Ross Inglis、Constantinos J. Milios、Leigh F. Jones 等 5 位作者2011-09-05Chemical Communications
The use of derivatised salicylaldoximes in manganese chemistry has led to the synthesis of a family of approximately fifty hexanuclear ([Mn(III)(6)]) and thirty trinuclear ([Mn(III)(3)]) Single-Molecule Magnets (SMMs). Deliberate, targeted structural distortion of the metallic core afforded family members with increas…
Lanthanide and Transition Metal ComplexesPorphyrin and Phthalocyanine ChemistryMagnetism in coordination complexes
Zhao Wang、Natalio Mingo2011-09-05Applied Physics Letters
In stark contrast with three-dimensional (3D) nanostructures, we show that boundary scattering in two-dimensional (2D) nanoribbons alone does not lead to a finite phonon mean free path. If combined with an intrinsic scattering mechanism, 2D boundary scattering does reduce the overall mean free path; however, the latte…
Thermal Radiation and Cooling TechnologiesThermal properties of materialsAdvanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
X. Blase、C. Attaccalite2011-09-05arXiv
We study within the perturbative many-body $GW$ and Bethe-Salpeter approach the low lying singlet charge-transfer excitations in molecular donor-acceptor complexes associating benzene, naphtalene and anthracene derivatives with the tetracyanoethylene acceptor. Our calculations demonstrate that such techniques can repr…
Materials Science
E. A. Hoffmann、H. A. Nilsson、L. Samuelson 等 4 位作者2011-09-05arXiv
Quantitative thermoelectric measurements in the mesoscopic regime require accurate knowledge of temperature, thermovoltage, and device energy scales. We consider the effect of a finite load resistance on thermovoltage measurements of InAs/InP heterostructure nanowires. Load resistance and ac attenuation distort the me…
Mesoscale and Nanoscale PhysicsMaterials Science
Robert Colby、M. L. Bolen、M. A. Capano 等 4 位作者2011-09-05Applied Physics Letters
Cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is used to characterize an amorphous layer observed at the interface in graphite and graphene films grown via thermal decomposition of C-face 4H-SiC. The amorphous layer does not cover the entire interface, but uniform contiguous regions span microns of cross-sect…
Diamond and Carbon-based Materials ResearchGraphene research and applicationsSilicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies
M. S. Laad、S. Koley、A Taraphder2011-09-05arXiv
We study the quantum phase transition in $f$-electron systems as a quantum Lifshitz transition driven by selective Mott localization in a realistic extended Anderson lattice model. Using DMFT, we find that a quantum critical {\it phase} with anomalous $ω/T$ scaling separates a heavy Landau-Fermi liquid from ordered ph…
Strongly Correlated ElectronsMaterials Science
Sefaattin Tongay、Maxime G. Lemaitre、Todd Schumann 等 7 位作者2011-09-05Applied Physics Letters
Rectification and thermal stability of diodes formed at graphene/GaN interfaces have been investigated using Raman Spectroscopy and temperature-dependent current-voltage measurements. The Schottky barriers formed between GaN and mechanically transferred graphene display rectification that is preserved up to 550 K with…
Graphene research and applicationsGaN-based semiconductor devices and materialsSemiconductor materials and devices
Guochu Deng、Vladimir Pomjakushin、Václav Petříček 等 6 位作者2011-09-05arXiv
Incommensurate crystal structures of spin ladder series Sr14-xCaxCu24O41 (x=3, 7, 11, 12.2) were characterized by powder neutron scattering method and refined using the superspace group Xmmm(00γ)ss0 (equivalent to superspace group Fmmm(0,0,1+γ)ss0); X stands for non-standard centering (0,0,0,0), (0,1/2,1/2,1/2), (1/2,…
Materials ScienceSuperconductivity
Martin Schlipf、Markus Betzinger、CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH 等 5 位作者2011-09-05arXiv
We present an implementation of the Heyd-Scuseria-Ernzerhof (HSE) hybrid functional within the full-potential linearized augmented-plane-wave (FLAPW) method. Pivotal to the HSE functional is the screened electron-electron interaction, which we separate into the bare Coulomb interaction and the remainder, a slowly vary…
physics.comp-phMaterials Science
Bijay Kumar Sahoo2011-09-05arXiv
The piezoelectric (PZ) polarization effect enhances the phonon group velocity in wurtzite nitrides. This enhancement influences the phonon relaxation rates. We calculate the modified phonon relaxation rates in binary wurtzite nitrides (GaN, AlN and InN) by considering process like umklapp process, point defect, disloc…
Materials Science
R. V. K. Mangalam、Zhibo Zhang、Tom Wu 等 4 位作者2011-09-05Applied Physics Letters
The synthesis, morphology, and magneto-transport properties of nanostructure-engineered charge-ordered Pr0.5Ca0.5MnO3 grown on ZnO nanowires are reported. The stability of the charge-ordering can be tuned, but more interestingly, the sign of the magnetoresistance is inverted at low temperatures. Coexistence of ferroma…
Advanced Condensed Matter PhysicsMultiferroics and related materialsMagnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials
Yan Wei、Xuehui Zhang、Yu Song 等 8 位作者2011-09-05Biomedical Materials
In recent years, interest in magnetic biomimetic scaffolds for tissue engineering has increased considerably. The aim of this study is to develop magnetic biodegradable fibrous materials with potential use in bone regeneration. Magnetic biodegradable Fe(3)O(4)/chitosan (CS)/poly vinyl alcohol (PVA) nanofibrous membran…
Tissue Engineering and Regenerative MedicineBone Tissue Engineering MaterialsElectrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
Dario Narducci2011-09-05Applied Physics Letters
This paper will show that, while ZT is an appropriate performance index when optimizing the heat conversion rate, it may mislead research in view of applications aiming at large electric power production. This is of special relevance when related to the surge of research in the area of low-dimensionality semiconductor…
Thermal Radiation and Cooling TechnologiesThermal properties of materialsAdvanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
Fatima Toor、Howard M. Branz、Matthew Page 等 5 位作者2011-09-05Applied Physics Letters
We characterize the optical and carrier-collection physics of multi-scale textured p-type black Si solar cells with conversion efficiency of 17.1%. The multi-scale texture is achieved by combining density-graded nanoporous layer made by metal-assisted etching with micron-scale pyramid texture. We found that (1) reduci…
Nanowire Synthesis and ApplicationsThin-Film Transistor TechnologiesSilicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence
Donald A. Tomalia2011-09-05New Journal of Chemistry
The term dendritic effects has been used extensively by many dendritic polymer scientists since the early 1990s to describe certain intrinsic physico-chemical and application property patterns exhibited by dendrons and dendrimers. Until the present, this terminology has been used to report the dependency of these uniq…
Advanced Polymer Synthesis and CharacterizationRNA Interference and Gene DeliveryDendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers
N. A. Poklonski、S. A. Vyrko、A. G. Zabrodskii2011-09-05arXiv
Expressions for dependences of the pre-exponential factor σ_3 and the thermal activation energy ε_3 of hopping electric conductivity of holes via boron atoms on the boron atom concentration N and the compensation ratio K are obtained in the quasiclassical approximation. It is assumed that the acceptors (boron atoms) i…
Materials Science
Alejandro Gaita-Ariño、Moshe Schechter2011-09-05arXiv
Tunneling two level systems (TLSs) are believed to be the source of phenomena such as the universal low temperature properties in disordered and amorphous solids, and $1/f$ noise. The existence of these phenomena in a large variety of dissimilar physical systems testifies for the universal nature of the TLSs, which ho…
cond-mat.dis-nnMesoscale and Nanoscale PhysicsMaterials Science
Elena A. Zubova、Alexander V. Savin、Nikolay K. Balabaev2011-09-05arXiv
Almost all the polymer crystals have several polymorphic modifications. Their structure and existence conditions, as well as transitions between them are not understood even in the case of the 'model' polymer polyethylene (PE). For analysis of polymorphism in polymer crystals, we consider the simplest possible model o…
Materials Science
Manuel Núñez-Regueiro、Gastón Garbarino、María Dolores Núñez-Regueiro2011-09-05arXiv
In several superconductors above the superconducting transition temperature Tc, the electrical resistivity is of the form ρ =AT^2. We show that there exists an empirical relation between Tc and A when both vary with an external parameter, e.g. pressure. The more resistive the sample the higher the Tc. Landau theory sh…
Materials ScienceSuperconductivityStrongly Correlated Electrons
Aaron M. Kushner、Zhibin Guan2011-09-05Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Under eons of evolutionary and environmental pressure, biological systems have developed strong and lightweight peptide-based polymeric materials by using the 20 naturally occurring amino acids as principal monomeric units. These materials outperform their man-made counterparts in the following ways: 1) multifunctiona…
Silk-based biomaterials and applicationsSupramolecular Self-Assembly in MaterialsDiatoms and Algae Research