Transport properties of epitaxially lifted-off (ELO) films were characterized using conductivity, Hall and Shubnikov-de Haas measurements. A 10-15% increase in the 2D electron gas concentration was observed in these films as compared with adjacent conventional samples. We believe this result to be caused by a backgating effect produced by a charge build up at the interface of the ELO film and t...

Metastable scheelite EuVO4 was stabilized by a high temperature and pressure method, which was transformed into a stable zircon phase by annealing treatment in air. Scheelite EuVO4 gave strong emissions with a dominant peak at 617 nm associated with the D0F2 transition of Eu . Eu Mössbauer spectra indicated that the isomer shift for the metastable scheelite phase was ca. 0.5 mm/s lower than tha...

Transport properties of isotropic uids composed of hard ellipsoids of revolution are studied using molecular dynamics simulation. The self diiusion coeecient, the shear viscosity and the thermal conductivity are evaluated for a range of densities and elongations and are compared with the results from an Enskog kinetic theory for nonspherical bodies. The full anisotropic pair correlation functio...

Nontwist systems, common in the dynamical descriptions of fluids and plasmas, possess a shearless curve with a concomitant transport barrier that eliminates or reduces chaotic transport, even after its breakdown. In order to investigate the transport properties of nontwist systems, we analyze the barrier escape time and barrier transmissivity for the standard nontwist map, a paradigm of such sy...

This paper preliminarily investigates the general transport properties (i.e., water sorptivity, water permeability, and gas permeability) of carbon-nanotube/cement composites. Carboxyl multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) are dispersed into cement mortar to fabricate the carbon nanotubes (CNTs) reinforced cement-based composites by applying ultrasonic energy in combination with the use of surf...

While emphasis has been placed on coherent heterojunc­ tions for high speed device structures, the use of mismatched layers unstrained via misfit dislocations has been limited. Yet, in certain cases, the misfit dislocated layer can be ad­ vantageous. For example, in the growth of GaAs on In05 .1 G3o.47 As it has been shown that the misfit dislocations can be isolated to the GaAs interface regio...

In order to evaluate transport properties in turbulent premixed flames, a propagating turbulent premixed flame in an incoming homogeneous isotropic turbulence is directly simulated assuming a single-step irreversible Arrhenius-type reaction. To investigate the production of turbulent kinetic energy in the flame region, Favre averaged transport equation of turbulent kinetic energy along streamwi...

Because of its possible importance to the etiology of cystic fibrosis lung disease, the ion and water transport properties of tracheal epithelium were studied. Net liquid flux (J(V)) across porcine tracheal epithelium was measured in vitro using blue dextran as a volume probe. Luminal instillation of isosmotic sucrose solution (280 mM) induced a small net secretion of liquid (7.0 +/- 1.7 nl x c...

Current autonomic computing systems tend to rely on reactive rather than deliberative reasoning, that is, they use a simpler form of reasoning over sets of defined rules in order to be able to work in real-time. However, technology in areas such as automated planning or constraints processing have been developing rapidly, so that now it may be possible to deploy deliberative reasoning to real-t...

A brief review is given on electronic and transport properties of carbon nanotubes mainly from a theoretical point of view. The topics include an effective-mass description of electronic states, the absence of backward scattering except for scatterers with a potential range smaller than the lattice constant, the presence of perfectly conducting channel, effects of inelastic scattering, dynamica...