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In this study structural and mechanical properties of a 1 um thick Al2O3 coating, deposited on 316L stainless steel by Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD), subjected to high energy ion irradiation were assessed. Mechanical properties of pristine…
In this work, Pt-Ti core-shell nanoparticles (NP) of 2 nm to 3 nm in size and 30000 u \pm 1500 u as specified single particle mass, deposited on flat silicon substrates by means of a mass-selected cluster beam source, were used for the…
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Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) was used to probe the surface chemistry of chlorine-terminated silicon nanocrystal (Si-NC) surfaces in an air-free environment. SERS effect was observed from the thin films of Ag$_x$O using 514 nm…
A brief review is given of recent positron studies of metal and semiconductor nanocrystals. The prospects offered by positron annihilation as a sensitive method to access nanocrystal (NC) properties are described and compared with other…
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We present a covariant ray tracing algorithm for computing high-resolution neutrino distributions in general relativistic numerical spacetimes with hydrodynamical sources. Our formulation treats the very important effect of elastic…
An intriguing athermal uniform elongation and accelerated radial shrinkage in amorphous SiOx nanowire (a-SiOx NW) as purely induced by uniform electron beam (e-beam) irradiation were in-situ investigated in transmission electron microscope.…
Passivation effect of heterogeneous Au nanoparticles (AuNPs) on the nonuniform structure changes of amorphous SiOx nanowire (a-SiOx NW) as athermally induced by focused electron beam (e-beam) irradiation is investigated in an in-situ…
The increasing importance of well-controlled ordered nanostructures on surfaces represents a challenge for existing metrology techniques. To develop such nanostructures and monitor complex processing constraints fabrication, both a…
We investigate the mechanism of the resonant X-ray scattering on the Ti $K$ edge region of YTiO$_3$ using the band structure calculation combined with the local density approximation. A large intensity is obtained for the orbital…
Beta-decay properties of even and odd-A neutron-rich Ge, Se, Kr, Sr, Ru, and Pd isotopes involved in the astrophysical rapid neutron capture process are studied within a deformed proton-neutron quasiparticle random-phase approximation. The…
GaN/AlN nanowire heterostructures can display photoluminescence (PL) decay times on the order of microseconds that persist up to room temperature. Doping the GaN nanodisk insertions with Ge can reduce these PL decay times by two orders of…
The synthesis of Ag nanoclusters in sodalime silicate glasses and silica was studied by optical absorption (OA) and electron spin resonance (ESR) experiments under both low (gamma-ray) and high (MeV ion) deposited energy density irradiation…
Physisorbed Kr layers on TiO$_{2}$(110) surfaces were investigated by means of nuclear resonant scattering (NRS) of synchrotron radiation at Kr thicknesses ranging from multilayer to monolayer. The NRS intensity was measured as a function…