著者
Morimoto Katsuya Yamaguchi Shigeki Fukuda Junji Suzuki Hiroaki
出版者
American Institute of Physics
雑誌
Journal of applied physics (ISSN:00218979)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.105, no.10, pp.102013, 2009-05
被引用文献数
2 3

The possibility to develop a microanalysis system for the acquisition of gastrointestinal information is presented here. The system consists of four assay sites for trypsin, pepsin, and other biochemical compounds. The major components in each assay site were a pH-responsive valve, a pH-stat used to maintain the pH of the solution to be analyzed and used for electrochemical pH-titration, and a freeze-dried enzyme substrate stored in the pH-stat. The operation of the valve is based on electrowetting, and the valve is made pH-responsive by means of a nonstandard three-electrode system. The sample solution was automatically injected into the compartment and rapidly dissolved into the substrate layer. The automatic pH-stat, based on another nonstandard use of the electrochemical three-electrode system, maintained the solution pH and, at the same time, conducted pH-titration. The determination of the activity of the proteases was conducted at their optimum pHs. The output current showed a clear dependence on the activity of the enzymes. Integrating the functions provides significant advantages for the use of this system as an isolated telemetric microsystem that may operate with wireless signal transmission using a small power supply.
著者
Aoki M. Toyoshima S. Kamada T. Sogo M. Masuda S. Sakurai T. Akimoto K.
出版者
American Institute of Physics
雑誌
Journal of applied physics (ISSN:00218979)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.106, no.4, pp.043715, 2009-08
被引用文献数
11 7

Electron emission spectra resulting from thermal collision of He*(23S) atoms with 2,9-demethyl-4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline (BCP) films deposited on metal substrates were measured to characterize gap states emerged at the organic-metal interface. For BCP on Au, the gap state is originated from weak chemisorption and serves as a mediator of metal wave functions to the first layer. For BCP on K, organic-metal complex is formed by spontaneous diffusion, yielding the gap states delocalized over the film. In the interfacial region, all the gap state reveals an incommensurate shift with the valence band top of the film, indicating the breakdown of the Schottky–Mott model as evaluating the transport characteristics in organic-metal system.
著者
Kamioka Hayato Hirano Masahiro Hosono Hideo
出版者
American Institute of Physics
雑誌
Journal of applied physics (ISSN:00218979)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.106, no.5, pp.053105, 2009-09
被引用文献数
12

Eu2+ doped sorosilicate Ca2ZnSi2O7 (melilite) exhibits a broad band emission peaking at ~600 nm (~2 eV) due to the electric dipole allowed transition of 4f65d1 to 4f7 of Eu2+ by an excitation with blue light (460 nm). Strong O2− ligand field with low symmetry due to the layered tetragonal crystallographic structure of the melilite may play a dominant role in lowering the emission band energy to ~2 eV. In addition, line emissions attributable to the transitions from 5D0 to 7FJ of Eu3+ ions are detected by an excitation with deep UV light with sub-360 nm wavelengths. This is due to the formation of transient Eu3+ ions via charge transfer from Eu2+ to the matrix. The lifetime of the transient Eu3+ ion is found to be 58 ms by a pump-probe measurement, in which UV pulse laser and green continuous wave laser are employed as pump and probe lights, respectively. Based on these results, the energy diagram of Eu2+ in Ca2ZnSi2O7 is proposed.
著者
Courdurier M Noo F Defrise M Kudo H
出版者
Institute of Physics
雑誌
Inverse problems (ISSN:02665611)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.24, no.6, pp.065001, 2008-12
被引用文献数
92 80

A case of incomplete tomographic data for a compactly supported attenuation function is studied. When the attenuation function is a priori known in a subregion, we show that a reduced set of measurements are enough to uniquely determine the attenuation function over all the space. Furthermore, we found stability estimates showing that reconstruction can be stable near the region where the attenuation is known. These estimates also suggest that reconstruction stability collapses quickly when approaching the set of points that is viewed under less than 180°. This paper may be seen as a continuation of the work 'Truncated Hilbert transform and image reconstruction from limited tomographic data' (Defrise et al 2006 Inverse Problems 22 1037). This continuation tackles new cases of incomplete data that could be of interest in applications of computed tomography.
著者
Yoshida Katsuhisa Okada Yoshitaka Sano Nobuyuki
出版者
American Institute of Physics
雑誌
Applied physics letters (ISSN:00036951)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.97, no.13, pp.133503, 2010-09
被引用文献数
57 30

In order to design optimum structures for intermediate band solar cells, simulations based on self-consistent drift-diffusion model with a suitable treatment of the intermediate band in device domain are necessary. In this work, we have included the dependence of occupation rate of intermediate band at each position on optical generation rate via the intermediate band. Typical material parameters of GaAs were used except for the absorption coefficient of each corresponding band-to-band transition. Simulation results using our model indicate that the dependence of occupation rate on device position strongly affect short-circuit currents and also electrostatic potentials of the cell.
著者
Umeda T. Isoya J. Ohshima T. Onoda S. Morishita N. Okonogi K. Shiratake S.
出版者
American Institute of Physics
雑誌
Applied physics letters (ISSN:00036951)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.97, no.4, pp.041911, 2010-07
被引用文献数
5

An electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) study on fluorine-vacancy defects (FnVm) in fluorine-implanted silicon is demonstrated. Fluorine implantation is an important technology for Si microdevices and EPR measurements showed that this process created a variety of FnVm defects of different sizes (V2, V4, and V5). In FnVm, a Si–F bond exhibited a different chemical nature compared to a Si–H bond in hydrogen-vacancy complexes. The most primitive defect was FV2 (F0 center) and the final types were FnV5 (F1 center) and FnV2 (F2 center) which increased in annealing processes as low temperature as 200 °C.
著者
Chen Shaoqiang Dierre Benjamin Lee Woong Sekiguchi Takashi Tomita Shigeo Kudo Hiroshi Akimoto Katsuhiro
出版者
American Institute of Physics
雑誌
Applied physics letters (ISSN:00036951)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.96, no.18, pp.181901, 2010
被引用文献数
32 12

Erbium-doped GaN with different doping concentrations were grown by ammonia-source molecular beam epitaxy. The intra-4f-shell transitions related green luminescence were observed by both photoluminescence (PL) and cathodoluminescence (CL) measurements. It was found that concentration quenching of Er-related luminescence was observed in PL measurements while not in CL measurements. The different excitation and relaxation processes are suggested as the cause of the concentration quenching characteristics between PL and CL. The strong Er-related CL intensity in highly doped GaN demonstrates that high energy excitation is a promising approach to suppress the concentration quenching in Er-doped GaN.
著者
Leiner Johannes Saleem Sajid Fenton J. C. Yamamoto Takashi Kadowaki Kazuo Warburton P. A.
出版者
American Institute of Physics
雑誌
Applied physics letters (ISSN:00036951)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.95, no.25, pp.252505, 2009-12
被引用文献数
2 2

We have measured the response of an array of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta intrinsic Josephson junctions to irradiation at 3 GHz. By measuring the dependence of the switching current upon the radio-frequency current for five of the junctions in the array we show quantitatively that the junctions have identical impedances at 3 GHz, this impedance being given by the inverse of the slope of the current-voltage characteristics.
著者
Siribunbandal Papaorn Yamaguchi Shigeki Kojima Kenichi Fukuda Junji Suzuki Hiroaki
出版者
American Institute of Physics
雑誌
Applied physics letters (ISSN:00036951)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.95, no.20, pp.204105, 2009-11
被引用文献数
10 9

Autonomous control of the transport of solutions in microfabricated flow channels using electrowetting-based valves and integrated electrochemical cells is proposed. An electrowetting-based valve formed with a gold electrode was opened when an electrolyte solution reached a zinc electrode in a controlling flow channel and a potential was applied to the gold electrode, causing the transport of the solution in the flow channel. Independent composite electrodes consisting of gold and zinc could function in the same manner without requiring additional electrodes. Controlled autonomous transport of solutions in a network of flow channels could also be carried out using the integrated valves.
著者
Narahara A. Ito K. Suemasu T. Takahashi Y. K. Ranajikanth A. Hono K.
出版者
American Institute of Physics
雑誌
Applied physics letters (ISSN:00036951)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.94, no.20, pp.202502, 2009-05
被引用文献数
62 29

The spin polarization of (100)-oriented gamma[prime]-Fe4N layers grown on MgO(001) substrates by molecular beam epitaxy was deduced from point contact Andreev reflection measurements, and the value was compared with that of alpha-Fe. The spin polarization (P) for gamma[prime]-Fe4N is approximately 0.59 at 7.8 K. This value is distinctly larger than that for alpha-Fe (P=0.49 at 7.8 K) measured with an identical setting. The mechanism of enhanced spin polarization in gamma[prime]-Fe4N is discussed.
著者
勝俣 啓 山中 佳子
出版者
北海道大学大学院理学研究科地球惑星科学専攻(地球物理学)
雑誌
北海道大学地球物理学研究報告 (ISSN:04393503)
巻号頁・発行日
no.69, pp.23-39, 2006-03
被引用文献数
3

We have investigated the source process and the aftershock distribution of a large earthquake with M=7.1 occurred on 29 November 2004 off the coast of Kushiro (or Shiranuka) in the eastern Hokkaido,Japan. The source parameters are summarized as follows:the total seismic moment M_0=3.4×10^{19}Nm,thatis,M_w=7.0;(strike,dip,ship)=(238°,33°,117°);depth of the initial break point=48 km;and source duration time =10sec. The aftershocks were relocated using the three-dimensional velocity structures of P-and S-waves,and we found that the aftershocks concentrated on a plane with the area of 30×15㎞^{2}dipping 22°toward the landside whose orientation agrees closely with that of the northwest-dipping nodal plane of the focal mechanism. The stress drop was estimated to be 89 bars. The aftershock area does not overlap with the asperity ruptured by the main shock,but outlined the asperity. These observations strongly suggest that the main shock itself is a very usual interplate event at depth of around 50 km in the Japan subduction zone. However,taking the tectonic circumstance into account,thisi is an outstanding event since the focal area was located between the five-years-lasting seismic quiescence area and the asperity ruptured by the 1973 Nemuro- Oki earthquake.
著者
Sato Hiroki
出版者
東京大学大学院新領域創成科学研究科基盤科学研究系物質系専攻
巻号頁・発行日
2011-03-24

報告番号: ; 学位授与年月日: 2011-03-24 ; 学位の種別: 修士 ; 学位の種類: 修士(科学) ; 学位記番号: 修創域第3678号 ; 研究科・専攻: 新領域創成科学研究科基盤科学研究系物質系専攻
著者
渕野 貴生
出版者
東北大学
雑誌
法学 (ISSN:03855082)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.63, no.2, pp.194-250, 1999-06