Characteristics of drain-modulated generation current in n-type metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor

Drain-modulated generation current IDMGinduced by interface traps in an n-type metal-oxide-semiconductor fieldeffect transistor（n MOSFET） is investigated. The formation of IDMGascribes to the change of the Si surface potential φs.This change makes the channel suffer transformation from the inversion state, depletion I state to depletion II state. The simulation result agrees with the experiment in the inversion and depletion I states. In the depletion II state, the theoretical curve goes into saturation, while the experimental curve drops quickly as VDincreases. The reason for this unconformity is that the drain-to-gate voltage VDGlessens φs around the drain corner and controls the falling edge of the IDMG curve.The experiments of gate-modulated generation and recombination currents are also applied to verify the reasonability of the mechanism. Based on this mechanism, a theoretical model of the IDMGfalling edge is set up in which IDMGhas an exponential attenuation relation with VDG. Finally, the critical fitting coefficient t of the experimental curves is extracted. It is found that t = 80 m V = 3k T /q. This result fully shows the accuracy of the above mechanism.

Ordering effects of cholesterol on sphingomyelin monolayers investigated by high-resolution broadband sum-frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy

This report investigated the ordering of the alky chain of sphingomyelin （SMs） monolayers induced by cholesterol at the air/water interface using high-resolution broadband sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy （HR-BB-SFG-VS）. The SFG spectra of the three nature sphingomyelin/cholesterol mixture monolayers with two concentrations of the cholesterol at the air/water interface are performed under different polarization combination. A new resolved CH2 symmetric stretching （d＋, ~2834 cm-1） and the CH3 symmetric stretching （r＋, ~2874 cm-1） mode are applied to characterize the conformational order in the sphingomyelin/cholesterol mixture monolayers. It was found that the cholesterol make the sphingosine backbones more conformational order. During this process, the conformational order of the N-linked acyl chain remains unaltered. Moreover, the sphingosine backbones of SMs have much larger contributions to gauche defects of SMs than one in the N-linked acyl chain. These results presented here not only shed lights on understanding of the interactions of sphingomyelin molecules with cholesterol molecules at interface but also demonstrates the ability of HR-BB-SFG to probe such complicated molecular systems.

Protection and control of microgrids using dynamic state estimation

High penetration of Converter Interfaced Generations(CIGs)presents challenges in both microgrid(μGrid)circuit and other system with CIG resources,such as wind farms and PV plants.Specifically,protection challenges are mainly brought by the insufficient separation between fault and load currents,especially forμGrids in islanded operation,and the short connection length inμGrids.In addition,CIG resources exhibit limited inertia and weak coupling to any rotating machinery,which can result in large transients during disturbances.To address the above challenges,this paper proposes a Dynamic State Estimation(DSE)based algorithm for protection and control of systems with substantial CIG resources such as aμGrid.It requires a high-fidelity dynamic model and time domain(sampled value)measurements.ForμGrid circuit protection,the algorithm dependably and securely detects internal faults by checking the consistency between the circuit model and available measurements.For CIG control,the algorithm estimates the frequency at other parts of aμGrid using CIG local information only and then utilizes it to provide supplementary feedback control.Simulation results prove that DSE based protection algorithm detects internal faults faster,ignores external faults and has improved sensitivity towards high impedance faults when compared to conventional protection methods.DSE based CIG control scheme also minimizes output oscillation and transient during system disturbances.