High-resolution infrared spectra of a jet-cooled cyclopropyl radical are reported for the first time, specifically sampling the in-phase antisymmetric CH2 stretch (nu7) vibration. In addition to yielding the first precise gas-phase structural information, the spectra reveal quantum level doubling into lower (+) and upper (-) states due to tunneling of the lone alpha-CH with respect to the CCC p...

The experimental observation of band-to-band tunneling in novel tunneling field-effect transistors utilizing a monolayer of MoS2 as the conducting channel is demonstrated. Our results indicate that the strong gate-coupling efficiency enabled by two-dimensional materials, such as monolayer MoS2 , results in the direct manifestation of a band-to-band tunneling current and an ambipolar transport.

We study dynamical tunneling in a near-integrable Hamiltonian with three degrees of freedom. Despite the absence of discrete symmetry we show that the mixing of near-degenerate quantum states is due to dynamical tunneling mediated by the nonlinear resonances in the classical phase space. Identifying the key resonances allows us to selectively suppress the dynamical tunneling by adding weak coun...

Ice particle-radiation interactions differ from cloud droplet-radiation interactions due to differences in (1) phase functions; (2) the relationships between particle dimension, area, and mass; and (3) photon tunneling effects (e.g., Nussenzveig 1977; Guimaraes and Nussenzveig 1992). Tunneled radiation here can be viewed as non-incident radiation beyond a particle’s physical cross section, whic...

The phonon-assisted band-to-band tunneling rate in crystalline silicon is calculated using the equilibrium Green's function formalism. Electron-phonon collisions, that balance the momentum, are included in the perturbation operator. Houston-type solutions are used for the time dependence of the Bloch states. RPA decoupling yields a tractable expression for the diierential tunneling conductivity...