Silveirinha and Engheta have recently proposed that electromagnetic waves can tunnel through a material with an electric permittivity (epsilon) near zero (ENZ). An ENZ material of arbitrary geometry can thus serve as a perfect coupler between incoming and outgoing waveguides with identical cross-sectional area, so long as one dimension of the ENZ is electrically small. In this Letter we present...

InGaAs MOSFETs have been considered promising candidate for post-Si logic devices beyond 14nm technology node. To meet the increasing demand in electrostatic control at sub-100nm channel lengths, non-planar 3D structures have been introduced to the fabrication of InGaAs MOSFETs. In this paper, the fabrication and characterization of various non-planar 3D InGaAs MOSFETs have been demonstrated an...

We have fabricated optical channel waveguides in planar GaAdAlGaAs waveguides using 10 MeV oxygen ions at a fluence of 3 ~ 1 0 ' ~ and 3 ~ 1 0 ' ~ ions/cm2. Although disordering of GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well structures has previously been reported, to the best of the authors' knowledge the fabrication of channel waveguides using high energy oxygen bombardment has not been demonstrated in this mat...

The mechanism of anion transport through the phosphate-starvation inducible OprP-channel of Pseudomonas aeruginosa outer membrane was studied in planar lipid bilayer membranes. The single-channel conductance of OprP was 160 pS in 100 mM chloride solution. Addition of other anions, in particular of phosphate, di and tribasic anions lead to a strong decrease of the chloride conductance. The decre...

The steady miniaturization of the conventional MOSFET resulted in continuous improvement in integratedcircuit cost and functionality. Planar bulk MOSFET designs face many challenges as they are being scaled down. A segmentedchannel MOSFET (SegFET) device design combines the benefits of both planar bulk MOSFETs and thin-body transistor structures. The salient feature of this device is that the c...

The inhibition by 4,4'-diisothiocyano-2,2'-stilbenedisulfonate (DIDS) of Cl- channels from Torpedo electroplax incorporated in planar phospholipid bilayer membranes is studied. DIDS irreversibly and rapidly inhibits the macroscopic conductance of membranes containing many channels. At the single-channel level, the effect of DIDS is more complicated. The uninhibited single channel displays three...

Although membrane channel proteins are important to drug discovery and hold great promise as engineered nanopore sensing elements, their widespread application to these areas has been limited by difficulties in fabricating planar lipid-bilayer membranes. We present a method for forming these sub-5-nm-thick free-standing structures based on a self-assembly process driven by solvent extraction in...

The development of a planar wideband directional channel model applicable to UMTS micro-cells is addressed. The model, a statistical one based on geometrical considerations, is implemented and simulated, its assessment being performed based on global parameters of channel impulse responses obtained from measurement results. Exemplifying results for the directional channel impulse response are d...