Residual donors in undoped LEC InP

Undoped liquid encapsulated Czochralski (LEC) InP samples have been studied by Hall effect, glow discharge mass spectroscopy (GDMS) and infrared absorption spectroscopy. A systematic discrepancy has been found between the Han electron concentration and net donor concentration measured by GDMS. The electron concentration is always higher than the net shallow donor concentration by about (3-6)x10(15)cm(-3). A hydrogen indium vacancy complex donor defect VInH4 was detected regularly by infrared absorption spectroscopy in all undoped LEC InP samples. The fact can be explained by taking into account the existence of the donor defect in as-grown undoped LEC-InP.

Electronic investigation of self-organized InAs quantum dots

Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy (DLTS) has been applied to investigate the electronic properties of self-organized InAs quantum dots. The energies of electronic ground states of 2.5ML and 1.7ML InAs quantum dots (QDs) with respect to the conduction band of bulk GaAs are about 0.21 eV and 0.09 eV, respectively. We have found that QDs capture electrons by lattice relaxation through a multi-phonon emission process. The samples are QDs embedded in superlattices with or without a 500 Angstrom GaAs spacing layer between every ten periods of a couple of GaAs and InAs layers. The result shows that the density of dislocations in the samples with spacer layers is much lower than in the samples without the spacer layers.

甲基对硫磷水解酶结构和功能的研究

本研究以本实验室分离的有机磷农药高效降解菌Pseudomonas sp．WBC-3为材料，通过X-射线晶体学研究确定了甲基对硫磷水解酶（MPH）的三维结构，并在结构基础上探讨了甲基对硫磷水解酶的结构与功能的关系。利用生物信息学手段对Pseudomonas sP.WBC-3中的甲基对硫磷水解酶基因进行分析，推测论H的结构基因的编码序列为398-1393 bp，蛋白大小为331个氨基酸，且具有一个由35个氨基酸组成的信号肤。同时发现，MPH是一个不同于具有相似生物学功能的有机磷水解酶（OPH）的蛋白质，而且在PDB库中尚无与MPH同源性较高的蛋白结构。晶体的生长依赖于高纯度的蛋白质的获得。在本研究中，我们采用阳离子交换树脂和凝胶过滤两步纯化获得了纯度达95％以上的MPH溶液，并采用等离子体质谱仪测定MPH为含锌的金属酶。采用悬滴蒸汽扩散法获得了PI和P43212两种晶型的晶体以及硒标记的MPH晶体。在获得单晶以后，最终利用尸43212晶型的晶体通过多波长反常散射法（MAD）解析了MPH的三维结构。MPH的晶体结构为同源二聚体，具有与OPH类似的二价金属离子组成的活性中心：其中一个单体含有两个锌离子，另一个单体含有一个锌离子和一个锅离子；每个单体的两个金属离子通过AsP 151、His 152、His 302、His 147、His 149、His 234和A印255与蛋白质相连，一个H2O分子桥连于两个金属离子，还有一个H2O分子只与一个金属离子配位。在MPH三维结构知识的基础上，利用分子生物学手段对MPH活性中心附近可能的底物结合氨基酸位点进行了研究。通过定点突变获得了针对Trp179，Phe 196和Phe 119三个位点的六个突变体W179F、W179A、F196W、F196A、FllgW和Fll9A，系统比较了突变体与野生酶的催化动力学特点。结果表明Trp 179，Phel％是MPH活性中心的底物结合部位的关键氨基酸。而Phe 119在与底物结合中的作用不明显。