Dopants aluminum

For the production of lamp-filament wire, aluminum, potassium, and siHcon dopants are added to the blue oxide. Some dopants are trapped in the tungsten particles upon reduction. Excess dopants are then removed by washing the powder in hydroflouric acid. Eor welding electrodes and some other appHcations, thorium nitrate is added to the blue oxide. After reduction, the thorium is present as a finely dispersed thorium oxide. 

The term solid-state laser refers to lasers that use solids as their active medium. However, two kinds of materials are required a host crystal and an impurity dopant. The dopant is selected for its ability to form a population inversion. The Nd YAG laser, for example, uses a small number of neodymium ions as a dopant in the solid YAG (yttrium-aluminum-gar-net) crystal. Solid-state lasers are pumped with an outside source such as a flash lamp, arc lamp, or another laser. This energy is then absorbed by the dopant, raising the atoms to an excited state. Solid-state lasers are sought after because the active medium is relatively easy to handle and store. Also, because the wavelength they produce is within the transmission range of glass, they can be used with fiber optics. 

The theoretical hmit of 5.4% (NaAlH4+2 mol% TiN) for the two subsequent decomposition reactions is in both cases only observed in the first cycle. The reason for the decrease in capacity is stiU unknown and litde is known about the mechanism of alanate activation via titanium dopants in the sohd state. Certainly, the ease of titanium hydride formation and decomposition plays a key role in this process, but whether titanium substitution in the alanate or the formation of a titanium aluminum alloys, i.e., finely dispersed titanium species in the decomposition products is crucial, is stiU under debate [41]. 

No material is completely pure, and some foreign atoms will invariably be present. If these are undesirable or accidental, they are termed impurities, but if they have been added deliberately, to change the properties of the material on purpose, they are called dopant atoms. Impurities can form point defects when present in low concentrations, the simplest of which are analogs of vacancies and interstitials. For example, an impurity atom A in a crystal of a metal M can occupy atom sites normally occupied by the parent atoms, to form substitutional point defects, written AM, or can occupy interstitial sites, to form interstitial point defects, written Aj (Fig. 1.4). The doping of aluminum into silicon creates substitutional point defects as the aluminum atoms occupy sites normally filled by silicon atoms. In compounds, the impurities can affect one or all sublattices. For instance, natural sodium chloride often contains... 

Solid-state lasers using substitutional neodymium (Nd3+ ions) as the active defects are widely available. Practical lasers contain about 1% Nd3+ dopant. The most common host materials are glass, yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG), Y3A15012, and calcium tungstate, CaW04. In the crystalline host structures, the defects responsible for amplification are NdY and Ndca-... 

J. Wang, A.D. Ebner, R. Zidan, J.A. Ritter, Synergistic effects of co-dopants on the dehydrogenation kinetics of sodium aluminum hydride , J. Alloys Compd. 391 (2005) 245-255. 

The metal has very little commercial use. In elemental form it is a laser source, a portable x-ray source, and as a dopant in garnets. When added to stainless steel, it improves grain refinement, strength, and other properties. Some other applications, particularly in oxides mixed with other rare earths, are as carbon rods for industrial hghting, in titanate insulated capacitors, and as additives to glass. The radioactive isotope ytterbium-169 is used in portable devices to examine defects in thin steel and aluminum. The metal and its compounds are used in fundamental research. 

Figure 4.1 Degree of dopant ionization as a function of concentration for boron and aluminum estimated at room temperature. The calculation is based on ionization data from Table 4.1 and an effective hole mass of 1.24 m..

The spray method was used to produce alumina pigments doped with Cr, Mn, and Co. In these experiments, Al(.vec-OBu)3 was mixed with solutions of the corresponding metal nitrates in. veobutoxide, the resulting liquids were nebulized, and then the droplets were hydrolyzed (76). The major purpose of these studies was to obtain inorganic pigments and to evaluate their color properties by altering the amount of dopants in the aluminum oxide matrix. For the same reason, the vanadium... 

Additive processes ion implantation, 361 metal layer deposition, 361 resist requirement, 361 vapor dopant diffusion, 361 Additives for F scavenging, 415 Advanced very-large-scale integrated-circuit package, 490, 492 Aluminum... 

In this section we discuss another family of high-symmetrical strained clusters in which the icosahedral aluminum "subcluster" AI12 with diameter 5.2 A and with a "dopant" atoms L or isoelectronic ions in the center (L = B-, C, N+, Al-, and Si), is inserted into the dodecahedral cage Al2o03o with diameter 9.5 A (Figure 8). All calculations were performed at the B3LYP/6-31G level [61]. 

The isolated doped aluminum clusters L Ali2 with various dopants L have been systematically calculated earlier [62]. In [35] it was predicted that the dodecahedral isomer AUoCbo (4) is a high-lying intermediate which is, by 1 30-150 kcal/mol, less favorable as compared with the more compact... 

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