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Chuck Dawley Boulevard is being regraded and manhole covers are placed throughout the lanes up and down the boulevard.
According to a police report, they can be hazardous to your car tires if you travel at high speeds over them.
In fact, police responded to a disabled car in which the driver hit the metal cover with his drivers side tire and the front and rear drivers side tire blew out.
His air conditioning unit stopped working as well, the report said.
Police looked around the area and noticed the metal cap, covering the waterlines below, was missing.
It was found lying off in the grass to the side of the roadbed.
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my first Holga's Bulb setting works fine but I don't want just a bulb setting.
problem solved: i think i'm gonna turn it into a pinholga.
second problem: i bought a new Holga but i haven't opened the box. i'm afraid of breaking it again. what should i do? ):
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Our pets love us unconditionally – so why not give back to our best friends by bringing them out for some fun? Pets, their owners, and those in search of a pet are invited to join Charleston County Parks for a full weekend of exhibits, demonstrations, experts, entertainment and more at Charleston's premier pet festival, Pet Fest, on Saturday, April 13 and Sunday, April 14 at Mount Pleasant Palmetto Islands County Park.
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According to published auction reports, 15 farms sold at auction in Co Cavan in 2012. These sales accounted for 409ac of land, for which a total of €3.371m was paid, giving an average price of €8,242/ac.
At the lower end of the scale, €3,600/ac was paid for 15ac at Kilnacrott in May, while in November €11,000/ac was paid for a small farm extending to 23ac at Kilcogy.
However, the middle ground was the focus of most of the action, with nine of the 15 farms selling for prices between €7,000/ac and €10,000/ac.
Of the two sales reported for Monaghan, the sale of a 60ac residential farm at Glasslough exceeded all expectations when it sold for €928,000 in total. One of the lots made a massive €17,025/ac.
In the absence of nationally published auction results for Donegal, conversations with two local auctioneers gave an indication as to the state of land prices there.
Louis Boyce of DNG Boyce Gallagher sold 17ac at Falcarragh by public auction in August and it made €150,000 or €8,823/ac.
Boyd Robinson of Robinson Auctioneers sold 10 farms by public auction last year and these made anything from €5,000/ac to €17,000/ac.
Prior to Christmas, the auctioneer sold 11ac near Letterkenny for €15,000/ac, 26ac for €5,000/ac and 11ac for €10,000/ac.
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A major insurance company is suing Chicago-area municipal governments saying they knew of the risks posed by climate change and should have been better prepared. The class-action lawsuits raise the question of who is liable for the costs of global warming. [...] "What the insurers are saying is: 'We're in the business of covering unforeseen risks... But we're now at a point with the science where climate change is now a foreseeable risk.'"

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"Green" as in money-conscious and eco-friendly. Most gift wrap gets thrown out, so why spend a lot on it? And because a Stanford University finding estimates that the holidays generate 5 million tons of wrapping waste, recycled, recyclable and natural wrappings are great gifts to give the planet.
"I don't know anyone who is not money-challenged this year. And the cool thing about being 'green' is that green can be very frugal," says Sandy Sandler, founder of the nonprofit Crafters 4 Kids project site and creator of the Bowdabra ribbon craft tool.
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"Even that 10-year-old dress you never wear can be cut up and the fabric used to wrap a present," Sandler says. "Cut up tired silk plants and use them with bows on packages. Open your eyes to what's around you, not just what you have to buy."
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• "From the earth back to the earth," says Michael Gaffney, owner of the Milwaukee School of Flower Design. "I take sprigs of fresh pine and pine cones and use them in place of bows or under bows in wrapping."
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• Use children's school artwork to wrap gifts.
• Decorate an old towel or pillowcase using fabric paint, suggests Sherri Osborn, of About.com (familycrafts.about.com). "Use colorful safety pins instead of tape to secure the towel in place. If you want to personalize it even more, add a note or a name using embroidery floss."
• Old calendars, maps and vacation brochures make great recycled wrapping paper, Osborn says.
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Stars Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Matt Bomer and Joe Mangianello will make all your dreams come true on June 29, 2012, the date Warner Bros. - which just acquired the strip-alicious silver-screen fantasy - has set for the film's release. That puts the Steven Soderbergh-directed "skin flick" up against big-budget sequel "G.I. Joe: Retaliation", another movie starring Tatum, which Paramount previously slated for release on that date. Which one will you be standing in line for?
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This invention relates to Schottky diodes and more specifically relates to a novel structure and process for manufacture of high temperature Schottkys which has a very high yield.
This invention is an improvement of the product and process described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,206,540 in the name of Herbert J. Gould, entitled "Schottky Diode and Method of Manufacture Using Palladium and Platinum Intermetallic Alloys and Titanium Barrier" and assigned to the assignee of the present application. The above patent describes a process for manufacturing a Schottky diode wherein either platinum or palladium is sintered into the surface of a silicon crystal to form a platinum or palladium silicide respectively. Thereafter the silicide is removed by etching with aqua regia. A single crystal layer is believed to remain on the silicon surface. The exact nature of the single crystal film which remains after the etching operation is not known.
It is believed however that the silicon surface is modified by the diffusion into it, to a depth of the order of tens of Angstrons, of palladium or platinum. For all practical purposes, the surface is a silicon surface in terms of its optical properties and in terms of its behavior with acids. However, the presence of the layer produces the extremely improved Schottky characteristics when contacted by a Schottky metal. Thus, the platinum or palladium silicide can be thought of as a doping source for the silicon substrate. After removal of the silicide, a conventional high work function material such as molybdenum, tungsten or chromium is applied over the single crystal film. The resulting Schottky barrier has excellent high temperature characteristics radically improved when compared to the same barrier metal, but on an untreated silicon surface.
When using platinum instead of palladium as the material for producing the silicide-treated surface, or single crystal film, the ultimately produced Schottky barrier has better high temperature characteristics. However, the yield during the manufacturing process is very low so that the process was not commercially feasible. In order to improve yield and as described in the patent, the platinum was encapsulated with a molybdenum layer over the top of the platinum. During the sintering operation the molybdenum acts as an oxygen barrier thus promoting the formation of silicide and yields using this process were improved, but are still low.
The present invention provides a novel process and an improved product whereby platinum can be used to form the probable single crystal layer atop the silicon but which produces high manufacturing yields. The resulting device has the exceptionally high temperature characteristics which are obtained when using platinum as the sintering metal. In accordance with the invention, the platinum is encapsulated on its top and bottom surfaces with palladium. In one embodiment of the invention, the upper and lower palladium layers consist of about 80% by weight of the total palladium platinum sandwich. However, other ratios can be used. The lower palladium layer is believed to act as a fluxing agent during the sintering process and prevents the formation of oxides on the silicon during the sintering process. The upper layer of palladium is believed to act as an oxygen barrier during the sintering process.
After the single crystal layer has been formed and as in the known process, it is contacted by a high work function metal. The best reults have been obtained when using tungsten as the high work function metal for contacting the single crystal layer. However, molybdenum can also be used.
After forming the Schottky barrier, a metallizing system such as that described in above-noted U.S. Pat. No. 4,206,540 is applied to the upper and lower surfaces of the device. This metallizing system will include suitable contact metals such as silver and nickel on the upper and lower surfaces of the device which can receive soldered connections. As also described in above noted U.S. Pat. No. 4,206,540, a diffusion barrier metal disclosed as titanium in the patent is interposed between the Schottky barrier metal surface of the device and the contact metals. This diffusion barrier metal is used to prevent diffusion of impurities into the Schottky barrier layer during solder down of the wafer into its package or housing. It has been found that chromium is an excellent barrier metal and, in accordance with the present invention, it has been found that chromium can serve as the barrier metal in place of titanium.
As a consequence of the palladium encapsulation, manufacturing yields are extremely high and the resulting device has essentially the same characteristics at high temperature as the device formed with platinum sintered directly into silicon and subsequently processed as described above, which process however had very low manufacturing yields. The relative percentage of platinum and palladium in the sandwich can be altered as desired. Increasing the percentage of platinum will decrease the saturation current of the device at high temperatures. Thus, depending on device application, the ratio of platinum to palladium can be adjusted to obtain any desired trade-off between turn-on in the forward direction and hot reverse leakage current.
As a further feature of the invention, the novel palladium encapsulated platinum can be used more broadly, for example, for ensuring uniform diffusion of platinum into fast recovery PN junction rectifiers. It is common to diffuse gold into a junction type rectifier in order to increase the recovery speed of the device. It is known that platinum diffused fast recovery rectifiers will match the speed of gold diffused devices but, whereas gold doped devices will typically increase saturation current by a factor of 100 at all temperatures, platinum will increase saturation current by only a factor of about 3. Platinum however has not been used as the doping atom for fast recovery rectifiers because it is very difficult to diffuse the platinum uniformly into the device.
In accordance with a broad aspect of the present invention, a platinum layer encapsulated on top and bottom with palladium enables the uniform diffusion of platinum into the surface of a PN junction device. The lower palladium layer acts as a fluxing agent to prevent the formation of oxides at the interface of the palladium platinum sandwich and the silicon surface and ensures uniform diffusion of platinum atoms into the silicon surface, unimpeded by surface oxides which block the platinum atoms. The upper layer acts as a barrier to diffusion of oxygen into the sandwich and toward the silicon surface. Thus, the novel invention may be usefully employed in the production of high speed PN junction rectifier devices.
FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a portion of a semiconductor wafer which can be used in carrying out the present invention and in which a guard ring has been diffused;
FIG. 2 shows the wafer of FIG. 1 after the formation of a masking oxide layer and after a layer consisting of a sandwich of palladium, platinum and palladium is deposited on the substrate surface;
FIG. 3 shows the wafer of FIG. 2 after the sintering of the palladium-platinum-palladium sandwich into the silicon surface;
FIG. 4 shows the wafer of FIG. 3 after the remaining palladium and platinum metals and their silicides have been etched away from the substrate leaving behind a platinum diffused silicon surface which may also include palladium in a single crystal film which includes silicon;
FIGS. 4a and 4b show the reverse voltage characteristics between a tungsten probe and the surface of the wafer of FIG. 4 for the case of incomplete and complete removal respectively of the silicide layer;
FIG. 5 shows the wafer of FIG. 4 after a tungsten layer has been deposited on the wafer surface;
FIG. 6 shows the wafer of FIG. 5 after contact metals are applied to the wafer and further shows a titanium or chromium layer disposed between the Schottky barrier and the upper contact metals;
FIG. 7 is an exploded view of the assembly of a Schottky diode of the invention with the outer housing removed to reveal the interior parts;
FIG. 8 shows the reverse current leakage at 125° C. for five different Schottky devices including the barrier of the present invention;
FIG. 9 shows the forward voltage drop at 25° C. for the Schottky devices of FIG. 8.
Referring first to FIG. 1, there is shown therein a silicon substrate which may be a small part of a larger wafer on which a plurality of devices are simultaneously formed. The substrate 20 is hereinafter described as a monocrystalline silicon substrate, but it will be understood that other semiconductor materials can be used. Substrate 20 may be Czochralsky grown silicon wafers having a diameter of 3 inches and a thickness of 14 to 15 mils with N type conductivity using an arsenic dopant. The resistivity of the wafer may be from 0.001 to 0.004 ohm-cm. The wafer section shown in schematic cross-section in FIG. 1 is a rectangular chip section which is a square about 200 mils on edge. Note that the thickness of the wafer is greatly exaggerated for purposes of clarity.
An epitaxial layer 21 is grown atop layer 20 to a thickness of from 5.0 to 6.0 microns. Layer 21 has an N type conductivity and may be phosphorus doped to a resistivity of from 0.9 to 1.1 ohm cm.
FIG. 1 shows a guard ring 22 which is a rectangular P-type ring diffused in the surface 21 to serve as a zener clamp, and to prevent fringing effects. In order to form ring 22, an oxide mask 23 is formed on the surface of layer 21 and a ring-shaped opening is formed in the oxide layer. Boron, or some other P type impurity is then deposited into the open window and is diffused into layer 21 to its desired depth. Guard ring 22 may have a depth of about 0.5 micron and a width of about 4 mils. The central opening in ring 22 may be about 176 mils.
During diffusion of guard ring 22, an oxide layer grows over the open guard ring window. A window is opened in the oxide layer 23, as shown in FIG. 2, which extends to about the center of the width of guard ring 22, using conventional photolithographic and etching techniques.
After the window is opened in oxide layer 23, a sandwich of metal consisting of outer layers of palladium and an interior layer of platinum is formed on the surface of layer 21. Thus, as shown in FIG. 2, a first layer of palladium is deposited as by evaporation onto the surface of layer 21 at a substrate temperature of about 250° C. to a thickness of about 400 angstroms. Thereafter, a layer of platinum is evaporated onto the surface of the palladium again at a substrate temperature of about 250° C. to a thickness of about 200 angstroms. Thereafter, a third layer which is of palladium is evaporated onto the upper surface of the platinum and is evaporated at a substrate temperature of about 250° C. to a thickness of about 400 angstroms. Consequently, the layer of platinum is encapsulted or sandwiched between upper and lower palladium layers.
Note that other relative thicknesses could be used for the palladium and platinum as desired. By increasing the relative percentage of platinum, one can expect a reduction in the saturation current of the Schottky under reverse bias conditions at very high temperatures.
After the deposition of the palladium and platinum, the metals are sintered with the silicon substrate at a temperature of about 500° C. in a blanket of gas which includes about 15% hydrogen gas and 85% nitrogen gas. During the sintering operation, the lower layer of palladium will act as a fluxing agent for the platinum and will prevent the growth of oxides during the sintering process. The upper layer of palladium will act as a diffusion barrier to oxygen which would otherwise inhibit the growth of silicide in the platinum. When the the sintering operation is completed, a silicide of both platinum and palladium but principally of platinum will be present as shown in FIG. 3. Pure palladium and platinum, is disposed atop the silicide layer. The exact composition of the silicide is unknown, and the mechanism by which the silicon surface is modified is also unknown.
Thereafter, the silicides of palladium and platinum are intentionally fully removed in order to expose a lower layer 25, shown in FIGS. 3 an 4, which is a layer which was diffused into the upper surface of the silicon and is believed to an intermetallic alloy of palladium and platinum with the silicon. This layer is a single crystal layer but its exact nature is not known. The presence of the layer can be detected by contacting the upper surface of the device with a tungsten probe. The output of the tungsten probe will change from the rounded knee characteristic of FIG. 4a which indicates that a silicide is still present at the surface to that of FIG. 4b when the silicide is completely removed and the diffused silicon-metal layer 25 is exposed. It is believed that layer 25, which may be a single crystal layer, is a semiconductor which makes an excellent Schottky junction with high work function metals such as molybdenum, tungsten or chromium.
In order to expose layer 25, the following etching process may be used:
(a) The entire wafer is first immersed into aqua regia (about 3 parts HCl to 1 part HNO3) at room temperature for about 30 seconds. This removes the palladium and platinum from the oxide layer.
(b) After rinsing, the wafer is immersed in a 5% HF solution for about 30 seconds. This is a novel step and is taken to remove SiO2 from the palladium and platinum surface which is to be etched away.
(c) The wafer is rinsed and then immersed again in aqua regia at room temperature for about 30 minutes to strip palladium and platinum metal and their silicides out of the windows down to the surface of layer 25.
(d) The wafer is then rinsed and immersed in 5% HF for about 30 seconds to clean off any remaining SiO2.
(e) The wafer is then rinsed and is spun dry.
(f) The above steps are all carried out under a non-critical hood. After stop (e) is completed, the wafer is transferred into an ultra-clean area and is washed with 18 megohm, deionized water.
(g) Thereafter, the wafer is cleaned, and then immersed in a solution of one part H2 SO4 to one part H2 O2. This mixture self-heats to about 115° C. for 15 minutes. This critical step removes all remaining palladium or platinum silicide.
(h) The wafer is then rinsed in 18 megohm water, and is then immersed in 5% HF for about 30 seconds.
(i) The wafer is again rinsed in 18 megohm water and is spun dry.
The wafer is now ready to receive a high work function metal which will contact layer 25. Thus, in FIG. 5, a tungsten layer 26 is evaporated onto the surface of the wafer while the wafer is at 250° C. Layer 26 may have a thickness of about 3000 angstroms. An excellent Schottky junction is formed between the tungsten layer 26 and layer 25. Note that other high work function materials such as molybdenum or tantalum or others could be used in place of the tungsten. It has been found that tungsten as the barrier metal will match the characteristics of a device containing platinum sintered silicon with a tungsten barrier metal, as will be described, but the yield of the manufacturing process using the palladium-platinum-palladium sandwich as the sintering metal is substantially higher than that using platinum encapsulated for example with molybdenum on its top surface as described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,206,540, and very much higher than the yield obtained using a simple platinum film on silicon.
It is now necessary to place contact metals on the opposite sides of the wafer of FIG. 6. A titanium layer 30 first is deposited on top of the tungsten layer 26. Titanium layer 30 has a thickness of about 2000 angstroms. Titanium layer 30 is believed to act as a barrier to prevent migration of atoms of the contact metals to the Schottky barrier between layers 25 and 26 due to the high temperatures experienced during soldering of the finished wafer in its housing. This effect has caused degradation of the device during its assembly in the past, but is prevented by the titanium layer. It has been found that chromium can also be used as the barrier metal in place of titanium.
Contact metals are then added to the device as shown in FIG. 6. Thus, a titanium of chromium layer 31 having a thickness of about 1000 angstroms is added to the bottom of the wafer and nickel layers 32 and 33 are applied top and bottom with thicknesses of about 1000 angstroms. Thereafter, thick silver layers 34 and 35 are applied with thicknesses of about 35,000 angstroms. Note that any other of the conventional contact metals such as gold could have been used.
The completed device is then cut from its main wafer for assembly into a housing as shown in FIG. 7. The housing may be one with a standard JEDEC outline DO-203AB (DO-5). The completed Schottky junction which is a square 200 mils on edge is shown as member 40. Lead-silver-indium solder wafers 41 and 42 are located on opposite sides of junction 40 and molybdenum plates 43 and 44 are placed on the opposite sides of wafers 41 and 42, respectively. Plates 43 and 44 have thicknesses of about 20 mils and diameters of 0.150 inch and 0.325 inch, respectively. A lead-silver-indium solder wafer 45 is disposed between wafer 43 and the C-bend lead 46. A gold-tin solder wafer 47 is disposed between molybdenum wafer 44 and a standard copper base 48. A cap, not shown, encloses the entire assembly. The assembly is soldered together by first heating to melt the solder wafers 41, 42, 45 and 57, and then cooling the assembly. The chromium or titanium layer 30 (FIG. 6) prevents migration of silver and nickel atoms to the Schottky junction during this solderdown operation.
The resulting device will then have an operating junction temperature range of -65° C. to 200° C.; and will have a reverse voltage up to 50 volts; and a maximum average forward current at 200° C. of 75 amperes for a rectangular waveform or 67.5 amperes for a sinusoidal waveform. The device will have a reverse leakage of 2.5 to 5. mA (typical) at 125° and 45 V increasing to perhaps 150 mA to 200 mA at 200° and 45 V.
FIGS. 8 and 9 show some of the device characteristics and demonstrate the improvement in reverse leakage current at high temperature obtained with the invention. Thus, FIG. 8 shows leakage current on a logarithmic vertical axis plotted against reverse voltage on the horizontal axis for five different devices, all at a junction temperature of 125° C.
The uppermost curve 50 shows a conventional Schottky junction using a chromium contact on a silicon surface. It will be seen that the reverse current approaches one ampere at 50 volts.
The second curve 51 shows a conventional molybdenum contact on silicon which has a better reverse current characteristic than the equivalent chromium contact device. However, reverse current for the device is still about 90 milliamps at full reverse voltage.
The third curve 52 shows the characteristics of a device produced by the process of U.S. Pat. No. 4,206,540 in which palladium is the metal which is sintered into the silicon surface with the metal and its silicides thereafter removed. This device produces a substantial improvement in reverse current characteristics at full reverse voltage. Thus, at 50 volts the reverse current is only about 15 milliamperes which is an improvement of almost one order of magnitude over the conventional molybdenum-silicon junction characteristics shown in curve 51.
When platinum alone is used in place of palladium and tungsten in place of molybdenum as the barrier metal, as was described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,206,540, the characteristics of curve 53 are produced where, at full reverse voltage, the device reverse current is only about 2.9 milliamperes. It has been found, however, that devices of this structure cannot be reliably produced and that the manufacturing yield of the device is very low.
Curve 100 in FIG. 8 shows the characteristics of the device which is produced in accordance with the invention employing a palladium-platinum sandwich which is sintered into the silicon surface of the device and the silicides thereafter removed completely as has been described. The reverse current characteristics of this device at 125° C. are almost as good as those of the pure platinum structure shown in curve 53. However, the device can be produced with extremely high yields on a commercial scale. Moreover, the characteristics which are produced are significantly better than those of curves 50, 51 and 52 which represent the characteristics of present commercial devices.
The improvement in reverse current behavior obtained by the invention is not offset by loss of other characteristics. As shown in FIG. 9, there is only a slight increase in forward voltage drop at low current in devices made by the present invention as compared to prior art devices. Thus, curves 60 and 61 of FIG. 10 show the relatively low forward voltage drop, particularly at low forward current for the prior art chromium and molybdenum contacts to silicon. Devices made by the palladium and platinum processes respectively of U.S. Pat. No. 4,206,540 have the forward voltage characteristics of curves 62 and 63, respectively.
Curve 101 shows the characteristic of a device made in accordance with the present invention in which a sandwich of platinum and palladium is employed in the process with a tungsten barrier metal in contact with the single crystal layer which was produced by the novel process. Note that the forward voltage drop characteristic is better than that of curve 53 which is the characteristic of a device made with a pure platinum process. Note further that at high current all differences between the devices are negligible in FIG. 9.
To further compare devices produced by the present invention to prior art devices, the following table can be consulted:
TABLE 1______________________________________ Threshold 125°Metal Semiconductor VF ISAT______________________________________A. Chrome Silicon .sup. .24V 250mAB. Tungsten Silicon .255 120C. Molybdenum Silicon .30 20.0D. Molybdenum Palladium/Silicon .36 5.0E. Tungsten Palladium/Silicon .37 5.0F. Molybdenum 80% Pd:20% Pt/Si .38 5.0 High YieldG. Tungsten 80% Pd:20% Pt/Si .42 1.1 High YieldH. Tungsten Platinum/Silicon .44 1.0I. (P/N Junction) .74 0.018______________________________________
Table 1 identifies threshold voltage and hot reverse saturation current for a number of different barrier formation arrangements. Different barriers were constructed with the same active area of 20 square millimeters and measurements were made of threshold voltage and saturation current. The threshold forward voltage was measured at 25° C. with a current density of 50 milliamperes per square millimeter or 1 ampere for devices which were housed in a DO-5 housing. The saturation current ISAT was measured at 125° C. with a 300 microsecond pulse which avoided secondary heating effects and with a bias voltage of 10 volts reverse.
In Table 1, the column labeled "Metal" represents the barrier metal which was employed. The second column is the semiconductor substrate which was employed for receiving the barrier metal. Thus, the first three entries on the table are conventional barrier devices which employ a silicon semiconductor substrate receiving chromium, tungten and molybdenum barrier layers, respectively. Note that entries A and C correspond to the devices of curves 50 and 51 of FIG. 8.
Entries D and E in Table 1 represent devices which were made employing a single crystal palladium/silicon substrate which was formed by the process of U.S. Pat. No. 4,206,540 and with molybdenum and tungsten contacts respectively. Note that the device of entry D is the device having the characteristics of curve 52 of FIG. 8.
Entry H shows the device made by the process of U.S. Pat. No. 4,206,540 employing platinum as the sintering metal with a tungsten barrier electrode. This is the device having the characteristic of curve 53 of FIG. 8. Note that while its characteristic saturation current is extremely low, the device cannot be made with yields sufficiently high to be commercially viable.
Curves F and G show devices which are made by the process of the present invention wherein the substrate is the single crystal layer employing 80% palladium and 20% platinum to produce the single crystal layer 25 of FIGS. 3-5. Both devices have high manufacturing yields when using either molybdenum or tungsten as the contacts or barrier layer. Moreover, the device employing tungsten in entry G has a lower saturation current than the device employing molybdenum. Note further that the device of entry G corresponds to the device of curve 100 in FIG. 8 and curve 101 in FIG. 9.
The use of the platinum encapsulated with palladium produces an extremely effective Schottky device when using the process desscribed while maintaining extremely high yields. The novel sandwich of platinum encapsulated by palladium can also be used for platinum doping high recovery speed diodes and ensuring that platinum atoms will uniformly diffuse into the diode. This substantially decreases the recovery time of the diode approximately to that of gold doped diode but without increasing the saturation current of the device by the same amount as when using gold doping. Uniform doping by the platinum is obtained because of the operation of the palladium during the sintering or diffusion operation wherein the palladium will operate as a fluxing agent for the platinum.
Although the present invention has been described in connection with a preferred embodiment thereof, many variations and modifications will now become apparent to those skilled in the art. It is preferred, therefore, that the present invention be limited not by the specific disclosure herein, but only by the appended claims.
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|Self-guarding Schottky barrier infrared detector array
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|Aug 18, 1987
|Rca Corporation
|Epitaxial metal silicide layers
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|Nov 1, 1988
|The United States Of America As Represented By The United States Department Of Energy
|Detector and energy analyzer for energetic-hydrogen in beams and plasmas
|May 14, 1987
|Aug 15, 1989
|The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Air Force
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|Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
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Garnacha del Fuego
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The garnacha grape is better known by its French name, grenache, but is native to Spain's arid Aragón region. In the village of Calatayud, very old, dry-farmed bush vines produce spicy red wines of great power and depth at bargain-basement prices. Served at room temperature, meaty Spanish garnachas like this one can be hard to drink in warm weather, seeming overly alcoholic and a little harsh. But, 10 minutes in the fridge, or a couple of ice cubes in the glass, can tame their fiery burn and brighten their jammy strawberry flavors.


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Do you go to see them for the 4th? Where? Do they happen on the 4th?
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by Bronze Member on Jun. 29, 2011 at 4:18 PM
We go to different places every year. This year we'll probably end up watching them from my mom's yard.
No fireworks of all kinds are illegal here this year. They cannot even be sold.
by Member on Jun. 30, 2011 at 12:25 PM
Our town will have their celebration on Saturdy the 2nd. A festival, street dance and fireworks.
Yes, we go to a local park. Our town does a huge fireworks display every year!
by Shauna on Jul. 1, 2011 at 8:27 AM
We don't watch them on the 4th. We are planning to go to the carnival tonight and see them.
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A Rank-Order Test on the Statistical Performance of Neural Network Models for Regional Labor Market Forecasts
Using a panel of 439 German regions, we evaluate and compare the performance of various Neural Network (NN) models as forecasting tools for regional employment growth. Because of relevant differences in data availability between the former East and West Germany, the NN models are computed separately for the two parts of the country. The comparisons of the models and their ex post forecasts are carried out by means of a non-parametric test: viz. the Friedman statistic. The Friedman statistic tests the consistency of model results obtained in terms of their rank order. Since there is no normal distribution assumption, this methodology is an interesting substitute for a standard analysis of variance.
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Amarillo is blowing grant money
I think the new and very expensive Rails to Trails project to be constructed near Plains Boulevard is a gross waste of money.
I understand the money came from a grant, but couldn't the city find something better to spend it on? I seem to recall another walking trail near Amarillo Boulevard, adjacent to Martin Luther King Park. I have yet to see anyone walking there or doing anything else there, for that matter.
This money could be better used to help our hungry, homeless and abused. Has anyone thought about getting a grant for them? Or it could be used to help the elderly and low-income families pay these outrageous utility bills. Gas is by far the worst but not the only bill that has risen out of proportion.
Why do we need this trail? Because we got a grant? Does the government not have anything better to do with its money?
Liz Whitfield
City commissioners make all the right moves
I have two issues I'd like to comment on.
First, I would like to thank the Amarillo City Commission for doing the right thing in settling the Tulia case quickly without wasting time and money or forfeiting the good will of the people.
Our city's elected officials represent us well when they are big enough, as they were in the Tulia drug sting case, to say, "Oops!" As time goes by, we will get past this well-intentioned but misguided event and move to solving the problems of illegal drug activity properly.
Also, the second statue of Rick Husband should be placed at the Discovery Center, where schoolchildren, and the general public, may see it and be prompted to follow in his footsteps through learning at that great facility.
What more appropriate place is there than our planetarium?
I got to meet Col. Husband for the first time since high school at Armstrong Laboratories (Brooks AFB, San Antonio) when I was there to take my wife to lunch. She introduced us, and then got the shock of knowing that we had met 20 years earlier.
Husband was fond of the Discovery Center, and the stars.
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Blue Angels back for 2014 Milwaukee Air & Water Show
The 2014 Milwaukee Air & Water Show comes roaring back Saturday and Sunday, with the Blue Angels leading the way. Last year, as fans of the flight show will remember, it went on without their main attraction as the government sequester kept the the planes and pilots grounded. Confirmed acts this year include a British FA-2 Sea Harrier jump jet, a U.S. Marine Corps C-130, A-4 Skyhawk tactical jet, parachute teams, aerial acrobatic teams, U.S. Coast Guard HH-65C rescue helicopter and more.
The plan is for performances from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. But, as always, it depends on the weather. The show can be seen for free along Lincoln Memorial Drive from McKinley to Bradford beaches. Reserved seating tickets for an area just south of the Northpoint custard stand, 2272 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive, cost $20 for adults and $10 for children. For more information, see the Air Show website.


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Verses & Flow
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VERSES AND FLOW features musical performances from some of the industries best R&B talents and spoken word from known music artists and respected poets. In each 30-minute episode, the host introduces each segment of the show, including a performance from one of the following neo-soul, R&B or Hip Hop artists: Grammy-winning music artists Melanie Fiona and Marsha Ambrosius; Grammy-nominated artists Tyrese and Angie Stone; Ledisi; KEM; Estelle; Naturally 7; and others. In addition, two or three of these people recite spoken word: M'reld Green, Aaron Samuels, Cathy Hughes, Thea Monyee, David Banner, Javon Johnson, Charles Peters, Gina Loring, Pharoahe Monch, Prentice Powell, Ray Grant, Bone Crusher, Bridget Gray, Brianni Blue, Jon Goode, and Georgia Me. Season 2, which was filmed at the historical Belasco Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, CA, featured poets and R&B artists like Chrisette Michele, Musiq, Eric Benet, Carl Thomas, Tank, Macy Gray, Tamia, Luke James and Elle Varner. Season 3 debuted with back-to-back new episodes on Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 9pm ET/PT on TV One. The program's third season, once again filmed at the historic Belasco Theater in downtown Los Angeles, featured R&B singer-songwriters, including Andra Day, Anthony Hamilton, Avant, Bel Biv Devoe, BJ The Chicago Kid, Bridget Kelly, Faith Evans, Jill Scott, Kenny Lattimore, Mary Mary, Q Parker, Raheem DeVaughn, RaVaughn, Tony Rich and Vivian Green. They were joined by spoken word performances from poets Aaron White, Ainsley Burrows, Ashley August, Ashley Catherine, Ayinde Russell, Beni Villafana, 'Fiveology' (Andrew Tyree, Javon Johnson, Prentice Powell, Rudy Francisco and Shawn Williams), Carlos Gomez, Chas Jackson, Dasan Ahanu, David Bianchi, Dominique Ashaheed, Ed Mabrey, George Yamazawa, Imani Cezanne, In-Q, Jon Goode, Joyce Lee, Maestro Gamin, Megan Falley, Miles Hodges with Carvens Lissaint, Paul Mabon, Queen D, Reggie Eldridge, Safia Elhillo, Se7en, Sha'Condria 'iCon' Sible, Soulful Jones, Storm Thomas, The Saint, Theresa Tha Songbird, Tre G., Verb and Vision. On Saturday, August 16, 2014 at 10pm ET/PT, TV One aired the Season 4 premiere of VERSES & FLOW with new host Laz Alonso and performances by Maxwell accompanied by Adam Blackstone, spoken word artists Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Miles Hodges, Chiara Richardson, and the celebrity participants of ICON-MANN. The eight-episode fourth season also includes performances by K. Michelle, Joe, Johnny Gill, Ruben Studdard, Candice Glover, Gary Clark Jr., Sebastian Mikael, Leela James, Anthony Hamilton, Alice Smith, Mali Music alongside more than 25 of the best up-and-coming poets. Plus, Season 4 spotlights the inspirational work of ICON MANN, an organization that aims to generate a positive dialog surrounding Black men doing positive work in their communities through their contributions in entertainment, business, and Fortune 500 industries committed to philanthropy and public service.
VERSES & FLOW returned for its fifth season on Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 10pm ET/PT on TV One, with Laz Alonso coming back as host. Season 5 includes these performances:
July 30: Charlie Wilson with spoken word artists The Poet Puff Girls, Hieu Minh Nguyen and Rob Gibsun
August 6: Leela James and Chrisette Michele with spoken word artists Thomas 'Tom Cat' Hill & Malachi Byrd, Denice Frohman and Pages Matam
August 13: Estelle with spoken word artists The Saint, Marquesha Babers and Carvens Lissaint with Joshua Bennett
August 20: Melanie Fiona and Raekwon featuring Assassin with spoken word artists Tre G, Will Cat, and SaeLah
August 27: Avery Sunshine with spoken word artists Nikki Blak Jesse, Parent and Rob Gibsun returns
September 3: Jazmine Sullivan with spoken word artists Morgan 'Momo' Butler & Malachi Byrd, Amin 'Drew' Law and Ed Mabrey
September 10: Sevyn Streeter and B.o.B with spoken word artists Megan Falley & Olivia Gatwood, Ethan Walker Smith and Prentice Powell
September 17: Jussie Smollett with spoken word artists Jamila Lyiscott, Tyson Swanson and Michael 'Chief' Peterson, Prentice Powell and Black Ice join forces
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"The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind."
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A grande dame of early twentieth-century New York hotels.
A Manhattan institution since 1931, this Hilton-owned legend recently underwent a complete $300 million renovation. It's really rather amazing how elegant the hotel remains considering that, at times, the lobby is choked with gawking tourists, business executives and travelers who honeymooned here more than 40 years ago. The staff works valiantly to keep things moving along, and it shows: service is smooth. To enhance the personal touch, the 1,232 rooms --- including 197 suites --- vary considerably, some resembling large closets and others ballrooms with Texas-size marble bathrooms and Art Deco motifs. The Astoria rooms offer added amenities, including a lounge serving complimentary breakfast, afternoon tea and hors d'oeuvres. The Deco-inspired Peacock Alley provides creative New American fare, and the Bull & Bear serves hearty steaks and chops. Guerlain Spa Fitness Center on the nineteenth floor offers personal trainers. For the pampering to follow, Guerlain Spa also features an impressive fourteen treatment rooms, and the Kenneth salon gives guests high-end sprucing up without leaving the hotel --- especially convenient given the fact that the Waldorf is a popular venue for weddings and other functions. The hotel's 60,000 square feet of event space includes a ballroom with four-story-high ceilings.
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On vacation aboard a luxury cruise ship, Alvin, Simon, Theodore and the Chipettes are up to their usual antics, turning the ship into their personal playground, until they become 'chipwrecked' on a desert island. Mike Mitchell directs Jason Lee, David Cross, Jenny Slate and Justin Long in Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked. View photos from the film…
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Yam Islands
- Not to be confused with Yam Island in Queensland, Australia.
|Yam Islands
Ямские острова
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Relative sizes of sleeping Steller sea lion male, female and pup on Yam Islands in the northeast Sea of Okhotsk.
|Coordinates: 59°15′N 155°29′E / 59.250°N 155.483°E
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|Magadan Oblast
|700 m (2,300 ft)
The Yam Islands, Yamsky Islands or Yamskiye Islands (Ямские острова; Yamskiye Ostrova), is a small island group located close to the coast in the northern Sea of Okhotsk. Administratively the Yam Islands belong to the Magadan Oblast of the Russian Federation.
The Yam island group lies about 250 km east of Magadan, only 10 km from the shores of the Pyagin Peninsula (Poluostrov P'yagina).[1]
The main island is Matykil Island (Остров Матыкиль). It is 6 km long and has a width of 2.2 km. All the other islands are much smaller. The highest point in Matykil is 700 m.[2][3]
The other islands of the group are: Atykan (Остров Атыкан), Baran (Остров Баран), Khatemalyu (Остров Хатемалью) and Kokontse (Остров Коконце).
Between 1852 and 1874, American whaleships cruised around the islands for bowhead whales.[4]
The Yam Islands are a home for the Steller sea lion[5] and a variety of birds.[6]
These islands are part of the Magandskiy Zapovednik or protected bioregion of the Magadan area.
- ^ Location
- ^ Islands in the Sea of Okhotsk
- ^ Geographical Data
- ^ Corinthian, of New Bedford, July 7-8, 1852, Old Dartmouth Historical Society (ODHS); Josephine, of New Bedford, June 8, 1865, Kendall Whaling Museum; Sea Breeze, of New Bedford, Aug. 23, 1866, May 19, 1868, ODHS; Arnolda, of New Bedford, June 29, 1874, ODHS.
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