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The present invention exploits the impact ionization induced by drain voltage increase and the onset of a bipolar parasitic in an Omega-gate field effect metal oxide insulator transistor (called PI-MOS), in order to obtain a memory effect and abrupt curren ...
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The resonance fluorescence of a two-level single molecular system interacting with a plasmonic nanostructure is investigated. Specific regions of space are identified, where a balance exists between the near-field enhancement and the modification of the de ...