Double barrier system

To study the electrical transport properties of this double-barrier system Pd nanoclusters have been trapped in this gap. Figure 14 shows a typical l(U) curve. The most pronounced feature at 4.2 K is the Coulomb gap at a voltage of about 55 mV, which disappears at 295 K. Above the gap voltage, the l(U) curve is not linear, but increases exponentially, which was explained by a suppression of the effective tunnel barrier by the applied voltage. 

A pipeline systan viewed as a whole should always be designed as a double-barrier system capable of being monitored and repaired. The primary barrier with all its elonents encapsulates the transported substances. Its freedom from leaks depends mainly on the materials used in its construction in relation to the mechanical loads to which it is subjected and the chanical properties of the transported substances. Unavoidable losses (drip leaks at pumps, valves, and gates) should also be contained by a second, physical barrier. 

H. Yamamoto, Appl. Phys. A, 42, 245-248 (1987). Resonant Tunneling Condition and Transmission Coefficient in a Symmetrical One-Dimensional Rectangular Double-Barrier System. 

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The approach described represents one more step toward the realization of a completely stand-alone single-electron junction based on nanoparticles and produced in organic matrix. Quantum dot synthesis directly on the tip of a metal stylus does not require the use of STM for localizing the particle position and requires only the use of atomically flat electrodes and a feedback system for maintaining a desirable double-barrier structure. 

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Quantum mechanical tunneling. Tunneling is the phenomenon by which a particle transfers through a reaction barrier due to its wave-like property.Figure 1 graphically illustrates this for a carbon-hydrogen-carbon double-well system Hydrogen... 

The system of one-loop RG equations for a double barrier reads... 

In the preceding subsections we have presented the turmelling effect for a double well system. In chemistry, any given reaction can usually be represented as a double well system with reactants and products as the two minima and the transition state located in the barrier separating both wells. Sure, chemical reactions are not one-dimensional systems as it was assumed in the preceding Figures but the formulas presented up to now remain valid irrespective of the dimensionality of the double well. 

The second method provides a double barrier within the steam generator itself. The double barrier has conventionally been in the form of concentric tubes and double tube sheets with the intermediate space filled with a static third fiuid to assist in the transfer of heat. The third-fluid system was equipped to detect any leaks which might occur in either of the single barriers. Under the doublewall philosophy as originally developed, if a leak occurred in either barrier, the heat exchanger was taken out of service for repair or replacement. 

Further discussion of nuclear reactor control problems resulting from water leakage is beyond the scope of the present paper, and the discussion presented hereafter is on the effects of the chemical reaction between sodium and water. As a corollary of this discussion, the necessity for the use of a double-barrier heat exchanger in systems where nuclear control problems are absent has been examined. The desirability of eliminating the double-barrier design where feasible is obvious. The double-barrier results in a more complex design with associated fabrication and operational problems, requires additional heat transfer area due to the increased thermal resistance of the double barrier, and requires external equipment to handle the third-fluid system. All these factors increase the size and cost of the heat exchanger. 

The second unit in which a failure resulted in the mixing of water and sodium occurred in a superheater unit which was part of a steam generator with a per hour capacity of about 10 X 10 B.t.u. being tested at the MSA (8). This superheater, shown in Figure 6, was a tube and shell heat exchanger with sodium on the shell side and steam on the tube side. The unit was of double-barrier design with mercury as the third fluid. The third fluid was normally maintained at a pressure intermediate between the sodium and steam system pressures. 

As another example, we consider a double-barrier resonant tunneling system in ID. These artificial quantum systems, formed of semiconductor materials, have been fabricated and studied since the 1970s of last century [61]. Sakaki and co-workers verified experimentally that electrons in sufficiently thin symmetric double-barrier resonant structures exhibit exponential decay [88]. Recent work has examined the conditions for full nonexponential decay in double-barrier resonant systems [56]. Here we want to exemplify the time evolution of the probability density in these systems along the external region using the resonant expansion given by Eq. (121) [89]. 

We consider a double-barrier resonant system formed by two barriers of equal height Uo and width b situated at each side of a well of width w with typical parameters of semiconductor GaAlAs - GaAs — GaAlAs structures... 

Figure 7.11 provides a plot of T(x,f) as a function of the distance in units of the length L at a fixed time t = lOr, for the double-barrier resonant system described above (solid line). Notice that the probability density exhibits a propagating wavefront. For comparison. Figure 7.11 shows also the solution for the probability density using the Gamow s... 

Figure 7.10 Plot of Ln 14 (x,t)p as a function of time in units of the lifetime x = 0.64 ps (solid line) at a fixed distance x = lO L, for the double-barrier resonant system with parameters as discussed in the text. Also shown is the 1/f asymptotic long-time contribution (dashed line). See text.

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