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Two new low-lying $^6$He levels at excitation energies of about 2.4 and 2.9 MeV were observed in the experimental investigation of the p-$\alpha$ coincidence spectra obtained by the $^3$H($^4$He,p$\alpha$)2n four-body reaction at $E_{\rm…
A pulsed beam of ground state OH radicals is slowed down using a Stark decelerator and is subsequently loaded into an electrostatic trap. Characterization of the molecular beam production, deceleration and trap loading process is performed…
With emerging thin film PIN based optoelectronics devices, a significant research thrust is focused on the passivation of trap states for performance enhancement. Among various methods, capacitance frequency technique (CFT) is often…
Effects of residual C impurities and Ga vacancies on the dynamic instabilities of AlN/AlGaN/GaN metal insulator semiconductor high electron mobility transistors are investigated. Secondary ion mass spectroscopy, positron annihilation…
Transient currents in atomically thin MoTe$_2$ field-effect transistor are measured during cycles of pulses through the gate electrode. The transients are analyzed in light of a newly proposed model for charge trapping dynamics that renders…
We present {\it ab initio} density-functional calculations of molecular solids formed from C$_{28}$-derived closed-shell fullerenes. Solid C$_{28}$H$_4$ is found to bind weakly and exhibits many of the electronic structure features of solid…
Background: Cluster states in $^{13}$N are extremely difficult to measure due to the unavailability of $^{9}$B+$\alpha$ elastic scattering data. Purpose: Using $\beta$-delayed charged-particle spectroscopy of $^{13}$O, clustered states in…
Strain-mediated magnetoelectric (ME) coupling in ferroelectric (FE) / ferromagnetic (FM) heterostructures offers a unique opportunity for both fundamental scientific research and low power multifunctional devices. Relaxor-ferroelectrics,…
A combination of transient photovoltage (TPV), voltage dependent charge extraction (CE) and time delayed collection field (TDCF) measurements is applied to poly[[4,8-bis[(2-ethylhexyl)oxy]benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene-2,6-diyl]…
In recent years, plasmonic optical tweezers have been used to trap nanoparticles and study interactions with their environment. An unavoidable challenge is the plasmonic heating due to resonant excitation and the resulting temperature rise…
We present a study of the potential energy surface (PES) of anthracene, tetracene and pentacene clusters with up to 30 molecules. We have applied the basin-hopping Monte Carlo (BHMC) algorithm to clusters of acene molecules in order to find…
The charged particles storage capacity of microtraps (micro-Penning-Malmberg traps) with large length to radius aspect ratios and radii of the order of tens of microns was explored. Simulation studies of the motions of charged particles…
We present an {\it ab initio} calculation of small numbers of trapped, strongly interacting fermions using the Green's Function Monte Carlo method (GFMC). The ground state energy, density profile and pairing gap are calculated for particle…
Doped films of organic small molecules are investigated with respect to their thermoelectric properties. A variety of hosts and dopants, for both n and p-doping, are compared. C$_{60}$ n-doped by Cr$_2$(hpp)$_4$ or o-MeO-DMBI-I are found to…
We have comprehensively investigated localized states of photoinduced electron-hole pairs with electron-spin-resonance technique and photoluminescence (PL) in a wide temperature range of 5-200 K. At low temperatures below 70 K, holes…
We acoustically measured the energy level for thermally activated conduction (TAC) in high-resistivity Fe-doped GaN using the non-contacting antenna-transmission acoustic-resonance method. The acoustic attenuation takes a maximum at a…
Ni et al. report minimum bulk trap densities of 10^11 cm-3 and 1-4 orders change in interfacial trap densities derived from drive-level capacitance profiling of lead halide perovskites. From basic electrostatic arguments, we show that such…
MXene, the class of two-dimensional materials, has been found to be useful as potential electrode materials for electrochemical capacitors. Although experimental investigation on the electrochemical performances of a few MXenes have been…
Trapped electrons have emerged as an interesting platform for quantum information processing due to their light mass, two-level spin states, and potential for fully electronic manipulation. Previous experiments have demonstrated electron…
Penning trap mass measurements of short-lived nuclides have been performed for the first time with highly-charged ions (HCI), using the TITAN facility at TRIUMF. Compared to singly-charged ions, this provides an improvement in experimental…