ZnTe epilayers were grown on transparent substrates by molecular beam epitaxy. The insertion of a low-temperature buffer layer was carried out, and the influence of the buffer layer thickness and its annealing on the crystallographic property were investigated. Pole figure imaging was used to study the domain distribution in the layer. It was shown that the (111) ZnTe epilayer with the decreased number of domains could be formed on c-sapphire when a 3.5-nm-thick annealed ZnTe buffer layer was inserted. It was shown that the XRD pole figure imaging was a useful means of analyzing domain distributions in the film.

ZnTe epilayers were grown on transparent ( ) oriented (m-plane) sapphire substrates by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). The insertion of a low-temperature buffer layer was carried out, and the influence of the buffer layer annealing on crystallographic properties was investigated. Pole figure imaging was used to study the domain distribution in the layer. It was shown that strongest (211)- and (100)-oriented ZnTe epilayers were formed on m-sapphire when a ZnTe buffer layer annealed at 340 °C for 5-min was inserted. Also, it was confirmed that only (211) ZnTe epilayers were formed on the 2° tilted m-plane sapphire substrate. Thus, the single domain (211) ZnTe epilayer can be grown on the m-plane sapphire using MBE.

The electrooptic effect in ZnTe has recently attracted research attention, and various device structures using ZnTe have been explored. For application to practical terahertz wave detector devices based on ZnTe thin films, sapphire substrates are preferred because they enable the optical path alignment to be simplified. ZnTe/sapphire heterostructures were focused upon, and ZnTe epilayers were prepared on highly mismatched sapphire substrates by molecular beam epitaxy. Epitaxial relationships between the ZnTe thin films and the sapphire substrates with their various orientations were investigated using an X-ray diffraction pole figure method. (0001) c-plane, (1-102) r-plane, (1-100) m-plane, and (11-20) a-plane oriented sapphire substrates were used in this study. The epitaxial relationship between ZnTe and c-plane sapphire was found to be (111) ZnTe//(0001) sapphire with an in-plane orientation relationship of [−211] ZnTe//[1-100] sapphire. It was found that the (211)-plane ZnTe layer was grown on the m-plane of the sapphire substrates, and the (100)-plane ZnTe layer was grown on the r-plane sapphire. When the sapphire substrates were inclined from the c-plane towards the m-axis direction, the orientation of the ZnTe thin films was then tilted from the (111)-plane to the (211)-plane. The c-plane of the sapphire substrates governs the formation of the (111) ZnTe domain and the ZnTe epilayer orientation. These crystallographic features were also related to the atom arrangements of ZnTe and sapphire.

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A simple pharmacokinetic model to explain the time course of [O-15]water in human whole blood after bolus injection is described. The model has been derived from measurements in twelve healthy volunteers who were measured repeatedly, resulting in 67 datasets, made in the context of PET blood flow studies. In contrast to traditional volume of distribution estimates of total body water (TBW) which rely on measurements after many hours, the model and data provide insights into the fast uptake components in the distribution of water in the body. Data fitting shows that the volume of distribution of fast exchanging tissues is 21 l, TBW was calculated to be 37 l. Monte Carlo simulation showed that the expected inaccuracy of determination of parameters due to unsystematic sources in the measurement data was around 5% for most parameters. Our data show that water extraction to tissue is somewhat higher than would be predicted from the tabulated values, probably because skeletal blood flow is sensitive to physiological status and environmental conditions. The study provides valuable reference data on the distribution and kinetics of water in man. Using the parameters and model from this study, reference input time-activity curves can be calculated, e.g. for the Monte Carlo study of error propagation in PET studies.