Freely suspended metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) exhibit reduced current carrying ability compared to those lying on substrates, and striking negative differential conductance at low electric fields. Theoretical analysis reveals significant self-heating effects including electron scattering by hot nonequilibrium optical phonons. Electron transport characteristics under strong se...

It is shown that self-heating of electrolytic capacitors causes the output current of a capacitor bank to increase with successive shots even though the charge voltage is held constant. Self heating of only 10 °C can cause a near tripling in the gas output of the gas puffing valves commonly used in spheromak research. By using metallized polypropylene film capacitors instead of electrolytic cap...

For improved non-linear modeling of AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors, a largesignal model originally developed for GaAs-based devices has been extended by introduction of a thermal sub-circuit to account for self-heating. Thereby, DC output characteristics which typically show negative output conductance at a high dissipating power level are well reproduced. Since self-heating also ...

In this work, for the first time, the electrical and thermal characteristics of strained Si/SiGe nanoscale n type metal–oxide–silicon field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) with silicon-on-aluminum nitride (SOAN) substrate are investigated by ISE TCAD. This novel structure is named as SGSOAN nMOSFET. A comparative study of self-heating effect (SHE) of nMOSFETs fabricated on SGOI and SGSOAN are pres...

Supramolecular self-assembly can not only lead to a better understanding of biological systems, but also can enable rational building of complex and functional materials. In this report, hierarchical one-dimensional (1D) architectures involving nanotubes, coiled-coil ropelike structures, nanohelices, and nanoribbons are created via lanthanum-cholate supramolecular self-assembly. These sophistic...

Self-folding is an approach used frequently in nature for the efficient fabrication of structures, but is seldom used in engineered systems. Here, selffolding origami are presented, which consist of shape memory composites that are activated with uniform heating in an oven. These composites are rapidly fabricated using inexpensive materials and tools. The folding mechanism based on the in-plane...

We have used reflected light microscopy to study the lateral morphology which self-assembles at elevated temperatures in films consisting of a polyisoprene (PI) layer capped on both sides by polystyrene (PS) layers: freely standing PS/PI/PS trilayer films. Heating of the trilayer films causes the formation of a periodic, lateral morphology which is driven by the attractive dispersion interactio...

Evaluation of self-heating propensity of vegetable oils can be useful for determination of critical parameters of the system (porous material – vegetable oil), which must be fulfilled to achieve spontaneous ignition. However, the results strongly depend on the preparation of the sample and the type of method used for the evaluation of self-heating propensity of the oil. The safety calorimeter S...

B4C–Al2O3 composite powder was produced by aluminothermic reduction in Al/B2O3/C system. In this research, microwave heating technique was used to synthesize desired composite. The ball milling of powder mixtures was performed in order to study the effect of mechanical activation on the synthesis process. The synthesis mechanism in this system was investigated by examining the correspondi...