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Surface sensitive electric current measurements are important experimental tools poorly corroborated by theoretical models. We show that the drift-diffusion equations offer a framework for a consistent description of such experiments. The…

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A model is developed for describing the transport of charged colloidal particles in an evaporating sessile droplet on the electrified metal substrate in the presence of a solvent flow. The model takes into account the electric charge of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-16 Semen V. Zavarzin , Andrei L. Kolesnikov , Yury A. Budkov , Lev Yu. Barash

The electro-osmotic flow through a channel between two undulated surfaces induced by an external electric field is investigated. The gap of the channel is very small and comparable to the thickness of the electrical double layers. A lattice…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-24 Hiroaki Yoshida , Tomoyuki Kinjo , Hitoshi Washizu

We study the potential and the charge distribution across the interface of a plasma and a dielectric wall. For this purpose, the charge bound to the wall is modelled as a quasi-stationary electron surface layer which satisfies Poisson's…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Rafael L. Heinisch , Franz X. Bronold , Holger Fehske

Silver nanoparticles embedded in a dielectric matrix are investigated for their potential as broadband-absorbing optical sensor materials. This contribution focuses on the electrical properties of silver nanoparticles at various…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-06-21 Haoyan Wei , Hergen Eilers

A two-dimensional small bias model has been developed for a patterned metal current collector $|$ mixed oxygen ion and electronic conductor (MIEC) $|$ patterned metal current collector electrochemical cell in a symmetric gas environment.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-03-20 Francesco Ciucci , William C. Chueh , Sossina M. Haile , David G. Goodwin

Electroosmotic pumping of fluid through a nanopore that traverses an insulating membrane is considered. The density of surface charge on the membrane is assumed uniform, and sufficiently low for the Poisson-Boltzmann equation to be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-05-15 M. Mao , J. D. Sherwood , S. Ghosal

The flow of ions through permeable channels causes voltage drop in physiological nanodomains such as synapses, dendrites and dendritic spines, and other protrusions. How the voltage changes around channels in these nanodomains has remained…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-10 Frédéric Paquin-Lefebvre , David Holcman

A nonlinear phase-field model is developed to simulate corrosion damage. The motion of the electrode$-$ electrolyte interface follows the usual kinetic rate theory for chemical reactions based on the Butler-Volmer equation. The model links…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 M. Makuch , S. Kovacevic , M. R. Wenman , E. Martínez-Pañeda

The electroosmotic transfer (ratio of velocity of liquid to electric current density) and conductivity of disperse system were calculated as functions of volume fraction of disperse particles. The considered model of electric double layer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Shilov , N. I. Zharkikh

The mathematical modeling and numerical simulation of semiconductor-electrolyte systems play important roles in the design of high-performance semiconductor-liquid junction solar cells. In this work, we propose a macroscopic mathematical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-03 Yuan He , Irene M. Gamba , Heung-Chan Lee , Kui Ren

Ultrathin sheets of MoS2 are a newly discovered 2D semiconductor that holds great promise for nanoelectronics. Understanding the pattern of current flow will be crucial for developing devices. In this talk, we present images of current flow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Sagar Bhandari , Ke Wang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Philip Kim , Robert M. Westervelt

We report on the results of molecular dynamics simulation (MD) studies of the classical two-dimensional electron crystal in the presence disorder. Our study is motivated by recent experiments on this system in modulation doped semiconductor…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Min-Chul Cha , H. A. Fertig

The coherent reflectivity of a dense, relativistic, ultra-thin electron layer is derived analytically for an obliquely incident probe beam. Results are obtained by two-fold Lorentz transformation. For the analytical treatment, a plane…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hui-Chun Wu , Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn

Characterizing the local voltage distribution within nanophysiological domains, driven by ionic currents through membrane channels, is crucial for studying cellular activity in modern biophysics, yet it presents significant experimental and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-14 Frédéric Paquin-Lefebvre , Alejandro Barea Moreno , David Holcman

Large fluctuations of conductivity with time are observed in a low-mobility two-dimensional electron system in silicon at low electron densities $n_s$ and temperatures. A dramatic increase of the noise power ($\propto 1/f^{\alpha}$) as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Snezana Bogdanovich , Dragana Popovic

Theoretical calculations of the electrical conductivity and electroosmotic transfer as functions of the disperse phase volume fraction and non-dissolving boundary layer thickness were provided on the basis of the cell theory of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Gulo , O. Alexejev

The spatial structure of the transition region between an insulator and an electrolyte solution was studied with x-ray scattering.The electron density profile across the n-hexane/silica sol interface (solutions with 5-nm, 7-nm, and 12-nm…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Aleksey M. Tikhonov

We devise a scheme to characterize tunneling of an excess electron shared by a pair of tunnel-coupled dangling bonds on a silicon surface -- effectively a two-level system. Theoretical estimates show that the tunneling should be highly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-05 Zahra Shaterzadeh-Yazdi , Lucian Livadaru , Marco Taucer , Josh Mutus , Jason Pitters , Robert A. Wolkow , Barry C. Sanders

The response of a model micro-electrochemical system to a time-dependent applied voltage is analyzed. The article begins with a fresh historical review including electrochemistry, colloidal science, and microfluidics. The model problem…

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