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A square pattern of thioctic acid self-assembled ZnO nanorod arrays was grown on a large 4-in. thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) flexible substrate via an in situ soluthermal process at low temperature (348 K). With the addition of dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA), the surface chemistry forms a disordered ZnO phase, and…
Two-dimensional carbon nanowalls (CNWs) were prepared by microwave plasma-enhanced chemical-vapor deposition and scanning electron microscopy was used to observe their morphologies. The Raman observations of different sample orientations and polarizations show that CNWs are well crystallized. Micro-Raman scattering me…
We show that the radiative heat transfer between two solid surfaces at short separation may increase by many order of magnitude when the surfaces are covered by adsorbates. In this case the heat transfer is determined by resonant photon tunneling between adsorbate vibrational modes. We propose an experiment to check t…
We study the dependence of the heat transfer between two semi-infinite solids on the dielectric properties of the bodies. We show that the heat transfer at short separation between the solids may increase by many order of magnitude when the surfaces are covered by adsorbates, or can support low-frequency surface plasm…
We use first-principles density functional theory calculations to investigate the dielectric response of ${\mathrm{BaZrO}}_{3}$ perovskite. A previous study [Akbarzadeh et al., Phys. Rev. B 72, 205104 (2005)] reported a disagreement between experimental and theoretical low temperature dielectric constant $ϵ$ for the h…
The magnetic lattice of mixed-valence Mn ions in ${\mathrm{La}}_{0.7}{\mathrm{Sr}}_{0.3}\mathrm{Mn}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ is selectively diluted by the partial substitution of Mn by Al or Ti. The ferromagnetic-paramagnetic transition temperature ${T}_{\mathrm{c}}$ and the saturation moment ${M}_{\mathrm{s}}$ decreases with…
A study of transverse tail-to-tail magnetic domain walls (DW) in novel current perpendicular to the plane (CPP) spin valves (SV) of various dimensions is presented. For films with dimensions larger than the DW width, we find that DW motion can give rise to a substantial low frequency noise. For dimensions comparable t…
Magnetoimpedance, MI, change due to surface modification of the sensitive element caused by biofluids was studied with the aim of creating a robust sensor capable of separating the chemical surface modification from the sensing process. A MI sensor prototype with an as-quenched FeCoSiB amorphous ribbon sensitive eleme…
We study the equilibrium configuration of a nematic liquid crystal bounded by a rough surface. The wrinkling of the surface induces a partial melting in the degree of orientation. This softened region penetrates the bulk up to a length scale which turns out to coincide with the characteristic wave length of the corrug…
The lattice-Boltzmann method (LBM) and its variants have emerged as promising, computationally efficient and increasingly popular numerical methods for modelling complex fluid flow. However, it is acknowledged that the method can demonstrate numerical instabilities, e.g., in the vicinity of shocks. We propose a simple…
Spin currents in a two dimensional electron gas with Rashba-type spin orbit coupling are derived from a spin connection. Using a functional integral method, we recover the result derived by Sinova {\em et al.}$[ \mathrm{Phys.Rev. Lett. 92, 126603 (2004)}]$ for a uniform electric field and in the absence of impurities.…
The damping due to rare earth impurities in transition metals is discussed in the low concentration limit. It is shown that the increase in damping is mainly due to the coupling of the orbital moments of the rare earth impurities and the conduction $p$-electrons. It is shown that an itinerant picture for the host tran…
Materials which can undergo extremely fast displacive transformations as well as very slow diffusive transformations are studied using a Ginzburg-Landau framework to understand the physics behind microstructure formation and time-temperature-transformation (TTT) diagrams. This simple model captures the essential featu…
The phenomenon of stochastic resonance (SR) has been mainly studied in one-dimensional systems with additive noise. We show that in higher dimensional systems and in the presence of multiplicative noise, a non-linear magnetic system with a strongly periodic current can show behavior similar to that of SR but only for…
Non-orientable nanostructures are becoming feasable today. This lead us to the study of spin in these geometries. Hence a physically sound definition of spin is suggested. Using our definition, we study the question of the number of different ways to define spin. We argue that the possibility of having more than one s…
Although the current production of oxide nanoparticles may be modest, the wide range of proposed applications and forecasted growth in production has raised questions about the potential impact of these nanoparticles on the environment and human health. Iron oxide nanoparticles have been proposed for an increasing num…
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In this work we present a detailed time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) investigation of the absorption and Raman spectra of a pyrazine molecule located at the junction between two Ag20 clusters. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering enhancements of the order of 10(6) have been found for the junction system, w…
Single-molecule vibrational Raman spectroscopy of malachite green adsorbed on planar metal surfaces is achieved by means of optical local-field enhancement provided by a scanning nanoscopic metallic tip. The single-molecule signature is evident from spectral diffusion and a discretization of Raman peak intensities. Th…
We report transport measurements through a single-molecule magnet, the ${\mathrm{Mn}}_{12}$ derivative $[{\mathrm{Mn}}_{12}{\mathrm{O}}_{12}({\mathrm{O}}_{2}\mathrm{C}\mathrm{\text{\ensuremath{-}}}{\mathrm{C}}_{6}{\mathrm{H}}_{4}\mathrm{\text{\ensuremath{-}}}\mathrm{SAc}{)}_{16}({\mathrm{H}}_{2}\mathrm{O}{)}_{4}]$, in…