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We characterize the superconducting state of phase pure polycrystalline samples of the new layered superconductor MgB$_2$ by specific heat measurements in magnetic fields up to 9 T. The characteristic jump at the superconducting transition…
The electronic structure of surfaces plays a key role in the properties of quantum devices. However, surfaces are also the most challenging to simulate and engineer. Here, we study the electronic structure of InAs(001), InAs(111), and…
The dispersion of topological surface bands in MnBi$_2$Te$_4$-based magnetic topological insulator heterostructures is strongly affected by band hybridization and is spatially inhomogeneous due to varying surface layer terminations on…
Topological photonics and acoustics have recently garnered wide research interests for their topological ability to manipulate the light and sound at surfaces. Conventionally, the supercell technique is the standard approach to calculating…
We argue that a superconducting state with a Fermi-surface of Bogoliubov quasiparticles, a Bogoliubov Fermi-surface (BG-FS), can be identified by the dependence of physical quantities on disorder. In particular, we show that a linear…
We use epitaxial strain to shift the energy of the two-dimensional Ag(111) surface states of Ag islands on Nb(110) substrates, allowing to spatially tune the bottom of the surface-state band $E_{\rm SS}$ through the Fermi level $E_{\rm F}$.…
The dispersive resonant-state expansion, developed for an accurate calculation of the resonant states in open optical systems with frequency dispersion, is applied here to realistic materials, such as metallic nanoparticles and…
This paper contains both recently published and original results concerning the electronic structure, bonding and relevant properties of (Mg-Al)B2. We analyse the electronic structure formation of bulk and surface states, study the nuclear…
The ferroelectric semiconductor {\alpha}-GeTe(111) has attracted significant attention in the last decade due to its unique properties, with extensive studies focusing on its occupied electronic bandstructure. In contrast, its unoccupied…
We have calculated the electronic band structure of the (100) surface of the III--V zinc blende semiconductor compounds, using the standard tight binding method and the surface Green's function matching method. We have found that the…
In this paper, we apply the two-band extension [1] of BCS theory [2] into the Mattis-Bardeen theory [3] to obtain the surface impedance of a two-band superconductor, and apply it to magnesium diboride (MgB2) for radiofrequency (RF)…
We study the new binary intermetallic superconductor MgB2 using high-resolution photo-emission spectroscopy. The superconducting-state spectrum measured at 5.4 K shows a coherent peak with a shoulder structure, in sharp contrast to that…
We discuss the surface spectral function of superconductors realized from a topological insulator, such as the copper-intercalated Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$. These functions are calculated by projecting bulk states to the surface for two different…
Spin-resolved scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy studies of image-potential states on Gr/Fe/Ir(111) show their sensitivity to the spatial variation of the Gr-Fe distance, and of the interfacial charge and spin transfer within…
We analyze the electronic structure of the Os(0001) surface by means of first-principle calculations based on Fully Relativistic (FR) Density Functional Theory (DFT) and a Projector Augmented-Wave (PAW) approach. We investigate surface…
The aim of the study was to investigate surface and buildup region doses for 6MV and 15MV photon beams using a Markus parallel-plate ionization chamber, GafChromic EBT3 film, and MOSFET detector for different field sizes and beam angles.…
Surface doping of ZnO allows for tailoring the surface chemistry of the material while preserving the superb electronic structure of the bulk. Apart from obvious changes in adsorption energies and activation energies for catalysis, surface…
We have computed the surface energies, work functions, and interlayer surface relaxations of clean (111), (110), and (100) surfaces of Al, Cu, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, Pt, and Au. Many of these metallic surfaces have technological or catalytic…
The electronic and geometric properties of bulk fcc delta-plutonium and the quantum size effects in the surface energies and the work functions of the (001) ultra thin films (UTF) up to 7 layers have been investigated with periodic density…
As a second part of a previous paper, here the calculated electronic band structure of ideal Pt(100) and Pt(110) surfaces, studied using density functional theory and the empirical tight-binding method, is presented. A detailed discussion…