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Efficient and realistic device modeling from atomic detail to the nanoscale
As semiconductor devices scale to new dimensions, the materials and designs
become more dependent on atomic details. NEMO5 is a nanoelectronics modeling
package designed for comprehending the critical multi-scale, multi-physics
phenomena through efficient computational approaches and quantitatively
modeling new generations of nanoelectronic devices as well as predicting novel
device architectures and phenomena. This article seeks to provide updates on
the current status of the tool and new functionality, including advances in
quantum transport simulations and with materials such as metals, topological
insulators, and piezoelectrics.Comment: 10 pages, 12 figure
Night sky at the Indian Astronomical Observatory during 2000-2008
We present an analysis of the optical night sky brightness and extinction
coefficient measurements in UBVRI at the Indian Astronomical Observatory (IAO),
Hanle, during the period 2003-2008. They are obtained from an analysis of CCD
images acquired at the 2 m Himalayan Chandra Telescope at IAO. Night sky
brightness was estimated using 210 HFOSC images obtained on 47 nights and
covering the declining phase of solar activity cycle-23. The zenith corrected
values of the moonless night sky brightness in mag/square arcsecs are 22.14(U),
22.42(B), 21.28(V), 20.54(R) and 18.86(I) band. This shows that IAO is a dark
site for optical observations. No clear dependency of sky brightness with solar
activity is found. Extinction values at IAO are derived from an analysis of
1325 images over 58 nights. They are found to be 0.36 in U-band, 0.21 in
B-band, 0.12 in V-band, 0.09 in R-band and 0.05 in I-band. On average,
extinction during the summer months is slightly larger than that during the
winter months. No clear evidence for a correlation between extinction in all
bands and the average night time wind speed is found. Also presented here is
the low resolution moonless optical night sky spectrum for IAO covering the
wavelength range 3000-9300 \AA. Hanle region thus has the required
characteristics of a good astronomical site in terms of night sky brightness
and extinction, and could be a natural candidate site for any future large
aperture Indian optical-infrared telescope(s).Comment: 18 pages, 7 figures, uses basi.cls, accepted for publication in
Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of Indi
Cocoa Care - An Android Application for Cocoa Disease Identification
India is an agricultural country. The correct and timely identification of diseases in crops is very much essential in agriculture. To obtain more valuable products, a product quality control is basically mandatory. Cocoa is an economically important crop that nowadays enlarges its production in southern India. To assist the farmers growing cocoa, we developed an android application Cocoa-Care. This application automatically identifies the diseases of cocoa crops, thereby helps the farmers who have little or no information about the disease. This application is developed by applying digital image processing techniques on the diseased cocoa images. Our approach replaces the manual disease inspection by the android application that identifies the cocoa disease from the captured image and suggests the possible remedies for the farmer. We used moment based texture features for the image representation and description. The matching is performed by nearest neighbor classifier. The results obtained are promising and this application can be used in the real time
Role of neutron transfer in the reaction mechanism of Be+Tm, Ta, Re and Au systems
The contribution of one neutron stripping cross section to the total reaction
cross section has been studied for Be projectile incident on Tm,
Ta, Re and Au targets around Coulomb barrier energy.
The measured one neutron stripping cross sections for these systems have been
compared with the coupled channel calculations. The recently developed global
set of optical model potential parameters for Be projectile has been used
in the present calculations. The cumulative of measured complete fusion (CF),
incomplete fusion (ICF), one neutron stripping and calculated non-capture
breakup (NCBU) cross sections is found to explain almost the reaction cross
sections for all the targets. A very small contribution from target inelastic
states and elastic breakup may contribute to the remaining part. The percentage
fraction of cross section for CF, ICF, one neutron stripping, and NCBU over
reaction cross section show the dominance of neutron transfer and NCBU at below
barrier energies while CF and ICF processes have the major contribution at
above barrier energies.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figure
Acoustic-Phonon Mediated Cyclotron Resonance Power Absorption in Zinc Oxide Free-Standing Nanostructure
157-162The phenomenon of cyclotron resonance power absorption when electrons are scattered by acoustic-phonons in ZnO free standing nanostructure (FSNS) is presented. The calculation is based on quantum mechanical perturbation technique. The dependence of power absorption on frequency, magnetic field, temperature and thickness of the FSNS is presented. FWHM or line-width of the resonance power absorption peaks is calculated using profile method and the influence of magnetic field, temperature and thickness of the FSNS is investigated, that the line-width is proportional to magnetic field whereas it is independent of temperature and thickness of FSNS. This theoretical analysis gives insights about magneto-optical properties of FSNS of ZnO which is essential for further experimental investigations
Acid-base properties of Cu<SUB>1-x</SUB>Co<SUB>x</SUB>Fe<SUB>2</SUB>O<SUB>4</SUB> ferrospinels: FTIR investigations
Systematic IR spectroscopic studies were undertaken to investigate the acid-base properties of Cu-Co ferrospinels Cu1-xCoxFe2O4 (x=0 to 1) employed in phenol methylation to produce 2,6-xylenol. The IR spectra of the ferrospinels reveal that Fe3+ and Co2+ ions are mainly responsible for the various hydroxy groups on the surface. Temperature dependent IR studies of pyridine adsorbed on spinels and on the spinel phase with deliberately added metal oxide exemplify the contribution of the metal ions and their coordination state towards Lewis acidity. IR studies of the spinel surface with adsorbed CO2 and adsorption studies of electron acceptors such as 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane, 2,3,5,6-tetrachloro-1-4-benzoquinone and p-dinitrobenzene were carried out to evaluate the nature of the basic sites and the strength and distribution of the electron donor sites present on the spinel surface. It was found that the acidity (basicity) of the Cu1-xCoxFe2O4 spinel system increases (decreases) from x=0 to 1. A correlation between acidity, basicity and catalytic performance reveals that an intermediate acid-base character enhances the phenol methylation activity
Effect of charge distribution on the translocation of an inhomogeneously charged polymer through a nanopore
We investigate the voltage-driven translocation of an inhomogeneously charged
polymer through a nanopore by utilizing discrete and continuous stochastic
models. As a simplified illustration of the effect of charge distribution on
translocation, we consider the translocation of a polymer with a single charged
site in the presence and absence of interactions between the charge and the
pore. We find that the position of the charge that minimizes the translocation
time in the absence of pore--polymer interactions is determined by the entropic
cost of translocation, with the optimum charge position being at the midpoint
of the chain for a rodlike polymer and close to the leading chain end for an
ideal chain. The presence of attractive or repulsive pore--charge interactions
yields a shift in the optimum charge position towards the trailing end and the
leading end of the chain, respectively. Moreover, our results show that strong
attractive or repulsive interactions between the charge and the pore lengthen
the translocation time relative to translocation through an inert pore. We
generalize our results to accommodate the presence of multiple charged sites on
the polymer. Our results provide insight into the effect of charge
inhomogeneity on protein translocation through biological membranes.Comment: Submitted to Journal of Chemical Physic
Oral candidiasis in Chikungunya viral fever: a case report
A 32 year old Indian male patient presented with chief complaints of a high fever, erythema on ear, severe polyarthritic joint pains & swelling, non pitting pedal oedema, facial puffiness and itching for past four days. He had no significant past medical and drug history and was serologically confirmed to have Chikungunya. Oral cavity inspection revealed whitish non erythematous pseudo membranous plaques on the hard palate, buccal surface of cheek and the floor of the mouth which was later microbiologically confirmed as Candidiasis. He tested negative for HIV and had leucopenia with severe CD4 T-lymphocytopenia. This is the first report of an opportunistic infection with CD4 T-lymphocytopaenia in Chikungunya fever
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