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This work describes the improved uniformity of short gate length (sub100nm) T-gate lithography observed for InP HEMT devices through the development of a nonannealed ohmic contact process. The incorporation of such a process allows the reversal of ohmic and gate levels as part of a standard device process flow. This eliminates fluctuations in the gate geometry that result from the spinning of g...

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in this work, we study a unilateral contact problem with non local friction of coulombbetween a locking material and a rigid foundation. in the first step , we present the mathematicalmodel for a static process, we establish the variational formulation in the form of a variationalinequality and we prove the existence and uniqueness of the solution. in the second step, usingthe penalty method we...

In order to study the dynamic meshing characteristics of the elliptic cylinder gear and obtain the meshing error of the gear transmission system, the two-dimensional static contact analysis of the gear tooth surface is carried out by using ANSYS software, and the key parts of the contact area of the tooth surface are determined. Then, the dynamic meshing model of the elliptic cylinder gear is e...

We examine the fundamental properties that determine the basic performance metrics for opportunistic communications. We first consider the distribution of inter-contact times between mobile devices. Using a diverse set of measured mobility traces, we find as an invariant property that there is a characteristic time, order of half a day, beyond which the distribution decays exponentially. Up to ...

A mathematical model describing the law of contact gliding friction, taking into account changes in sliding states, is proposed for consideration. The generalization classical linear models friction carried out by putting more additive components allowing new state transitions frictional interaction.
 developed makes it possible to give analytic description schematic diagram slip coefficie...