Five golden rules for meeting management

If you are asked to chair a meeting,remember the following six golden rules for meeting management.Always start the meeting on time.If you begin on time,group members who show up late will realize the value of time.Beginning on time reflects skill as an effective time manager and sets a precedent(前例)

Full Band Monte Carlo Simulation of Electron Transport in Ge with Anisotropic Scattering Process

The electron transport properties in Ge are calculated by full band Monte Carlo technique with anisotropic scattering consideration.The calculation procedures are as follows:the full band structure is calculated by nonlocal empirical pseudopotential approach;the relative value of density of state (DOS) is computed by counting the number of states located in a certain region of the energy;the phonon dispersion curve is obtained from an adiabatic bond charge model;the electron phonon scattering rates are approximated by the nonparabolic model derived from Fermi’s golden rule at low energy region and scaled by DOS at higher energy region;the energy and momentum conservations are employed for choosing the final state after scattering.The validity of this Monte Carlo simulator and the physical models that are used is fully confirmed by comparing the program output to experimental results listed in references.As this Monte Carlo model can accurately reproduce the velocity and energy characteristics of electrons in Ge and the DOS scaled scattering rate can significantly reduce the computational cost for scattering rates,this approach is suitable for device simulation.

Necessity of Exact Calculation for Transition Probability

This paper shows that exact calculation for transition probability can make some systems deviate fromFermi golden rule seriously. This paper also shows that the corresponding exact calculation of hopping rate inducedby phonons for deuteron in Pd-D system with the many-body electron screening, proposed by Ichimaru, can explainthe experimental fact observed in Pd-D system, and predicts that perfection and low-dimension of Pd lattice are veryimportant for the phonon-induced hopping rate enhancement in Pd-D system.

Marcus'Electron Transfer Rate Revisited via a Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus Analogue:A Uni ed Formalism for Linear and Nonlinear Solvation Scenarios

In the pioneering work by R.A.Marcus,the solvation effect on electron transfer(ET)processes was investigated,giving rise to the celebrated nonadiabatic ET rate formula.In this work,on the basis of the thermodynamic solvation potentials analysis,we reexamine Marcus’formula with respect to the Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus(RRKM)theory.Interestingly,the obtained RRKM analogue,which recovers the original Marcus’rate that is in a linear solvation scenario,is also applicable to the nonlinear solvation scenarios,where the multiple curve-crossing of solvation potentials exists.Parallelly,we revisit the corresponding Fermi’s golden rule results,with some critical comments against the RRKM analogue proposed in this work.For illustration,we consider the quadratic solvation scenarios,on the basis of physically well-supported descriptors.