We have carried out a coordinated experimental and theoretical study of single-electron traps based on submicron aluminum islands and aluminum oxide tunnel junctions. The results of geometrical ...modeling using a modified version of MIT's FastCap were used as input data for the general-purpose single-electron circuit simulator MOSES. The analysis indicates reasonable quantitative agreement between theory and experiment for those trap characteristics which are not affected by random offset charges. The observed differences between theory and experiment (ranging from a few to fifty percent) can be readily explained by the uncertainty in the exact geometry of the experimental nanostructures.
Russell H. Jacobs: As I mentioned earlier, LNG will become an increasingly important component of U.S. gas supply. In order for LNG to meet this growing need, additional regasification facilities ...will have to be constarcted on the U.S. East, West, and Gulf coasts. This capacity will be over and above the announced expansions of the four existing U.S. LNG receiving terminals.
