Teodora Radu et al2007-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
We report specific heat, magnetocaloric effect and magnetization measurements on single crystals of the frustrated quasi-2D spin -½ antiferromagnet Cs2CuCl4 in the external magnetic field 0≤B≤12 T along a-axis and in the temperature range 0.03 K≤T≤6 K. Decreasing the applied magnetic field B from high fields leads to…
P.N. Vinod2007-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
The lifetimes of non-equilibrium minority carriers, which bound with the diffusion length, are considered as two important parameters of the low-quality multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) substrate. Its value defines the quality of the initial substrate. It is also subjected to change as a result of many high-temperatur…
Stephen D. Jacobs2007-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
Deterministic processing is critical to modern precision optics finishing. Put simply, determinism is the ability to predict an outcome before carrying out an activity. With the availability of computer numerically controlled (CNC) equipment and sophisticated software algorithms, it is now possible to grind and polish…
Mengkui Tian et al2007-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
Metal oxide photocatalysts K4Ce2M10O30 (M=Ta, Nb) capable of responding to visible light were synthesized by conventional high temperature solid-state reaction. The photocatalysts have an appropriate band gap energy ca. 1.8–2.3 eV and excellent chemical potential level to evolve H2 from aqueous solutions containing a…
Z. Zhang and D.L. Chen2007-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
Based primarily on a recent publication [S.M. Choi, H. Awaji, Sci. Tech. Adv. Mater. 6 (2005) 2–10.], where the dislocations around the nano-sized particles in the intra-granular type of ceramic matrix nanocomposites (CMNCs) were modeled, dislocation activities in Al2O3/SiCp CMNCs were discussed in relation to the pro…
Hiroyuki Nakayama, Tomoya Ono, Hidekazu Goto and Kikuji Hirose2007-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
We have investigated electronic structures of the peanut-shaped polymerized fullerene with so-called P55, P56 and P66 tubular linkage structures. The stable atomic configurations in these one-dimensional or two-dimensionally bundled tubes are searched out by a tight-binding calculation, and then their electronic struc…
Poghosyan B2007-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
AbstractThe binding energy of a hydrogen-like impurity in a thin size-quantized wire of the InSb/GaAs semiconductors with Kane’s dispersion law in a magnetic fieldBparallel to the wire axis has been calculated as a function of the radius of the wire and magnitude ofB, using a variational approach. It is shown that whe…
Debora Fino2007-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
The European diesel engine industry represents a vital sector across the Continent, with more than 2 million direct work positions and a turnover of over 400 billion Euro. Diesel engines provide large paybacks to society since they are extensively used to transport goods, services and people. In recent years increasin…
Pyatenko Alexander、Suzuki Masaaki、YUAN Yong2007-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
AbstractThe EO20PO70EO20(molecular weight 5800) amphiphile as a template is to form dispersed micelle structures. Silver nanoparticles, as inorganic precursors synthesized by a laser ablation method in pure water, are able to produce the highly ordered vesicles detected by TEM micrography. The thickness of the outer l…
Cao Q、Yoon SF、Liu CY 等 4 位作者2007-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
AbstractTen-layer InAs/In0.15Ga0.85As quantum dot (QD) laser structures have been grown using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) on GaAs (001) substrate. Using the pulsed anodic oxidation technique, narrow (2 μm) ridge waveguide (RWG) InAs QD lasers have been fabricated. Under continuous wave operation, the InAs QD laser (2…
McGovern Scott、Ziabari Mohammad、Mottaghitalab Vahid 等 4 位作者2007-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
AbstractIn this paper, a new image analysis based method for electrospun nanofiber diameter measurement has been presented. The method was tested by a simulated image with known characteristics and a real web. Mean (M) and standard deviation (STD) of fiber diameter obtained using this method for the simulated image we…
Gaponik Nikolai、Murase Norio、Weller Horst2007-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
AbstractJudicious selection of the amount of surfactant during synthesis enables a drastic increase in the photoluminescence efficiency of aqueous CdTe nanocrystals (NCs) stabilized by thioglycolic acid (TGA). Elemental determination of the NCs was undertaken to identify the origin of this effect. The molar ratio of (…
Loh Ter-Hoe、Nguyen Hoai Son、Narayanan Balasubramanian 等 8 位作者2007-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
AbstractSi/Si0.66Ge0.34coupled quantum well (CQW) structures with different barrier thickness of 40, 4 and 2 nm were grown on Si substrates using an ultra high vacuum chemical vapor deposition (UHV-CVD) system. The samples were characterized using high resolution x-ray diffraction (HRXRD), cross-sectional transmission…
Emrick Todd、Hammer Nathan、Barnes Michael2007-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
AbstractCdSe quantum dots functionalized with oligo-(phenylene vinylene) (OPV) ligands (CdSe-OPV nanostructures) represent a new class of composite nanomaterials with significantly modified photophysics relative to bulk blends or isolated components. Single-molecule spectroscopy on these species have revealed novel ph…
Jian Sheng-Rui2007-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
AbstractDetails of Berkovich nanoindentation-induced mechanical deformation mechanisms of single-crystal Si(100) and the metal-organic chemical-vapor deposition (MOCVD) derived GaN thin films have been systematic investigated by means of micro-Raman spectroscopy and cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy (XT…
Selvaganesh S、Mathiyarasu J、Phani KLN 等 4 位作者2007-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
AbstractIn this work, gold-incorporated polyethylenedioxythiophene nanocomposite material has been synthesized chemically, employing reverse emulsion polymerization method. Infrared and Raman spectroscopic studies revealed that the polymerization of ethylenedioxythiophene leads to the formation of polymer polyethylene…
Morello Giovanni、Anni Marco、Cozzoli PantaleoDavide 等 6 位作者2007-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
AbstractTime Resolved Photoluminescence (TRPL) measurements on the picosecond time scale (temporal resolution of 17 ps) on colloidal CdSe and CdSe/ZnS Quantum Dots (QDs) were performed. Transient PL spectra reveal three emission peaks with different lifetimes (60 ps, 460 ps and 9–10 ns, from the bluest to the reddest…
Yasushi Oshikane, Toshihiko Kataoka, Mitsuru Okuda, Seiji Hara, Haruyuki Inoue and Motohiro Nakano2007-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
Step and terrace structure has been observed in an area of 1 μm×1 μm on the cleaved surface of KCl–KBr solid-solution single crystal by scanning near-field optical microscope (SNOM) with a small sphere probe of 500 nm diameter. Lateral spatial resolution of the SNOM system was estimated to be 20 nm from the observatio…
Steffi Friedrichs and Jurgen Schulte2007-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
The growth of nanotechnology has led to an unprecedented research and development effort in both the public and the private sectors; world wide, an increasing number of laboratories, fabrication and manufacturing plants develop or apply novel nanometre-sized materials for applications ranging from large-scale industri…
Guodong Yuan et al2007-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
We have assessed the capacity of an allophane nanoclay to take up phosphorus (P) from aqueous solutions and meatwork effluent. The data of adsorption in aqueous solutions were fitted to the Freundlich equation: q (g/kg)=5.620C(mg/L)0.264. The nanoclay effectively removed P from a wide range of concentrations at high s…