We have tuned the transition temperature of the AuPd/Mo bi-layer in the temperature range 100-800 mK and used models derived from the Usadel theory to predict and fit the behaviour of the transition temperature. As expected, the influence of the AuPd on the transition temperature is stronger than that found by others from pure Au, but weaker than that of pure Pd. The extracted coherence length of the Cooper pairs in the metal alloy points to the greatest influence coming from the Pd part of the AuPd. X-ray measurements show the films to be textured, with the Mo(110) and AuPd(111) peaks being dominant in the out-of-plane direction. The transition width is seen to increase with the spread of the orientation of the z direction of the individual grains.
Electroporation of a large amount of biological material is subject of an industrial development project with the goals to save energy and to avoid disadvantages coming up with thermal cell denaturation. Electroporation takes place in a water-fruit suspension with embedded electrodes. Electric polarization effects are responsible for the formation of irreversible openings in the cell membranes. Pulsed high electric fields in the order of IO kV/cm are produced by means of two 7-stage Marx generators (350 kV output voltage, pulse length 1.5 ps, 2 GW, repetition rate 20 Hz). Due to the need of industrialscale throughput it is necessary to operate several kee running generators simultaneously being connected to one electroporation chamber. The paper describes the experiences obtained during development and testing of the device '
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