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We present molecular dynamics simulations on the slow dynamics of a mixture of big and small soft-spheres with a large size disparity. Dynamics are investigated in a broad range of temperature and mixture composition. As a consequence of…
Process-related and stress-induced changes in threshold voltage are major variability concerns in ultra-scaled CMOS transistors. The device designers consider this variability as an irreducible part of the design problem and use different…
Initial-switching refers to the way in which the decay of an initially confined state begins, as the barrier isolating it from the exterior is relaxed. We study these effects in the context of Longhi's version of the Fano-Anderson model.…