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Modelling the injured spinal cord using 3-dimensional cell cultures; strategies for improving tissue engineered repair
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Binary mixture of hard disks as a model glass former: Caging and uncaging
I have proposed a measure for the cage effect in glass forming systems. A
binary mixture of hard disks is numerically studied as a model glass former. A
network is constructed on the basis of the colliding pairs of disks. A rigidity
matrix is formed from the isostatic (rigid) sub--network, corresponding to a
cage. The determinant of the matrix changes its sign when an uncaging event
occurs. Time evolution of the number of the uncaging events is determined
numerically. I have found that there is a gap in the uncaging timescales
between the cages involving different numbers of disks. Caging of one disk by
two neighboring disks sustains for a longer time as compared with other cages
involving more than one disk. This gap causes two--step relaxation of this
system
Hall mobility enhancement caused by annealing of Si0.2Ge0.8/Si0.7Ge0.3/Si(001) p-type modulation-doped heterostructures
The effect of post-growth furnace thermal annealing (FTA) on the Hall mobility and sheet carrier density measured at 9–300 K in the Si0.2Ge0.8/Si0.7Ge0.3/Si(001) p-type modulation-doped heterostructures was studied. FTA treatments in the temperature range of 600–900 °C for 30 min were performed on similar heterostructures but with two Si0.2Ge0.8 channel thicknesses. The annealing at 600 °C is seen to have a negligible effect on the Hall mobility as well as on the sheet carrier density. Increases in the annealing temperature resulted in pronounced successive increases of the mobility. For both samples the maximum Hall mobility was observed after FTA at 750 °C. Further increases of the annealing temperature resulted in a decrease in mobility. The sheet carrier density showed the opposite behavior with an increase in annealing temperature. The mechanism causing this behavior is discussed. Structural characterization of as-grown and annealed samples was done by cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy
A Low Noise Receiver for Submillimeter Astronomy
A broadband, low noise heterodyne receiver, suitable for astronomical use, has been built using a Pb alloy superconducting tunnel junction (SIS). The RF coupling is quasioptical via a bowtie antenna on a quartz lens and is accomplished without any tuning elements. In its preliminary version the double sideband receiver noise temperature rises from 205 K at 116 GHz to 815 K at 466 GHz. This is the most sensitive broadband receiver yet reported for sub-mm wavelengths. Its multi-octave sensitivity and low local oscillator power requirements make this receiver ideal for remote ground observatories or space-borne telescopes such as NASA's Large Deployable Reflector. A version of this receiver is now being built for NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory
Issues on the molecular-beam epitaxial growth of p-SiGe inverted-modulation-doped structures
The influence of boron segregation and silicon cap-layer thickness on two-dimensional hole gases (2-DHGs) has been investigated in Si/Si0.8Ge0.2/Si inverted-modulation-doped heterostructures grown by solid-source molecular-beam epitaxy. Boron segregation, which is significant in structures with small spacer layers, can be suppressed by growth interruption after the boron doping. How growth interruption affected the electrical properties of the 2-DHG and the boron doping profile as measured by secondary ion mass spectroscopy are reported. We report also on the role played by the unpassivated silicon cap, and compare carrier transport at the normal and inverted interfaces
Anomalous optical absorption in a random system with scale-free disorder
We report on an anomalous behavior of the absorption spectrum in a
one-dimensional lattice with long-range-correlated diagonal disorder with a
power-like spectrum in the form S(k) ~ 1/k^A. These type of correlations give
rise to a phase of extended states at the band center, provided A is larger
than a critical value A_c. We show that for A < A_c the absorption spectrum is
single-peaked, while an additional peak arises when A > A_c, signalling the
occurrence of the Anderson transition. The peak is located slightly below the
low-energy mobility edge, providing a unique spectroscopic tool to monitor the
latter. We present qualitative arguments explaining this anomaly.Comment: 4 pages, 4 postscript figures, uses revtex
Nonlinear Transport Near a Quantum Phase Transition in Two Dimensions
The problem of non-linear transport near a quantum phase transition is solved
within the Landau theory for the dissipative insulator-superconductor phase
transition in two dimensions. Using the non-equilibrium Schwinger round-trip
Green function formalism, we obtain the scaling function for the non-linear
conductivity in the quantum disordered regime. We find that the conductivity
scales as at low field but crosses over at large fields to a universal
constant on the order of . The crossover between these two regimes
obtains when the length scale for the quantum fluctuations becomes comparable
to that of the electric field within logarithmic accuracy.Comment: 4.15 pages, no figure
Enhancement and evaluation of Skylab photography for potential land use inventories, part 1
The author has identified the following significant results. Three sites were evaluated for land use inventory: Finger Lakes - Tompkins County, Lower Hudson Valley - Newburgh, and Suffolk County - Long Island. Special photo enhancement processes were developed to standardize the density range and contrast among S190A negatives. Enhanced black and white enlargements were converted to color by contact printing onto diazo film. A color prediction model related the density values on each spectral band for each category of land use to the spectral properties of the various diazo dyes. The S190A multispectral system proved to be almost as effective as the S190B high resolution camera for inventorying land use. Aggregate error for Level 1 averaged about 12% while Level 2 aggregate error averaged about 25%. The S190A system proved to be much superior to LANDSAT in inventorying land use, primarily because of increased resolution
VLA OH and H I Zeeman Observations of the NGC 6334 Complex
We present OH and H I Zeeman observations of the NGC 6334 complex taken with
the Very Large Array. The OH absorption profiles associated with the complex
are relatively narrow (del-v_FWHM ~ 3 km s^1) and single-peaked over most of
the sources. The H I absorption profiles contain several blended velocity
components. One of the compact continuum sources in the complex (source A) has
a bipolar morphology. The OH absorption profiles toward this source display a
gradient in velocity from the northern continuum lobe to the southern continuum
lobe; this velocity gradient likely indicates a bipolar outflow of molecular
gas from the central regions to the northern and southern lobes. Magnetic
fields of the order of 200 microG have been detected toward three discrete
continuum sources in the complex. Virial estimates suggest that the detected
magnetic fields in these sources are of the same order as the critical magnetic
fields required to support the molecular clouds associated with the sources
against gravitational collapse.Comment: 14 pages, 9 postscript figures, accepted for publication in the
Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), tentatively scheduled for vol. 533, Apr. 20,
2000; also available at
http://www.pa.uky.edu/~sarma/RESEARCH/aps_research.htm
Direct evidence for a piezoelectriclike effect in coherently strained SiGe/Si heterostructures
A hybrid acoustic spectroscopy technique has been used to demonstrate the (reversible) conversion of high frequency electric fields into longitudinal acoustic waves within a modulation-doped pseudomorphic Si/Si0.88Ge0.12/Si heterostructure. This provides compelling evidence for the existence of a piezoelectriclike coupling within such structures
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