Anaël Lemaı̂tre、C. Caroli2007-09-10Physical Review E
We perform extensive simulations of a two-dimensional Lennard-Jones glass subjected to quasistatic shear deformation at T=0. We analyze the distribution of nonaffine displacements in terms of contributions of plastic, irreversible events, and elastic, reversible motions. From this, we extract information about correla…
Material Dynamics and PropertiesTheoretical and Computational PhysicsMetallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys
Yulan Li、Shenyang Hu、D. A. Ténné 等 12 位作者2007-09-10Applied Physics Letters
The phase transitions of superlattices into single- and multidomain states were studied using a mesoscale phase-field model incorporating structural inhomogeneity, micromechanics, and electrostatics. While the predictions of transition temperatures of BaTiO3∕SrTiO3 superlattices into multidomains show remarkably good,…
Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsSolidification and crystal growth phenomenaAcoustic Wave Resonator Technologies
C. Kobayashi、Takuo Sakai、Andrey Belyakov 等 4 位作者2007-09-10Philosophical Magazine Letters
Strain-induced evolution of ultrafine grains in pure copper was studied in multidirectional forging (MDF) at 195 K. The stress–strain behaviour was characterized by rapid strain hardening during early processing and the rate of strain hardening gradually decreased with straining, leading to an apparent steady-state fl…
Microstructure and mechanical propertiesMicrostructure and Mechanical Properties of SteelsMetallurgy and Material Forming
Diana P. Pacheco、Fleming Martínez2007-09-10Physics and Chemistry of Liquids
By using the van't Hoff and Gibbs equations the thermodynamic functions free energy, enthalpy, and entropy of solution, mixing, and solvation of naproxen (NAP) in ethanol (EtOH) + water (W) cosolvent mixtures, were evaluated from solubility data determined at several temperatures. The solubility was greater in pure et…
Analytical Chemistry and ChromatographyCrystallization and Solubility StudiesChemical and Physical Properties in Aqueous Solutions
John P. Reifenberg、Matthew A. Panzer、Sang‐Bum Kim 等 9 位作者2007-09-10Applied Physics Letters
Thermal conduction in GeSbTe films strongly influences the writing energy and time for phase change memory (PCM) technology. This study measures the thermal conductivity of Ge2Sb2Te5 between 25 and 340°C for layers with thicknesses near 60, 120, and 350nm. A strong thickness dependence of the thermal conductivity is a…
Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and DevicesPhase-change materials and chalcogenidesThermography and Photoacoustic Techniques
F. Friedrich、N. H. Nickel2007-09-10Applied Physics Letters
Raman backscattering measurements were performed on single crystal ZnO for different excitation wavelengths before and after ion implantation with hydrogen and nitrogen. In addition to the formation of H- and N-related defects due to implantation, anomalous Raman modes were observed. Recently, the anomalous Raman mode…
ZnO doping and propertiesChalcogenide Semiconductor Thin FilmsElectronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
Sua Park、Koeun Park、Hyeon Yoon 等 6 位作者2007-09-10Polymer International
Abstract Nanofibers are widely used in a range of material applications, such as filter media, biosensors, military protective coatings, three‐dimensional tissue scaffolds, composites, drug delivery, wound dressings and electronic devices. To fabricate nanofibers with desired physical and chemical functions, a variety…
Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting MaterialsConducting polymers and applicationsElectrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
Ryo Kasuya、Akihiro Kawano、Tetsuhiko Isobe 等 5 位作者2007-09-10Applied Physics Letters
The authors produced the transparent color conversion thick film which is composed of a high concentration of YAG:Ce3+ nanoparticles prepared by glycothermal method, and characterized its optical properties. The transmittance of the 200μm thick film with the nanoparticle content 70.7wt% was 82% at 525nm corresponding…
Luminescence Properties of Advanced MaterialsQuantum Dots Synthesis And PropertiesOcular Surface and Contact Lens
Keisuke Hatada、J. Chaboy2007-09-10Physical Review B
This work reports a theoretical study of the x-ray absorption near-edge structure spectra at both the Cu and the Mn $K$-edge in several ${\mathrm{Cu}}_{2}\mathrm{Mn}M$ ($M=\mathrm{Al}$, Sn, and In) Heusler alloys. Our results show that ab initio single-channel multiple-scattering calculations are able to reproduce the…
Microstructure and mechanical propertiesSemiconductor materials and interfacesHeusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties
Daniel J. Jackson、Gert Wörheide、Bernard M. Degnan2007-09-10BMC Evolutionary Biology
BACKGROUND: The Mollusca constitute one of the most morphologically and ecologically diverse metazoan phyla, occupying a wide range of marine, terrestrial and freshwater habitats. The evolutionary success of the molluscs can in part be attributed to the evolvability of the external shell. Typically, the shell first fo…
Developmental Biology and Gene RegulationMarine Bivalve and Aquaculture StudiesCalcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition
Dörthe Schmidt、Josef Achermann、Bernhard Odermatt 等 8 位作者2007-09-10Circulation
BACKGROUND: A novel concept providing prenatally tissue engineered human autologous heart valves based on routinely obtained fetal amniotic fluid progenitors as single cell source is introduced. METHODS AND RESULTS: Fetal human amniotic progenitors were isolated from routinely sampled amniotic fluid and sorted using C…
Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical ApplicationsCongenital heart defects researchTissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Daniel Gunlycke、Junwen Li、J. W. Mintmire 等 4 位作者2007-09-10Applied Physics Letters
Zigzag-edge graphene nanostrips could be terminated with a variety of atoms or functional groups. Presented local-density-functional calculations show that these different species have a significant impact on the electronic structure of these strips near the Fermi level. The terminations covered include hydrogen and o…
Advancements in Battery MaterialsGraphene research and applicationsQuantum and electron transport phenomena
Rongwei Hu、V. F. Mitrović、C. Petrović2007-09-10Physical Review B
We have investigated anisotropy in magnetic and electrical transport properties of ${\mathrm{Fe}}_{1\ensuremath{-}x}{\mathrm{Cr}}_{x}{\mathrm{Sb}}_{2}$ $(0\ensuremath{\leqslant}x\ensuremath{\leqslant}1)$ single crystals. The magnetic ground state of the system evolves from paramagnetic to antiferromagnetic with gradua…
Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materialsRare-earth and actinide compoundsIron-based superconductors research
R Kaji、S Adachi、H Sasakura 等 4 位作者2007-09-10arXiv
We report the hysteresis of optically-pumped nuclear spin polarization and the degree of circular polarization of photoluminescence on the excitation power and electron spin polarization in single InAlAs quantum dots. By increasing (or decreasing) the excitation power at a particular excitation polarization, an abrupt…
Materials Sciencecond-mat.other
Parthapratim Biswas、Raymond Atta-Fynn、David A. Drabold2007-09-10arXiv
We have extended our experimentally constrained molecular relaxation technique (P. Biswas {\it et al}, Phys. Rev. B {\bf 71} 54204 (2005)) to hydrogenated amorphous silicon: a 540-atom model with 7.4 % hydrogen and a 611-atom model with 22 % hydrogen were constructed. Starting from a random configuration, using physic…
cond-mat.dis-nnMaterials Science
Jian Quan Qi、Ya‐Qiong Xu、N. H. Tolk 等 6 位作者2007-09-10Applied Physics Letters
The authors use femtosecond optical pulses to induce, control, and monitor magnetization precession in ferromagnetic Ga0.965Mn0.035As. At temperatures below ∼40K, they observe coherent oscillations of the local Mn spins, triggered by an ultrafast photoinduced reorientation of the in-plane easy axis. The amplitude satu…
Magnetic properties of thin filmsZnO doping and propertiesElectronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
A.H.G. Vlooswijk、Beatriz Noheda、Gustau Catalán 等 10 位作者2007-09-10Applied Physics Letters
Periodic ferroelectric-ferroelastic 90° domain patterns with an unprecedented small domain periodicity of 27nm were observed in thin PbTiO3 films grown on DyScO3 substrates. These patterns contain the narrowest possible a domains (6nm wide) that allow to preserve the lateral coherence in the films, producing highly or…
Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsPhotorefractive and Nonlinear OpticsAcoustic Wave Resonator Technologies
Martina Hentschel、F. Guinea2007-09-10Physical Review B
Anderson's orthogonality catastrophe [Phys. Rev. Lett. 18, 1049 (1967)] in graphene, at energies close to the Dirac point, is analyzed. It is shown that, in clean systems, the orthogonality catastrophe is suppressed due to the vanishing density of states at the Dirac point. In the presence of preexisting localized sta…
Graphene research and applicationsQuantum and electron transport phenomenaTopological Materials and Phenomena
Sushil Kumar Singh、K. Maruyama、Hiroshi Ishiwara2007-09-10Applied Physics Letters
La (2.5%) and Ni (2.5%) codoped BiFeO3 (BLFNO) thin films were formed by chemical solution deposition on Pt∕Ti∕SiO2∕Si(100) structures. BiFeO3 (BFO), La(5%)-doped BFO, and Ni(5%)-doped BFO films were studied for comparison. X-ray diffraction analysis showed that the crystal structure of all films was single perovskite…
Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsMultiferroics and related materialsDielectric properties of ceramics
Zhe Li、Chao Jing、Jiping Chen 等 6 位作者2007-09-10Applied Physics Letters
Exchange bias was observed in the Ni50Mn36Sn14 Heusler alloy after field cooling by means of hysteresis loop measurement. The hysteresis loops shift along the axis of an applied field and its magnitude significantly increased with decreasing temperature below 70K. This effect could be understood as a result of exchang…
Shape Memory Alloy TransformationsMagnetic Properties and ApplicationsHeusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties