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Fabrication of Schottky Diodes on Zn-polar BeMgZnO/ZnO Heterostructure Grown by Plasma-assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Published on: October 23, 2018
Production and separation of carrier-free ⁷Be
N Gharibyan1, K J Moody1, S J Tumey2
1Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue L-236, Livermore, CA 94551, USA.
Abstract:
A high-purity carrier-free (7)Be was efficiently isolated following proton bombardment of a lithium hydroxide-aluminum target. The separation of beryllium from lithium and aluminum was achieved through a hydrochloric acid elution system utilizing cation exchange chromatography. The beryllium recovery, +99%, was assessed through gamma spectroscopy while the chemical purity was established by mass spectrometry. The decontamination factors of beryllium from lithium and aluminum were determined to be 6900 and 300, respectively.

