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The mechanisms and processes of the formation of the regenerative soot in a graphite hollow cathode discharge that produces and emits carbon clusters are presented. Mass spectrometry with a designed ExB velocity filter analyzes the entire…
Laboratory formation of large carbon clusters with m C atoms where m could be up to few thousand, in carbonaceous plasma, has been studied by using an especially designed ion source. Carbon is introduced into the glow discharge plasma by…
We report the mechanisms of production and the state of excitation of the neutral and singly charged monatomic carbon in the regenerative soot as a function of the discharge parameters in graphite hollow cathode (HC) sources. Two distinctly…
An all carbon hollow cathode ion source with a specially designed cusp magnetic field Bz as a function of radius and theta is described. Velocity spectra from this source has shown that carbon cluster synthesis is taking place as a function…
A hollow cathode source with a specially designed cusp magnetic field B whose z component is a function of radius and the azimuth angle, provides clustering environment to the sputtered carbon atoms and ions. The distinctive features of the…
Formation of the regenerative soot is the process of recycling and introduction of the cathode deposited carbon clusters into the discharge. The agglomerates of carbon clusters on the cathode release their constituents into the plasma that…
We have used the photoemission spectroscopy of the graphite hollow cathode sooting discharge to identify the roles played by the kinetic and potential sputtering, respectively. Our indicators are the relative densities of the sputtered…
Photoemission spectroscopy of the regenerative soot in neon's glow discharge plasma reveals the contributions from the sputtered atomic and molecular carbon species. We present the pattern of sputtering and the formation of monatomic C1 and…
Mass spectrometry and photoemission spectroscopy of a graphite hollow cathode source identify the parameters of the transition from the C(3) dominated discharge to the sooting plasma. The transition is a function of the shape and profile of…
Diagnostics of the carbon atoms, ions, and clusters sputtered from a graphite surface under 10 keV Xe ion bombardments reveals the presence of neutral carbon clusters and positively charged species in the photo-emission spectra. The…
The pressure-induced transformation of diatomic nitrogen into non-molecular polymeric phases may produce potentially useful high-energy-density materials. We combine first-principles calculations with structure searching to predict a new…
The results from mass spectrometry of clusters sputtered from Cs+ irradiated single-walled carbon nano-tubes (SWCNTs) as a function of energy and dose identify the nature of the resulting damage in the form of multiple vacancy generation.…
Calcium and magnesium carbonates are believed to be the host compounds for most of the oxidized carbon in the Earth's mantle. Here, using evolutionary crystal structure prediction method USPEX, we systematically explore the MgO-CO2 and…
We report on a novel technique of heavy ion induced surface modification and clustering mechanisms in amorphous graphite using Direct Recoil Spectrometry. The charged clusters emanating as Direct Recoils from 50-150 keV Xe+ irradiated…
12C/13C isotopologue abundance anomalies have long been predicted for gas-phase chemistry in molecules other than CO and have recently been observed in the Taurus molecular cloud in several species hosting more than one carbon atom, i.e.…
The mechanisms for population inversion among the excited states of He I and Ne I in regenerative sooting discharges have been investigated as a function of the geometry and the physical parameters of the graphite hollow cathode sources.…
We predict Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity of dipolar excitons, formed by electron-hole pairs in spatially separated gapped hexagonal $\alpha-T_{3}$ (GHAT3) layers. In the $\alpha-T_{3}$ model, the AB-honeycomb lattice…
Carbon monoxide and nitrogen are among the potentially interesting high-energy density materials. However, in spite of the physical similarities of the molecules, they behave very differently at high pressures. Using density functional…
We report on the analysis of XMM-Newton observations of the central compact object CXOU J160103.1-513353 located in the center of the non-thermally emitting supernova remnant (SNR) G330.2+1.0. The X-ray spectrum of the source is well…
A growing body of theoretical and experimental evidence suggests that inert gases (He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe, Rn) become less and less inert under increasing pressure. Here we use the ab initio evolutionary algorithm to predict stable compounds of…