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The effects of donor (Nb, Ta) and acceptor (Na, Mg, Fe) dopants on the crystallization mechanism of PZT thin films were investigated. The parameters which control microstructure development were found to be different for donors and accepters. Lead stoichio ...
Dielectric breakdown of (Pb,La)(Zr,Ti)O-3(PLZT) film capacitors with Pt and SrRuO3 electrodes, in its initial or virgin state and after voltage cycling that causes polarization fatigue, is studied by constant-current measurements. It is shown that for diff ...
We study the properties of the "rigid Laplacian" operator; that is we consider solutions of the Laplacian equation in the presence of fixed truncation errors. The dynamics of convergence to the correct analytical solution displays the presence of a metasta ...
We show that one-dimensional quantum systems with gapless degrees of freedom and open boundary conditions form a universality class of quantum critical behavior, which we propose to call ''bounded Luttinger liquids." They share the following properties wit ...
The continuous time random walk approach for hopping conduction in disordered systems is modified to obtain accurate DC conductivity values over a wide range of hopping site densities. The modification involves eliminating a small fraction of particularly ...
In the study of space-time rainfall it is particularly important to establish characteristic properties to guide both theoretical and modeling research efforts. In the present paper, new observational analyses on the scaling properties of time-evolving cum ...
Two distinct models for self-similar and self-affine river basins are numerically investigated. They yield fractal aggregation patterns following nontrivial power laws in experimentally relevant distributions. Previous numerical estimates on the critical e ...
This paper addresses the problem of time-dependent dielectric breakdown of Pb(Zr,Ti)O-3 (PZT) thin films. It is shown by using constant-current breakdown measurements, that for PZT film capacitors with Pt and SrRuO3 (SRO) electrodes the breakdown onset is ...
The absorption and fluorescence spectra of silver trimers isolated in an Ar matrix show the existence of three distinct lattice sites whereby the population of each site depends on the conditions of matrix preparation. Irradiation of certain absorption ban ...
Neoclassical tearing modes are one of the most serious concerns for operation on a next-step tokamak device. The modes occur on present tokamaks at normalized pressure (beta (N)) values comparable to those envisaged For baseline scenarios in future devices ...