Impact of a Kelvin Source Connection on Discrete High Power SiC-MOSFETs

Standard packages like the TO-247-3L impose a strong restriction on the performance of SiC-transistors. The limitation arises predominantly from the common source inductance LS that is shared between the gate loop and the load circuit. To avoid this parasitic influence, advanced packages like the TO-247-4L or TO-263-7L offering a Kelvin source connection have been introduced. In this work, the influence of a Kelvin source connection on the switching behavior of a high power SiC-MOSFET is investigated.

Perturbative dynamics of thin-shell wormholes beyond general relativity: An alternative approach

Recent studies relating the approximations for the equations-of-state for thin shells and their consequent perturbative evolution are extended to thin-shell wormholes in theories beyond general relativity and more than four spacetime dimensions. The assumption of equations-of-state of the same form for static and slowly evolving shells appears as a strong restriction excluding the possibility of oscillatory evolutions. Then the new results considerably differ from previous ones obtained within the usual linearized approach.

Preparation of Nano Ti3SiC2/MoSi2 Composite by SPS Process

In this paper, nano-Ti3SiC2/MoSi2 composite, whose second phase was 20-150nm, was in situ prepared by mechanical activation (MA) and SPS process with the quaternary powers of Mo, Si, Ti, and C. The results showed that: (1) matrix MoSi2 has strong repulsion to other elements, which leads to more second-phase particles inside the matrix rather than on the matrix surface; (2) matrix MoSi2 has strong restriction on the growing of the second phase, which makes the particle diameter of the second phase inside the matrix only in 200 nm around, while that over the surface reaches to 800 nm around.

SEMISTABILITY OF SYZYGY BUNDLES ON PROJECTIVE SPACES IN POSITIVE CHARACTERISTICS

We generalize a result of Flenner, proved in characteristic zero, to positive characteristics. We prove that the first syzygy bundle, [Formula: see text], of the line bundle [Formula: see text] over [Formula: see text] is semistable, for a certain infinite set of integers d ≥ 0. Moreover, for arbitrary d, there is a "good enough estimate" on [Formula: see text] in terms of d and n; thus a strong restriction theorem of Langer, proved earlier for characteristic k > d, is valid in arbitrary characteristics.

Genetic Dissection of the Francisella novicida Restriction Barrier

ABSTRACT Francisella tularensis is the causative agent of tularemia and is a category A select agent. Francisella novicida, considered by some to be one of four subspecies of F. tularensis, is used as a model in pathogenesis studies because it causes a disease similar to tularemia in rodents but is not harmful to humans. F. novicida exhibits a strong restriction barrier which reduces the transformation frequency of foreign DNA up to 106-fold. To identify the genetic basis of this barrier, we carried out a mutational analysis of restriction genes identified in the F. novicida genome. Strains carrying combinations of insertion mutations in eight candidate loci were created and assayed for reduced restriction of unmodified plasmid DNA introduced by transformation. Restriction was reduced by mutations in four genes, corresponding to two type I, one type II, and one type III restriction system. Restriction was almost fully eliminated in a strain in which all four genes were inactive. The strongest contributor to the restriction barrier, the type II gene, encodes an enzyme which specifically cleaves Dam-methylated DNA. Genome comparisons show that most restriction genes in the F. tularensis subspecies are pseudogenes, explaining the unusually strong restriction barrier in F. novicida and suggesting that restriction was lost during evolution of the human pathogenic subspecies. As part of this study, procedures were developed to introduce unmodified plasmid DNA into F. novicida efficiently, to generate defined multiple mutants, and to produce chromosomal deletions of multiple adjacent genes.

GROUPS AND SEMIGROUPS WITH A ONE-COUNTER WORD PROBLEM

We prove that a finitely generated semigroup whose word problem is a one-counter language has a linear growth function. This provides us with a very strong restriction on the structure of such a semigroup, which, in particular, yields an elementary proof of a result of Herbst, that a group with a one-counter word problem is virtually cyclic. We prove also that the word problem of a group is an intersection of finitely many one-counter languages if and only if the group is virtually abelian.