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The focus of the paper is to study the correlation between hardness and fracture toughness of brittle materials. To this end, density functional theory (DFT) is used to calculate materials parameters such as the surface energies, the unstable stacking fault energies, the Young's modulus, the bulk modulus, the shear mo…
Within the framework of the phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau theory influence of semiconductor electrodes on the properties of thin ferroelectric films is considered. The contribution of the semiconductor electrodes with different Debye screening length of carriers is included in functional of free energy. The influen…
Following our previous work on metamaterial high-impedance surfaces made of Hilbert curve inclusions, here we theoretically explore the performance of the high-impedance surfaces made of another form of space-filling curve known as the Peano curve. This metamaterial surface, formed by a 2-D periodic arrangement of Pea…
Synthesis of highly $^{13}$C isotope enriched azafullerene, C$_{59}$N embedded in C$_{60}$ is reported. $^{13}$C enriched fullerenes, produced with the Krätschmer-Huffmann process, were subject to a N$_{2}$ discharge that produces C$_{59}$N with a low probability. Raman spectroscopy indicates a homogeneous $^{13}$C di…
The electrical and magnetic properties of p-type cubic (Ga,Mn)N thin films grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy are reported. Hole concentrations in excess of 1018 cm-3 at room temperature are observed. Activated behaviour is observed down to around 150K, characterised by an acceptor ionisation energy of ar…
A phase field model is presented to study dislocation formation (coherency loss) in two-phase binary alloys. In our model the elastic energy density is a periodic function of the shear and tetragonal strains, which allows multiple formation of dislocations. The composition is coupled to the elastic field twofold via l…
We report the synthesis of gold nanoparticles directly conjugated to bovine serum albumin protein by chemical reduction in aqueous solution. Transmission electron microscopy reveals that the gold nanoparticles are well dispersed with an average diameter less than 2 nm, and elemental analysis verifies the composition o…
The structural and electron transport properties of the pure and $\mathrm{Co}\text{\ensuremath{-}}$, $\mathrm{Ti}\text{\ensuremath{-}},$ and $\mathrm{Zr}\text{\ensuremath{-}}$substituted $\mathrm{FeVSb}$ half-Heusler phases have been investigated using x-ray diffraction, M\"ossbauer spectroscopy, and Electron Probe Mi…
Fully dense ceramic–carbon-nanotube composites with homogeneously distributed multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) (see Figure; inset shows a single MWCNT) have been synthesized by a unique method, which uses a polymer-derived ceramic as the composite matrix. Composites with an MWCNT fraction of 6.4 vol.-% had signif…
We discuss the stick-slip motion of an elastic block sliding along a rigid substrate. We argue that for a given external shear stress this system shows a discontinuous nonequilibrium transition from a uniform stick state to uniform sliding at some critical stress which is nothing but the Griffith threshold for crack p…
An analogy between the band structure of narrow gap semiconductors and the Dirac equation for relativistic electrons in vacuum is used to demonstrate that semiconductor electrons experience a Zitterbewegung (trembling motion). Its frequency is $ω_Z \approx {\cal E}_g/\hbar$ and its amplitude is $λ_Z$, where $λ_Z = \hb…
Using scanning Kerr microscopy, we directly acquire two-dimensional images of spin-polarized electrons flowing laterally in bulk epilayers of n:GaAs. Optical injection provides a local dc source of polarized electrons, whose subsequent drift and/or diffusion is controlled with electric, magnetic, and - in particular -…
We investigated possibility of using local magnetic field originating from ferromagnetic island deposited on the top of semiconductor quantum well to produce zero- and one-dimensional traps for quasi-particles with spin. In particular we considered two shapes of experimentally made magnets - cylindrical and rectangula…
A novel method of coherent manipulation of the electron tunneling in quantum-dots is proposed, which utilizes the quantum interference in nonadiabatic double-crossing of the discrete energy levels. In this method, we need only a smoothly varying gate voltage to manipulate electrons, without a sudden switching-on and o…
The conductivity of organic semiconductors is measured {\it in-situ} and continuously with a bottom contact configuration, as a function of film thickness at various gate voltages. The depletion layer thickness can be directly determined as a shift of the threshold thickness at which electric current began to flow. Th…
Statistical thermodynamical and kinetically-limited models are applied to study the origin and evolution of space charges and band-bending effects at low angle [001] tilt grain boundaries in YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_7$ and the effects of Ca doping upon them. Atomistic simulations, using shell models of interatomic forces, are…
The effect of tensile stress on magnetoimpedance (MI) in CoMnSiB amorphous wires at microwave frequencies (0.5-3 GHz) is investigated both experimentally and theoretically. In the presence of the dc bias magnetic field of the order of the anisotropy field, the impedance shows very large and sensitive change when the w…
Current-driven magnetization reversal in a ferromagnetic semiconductor based $(\mathrm{G}\mathrm{a},\mathrm{M}\mathrm{n})\mathrm{A}\mathrm{s}/\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}\mathrm{G}\mathrm{a}\mathrm{A}\mathrm{s}/(\mathrm{G}\mathrm{a},\mathrm{M}\mathrm{n})\mathrm{A}\mathrm{s}$ magnetic tunnel junction is demonstrated at 30…
We report on a computational approach based on the self-consistent solution of the steady-state Boltzmann transport equation coupled with the Poisson equation for the study of inhomogeneous transport in deep submicron semiconductor structures. The nonlinear, coupled Poisson-Boltzmann system is solved numerically using…
The complex shapes of biominerals cannot be explained with simple mechanistic models of crystal growth. In their Perspective, De Yoreo and Dove, argue that the popular stereochemical recognition model, which postulates that some shapes are stabilized through the binding of peptides and proteins to otherwise unstable f…