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Anisotropic minimal conductivity of graphene bilayers
Fermi line of bilayer graphene at zero energy is transformed into four
separated points positioned trigonally at the corner of the hexagonal first
Brillouin zone. We show that as a result of this trigonal splitting the minimal
conductivity of an undoped bilayer graphene strip becomes anisotropic with
respect to the orientation of the connected electrodes and finds a
dependence on its length on the characteristic scale determined by the inverse of k-space distance of two Dirac
points. The minimum conductivity increases from a universal isotropic value
for a short strip to a higher
anisotropic value for longer strips, which in the limit of varies
from at to over an
angle range .Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Direct usage of photovoltaic solar panels to supply a freezer motor with variable DC input voltage
In this paper, a single-phase photovoltaic (PV) inverter fed by a boost converter to supply a freezer motor with variable DC input is investigated. The proposed circuit has two stages. Firstly, the DC output of the PV panel that varies between 150 and 300 V will be applied to the boost converter. The boost converter will boost the input voltage to a fixed 300 V DC. Next, this voltage is supplied to the single-phase full-bridge inverter to obtain 230 V AC. In the end, The output of the inverter will feed a freezer motor. The PV panels can be stand-alone or grid-connected. The grid-connected PV is divided into two categories, such as with a transformer and without a transformer, a transformer type has galvanic isolation resulting in increasing the security and also provides no further DC current toward the grid, but it is expensive, heavy and bulky. The transformerless type holds high efficiency and it is cheaper, but it suffers from leakage current between PV and the grid. This paper proposes a stand-alone direct use of PV to supply a freezer; therefore, no grid connection will result in no leakage current between the PV and Grid. The proposed circuit has some features such as no filtering circuit at the output of the inverter, no battery in the system, DC-link instead of AC link that reduces no-loads, having a higher efficiency, and holding enough energy in the DC-link capacitor to get the motor started. The circuit uses no transformers, thus, it is cheaper and has a smaller size. In addition, the system does not require a complex pulse width modulation (PWM) technique, because the motor can operate with a pulsed waveform. The control strategy uses the PWM signal with the desired timing. With this type of square wave, the harmonics (5th and 7th) of the voltage are reduced. The experimental and simulation results are presented to verify the feasibility of the proposed strategy
Gate-controlled supercurrent reversal in MoS-based Josephson junctions
Motivated by recent experiments revealing superconductivity in MoS, we
investigate the Josephson effect in the monolayer MoS at the presence of an
exchange splitting. We show that the supercurrent reversal known as
transition can occur by varying the doping via gate voltages. This is in
contrast to common superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor junctions in which
successive transition take place with the variation of junction length
or temperature. In fact for the case of MoS we find that both the amplitude
and the period of oscillations show a dependence on the doping which explains
the predicted doping induced supercurrent reversal. These effects comes from
the dependence of density and Fermi velocity on the doping strength beside the
intrinsic spin splitting in the valence band which originates from spin-orbit
interaction.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
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