The effect of laser fields on electron transport through a molecular wire weakly coupled to two leads is investigated. The molecular wire acts as a coherent quantum ratchet if the molecule is composed of periodically arranged, asymmetric chemical groups. This setup presents a quantum rectifier with a finite dc response in the absence of a static bias. The nonlinear current is evaluated in close...

Yuji Yoshida shigeo suzuki Yuji Mukai Kazuo Nakatani Katsuhiko Fujiwara* Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Central Research Laboratory 3 15 Yagumo-Nakamachi Moriguchi, Osaka 570, JAPAN *Air-conditioner Division The use of mixed refrigerants for heat-pump cycles h ave attracted the attention of the International Energy Agency as an important subject of heat-pump technology and its re sear...

OBJECT Anemia and leukopenia caused by copper deficiency are well-documented consequences of long-term total parenteral nutrition. We measured the serum copper levels of bed-ridden patients receiving enteral feeding, and evaluated optical and ultrastructural features of bone marrow before and after copper supplementation. PATIENTS AND METHODS Serum samples were obtained from 15 bed-ridden eld...

We investigate the electron injection from a terrylene-based chromophore to the TiO2 semiconductor bridged by a recently proposed phenyl-amide-phenyl molecular rectifier. The mechanism of electron transfer is studied by means of quantum dynamics simulations using an extended Hückel Hamiltonian. It is found that the inclusion of the nuclear motion is necessary to observe the photoinduced electro...

An accurate average value model of synchronous machine-rectifier system considering the effect of stator resistance is derived in this paper. A proper voltage-behind-reactance synchronous machine model without any approximations is used for the generator that allows effective calculation of commutation displacement angle. All rectification modes of the rectifier are studied. A detailed switchin...

Dust particles charging in a stratified positive column of a low-pressure DC glow discharge was investigated theoretically. The presented model consists of (i) previously developed 1D selfconsistent model for discharge parameters on the tube axis; (ii) ambipolar approximation for radial electric potential distribution and the assumption that the electron energy distribution function in radial d...

An original image analysis method is presented to characterize multi-walled carbon nanotubes from transmission electron microscopy images. The analysis is performed in three steps: (i) image preprocessing in order to isolate the nanotubes from the background, (ii) image segmentation, aiming at keeping only the measurable sections of nanotubes, and finally (iii) tube characteristics measurement....