Modulation of grain boundary barrier in ZnO layer by polar liquid, was investigated in ZnMgO/ZnO heterostructures grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy. Traditionally, surface adsorbates can only affect the surface atoms or surface electronic states. However, it was found that the electronic conduction property of ZnO far from the surface could be tailored obviously by the polar liqui...

The nonequilibrium total dielectric function lends itself to a simple and general method for calculating the inelastic collision term in the electron Boltzmann equation for scattering from a coupled mode system. Useful applications include scattering from plasmon-polar phonon hybrid modes in modulation doped semiconductor structures. This paper presents numerical methods for including inelastic...

We were able to purify two distinct sodium pump inhibitors to homogeneity from human urine based on [3H]ouabain-displacing activity from intact human erythrocytes. The polar and less polar compounds were eluted off the C18 reverse-phase column with 18% and 31% acetonitrile, respectively. The polar compound cross-reacted very weakly with specific antidigoxin antibody and lacked a characteristic ...

In free-space optical links using intensity modulation and direct detection, atmospheric turbulence can cause signal fading. Pilot-symbol (PS) assisted modulation (PSAM) can help to mitigate this fading, improving system performance. We periodically insert an On-state PS in front of M-1 information bits and form a M-bit frame. We derive the PS assisted maximum-likelihood (PSA-ML) decision rule ...

Acids (110%) as research indicates VZ has protease activity and is optimized at lower CP levels. Diets were fed in the mash form from 0-26 d, and VZ was either added post mixing of original feed (D) or sprayed on top of the feed (L). A total of 168 Ross x Ross male broiler chicks were allocated to 24 pens of a battery brooder in a Completely Randomized Design with 12 replicate pens/control and ...

We study communication systems over band-limited Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channels in which the transmitter output is constrained to be symmetric binary (bi-polar). In this work we improve original Ozarov-Wyner-Ziv (OWZ) lower bound on capacity by introducing new achievability schemes with two advantages studied OWZ scheme based peak-power pulse-amplitude modulation. Our achieve a m...

Power Line Communication (PLC) serves as a medium for communication over power lines, utilizing the existing grid information transmission. It offers low-cost, highly scalable signal transmission method and has potential to become preferred technology providing broadband in smart homes, offices, grids. However, noise line channel, especially impulse noise, seriously affects quality of PLC. In t...