Mechanism for etching of exfoliated graphene on substrates by low-energy electron irradiation from helium plasma electron sources (open access)

Mechanism for etching of exfoliated graphene on substrates by low-energy electron irradiation from helium plasma electron sources

Article investigating the mechanism for etching of exfoliated graphene multilayers on SiO₂ by low-energy (50 eV) electron irradiation using He plasma systems for electron sources.
Date: February 26, 2019
Creator: Femi-Oyetoro, John D.; Yao, Kevin; Tang, Runtian; Ecton, Philip A.; Roccapriore, Kevin M.; Mhlanga, Ashley et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
First-principles study of diffusion and interactions of hydrogen with silicon, phosphorus, and sulfur impurities in nickel (open access)

First-principles study of diffusion and interactions of hydrogen with silicon, phosphorus, and sulfur impurities in nickel

Article systematically studying the effect of Si, P, and S impurities on the diffusion and binding of an H atom in a face-centered-cubic (FCC) Ni lattice using density functional theory (DFT),
Date: March 26, 2019
Creator: Paranjape, Priyanvada; Gopal, Priya & Srinivasan, S. G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Entropy Balance in the Expanding Universe: A Novel Perspective (open access)

Entropy Balance in the Expanding Universe: A Novel Perspective

The article describes cosmic expansion as correlated with the standpoints of local observers’ co-moving horizons. In keeping with relational quantum mechanics, which claims that quantum systems are only meaningful in the context of measurements, the authors suggest that information gets ergodically “diluted” in our isotropic and homogeneous expanding Universe, so that an observer detects just a limited amount of the total cosmic bits.
Date: April 17, 2019
Creator: Tozzi, Arturo & Peters, James F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Photonic Band Structure and Unit Super-Cell Size in Graded Photonic Super-Crystal on Broadband Light Absorption in Silicon (open access)

Effects of Photonic Band Structure and Unit Super-Cell Size in Graded Photonic Super-Crystal on Broadband Light Absorption in Silicon

Examines the novel optical properties of a graded photonic super-crystal (GPSC) with a large size of unit cell.
Date: May 9, 2019
Creator: Hassan, Safaa; Alnasser, Khadijah; Lowell, David & Lin, Yuankun
System: The UNT Digital Library
Maxwell-Wagner-Sillars Dynamics and Enhanced Radio-Frequency Elastomechanical Susceptibility in PNIPAm Hydrogel-KF-doped Barium Titanate Nanoparticle Composites (open access)

Maxwell-Wagner-Sillars Dynamics and Enhanced Radio-Frequency Elastomechanical Susceptibility in PNIPAm Hydrogel-KF-doped Barium Titanate Nanoparticle Composites

Article describes study investigating Maxwell-Wagner-Sillars (MWS) dynamics and electromagnetic radio-frequency (RF) actuation of the volumetric phase change in a hybrid polymer composite consisting of hydrogel suspended with high-k nanoparticles.
Date: December 19, 2019
Creator: Walker, Ezekiel; Akishige, Yukikuni; Cai, Tong; Roberts, James A.; Shepherd, Nigel; Wu, Shijie et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Towards Deep Integration of Electronics and Photonics (open access)

Towards Deep Integration of Electronics and Photonics

This is a review of applications of polariton modes related to the design and fabrication of electro-optical circuits. The emphasis is made on surface plasmon-polaritons which have already demonstrated their value in many fields of technology. Other possible quasiparticles as well as their hybridization with plasmons are discussed.
Date: November 12, 2019
Creator: Pshenichnyuk, Ivan A.; Kosolobov, Sergey S. & Drachev, Vladimir P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electrically tunable, sustainable, and erasable broadband light absorption in graphene sandwiched in Al2O3 oxides (open access)

Electrically tunable, sustainable, and erasable broadband light absorption in graphene sandwiched in Al2O3 oxides

This article is a study of graphene as an electrically tunable material for switchable devices. Graphene is obtained from graphene oxide during the atomic layer deposition of Al2O3, as confirmed by Raman spectrum.
Date: November 15, 2018
Creator: Adewole, Murthada; Cui, Jingbiao; Lowell, David; Hassan, Safaa; Jiang, Yan; Singh, Abhay et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Broadband light-matter interaction due to resonance cavities in graded photonic super-crystals (open access)

Broadband light-matter interaction due to resonance cavities in graded photonic super-crystals

This article reports the formation of resonance cavities within graded photonic super-crystals (GPSCs) with unit cells formed via a near-uniform central region with eight side graded regions.
Date: August 29, 2019
Creator: Lin, Yuankun; Hassan, Safaa; Sale, Oliver; Alnasser, Khadijah; Hurley, Noah; Zhang, Hualiang et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library