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A (Nearly) Free Lunch

Xavier Jimenez

NAND flash is a key storage technology in modern computing systems. Without it, many devices would probably not exist today or would at least not benefit from as many features. The very large success of this technology motivated massive efforts to scale it ...

EPFL2014

Giant Ambipolar Rashba Effect in the Semiconductor BiTeI

Klaus Kern, Marco Grioni, Oleg Yazyev, Helmuth Berger, Philippe Bugnon, Alberto Crepaldi, Gabriel Albert Autes, Luca Moreschini, Simon Karl Moser, Cédric Tournier-Colletta, Naunidh Singh Virk

We observe a giant spin-orbit splitting in the bulk and surface states of the noncentrosymmetric semiconductor BiTeI. We show that the Fermi level can be placed in the valence or in the conduction band by controlling the surface termination. In both cases, ...

Amer Physical Soc2012

On the Precision of Circadian Oscillators

Thomas d'Eysmond

Precision is a crucial property of noisy circadian oscillators that can be quantified by the quality factor (Q). Until now, deterministic properties of circadian oscillations like the period or amplitude attracted most of the attention while relatively few ...

EPFL2011

Pricing expropriation risk in natural resource contracts – A real options approach

Anders Trolle

We develop a model for pricing expropriation risk in natural resource projects, in particular an oil field. The government is viewed as holding an American-style option to expropriate the oil field, but facing the following three possible expropriation cos ...

MIT press2010

Regulatory Governance Costs in Network Industries: Observations in Postal Regulation

Matthias Finger

The various actors in the regulated industries relate to each other within a broader institutional framework, i.e., by way of formal and informal rules. An important role in the implementation of liberalization processes is given to regulation and thus to ...

2010

Another Hidden Cost of Incentives: The Detrimental Effect on Norm Enforcement

Andreas Fuster, Stephan Meier

Monetary incentives, such as subsidies or bonuses, are often considered as a way to foster contributions to public goods in society and firms. This paper investigates experimentally the effect of private contribution incentives in the presence of a norm en ...

2010

Fault-Tolerant Facility Location: a randomized dependent LP-rounding algorithm

Abstract We give a new randomized LP-rounding 1.725-approximation algorithm for the metric Fault- Tolerant Uncapacitated Facility Location problem. This improves on the previously best known 2.076-approximation algorithmof Swamy & Shmoys. To the best of ou ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2010

Promoting Intellectual Discovery: Patents Versus Markets

Because they provide exclusive property rights, patents are generally considered to be an effective way to promote intellectual discovery. Here, we propose a different compensation scheme, in which everyone holds shares in the components of potential disco ...

2009

Anisotropic error control for environmental applications

Luca Dede'

In this paper we aim at controlling physically meaningful quantities with emphasis on environmental applications. This is carried out by an efficient numerical procedure combining the goal-oriented framework [R. Becker, R. Rannacher, An optimal control app ...

Elsevier2008

Dynamic scheduling for production systems operating in a random environment

Fabrice Dusonchet

Due to the steady tendency to propose highly customized products and to respond to volatile (i.e random) demands, Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) are now present in most shopfloors. In this thesis, flexibility in a FMS is understood as the ability of ...

EPFL2003