The Capital Beltway HOT Lanes will be a 14 mile subset of the Washington, D.C. region‟s Capital Beltway (Interstate 495) upon completion in December 2012. Buses, carpools (HOV3+), motorcycles and emergency vehicles will be able to access the Capital Beltway HOT lanes for free while drivers with fewer than three occupants must pay a toll to use the HOT lanes. Upon opening, they will be among the...

We present new observations of the major star– forming region N 66 in the Small Magellanic Cloud and of its surroundings, which add to those presented in Contursi et al. (2000, Paper I). High–sensitivity CO observations allowed the detection of molecular gas associated with the H ii region, for which a high–resolution image in [O iii ] λ 5007 is presented. We also present images in the v(1-0) S...

We report results from analog laboratory experiments, in which a large-scale flow is imposed upon natural convection from a hot boundary layer at the base of a large tank of corn syrup. The experiments show that the subdivision of the convective flow into four regions provides a reasonable conceptual framework for interpreting the effects of large-scale flow on plumes. Region I includes the are...

Longitudinal ¯ Λ 0 polarization in heavy ion collisions as a probe for QGP formation. Abstract We present an analysis of the longitudinal ¯ Λ 0 polarization in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The polarization of ¯ Λ 0 's coming from the decay chain ¯ Ξ → ¯ Λ 0 + π exhibits a very well differentiated behavior depending on the production region of the primordial ¯ Ξ's. This effect reflec...

We examine highly super-Eddington black-hole models for SS 433, based on two-dimensional hydrodynamical calculations coupled with radiation transport. The super-Eddington accretion flow with a small viscosity parameter, α = 10, results in a geometrically and optically thick disk with a large opening angle of ∼ 60 to the equatorial plane and a very rarefied, hot, and optically thin high-velocity...

In this paper, we have demonstrated successfully a new approach for evaluating the hot-carrier reliability in submicron LDD MOSFET with various drain engineering. It was developed based on an efficient charge pumping measurement technique along with a new criterion. This new criterion is based on an understanding of the interface state (Nit) distribution, instead of substrate current or impact ...

Vertical hot electron transistors incorporating atomically-thin 2D materials, such as graphene or MoS2, in the base region have been proposed and demonstrated in the development of electronic and optoelectronic applications. To the best of our knowledge, all previous 2D material-base hot electron transistors only considered applying a positive collector-base potential (VCB > 0) as is necessary ...

Hot electrons and optical emission are measured from the rear surface of a metallic foil. The spectra of the optical emission in the near infrared region have a sharp spike around the wavelength of the incident laser pulse. The optical emission is ascribed to coherent transition radiation due to microbunching in the hot electron beam. It is found that the optical emission closely correlates wit...