... Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) In XPS, photo-ionization and energy-dispersive analysis of the emitted photoelectrons are used to study the composition and electronic state of the surface region of ... by the signal-tonoise ratio and/ or another absorption edge Note that this division of an x-ray absorption spectrum into two regions is conventional and the intervals of these regions can vary for ... ionization and the emission of a core (inner shell) electron The kinetic energy distribution of the emitted photoelectrons (i.e the number of emitted photoelectrons as a function of their kinetic...
... transition due to the stronger spatial confinement of carriers in the QD and the nature of the direct transition type I transition It may be the reason that the PL intensity of the direct interband ... Fermi level of the InGaAs layer may possibly be higher than the bottom of the conduction band of GaSb QDs In such circumstance, the light emission intensity of the GaSb QD could be stronger than ... will promote the application of QD-FET on quantum communications, night vision, and other fields Besides, owing to the spatially separated electrons and hole characters of type-II QDs, the GaSb/InGaAs...
... evolution of the FTIR spectra of samples annealed at 1100 °C as a function of the Nd concentration One can observe that the LO band Page of intensity, which is constant at low Nd concentrations of ... quantity of non-radiative recombination channels It was demonstrated that the PL of Nd 3+ ions was quenched at high Nd-concentration (4.9 at.%) because of the formation of Nd2O3 nanocrystals and the ... intensity remains constant at low Nd concentrations of 0.08 and 0.27 at.%, and then, it progressively increases with increasing Nd content This demonstrates that the incorporation of Nd in the thin...
... transition due to the stronger spatial confinement of carriers in the QD and the nature of the direct transition type I transition It may be the reason that the PL intensity of the direct interband ... Fermi level of the InGaAs layer may possibly be higher than the bottom of the conduction band of GaSb QDs In such circumstance, the light emission intensity of the GaSb QD could be stronger than ... radiative recombination of spatially separated electrons and holes The PL peak positions are in proportion to the third root of the excitation power, which is a direct evidence of type-II luminescence...
... ultrasonication time effectson sediment and the thermal conductivity of the carbon nanotubeethylene glycol nanofluids and found that thermal conductivity of the nanofluids increased with sonication ... agglomerates and promote dispersion of nanoparticles into base fluids However, research reports of sonication effectson nanofluid properties are limited in the open literature In this work, sonication effects ... Ultrasonication effectson thermal and rheological propertiesof carbon nanotube suspensions Binglu Ruan*1,2 and Anthony M Jacobi1 Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois,...
... transition due to the stronger spatial confinement of carriers in the QD and the nature of the direct transition type I transition It may be the reason that the PL intensity of the direct interband ... Fermi level of the InGaAs layer may possibly be higher than the bottom of the conduction band of GaSb QDs In such circumstance, the light emission intensity of the GaSb QD could be stronger than ... radiative recombination of spatially separated electrons and holes The PL peak positions are in proportion to the third root of the excitation power, which is a direct evidence of type-II luminescence...
... Sn#1000 Conversion/Selectivity (%) Conversion/Selectivity (%) ð1Þ The effectsof the process of segregation and de-mixing of these rare earths on the SnO2 catalytic properties were studied and compared ... particles, undoped and doped with rare earths used as catalysts in this reaction, can be used to obtain additional information on the catalytic propertiesand application of these nanostructured ... reaction is promoted not only by basic sites but also by acidic sites of the oxide catalysts Thus, it may be suggested that the control of surfaces and modifications of the nanostructures of the...
... Table of contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I TABLE OF CONTENTS VII SUMMARY VII LIST OF PUBLICATIONS IX LIST OF TABLES X LIST OF FIGURES XI LIST OF SYMBOLS XV LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS XVII CHAPTER INTRODUCTION ... thicknesses of Ag top layers and different deposition conditions Table 5-II Layer structure and magnetic propertiesof FePt films with different thicknesses of Ag top layers and different deposition conditions ... DEPENDENCE OF MAGNETIC PROPERTIESOF FEPT FILMS ON FILM THICKNESS AND DEPOSITION TEMPERATURE 4.1 Experiment methodology 50 4.2 Results and discussion 51 4.3 Summary 57 CHAPTER EFFECTSOF TOP LAYER ON...
... Fe3+ concentration of 0.8 mol, 0.4 mol of ions Co2+ and Ni2+ 0.48 mol solution of sodium hydroxide was prepared and slowly added to the salt solution drop wise with steady stirring The reaction ... addition of Co2+ ion content, which may be attributed to the ionic radii of constituent ions causing increase in lattice parameter and the densities of pure cobalt ferrite (5.29 g/cm3) and pure ... yields monotonic increase in the saturation magnetization of Niferrite which may be due to the substitution of Ni2+ ions by Co2+ on the octahedral sties Therefore, the increasing Co2+ concentration...
... acquired a strong network of genes to sense and respond to stress conditions; the propertiesof many of these are poorly understood A family of genes, whiB, has received attention because of their ... proteins Iron–sulfur clusters are one of the most ancient and versatile cofactors of several important class of proteins and have been implicated in variety of functions [29,30] Iron and sulfur ... observation, the total iron content of proteins purified under different conditions was measured The total iron content of the native and in-column refolded protein varied between 0.14 and 0.20...
... MCPIP (endogenous and exogenous) starts degradation of IL-1b mRNA and also of its own transcript For this reason, the level of mRNA for the wildtype form of MCPIP and the level of mRNA for IL-1b ... for construction of vectors expressing transcripts for IL-1b with ⁄ without AREs (IL-1)ARE and IL-1+ARE) Primers used for amplification of AREs used in the generation of a genetic construct containing ... degradation of IL-1b transcript independently of the presence of AREs (Fig 6B, lanes and 5) It is possible that in the region located before the AREs, consisting of 343 bp of the 3¢ UTR of the...
... electrochromic response anddynamic optical quality On the other hand, more evolved crystallization of the monoclinic phase would have impacts to destroy this nanostructured pore-wall organization and induce ... range ofand 1000 eV at a takeoff angle of 901 Fig 5b shows W 4f high-resolution XPS spectra, and the inserted was the O 1s level peak analysis of sample C It is confirmed that only W, O and C ... performed on a Talystep profilometer (Rank Taylor Hobson) and subsequently refined by cross-sectional SEM images Transmission electron microscopy image and selected area electron diffraction (ED)...
... degradation reaction The interest was focused on the effectsof compositional modifications in titania synthesized by a hydrothermal route, on water decontamination through photocatalytic degradation/mineralization ... the presence of isotropic electronic relaxation effects as a result of spin–spin interaction between the electronic spins of neighbour¨ ing Fe3+ ions Measurements on both 57 Fe and 151 Eu Mossbauer ... cationic species present in the doped and codoped titania which avoid possible electron–hole recombination, stabilizing the holes in the valence band and the electrons in the conduction band...
... Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Authors’ contributions DHH designed and carried out the experiments and wrote the first draft of the manuscript ... Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2010-0024830) Page of 16 Valenzuela AA, Russer P: High Q coplanar transmission line resonator of YBa2Cu3O7-x on ... coefficient, and hν is the energy of the incident photon The optical band gap (Eg) is calculated from the following expression by assuming a direct transition between valance and conduction bands [17]:...
... with NH3 and stirred continuously for 30 The P-containing solution was added drop-by-drop into the [Ca + Ag]-containing solution and stirred for h and the pH was constantly adjusted and kept ... synthesis and characterization of Ag nanofluids by electrical explosion of wires in liquids Nanoscale Res Lett 2011, 6:223 13 Chen K, Deng Ja, Zhao F, Cheng G, Zheng R: Fabrication andpropertiesof ... The exact antibacterial action of AgNPs is not completely understood [32] On the other hand in the literature, the studies on the preparation and characterization of the silver-doped hydroxyapatite...
... respectively, and K is Boltzmann constant On the basis of best fitting of our data with thermally activated type of conduction, the values of activation energy and pre-exponential factor are calculated, and ... system, the value of pre-exponential factor (r0) is of the order of 101 X-1 cm-1 On the basis of this value of r0, it is suggested that the conduction is taking place in the band tails of localized ... dependence of dc conductivity in the temperature range (298–383 K) at various concentration of Ga of thin films of a-GaxSe100-x nanorods extended states and should become still lower for the conduction...
... Wollong-Myeon, Paju, 413-811, Republic of Korea 3School of Information and Computer Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Submit your manuscript to a journal and benefit from: Convenient online ... DH, Lee KS, Lee TS, Cheong B, Baik Y-J, Kim WM: Electrical, optical andstructuralpropertiesof transparent and conducting ZnO thin films doped with Al and F by rf magnetron sputter J Eur Ceram ... Design and simulation of antireflection coating systems for optoelectronic devices: application to silicon solar cells Sol Energ Mat Sol C 1998, 52:79-93 Choi WS, Kim K, Yi J, Hong B: Diamond-like...
... structuraland electronic propertiesof two clusters obtained by condensation ofand 24 borozene molecules, considered as the analogs of Coronene and Coronene 19 Calculations predict a planar geometry ... transport along the molecules and that the Fermi energy is at the center of HOMO–LUMO gap The molecular device configuration considered consists of two vertical gold leads in contact with the horizontal ... [34], boron clusters [32] and boron sheets [35] Previous works have shown that (3c, 2e) bonds preclude the formation of boron rings in boron clusters [6, 36], whereas, on the other hand, more...
... variation (verb inflection, flexible use of determiners, and noun inflection), lexical variation (substitution, modification, and partial deletion), and syntactic variation (constituent reversal and ... word), lexical variation (substitution, modification, and partial deletion), and syntactic variation (constituent reversal, and truncated reversal) The structural components of synonymous idioms in ... English and Vietnamese in terms of main factors that affect the formation of semantic components of idioms… ……… 14 xi LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS USED IN THE DISSERTATION […] absence of constituent...