Compared with the field-effect transistor, the source-gated transistor has a much lower saturation voltage and higher output impedance. These features are investigated using computer modeling for amorphous silicon transistors operated at high currents when source barriers are low. In particular, it is shown that low saturation voltages are maintained at high current and are insensitive to sourc...

Even with the use of variable transformations, quantum-well (QW)-laser models based on the standard rate equations and a linear gain-saturation term can possess multiple dc solution regimes for nonnegative values of injection current. In this paper, we demonstrate analytically that rate-equationbased models that employ more realistic gain-saturation terms can be transformed so that they do inde...

A threshold-like nonlinearity in signal transfer from mouse rod photoreceptors to rod bipolar cells dramatically improves the absolute sensitivity of the rod signals. The work described here reaches three conclusions about the mechanisms generating this nonlinearity. (1) The nonlinearity is caused primarily by saturation of the feedforward rod-to-rod bipolar synapse and not by feedback from hor...

The nonlinearity and uncertain variation of machine parameters are always caused by cross coupling and magnetic saturation effects, which are easily neglected in the conventional control strategy. In this paper, a current trajectory control strategy (CTCS) is proposed to take the cross coupling and magnetic saturation effects into account under voltage and current constraints. It can be conside...

Sheath motion, displacement current, and probe edge effects on temporal Langmuir probe ~LP! ion saturation current measurements are investigated for a pulsed laser produced plasma during the period 100 ns→1000 ns after the turn on of the laser pulse. The plasma has a large volume ~hundreds of cm! and a high initial plasma density (ne.10 13 cm). The sheath motion and edge effects are found to be...

erythropoietin. Transferrin saturation is a good indicator of the current balance of supply and demand of plasma iron, although it is an inadequate indicator of the amount of iron stored. In addition, Bainton and Finch showed that once the transferrin saturation falls below 16% iron supply for erythropoiesis may be inadequate.4 Our data also suggest that, during treatment with erythropoietin, m...