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We investigate linear and nonlinear evolution dynamics of light beams propagating along a dislocated edge-centered square lattice. The band structure and Brillouin zones of this novel lattice are analyzed analytically and numerically.…
A result from particle tracking states that, after a microbunched electron beam is kicked, its trajectory changes while the orientation of the microbunching wavefront remains as before. Experiments at the LCLS showed that radiation in the…
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Based on an invariant embedding principle for the backscattering function we calculate the electron emission yield for metal surfaces at very low electron impact energies. Solving the embedding equation within a quasi-isotropic…
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A central goal of condensed-matter physics is to understand how the diverse electronic and optical properties of crystalline materials emerge from the wavelike motion of electrons through periodically arranged atoms. However, more than 90…
Tribological loading of metals induces microstructural changes by dislocation-mediated plastic deformation. During continued sliding, combined shear and lattice rotation result in the formation of crystallographic textures which influence…
Despite advancements in electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) detector speeds, the acquisition rates of 4-Dimensional (4D) EBSD data, i.e., a collection of 2-dimensional (2D) diffraction maps for every position of a convergent electron…
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Analytic representation formulas and power series are developed describing the band structure inside non-magnetic periodic photonic three-dimensional crystals made from high dielectric contrast inclusions. Central to this approach is the…
Inversion-symmetric crystals are optically isotropic and thus naively not expected to show dichroism effects in optical absorption and photoemission processes. Here, we find a strong linear dichroism effect (up to 42.4%) in the conduction…
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The full lattice strain tensor and lattice rotations induced by a dislocation in pure tungsten were mapped using high-resolution transmission Kikuchi diffraction (HR-TKD) in a SEM. The HR-TKD measurement agrees very well with a forward…
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The electromagnetic (EM) radiation force-per-length exerted on a pair of electrically-conducting cylindrical particles of circular and non-circular cross-sections is examined using a formal semi-analytical method based on boundary matching…