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We studied the microscopic kinetics of the amorphous-liquid interface in supercooled laser-melt silicon by means of molecular dynamics computer simulations. The interface velocity was obtained as a function of temperature by direct simulation of the interface motion in an amorphous-liquid model system. The temperature…
Using a magneto-optical indicator film imaging technique and an x-ray topography, we have observed a strong correlation between magnetic and twin structure of a single crystal of La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 (LSMO). The correlation between magnetic and twin domains can be understood in terms of a rhombohedral deformation of the cub…
We propose a mechanism of photostructural changes in amorphous ${\mathrm{As}}_{2}{\mathrm{S}}_{3}$ ( $a\ensuremath{-}{\mathrm{As}}_{2}{\mathrm{S}}_{3}$) on the basis of ab initio molecular orbital calculations on clusters of atoms modeling the local structure of the amorphous system. We have found that trigonal ${\mat…
Transition-metal pentatellurides (HfTe5 and ZrTe5) exhibit a promising power factor (electronic properties) for possible use as a thermoelectric material. For complete characterization of these crystals, thermal conductivity measurements are necessary. In this letter, we report measurements of the thermal conductivity…
We have used differential scanning calorimetry to measure the heat capacity of diamond-like carbon (DLC) film prepared by a plasma immersion ion processing method. The same calorimeter was used to measure the heat capacity of single crystal natural diamond and of high purity graphite. The amount of atomic hydrogen tra…
A Comment on the Letter by Tetsuya Mutou and Hiroushi Kontani, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3685 (1999).
We have studied optical properties of CdS nanocrystals formed by sequential Cd+ and S+ ion implantation into Al2O3 matrices. Two bands related to free excitons in the wurtzite CdS are clearly observed in the absorption spectrum at low temperatures. Efficient photoluminescence (PL) appears near the absorption edge. At…
Electrochemical etching techniques were used to fabricate semiconductor sieves of gallium phosphide, i.e., two-dimensionally nanostructured membranes exhibiting an enhanced optical second harmonic generation (SHG) in comparison with the bulk material. The SHG rotational and fundamental polarization dependencies studie…
A low-cost optical fiber sensor to detect volatile organic compounds has been developed. Changes of up to 13.5 dB in the transmitted optical power have been detected with different concentrations of acetone and dichloromethane vapors. The device uses a standard single-mode fiber. The sensing mechanism relies on a vapo…
Catalytic action of Ni atoms in the growth of single-wall carbon nanotubes is investigated using tight-binding molecular dynamics and ab initio methods. Our results demonstrate this to be a two step process in which the Ni atom first creates and stabilizes defects in nanotubes. The subsequent incorporation of incoming…
We report new zero-field muon spin relaxation and neutron spin echo measurements in ferromagnetic (FM) (La,Ca)MnO3 which suggest at least two spatially separated regions possessing very different Mn-ion spin dynamics. One region displays diffusive relaxation, "critical slowing down" near T(C) and an increasing volume…
We have studied ultraviolet photoluminescence from high-purity zinc-oxide powder over a wide temperature range (2–293 K). At low temperatures, the spontaneous emission is due to radiative recombination of excitons bound to donors and acceptors. At high temperature (>90 K), it mainly consists of recombination of…
Experimental evidence has been found for the existence of small single wall carbon nanotubes with diameters of 0.5 and 0.33 nm by high resolution transmission electron microscopy, and their mechanical stability was investigated using tight-binding molecular dynamics simulations. It is shown that, while the carbon tube…
(Ga,Mn)As digital ferromagnetic heterostructures are grown by incorporating submonolayer planes of MnAs into GaAs using molecular beam epitaxy. Structural and magnetic measurements indicate single-crystalline superlattice structure and ferromagnetic order with Curie temperatures (TC) up to 50 K. By varying the spacing…
The Born effective charge, Z *, that describes the polarization created by collective atomic displacements, can be computed from first principles following different techniques. We establish the connections existing between these different formulations, and analyse the related band-by-band decompositions. We show that…
A simple model was constructed to describe the polar ordering of non-centrosymmetric supramolecular aggregates formed by self assembling triblock rodcoil polymers. The aggregates are modeled as dipoles in a lattice with an Ising-like penalty associated with reversing the orientation of nearest neighbor dipoles. The ch…
We suggest a ``ping-pong'' mechanism of enhancement for fusion reactions between a low energy external deuteron beam and the deuterons in a condensed matter or molecular target. The mechanism is based on the possibility of acceleration of a target deuteron by the Coulomb field of a projectile deuteron with its subsequ…
We propose a time-dependent boundary condition coupling an atomistic simulation system to linear surroundings such that reflection of elastic waves across the boundary is minimized. Interdomain interactions expressed in terms of memory kernel functions within linear-response theory are treated in a natural dynamical m…
Experimental results for single-bubble sonoluminescence of air bubbles at very low frequency f = 7.1 kHz are presented: In contrast to the predictions of a recent model [S. Hilgenfeldt and D. Lohse, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1036 (1999)], the bubbles are only as bright (10(4)-10(5) photons per pulse) and the pulses as long…
Properties such as the glass transition temperature ( T(g)) and the diffusion coefficient of ultrathin polymeric films are shown to depend on the dimensions of the system. In this work, a hard-sphere molecular dynamics methodology has been applied to simulate such systems. We investigate the influence that substrates…