We claim:
1. A delivery comprising sheet brakes and sheet supports constructed of modules including respectively identical carrier modules and braking modules with operationally revolving braking elements, said braking modules being selectively connectable to said carrier modules, and support modules selectively connectable to said carrier modules.
2. The delivery according to claim 1, including a guide common to said carrier modules.
3. The delivery according to claim 2, including servodrives for moving said carrier modules along said guide.
4. The delivery according to claim 1, including a drive shaft common to said sheet brakes.
5. The delivery according to claim 4, wherein a respective sheet brake includes a gear mechanism for operatively connecting said braking element to said drive shaft, said gear mechanism being constructed so that it can slide in longitudinal direction of said drive shaft.
6. The delivery according to claim 5, wherein said gear mechanism is integrated into said braking module.
7. The delivery according to claim 5, including a coupling for disengaging the operative connection between said drive shaft and said braking element.
8. The delivery according to claim 7, wherein said coupling is constructed as a claw coupling, and has axially sprung claws.
9. The delivery according to claim 7, wherein said gear mechanism is integrated into said carrier module.
10. The delivery according to claim 7, including a guide common to said carrier modules, one of said carrier modules being separably composed of a basic module movable along said common guide and a gear mechanism module comprising said gear mechanism, one module of said braking modules and said support modules being selectively detachably connectable to said gear mechanism module.
11. The delivery according to claim 1, including lockable plug-in connections for assembling respective modules for forming one of said sheet brakes and said sheet supports.
12. The delivery according to claim 1, including a first suction duct provided in said braking module, and a second suction duct provided in a module for carrying said braking module, said second suction duct being connectable to a suction line, and being closable, said second suction duct communicating with said first suction duct, in a completed state of said sheet brake.
13. The delivery according to claim 12, including a suction line detachably connected to said suction duct and to a machine-side blind plug, to which said suction line is pluggable after the connection thereof to said suction duct has been detached.
14. The delivery according to claim 1, including a latch bringable into and out of engagement with said drive shaft and, when engaged therewith, securing it against axial displacement, an end of said drive shaft being exposable when said latch is disengaged from said drive shaft.
15. The delivery according to claim 1, wherein one of said support modules comprises a tail wheel device.
16. The delivery according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said supporting modules serves for applying blast air locally to an underside of a respective sheet.
17. A sheet-processing machine having a delivery comprising sheet brakes and sheet supports constructed of modules including respectively identical carrier modules and braking modules with operationally revolving braking elements, said braking modules being selectively connectable to said carrier modules, and support modules selectively connectable to said carrier modules.
18. A rotary printing machine having a delivery comprising sheet brakes and sheet supports constructed of modules including respectively identical carrier modules and braking modules with operationally revolving braking elements, said braking modules being selectively connectable to said carrier modules, and support modules selectively connectable to said carrier modules.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A growth confinement structure for forming crystalline germanium material comprising:
a substrate;
a lower growth confinement layer selected from the group consisting of silicon dioxide, silicon nitride, aluminum oxide, and hafnium oxide, disposed on a surface of the substrate;
an upper growth confinement layer selected from the group consisting of silicon dioxide, silicon nitride, aluminum oxide, and hafnium oxide, disposed above and vertically separated from the lower growth confinement layer;
a planar lateral growth channel, between the upper and lower growth confinement layers, having a channel height that is the vertical separation between the upper and lower growth confinement layers along the lateral growth channel;
a germanium material growth seed of amorphous silicon that is not from the substrate, the growth seed being disposed at a site adjacent to the lateral growth channel and not present on the upper and lower growth confinement layers in the lateral growth channel, wherein the upper growth confinement layer and the lower growth confinement layer each prohibits crystalline germanium material nucleation on the upper and lower growth confinement layers during exposure to GeH4 gas, for crystalline germanium material growth initiation in the lateral growth channel only at the growth seed site;
crystalline germanium material filling the lateral growth channel; and
a growth channel outlet for providing formed crystalline germanium material from the lateral growth channel.
2. The growth confinement structure of claim 1 further comprising crystalline germanium material outside of the growth channel and adjacent to the growth channel outlet on the lower growth confinement layer.
3. The growth confinement structure of claim 1 further comprising first and second growth confinement sidewalls, of a sidewall material selected from the group consisting of silicon dioxide, silicon nitride, aluminum oxide, and hafnium oxide, and each of the first and second growth confinement sidewalls extending from the growth seed to the growth channel outlet.
4. The growth confinement structure of claim 1 wherein the channel height is equal to a distance between first and second growth confinement sidewalls, of a sidewall material selected from the group consisting of silicon dioxide, silicon nitride, aluminum oxide, and hafnium oxide, and each of the first and second growth confinement sidewalls extending from the growth seed to the growth channel outlet.
5. The growth confinement structure of claim 1 wherein the growth channel includes at least one corner at a point along a path of the lateral growth channel.
6. The growth confinement structure of claim 1 wherein the substrate comprises a material selected from the group consisting of silicon, quartz, and alumina.
7. The growth confinement structure of claim 1 wherein the channel height is substantially equal to a height of the growth seed.
8. The growth confinement structure of claim 1 wherein the crystalline germanium material filling the lateral growth channel comprises germanium doped with a dopant selected from the group consisting of carbon and tin.
9. The growth confinement structure of claim 1 wherein the crystalline germanium material filling the lateral growth channel comprises single germanium crystals having a (110) orientation.
10. The growth confinement structure of claim 1 wherein the crystalline germanium at the growth channel outlet is monocrystalline germanium.