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In recent experiments on sodium chloride clusters structural transitions between nanocrystals with different cuboidal shapes were detected. Here we determine reaction pathways between the low energy isomers of one of these clusters,…
Boosted by the relentless increase of available computational resources, high-throughput calculations based on first principles methods have become a powerful tool to screen a huge range of materials. The backbone of these studies are…
Chirality, a fundamental property of asymmetric structures, plays a crucial role in pharmaceutical, biological and chemical systems, offering a powerful tool for screening organic compounds. While the conventional optical chirality…
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Today colloids are employed in various products from creams and coatings to electronics. The ability to control their chemical, optical, or electronic features by controlling their size and shape explains why these materials are so widely…
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Processes of growth of semi-insulating Cd(1-x)Zn(x)Te:Cl crystals (x = 0.0002 and 0.1) of n-type conductivity are investigated. From the grown crystals detectors for X-ray computer tomography with small value of photocurrent memory…
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When annealing a 4H silicon carbide (SiC) crystal, a sequence of optically active defect centers occurs among which the TS center is a prominent example. Here, we present low-temperature photoluminescence analyses on the single defect…
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We compare the percolation loci for chemical clusters with the liquid-solid transition in the temperature-density phase diagram. Chemical clusters are defined as sets of particles connected through particle-particle bonds that last for a…
Semiconductor magic-size clusters (MSCs) are atomically precise nanoparticles exhibiting unique size-dependent properties, but their ultrasmall dimensions hinder structural characterization, limiting our understanding of their formation and…
We describe an affine transformation on the (CIE) color matching functions and map the spectral locus as a circle. We then homogenize the right circular cylinder erected by the circle, with respect to a normalizing plane and develop an…
Color centers are versatile systems that generate quantum light, sense magnetic fields and produce spin-photon entanglement. We review how these properties have pushed the limits of fundamental knowledge in a variety of scientific…
Boundary conditions for unconventional superconducting order parameter are obtained on the basis of a microscopic theory. The upper critical field in a superconducting film is examined for unconventional superconductors with two-component…
A simple electronic experiment with a field effect transistor type microstructure is suggested. The thin superconductor layer is the source-drain channel of the layered structure where an AC current is applied. It is necessary to measure…
Cu added CdS films were synthesized using spin coating technique at different spin speeds for different time durations. Films were subsequently annealed at different temperatures for different time periods in air to crystallize the phase of…