The AlGaN/GaN heterostructure is important for both electronic and optoelectronic devices. In addition to having a large band gap, the heterostructure has a strong piezoelectric effect and a large spontaneous polariza...
The AlGaN/GaN heterostructure is important for both electronic and optoelectronic devices. In addition to having a large band gap, the heterostructure has a strong piezoelectric effect and a large spontaneous polarization. This allows one to incorporate a large electric field (>106 V/cm) and high sheet charge (>1013 cm−2) without doping. Theoretical studies are done to examine how polarization effects controls the sheet charge density. The studies also focus on how interface roughness, aluminum mole fraction in the barrier, impurity scattering, sheet charge density, and phonon scattering influence mobility. Results are compared with experimental studies on samples grown by both molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). We find that interface roughness is a dominant source of scattering in the samples reported. Due to the variation in growth techniques we find that the MBE samples have a smoother interface quality compared to the MOCVD samples. By carefully fitting the experimental data we present results on interface roughness parameters for MBE and MOCVD samples.
We describe a simple hybrid fractal-wavelet coder that demonstrates extremely competitive compression characteristics in terms of rate-distortion curves with minimal computational cost. An energy-threshold criterion i...
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We describe a simple hybrid fractal-wavelet coder that demonstrates extremely competitive compression characteristics in terms of rate-distortion curves with minimal computational cost. An energy-threshold criterion is used to perform the quadtree partitioning. The compression is enhanced in two ways: (1) pruning of negligible subtrees and (2) variable length encoding of domain pools that is implicitly built into the quadtree partitioning code. To the best of our knowledge, the rate-distortion characteristics of this coder are surpassed only by 2 highly adaptive partitioning schemes that employ intensive searching of domain pools, hence requiring much higher computational times.
Summary form only given. We report the room temperature operation of a novel unipolar self-organized quantum dot FIR laser (13.3 /spl mu/m) based on transitions between discrete bound electron states in self-organized...
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Summary form only given. We report the room temperature operation of a novel unipolar self-organized quantum dot FIR laser (13.3 /spl mu/m) based on transitions between discrete bound electron states in self-organized dots. A typical photoluminescence spectrum of InGaAs-GaAs self-organized quantum dots is shown.
We propose a new method for the solution of stochastic unsaturated flow problems in randomly heterogeneous soils that applies to both steady-state and transient regimes, avoids linearizing the soil constitutive relati...
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We propose a new method for the solution of stochastic unsaturated flow problems in randomly heterogeneous soils that applies to both steady-state and transient regimes, avoids linearizing the soil constitutive relations, and places no theoretical limit on the variance of constitutive parameters. The proposed method applies to a broad class of soils with flow properties that scale according to the linearly separable model of L. Vogel and coworkers, provided that the dimensionless pressure head ψ has a near-Gaussian distribution. Upon treating ψ as a multivariate Gaussian function, we obtain a closed system of coupled nonlinear differential equations for the first and second moments of pressure head. We apply this Gaussian closure to one-dimensional steady-state unsaturated flow through a randomly stratified soil with hydraulic conductivity that varies exponentially with αψ where ψ=1/α ψ is dimensional pressure head and α is a random field with given statistical properties. Upon disregarding correlation between αand ψ, we obtain good agreement between Gaussian closure and Monte Carlo results for the mean of ψover a wide range of parameters;the agreement between variances is good far from the soil bottom where pressure head is prescribed, but not as good near the bottom boundary. We expect that the latter problem will be remedied once we account for correlation between α and ψ. Our solution provides considerable insight into the analytical behavior of the stochastic flow problem.
Superresolution produces high quality, high resolution images from a set of degraded, low resolution frames. We present a new and efficient wavelet-based algorithm for image superresolution. The algorithm is a combina...
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Superresolution produces high quality, high resolution images from a set of degraded, low resolution frames. We present a new and efficient wavelet-based algorithm for image superresolution. The algorithm is a combination of interpolation and restoration processes. Unlike previous work, our method exploits the interlaced sampling structure in the low resolution data. Numerical experiments and analysis demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach and illustrate why the computational complexity only doubles for 2-D superresolution versus 1-D case.
We introduce Parrondo’s paradox that involves games of chance. We consider two fair games. A and B, both of which can be made to lose by changing a biasing parameter. The apparently paradoxical situation arises when ...
We introduce Parrondo’s paradox that involves games of chance. We consider two fair games. A and B, both of which can be made to lose by changing a biasing parameter. The apparently paradoxical situation arises when the two games are played in any alternating order. A winning expectation is produced, even though both games A and B are losing when we play them individually. We develop an explanation of the phenomenon in terms of a Brownian ratchet model, and also develop a mathematical analysis using discrete-time Markov chains. From the analysis we investigate the regions of parameter space in which Parrondo’s paradox can occur. We also consider some open questions that arise from this paradox and possible areas it could be applied.
In a psychophysical experiment, a wideband, 4-ms noise is compared with spectrally smoothed versions of the noise. To isolate on the magnitude spectrum, the phase spectrum is controlled by assigning the same random ph...
Grasslands are the largest of the Earth's four major vegetation types and are among the most agriculturally productive lands. Grassland management practices alter biophysical factors, such as plant species composi...
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Parrondo’s paradox involves two losing games of chance. The paradox is that a winning situation is produced when the two games are played in a random sequence in accordance with fixed probabilities. In this paper we ...
Parrondo’s paradox involves two losing games of chance. The paradox is that a winning situation is produced when the two games are played in a random sequence in accordance with fixed probabilities. In this paper we investigate the relationship between these parameters and the entropy rates of the games.
Oceanographic variability creates a weak random propagation medium for acoustic waves. The impact on acoustic transmission is becoming increasingly appreciated as the deterministic modelling of sound propagation in th...
Oceanographic variability creates a weak random propagation medium for acoustic waves. The impact on acoustic transmission is becoming increasingly appreciated as the deterministic modelling of sound propagation in the ocean has become tractable and better understood. Beyond the near field (where phase fluctuations are weak) and the far field (where the scintillation index becomes saturated) multiple-scattering theory predicts that random focusing will greatly enhance the acoustic energy density over small volumetric regions, which we call ‘ribbons’. In 1986 an experiment was carried out in the eastern Mediterranean to test this prediction using acoustic propagation along distinct, resolvable ray paths. This experiment is one of the few to map the spatial structure of acoustic intensity with such a large vertical aperture, and as far as the authors are aware it remains the only experiment to attempt to detect the two-dimensional structure of the predicted focused ribbons for individual energy paths. Renewed impetus to publish the results has been provided by the recent focus on moderate- to high-frequency acoustics in near-shore and shallow-water environments. The experiment is described and high-intensity regions consistent with the theoretical predictions are reported. A 3.5 kHz pulsed signal was transmitted over ranges of 11–23 km and sampled over a vertical aperture of 250–350 m and horizontal apertures of 4–4.5 km. The acoustic signals travelling along individual ray paths developed randomly focused regions of 6–18 dB over regions with a vertical dimension of about 20 m and whose horizontal length could possibly be up to 1 km. The understanding of these features allows system limitations to be estimated quantitatively and opens up the way to their constructive tactical use. The results are applicable to many systems from towed array sonars to high-frequency bathymetric sidescan and minehunting.
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