Stress-Relaxation Phenomena in Wood

The Relaxation Phenomena of Positive Charges in Thin Gate Oxide During Fowler–Nordheim Tunneling Stress

In this study, new relaxation phenomena of positive charges in gate oxide with Fowler–Nordheim (FN) constant current injections have been investigated and characterized. It was found that the magnitudes of applied gate voltage shifts ( VFN) during FN injections, after positive charges relaxed or discharged, have a logarithmic dependence with the relaxation time for both injection polarities. Th...

Relaxation phenomena during non-equilibrium growth

Oscillators and relaxation phenomena in Pleistocene climate theory

Ice sheets appeared in the northern hemisphere around 3 Ma (million years) ago and glacial-interglacial cycles have paced Earth's climate since then. Superimposed on these long glacial cycles comes an intricate pattern of millennial and sub-millennial variability, including Dansgaard-Oeschger and Heinrich events. There are numerous theories about these oscillations. Here, we review a number of ...

Biomechanical and coherent phenomena in morphogenetic relaxation processes

Biological forms can be studied independently of the principles of their actualization, which was demonstrated in the book of D'Arcy Thompson "On Growth and Form" (1917) and in the nomogenetic theories of evolution. However the principles of actualization of forms have to be established and they are not directly related to the genetic system, being the generic phenomena non-reducible to the for...

Nonlinear Relaxation Phenomena in Metastable Condensed Matter Systems

Nonlinear relaxation phenomena in three different systems of condensed matter are investigated. (i) First, the phase dynamics in Josephson junctions is analyzed. Specifically, a superconductor-graphene-superconductor (SGS) system exhibits quantum metastable states, and the average escape time from these metastable states in the presence of Gaussian and correlated fluctuations is calculated, acc...