Highly elliptical orbits for polar regions with reduced total ionizing dose

Spectroscopic binaries with elliptical orbits

The radial velocity curves of many spectroscopic binaries (SBs) are perturbed by gas streams or proximity effects. For SBs with circular orbits, these perturbations can give rise to spurious orbital eccentricities of high statistical significance. But tests to identify such anomalous orbits can be constructed since perturbed velocity curves are in general no longer Keplerian. The derived tests ...

Total Ionizing Dose Radiation Effects on Germanium Pmos Devices

TOTAL IONIZING DOSE EFFECTS IN ADVANCED CMOS TECHNOLOGIES By

Professor Sokrates T. Pantelides ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would first of all like to thank my husband Pierre who has been supportive and patient with me on my journey of attaining a Ph.D. He believed in me even when I did not believe in myself, he listened countless times to my presentations and helped me perfect them. I would also like to thank my parents and my sister Myriam for everything they h...

Total-Ionizing Dose Mechanisms in Antimony based CMOS Transistors with High-k Dielectric

In this paper we present the effect of ionizing radiation on n and p-channel Antimonide based (Sb) based Quantum Well-Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor-Field-Effect Transistor (QW-MOSFETs). QW-MOSFET's were fabricated on n-channel InAsSb QW and p-channel InGaSb QW and then exposed to ionizing radiation. The n-channel InAsSb QW shows higher radiation sensitivity than the pchannel InGaSb QW due to enhanc...

A global lithospheric magnetic field model with reduced noise level in the Polar Regions

[1] Due to persistent ionospheric current systems at high latitudes, satellite magnetic measurements have high noise levels in the Polar regions. Consequently, small-scale lithospheric features are much more difficult to resolve there than at lower latitudes. Using linear combinations of spherical harmonics (SH), we define localized functions which are band-limited to a given maximum degree. Th...