Tunneling Results

It is a pleasure to acknowledge the many colleagues who have contributed information and provided illuminating discussions. Unfortunately this chapter could not contain all the information available and the choice remains with me. Especially to be thanked are Drs. R. Soulen, S. Wolf, and T. Francavilla who have read early manuscripts and contributed useful comments. 

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There are only a few measurements that have shown a 10 14 Ohm-cm resistivity one method is by establishing a current flow in a ring of superconductor and monitoring the decay. 

and Farach, H., Copper Oxide Superconductors, Wiley-Interscience, NY (1988). 

Crabtree, G.W., Hinks, D.G. and Capone, D.W., Proc. 18th Int. Conf. on Low Temperature Physics. Kyoto, 1987, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 26 1191 (1987). 

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A detailed method of determining pressure coefficients is to perform experiments with a wind tunnel facility. Cochran and Cermak compared wind tunnel pressure coefficient measurements with field measures on a test building and found excellent results, with the exception of small areas beneath the vortices near the upwind roof corner for winds approaching at 45 . For infiltration and natural ventilation designs, wind tunnel results should be sufficiently accurate. 

A decrease in the length of the bridge and an orientation of P and Q fragments in co-facial quinone-capped porphyrins which is favourable for electron tunneling result in a sharp rise of the efficiency of electron phototransfer from P to Q [54]. 

Bilayered polysilane LEDs have been obtained by inserting a SiOx thin layer between the cathode and a Wurtz synthesized PMPS emitter film.94 The SiOx layers were prepared by 02 plasma treatment of the PMPS film surfaces. It was found that the external quantum efficiency was significantly enhanced by this treatment. This enhancement has been attributed to an increased electron injection via tunneling, resulting in a reduced hole current caused by the blocking effect of the thin SiOx layer. The weak visible emission observed from single-layer polysilane LEDs is almost completely eliminated. It was concluded that the visible emission is caused by the erosion of the PMPS surfaces due to the collision with hot metal particles during the vacuum deposition of the cathode, and this erosion process is avoided by the SiOx layer. 

Amphotericin is a fascinating molecule in that one half of the structure is made up of double bonds and is hydrophobic, while the other half contains a series of hydroxyl groups and is hydrophilic. It is a molecule of extremes and as such is ideally suited to act on the cell membrane in the way that it does. Several amphotericin molecules cluster together such that the alkene chains are to the exterior and interact favourably with the hydrophobic centre of the cell membrane. The tunnel resulting from this cluster is lined with the hydroxyl groups and so is hydrophilic, allowing the polar contents of the cell to escape (Fig. 2.6). 

One of the first historical examples in which turbulence research proved very useful was in the comparison of wind tunnel tests with the corresponding results in free flight. The early experimental work in this field indicated that results from one wind tunnel did not necessarily agree with those from another wind tunnel or with the results for free flight. These differences ultimately were explained by the study of the differences in turbulence between various wind tunnels. Some of the first careful measurements of turbulence were made to explain these contradictory wind tunnel results [3]. 

Since is in the form of CO2 in the atmosphere and enters into the surface ocean water as CO2 in a timescale of decades, its partition between the atmosphere and the oceans yields a reliable estimate for the mean CO2 gas transfer rate over the global oceans. This yields a CO2 gas exchange rate of 20 + 3 mol CO2 m y that corresponds to a sea-air CO2 transfer coefficient of 0.067mol CO2 m y uatm. Wanninkhof in 1992 presented an expression that satisfies the mean global CO2 transfer coefficient based on and takes other field and wind tunnel results into consideration. His equation for variable wind speed conditions is ... 

Theoretical models beyrmd the simple BCS mechanism are discussed to elucidate the inconsistency between the tunneling results inside the vortex core and other data... 

The internal partition function for molecules having inversion may be factored, to a good approximation, into overall rotational and vibrational partition functions. Although inversion tunnelling results in a splitting of rotational energy levels, the statistical weights are such that the classical formulae for rotational contributions to thermodynamic functions may be used. The appropriate symmetry number depends on the procedure used to calculate the vibrational partition function. 

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