Luigi Cristofolini、S. Arisi、Marco Fontana2000-12-04Physical Review Letters
In this letter we employ null ellipsometry on Langmuir Blodgett multilayers of a glass forming photosensitive side chain polymer to investigate both the structural changes and the related time relaxation as a function of temperature and sample thickness following isothermal optical perturbation. Below a thickness of a…
Liquid Crystal Research AdvancementsPhase Equilibria and ThermodynamicsMaterial Dynamics and Properties
Herman A. Lopez、Philippe M. Fauchet2000-12-04Applied Physics Letters
We report tunable, narrow, directional, and enhanced erbium emission from one-dimensional photonic band gap structures. The structures are prepared by anodic etching of crystalline silicon and consist of two highly reflecting porous silicon Bragg reflectors sandwiching an active layer. The cavities are doped by cathod…
Photonic and Optical DevicesPhotonic Crystals and ApplicationsSilicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence
S. Bhattacharyya、Satyajit Saha、D. Chakravorty2000-12-04Applied Physics Letters
Silver nanowires of diameter ∼40 nm and length ∼0.3 mm have been grown by electrodeposition within the pores of silica gels which were heat treated in the temperature range 523 to 823 K and, subsequently, soaked in a silver nitrate solution. A staircase current–voltage characteristic was observed in the direction of e…
Quantum Dots Synthesis And PropertiesMolecular Junctions and NanostructuresNanowire Synthesis and Applications
Taeyong Kim、Hyun M. Jang2000-12-04Applied Physics Letters
The site vacancy responsible for the manifestation of a spontaneous normal-to-relaxor transition was investigated using La-modified PbTiO3 as a model perovskite system. The two cation-site defects relevant to the present study are the A-site (Pb site) and B-site (Ti site) vacancies. To clearly elucidate the type of va…
Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsMultiferroics and related materialsElectronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
D. W. Song、W. L. Liu、Taofang Zeng 等 7 位作者2000-12-04Applied Physics Letters
Experimental results on the temperature-dependent cross-plane thermal conductivity of skutterudite thin films are presented. The films examined include IrSb3, CoSb3, and Ir0.5Co0.5Sb3 single layers, and IrSb3/CoSb3 superlattices that are grown by pulsed-laser deposition. A differential 3ω method is used to measure the…
Thermal properties of materialsThermal Expansion and Ionic ConductivityThermodynamic and Structural Properties of Metals and Alloys
D. Bolten、U. Böttger、Theodor Schneller 等 6 位作者2000-12-04Applied Physics Letters
In this letter, the reversible and irreversible polarization contributions in donor-doped Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 are investigated using conventional capacitance–voltage (C–V) and hysteresis measurements. The dependence of the Rayleigh coefficient in the subcoercive regime on the doping concentration is investigated and shown to…
Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsAcoustic Wave Resonator TechnologiesSemiconductor materials and interfaces
Robert F. Klie、Nigel D. Browning2000-12-04Applied Physics Letters
We have examined the atomic structure, composition, and bonding at a nominally undoped 58° [001] tilt grain boundary in SrTiO3 in order to develop an understanding of the control that the grain boundary plane exerts over the bulk properties. Room temperature and in situ heating experiments show that there is a segrega…
Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsMagnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materialsElectronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
Hélio Chacham、Leonard Kleinman2000-12-04Physical Review Letters
We investigate, through first-principles calculations, lattice instabilities induced in diamond by the application of high shear stresses. For shear stresses as low as 95 GPa a lattice instability will occur, leading to graphitelike layered structures. This effect is highly anisotropic. The reversal of the direction o…
Metal and Thin Film MechanicsHigh-pressure geophysics and materialsDiamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
Z. J. Zhang、Bingqing Wei、Ganpati Ramanath 等 4 位作者2000-12-04Applied Physics Letters
We report highly substrate-site selective growth of carbon nanotubes by chemical vapor deposition from precursors of ferrocene and xylene mixtures. The technique allows us to grow well-aligned multiwalled carbon nanotubes preferentially on the SiO2 regions of patterned SiO2/Si substrates prepared by conventional litho…
Carbon Nanotubes in CompositesGraphene research and applicationsNanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies
I. A. Vartanyants、M. V. Kovalchuk2000-12-04arXiv
Theoretical aspects of x-ray standing wave method for investigation of the real structure of crystals are considered in this review paper. Starting from the general approach of the secondary radiation yield from deformed crystals this theory is applied to different concreat cases. Various models of deformed crystals l…
Materials Science
M. Molotskii、V. Fleurov2000-12-04arXiv
We propose an explanation of anomalies observed in the behavior of deformation hardening of Invars. An extremely strong volume magnetostriction, typical of Invars, results in an enhancement of the exchange contribution to the energy of the dislocation system by about three orders of magnitude with respect to its value…
Materials Science
Sara Romer、Frank Scheffold、Peter Schurtenberger2000-12-04Physical Review Letters
Diffusing-wave spectroscopy (DWS) was used to follow the sol-gel transition of concentrated colloidal suspensions. We present a new technique based on a sandwich of two scattering cells aimed to overcome the problem of nonergodicity in DWS of solidlike systems. Using this technique we obtain quantitative information a…
Material Dynamics and PropertiesSpectroscopy and Quantum Chemical StudiesRandom lasers and scattering media
Gerhard S. Neugschwandtner、Reinhard Schwödiauer、M. Vieytes 等 10 位作者2000-12-04Applied Physics Letters
Charged closed-cell microporous polypropylene foams are shown to exhibit piezoelectric resonance modes in the dielectric function, coupled with a large anisotropy in the electromechanical and elastic material properties. Strong direct and converse dynamic piezoelectricity with a piezoelectric d33 coefficient of 140 pC…
Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting MaterialsHigh voltage insulation and dielectric phenomenaDielectric materials and actuators
I. I. Mazin2000-12-04arXiv
Tunneling of Bloch electrons through a vacuum barrier introduces new physical effects in comparison with the textbook case of free (plane wave) electrons. For the latter, the exponential decay rate in the vacuum is minimal for electrons with the parallel component of momentum ${\bf k}_\parallel=0$, and the prefactor i…
Materials Science
Wayne H. Lau、J. T. Olesberg、Michael E. Flatte'2000-12-04arXiv
A theory for longitudinal (T1) and transverse (T2) electron spin coherence times in zincblende semiconductor quantum wells is developed based on a non-perturbative nanostructure model solved in a fourteen-band restricted basis set. Distinctly different dependences of coherence times on mobility, quantization energy, a…
Materials Science
S. Raj、H. C. Padhi、P. Rayachaudhury 等 8 位作者2000-12-04arXiv
Relative $K$ x-ray intensities of $Mn$ in $Mn$, $MnO_{2}$, $LaMnO_{3}$ and $La_{0.7}B_{0.3}MnO_{3}$ ($B$ = $Ca$, $Sr$, and $Ce$) systems have been measured following excitation by 59.54 keV $γ$-rays from a 200 mCi $^{241}$Am point-source. The measured results for the compounds deviate significantly from the results of…
Materials Science
Han Jong Ko、Y. F. Chen、Soon‐Ku Hong 等 6 位作者2000-12-04OpenAlex
We have investigated the structural and optical properties of Ga-doped ZnO films grown on GaN templates by plasma-assisted molecular-beam epitaxy. The carrier concentration in Ga-doped ZnO films can be controlled from 1.33×1018/cm3 to 1.13×1020/cm3. Despite high Ga incorporation, the linewidth of (0002) ω-rocking curv…
ZnO doping and propertiesGaN-based semiconductor devices and materialsGa2O3 and related materials
Ekaterina B. Zhulina、Oleg V. Borisov、Jan van Male 等 4 位作者2000-12-02Langmuir
We consider an equilibrium structure of a monolayer formed by weakly charged polyelectrolyte chains tethered to the oppositely charged interface. The interface is characterized by an immobile charge spatially distributed in a sublayer of finite thickness submerging tethered polyions. The Coulomb attraction of tethered…
Surfactants and Colloidal SystemsPolymer Surface Interaction StudiesElectrostatics and Colloid Interactions
J. M. Davidson、Caroline M. McGregor née Shirrida、L. K. Doraiswamy2000-12-02Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
The rate of thermal decomposition (190−231 °C) of ethanol on Pd/Al 2 O 3 to yield CH 4, CO, and H 2 has been studied in a tubular reactor at differential conversion and in a Berty reactor. Ethanal is a byproduct that is also present as an intermediate species formed in a dehydrogenation reaction. The presence of H 2 i…
Catalytic Processes in Materials ScienceCatalysts for Methane ReformingCatalysis and Oxidation Reactions
Miguel Clemente‐León、Eugenio Coronado、José Ramón Galán‐Mascarós 等 6 位作者2000-12-02Inorganic Chemistry
The synthesis, crystal structure, and physical characterization of the coordination compounds [Ni(en) 2 ] 4 [Fe(CN) 5 NO] 2 [Fe(CN) 6 ]·5H 2 O ( 1 ), [Ni(en) 2 ][Fe(CN) 5 NO]·3H 2 O ( 2 ), [Mn(3-MeOsalen)(H 2 O)] 2 [Fe(CN) 5 NO] ( 3 ), and [Mn(5-Brsalen)] 2 [Fe(CN) 5 NO] ( 4 ) are presented. 1 crystallizes in the mono…
Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and ApplicationsMagnetism in coordination complexesLanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes