The current responses of human erythrocyte and L-cell membranes being subject to rectangular voltage pulses of 150-700 mV amplitude and 5 X 10(-3)-10 s duration were recorded by means of the patch-clamp method. The behaviour of planar lipid bilayer membranes of oxidized cholesterol and UO2(2+)-modified bilayers of azolectin in a high electric field was investigated for comparison. The gradual g...

The gate oxide thickness, (tox), of Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) processes has been steadily been thinning as a result of technology trends. To keep the switching power dissipation of integrated circuits at bay, successive technology generations have relied on reducing the supply voltage. In order to maintain performance, and control short channel effects, however, a reduction...

Partial discharge (PD) behaviors of oil-paper insulation is distinctive in AC and DC combined electric fields in converter transformers from PD behaviors in pure AC or DC electric fields. The present study focuses on the PD developing processes and characteristics of oil-paper insulation systems with needle-plane defects under different AC/DC proportions. The degradation of oil-paper insulation...

[1] In this study we derive an analytical expression to describe the electrostatic field in a dust cloud with grain trajectories defined by fluid dynamics and grain charging via contact electrification. In order to solve for the electric field, we merge the fluid dynamic–driven grain motion directly into the basic electrostatic formalism to end up with an electric field dependent on meteorologi...

In this paper, a near-triangular buried-oxide partial silicon-on-insulator (TB-PSOI) lateral double-diffused MOS field-effect transistor is proposed. The electric field and electrostatic potential in this structure are modified by the gradual buried-oxide thickness increase. The modification includes the addition of a new peak in the electric field in comparison to that of the conventional PSOI...

Electric breakdown in air occurs for electric fields exceeding 34 kV/cm and results in a large current surge that propagates along unpredictable trajectories. Guiding such currents across specific paths in a controllable manner could allow protection against lightning strikes and high-voltage capacitor discharges. Such capabilities can be used for delivering charge to specific targets, for elec...

Nanopore arrays are fabricated by controlled dielectric breakdown (CBD) in solid-state membranes integrated within polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidic devices. This technique enables the scalable production of independently addressable nanopores. By confining the electric field within the microfluidic architecture, nanopore fabrication is precisely localized and electrical noise is signifi...

We consider the thunderstorm (TC) activity on the base of a cellular automaton model on tree-dimensional lattice. Each site of the lattice is related to a time-dependent scalar that characterises potential of the point. In our model the potential differences between the neighbouring sites are growing due to the instability effects. The potential difference growth is limited by some critical val...