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Development and fabrication of improved Schottky power diodes
Reproducible methods for the fabrication of silicon Schottky diodes have been developed for tungsten, aluminum, conventional platinum silicide, and low temperature platinum silicide. Barrier heights and barrier lowering under reverse bias have been measured, permitting the accurate prediction of forward and reverse diode characteristics. Processing procedures have been developed that permit the fabrication of large area (about 1 sq cm) mesageometry power Schottky diodes with forward and reverse characteristics that approach theoretical values. A theoretical analysis of the operation of bridge rectifier circuits has been performed, which indicates the ranges of frequency and voltage for which Schottky rectifiers are preferred to p-n junctions. Power Schottky rectifiers have been fabricated and tested for voltage ratings up to 140 volts
Controlling Fast Chaos in Delay Dynamical Systems
We introduce a novel approach for controlling fast chaos in time-delay
dynamical systems and use it to control a chaotic photonic device with a
characteristic time scale of ~12 ns. Our approach is a prescription for how to
implement existing chaos control algorithms in a way that exploits the system's
inherent time-delay and allows control even in the presence of substantial
control-loop latency (the finite time it takes signals to propagate through the
components in the controller). This research paves the way for applications
exploiting fast control of chaos, such as chaos-based communication schemes and
stabilizing the behavior of ultrafast lasers.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Physical Review Letter
Size-Dependent Transition to High-Dimensional Chaotic Dynamics in a Two-Dimensional Excitable Medium
The spatiotemporal dynamics of an excitable medium with multiple spiral
defects is shown to vary smoothly with system size from short-lived transients
for small systems to extensive chaos for large systems. A comparison of the
Lyapunov dimension density with the average spiral defect density suggests an
average dimension per spiral defect varying between three and seven. We discuss
some implications of these results for experimental studies of excitable media.Comment: 5 pages, Latex, 4 figure
TOWARDS FULLY AUTOMATED DIGITAL ALIBIS WITH SOCIAL INTERACTION
Digital traces found on local hard drives as a result of online activities have become very valuable in reconstructing events in digital forensic investigations. This paper demonstrates that forged alibis can be created for online activities and social interactions. In particular, a novel, automated framework is presented that uses social interactions to create false digital alibis. The framework simulates user activity and supports communications via email as well as instant messaging using a chatbot. The framework is evaluated by extracting forensic artifacts and comparing them with the results obtained from a human user study
Isomorphism between Non-Riemannian gravity and Einstein-Proca-Weyl theories extended to a class of Scalar gravity theories
We extend the recently proved relation between certain models of
Non-Riemannian gravitation and Einstein- Proca-Weyl theories to a class of
Scalar gravity theories. This is used to present a Black-Hole Dilaton solution
with non-Riemannian connection.Comment: 13 pages, tex file, accepted in Class. Quant. Gra
Diffusion-induced vortex filament instability in 3-dimensional excitable media
We studied the stability of linear vortex filaments in 3-dimensional (3D)
excitable media, using both analytical and numerical methods. We found an
intrinsic 3D instability of vortex filaments that is diffusion-induced, and is
due to the slower diffusion of the inhibitor. This instability can result
either in a single helical filament or in chaotic scroll breakup, depending on
the specific kinetic model. When the 2-dimensional dynamics were in the chaotic
regime, filament instability occurred via on-off intermittency, a failure of
chaos synchronization in the third dimension.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, to appear in PRL (September, 1999
Prenatal Insecticide Exposures and Birth Weight and Length among an Urban Minority Cohort
We reported previously that insecticide exposures were widespread among minority women in New York City during pregnancy and that levels of the organophosphate chlorpyrifos in umbilical cord plasma were inversely associated with birth weight and length. Here we expand analyses to include additional insecticides (the organophosphate diazinon and the carbamate propoxur), a larger sample size (n = 314 motherânewborn pairs), and insecticide measurements in maternal personal air during pregnancy as well as in umbilical cord plasma at delivery. Controlling for potential confounders, we found no association between maternal personal air insecticide levels and birth weight, length, or head circumference. For each log unit increase in cord plasma chlorpyrifos levels, birth weight decreased by 42.6 g [95% confidence interval (CI), â81.8 to â3.8, p = 0.03] and birth length decreased by 0.24 cm (95% CI, â0.47 to â0.01, p = 0.04). Combined measures of (ln)cord plasma chlorpyrifos and diazinon (adjusted for relative potency) were also inversely associated with birth weight and length (p < 0.05). Birth weight averaged 186.3 g less (95% CI, â375.2 to â45.5) among newborns with the highest compared with lowest 26% of exposure levels (p = 0.01). Further, the associations between birth weight and length and cord plasma chlorpyrifos and diazinon were highly significant (p †0.007) among newborns born before the 2000â2001 U.S. Environmental Protection Agencyâs regulatory actions to phase out residential use of these insecticides. Among newborns born after January 2001, exposure levels were substantially lower, and no association with fetal growth was apparent (p > 0.8). The propoxur metabolite 2-isopropoxyphenol in cord plasma was inversely associated with birth length, a finding of borderline significance (p = 0.05) after controlling for chlorpyrifos and diazinon. Results indicate that prenatal chlorpyrifos exposures have impaired fetal growth among this minority cohort and that diazinon exposures may have contributed to the effects. Findings support recent regulatory action to phase out residential uses of the insecticides
Fluctuations in the Site Disordered Traveling Salesman Problem
We extend a previous statistical mechanical treatment of the traveling
salesman problem by defining a discrete "site disordered'' problem in which
fluctuations about saddle points can be computed. The results clarify the basis
of our original treatment, and illuminate but do not resolve the difficulties
of taking the zero temperature limit to obtain minimal path lengths.Comment: 17 pages, 3 eps figures, revte
BotSwindler: Tamper Resistant Injection of Believable Decoys in VM-Based Hosts for Crimeware Detection
We introduce BotSwindler, a bait injection system designed to delude and detect crimeware by forcing it to reveal during the exploitation of monitored information. The implementation of BotSwindler relies upon an out-of-host software agent that drives user-like interactions in a virtual machine, seeking to convince malware residing within the guest OS that it has captured legitimate credentials. To aid in the accuracy and realism of the simulations, we propose a low overhead approach, called virtual machine verification, for verifying whether the guest OS is in one of a predefined set of states. We present results from experiments with real credential-collecting malware that demonstrate the injection of monitored financial bait for detecting compromises. Additionally, using a computational analysis and a user study, we illustrate the believability of the simulations and we demonstrate that they are sufficiently human-like. Finally, we provide results from performance measurements to show our approach does not impose a performance burden
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