The silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon (SONOS) device has been considering very promising candidate for future nonvolatile flash memory in terms of process compatibility with "oon"itio*f Compleirentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology, scalability, pnocess, prograrn/erase voltage, simplicity, and 2-bitlcell storage. To increase storage capacity_of a flash mernory, 2-bitlcell operati...

[1] Here, I present a new absolute plate motion model of the Earth’s surface, determined from the alignment of present-day surface motions with 474 published shear wave (i.e., SKS) splitting orientations. When limited to oceanic islands and cratons, splitting orientations are assumed to reflect anisotropy in the asthenosphere caused by the differential motion between lithosphere and mesosphere....

We present high-resolution spectroscopy and images of a photodissociation region (PDR) in M16 obtained during commissioning of the near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) on the Keck II telescope. PDRs play a significant role in regulating star formation, and M16 offers the opportunity to examine the physical processes of a PDR in detail. We simultaneously observe both the molecular and ionized ph...

The cooling of the steel strip in ROT (run out table) of the hot rolling process is very important in that the ROT is the final process to control the mechanical properties of the final products. In general the products are cooled by the circular water jets which makes the comparatively thick residual water layer about 100–200 mm with the supplied flow rate on the plate. The basic phenomenon go...

The hydrogen-deficiency in extremely hot post-AGB stars of spectral class PG1159 is probably caused by a (very) late helium-shell flash or a AGB final thermal pulse that consumes the hydrogen envelope, exposing the usually-hidden intershell region. Thus, the photospheric element abundances of these stars allow to draw conclusions about details of nuclear burning and mixing processes in the prec...

The equation of state of nuclear matter suggests that at suitable beam energies the disassembling hot system formed in heavy ion collisions will pass through a liquid-gas coexistence region. Searching for the signatures of the phase transition has been a very important focal point of experimental endeavours in heavy-ion collisions, in the last fifteen years. Simultaneously theoretical models ha...

The equation of state of nuclear matter suggests that at suitable beam energies the disassembling hot system formed in heavy ion collisions will pass through a liquid-gas coexistence region. Searching for the signatures of the phase transition has been a very important focal point of experimental endeavours in heavy ion collisions, in the last fifteen years. Simultaneously theoretical models ha...

We apply the Ionization Region Model (IRM) and Orsay Boltzmann equation for ELectrons coupled with eXcited states kinetics (OBELIX) model to study electron of a high power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) discharge. In IRM bulk (cold) electrons are assumed exhibit Maxwellian energy distribution secondary (hot) electrons, emitted from target surface upon ion bombardment, treated as tail, wh...

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Hot spots (HSs) are regions of enhanced radio emission produced by supersonic jets at the tip of the radio lobes of powerful radio sources. Obtained with the Very Large Telescope (VLT), images of the HSs in the radio galaxy 3C 445 show bright knots embedded in diffuse optical emission distributed along the post-shock region created by the impact of the jet into the intergalactic medium. The obs...