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The Quest for Palladium-Catalysed Alkyl-Nitrogen Bond Formation
Our interest in the development of transition-metal catalysis for the realisation of vicinal diamination reactions of alkenes started about a decade ago. A number of successful transformations in this area have been developed using palladium catalysis. As a challenging aspect of major importance, the palladium-catalysed coupling of alkyl–nitrogen bonds constitutes the second step in diaminations of alkenes. We here discuss the details that led us to consider high-oxidation-state palladium catalysis as a key feature in such C–N bond-forming reactions. This work discusses both our own contributions and the ones from colleagues and combines the discussion of catalytic reactions and stoichiometric control experiments. It demonstrates that reductive alkyl–nitrogen bond formation from palladium(IV) proceeds with a low activation barrier and through a linear transition state of nucleophilic displacement
High Gain Amplifier with Enhanced Cascoded Compensation
A two-stage CMOS operational amplifier with both, gain-boosting and indirect current feedback frequency compensation performed by means of regulated cascode amplifiers, is presented. By using quasi-floating-gate transistors (QFGT) the supply requirements, the number of capacitors and the size of the compensation capacitors respect to other Miller schemes are reduced. A prototype was fabricated using a 0.5 μm technology, resulting, for a load of 45 pF and supply voltage of 1.65 V, in open-loop-gain of 129 dB, 23 MHz of gain-bandwidth product, 60o phase margin, 675 μW power consumption and 1% settling time of 28 ns
1.5V fully programmable CMOS Membership Function Generator Circuit with proportional DC-voltage control
A Membership Function Generator Circuit (MFGC) with bias supply of 1.5 Volts and independent DC-voltage programmable functionalities is presented. The realization is based on a programmable differential current mirror and three compact voltage-to-current converters, allowing continuous and quasi-linear adjustment of the center position, height, width and slopes of the triangular/trapezoidal output waveforms. HSPICE simulation results of the proposed circuit using the parameters of a double-poly, three metal layers, 0.5 μm CMOS technology validate the functionality of the proposed architecture, which exhibits a maximum deviation of the linearity in the programmability of 7 %
Characterization of neutrino signals with radiopulses in dense media through the LPM effect
We discuss the possibilities of detecting radio pulses from high energy
showers in ice, such as those produced by PeV and EeV neutrino interactions. It
is shown that the rich radiation pattern structure in the 100 MHz to few GHz
allows the separation of electromagnetic showers induced by photons or
electrons above 100 PeV from those induced by hadrons. This opens up the
possibility of measuring the energy fraction transmitted to the electron in a
charged current electron neutrino interaction with adequate sampling of the
angular distribution of the signal. The radio technique has the potential to
complement conventional high energy neutrino detectors with flavor information.Comment: 5 pages, 4 ps figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. Let
Longitudinal development of extensive air showers: hybrid code SENECA and full Monte Carlo
New experiments, exploring the ultra-high energy tail of the cosmic ray
spectrum with unprecedented detail, are exerting a severe pressure on extensive
air hower modeling. Detailed fast codes are in need in order to extract and
understand the richness of information now available. Some hybrid simulation
codes have been proposed recently to this effect (e.g., the combination of the
traditional Monte Carlo scheme and system of cascade equations or pre-simulated
air showers). In this context, we explore the potential of SENECA, an efficient
hybrid tridimensional simulation code, as a valid practical alternative to full
Monte Carlo simulations of extensive air showers generated by ultra-high energy
cosmic rays. We extensively compare hybrid method with the traditional, but
time consuming, full Monte Carlo code CORSIKA which is the de facto standard in
the field. The hybrid scheme of the SENECA code is based on the simulation of
each particle with the traditional Monte Carlo method at two steps of the
shower development: the first step predicts the large fluctuations in the very
first particle interactions at high energies while the second step provides a
well detailed lateral distribution simulation of the final stages of the air
shower. Both Monte Carlo simulation steps are connected by a cascade equation
system which reproduces correctly the hadronic and electromagnetic longitudinal
profile. We study the influence of this approach on the main longitudinal
characteristics of proton-induced air showers and compare the predictions of
the well known CORSIKA code using the QGSJET hadronic interaction model.Comment: 11 pages (LaTeX), 15 postscript figures, 3 table
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