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Electronic Level Scheme in Boron- and Phosphorus-Doped Silicon Nanowires
No full textWe report the first observation of the electronic level
scheme in boron (B)- and phosphorus (P)-doped nanowires (NWs).
The NWs’ morphology dramatically depends on the doping impurity
while a few deep electronic levels appear in both kinds of nanowires,
independently of the doping type. We demonstrate that the doping
impurities induce the same shallow levels as in bulk silicon. The
presence of two donor levels in the lower half-bandgap is also
revealed. In both kinds of NWs, B- and P-doped, the donor level (0/
+) at Ev + 0.36 eV of the gold−hydrogen complex is observed. This
means that the gold diffusion from the NW tip introduces an
electronically active level, which might negatively affects the electrical characteristics of the NWs. In P-doped NWs, we observed
a further donor level at 0.26 eV above the valence band due to the phosphorus-vacancy pairs, the E-center, well-known in bulk
silicon. These findings seriously question both diffusion modeling of impurities in NWs and the technological aspects arising
from this
Cathodoluminescence characterization of β-SiC nanowires and surface-related silicon dioxide
No full textThe main goal of our study is to prepare and to understand the properties of cubic SiC nanowires (NWs) and to characterize its native silicon dioxide. The wires, with diameters ranging from 10 nm to 2 μm, have been prepared by a CVD process on Si (0 0 1) substrates, using CO as the carbon source and Ni as the catalyst. A structural and optical analysis, by means of TEM, micro-Raman and cathodoluminescence (CL) spectroscopy, has been performed. Two sets of samples have been studied, labelled A and B, which differ for growth process conditions. Set A showed two broad CL peaks. Set B showed a much weaker CL emission. This difference has been explained by means of TEM investigation and micro-Raman spectra: set A shows a thick amorphous silicon dioxide layer on the wire surface, whereas set B shows a thin or absent oxide layer. Consequently, the nature of the CL emission has to be ascribed mainly to oxide-related recombination
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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