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- Aggerstam, Thomas, et al.
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Selectively oxidized vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers for high-speed data communication
- 2001
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Ingår i: Proc. SPIE 4286, SPIE's Optoelectronics 2001, Photonics West, San Jose, US. - Bellingham, WA, ETATS-UNIS : Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. ; , s. 96-
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- MITEL Semiconductor is developing the next generation low cost, high performance transceivers for data communication. The increasing quantity of data being transferred over the Internet demands very high capacity interconnects. A low cost, high-performance alternative is the use of parallel fiber interconnects where the light is, for example, coupled into a 12-channel fiber-ribbon. Parallel interconnects require good uniformity in order to reduce escalating costs and complexity. In this paper we report on the static and the modulation properties of 850nm multimode oxide VCSELs for use in such Gb/s transceiver system. Static power-current-voltage characteristics with good uniformity were obtained for different structures, with threshold currents down to sub-mA. A maximum small signal 3-dB bandwidth of 10 GHz and a modulation current efficiency up to 8.4 GHz/√[mA] were measured. Single channel results are presented for VCSELs operated at data rates from 2.5-10Gb/s.
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- Aidas, Kestutis, et al.
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The Dalton quantum chemistry program system
- 2014
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Ingår i: WIREs Computational Molecular Science. - : Wiley. - 1759-0876 .- 1759-0884. ; 4:3, s. 269-284
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Dalton is a powerful general-purpose program system for the study of molecular electronic structure at the Hartree-Fock, Kohn-Sham, multiconfigurational self-consistent-field, MOller-Plesset, configuration-interaction, and coupled-cluster levels of theory. Apart from the total energy, a wide variety of molecular properties may be calculated using these electronic-structure models. Molecular gradients and Hessians are available for geometry optimizations, molecular dynamics, and vibrational studies, whereas magnetic resonance and optical activity can be studied in a gauge-origin-invariant manner. Frequency-dependent molecular properties can be calculated using linear, quadratic, and cubic response theory. A large number of singlet and triplet perturbation operators are available for the study of one-, two-, and three-photon processes. Environmental effects may be included using various dielectric-medium and quantum-mechanics/molecular-mechanics models. Large molecules may be studied using linear-scaling and massively parallel algorithms. Dalton is distributed at no cost from for a number of UNIX platforms.
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- Bessarab, Pavel F., et al.
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Lifetime of racetrack skyrmions
- 2018
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Ingår i: Scientific Reports. - : Springer. - 2045-2322. ; 8
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The skyrmion racetrack is a promising concept for future information technology. There, binary bits are carried by nanoscale spin swirls-skyrmions-driven along magnetic strips. Stability of the skyrmions is a critical issue for realising this technology. Here we demonstrate that the racetrack skyrmion lifetime can be calculated from first principles as a function of temperature, magnetic field and track width. Our method combines harmonic transition state theory extended to include Goldstone modes, with an atomistic spin Hamiltonian parametrized from density functional theory calculations. We demonstrate that two annihilation mechanisms contribute to the skyrmion stability: At low external magnetic field, escape through the track boundary prevails, but a crossover field exists, above which the collapse in the interior becomes dominant. Considering a Pd/Fe bilayer on an Ir(111) substrate as a well-established model system, the calculated skyrmion lifetime is found to be consistent with reported experimental measurements. Our simulations also show that the Arrhenius pre-exponential factor of escape depends only weakly on the external magnetic field, whereas the pre-exponential factor for collapse is strongly field dependent. Our results open the door for predictive simulations, free from empirical parameters, to aid the design of skyrmion-based information technology.
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- Beyhaghi, Maryam, et al.
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Effect of powder reactivity on fabrication and properties of NiAl/Al2O3 composite coated on cast iron using spark plasma sintering
- 2015
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Ingår i: Applied Surface Science. - : Elsevier BV. - 0169-4332 .- 1873-5584. ; 344, s. 1-8
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Powder mixtures of Ni, NiO and Al are ball milled for 1 and 10 h. X-ray diffractometry and differential thermal analysis show that while ball milling for 1 h produced mechanically activated powder; 10 h ball milling produced NiAl and Al2O3 phases. Dense NiAl/Al2O3 composite coatings are formed on gray cast iron substrate by spark plasma sintering (SPS) technique. The effect of powder reactivity on microstructure, hardness and scratch hardness of NiAl/Al2O3 coatings after SPS is discussed. Results show that in the coating sample made of mechanically activated powder in situ synthesis of NiAl/Al2O3 composite coating is fulfilled and a thicker well-formed diffusion bond layer at the interface between coating and substrate is observed. The diffusion of elements across the bond layers and phase evolution in the bond layers were investigated. No pores or cracks were observed at the interface between coating layer and substrate in any of samples. Higher Vickers hardness and scratch hardness values in coating made of 10 h ball milled powder than in coating fabricated from 1 h ball milled powder are attributed to better dispersion of Al2O3 reinforcement particles in NiAl matrix and nano-crystalline structure of NiAl matrix. Scratched surface of coatings did not reveal any cracking or spallation at coating-substrate interface indicating their good adherence at test conditions.
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- Beyhaghi, Maryam, et al.
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In-situ synthesis and characterization of nano-structured NiAl-Al2O3 composite during high energy ball milling
- 2018
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Ingår i: Powder Technology. - : Elsevier. - 0032-5910 .- 1873-328X. ; 329, s. 95-106
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this work, synthesis of NiAl-Al2O3 nanocomposite powders via the mechanosynthesis route and by using Ni, NiO and Al is investigated. Ignition of the reaction inside the ball-mill vial happens after 110 min; NiO is totally finished and NiAl and Al2O3 as product phases are formed. After 10 h of ball milling, raw materials are totally used in the reaction and only product phases exist in the vial. By continuing the ball milling process to 60 h, better mixing of the synthesized phases and decrement in their crystallite sizes plus partide size are observed. Crystallite sizes of the product phases are in the nanometer range in all ball milling times. Crystallite sizes of NiAl and Al2O3 after 10 h are around 11 nm and 19 nm respectively, and these are reduced to around 8 nm for both phases after 60 h of ball milling.
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- Beyhaghi, Maryam, et al.
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In-situ synthesis of nanostructured NiAl-Al2O3 composite coatings on cast iron substrates by spark plasma sintering of mechanically activated powders
- 2015
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Ingår i: Surface & Coatings Technology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0257-8972 .- 1879-3347. ; 272, s. 254-267
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Bulk pellets and coatings of NiAl-Al2O3 composites on gray cast-iron substrates are fabricated by spark plasma sintering (SPS) at 700 and 1050 degrees C using a highly reactive powder-mixture of "13Al + 8Ni + 3NiO" activated by 1 hour ball milling. The reactions are complete in all cases, except for the coating produced at the lower temperature. At both temperatures, the pellets experienced internal explosions, due to the intense reactivity of the powder, producing inhomogeneous microstructures. At 1050 degrees C, the heat absorption from the substrates resulted in damped reactions producing homogenous, dense, fully reacted NiAl-Al2O3 composite coatings with crystallite sizes of 73 nm and 65 nm, respectively. A bond layer forms by growing into the substrate and diffusion of Fe, Ni, Al and Si is found in the coating, the bond layer and the substrate. In all cases, the adherence of coatings to substrates is good with no signs of pores or cracks. The products are examined by LOM, SEM, EDS, XRD, Vickers hardness indentation and scratch testing. The SPS process is analyzed by FEM-simulations using a homogeneous reaction model where the properties are given by linear combinations of reactants and products. Melting enthalpies of all compounds are taken into consideration when calculating the maximum reaction temperatures for various combustion times and gap conductivities between powder and graphite parts of the SPS apparatus. The maximum reaction temperatures are calculated for pellets and for coatings on cast iron substrates and also for mixtures of activated and already reacted powder. The results are shown as isotherms. Comparison to experiments suggests a reaction time exceeding 1 s and a gap conductivity of less than 10 kW.m(-2).K-1. For ignition at 500 degrees C, the adiabatic temperature is estimated to 2056 degrees C.
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- Beyhaghi, M., et al.
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Influences of mechanical activation and heating rate on reaction processes in combustion synthesis of NiAl-Al 2 O 3 composites
- 2019
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Ingår i: Powder Technology. - : Elsevier. - 0032-5910 .- 1873-328X. ; 346, s. 237-247
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper investigates the combustion synthesis of NiAl-Al 2 O 3 composites by the heating of Ni, NiO and Al powder mixture from 20 °C to 1300 °C. The influence of mechanical activation (without and with 1 h) and heating rate (20 °C/min and 40 °C/min) on thermal events in combustion synthesis process are investigated. Thermal events are assessed by Differential Thermal Analysis (DTA), X-Ray Diffractometry (XRD) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). By heating the sample without mechanical activation, exothermic reaction of NiO reduction by Al and Ni-Al intermetallic phases (Al 3 Ni, Al 3 Ni 2 , AlNi and AlNi 3 ) production happened in the presence of molten Al at 870 °C as one DTA peak. Mechanical activation causes occurrence of these reactions more separately at lower temperatures (590 °C and 630 °C). By decrement in the heating rate, these reactions happened in a more dispersed way at lower temperatures (590 °C and 630 °C). The reaction temperature for nickel aluminides formation in the presence of eutectic melt of AlNi 3 -Al is constant regardless of heating rate in mechanically activated powder. A seven-stage mechanism for reactions in a mechanically activated sample at a heating rate of 40 °C/min is proposed. Initially, by heating of the powder, an exothermic reaction between nickel oxide and aluminum and also nickel and aluminum occurs at 590 °C in solid state. NiO is consumed totally and Al 2 O 3 is produced from the nickel oxide reduction by aluminum. Nickel aluminide phases are formed from reactions between aluminum and primary nickel and also from aluminum and nickel formed by aluminothermic reduction of nickel oxide. With continuation of heating process, Al-Al 3 Ni eutectic transition happens at 630 °C and results in the liquid phase formation. Presence of the molten phase accelerates the exothermic nickel aluminides formation reactions. Aluminum is consumed totally in this stage and more intermetallic phases are developed. By increasing the temperature, diffusion is enhanced. The remaining Al 3 Ni melts at 856 °C. This small amount of molten phase slightly enhances exothermic reactions between nickel aluminides and leads the system towards the equilibrium phase. After this event, reactions progresses gradually. The nickel core shrinks by the diffusion progressively and the whole nickel aluminides system undergoes a gradual evolution towards the NiAl equilibrium phase.
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- Bhalerao, Rupali, et al.
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Gene expression in autumn leaves
- 2003
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Ingår i: Plant Physiology. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0032-0889 .- 1532-2548. ; 131:2, s. 430-442
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Two cDNA libraries were prepared, one from leaves of a field-grown aspen (Populus tremula) tree, harvested just before any visible sign of leaf senescence in the autumn, and one from young but fully expanded leaves of greenhouse-grown aspen (Populus tremula X tremuloides). Expressed sequence tags (ESTs; 5,128 and 4,841, respectively) were obtained from the two libraries. A semiautomatic method of annotation and functional classification of the ESTs, according to a modified Munich Institute of Protein Sequences classification scheme, was developed, utilizing information from three different databases. The patterns of gene expression in the two libraries were strikingly different. In the autumn leaf library, ESTs encoding metallothionein, early light-inducible proteins, and cysteine proteases were most abundant. Clones encoding other proteases and proteins involved in respiration and breakdown of lipids and pigments, as well as stress-related genes, were also well represented. We identified homologs to many known senescence-associated genes, as well as seven different genes encoding cysteine proteases, two encoding aspartic proteases, five encoding metallothioneins, and 35 additional genes that were up-regulated in autumn leaves. We also indirectly estimated the rate of plastid protein synthesis in the autumn leaves to be less that 10% of that in young leaves.
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- Bäcke, Linda, 1977-
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Modeling the Microstructural Evolution during Hot Deformation of Microalloyed Steels
- 2009
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis contains the development of a physically-based model describing the microstructural evolution during hot deformation of microalloyed steels. The work is mainly focused on the recrystallization kinetics. During hot rolling, the repeated deformation and recrystallization provides progressively refined recrystallized grains. Also, recrystallization enables the material to be deformed more easily and knowledge of the recrystallization kinetics is important in order to predict the required roll forces. Hot strip rolling is generally conducted in a reversing roughing mill followed by a continuous finishing mill. During rolling in the roughing mill the temperature is high and complete recrystallization should occur between passes. In the finishing mill the temperature is lower which means slower recrystallization kinetics and partial or no recrystallization often occurs. If microalloying elements such as Nb, Ti or V are present, the recrystallization can be further retarded by either solute drag or particle pinning. When recrystallization is completely retarded and strain is accumulated between passes, the austenite grains will be severely deformed, i.e. pancaking occurs. Pancaking of the grains provides larger amount of nucleation sites for ferrite grains upon transformation and hence a finer ferrite grain size is achieved. In this work a physically-based model has been used to describe the microstructural evolution of austenite. The model is built-up by several sub-models describing dislocation density evolution, recrystallization, grain growth and precipitation. It is based on dislocation density theory where the generated dislocations during deformation provide the driving force for recrystallization. In the model, subgrains act as nuclei for recrystallization and the condition for recrystallization to start is that the subgrains reach a critical size and configuration. The retarding effect due to elements in solution and as precipitated particles is accounted for in the model. To verify and validate the model axisymmetric compression tests combined with relaxation were modeled and the results were compared with experimental data. The precipitation sub-model was verified by the use of literature data. In addition, rolling in the hot strip mill was modeled using process data from the hot strip mill at SSAB Strip Products Division. The materials investigated were plain C-Mn steels and Nb microalloyed steels. The results from the model show good agreement with measured data.
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