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This study describes the synthesis and characterization of Nb2TiW and Nb2TiMo medium entropy alloys (MEAs). The Nb2TiW and Nb2TiMo MEAs can be successfully synthesized by an arc melting method. Their structures and superconducting…
Synthesizing unconventional alloys remains challenging owing to seamless interactions between kinetics and thermodynamics. High entropy alloys (HEAs), for example, draw a fundamentally new concept to enable exploring unknown regions in…
In novel Co and CoNi based superalloys, the creep resistance is limited at high temperatures due to low lattice misfit and solvus temperature. In this study, we combined the advantages of Co-Ti (high lattice misfit and solvus temperature)…
We report single phase superconducting face centered cubic (FCC) intermetallic high entropy alloys (HEAs) synthesized via splat cooling. The single phase materials fall at electron counts in the HEA superconductor alloy family where…
Understanding the non-equilibrium behavior of stainless steel under extreme electronic excitation remains a critical challenge for laser processing and radiation science. We employ a hybrid framework integrating density-functional tight…
High entropy alloys (HEAs) are considered as a novel class of materials with a large number of components available in nearly equatomic proportions. One of the characteristic properties of HEAs was believed to be so-called "sluggish"…
Metallic thermoelectric materials are promising candidates for active cooling applications, where high thermal conductivity and a high thermoelectric power factor are essential to maximize effective thermal conductivity. While metals…
Entropy production and an effective viscosity in central Au+Au collisions are estimated in a wide range of incident energies 3.3 GeV $\le \sqrt{s_{NN}}\le$ 39 GeV. The simulations are performed within a three-fluid model employing three…
Electroluminescence properties of epitaxially grown n-ZnO/p-GaN pn-heterojunctions are investigated as functions of applied bias and temperature. The study reveals the existence of indirect interfacial excitons at sufficiently low…
We have characterized the superconducting critical temperature ($T_\mathrm{c}$), the Debye temperature ($\theta_\mathrm{D}$), the electronic specific heat coefficient, and the Vickers microhardness of HfNbTiVZr, NbTiZr, HfNbTi, HfNbZr, and…
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) have potential for storing hydrogen reversibly at room temperature due to their tunable thermodynamics; however, they usually suffer from the issue of difficult activation. This study shows that while interphase…
Schottky barrier contact has been fabricated by thermal deposition of Al on (100) Ge (impurity concentration~1010/cm3 at 80K) that shows extrinsic p-type to intrinsic n-type transition near 180K. Both p and n-type Ge exhibits ideal Schottky…
We report a comprehensive study on the elastic properties of a hexanary high-entropy alloy superconductor (ScZrNbTa)$_{0.685}$[RhPd]$_{0.315}$ at room and cryogenic temperatures, by Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy experiments. The derived…
High-entropy-alloy (HEA) superconductors are a new class of disordered superconductors. In this study, we investigate the robustness of superconducting states in HEA-type metal telluride (MTe; M = Ag, In, Sn, Pb, Bi) under high pressure.…
High entropy oxides (HEOs) are a class of materials, containing equimolar portions of five or more transition metal and/or rare-earth elements. We report here about the layer-by-layer growth of HEO…
We consider the deconvolution of the thermal and the turbulent profiles for a pair of ions with different atomic weights under the condition that the lines are formed in an absorbing medium with fluctuating density and velocity fields. Our…
We have observed a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a dilute gas of $^4$He in the $2^3S_1$ metastable state. We find a critical temperature of $(4.7\pm0.5) \mu$K and a typical number of atoms at the threshold of $8\times10^6$. The maximum number…
The recently proposed pair-interaction model is applied to study a series of refractory high entropy alloys. The results demonstrate the simplicity, robustness, and high accuracy of this model in predicting the configuration energies of…
Molybdenum disilicide (MoSi$_2$) is a very promising material for high temperature structural applications due to its high melting point (2030 {\deg}C), low density, high thermal conductivity and good oxidation resistance. However, MoSi$_2$…
A novel, to the best of our knowledge, ultralow-temperature luminescence thermometry strategy is proposed, based on a measurement of relative intensities of hyperfine components in the spectra of Ho$^{3+}$ ions doped into a crystal. A…