The effect of a dc electric field on the temporal evolution of an electron in a double rectangular quantum dot is explored in this work. In the framework of the effective mass approximation, first-order scattering rates for interaction between confined electron-“free” electron and electron-longitudinal acoustic phonon at room temperature are calculated in the high tunneling regime, and used to ...

Ultrathin films of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are obtained by using a convective assembly setup coupled with a low-strength external AC electric field. The orientation and degree of alignment of the rod-like nanoparticles are controlled by the applied field strength and frequency used during film formation. Calculated dipole moments and Clausius-Mossotti factors allowed the determination of ...

INTRODUCTION RECENT years have seen many different initiatives aimed at bringing about a low-carbon society and it is anticipated that, in the automotive field, HEVs (hybrid electric vehicles) that offer significant improvements in fuel consumption will precede EV (electric vehicles) in becoming the mainstream of future vehicle markets. HEVs achieve low fuel consumption and powerful performance...

The field of AC electrokinetics is rapidly growing due to its ability to perform dynamic fluid and particle manipulation on the micro- and nano-scale, which is essential for Lab-on-a-Chip applications. AC electrokinetic phenomena use electric fields to generate forces that act on fluids or suspended particles (including those made of dielectric or biological material) and cause them to move in ...

We propose an electrophoretic technique combining the use of a series of dielectric traps controlled by an ac electric field and conventional continuous field free-flow electrophoresis. From the theoretical model that we describe, one can expect, for DNA electrophoresis, an improvement of one to two orders of magnitude in the selectivities or experimental durations.

We investigate theoretically the effect of intense THz radiation on the nonlinear properties of doped semiconductor superlattices (SL’s). For the first time, the fully nonlinear current through the SL with an arbitrary combination of ac and dc voltages is calculated from a microscopic self-consistent model. We focus on the formation of electric field domains and the appearance of new multistabi...

In this paper, an overview of the techniques applied to AC electric propulsion field has been done. Actual study cases of electric ship propulsion schemes are considered. An impartial comparison between three-level converters versus two-level converter from the viewpoint of electric ship propulsion requirements has been done. Diodeclamped three-level converters using direct torque control (DTC)...

Electrowetting generates flow patterns inside drops when AC voltages are employed. For AC frequencies around the drop eigenfrequency (typically O(1kHz) or less), capillary waves emanate from the contact line giving rise to a net motion in the bulk of the drop. This flow can be described by a capillary wave-driven Stokes drift. At higher AC frequencies (above 10kHz, depending on liquid conductiv...

– In this letter we investigate the quantum dynamics of a quasiparticle in the presence of a charged screw dislocation submitted to a uniform magnetic field. Analysing the quantum scattering for this quasiparticle we observed the appearance of a topological quantum phase in the solution and demonstrate that this phenomenon is the solid state analog of the He-McKeller-Wilkens effect. Aharonov an...

Current profile control by ac magnetic helicity injection is computationally investigated in a reversed field pinch ~RFP!. Three-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamics ~MHD! computation is employed to study the nonlinear MHD. During ac helicity injection, when toroidal and poloidal surface voltages are oscillated out of phase, the parallel electric field is maintained positive over a majori...