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Submilliamp threshold InGaAs-GaAs strained layer quantum-well laser
Strained-layer InGaAs-GaAs single-quantum-well buried-heterostructure lasers were fabricated by a hybrid beam epitaxy and liquid-phase epitaxy technique. Very low threshold currents, 2.4 mA for an uncoated laser (L=425 μm) and 0.75 mA for a coated laser (R~0.9, L=198 μm), were obtained. A 3-dB modulation bandwidth of 7.6 GHz was demonstrated at low bias current (14 mA). Procedures for material preparation and device fabrication are introduced
Parametric study of cavity length and mirror reflectivity in ultralow threshold quantum well InGaAs/AlGaAs lasers
Record low CW threshold currents of 16 μA at-room temperature and 21 μA at cryogenic temperature have been demonstrated in buried heterostructure strained layer, single quantum well InGaAs/AlGaAs lasers with a short cavity length and high reflectivity coatings
Very High Modulation Efficiency of Ultralow Threshold Current Single Quantum Well InGaAs Lasers
A record high current modulation efficiency of 5 GHz/[sqrt](mA) has been demonstrated in an ultralow threshold strained layer single quantum well InGaAs laser
Thermal and Nonthermal Pion Enhancements with Chiral Symmetry Restoration
The pion production by sigma decay and its relation with chiral symmetry
restoration in a hot and dense matter are investigated in the framework of the
Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. The decay rate for the process sigma -> 2pion to the
lowest order in a 1/N_c expansion is calculated as a function of temperature T
and chemical potential mu. The thermal and nonthermal enhancements of pions
generated by the decay before and after the freeze-out present only in the
crossover region of the chiral symmetry transition. The strongest nonthermal
enhancement is located in the vicinity of the endpoint of the first-order
transition.Comment: Latex2e, 12 pages, 8 Postscript figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Evolution of Conversations in the Age of Email Overload
Email is a ubiquitous communications tool in the workplace and plays an
important role in social interactions. Previous studies of email were largely
based on surveys and limited to relatively small populations of email users
within organizations. In this paper, we report results of a large-scale study
of more than 2 million users exchanging 16 billion emails over several months.
We quantitatively characterize the replying behavior in conversations within
pairs of users. In particular, we study the time it takes the user to reply to
a received message and the length of the reply sent. We consider a variety of
factors that affect the reply time and length, such as the stage of the
conversation, user demographics, and use of portable devices. In addition, we
study how increasing load affects emailing behavior. We find that as users
receive more email messages in a day, they reply to a smaller fraction of them,
using shorter replies. However, their responsiveness remains intact, and they
may even reply to emails faster. Finally, we predict the time to reply, length
of reply, and whether the reply ends a conversation. We demonstrate
considerable improvement over the baseline in all three prediction tasks,
showing the significant role that the factors that we uncover play, in
determining replying behavior. We rank these factors based on their predictive
power. Our findings have important implications for understanding human
behavior and designing better email management applications for tasks like
ranking unread emails.Comment: 11 page, 24th International World Wide Web Conferenc
Efficient collision-free path planning for autonomous underwater vehicles in dynamic environments with a hybrid optimization algorithm
publisher: Elsevier articletitle: Efficient collision-free path planning for autonomous underwater vehicles in dynamic environments with a hybrid optimization algorithm journaltitle: Ocean Engineering articlelink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2016.09.040 content_type: article copyright: © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Enhanced Eco-Approach Control of Connected Electric Vehicles at Signalized Intersection with Queue Discharge Prediction
Long queues of vehicles are often found at signalized
intersections, which increases the energy consumption of all the
vehicles involved. This paper proposes an enhanced eco-approach
control (EEAC) strategy with consideration of the queue ahead for
connected electric vehicles (EVs) at a signalized intersection. The
discharge movement of the vehicle queue is predicted by an
improved queue discharge prediction method (IQDP), which takes
both vehicle and driver dynamics into account. Based on the
prediction of the queue, the EEAC strategy is designed with a
hierarchical framework: the upper-stage uses dynamic
programming to find the general trend of the energy-efficient
speed profile, which is followed by the lower-stage model
predictive controller to computes the explicit solution for a short
horizon with guaranteed safe inter-vehicular distance. Finally,
numerical simulations are conducted to demonstrate the energy
efficiency improvement of the EEAC strategy. Besides, the effects
of the queue prediction accuracy on the performance of the EEAC
strategy are also investigated
A stripe-geometry InGaAsP/InP heterojunction bipolar transistor suitable for optical integration
A stripe-geometry InGaAsP/InP heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) was fabricated for the first time. High current gain (β > 500) and high collector current (I_c> 200 mA) were obtained in devices with an emitter-down configuration. The HBT was successfully integrated with a double-heterostructure (DH) laser, resulting in the first realization of laser operation in a vertical integration
Ionic liquid gate-induced modifications of step edges at SrCoO<sub>2.5</sub> surfaces
Intense electric fields developed during gating at the interface between an ionic liquid and an oxide layer have been shown to lead to significant structural and electronic phase transitions in the entire oxide layer. An archetypical example is the reversible transformation between the brownmillerite SrCoO2.5 and the perovskite SrCoO3 engendered by ionic liquid gating. Here we show using in situ atomic force microscopy studies with photothermal excitation detection, that allows for high quality measurements in the viscous environment of the ionic liquid that the edges of atomically smooth terraces at the surface ofSrCoO2.5 films are significantly modified by ionic liquid gating but that the terraces themselves remain smooth. The edges develop ridges that we show, using complementary X-ray photoemission spectroscopy studies, result from the adsorption of hydroxyl groups. Our findings exhibit a way of electrically controlled surface modifications in emergent ionitronic applications
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