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High field CdS detector for infrared radiation
New and highly sensitive method of detecting infrared irradiation makes possible solid state infrared detector which is more sensitive near room temperature than usual photoconductive low band gap semiconductor devices. Reconfiguration of high field domains in cadmium sulphide crystals provides basis for discovery
High field CdS detector for infrared radiation
An infrared radiation detector including a cadmium sulfide platelet having a cathode formed on one of its ends and an anode formed on its other end is presented. The platelet is suitably doped such that stationary high-field domains are formed adjacent the cathode when based in the negative differential conductivity region. A negative potential is applied to the cathode such that a high-field domain is formed adjacent to the cathode. A potential measuring probe is located between the cathode and the anode at the edge of the high-field domain and means are provided for measuring the potential at the probe whereby this measurement is indicative of the infrared radiation striking the platelet
Near Horizon Limits of Massless BTZ and Their CFT Duals
We consider the massless BTZ black hole and show that it is possible to take
its "near horizon" limit in two distinct ways. The first one leads to a null
self-dual orbifold of AdS3 and the second to a spacelike singular AdS3/Z_K
orbifold in the large K limit, the "pinching orbifold". We show that from the
dual 2d CFT viewpoint, the null orbifold corresponds to the p^+=0 sector of the
Discrete Light-Cone Quantisation (DLCQ) of the 2d CFT where a chiral sector of
the CFT is decoupled, while the pinching orbifold corresponds to taking an
infinite mass gap limit in both the right and left sectors of the 2d CFT,
essentially leaving us with the states L_0=\bar L_0=c/24 only. In the latter
case, one can combine the near horizon limit with sending the 3d Planck length
l_P to zero, or equivalently the dual CFT central charge c to infinity. We
provide preliminary evidence that in that case some nontrivial dynamics may
survive the limit.Comment: 22 pages, no figures, v2: minor improvements, references adde
Space Charge Limited Transport and Time of Flight Measurements in Tetracene Single Crystals: a Comparative Study
We report on a systematic study of electronic transport in tetracene single
crystals by means of space charge limited current spectroscopy and time of
flight measurements. Both - and time of flight measurements show that the
room-temperature effective hole-mobility reaches values close to
cm/Vs and show that, within a range of temperatures, the mobility increases
with decreasing temperature. The experimental results further allow the
characterization of different aspects of the tetracene crystals. In particular,
the effects of both deep and shallow traps are clearly visible and can be used
to estimate their densities and characteristic energies. The results presented
in this paper show that the combination of - measurements and time of
flight spectroscopy is very effective in characterizing several different
aspects of electronic transport through organic crystals.Comment: Accepted by J. Appl. Phys.; tentatively scheduled for publication in
the January 15, 2004 issue; minor revisions compared to previous cond-mat
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Ar-40 to Ar-39 dating of pseudotachylites from the Witwatersrand basin, South Africa, with implications for the formation of the Vredefort Dome
The formation of the Vredefort Dome, a structure in excess of 100 km in diameter and located in the approximate center of the Witwatersrand basin, is still the subject of lively geological controversy. It is widely accepted that its formation seems to have taken place in a single sudden event, herein referred to as the Vredefort event, accompanied by the release of gigantic amounts of energy. It is debated, however, whether this central event was an internal one, i.e., a cryptoexplosion triggered by volcanic or tectonic processes, or the impact of an extraterrestrial body. The results of this debate are presented
Supersymmetry and LHC
The motivation for introduction of supersymmetry in high energy physics as
well as a possibility for supersymmetry discovery at LHC (Large Hadronic
Collider) are discussed. The main notions of the Minimal Supersymmetric
Standard Model (MSSM) are introduced. Different regions of parameter space are
analyzed and their phenomenological properties are compared. Discovery
potential of LHC for the planned luminosity is shown for different channels.
The properties of SUSY Higgs bosons are studied and perspectives of their
observation at LHC are briefly outlined.Comment: Lectures given at the 9th Moscow International School of Physics
(XXXIV ITEP Winter School of Physics
X-ray Damage and Annealing of These Defects in Cds Single Crystals Technical Report No. 1
X-ray damage and annealing of these defects in cadmium sulfide single crystal
Giant Gravitons, BPS bounds and Noncommutativity
It has been recently suggested that gravitons moving in
spacetimes along the blow up into spherical branes whose radius
increases with increasing angular momentum. This leads to an upper bound on the
angular momentum, thus ``explaining'' the stringy exclusion principle. We show
that this bound is present only for states which saturate a BPS-like condition
involving the energy and angular momentum , , where is
the radius of . Restriction of motion to such states lead to a
noncommutativity of the coordinates on . As an example of motions which do
not obey the exclusion principle bound, we show that there are finite action
instanton configurations interpolating between two possible BPS states. We
suggest that this is consistent with the proposal that there is an effective
description in terms of supergravity defined on noncommutative spaces and
noncommutativity arises here because of imposing supersymmetry.Comment: 15 pages, harvmac, corrected some typo
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