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Notizen: The northern Dabie terrane consists of a variety of metamorphic rocks with minor mafic-ultramafic blocks, and abundant Jurassic-Cretaceous granitic plutons. The metamorphic rocks include orthogneisses, amphibolite, migmatitic gneiss with minor granulite and metasediments; no eclogite or other high-pressure metamorphic rocks have been found. Granulites of various compositions occur either as lenses, blocks or layers within clinopyroxene-bearing amphibolite or gneiss. The palaeosomes of most migmatitic gneisses contain clinopyroxene; melanosomes and leucosomes are intimately intermingled, tightly folded and may have formed in situ. The granulites formed at about 800–830 °C and 10–14 kbar and display near-isothermal decompression P–T paths that may have resulted from crust thickened by collision. Plagioclase-amphibole coronae around garnets and matrix PI + Hbl assemblages from mafic and ultramafic granulites formed at about 750–800 °C. Partial replacement of clinopyroxene by amphibole in gneiss marks amphibolite facies retrograde metamorphism. Amphibolite facies orthogneisses and interlayered amphibolites formed at 680–750 °C and c. 6 kbar. Formation of oligoclase + orthoclase antiperthite after plagioclase took place in migmatitic gneisses at T ≤ 490°C in response to a final stage of retrograde recrystallization. These P–T estimates indicate that the northern Dabie metamorphic granulite-amphibolite facies terrane formed in a metamorphic field gradient of 20–35 °C km-1 at intermediate to low pressures, and may represent the Sino-Korean hangingwall during Triassic subduction for formation of the ultrahigh- and high-P units to the south. Post-collisional intrusion of a mafic-ultramafic cumulate complex occurred due to breakoff of the subducting slab.

Notizen: Representative diamond-bearing gneisses and dolomitic marble, eclogite and Ti-clinohumite-bearing garnet peridotite from Unit I at Kumdy Kol and whiteschist from Unit II at Kulet, eastern Kokchetav Massif, northern Kazakhstan, were studied. Diamond-bearing gneisses contain variable assemblages, including Grt+Bt+Qtz±Pl±Kfs±Zo±Chl±Tur±Cal and minor Ap, Rt and Zrn; abundant inclusions of diamond, graphite+chlorite (or calcite), phengite, clinopyroxene, K-feldspar, biotite, rutile, titanite, calcite and zircon occur in garnet. Diamond-bearing dolomitic marbles consist of Dol+Di±Grt+Phl; inclusions of diamond, dolomite±graphite, biotite, and clinopyroxene were identified in garnet. Whiteschists carry the assemblage Ky+Tlc+Grt+Rt; garnet shows compositional zoning, and contains abundant inclusions of talc, kyanite and rutile with minor phlogopite, chlorite, margarite and zoisite. Inclusions and zoning patterns of garnet delineate the prograde P–T  path. Inclusions of quartz pseudomorphs after coesite were identified in garnet from both eclogite and gneiss. Other ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) indicators include Na-bearing garnet (up to 0.14 wt% Na2O) with omphacitic Cpx in eclogite, occurrence of high-K diopside (up to 1.56 wt% K2O) and phlogopite in diamond-bearing dolomitic marble, and Cr-bearing kyanite in whiteschist. These UHP rocks exhibit at least three stages of metamorphic recrystallization. The Fe-Mg partitioning between clinopyroxene and garnet yields a peak temperature of 800–1000 °C at P 〉40 kbar for diamond-bearing rocks, and about 740–780 °C at 〉28–35 kbar for eclogite, whiteschist and Ti-bearing garnet peridotite. The formation of symplectitic plagioclase+amphibole after clinopyroxene, and replacement of garnet by biotite, amphibole, or plagioclase mark retrograde amphibolite facies recrystallization at 650–680 °C and pressure less than about 10 kbar. The exsolution of calcite from dolomite, and development of matrix chlorite and actinolite imply an even lower grade greenschist facies overprint at c. 420 °C and 2–3 kbar. A clockwise P–T  path suggests that supracrustal sediments together with basaltic and ultramafic lenses apparently were subjected to UHP subduction-zone metamorphism within the diamond stability field. Tectonic mixing may have occurred prior to UHP metamorphism at mantle depths. During subsequent exhumation and juxtaposition of many other tectonic units, intense deformation chaotically mixed and mylonitized these lithotectonic assemblages.

Notizen: An ultra-high-pressure (UHP) metamorphic slab at Yangkou Beach near Qingdao in the Sulu region of China consists of blocks of eclogite facies metagabbro, metagranitoid, ultramafic rock and mylonitic orthogneisses enclosed in granitic gneiss. A gradational sequence from incipiently metamorphosed gabbro to completely recrystallized coesite eclogite formed at ultra-high-pressures was identified in a single 30 m block; metagabbro is preserved in the core whereas coesite eclogite occurs along the block margins. The metagabbro contains an igneous assemblage of Pl+Aug+Opx+Qtz+Bt+Ilm/Ti-Mag; it shows relict magmatic textures and reaction coronas. Fine-grained garnet developed along boundaries between plagioclase and other phases; primary plagioclase broke down to Ab+Ky+Ms+Zo±Grt±Amp. Augite is rimmed by sodic augite or omphacite, whereas orthopyroxene is rimmed by a corona of Cum±Act and Omp+Qtz layers or only Omp+Qtz. In transitional rocks, augite and orthopyroxene are totally replaced by omphacite, and the lower-pressure assemblage Ab+Ky+Phn+Zo+Grt coexists with domains of Omp (Jd70–73)+Ky±Phn in pseudomorphs after plagioclase. Both massive and weakly deformed coesite-bearing eclogites contain Omp+Ky+Grt+Phn+Coe/Qtz+Rt, and preserve a faint gabbroic texture. Coesite inclusions in garnet and omphacite exhibit limited conversion to palisade quartz; some intergranular coesite and quartz pseudomorphs after coesite also occur. Assemblages of the coronal stage, transitional and UHP peak occurred at about 540±50 °C at c. 13 kbar, 600–800 °C at ≥15–25 kbar and 800–850 °C at 〉30 kbar, respectively.Garnet from the coronal- through the transitional- to the eclogite-stage rocks show a decrease in almandine and an increase in grossular±pyrope components; garnet in low-grade rocks contains higher MnO and lower pyrope components. The growth textures of garnet within pseudomorphs after plagioclase or along grain boundaries between plagioclase and other phases are complex; the application of garnet zoning to estimate P–T  should be carried out with caution. Some garnet enclosing quartz aggregates as inclusions shows radial growth boundaries; these quartz aggregates, as well as other primary and low-P phases, persisted metastably at UHP conditions due to sluggish reactions resulting from the lack of fluid during prograde and retrograde P–T  evolution.

Notizen: We show that β-phase boron–carbon–nitrogen (C2BN) structures energetically favor segregation into superlattices of alternating diamond and cubic boron nitride (cBN) layers. Local-density functional calculations of total energies using pseudopotential approximations and a plane-wave basis set of the β-C2BN systems with different thicknesses of alternating diamond and cBN layers grown along the (001) direction found a decrease in the formation energy with an increase in the layer thickness. We consider this phenomenon to be a result of the charge redistribution in each layer due to interface formation. Our study indicates that the deviation of charge distributions from those in pure diamond and cBN structures due to the existence of BN–C junctions in β-C2BN may result in difficulties in its synthesis. © 1999 American Institute of Physics.

Notizen: We have selectively grown GaAs mesas with (100) top facets that range from several μm to less than 250 nm in width on an oxide-patterned GaAs substrate, and InAs self-organized quantum dots (SOQDs) on top of the facets. For a given amount of InAs deposited, the dot density varies with the facet width, and is higher than the density on a planar, nonpatterned substrate. The SOQDs also tend to form at the facet edges. These observations are indicative of a strong surface diffusion effect of In-containing species adsorbed on the various crystalline facets of the GaAs mesas. © 1997 American Institute of Physics.

Notizen: Gettering of Fe impurities by bulk stacking faults in Czochralski-grown silicon are investigated by means of the electron-beam-induced-current technique and transmission electron microscopy. It is found that Fe impurities only precipitate on Frank partial dislocations bounding stacking faults when the specimen is cooled slowly; however, both Frank partials and fault planes are decorated by Fe impurities when the specimen is cooled rapidly. It is explained that small oxygen precipitates on fault planes serve as the gettering centers for Fe impurities in the fast cooled specimen. © 1997 American Institute of Physics.

Notizen: Precipitation behaviors of Cu and Fe on Frank-type partial dislocations bounding bulk stacking faults in Czochralski-grown silicon are investigated by means of the electron beam-induced-current (EBIC) technique and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Frank partials in a Cu-contaminated specimen do not exhibit an EBIC contrast at room temperature when the specimen is cooled slowly; however, in the Fe-contaminated specimen, they exhibit EBIC contrast at room temperature due to their Fe contamination. The TEM micrograph shows that Cu develops precipitate colonies in the region away from stacking faults and does not precipitate on Frank partials in the specimen. The results indicate that Fe impurity decorates Frank partials more easily than Cu impurity in Si. © 1996 American Institute of Physics.

Notizen: Aspects of the algebraic structure and representation theory of the quantum affine superalgebras with symmetrizable Cartan matrices are studied. The irreducible integrable highest weight representations are classified, and shown to be deformations of their classical counterparts. It is also shown that Jimbo-type quantum affine superalgebras can be obtained by deforming universal enveloping algebras of ordinary (i.e., nongraded) affine algebras supplemented by certain parity operators. © 1997 American Institute of Physics.

Notizen: The classification of the finite-dimensional irreducible representations of the super Yangian associated with the Lie superalgebra gl(1||1) is presented in detail. © 1995 American Institute of Physics.

Notizen: The finite dimensional irreducible representations of the quantum supergroup Uq(gl(m|n)) are constructed geometrically using techniques from the Bott–Borel–Weil theory and vector coherent states. © 1997 American Institute of Physics.