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Monadicity of the Bousfield-Kuhn functor
We consider the localization of the -category of spaces at the -periodic equivalences, the case being rational homotopy theory. We prove that this localization is for equivalent to algebras over a certain monad on the -category of -local spectra. This monad is built from the Bousfield--Kuhn functor
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Top-Gated Chemical Vapor Deposited Mos2 Field-Effect Transistors On Si3N4 Substrates
We report the electrical characteristics of chemical vapor deposited (CVD) monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) top-gated field-effect transistors (FETs) on silicon nitride (Si3N4) substrates. We show that Si3N4 substrates offer comparable electrical performance to thermally grown SiO2 substrates for MoS2 FETs, offering an attractive passivating substrate for transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMD) with a smooth surface morphology. Single-crystal MoS2 grains are grown via vapor transport process using solid precursors directly on low pressure CVD Si3N4, eliminating the need for transfer processes which degrade electrical performance. Monolayer top-gated MoS2 FETs with Al2O3 gate dielectric on Si3N4 achieve a room temperature mobility of 24 cm(2)/V s with I-on/I-off current ratios exceeding 10(7). Using HfO2 as a gate dielectric, monolayer top-gated CVD MoS2 FETs on Si3N4 achieve current densities of 55 mu A/mu m and a transconductance of 6.12 mu S/mu m at V-tg of -5V and V-ds of 2V. We observe an increase in mobility at lower temperatures, indicating phonon scattering may dominate over charged impurity scattering in our devices. Our results show that Si3N4 is an attractive alternative to thermally grown SiO2 substrate for TMD FETs. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.STTR programNSF NASCENT ERCArmy Research Office under STTR W911NF-14-P-0030Microelectronics Research Cente
Structure and lattice dynamics of the wide band gap semiconductors MgSiN and MgGeN
We have determined the structural and lattice dynamical properties of the
orthorhombic, wide band gap semiconductors MgSiN and MgGeN using
density functional theory. In addition, we present structural properties and
Raman spectra of a MgSiN powder. The structural properties and lattice
dynamics of the orthorhombic systems are compared to wurtzite AlN. We find
clear differences in the lattice dynamics between MgSiN, MgGeN and
AlN, for example we find that the highest phonon frequency in MgSiN is
about 100~cm higher than the highest frequency in AlN and that
MgGeN is much softer. We also provide the Born effective charge tensors
and dielectric tensors of MgSiN, MgGeN and AlN. Phonon related
thermodynamic properties, such as the heat capacity and entropy, are in very
good agreement with available experimental results.Comment: 9 pages, 11 figures, 6 table
Effects of quantized fields on the spacetime geometries of static spherically symmetric black holes
Analytic approximations for the stress-energy of quantized fields in the
Hartle-Hawking state in static black hole spacetimes predict divergences on the
event horizon of the black hole for a number of important cases. Such
divergences, if real, could substantially alter the spacetime geometry near the
event horizon, possibly preventing the black hole from existing. The results of
three investigations of these types of effects are presented. The first
involves a new analytic approximation for conformally invariant fields in
Reissner-Nordstrom spacetimes which is finite on the horizon. The second
focuses on the stress-energy of massless scalar fields in Schwarzschild-de
Sitter black holes. The third focuses on the stress-energy of massless scalar
fields in zero temperature black hole geometries that could be solutions to the
semiclassical backreaction equations near the event horizon of the black hole.Comment: 5 pages. To appear in the "Proceedings of the Eleventh Marcel
Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity", July 2006, Berlin, German
Altered vitamin B12 metabolism in the central nervous system is associated with the modification of ribosomal gene expression: new insights from comparative RNA dataset analysis
Recent studies have confirmed the direct role of vitamin B12 (VitB12) in the central nervous system (CNS) homeostasis; nevertheless, the detailed mechanisms are poorly understood. By analyzing RNA-Seq and microarray datasets obtained from databanks, this study aims to identify possible basic mechanisms, related to the brain, involved in altering the gene expression under VitB12 deficiency mimicking conditions. The database inquiry returned datasets generated from distinctly heterogeneous experimental sets and considering the quality and relevance requirements, two datasets from mouse and one from rat models were selected. The analyses of individual datasets highlighted a change in ribosomal gene expression in VitB12 deficiency mimicking conditions within each system. Specifically, a divergent regulation was observed depending on the animal model: mice showed a down regulation of the ribosomal gene expression, while rats an upregulation. Interestingly, E2f1 was significantly upregulated under VitB12 deficiency mimicking conditions in the animal models, with a greater upregulation in rats. The rat model also revealed putative E2F1 Transcription Factor Binding Sites (TFBSs) in the promoter of the differently regulated genes involved in ribosomal gene expression. This suggested the possibility that E2F1, being greater expressed in rats, could activate the ribosomal genes having E2F1 TFBSs, thus giving a plausible explication to the divergent regulation observed in animal models. Despite the great diversity of the experimental sets used to generate the datasets considered, a common alteration of the ribosomes exists, thereby indicating a possible basic and conserved response to VitB12 deficiency. Moreover, these findings could provide new insights on E2F1 and its association with CNS homeostasis and VitB12 deficiency
Properties of Umbral Dots from Stray Light Corrected Hinode Filtergrams
High resolution blue continuum filtergrams from Hinode are employed to study
the umbral fine structure of a regular unipolar sunspot. The removal of
scattered light from the images increases the rms contrast by a factor of 1.45
on average. Improvement in image contrast renders identification of short
filamentary structures resembling penumbrae that are well separated from the
umbra-penumbra boundary and comprise bright filaments/grains flanking dark
filaments. Such fine structures were recently detected from ground based
telescopes and have now been observed with Hinode. A multi-level tracking
algorithm was used to identify umbral dots in both the uncorrected and
corrected images and to track them in time. The distribution of the values
describing the photometric and geometric properties of umbral dots are more
easily affected by the presence of stray light while it is less severe in the
case of kinematic properties. Statistically, umbral dots exhibit a peak
intensity, effective diameter, lifetime, horizontal speed and a trajectory
length of 0.29 I_QS, 272 km, 8.4 min, 0.45 km/s and 221 km respectively. The 2
hr 20 min time sequence depicts several locations where umbral dots tend to
appear and disappear repeatedly with various time intervals. The correction for
scattered light in the Hinode filtergrams facilitates photometry of umbral fine
structure which can be related to results obtained from larger telescopes and
numerical simulations.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ : 10 pages, 10 figures, 3 table
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