Compact Physics Hot-Carrier Degradation Model Valid over a Wide Bias Range.

We develop a compact physics model for hot-carrier degradation (HCD) that is valid over a wide range of gate and drain voltages (Vgs and Vds, respectively). Special attention is paid to the contribution of secondary carriers (generated by impact ionization) to HCD, which was shown to be significant under stress conditions with low Vgs and relatively high Vds. Implementation of this contribution is based on refined modeling of carrier transport for both primary and secondary carriers.

Rigorous treatment of pairwise and many-body electrostatic interactions among dielectric spheres at the Debye-Hückel level.

Electrostatic interactions among colloidal particles are often described using the venerable (two-particle) Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek (DLVO) approximation and its various modifications. However, until the recent development of a many-body theory exact at the Debye-Hückel level (Yu in Phys Rev E 102:052404, 2020), it was difficult to assess the errors of such approximations and impossible to assess the role of many-body effects. By applying the exact Debye-Hückel level theory, we quantify the errors inherent to DLVO and the additional errors associated with replacing many-particle interactions by the sum of pairwise interactions (even when the latter are calculated exactly).

On the temperature dependence of ballistic Coulomb drag in nanowires.

We have investigated within Fermi liquid theory the dependence of Coulomb drag current in a passive quantum wire on the applied voltage V across an active wire and on the temperature T for any values of eV/k(B)T. We assume that the bottoms of the 1D minibands in both wires almost coincide with the Fermi level. We conclude that: (1) within a certain temperature interval the drag current can be a descending function of the temperature T; (2) the experimentally observed temperature dependence T(-0.

Dynamical response of nanostructures and Joule heat release.

We consider Joule heat release in a quantum wire joining two classical reservoirs under the action of a nonstationary periodic electric field. The rate of heat generation and its spatial distribution is discussed. The heat is spread over the lengths of electron mean free paths in the reservoirs.

Residual resistance of 2D and 3D structures and Joule heat release.

We consider a residual resistance and Joule heat release in 2D nanostructures as well as in ordinary 3D conductors. We assume that elastic scattering of conduction electrons by lattice defects is predominant. Within a rather intricate situation in such systems we discuss in detail two cases.

Slow relaxation of magnetoresistance in AlGaAs-GaAs quantum well structures quenched in a magnetic field.

We observed a slow relaxation of the magnetoresistance in response to an applied magnetic field in selectively doped p-GaAs-AlGaAs structures with a partially filled upper Hubbard band. We have paid special attention to excluding the effects related to temperature fluctuations. Although these effects are important, we have found that the general features of slow relaxation persist.

Nonlocal dynamical response of a ballistic nanobridge.

The nonlocal dynamical response of a ballistic nanobridge to an applied potential oscillating with frequency ω is considered. It is shown that, in addition to the active conductance, there is also a reactive contribution. This contribution turns out to be inductive for relatively small frequencies ω.

Compensation of instabilities in magnetic Taylor-Couette flow.

The axisymmetric linear stability of the Taylor-Couette flow with an azimuthal magnetic field is considered. It is shown that a flow with the combination of a linearly unstable rotation and a linearly unstable azimuthal magnetic field can be linearly stable. The flow stabilization takes place for both ideal and dissipative flows.

Rotational stabilization of pinch instabilities in Taylor-Couette flow.

The axisymmetric linear stability of dissipative Taylor-Couette flow with an azimuthal magnetic field is considered. The magnetic field can be unstable without a rotation. This is the well-known pinch type instability.

Pinch instabilities in Taylor-Couette flow.

The linear stability of the dissipative Taylor-Couette flow with an azimuthal magnetic field is considered. Unlike ideal flows, the magnetic field is a fixed function of a radius with two parameters only: a ratio of inner to outer cylinder radii, eta, and a ratio of the magnetic field values on outer and inner cylinders, muB. The magnetic field with 0 View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Coulomb drag in a longitudinal magnetic field in quantum wells.

The influence of a longitudinal magnetic field on the Coulomb drag current created in the ballistic transport regime in a quantum well by a ballistic current in a nearby parallel quantum well is investigated. We consider the case where the magnetic field is so strong that the magnetic length a(B) is smaller than the width of the well. Both in the ohmic and non-ohmic case, sharp peaks of the drag current as a function of the gate voltage or chemical potential are predicted.

Mean electromotive force in turbulent shear flow.

We consider the mean electromotive force in turbulent shear flow taking into account the stretching of turbulent magnetic field lines by the mean flow. The mean flow can change the properties of magnetohydrodynamics-turbulence in such a way that turbulent motions become suitable for the dynamo action. The contribution of shear to the mean electromotive force cannot be described in terms of the alpha effect.