Miller plateau

Note that typically, the above driver dissipation equation underestimates the actual driver dissipation by almost 20% — as can be confirmed by integrating the product of the drive current and the voltage across it, over each sub-interval. The reason for the error is simply the Miller plateau — because during this interval, some additional current (other than from the stored charge Qg), gets injected into the drive resistor. So our corrected driver dissipation estimate is 1.2 x 0.081 = 0.097 W. The driver supply rail current is 0.081/4.5 = 18 mA. 

Elderfield H., Gieskes J.M., Baker P.A., Oldfield R.K., Hawkesworth C.J. and Miller R. (1982) 87Sr/86Sr and 180/160 ratios, interstitial water chemistry and diagenesis in deep-sea carbonate sediments of the Ontong Java Plateau. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 46, 2259-2268. 

Early work (Kemp and Rideal, 1934 Lindau and Rhodius, 1935) showed that the concentration dependence of adsorption followed a Langmuir-type isotherm, and recent studies have confirmed this in many cases (Dillman and Miller, 1973 Brash and Lyman, 1969). Thus the adsorbed film is believed to be monomolecular and its concentration is frequently found to approach a plateau value as the solution concentration is increased, consistent with the saturation of available sites. In addition to the plateau value concentration (capacity), two other quantities, the thickness of the adsorbed film and the initial slope of the isotherm are often used to characterize polymer adsorption. The thickness data supplements interfacial concentrations to give clues about molecular conformation. For proteins, the interfa-... 

The basement rocks of the central Transantarctic Mountains are exposed primarily along the coast, except for the Geologist and the Miller Ranges which are located at the edge of the polar plateau more than 80 km inland of the coast The basement rocks along the coast are unconfonnably overlain by the sedimentary rocks of the Beacon Supergroup which were intruded... 

Fig. 3.5. Distribution of radioactivity within decapitated but otherwise intact etiolated coleoptiles of Zea mays supplied with a 1-min pulse of 100 pM " C-IAA, incorporated in an agar donor block. Individual coleoptiles were subdivided at 6-min intervals into 2-mm pieces, and the radioactivity in each counted. Note the generation of a transient plateau between about 6 and 12 mm below the tip (made plain by heavily drawn lines). This is the region of reduced auxin transport velocity as compared with the apical and the more basal parts of the coleoptiles. (Each point is based on the means of eight experiments with three coleoptiles each data from Shen-Miller 1973a)...

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