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Transhield, Inc., a manufacturer of high-tech protective covers for commercial and industrial markets, announce that their patented Armordillo protective covers have successfully completed evaluation with the U.S. Navy.
The evaluation of Transhield Armordillo advanced protective cover technology occurred over a nine-month period onboard several surface combatants and at the Naval Research Lab. As a result of the evaluation, Naval Sea Systems Command released a message to all Naval Commands stating it has approved Armordillo protective covers for use by the surface ship fleet to help reduce corrosion of weapons systems and other topside equipment.
"Based on our own extensive testing we have always been confident in the ability of our high-tech protective covers to provide superior corrosion protection in extreme environments. To have that confirmed through this U.S. Navy evaluation is deeply gratifying. We are very excited that Transhield can deliver to the U.S. Navy a next generation cover technology that is much lighter, easier to install and significantly less expensive than current covers," said James Glick, Transhield's president.
Continued Glick, "The saltwater environment is among the harshest and provides a significant challenge for maintaining equipment. We developed our Armordillo technology in response to the U.S. Navy's need to effectively protect equipment in these types of onboard conditions. Our employees take a great deal of pride in the fact that we are supporting the warfighter at sea with a product that helps ensure mission readiness."
Transhield's patented technology is integrated throughout its protective covers. It reduces corrosion by 85 to 95 percent by wicking away moisture from metal while simultaneously disrupting the electrochemical reaction that causes corrosion.
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Kayla Eklund's Reviews > Kissing Shakespeare
Kissing Shakespeare
by Pamela Mingle (Goodreads Author)
by Pamela Mingle (Goodreads Author)
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When I first read the synopsis for Kissing Shakespeare, I really wanted to read the book. I was also a little nervous. I don't usually read books with a lot of romance in them. Therefore I wasn't sure if I would like it. Turns out, I had nothing to worry about. I loved Kissing Shakespeare. The plot was very intricate. The author definitely did her research. The book was historically accurate while throwing in some fun fiction. It was a lot of fun trying to guess who the spy was before "Olivia" and Stephen found out. I liked how Miranda was able to transfer so easily into her role as Olivia. At first I didn't like Stephen because of the way he treated Miranda. Shortly afterwards he became a kind gentle loving person. I like that even though they were trying to help Shakespeare, Stephen didn't let his feelings stop. He tried, but then he realized that his love was too strong. Pamela Mingle wrote a fascinating debut. When the book ended I felt this horrible pang of loneliness like I had lost a close friend. Based on Kissing Shakespeare, I will read anything the author writes in the future.
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"As much as it hurts to admit it, I knew he was right. I would love him with all my heart, but in the end, it wouldn't be enough. I'd long for everything I couldn't have, and that would kill the love between us. Not right away, but someday."
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Retro Seduction Cinema brings you an amazing 2-DVD collection of 50 ultra-rare and never-before-seen classic black and white loops from the 1950s and early 1960s.
Never-before-available to home video, this stunning collection of 50 peeps and loops features a full-color liner notes booklet detailing this under-documented post-Second World War period of erotic film.
All loops and peeps in CLASSIC NUDES USA are pre-mastered in high definition and presented in their original aspect ration of 4x3.
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Disc one features 16mm loops while disc two showcases the 8mm home variety nudie films that were bought under the counter at local camera shops for home viewing pleasure.
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Hi Amazon Gang, It's tough to write a bad review when you feel you have been gypped. I will try to give an honest review, not just sour grapes. This DVD is 1950's stuff very tame by todays standards and I was aware of that. The headliner was Virginia Bell vintage of 1958 or so, she was the reason I bought the DVD. The Virginia Bell loop was a clothed bed roll, not even a glimpse of her fantastic tits. As for the 2DVDs, soft R rating and more soft R (pum intended). If you want to see how tame girlie loops can get then buy this. There are better loops out there of Virginia Bell on [...] for free.
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Metro 2033 is an action-oriented video game with a combination of survival horror and first-person shooter elements. The game is based on the novel Metro 2033 by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. It was developed by 4A Games in Ukraine and released in March 2010 for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360.[3] In March 2006, 4A Games announced a partnership with Glukhovsky to collaborate on the game.[4] The game was announced at the 2009 Games Convention in Leipzig;[5] a first trailer came along with the announcement.[6] A sequel was announced, currently titled Metro: Last Light.
Metro 2033 is an extremely intensive game and while the card again has trouble getting that 60 FPS average at all resolutions, a bit like Aliens vs. Predator, we're not too far from it at 1680 x 1050. A bit of adjustment to the detail and no doubt you'd be able to lift those FPS up.
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An Egyptian court has convicted three journalists from Al-Jazeera English and sentenced them to seven years in prison each on terrorism-related charges, bringing widespread criticism that the verdict was a blow to freedom of expression.
The three, Australian Peter Greste, Canadian-Egyptian Mohammed Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohammed, have been detained since a December raid on their Cairo hotel room, which they were using as an office as they covered protests by supporters of the ousted Islamist president. The raid was part of a broad crackdown against Islamists and the Muslim Brotherhood.
They had pleaded innocent, saying they were simply doing their jobs as journalists. But they were charged with supporting the Brotherhood, which has been declared a terrorist organisation, and of fabricating footage to undermine Egypt's national security and make it appear the country was facing civil war. The prosecution provided little evidence in the case, showing video footage found in their possession — most of which had nothing to do with the case, including a report on a veterinary hospital in Cairo, Christian life and old footage of Greste from previous assignments elsewhere in Africa.
''I swear they will pay for this,'' Fahmy, who was Al-Jazeera English's acting Cairo bureau chief, shouted angrily from the defendants' cage after the sentences were announced in the Cairo court Monday. Greste, a correspondent, raised his fists in the air.
''They just ruined a family,'' said Fahmy's brother Adel, who was attending the session. He said they would appeal the verdict but added that he had little faith in the system. ''Everything is corrupt,'' he said. Greste's brother Andrew said he was ''gutted'' and also vowed to appeal.
Australian Foreign Minister Julia Bishop said, ''We are all shocked by this verdict,'' adding that the government would contact newly elected Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and ask him to intervene in the case.
''The Australian government urges the new government of Egypt to reflect what message is being sent to the world,'' she said. ''We are deeply concerned that this verdict is part of a broader attempt to muzzle media freedoms.''
The three received sentences of seven years each in a maximum security prison. Mohammed, the team's producer, received an extra three years because of additional charges of possession of ammunition. Al-Jazeera has said that charge was rooted in a spent shell found in his possession — a souvenir he'd picked up from protests.
There were 17 other co-defendants in the case. Among them, two British journalists and a Dutch journalist who were not in Egypt and eight others being tried in absentia each received 10-year prison sentences. Two of them were acquitted, including the son of Mohammed el-Beltagy, a senior figure in the Muslim Brotherhood. Most of the co-defendants were students, arrested separately and accused of giving footage to the journalists.
The managing director of Qatar-based Al-Jazeera English, Al Anstey, said in a statement that ''not a shred of evidence was found to support the extraordinary and false charges against them.''
''To have detained them for 177 days is an outrage. To have sentenced them defies logic, sense, and any semblance of justice,'' he said.
The arrests of the journalists were part of a broad crackdown on the Brotherhood and other Islamists who have been holding protests since the July 3 ouster of President Mohammed Morsi by el-Sissi, the head of the military at the time. Security forces have killed hundreds of Morsi supporters and arrested thousands more.
The crackdown has already raised fears of suppression of any form of dissent, since police have also arrested non-Islamist opponents, largely for breaking a draconian law passed in December banning protests without a prior police permit.
Attending the session, Canadian ambassador David Drake said there are many questions over the verdict.
''We are very disappointed,'' he said. ''We are digesting this ... We have to put our faith in the judicial system. We don't understand this particular verdict.''
British ambassador James Watt also said he was disappointed, adding, ''Freedom of expression is fundamental to any democracy.''
Before the verdicts, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Monday he spoke with el-Sissi over the weekend and told him that Greste was innocent. ''I did make the point that as an Australian journalist, Peter Greste would not have been supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, he would have simply been reporting on the Muslim Brotherhood,'' Abbott told reporters in Canberra.
''The point I made was that in the long run, a free and vigorous media are good for democracy, good for security, (and) good for stability,'' he said.
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Silicon photodiodes with high photoconductive gain are demonstrated. The photodiodes are fabricated in a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible process. The typical room temperature responsivity at 940 nm is >20 A/W and the dark current density is ∼100 nA/cm2 at 5 V reverse bias, yielding a detectivity of ∼1014 Jones. These photodiodes are good candidates for applications that require high detection sensitivity and low bias operation.
1. Introduction
Photoconductors have long been attractive as photodetectors for their simple structure, relatively low operating bias and high photo responsivity. In particular, high responsivity from photoconductive gain has been achieved in compound semiconductor systems ranging from bulk detectors made with PbS [1, 2] and CdS [3] to recently reported CdTe-based nanoparticles [4] and PbS based colloidal quantum dots [5–8]. These material systems are attractive for their high gain and absorption characteristics, but suffer from relatively high dark current levels and cost, and manufacturing issues related to uniformity and scaling.
In contrast, silicon photovoltaic detectors are manufactured in tremendous scale and are highly reliable, but silicon-based photoconductive photodetectors are rarely reported [9]. Those that are reported incorporate materials that are incompatible with silicon processing facilities. Creating a silicon-based detector with photoconductive gain using a CMOS-compatible process is very attractive for low-light (non shot-noise-limited), discrete component applications, especially when the downstream read noise needs to be overcome with higher input signal. In particular, due to the relatively long response time for photoconductive gain detectors, applications such as fluorescence detection, biological and medical imaging, and other slow response imaging would benefit greatly from a low dark current, high photoconductive gain silicon detector. In this paper we present characterization results from silicon photodiodes with high photoconductive gain, low dark current, and low noise levels fabricated on 200 mm silicon wafers using a CMOS-compatible process in a commercial wafer foundry.
2. Device fabrication and characterziation
The photodetectors we characterized were fabricated with and without a diode junction incorporated in the device. The latter is a simple resistive silicon photoconductor, consisting of a high resistivity (>100 Ω-cm) and long minority carrier lifetime (>200 μs) float-zone (FZ) silicon layer with ohmic metal-silicon contacts on each end. Figure 1(a) shows the dark current-voltage (I–V) curve of a representative photoconductor (in black dash). As expected, the photoconductor exhibits a high dark current density, typically on the order of 1 mA/cm2 at 5 V reverse bias. A diode junction was then incorporated into the photoconductor by generating a doped active area with opposite polarity to the FZ substrate (∼ 725 μm thickness; boron doped for p-type and phosphorus for n-type) using ion implantation (boron for p-type and phosphorus for n-type, the implant recipes yield the junction depth ∼ 0.3 μm with the surface doping concetration ∼ 1019 atoms/cm3) and thermal annealing followed by contact fabrication, thereby creating a photoconductive gain device with a rectifying junction. Its dark I–V curve is shown in Fig. 1(a) in blue solid. Figure 1(b) shows the I–V curves under illumination (in red solid) and in the dark (in black dash) from such a photodiode with 940 nm wavelength responsivity >10 A/W at 5 V reverse bias.
Fig. 1
Compared to the photovoltaic photodiodes, the photodiodes with gain show significantly higher photo response at reverse bias as well as at forward bias. The photodiodes with gain also exhibit significantly lower dark current density than the simple photoconductor with gain at reverse bias. Operating at reverse bias, the photodiodes with gain offer a good combination of photo response and dark current performance, which manifests as high detectivity.
A refinement of the photodiode with photoconductive gain is achieved by including a biasable guard ring structure that prevents the carriers generated outside the active area from being collected and amplified by the gain mechanism. The long carrier diffusion length (>100 μm) in the FZ silicon layer would otherwise allow these carriers to diffuse into the active area and contribute to the dark current. Figure 1(c) shows the device schematic of such a photodiode with a 2.5 mm diameter active region. Figure 1(d) is a plot of the photodiode dark current density at 5 V reverse bias as a function of the guard ring bias. At ∼0.8 V guard ring bias, the photodiode has a dark current density ∼100 nA/cm2.
3. Measurements and discussions
The spectral photoresponsivity of the photodiodes was measured using a calibrated, monochromator filtered, white light source. The monochromator is then scanned through the spectral range of interest, and a measurement is taken at various wavelengths in order to generate the spectral photoresponsivity data. Figure 2 shows a representative responsivity spectrum from a photodiode operated at 5 V reverse bias. The photodiode demonstrates excellent photore-sponse over a broad spectrum that covers various applications from fluorescence detection to biology and medical imaging. One will note that over most of the spectrum the responsivity values indicate external quantum efficiency (EQE) values much higher than 100%. An EQE value exceeding 100% implies electronic gain from either a multiple electron-hole pair generation process from a single photon or extra charges being supplied by the external circuit. The former is unlikely because the corresponding photon energies are low. The latter explanation allows for low photon energies, and is consistent with a photoconductive gain mechanism.
Fig. 2
Fundamentally, the photoconductive gain mechanism is achieved by preventing recombination, thereby allowing carriers to traverse the circuit multiple times. This can be achieved by "trapping" one type of carrier in long-lived, localized states while the other carrier species is able to flow through the photoconductor freely. This leads to the photoconductive gain, the gain coefficient for which is [10]: , where τ is the average time spent by the "trapped" carrier in the localized state, and t is the average time required for the free flowing carrier to transit through the circuit, which also means the free flowing minority carrier lifetime needs to be longer than the average transit time t. The photocurrent from the photoconductor is then: , where P is the incoming optical power, η is the internal quantum efficiency (IQE), q is the electron charge and ν is the optical frequency of the photon. Therefore, the extra photocurrent through the extra charges supplied from the external circuit is: .
As stated, the photoconductive gain description is consistent with the observed responsivity increase with bias; the higher bias fields lead to higher drift velocities for the freely moving carrier and hence the device transit time t is reduced. Alternatively, to achieve higher photoconductive gain, the device transit time t can also be reduced by physically shrinking the distance over which the free flowing carriers need to transit through the circuit. In this case, the distance can be shortened by reducing the bulk silicon thickness. However, reducing the bulk silicon thickness will reduce light absorption, especially towards the longer wavelengths near the silicon bandgap energy. This will lower the IQE, which in turn will lower the photoresponsivity. Methods such as laser surface texturing [11, 12] to increase the light path length in the silicon can be used to help maintain IQE while achieving higher gain and resulting in further improved photoresponsivity.
An additional trait of photoconductive gain (as compared to photovoltaic detectors) is an additional noise component associated with the statistical nature of the gain mechanism. The severity of the impact of this additional noise component is mitigated by the inclusion of a diode and a guard ring to reduce dark current, and its associated noise.
With abundant light illumination, shot noise (photon shot noise and other generation-recombination shot noise) dominates the noise performance for both photodiodes and photoconductors. The shot noise for photoconductor is [10]: , where I is the total current, B is the bandwidth, G is the photoconductive gain, ω is the modulation frequency and τ is the carrier lifetime. For photodiode it is: . Noise spectra were measured for the photodiodes with gain. The noise-equivalent power (NEP) measured at 100 Hz under illumination is yielding a detectivity of or Jones. Moreover, systems using photoconductive gain detectors can exhibit high overall signal to noise ratios (SNR) in cases where the downstream read noise is higher than the increased noise from gain. More specifically, the overall detection system SNR is defined as: , where , , is the system downstream read noise and is the thermal noise. So the photoconductive gain G helps to overcome the downstream read noise and hence exhibit high overall SNR. This makes systems using such photoconductive gain detectors suitable for low-light (non shot-noise-limited) measurement applications.
It is worthwhile to mention that non-gain photovoltaic photodiodes can also exhibit overall high SNR for low-light measurement applications when they are configured with op amps, feedback resistances and capacitances in so called "transimpedence ampliflier" forms. In this case, however, the gain is provided by the analog circuitry which is independent from the non-gain photovoltaic photodidoes. A typical photovoltaic photodiode integrated with such "transimpe-dence amplifier" has an overall NEP [13], which is similar to that of the photoconductive gain photodidoes. However, the photocondutive gain photodiodes are lower cost and radiation and electrostatic discharge (ESD) safer, and have less power consumption with the amplifying analog circuitry eliminated. These features make the photoconductive gain photodiodes particularly advantageous in certian applications such as computed tomography (CT). [14]
To investigate possible trap states that trap one type of carrier and lead to the photoconductive gain, the Arrhenius plot of photoresponsivity vs. temperature for the photodiode was generated and is shown in Fig. 3(a). The plot reveals a single energy state with an activation energy ∼0.32 eV. The ∼0.32 eV activation energy indicates that this trap state is either ∼0.32 eV below the conduction band (electron trap) or ∼0.32 eV above the valence band (hole trap). We attribute this thermal quenching of photoconductive gain to the thermal deactivation of the trap state. At a higher temperature, the thermal energy is sufficient enough to empty the carrier trap states at a faster rate. Trapping becomes less effective at preventing recombination, resulting in a reduction of both τ and G.
Fig. 3
In general, the above conclusion requires that mobility be constant over the temperature range observed. For photoconductors such as PbS, the mobility depends significantly on temperature, and thus must be accounted for in the thermal quenching rate calculation. In the case of silicon, however, the mobility is relatively constant (varies by less than a factor of 2) over the temperature range in Fig. 3(a) [10]; therefore the ∼0.32 eV activation energy fitted from the Arrhenius plot in Fig. 3(a) should be a close approximation to the energy difference between the trap state and the nearest band edge, ΔE.
The thermal quenching rate of photoconductive gain is expected to be proportional to for an electron trap or for a hole trap, where Nc and Nv are the effective density of states of the conduction and the valence bands and Ns is the trap state density. Based on these expressions and the measured thermal quenching rate, the trap state density is estimated [6] to be ∼1015 – 1016cm−3.
An additional way to determine the trap state energy is to study the photoconductive gain transient response dependence on temperature, more specifically, the fall time, tfall, dependence on temperature [2,8]. The fall time is a characteristic of the detrapping process of carriers from the trap states and therefore inversely proportional to the carrier thermal emission rate, which is , where σn is the capture cross section of the trap and vth is the thermal velocity of the carriers. Hence, with , the Arrhenius plot of tfallT1/2 vs. T also reveals the trap state and the band edge energy difference ΔE and the T1/2 term is to factor out the vth dependence on temperature (vth ∝ (kT)1/2).
Figure 3(b) shows an oscilloscope trace of typical rise and fall tails of the photodiode with photoconductive gain when illuminated using a current modulated 660 nm LED. The typical rise and fall times (T90) at room temperature from these silicon photodiodes with high photoconductive gain are ∼550 μs and ∼300 μs. The activation energy fitted from the Arrhenius plot in Fig. 3(c) is ∼0.32 eV, which is in good agreement with the one acquired from the photo response vs. temperature plot in Fig. 3(a), and confirms that the mobility temperature dependence contribution to the photoconductive gain is negligible within the temperature range. A similar plot of triseT1/2 vs. T shown in Fig. 3(d), on the other hand, reveals an activation energy of ∼0.47 eV. This activation energy is a characteristic of the trapping process of carriers into trap states, but also incorporates characteristics of the net recombination process, and is thus not indicative of the trap state energy.
4. Conclusion
In summary, this work reports silicon photodiodes with high photoconductive gain. The energy level of the trap state that is responsible for high gain has been determined experimentally by two methods. These photodiodes operate at low bias, and offer a manufacturable, scalable, low cost solution to applications such as fluorescence detection, biological and medical imaging.
The work was supported in part by the U. S. Army Research Office under contract No. W911NF-09-C-0084 and the The Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate under contract No. W15P7T-10-C-S603.
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