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Nonlinear ER effects in an ac applied field
The electric field used in most electrorheological (ER) experiments is
usually quite high, and nonlinear ER effects have been theoretically predicted
and experimentally measured recently. A direct method of measuring the
nonlinear ER effects is to examine the frequency dependence of the same
effects. For a sinusoidal applied field, we calculate the ac response which
generally includes higher harmonics. In is work, we develop a multiple image
formula, and calculate the total dipole moments of a pair of dielectric
spheres, embedded in a nonlinear host. The higher harmonics due to the
nonlinearity are calculated systematically.Comment: Presented at Conference on Computational Physics (CCP2000), held at
Gold Coast, Australia from 3-8, December 200
The Financial Deepening-Productivity Nexus in China: 1987-2001
The financial intermediation-growth nexus is a widely studied topic in the literature of development economics. Deepening financial intermediation may promote economic growth by mobilizing more investments, and lifting returns to financial resources, which raises productivity. Relying on provincial panel data from China, this paper attempts to examine if regional productivity growth is accounted for by the deepening process of financial development. Towards this end, an appropriate measurement of financial depth is constructed and then included as a determinant of productivity growth. It finds that a significant and positive nexus exists between financial deepening and productivity growth. Given the divergent pattern of financial deepening between coastal and inland provinces, this finding also helps explain the rising regional disparity in China.growth, financial development, productivity, China
Design of a 2.4 GHz High-Performance Up-Conversion Mixer with Current Mirror Topology
In this paper, a low voltage low power up-conversion mixer, designed in a Chartered 0.18 μm RFCMOS technology, is proposed to realize the transmitter front-end in the frequency band of 2.4 GHz. The up-conversion mixer uses the current mirror topology and current-bleeding technique in both the driver and switching stages with a simple degeneration resistor. The proposed mixer converts an input of 100 MHz intermediate frequency (IF) signal to an output of 2.4 GHz radio frequency (RF) signal, with a local oscillator (LO) power of 2 dBm at 2.3 GHz. A comparison with conventional CMOS up-conversion mixer shows that this mixer has advantages of low voltage, low power consumption and high-performance. The post-layout simulation results demonstrate that at 2.4 GHz, the circuit has a conversion gain of 7.1 dB, an input-referred third-order intercept point (IIP3) of 7.3 dBm and a noise figure of 11.9 dB, while drawing only 3.8 mA for the mixer core under a supply voltage of 1.2 V. The chip area including testing pads is only 0.62×0.65 mm2
Slopes for higher rank Artin-Schreier-Witt Towers
We fix a monic polynomial over a finite field
of characteristic , and consider the
-Artin-Schreier-Witt tower defined by ; this
is a tower of curves , whose Galois group is canonically isomorphic to
, the degree unramified extension of
, which is abstractly isomorphic to as a
topological group. We study the Newton slopes of zeta functions of this tower
of curves. This reduces to the study of the Newton slopes of L-functions
associated to characters of the Galois group of this tower. We prove that, when
the conductor of the character is large enough, the Newton slopes of the
L-function asymptotically form a finite union of arithmetic progressions. As a
corollary, we prove the spectral halo property of the spectral variety
associated to the -Artin-Schreier-Witt tower. This
extends the main result in [DWX] from rank one case to the higher rank
case .Comment: 20 page
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