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InGaAs implant-free quantum-well MOSFETs: performance evaluation using 3D Monte Carlo simulation
In this paper we use numerical simulations to evaluate the performance of III-V Implant-Free Quantum-Well
(IFQW) MOSFET devices that offer simultaneously high channel mobility, high drive current and excellent
electrostatic integrity. Using 3D Monte Carlo simulations we show that to fully understand the performance of
this device architecture, Fermi-Dirac statistics and quantum-corrections must be considered to account for the
impact of low density-of-states and quantum confinement in the channel layer respectively
Metal-Insulator Transition of the LaAlO3-SrTiO3 Interface Electron System
We report on a metal-insulator transition in the LaAlO3-SrTiO3 interface
electron system, of which the carrier density is tuned by an electric gate
field. Below a critical carrier density n_c ranging from 0.5-1.5 * 10^13/cm^2,
LaAlO3-SrTiO3 interfaces, forming drain-source channels in field-effect devices
are non-ohmic. The differential resistance at zero channel bias diverges within
a 2% variation of the carrier density. Above n_c, the conductivity of the ohmic
channels has a metal-like temperature dependence, while below n_c conductivity
sets in only above a threshold electric field. For a given thickness of the
LaAlO3 layer, the conductivity follows a sigma_0 ~(n - n_c)/n_c characteristic.
The metal-insulator transition is found to be distinct from that of the
semiconductor 2D systems.Comment: 4 figure
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Dynamic Tobit models
Score-driven models provide a solution to the problem of modelling time series when the observations are subject to censoring and location and/or scale may change over time. The method applies to generalized-t and EGB2 distributions, as well as to the normal distribution. A set of Monte Carlo experiments show that the score-driven model provides good forecasts even when the true model is parameterdriven. The viability of the new models is illustrated by fitting them to data on Chinese stock returns
The influence of structural defects on intra-granular critical currents of bulk MgB2
Bulk MgB2 samples were prepared under different synthesis conditions and
analyzed by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. The critical current
densities were determined from the magnetization versus magnetic field curves
of bulk and powder-dispersed-in-epoxy samples. Results show that through a slow
cooling process, the oxygen dissolved in bulk MgB2 at high synthesis
temperatures can segregate and form nanometer-sized coherent precipitates of
Mg(B,O)2 in the MgB2 matrix. Magnetization measurements indicate that these
precipitates act as effective flux pinning centers and therefore significantly
improve the intra-grain critical current density and its field dependence.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, to be published in IEE Transactions in Applied
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Microwave performance of high-density bulk MgB2
We have performed microwave measurements on superconducting
hot-isostatically- pressed (HIPed) bulk MgB2 using a parallel-plate resonator
technique. The high density and strength of the HIPed material allowed
preparation of samples with mirror-like surfaces for microwave measurements.
The microwave surface resistance decreased by about 40% at 20 K when the
root-mean-square surface roughness was reduced from 220 nm to 110 nm through
surface-polishing and ion-milling. The surface resistance was independent of
surface microwave magnetic field at least up to 4 Oe and below 30 K. We
attribute this behavior, and the overall low surface resistance (~0.8 mOhms at
10 GHz and 20 K), to the high density of our samples and the absence of weak
links between grains
Electric Flux Tube in Magnetic Plasma
In this paper we study a methodical problem related to the magnetic scenario
recently suggested and initiated by the authors \cite{Liao_ES_mono} to
understand the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma (sQGP): the electric flux
tube in monopole plasma. A macroscopic approach, interpolating between Bose
condensed (dual superconductor) and classical gas medium is developed first.
Then we work out a microscopic approach based on detailed quantum mechanical
calculation of the monopole scattering on electric flux tube, evaluating
induced currents for all partial waves. As expected, the flux tube looses its
stability when particles can penetrate it: we make this condition precise by
calculating the critical value for the product of the flux tube size times the
particle momentum, above which the flux tube dissolves. Lattice static
potentials indicate that flux tubes seem to dissolve at . Using our criterion one gets an estimate of the magnetic
density at this temperature.Comment: New version with new referecences added and minor changes. 15 pages,
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