We present a combined scanning tunneling microscopy and ballistic electron emission microscopy study of electron transport across an epitaxial Pb/Si(111) interface. Experiments with a self-assembled Pb nanoscale wedge reveal the phenomenon of confinement-enhanced interfacial transport: a proportional increase of the electron injection rate into the semiconductor with the frequency of electron o...

A patient with the haemolytic uraemic syndrome and severe encephalopathy is described. The initial extensive brain hypodensity on CT scan was followed 10 days later by diffuse enhancement of the cerebral gray-white matter interface. A possible explanation for this phenomenon is suggested.

The phenomenon of Inverse Linking has proven challenging for theories of the syntax-semantics interface; a noun phrase within another behaves with respect to binding as though it were structurally independent. In this paper I show that, using an LF-movement style approach to the syntax-semantics interface, we can derive all and only the appropriate meanings for such constructions using no seman...

The article focuses on the principles of strong concentration polarisation of flat and curved interfaces including the phenomenon of the limiting current. It is shown both theoretically and experimentally that electroosmosis of the second kind near the curved interface causes an important change of characteristics of concentration polarisation and a rapid growth of the current through an interf...

The study of the liquid-vapor interface and of the cavitation phenomenon in water can give deeper insight in its metastable phase diagram. We show how two different equations of state proposed for water, combined with the van der Waals-Cahn-Hilliard theory of a nonuniform system, lead to qualitatively different predictions. In particular, the thickness of the liquid-vapor interface is found eit...

We study the effect of the surface adsorption of a variety of common laboratory solvents on the conductivity at the interface between LaAlO3 and SrTiO3. This interface possesses a range of intriguing physics, notably a proposed connection between the surface state of the LaAlO3 and the conductivity buried in the SrTiO3. We show that the application of chemicals such as acetone, ethanol, and wat...

By modeling mass transfer phenomena, we simulate solids and liquids dissolving or changing to other substances. We also deal with the very small-scale phenomena that occur when a fluid spreads out at the interface of another fluid. We model the pressure at the interfaces between fluids with Darcy’s Law and represent the viscous fingering phenomenon in which a fluid interface spreads out with a ...

A TCP–TCL model is established to describe the relationship between the thickness of the corrosion-filled paste (CP) and that of the corrosion layer (CL). This model can describe the phenomenon that the corrosion filling in the concrete pores and accumulating at the steel/concrete interface occur synchronously. Based on the TCP–TCL model, a corrosion-induced concrete cracking model, which can q...

The formation of a metallic state at the interface of the bulk insulators LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 [1] has become a prototype for the reconstruction of electronic states in systems with artificially reduced dimensionality. This two-dimensional (2D) electronic system is affected by sizable electronic correlations which allow characterizing the extended interface electronic states as an electron liquid....

We demonstrate a general principle that hybrid structures of any sort inevitably will give rise to a pure spin current flowing parallel to the interface region when a charge current is injected. This stems from the broken mirror symmetry near the interface which gives rise to spin-orbit coupling that deflects incoming electrons in a spin-discriminating fashion. We establish a general analytical...