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Rectangular potential barrier

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Time-resolved multi-gate ion sensitive field effect transducer and system and method of operating the same

Jean-Michel Sallese, Adil Koukab

A time-resolved multi-gate ion sensitive field effect transducer, including a silicon layer, a P-doped region in the silicon layer and a first electrode in electric connection with the P doped region, a N-doped region in the silicon layer and a second elec ...

2023

Time-of-flight device and 3d optical detector

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone

A Time-of-flight optical device and a 3D optical detector comprising a CMOS integrated circuit with an array of photosensitive pixels that are, at least in part, interconnected to form macro-pixels (180). Each macro-pixel (180) groups a plurality of indivi ...

2020

Semiclassical S-matrix and black hole entropy in dilaton gravity

Sergey Sibiryakov

We use complex semiclassical method to compute scattering amplitudes of a point particle in dilaton gravity with a boundary. This model has nonzero minimal black hole mass M-cr. We find that at energies below M-cr the particle trivially scatters off the bo ...

Springer Nature2020

Gate-Tunable Tunneling Transistor Based on a Thin Black Phosphorus-SnSe2 Heterostructure

Klaus Kern, Marko Burghard

Tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs) are of considerable interest owing to their capability of low-power operation. Here, we demonstrate a novel type of TFET which is composed of a thin black phosphorus-tin diselenide (BP-SnSe2) heterostructure. This ...

2019

Low p-type contact resistance by field-emission tunneling in highly Mg-doped GaN

Nicolas Grandjean, Denis Martin

Mg-doped GaN with a net acceptor concentration (NA-ND) in the high 10 19 cm(-3) range was grown using ammonia molecular-beam epitaxy. Electrical properties of NiO contact on this heavily doped p-type GaN were investigated. A potential-barrier height of 0.2 ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Nuclear Quantum Effects in H+ and OH- Diffusion along Confined Water Wires

Michele Ceriotti, Mariana Rossi Carvalho

The diffusion of protons and hydroxide ions along water wires provides an efficient mechanism for charge transport that is exploited by biological membrane channels and shows promise for technological applications such as fuel cells. However, what is lacki ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Water retention behaviour of compacted bentonites: experimental observations and constitutive model

Anne-Catherine Adolphine M Dieudonné

Bentonite-based materials are studied as potential barriers for the geological disposal of radioactive waste. In this context, the hydro-mechanical behaviour of the engineered barrier is first characterized by free swelling conditions followed by constant ...

EDP Sciences2016

Assessment of phase-field-crystal concepts using long-time molecular dynamics

William Curtin

The ability of the phase-field-crystal (PFC) model to quantitatively predict atomistic defect structures in crystalline solids is addressed. First, general aspects of the PFC model are discussed within the context of obtaining quantitative results in solid ...

American Physical Society2015

Bipolar Conductance Switching of Single Anthradithiophene Molecules

Klaus Kern, Uta Schlickum, Ivan Pentegov, Verena Katharina Schendel

Single molecular switches are basic device elements in organic electronics. The pentacene analogue anthradithiophene (ADT) shows a fully reversible binary switching between different adsorption conformations on a metallic surface accompanied by a charge tr ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Monte Carlo Modeling of Crystal Channeling at High Energies

Philippe Jean Schoofs

Charged particles entering a crystal close to some preferred direction can be trapped in the electromagnetic potential well existing between consecutive planes or strings of atoms. This channeling effect can be used to extract beam particles if the crystal ...

EPFL2014

Spectral series of the Schrodinger operator with delta-potential on a three-dimensional spherically symmetric manifold

Tudor Ratiu

The spectral series of the Schrodinger operator with a delta-potential on a threedimensional compact spherically symmetric manifold in the semiclassical limit as h -> 0 are described. ...

Springer US2013

Monte Carlo modeling of crystal channeling at high energies

Alessio Ferrari, Francesco Cerutti, Philippe Jean Schoofs

Channeling in bent crystals is becoming a reliable and efficient technique for collimating beams. At CERN, the installation of crystals in LHC is under scrutiny by the UA9 collaboration with the goal of investigating if they are a viable option for the col ...

Elsevier2013

Quantum Wire - Quantum Dot Systems Grown in Inverted Pyramids

Justyna Szeszko

Semiconductor quantum wires (QWRs) and quantum dots (QDs) are nanoscale heterostructures, which form fascinating low-dimensional systems for fundamental studies of quantum-mechanical effects and are attractive candidates for integration into optoelectronic ...

EPFL2013

Experimental Analysis of Lag Sources in Pinned Photodiodes

Maher Kayal

A measurement method is reported to distinguish the different mechanisms that lead to image lag in image sensors based on pinned photodiodes (PPDs). This new method can differentiate between the lag caused by a potential barrier or pocket and gate traps in ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

Polariton Superfluids Reveal Quantum Hydrodynamic Solitons

Romuald Houdré, Cristiano Ciuti

A quantum fluid passing an obstacle behaves differently from a classical one. When the flow is slow enough, the quantum gas enters a superfluid regime, and neither whirlpools nor waves form around the obstacle. For higher flow velocities, it has been predi ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2011

Current transport and barrier height evaluation in Ni/InAlN/GaN Schottky diodes

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin

The current-voltage characteristics of the Ni/InAlN/GaN Schottky diodes were measured at various temperatures in the range of 300-700 K. The experimental data were analyzed considering different current-transport mechanisms. From the analysis it follows th ...

2010

Portrait of the potential barrier at metal-organic nanocontacts

Klaus Kern

Electron transport through metal-molecule contacts greatly affects the operation and performance of electronic devices based on organic semiconductors(1-4) and is at the heart of molecular electronics exploiting single-molecule junctions(5-8). Much of our ...

2010

Spatial dynamics of confined semiconductor microcavity polaritons

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, François Morier-Genoud, Marcia Portella Oberli, Taofiq Paraïso, Roland Cerna

We report on the dynamics of confined zero-dimensional polaritons. We excite resonantly discrete polariton states optically with a tailored picosecond laser pulse and observe their emission time resolved in the two-dimensional k space or real space. We are ...

2010

Signatures of unstable semiclassical trajectories in tunneling

Sergey Sibiryakov

It was found recently that processes of multidimensional tunneling are generally described at high energies by unstable semiclassical trajectories. We study two observational signatures related to the instability of trajectories. First, we find an addition ...

2009

Noninvasive metal contacts in chemically derived graphene devices

Klaus Kern, Marko Burghard

We study the properties of gold contacts on chemically derived graphene devices by scanning photocurrent microscopy and gate-dependent electrical transport measurements. In the as-fabricated devices, negligible potential barriers are found at the gold/grap ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2009