We report on the kinetics of the inner ring in the exciton emission pattern. The formation time of the inner ring following the onset of the laser excitation is found to be about 30 ns. The inner ring is also found to disappear within 4 ns after the laser termination. The latter process is accompanied by a jump in the photoluminescence PL intensity. The spatial dependence of the PL jump indicat...

The temperature dependence of the activity and structure of the enzyme carbonic anhydrase was studied. The Arrhenius plot shows a jump which is seen usually in proteins with more than one subunit or with one subunit but more than one domain. Since carbonic anhydrase has only one subunit with one domain, the fine conformational changes of the protein motifs could only be detected through circula...

The metal-insulator transition of nanoscaled VO2 devices is drastically different from the smooth transport curves generally reported. The temperature driven transition occurs through a series of resistance jumps ranging over 2 decades in magnitude, indicating that the transition is caused by avalanches. We find a power law distribution of the jump sizes, demonstrating an inherent property of t...

Using molecular-dynamics simulation, we calculate the distribution of atomic jumps in Cu33Zr67 in the liquid and glassy states. In both states the distribution of jump lengths can be described by a temperatureindependent exponential of the length and an effective activation energy plus a contribution of elastic displacements at short distances. Upon cooling the contribution of shorter jumps dom...

The question how proteins fold into their specific three-dimentional structures provides anexciting challenge for biophysicists nowadays. The use of a fast temperature-jump is a verypowerful technique for the study of the denaturation process of proteins. However, probingthe secondary structure is a difficult challenge and rarely yields quantitative values. The main purpose of this ...

The discoveries of superconductivity in heavily boron-doped diamond, silicon and silicon carbide renewed the interest in the ground states of charge-carrier doped wide-gap semiconductors. Recently, aluminium doping in silicon carbide successfully yielded a metallic phase from which at high aluminium concentrations superconductivity emerges. Here, we present a specific-heat study on superconduct...

Hydraulic jump on adverse stilling basin is an unstable phenomenon which causes some complexities in controlling of the   jump. This paper considers the stability of free hydraulic jump on adverse stilling basins from a theoretical point of view. A minimum value of upstream Froude number is needed to produce the free hydraulic jump on adverse stilling basins which was presented by a theoretical...

The physics of ac hopping conduc2ivity in disordered solids is discussed in the light of a recently proposed model. Several new comments are made. One of the most interesting facts about conductivity in disordered solids is the surprising similarity between ionic and electronic conductivity. The same kinds of non-linearities in strong electric fields are observed, and ionic and electronic condu...