Tunneling spectroscopy of palladium-barium emitters

The surface of a palladium-barium cathode was studied using scanning probe microscopy techniques. Data from the tunneling spectroscopy showed the pattern of the electron work function distribution over a microscopic region on the emitter surface. This pattern is compared to the distribution of various phases in the palladium-barium alloy employed.     

High Accuracy Analysis of the Adini's Nonconforming Element

Received September 14, 2000; revised September 25, 2001     

Paracellular calcium transport across Caco-2 and HT29 cell monolayers

Intestinal calcium absorption has been shown to include two processes, a saturable transcellular movement and a non-saturable paracellular pathway. The potential utility of cell monolayers for studying transepithelial intestinal calcium transport has already been demonstrated; however, simultaneous evaluation of the contribution of the saturable transcellular and of the non-saturable paracellular processes to the total transepithelial transport has not yet been attempted. The aim of this study was to investigate the contribution both of transcellular and paracellular transport processes to the total transepithelial calcium transport in two cell culture monolayers. Caco-2 cells and a clone derived from HT-29 cells (HT29-Cl.19A), two cell lines derived from colon adenocarcinomas which are known to be able to exhibit typical enterocytic differentiation, were used. Cell monolayers were grown on a permeable support and used after 15 days of culture when these cells express enterocytic differentiation and high transepithelial resistance. Isotopic transport rate measurements were performed in the absence of a chemical gradient. The paracellular route was evaluated using [3H]mannitol. Calcium and [3H]mannitol transport rates across cell monolayers were not significantly different. Augmentation of calcium uptake by 200 mM sorbitol did not significantly increase calcium or mannitol transepithelial transport; however, calcium accumulation in the cells was increased by about 200%. Modulation of the monolayer permeability by addition of 10 nM vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) or 0.5 mM carbachol treatment, which respectively increased and decreased the transepithelial resistance, consequently modified calcium and mannitol transport in a parallel manner. Our results show that Caco-2 and HT29-Cl.19A cell monolayers are good models for studying the calcium paracellular transport pathway.     

ROLE OF COMPOSITION ON THE VISCOSITY AND SHEAR STRESS TEMPERATURE BEHAVIOUR OF SOME LUBE OIL BASE STOCKS

Lubricating oil base stocks differ greatly in their chemical composition and consequently in their physical properties and applications. Influence of waxes and various hydrocarbon type constituents viz saturates and aromatic components on the viscosity and shear stress as a function of temperature in different lube oil base stocks has been studied in the present paper.     

Baseband Volterra filters for implementing carrier basednonlinearities

A diagonal coordinate representation for Volterra filters is developed and exploited to derive efficient Volterra filter implementations for processing carrier based input signals. In the diagonal coordinate representation, the output is expressed as a sum of linear filters applied to modified input signals. Hence, linear filtering methods are employed to implement the nonlinear filter on a baseband version of the input. Downsampling is then used to reduce computational complexity. The same approach is employed to develop efficient implementations for processing continuous-time carrier-based signals, pulse amplitude-modulated signals, and frequency division multiplexed input signals     

An analytical grain-barrier height model and its characterizationfor intrinsic poly-Si thin-film transistor

An analytical model for the grain-barrier height of the intrinsic poly-Si thin-film transistors (TFTs) is developed, in which the grain-barrier height for the applied gate voltage smaller than the threshold voltage is obtained by solving the charge neutrality equation and the grain-barrier height for the applied gate voltage larger than the threshold voltage is obtained by using the quasi-two-dimensional (2-D) method. Good agreements between experimental and simulation results are obtained for a wide gate voltage range     

Mathematical analysis of dynamic channel selection in indoor mobilewireless communication systems

Dynamic channel selection (DCS) is an algorithm for flexible resource sharing in mobile radio systems. The digital enhanced cordless telecommunications (DECT) standard implements a version of DCS based on time as well as frequency multiplexing. In this paper, mathematical models are developed to evaluate the probabilities of channel availability, desired carrier power, and the carrier-to-interference ratio (CIR) for a constant traffic load. These results can be used to compute the call setup blocking probability. The models reported in this study are based on a decentralized DCS according to the DECT standard specifications. The results show that blocking due to availability of a channel (resource blocking), not interference blocking, generally is the most important factor in overall call blocking. Furthermore, it is seen that resource blocking is sensitive to the implementation of portable sets. Also, with homogeneous static traffic, this type of DCS ran be as good as fixed channel allocation (FCA) with respect to resource blocking     

Quasi-saturation capacitance behavior of a DMOS device

This paper reports a simulation study on the capacitance characteristics of a double-diffused metal-oxide semiconductor (DMOS) device operating in the quasi-saturation region. From the analysis, the capacitance effect of the gate oxide upon the drift region cannot be modeled as an overlap capacitance, because the drain-gate/source-gate capacitances of the DMOS device may exceed the gate-oxide capacitance due to the larger voltage drop over the gate oxide than the change in the imposed gate bias when entering the quasi-saturation region. This effect can be the explanation for the plateau behavior in the gate charge plot during turn-on and turn-off of the DMOS device. Based on the small-signal equivalent capacitance model, the accumulated charge in the drift region below the gate oxide may thoroughly associate with the drain terminal in the prequasi-saturation region and with the source terminal in the quasi-saturation region     

聚六亚甲基碳酸酯二醇增韧环氧树脂的结构与性能

采用羟基封端的脂肪族碳酸酯－聚六亚甲基碳酸酯二醇对环氧树脂进行了增韧，通过扫描隧道显微镜，扫描电子显微镜，差示扫描量热分析以及动态力学性能分析等方法研究了增韧ＥＰ的结构与性能的关系。     

高可靠镀Ni／Au工艺及其在微波PTFE电路上的应用

介绍了高可靠电镀Ｎｉ／Ａｕ工艺在ＰＴＦＥ微波印制电路上的应用，并分析了氨基磺酸盐镀软镍和亚硫酸盐镀软金工艺的影响因素及提高Ｎｉ／Ａｕ镀层之间附着力的措施。通过实验及应用证明了与直接镀金工艺相比，在软基材ＰＴＦＥ敷铜箔板上镀Ｎｉ／Ａｕ工艺能大大提高微波电路的可焊性，高温稳定性和长期可靠性，并且用其所制作的微波器件的高频性能也优于直接镀金工业。