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We report calculations of energy levels, radiative rates, oscillator strengths and line strengths for transitions among the lowest 345 levels of Ti X. These include 146 levels of the $n \le$ 3 configurations and 86 of 3s$^2 4\ell$, 3s$^2…
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We present a computational study of the adhesive and structural properties of the Al/Al2O3 interfaces as building blocks of the Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) tunnel devices, where electron transport is accomplished via tunnelling mechanism…
In this paper, energy levels, radiative rates and lifetimes are reported for 11 F-like ions with 12 $\le$ Z $\le$ 23. Up to 198 levels (depending on the ion) have been considered which include 113 of the 2s$^2$2p$^5$, 2s2p$^6$,…
We report 4-probe resistivity measurements of cold-rolled Ni and Fe during 100 MeV oxygen ion irradiation, at 300K. The resistivity shows increase and saturation, marked by jumps. Employing 200 MeV silver ion irradiation of Fe and Si(100)…
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We present a systematic study of the magnetic properties of L1$_0$ binary alloys FeNi, CoNi, MnAl and MnGa via two different density functional theory approaches. Our calculations show large magnetocrystalline anisotropies in the order…
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