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Hydrogen adsorption on graphene can be increased by functionalization with Ti. This requires dispersing Ti islands on graphene as small and dense as possible, in order to increase the number of hydrogen adsorption sites per Ti atom. In this…
One way to characterize and understand HI-selected galaxies is to study their metallicity properties. In particular, we show that the metallicity of absorbers is a bivariate function of the HI column density (NHI) and the MgII equivalent…
Current contradictory understanding of passivation comes from overly-complex passive models, defective characterization and misplaced theoretical approaches. From brand-new experimentation, we find that a Ti passive membrane has…
We present the intrinsic optical properties over a broad spectral range of TiN thin films deposited on a Si/SiO$_2$ substrate. We analyze the measured reflectivity spectra of the film-substrate multilayer structure within a well-establish…
The recent synthesis of MoSi2N4 material, along with theoretical predictions encompassing the entire family of chemical analogs, has opened up a new array of low-dimensional materials for a diverse range of optoelectronics and photovoltaics…
We report the obtaining and primary studies of ~ 250microns thick multi-layer Ti-based protective coating deposited at high cooling rate from substance generated by cathode arc discharge in vacuum. High adhesion to steel substrate was…
We present a detailed study of HI and metals for 110 MgII absorption systems discovered at 1.98 <= z <= 5.33 in the infrared spectra of high redshift QSOs. Using new measurements of rest-frame UV lines from optical spectra of the same…
We present extensive metal-line absorption properties for 45 absorption systems that were selected by their Mg II absorption at redshifts between 0.4 and 1.4. For each system the properties of several chemical species are determined,…
We present an alternative scheme for obtaining effective power dissipation in planar composites, extending the recently proposed concept of metagrating (MGs), sparse arrangements of polarizable particles (meta-atoms), to realize…
The dissociation of a hydrogen molecule on MgO(001) films deposited on Mo(001) surface is investigated systematically using periodic density-functional theory method. The unusual adsorption behavior of heterolytic dissociative hydrogen…
The structural interface properties of layered Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si electrodes have been investigated using high-resolution specular and diffuse x-ray reflectivity under grazing angles. Currently this multilayer system represents a technological…
We investigate the atomic hydrogen adsorption on Mg(0001) by using density-functional theory within the generalized gradient approximation and a supercell approach. The coverage dependence of the adsorption structures and energetics is…
Annealing of crystalline multilayers composed of two miscible elements usually causes interfacial mixing of the constituent atoms, possibly leading to the formation of binary alloys at the interfaces. Magnetron sputtered c-Ni/a-Zr…
Titanium (Ti) is an adhesion and contact metal commonly used in nanoelectronics and two-dimensional (2D) materials research. However, when Ti is deposited on graphene (Gr), we obtain dramatically different film morphology depending on the…
This study presents a comprehensive investigation of chemical, structural, and magnetic properties of Ti/Ni multilayer systems with period thicknesses of 4 nm and 10 nm. Particular attention was paid to the characterization of the…
The structure and thermodynamic properties of Ti$_x$(HfNbTaZr)$_{(1-x)/4}$ from Refractory High Entropy multicomponent Alloys to pure titanium are investigated employing comprehensive MCSQS realizations of the disordered atomic structure…
We have carried out first-principles calculation of Mg(0001) free-standing thin films to study the oscillatory quantum size effect exhibited in the surface energy, work function, interlayer relaxation, and adsorption energy of the atomic…
Unlike other switchable mirrors, Mg2NiHx films show large changes in reflection that yield very low reflectance (high absorptance) at different hydrogen contents, far before reaching the semiconducting state. The resulting reflectance…
Two-dimensional (2D) metal halides have received more attention because of their electronic and optoelectronic properties. Recently, researchers are interested to investigate the thermoelectric properties of metal halide monolayers because…
Recent experiments on the silicon terminated $3\times 2$ SiC(100) surface indicated an unexpected metallic character upon hydrogen adsorption. This effect was attributed to the bonding of hydrogen to a row of Si atoms and to the…