Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) tunnel diodes on a variety of high and low work function metals with various levels of root-mean-square roughness are fabricated using high quality atomic layer deposited Al2O3 as the insulating tunnel barrier. It is found that electrode surface roughness can dominate the current versus voltage characteristics of MIM diodes, even overwhelming the impact of metal work...

Mitochondria exert an immense amount of cytophysiological functions, but the structural basis of most of these processes is still poorly understood. Here we use cross-linking mass spectrometry to probe the organization of proteins in native mouse heart mitochondria. Our approach provides the largest survey of mitochondrial protein interactions reported so far. In total, we identify 3,322 unique...

Soil organic carbon (SOC) turnover plays a pivotal role in achieving C neutrality, promoting retention and increasing soil fertility. Residue biochemistry texture essentially determine SOC distribution (including CO2 mineralization stock soil) farmland. However, less is known about allocation of residue-C with contrasting the fate under two different textures. This study was conducted 61-day ae...

Recently, it has been demonstrated that the chemical composition of jets in heavy ion collisions is significantly altered compared to the jets in the vacuum. This signal can be used to probe the medium formed in nuclear collisions. In this study we investigate the possibility that fast light quarks and gluons can convert to heavy quarks when passing through a quark-gluon plasma. We study the ra...

We present the results of the contributions to the decay rate of the lightest Higgs particle into a charm-anticharm and bottom-antibottom pair within the minimal supersymmetric standard model when scalar quarks and a gluino are taken within the relevant loop diagrams. We show that in the case where the vacuum expectation values of the Higgs particles obey the condition v1 ≪ v2 the scalar quarks...

The integration of amorphous zinc tin oxide (ZTO) into crossbar memristor device structures has been investigated where asymmetric devices were fabricated with Al (top) and Pt (bottom) electrodes. The authors found that these devices had reproducible bipolar resistive switching with high switching ratios >10 and long retention times of >10 s. Electrical characterization of the devices suggests ...

I describe, from the bottom up, a sequence of natural effective field theories. Below a TeV we have the minimal standard model with a light Higgs, and an extra neutral scalar. In the 1-10 TeV region these scalars are part of a multiplet of pseudo Nambu-Goldstone Bosons (NGBs). Interactions with additional TeV mass scalars, gauge bosons, and vector-like charge 2/3 quarks stabilize the Higgs mass...

Two new pre-treatment methods (water-washing/carbonation and carbonation/phosphate stabilisation) of municipal solid waste (MSW) incinerator residues were evaluated by column leaching tests under aerobic conditions and anaerobic conditions (which were changed to aerobic conditions after 10 months). A mixture of bottom ash and fly ash (5:1 ratio) was pre-treated using each method. Shredded incom...

Twelve crude oil blends prepared from seven individual oils and an imported atmospheric residue were characterized through a true boiling point (TBP) distillation analysis their density. When comparing the measured TBP fraction yields with those estimated application of additive blending rule, it was found that, for four blends, rule valid, while remaining eight deviations ones bigger than anal...

The one-dimensional, cylindrical nature of single-walled carbon nanotubes SWCNTs suggests that the ideal gating geometry for nanotube field-effect transistors FETs is a surround gate SG . Using vertical SWCNTs templated in porous anodic alumina, SGs are formed using top-down processes for the dielectric/metal depositions and definition of the channel length. Surround gates allow aggressive scal...