Insulators bind transcription factors and use chromatin remodellers and modifiers to mediate insulation. In this report, we identified proteins required for the efficient formation and maintenance of a specialized chromatin structure at the yeast tRNA insulator. The histone acetylases, SAS-I and NuA4, functioned in insulation, independently of tRNA and did not participate in the formation of th...

Hybrid plasmonic waveguides have achieved rapid advancement in plasmonics, which has given rise to remarkable field enhancement, light harvest, light-transport capabilities, bridging the gap between electronics and photonics by routing and manipulating light at sub-wavelength regions and so on. However, the development of plasmonic waveguides is hindered by lack of devices that can adjust coher...

A heterojunction Mott field effect transistor (FET) is proposed that consists of an epitaxial channel material that exhibits an electron correlation induced Mott metal-to-insulator transition. The Mott material is remotely (modulation) doped with a degenerately doped conventional band insulator. An applied voltage modulates the electron transfer from the doped band insulator to the Mott materia...

Selector is indispensable to suppress leakage current for crossbar array of resistive random access memory. According to the nonlinear requirement, electron tunneling mechanism is firstly attempted. However, earlier studies discovered drawbacks of insufficient current density. This work aims at exploring the idealized characteristic of selector based on FowlerNordheim tunneling mechanism by sel...