Zinc oxide thin-film transistors fabricated at low temperature by chemical spray pyrolysis

We report the electrical behavior of undoped zinc oxide thin-film transistors (TFTs) fabricated by low-temperature chemical spray pyrolysis. An aerosol system utilizing aerodynamic focusing was used to deposit the ZnO. Polycrystalline films were subsequently formed by annealing at the relatively low temperature of 140°C. The saturation mobility of the TFTs was 2 cm2/Vs, which is the highest reported for undoped ZnO TFTs manufactured below 150°C. The devices also had an on/off ratio of 104 and a threshold voltage of −3.5 V. These values were found to depend reversibly on measurement conditions

Effects of hydrogen plasma treatment on the electrical behavior of solution-processed ZnO transistors

The effects of hydrogen plasma treatment on the active layer of top-contact zinc oxide thin film transistors are reported. The transfer characteristics of the reference devices exhibited large hysteresis effects and an increasing positive threshold voltage (VTH) shift on repeated measurements. In contrast, following the plasma processing, the corresponding characteristics of the transistors exhibited negligible hysteresis and a very small VTH shift; the devices also possessed higher field effect carrier mobility values. These results were attributed to the presence of functional groups in the vicinity of the semiconductor/gate insulator interface, which prevents the formation of an effective channel

The project of a high-power FEL driven by an SC ERL at KAERI

The project of a high-power FEL at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute and its recent status are described. The FEL is driven by a superconducting energy recovery linac. The first-stage machine will operate in the far IR region and its CW power is expected to be a few kW. Possible upgrade of the machine is also considered. The upgraded machine will operate in the near IR region and its expected power is a few tens kW.Описан проект мощного ЛСЭ в Корейском институте атомной энергии, а также текущее состояние дел. В ЛСЭ будет использован сверхпроводящий линак-рекуператор. Машина первой очереди будет работать в дальнем ИК-диапазоне, ее ожидаемая средняя мощность несколько киловатт. Рассматривается возможная модернизация машины. Модернизированная машина будет генерировать десятки киловатт средней мощности в ближнем ИК-диапазоне.Описано проект потужного ЛВЕ в Корейському інституті атомної енергії, а також поточний стан справ. У ЛВЕ буде використаний надпровідний лінак-рекуператор. Машина першої черги буде працювати в далекому ІЧ-діапазоні, її очікувана середня потужність − кілька кіловат. Розглядається можлива модернізація машини. Модернізована машина буде генерувати десятки кіловатів середньої потужності в ближньому ІЧ-діапазоні

Efficient exploration of unknown indoor environments using a team of mobile robots

Whenever multiple robots have to solve a common task, they need to coordinate their actions to carry out the task efficiently and to avoid interferences between individual robots. This is especially the case when considering the problem of exploring an unknown environment with a team of mobile robots. To achieve efficient terrain coverage with the sensors of the robots, one first needs to identify unknown areas in the environment. Second, one has to assign target locations to the individual robots so that they gather new and relevant information about the environment with their sensors. This assignment should lead to a distribution of the robots over the environment in a way that they avoid redundant work and do not interfere with each other by, for example, blocking their paths. In this paper, we address the problem of efficiently coordinating a large team of mobile robots. To better distribute the robots over the environment and to avoid redundant work, we take into account the type of place a potential target is located in (e.g., a corridor or a room). This knowledge allows us to improve the distribution of robots over the environment compared to approaches lacking this capability. To autonomously determine the type of a place, we apply a classifier learned using the AdaBoost algorithm. The resulting classifier takes laser range data as input and is able to classify the current location with high accuracy. We additionally use a hidden Markov model to consider the spatial dependencies between nearby locations. Our approach to incorporate the information about the type of places in the assignment process has been implemented and tested in different environments. The experiments illustrate that our system effectively distributes the robots over the environment and allows them to accomplish their mission faster compared to approaches that ignore the place labels

The project of a high-power FEL driven by an SC ERL at KAERI

The project of a high-power FEL at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute and its recent status are described. The FEL is driven by a superconducting energy recovery linac. The first-stage machine will operate in the far IR region and its CW power is expected to be a few kW. Possible upgrade of the machine is also considered. The upgraded machine will operate in the near IR region and its expected power is a few tens kW.Описан проект мощного ЛСЭ в Корейском институте атомной энергии, а также текущее состояние дел. В ЛСЭ будет использован сверхпроводящий линак-рекуператор. Машина первой очереди будет работать в дальнем ИК-диапазоне, ее ожидаемая средняя мощность несколько киловатт. Рассматривается возможная модернизация машины. Модернизированная машина будет генерировать десятки киловатт средней мощности в ближнем ИК-диапазоне.Описано проект потужного ЛВЕ в Корейському інституті атомної енергії, а також поточний стан справ. У ЛВЕ буде використаний надпровідний лінак-рекуператор. Машина першої черги буде працювати в далекому ІЧ-діапазоні, її очікувана середня потужність − кілька кіловат. Розглядається можлива модернізація машини. Модернізована машина буде генерувати десятки кіловатів середньої потужності в ближньому ІЧ-діапазоні

Realistic Equations of State for the Primeval Universe

Early universe equations of state including realistic interactions between constituents are built up. Under certain reasonable assumptions, these equations are able to generate an inflationary regime prior to the nucleosynthesis period. The resulting accelerated expansion is intense enough to solve the flatness and horizon problems. In the cases of curvature parameter \kappa equal to 0 or +1, the model is able to avoid the initial singularity and offers a natural explanation for why the universe is in expansion.Comment: 32 pages, 5 figures. Citations added in this version. Accepted EPJ

Hunt for new phenomena using large jet multiplicities and missing transverse momentum with ATLAS in 4.7 fb−1 of s√=7TeV proton-proton collisions

Results are presented of a search for new particles decaying to large numbers of jets in association with missing transverse momentum, using 4.7 fb−1 of pp collision data at s√=7TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in 2011. The event selection requires missing transverse momentum, no isolated electrons or muons, and from ≥6 to ≥9 jets. No evidence is found for physics beyond the Standard Model. The results are interpreted in the context of a MSUGRA/CMSSM supersymmetric model, where, for large universal scalar mass m 0, gluino masses smaller than 840 GeV are excluded at the 95% confidence level, extending previously published limits. Within a simplified model containing only a gluino octet and a neutralino, gluino masses smaller than 870 GeV are similarly excluded for neutralino masses below 100 GeV

Measurements of Higgs boson production and couplings in diboson final states with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Measurements are presented of production properties and couplings of the recently discovered Higgs boson using the decays into boson pairs, H →γ γ, H → Z Z∗ →4l and H →W W∗ →lνlν. The results are based on the complete pp collision data sample recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider at centre-of-mass energies of √s = 7 TeV and √s = 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 25 fb−1. Evidence for Higgs boson production through vector-boson fusion is reported. Results of combined fits probing Higgs boson couplings to fermions and bosons, as well as anomalous contributions to loop-induced production and decay modes, are presented. All measurements are consistent with expectations for the Standard Model Higgs boson

Standalone vertex finding in the ATLAS muon spectrometer

A dedicated reconstruction algorithm to find decay vertices in the ATLAS muon spectrometer is presented. The algorithm searches the region just upstream of or inside the muon spectrometer volume for multi-particle vertices that originate from the decay of particles with long decay paths. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated using both a sample of simulated Higgs boson events, in which the Higgs boson decays to long-lived neutral particles that in turn decay to bbar b final states, and pp collision data at √s = 7 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC during 2011

Measurement of the top quark-pair production cross section with ATLAS in pp collisions at \sqrt{s}=7\TeV

A measurement of the production cross-section for top quark pairs(\ttbar) in $pp$ collisions at \sqrt{s}=7 \TeV is presented using data recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events are selected in two different topologies: single lepton (electron $e$ or muon $\mu$) with large missing transverse energy and at least four jets, and dilepton ($ee$, $\mu\mu$ or $e\mu$) with large missing transverse energy and at least two jets. In a data sample of 2.9 pb-1, 37 candidate events are observed in the single-lepton topology and 9 events in the dilepton topology. The corresponding expected backgrounds from non-\ttbar Standard Model processes are estimated using data-driven methods and determined to be $12.2 \pm 3.9$ events and $2.5 \pm 0.6$ events, respectively. The kinematic properties of the selected events are consistent with SM \ttbar production. The inclusive top quark pair production cross-section is measured to be \sigmattbar=145 \pm 31 ^{+42}_{-27} pb where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. The measurement agrees with perturbative QCD calculations.Comment: 30 pages plus author list (50 pages total), 9 figures, 11 tables, CERN-PH number and final journal adde