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Bubble-domain circuit wafer evaluation coil set
Coil structures have been designed to permit nondestructive testing of bubble wafers. Wafers can be electrically or optically inspected and operated from quasi-static frequency to maximum device operating frequency
Stripe-line coil for magnetic-field generation in bubble memory devices
Coil etched from conductive film has better field uniformity than wire-wound coils and less coil loss at high-frequency operation
Open coil structure for bubble-memory-device packaging
Concept has several important advantages over close-wound system: memory and coil chips are separate and interchangeable; interconnections in coil level are eliminated by packing memory chip and electronics in single structure; and coil size can be adjusted to optimum value in terms of power dissipation and field uniformity
Non-analyticity of the groud state energy of the Hamiltonian for Hydrogen atom in non-relativistic QED
We derive the ground state energy up to the fourth order in the fine
structure constant for the translation invariant Pauli-Fierz
Hamiltonian for a spinless electron coupled to the quantized radiation field.
As a consequence, we obtain the non-analyticity of the ground state energy of
the Pauli-Fierz operator for a single particle in the Coulomb field of a
nucleus
Permissive Controller Synthesis for Probabilistic Systems
We propose novel controller synthesis techniques for probabilistic systems
modelled using stochastic two-player games: one player acts as a controller,
the second represents its environment, and probability is used to capture
uncertainty arising due to, for example, unreliable sensors or faulty system
components. Our aim is to generate robust controllers that are resilient to
unexpected system changes at runtime, and flexible enough to be adapted if
additional constraints need to be imposed. We develop a permissive controller
synthesis framework, which generates multi-strategies for the controller,
offering a choice of control actions to take at each time step. We formalise
the notion of permissivity using penalties, which are incurred each time a
possible control action is disallowed by a multi-strategy. Permissive
controller synthesis aims to generate a multi-strategy that minimises these
penalties, whilst guaranteeing the satisfaction of a specified system property.
We establish several key results about the optimality of multi-strategies and
the complexity of synthesising them. Then, we develop methods to perform
permissive controller synthesis using mixed integer linear programming and
illustrate their effectiveness on a selection of case studies
Delayed fracture of silicon: Silicon sheet growth development for the large area silicon sheet task of the low cost silicon solar array project
Bar specimens were cut from ingots of single crystal silicon, and acid etched prior to testing. Artificial surface flaws were introduced in specimens by indentation with a Knoop hardness tester. The specimens were loaded in four-point bending to 95 percent of the nominal fracture stress, while keeping the surface area, containing the flaw, wet with test liquids. No evidence of delayed fracture, and, therefore stress corrosion, of single crystal silicon was observed for liquid environments including water, acetone, and aqueous solutions of NaCl, NH4OH, and HNO3, when tested with a flaw parallel to a (110) surface. The fracture toughness was calculated
Selecting between two transition states by which water oxidation intermediates on an oxide surface decay
While catalytic mechanisms on electrode surfaces have been proposed for
decades, the pathways by which the product's chemical bonds evolve from the
initial charge-trapping intermediates have not been resolved in time. Here, we
discover a reactive population of charge-trapping intermediates with states in
the middle of a semiconductor's band-gap to reveal the dynamics of two parallel
transition state pathways for their decay. Upon photo-triggering the water
oxidation reaction from the n-SrTiO3 surface with band-gap, pulsed excitation,
the intermediates' microsecond decay reflects transition state theory (TST)
through: (1) two distinct and reaction dependent (pH, T, Ionic Strength, and
H/D exchange) time constants, (2) a primary kinetic salt effect on each
activation barrier and an H/D kinetic isotope effect on one, and (3) realistic
activation barrier heights (0.4 - 0.5 eV) and TST pre-factors (10^11 - 10^12
Hz). A photoluminescence from midgap states in n-SrTiO3 reveals the reaction
dependent decay; the same spectrum was previously assigned by us to
hole-trapping at parallel Ti-O(dot)-Ti (bridge) and perpendicular Ti-O(dot)
(oxyl) O-sites using in situ ultrafast vibrational and optical spectroscopy.
Therefore, the two transition states are naturally associated with the decay of
these respective intermediates. Furthermore, we show that reaction conditions
select between the two pathways, one of which reflects a labile intermediate
facing the electrolyte (the oxyl) and the other a lattice oxygen (the bridge).
Altogether, we experimentally isolate an important activation barrier for water
oxidation, which is necessary for designing water oxidation catalysts with high
O2 turn over. Moreover, in isolating it, we identify competing mechanisms for
O2 evolution at surfaces and show how to use reaction conditions to select
between them
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