu superlattices with intentionally mixed interfaces have been studied as a function of the thickness of the mixed region. The antiferromagnetic coupling is weakened, and spin-independent scattering of free electrons is enhanced with increasing thickness of the mixed region, although the morphology and the superlattice period remain unchanged. Saturation magnetoresistance is reduced from 27% to 4% as the result of the formation of a 0.15 nm mixed region at the interfaces. Moreover, the crystallographic orientation of Co/Cu superlattices is also found to be varied by formation of the mixed region. Giant magnetoresistance, antiferromagnetic coupling, and the crystallinity of Co/Cu superlattices are governed by the events in the thin region at the interfaces less than 1 monolayer.
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    Effects of aluminum doping upon color formation in zinc oxide powders (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 4685-4690 
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    Notes: The effects on the reflectance spectra of zinc oxide powders, of heat treatment, and of mechanical grinding were investigated for both undoped and aluminum-doped ZnO. A broad absorptance band at 390–400 nm was induced in the undoped powders both by heating in air and by grinding. From a comparison with electron paramagnetic resonance data from the literature, the band could be related to oxygen vacancies. It was found that aluminum doping suppresses the band formation induced by grinding; however, the doping does not suppress the band formation induced by heat treatment.
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    On the microstructural, optical, and thermal properties of hydrogenated amorphous carbon films prepared by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 4673-4680 
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    Notes: Hydrogenated amorphous carbon films were prepared from CH4, H2, and Ar mixtures by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. Films with various physical properties resulting from various deposition conditions were utilized for this study. The varying deposition parameters included H2 flow rates, Ar flow rates, total pressures, substrate temperatures, and power densities. A systematic study regarding the relationship between deposition conditions and the microstructures, optical, and thermal properties was conducted. Furthermore, how the optical and thermal properties related to the microstructures was analyzed. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy was employed in this paper for determining the hydrogen concentration and the amounts of tetrahedral and trigonal bondings associated with C—H bond and their relative ratio while the optical properties were measured by optical spectrophotometer. Additionally, photothermal deflection spectroscopy was applied for the measurements of thermal diffusion length.
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    Magnitude of the piezoelectric field in (111)B InyGa1−yAs strained-layer quantum wells (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 4681-4684 
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    Notes: The relationship between the magnitude of the piezoelectric field and the degree of lattice constant mismatch is investigated via low-temperature photoluminescence measurements of the quantum-confined Stark effect for a series of (111)B Al0.15Ga0.85As-InyGa1−yAs pseudomorphic quantum well heterostructures. The experimental strain-induced electric field values agree well with theoretical calculations for indium mole fractions in the range 0.037≤y≤0.09. In addition, an anomalous saturation of the photoluminescence transition energy is observed at values of applied voltage greater than that required to nullify the piezoelectric field, despite the indication from separate electroreflectance measurements that the net electric field within the quantum well reverses polarity under similar electrical biasing conditions.
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    Shock wave analysis of laser assisted particle removal (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 7044-7047 
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    Notes: Laser assisted particle removal (LAPR) is an innovative laser cleaning technique which can remove various particles from solid surfaces via laser induced explosive evaporation of a chosen energy transfer medium, e.g., water. An Ar+ ion continuous-wave laser (488 nm) was used to study the CO2 laser pumped explosive evaporation of water adsorbed on a Si substrate. The probe laser beam was parallel to the sample surface at different displacements and interacted with the ejected material upon pulsed CO2 laser irradiation in analogy with the time resolved laser beam deflection experiments on laser induced vaporization of copper by Guo et al. [Opt. Commun. 77, 381 (1990)]. Using CO2 laser energies which are much greater than the LAPR thresholds, we observed the generation and propagation of a shock wave at supersonic speeds followed by a water vapor/aerosol/particle cloud at a much slower speed. From the evolution of the shock wave, the total conversion efficiency of the incident laser beam into the shock wave has been determined using a self-similar approximation.
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    Fabrication of YBa2Cu3Oy-La0.7Ca0.3MnOz-YBa2Cu3Oy coplanar junctions and their anisotropic current-voltage characteristics (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 2681-2685 
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    Notes: Two types of YBa2Cu3Oy-La0.7Ca0.3MnOz-YBa2Cu3Oy (YBCO-LCMO-YBCO) coplanar-type junctions with a 0.2 μm gap were fabricated by electron-beam lithography and Ar-ion-beam milling. One is a junction in which a current flows into the a-b plane (ferromagnetic spin arrangement) of the LCMO and then passes through the channel along the c axis (antiferromagnetic arrangement), and the other is a junction in which the current only passes through the a-b plane. In the former junction the current-voltage characteristics show nonlinearity which suggests a superconductive linkage, while the latter has linear characteristics. This anisotropy of the proximity effect is attributed to anisotropy of the spin structure, because the LCMO film has a small anisotropy of the normal decay length in the a-b plane and along the c axis.
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    Anomalous giant magnetostriction of amorphous (SmFe2) (1−x) at. % B (x) at. % alloy in a low magnetic field (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 2701-2704 
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    Notes: RFe2 laves phase intermetallic compounds are promising materials for magnetostrictive applications. To obtain a larger magnetostriction in a low magnetic field, the influence of boron addition on the giant magnetostriction of an amorphous (SmFe2) (1−x) at. % B (x) at. % alloy has been examined. In the amorphous alloy, the saturation magnetostriction anomalously increases, while the saturation magnetization decreases with the increase in x. The highest saturation magnetostriction of −670×10−6 at 10 kOe and its effective magnetostriction of −490×10−6 at 0.3 kOe can be obtained for amorphous (SmFe2) 99.26 at. % B 0.74 at. % alloy. This effective giant magnetostriction obtained in a low magnetic field is larger than those reported in previous researches. I attribute this anomalous giant magnetostriction in a low magnetic field to the increment of elastic energy in the amorphous (SmFe2) (1−x) at. % B (x) at. % alloy.
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    Observation of charge behavior in multiply low-density polyethylene (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 2725-2730 
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    Notes: Effects of interfaces such as metal/polymer interfaces and polymer/polymer interfaces on the space-charge distribution in multiply low-density polyethylene have been investigated using a pulsed electroacoustic method. It has been found that the heterocharge was dominant in an artificial interface existing in a polyethylene sample. The time dependence of the heterocharge distribution in the interface on applied voltages and polarity was studied. From these charge distributions, the modified electrical field was calculated based on Poisson's equation. The calculated result indicated that the actual field was stronger than the applied uniform field at the artificial interface. A new data display method for a three- or two-dimensional plot is employed to display all measurement data on one plot in which the space charge becomes visible so that the results can be easily and conveniently understood.
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    Method for thermal diffusivity measurements based on photothermal deflection (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 7078-7084 
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    Notes: The thermal diffusivity measurement through pulsed photodeflection in a modified collinear configuration is presented and discussed; comparison between theory and experiment is also shown.
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    Expansion and electron emission characteristics of a hollow-cathode plasma contactor (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 7094-7100 
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    Notes: A theory is presented to explain the observed electron emission characteristics of a hollow-cathode-based plasma source. The theory is compared with measurements made in a laboratory vacuum facility and is used to predict emission characteristics when the source plasma expands into an ambient space plasma. Crucial to understanding the observed emission current-voltage characteristic of hollow-cathode-type devices is the recognition of the role of emission current, not just the current in the main discharge circuit, in ionization of the neutral gas flowing through the device. This ionization can lead to breakdown of the sort that is familiar in many gas discharge devices. Equally crucial to understanding the low impedance capability of the device in coupling spacecraft to an ambient space plasma is recognition of the role of escaping as well as trapped source electrons in the formation of the space potential profile. The presence of these electrons, according to the theory, results in space electron emission current-voltage characteristics which are well approximated by those observed in laboratory chambers.
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    Neutral and ion emissions accompanying pulsed excimer laser irradiation of polytetrafluoroethylene (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 4729-4736 
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    Notes: The neutral and charged species emitted by pulsed-laser irradiation of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) at 248 nm in vacuum have been examined. In particular, the species and properties of the emission products produced at typical fluence regimes used in the pulsed-laser deposition of PTFE thin films have been characterized. The relative intensities of the major products as well as their dependence on laser fluence are presented, and a simple model is used to fit the observed fluence dependence. Evidence that the major neutral component, the monomer (C2F4), is formed from a thermally activated unzipping reaction is presented. The ionic species are derived from the neutral decomposition products, apparently ionized by electron collisions in the weak plasma generated at the target surface.
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    Impurity doping in InP layer grown by metalorganic vapor-phase epitaxy using tertiarybutylphosphine and organic doping sources (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 4737-4740 
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    Notes: Impurity doping in InP layer grown by metalorganic vapor-phase epitaxy using tertiarybutylphosphine and organic doping sources is presented. Diethylzinc and diethylselenide were used as the p-type and n-type doping sources, respectively. Electrical properties and surface morphology of the impurity-doped layers together with their growth condition dependence were investigated. Good controllability and reproducibility of the doping level were confirmed. The maximum doping levels of 1.8×1018 and 1×1019 cm−3 were successfully attained for p-InP and n-InP, respectively. These results promise further safe metalorganic vapor-phase epitaxy by using organic compounds for all precursors.
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    The barrier to misfit dislocation glide in continuous, strained, epitaxial layers on patterned substrates (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 3103-3110 
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    Notes: In a previous report [G. P. Watson, D. G. Ast, T. J. Anderson, and Y. Hayakawa, Appl. Phys. Lett. 58, 2517 (1991)] we demonstrated that the motion of misfit dislocations in InGaAs, grown by organometallic vapor phase epitaxy on patterned GaAs substrates, can be impeded even if the strained epitaxial layer is continuous. Trenches etched into GaAs before growth are known to act as a barrier to misfit dislocation propagation [E. A. Fitzgerald, G. P. Watson, R. E. Proano, D. G. Ast, P. D. Kirchner, G. D. Pettit, and J. M. Woodall, J. Appl. Phys. 65, 2220 (1989)] when those trenches create discontinuities in the epitaxial layers; but even shallow trenches, with continuous strained layers following the surface features, can act as barriers. By considering the strain energy required to change the length of the dislocation glide segments that stretch from the interface to the free surface, a simple model is developed that explains the major features of the unique blocking action observed at the trench edges. The trench wall angle is found to be an important parameter in determining whether or not a trench will block dislocation glide. The predicted blocking angles are consistent with observations made on continuous 300 and 600 nm thick In0.04Ga0.96As films on patterned GaAs. Based on the model, a structure is proposed that may be used as a filter to yield misfit dislocations with identical Burgers vectors or dislocations which slip in only one glide plane.
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    Near-surface region characterization by extremely asymmetric Bragg reflection topography (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 3126-3130 
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    Notes: Near-surface regions of Cd1−xMnxTe and Hg1−xCdxTe epilayers (down to tens of angstroms) on (001) GaAs substrates have been characterized by extremely asymmetric Bragg reflection topography (EABRT) with the laboratory x-ray source condition and a Lang camera, using x-ray grazing incidence angles less than the critical angle for total external reflection. The experimental topographs obtained in the present work illustrate the potential of the EABRT technique for nondestructive characterization of near-surface regions of crystals. The resolution of an image in EABRT is discussed in detail.
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    Thermodynamic properties of metastable Ag-Cu alloys (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 3144-3149 
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    Notes: The enthalpies of formation of metastable fcc Ag-Cu solid solutions, produced by ball milling of elemental powders, were determined by differential scanning calorimetry. Experimental thermodynamic data for these metastable alloys and for the equilibrium phases are compared with both calculation of phase diagrams (CALPHAD) and atomistic simulation predictions. The atomistic simulations were performed using the free-energy minimization method (FEMM). The FEMM determination of the equilibrium Ag-Cu phase diagram and the enthalpy of formation and lattice parameters of the metastable solid solutions are in good agreement with the experimental measurements. CALPHAD calculations made in the same metastable regime, however, significantly overestimate the enthalpy of formation. Thus, the FEMM is a viable alternative approach for the calculation of thermodynamic properties of equilibrium and metastable phases, provided reliable interatomic potentials are available. The FEMM is also capable of determining such properties as the lattice parameter which are not available from CALPHAD calculations.
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    Diffusion of dopants in B- and Sb-delta-doped Si films grown by solid-phase epitaxy (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 3150-3155 
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    Notes: The diffusion of δ-function-shaped B- and Sb-dopant spikes in thin Si films grown by solid-phase-epitaxy [(SPE), growth of amorphous film by molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) at room temperature and subsequent regrowth in situ] during annealing in vacuum is compared to diffusion in films grown by low-temperature (LT) MBE. Diffusion temperatures from 750 to 900 °C, and two-dimensional concentrations of 0.7–1.6×1014 cm−2 have been investigated. The diffusive behavior of dopants in SPE films is found to be qualitatively different from that in films grown by LTMBE. This is related to the vacancylike defects that are intrinsic to growth by SPE but not to growth by LTMBE. Dopant profiles widen significantly during SPE regrowth, making the achievement of δ-function dopant spikes impossible. After a vacuum anneal the diffusion coefficients for both n- and p-type dopants are lower in SPE films than the corresponding values in films grown by LTMBE by up to one order of magnitude. The diffused depth profile of the dopant in LTMBE films shows the characteristic deviation from a pure Gaussian that is expected due to the concentration dependence of diffusion, i.e., a flat top and steep shoulders. In contrast, dopant depth profiles of SPE-grown material show after diffusion a central spike and relatively flat shoulders. The width of the central spike is, after an initial transient that it was not possible to resolve, independent of diffusion time and temperature. This indicates that the SPE material is defective, with the defects acting as traps during diffusion.
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    GaAs free-standing quantum-size wires (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 3162-3171 
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    Notes: Ultrathin GaAs wires as thin as 15–40 nm and about 2 μm long have been grown on a GaAs substrate by metal-organic vapor-phase epitaxy. The wires, which consist of whiskers, are grown between 380 and 550 °C using trimethylgallium and arsine (AsH3) as source materials. It is found that the wire growth direction is parallel to the [111] arsenic dangling-bond direction and can be perfectly controlled by the crystallographic orientation of the GaAs substrate surface. From transmission electron microscopic analysis it is revealed that the crystal structure of the wire coincides with the zinc-blende type for the growth temperature range of 460–500 °C, but it changes to the wurtzite type at 420 °C and temperatures higher than 500 °C. It is also found that the wires have a twin-type structure around the [111] growth axis for zinc blende and [0001] growth axis for wurtzite. Photoluminescence study of these wires shows that the luminescence peak energy shifts to a higher energy as the wire width decreases from 100 to about 35 nm. In terms of luminescence polarization it is confirmed that the luminescence intensity parallel to the wires is four times greater than that perpendicular to the wires. These results clearly indicate the quantum-size effect of carriers confined in the wire. As a preliminary application to devices, a p-n junction has been formed along the GaAs wire. Light emission by current injection to the p-n junction wires has been observed in continuous operation at room temperature.
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    X-ray diffraction measurement of partially correlated interfacial roughness in multilayers (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 3181-3188 
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    Notes: The existence of partially correlated roughness in multilayer thin films is demonstrated using x-ray diffraction diffuse-intensity distribution measurements. The method is generally applicable and produces, in addition to values of magnitudes of interfacial roughness and its lateral correlation length, a measure of the cross correlation between interfaces separated by intermediate ones. A simple phenomenological model can describe roughness in W/C multilayers prepared under standard conditions. A cumulative roughness function is used to show that the wavelength range in which the interfacial roughness predominates in these layers lies between 50 A(ring) and 2000 A(ring) and that the long-wavelength roughness replicates better than the short-wavelength roughness.
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    Interactions of YBa2Cu3O7−x thin films with alkaline earth fluoride substrates (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 3194-3203 
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    Notes: Film-substrate interactions of YBa2Cu3O7−x (YBCO) thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition on alkaline earth fluoride substrates were investigated. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy, and x-ray-diffraction measurements showed that the quality of the film and amount of chemical reaction between film and substrate were dependent on the substrate material and deposition temperature. The reaction of YBCO films with CaF2 and MgF2 substrates forms BaF2 and calcium or magnesium oxide species. The reacted film is insulating and has a microscopically rough surface. No reaction was detected in films deposited on BaF2 and SrF2. Physical and thermodynamic properties which may explain the observed order of reactivity are examined.
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    Effect of coherent electromagnetic radiation on the ultrafast electron dynamics of laser excited bulk photoconductors (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 3215-3218 
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    Notes: We analyze the role of coherent terahertz radiation on the ultrafast electron dynamics of laser excited photoconductors. Generation of electromagnetic radiation is included within the framework of the usual hot carrier transport theory. A Monte Carlo scheme is used to study the resulting changes in the nonequilibrium electronic energy and transient drift velocity. Our results reveal a density dependent decrease in both quantities, due to reductions in the internal electric fields caused by radiative energy outflow. At densities above 2×1017 cm−3, we obtain a decrease in the transient velocity and expect delays in the onset of phonon emission.
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    Monte Carlo study of hole transport in silicon (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 3219-3223 
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    Notes: The steady state and transient drift velocity of holes in silicon have been investigated using Monte Carlo techniques. The valence band is modeled by warped nonparabolic heavy and light hole bands, and a spherical spin-orbit band. The nonparabolicity of the heavy and light hole bands is included using piecewise continuous functions. The calculated velocities are in better agreement with experimental steady state drift velocity values compared to previous Monte Carlo calculations using only a heavy hole band. Transient calculations show the magnitude of the velocity overshoot for holes is smaller than electrons in silicon but is significantly higher than the steady state drift velocity when high fields are applied.
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    Electric conduction of single crystal and glass of Li2B4O7 (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 7264-7268 
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    Notes: The dc and ac conductivity of single crystal and glass of Li2B4O7 have been measured at various temperatures. It has been shown that these materials are mixed conductors in which electronic and ionic conduction coexist. In the single crystals, both the electronic conduction and ionic conduction along the c axis are much smaller than that perpendicular to the c axis. The anisotropy in the electronic conduction is considered to be due to the conduction by the π electron of the BO3 layer located on the (001) crystallographic plane. The anisotropy in the ionic conduction is also considered to be due to the diffusion of Li ions and/or protons between the BO3 layers. The thermal activation energies of the electronic conduction were 0.65 eV for glass, 1.61 eV for the crystal parallel to the c axis, and 0.78 eV for the crystal perpendicular to the c axis. The activation energy of the ionic conduction was 0.46 eV for the crystal perpendicular to the c axis.
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    Optical probing of intermixing in GaAs-AlGaAs multiquantum wells (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 2968-2970 
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    Notes: It is shown that a combination of low-temperature photoluminescence and luminescence excitation spectroscopies together with appropriate modelization can provide the precise information needed for a thorough control of interdiffusion in quantum well structures. A fit of observed and calculated transition energies up to five energy levels, using the interdiffusion length as a unique parameter, is considered. The potentiality of this procedure to fully characterize the interdiffusion process is illustrated by considering the examples of lightly and heavily intermixed GaAs-AlGaAs multiquantum wells.
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    Strong blue light emission from an oxygen-containing Si fine structure (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 2977-2979 
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    Notes: A photoluminescence study has been made on an oxygen-containing Si fine structure fabricated by a gas evaporation technique. Transmission electron micrographs have shown that the fine structure is composed of nonspherical particles aggregated together in chain-like or cluster-like structures. The luminescence from the samples after oxidation treatment is bright blue as viewed with the naked eye, the spectra having a peak at about 470 nm or shorter wavelength. A peculiar temperature dependence of the emission peak indicates that the emission is strongly correlated with some structural change in the fine structure.
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    YBa2Cu3O7−δ thin films and microstrip resonators on MgLaAl11O19 substrates (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 2983-2985 
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    Notes: Superconducting YBa2Cu3O7−δ thin films with Tc=89.5 K were deposited on MgLaAl11O19 (11¯0) substrates by pulsed laser deposition. X-ray diffraction patterns indicate that the YBa2Cu3O7−δ films were epitaxial films, with the c axis perpendicular to the substrate surfaces. Microstrip resonators of YBa2Cu3O7−δ thin films deposited on MgLaAl11O19 substrates were fabricated. The loaded quality factor of the resonator was 1007 at 77 K and 4.28 GHz. As a new substrate for high Tc oxide superconducting films, MgLaAl11O19 substrates are especially suitable for superconducting-microwave applications.
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    Distribution of barrier traversal times in numerical simulations (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 1469-1472 
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    Notes: Barrier penetration is attributed to energy fluctuations expected from the uncertainty principle. Numerical simulations are made by calculating the traversal time and action for a large number of possible velocity profiles. Distributions of traversal time are determined by assuming that the probability of each velocity profile decreases exponentially with the action of the fluctuation it requires. Distributions of traversal times are reported for rectangular barriers having different sizes. For large barriers the distributions are leptokurtic and centered at the semiclassical traversal time T0 = d(square root of)m/[2(V0−E)], where d and V0 are the length and height of the barrier and m and E are the mass and energy of the particle. The kurtosis decreases and the mode shifts to shorter durations with decreasing barrier size.
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    Giant photovoltage of semiconductor heterostructures (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 7306-7310 
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    Notes: We have found that a nonquantizing weakly p-doped InP/Ga0.47In0.53As/InP heterostructure exhibits a photovoltage as high as 2 V at 120 K for moderate light excitation power densities of a few mW/cm2. The back electrical contact is ohmic and the front rectifying contact is established through a thin silver layer. We have monitored as a function of reverse bias applied to the structure the internal photoemission current and also the external photoemission current, due to electrons emitted into vacuum after lowering the surface work function by cesium and oxygen adsorption. Both of these dependences exhibit strong effects of the excitation power density. The dependence of the photovoltage as a function of external bias is obtained using photoreflectance. As shown by a simple model, this gigantic photovoltage arises from accumulation of photoexcited carriers in the Ga0.47In0.53As layer because of the existence of energy barriers with the neighboring InP layers. The different electron and hole transfer probabilities across these barriers result in a strong change of the potential of the Ga0.47In0.53As layer under light excitation.
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    Doping of GaAs using SF6 plasma treatment (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 7315-7320 
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    Notes: We propose a new method of making heavily doped n-type GaAs to a very shallow depth using sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) plasma treatment of the GaAs surface. Semi-insulating GaAs substrate implanted with Si was exposed to a sulfur containing SF6 plasma and capped with silicon nitride anneal cap. During a subsequent anneal step at an elevated temperature to electrically activate the implanted Si, the sulfur diffused into GaAs to a shallow depth of ∼600 A(ring) resulting in further enhancement of net carrier concentration. With this technique the carrier concentration near the surface region was almost doubled compared to samples with Si implantation only. The enhanced carrier concentration improved the wafer-scale variation of ohmic contact resistance using AuGeNi contact metals from 0.089±0.073 to 0.049±0.017 Ω mm. The surface chemistry of SF6 plasma treated GaAs surface was characterized by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and Auger electron spectroscopy, and the results were compared with the carrier-concentration profiles and ohmic contact resistance.
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    Electron coincidence spectroscopy studies of secondary and Auger electron generation mechanisms (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 7329-7339 
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    Notes: Electron coincidence spectroscopy in an ultrahigh vacuum scanning transmission electron microscope has been used to study the generation pathways for secondary (SE) and Auger electrons (AE) excited by high-energy incident electrons. Energy and momentum transfer of inelastically scattered 100 keV primary electrons have been correlated with energy selected SE and AE for both thin 〈111〉 oriented Si crystals and amorphous C films. Coincidence spectra from the valence excitation region indicate that bulk plasmon decay is not the primary production channel for SE in Si(111) and that SE result partially from the decay of ionizations from deep in the valence band. Energy deposition by the primary beam is responsible for SE production at excitation energies above the valence region. At most one SE is emitted from the entrance surface of a thin film for each inelastically scattered 100 keV primary electron. An enhancement in both the SE yield and generation probability is observed at the C K ionization edge. Correlations between energy loss electrons in the vicinity of the C K ionization edge and energy selected SE near the C KLL AE energy show a very sharp threshold in the generation probability. High-momentum transfer (spatially localized) inelastic scattering events are more efficient at creating SE than low-momentum transfer events. The high-spatial resolution obtained in SE images is explained using the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and the scattering angle dependence of the SE generation probability.
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    Plasma edge and its application to infrared measurement and detection (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 3061-3064 
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    Notes: A steep plasma edge in infrared reflectivity spectra of Hg1−xCdxTe and HgSe:Fe has been observed. It is predicted that the edge is sensitive to the variation of carrier concentration, which indicates the possibility of developing a fast light-controlled switch for infrared radiation as well as a new approach of infrared modulation and detection. The modulation gain in power and detectivity limited by the generation-recombination process has been calculated and compared with the photoconductive counterpart.
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    Mathematical modeling of a free-burning arc in the presence of metal vapor (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 3065-3070 
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    Notes: The transfer of energy between the plasma and the iron anode and the evaporation of metal were taken into account in modeling a short free-burning arc in argon at atmospheric pressure. The presence of metal vapor in the plasma modifies the electrical conductivity and the radiated power and leads to arc cooling in the anode region. In return, the arc cooling modifies the rate of vaporization of the anode and thus the calculated concentration of iron vapor in the arc.
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    The defect structure of congruently melting lithium niobate (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 3080-3083 
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    Notes: Six samples of congruently melting lithium niobate (∼Li0.95Nb1.01O3) have been examined by powder x-ray diffraction for the occurrence of niobium antisite defects (niobium on lithium sites). Contrary to current thinking, we have found no evidence for the occurrence of high concentrations of such defects, which also require the presence of Nb site vacancies. Rather, it was found that the number of antisite defects is close to the minimum that is required to sustain charge neutrality in a model of the type ([Li1−xNbx/5][Nb]O3), where the Nb site is fully occupied.
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    Influence of irradiation conditions on plasma evolution in laser-surface interaction (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 3071-3079 
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    Notes: The plasma plume induced by pulsed CO2 laser irradiation of a Ti target at power densities up to 4×108 W cm−2 was studied by emission spectroscopy. Time- and space-resolved measurements were performed by varying laser intensity, laser temporal pulse shape, ambient gas pressure, and the nature of the ambient gas. Experimental results are discussed by comparison with usual models. We show that shock wave and plasma propagation depend critically on the ratio Ivap/Ii, Ivap being the intensity threshold for surface vaporization and Ii the plasma ignition threshold of the ambient gas. Spectroscopic diagnostics of the helium breakdown plasma show maximum values of electron temperature and electron density in the order of kTe∼10 eV and ne=1018 cm−3, respectively. The plasma cannot be described by local thermodynamic equilibrium modeling. Nevertheless, excited metal atoms appear to be in equilibrium with electrons, hence, they can be used like a probe to measure the electron temperature. In order to get information on the role of the plasma in the laser-surface interaction, Ti surfaces were investigated by microscopy after irradiation. Thus an enhanced momentum transfer from the plasma to the target due to the recoil pressure of the breakdown plasma could be evidenced.
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    Crystallization of arsenic-doped hydrogenated amorphous silicon deposited on gallium arsenide (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 3084-3090 
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    Notes: Crystallization temperatures of a-Si:H films deposited on GaAs substrates by a glow-discharge method increased with an increase in the concentration of As doped into the a-Si:H films. Crystallization of a-Si:H films with an As concentration of 2×1020 cm−3 started at a temperature of about 1050 °C. These a-Si:H films also had a large amounts of H and SiH3.
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    Observation of ion-implantation-damage-created n-type conductivity in InP after high-temperature annealing (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 3091-3098 
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    Notes: The conductivity and the impurity profiles of InP implanted with dopant ions (Si,Be) or non dopant ions (B,H,N,O,P) have been investigated. Experiments have been done in substrates with and without Fe doping. Low-temperature, short-time annealing of implanted Si and Be reveals an n-type distribution of carriers which cannot be accounted for on the basis of implant activation. In order to examine the contribution without the carriers originating from the dopant ions, the behavior of electrically inactive B, H, N, O, and P, implants was investigated. Implantation of these ions into semi-insulating InP introduced n-type doping in the 1×1016 cm3 range after an anneal above 450 °C. For H, O, N, and P ions, the n-type conductivity could be eliminated by annealing at higher temperatures. However, boron anneals up to 750 °C did not eliminate the n-type conductivity. The n-type carrier profiles tracked the ion profiles. The carrier profile is influenced by the redistribution of the Fe during annealing; however, the Fe motion cannot explain the n-type conductivity. This conductivity may be due to a complex formed above 450 °C.
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    Proton implantation intermixing of GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 3099-3102 
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    Notes: We have investigated proton implantation enhanced intermixing of GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells for H+ doses ranging from 5×1013 to 1×1016 ions/cm2. Implantation of 20 keV H+ followed by a high temperature rapid thermal anneal leads to enhanced diffusion of Al into the GaAs quantum well. Shifts of electron–heavy hole recombination energies due to compositional changes were observed using room temperature cathodoluminescence. Diffusion lengths of longer than 2 nm were calculated from energy shifts in a 5 nm well and were found to vary with both implanted dose and anneal time, as expected if the enhanced interdiffusion is caused by implantation introduced defects.
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    Effect of rubbing on the molecular orientation within polyimide orienting layers of liquid-crystal displays (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 3111-3120 
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    Notes: The influence of various rubbing parameters on the molecular reorientation of thin polyimide orienting layers, used to align liquid-crystal (LC) molecules within liquid-crystal displays, has been studied. For this purpose the optical phase retardation in the polymer layer, explicitly induced during the rubbing treatment, was determined. The observed rubbing-induced phase retardation can directly be related to a molecular orientation within the polymer orienting layer, as could be shown by infrared dichroism studies. Furthermore, it is found that the top of the polymer layer, directly contacting the rubbing cloth during the actual rubbing process, is almost instantaneously oriented to a certain maximum value as soon as the rubbing is started. Additional or stronger rubbing has no detectable influence on the orientation within the top layer. Increasing the rubbing density or the rubbing pressure only results in an increase of the penetration depth of the rubbing process, i.e., molecular reorientation occurs deeper within the layer. Experiments show that the penetration depth can be varied from less than 10 nm to more than 60 nm by variation in rubbing conditions. These findings are supported by surface second-harmonic-generation studies of LC monolayers deposited onto rubbed orienting layers and by infrared dichroism studies.
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    Determining the lattice relaxation in semiconductor layer systems by x-ray diffraction (1993)
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    Journal of Applied Physics 74 (1993), S. 3121-3125 
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    Notes: This paper illustrates the procedure for extracting structural information available from x-ray diffraction space mapping and topography. The methods of measuring, the residual strain, macroscopic tilts, microscopic tilts and their lateral dimensions, and the strain field disruption emanating from the interfacial defects are presented. Partially relaxed thick InGaAs layers on GaAs substrates were studied and it was concluded that the relaxation and macroscopic tilting were anisotropic, the microscopic tilting reduced with thickness, and the interfacial disruption did not continue to increase with increasing relaxation. A "mosaic grain growth'' model is postulated to account for the diminishing microscopic tilt spread and increasing topographic contrast with layer thickness.
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