The hysteretic voltage gap DV , the difference between the threshold voltages for electrons to tunnel into and escape from a single-electron trap ~which consists of N gated small junctions with equal junction capacitances C , equal stray capacitances C0 , and well capacitance Cw! through an m-junction cotunneling process, is studied. By using an exact solution of the potential profiles @Phys. R...

The present paper introduces a new, fourth order, analogue chaos generator, aiming at noise, random pulse and spread spectrum signal applications. The proposed system has a simpler implementation compared to other circuits reported in the literature, using only one nonlinear element, namely a Schmitt trigger type hysteretic block, and leading to a uniform circuit structure. The analysis of the ...

This paper presents a plausible reformulation and extension to the Bouc-Wen hysteresis model and gives an excellent summary and comparison of various theories of deteriorating constitutive models of hysteresis. A preliminary study on the effect of using overly simple hysteresis models (e.g., the bilinear model) when actual behavior includes strength degradation, stiffness degradation, and/or pi...