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
Deep Minima and Vortices for Positronium Formation in Low-Energy Positron-Hydrogen Collisions (open access)

Deep Minima and Vortices for Positronium Formation in Low-Energy Positron-Hydrogen Collisions

Article using the two-channel Kohn inverse and Kohn variational methods to investigate ground-state positronium (Ps) formation in positron-hydrogen collisions in the Ore gap. This is the Accepted Manuscript Version of the article.
Date: September 30, 2019
Creator: Alrowaily, Albandari W.; Quintanilla, Sandra J. & Van Reeth, P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
New mechanism of plasmons specific for spin-polarized nanoparticles (open access)

New mechanism of plasmons specific for spin-polarized nanoparticles

This article experimentally shows that Co nanoparticles with a single-domain crystal structure support a plasmon resonance at approximately 280 nm with better quality than gold nanoparticle resonance in the visible. The magnetic nature of these nanoparticles suggests a new type of these plasmons.
Date: March 27, 2018
Creator: Bhatta, Hari L.; Aliev, Abil E. & Drachev, Vladimir P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electrodynamics of superlattices with ultra-thin metal layers: quantum Landau damping and band gaps with nonzero density of states (open access)

Electrodynamics of superlattices with ultra-thin metal layers: quantum Landau damping and band gaps with nonzero density of states

This article develops a theory of electromagnetic transmission through dielectric-metal superlattices with ultra-thin metal films, in which electron motion in the direction perpendicular to the metal surfaces is quantized.
Date: October 16, 2018
Creator: Castillo-López, S. G.; Krokhin, Arkadii A.; Makarov, N. M. & Pérez-Rodríguez, F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Polarization in electrostatics and circuits: Computing and visualizing surface charge distributions (open access)

Polarization in electrostatics and circuits: Computing and visualizing surface charge distributions

Article describing an algorithm or computing the detailed surface charge distributions in equilibrium electrostatic situations and in steady-state DC circuits, and discuss the results of the computations of surface charge distributions for several systems.
Date: December 14, 2018
Creator: Chabay, Ruth & Sherwood, Bruce
System: The UNT Digital Library
A unified, contemporary approach to teaching energy in introductory physics (open access)

A unified, contemporary approach to teaching energy in introductory physics

Article proposes a more coherent, contemporary approach to the teaching of energy in introductory physics courses that offers students a principled way to avoid confusions.
Date: July 1, 2019
Creator: Chabay, Ruth; Sherwood, Bruce & Titus, Aaron
System: The UNT Digital Library
Edge-plasmon assisted electro-optical modulator (open access)

Edge-plasmon assisted electro-optical modulator

Article demonstrates an efficient electro-optical modulation by using an edge-plasmon mode specific for the hybrid plasmonic waveguide.
Date: November 26, 2019
Creator: Drachev, Vladimir P.; Pshenichnyuk, Ivan A.; Nazarikov, Gleb I.; Kosolobov, Sergey S. & Maimistov, Andrei I.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Label-free characterization of white blood cells using fluorescence lifetime imaging and flow-cytometry: molecular heterogeneity and erythrophagocytosis [Invited] (open access)

Label-free characterization of white blood cells using fluorescence lifetime imaging and flow-cytometry: molecular heterogeneity and erythrophagocytosis [Invited]

Article reporting the results of blood cell characterization using label-free fluorescence imaging techniques and flow-cytometry. Autofluorescence parameters of different cell types – white blood cells, red blood cells, erythrophagocytic cells – are assessed and analyzed in terms of molecular heterogeneity and possibilities of differentiation between different cell types in vitro and in vivo.
Date: July 29, 2019
Creator: Drachev, Vladimir P.; Yakimov, Boris P.; Gogoleva, Maria A.; Semenov, Alexey N.; Rodionov, Sergey A.; Novoselova, Marina V. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
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
Coordination corrected ab initio formation enthalpies (open access)

Coordination corrected ab initio formation enthalpies

Article proposes the “coordination corrected enthalpies” method (CCE), based on the number of nearest neighbor cation–anion bonds, and also capable of correcting relative stability of polymorphs.
Date: May 15, 2019
Creator: Friedrich, Rico; Usanmaz, Demet; Oses, Corey; Supka, Andrew; Fornari, Marco; Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Simulation of an electrostatic quadrupole quadruplet focusing lens system for MeV multi-ion micro-beam (open access)

Simulation of an electrostatic quadrupole quadruplet focusing lens system for MeV multi-ion micro-beam

Article presents the simulations of an electrostatic quadrupole quadruplet (EQQ) lens system that will be used in a new sub-micron multi-ion beam for radiobiological studies.
Date: October 2, 2019
Creator: Glass, Gary A.; Chirayath, V. A.; Arya, H.; Jin, M.; Weiss, A. H. & Chi, Y.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mechanical Properties of Chemically Modified Clay (open access)

Mechanical Properties of Chemically Modified Clay

Article uses first principles methods to compare the mechanical properties of lizardite Mg3(Si2O5)(OH)4, a polymorph of serpentine family, with the new compounds derived by substituting Mg ions with isovalent elements from different chemical groups.
Date: September 23, 2019
Creator: Gusmão, M. S.; Gopal, Priya; Siloi, Ilaria; Curtarolo, Stefano; Fornari, Marco & Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco
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
Interface chemistry and leakage current mechanism of HfGdON/Ge gate stack modulated by ALD-driven interlayer (open access)

Interface chemistry and leakage current mechanism of HfGdON/Ge gate stack modulated by ALD-driven interlayer

Article describes an experiment in which a Ge metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) capacitor based on HfGdON/Ge gate stacks with an ALD-driven passivation layer was fabricated, and compares it's interfacial and electrical properties with those of its counterparts that have not undergone passivation treatment.
Date: October 21, 2019
Creator: He, Gang; Wang, Die; Ma, Rui; Liu, Mao & Cui, Jingbiao
System: The UNT Digital Library

Artificially structured boundary plasma trap

This article presents a computer simulation of single-species non-neutral plasma confinement using an artificially structured boundary. The results support the prospect of developing plasma space-charge based confinement, with an unmagnetized plasma of one species of charged particles confined by an electric field produced by an edge-confined plasma of a second species of charged particles.
Date: September 20, 2019
Creator: Hedlof, R. M. & Ordonez, Carlos A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Grand canonical simulations of electrochemical interfaces in implicit solvation models (open access)

Grand canonical simulations of electrochemical interfaces in implicit solvation models

Article discussing grand canonical simulations based on density-functional theory to study the thermodynamic properties of electrochemical interfaces of metallic electrodes in aqueous environments.
Date: August 31, 2018
Creator: Hörmann, Nicolas; Andreussi, Oliviero & Marzari, Nicola
System: The UNT Digital Library
Absolute band alignment at semiconductor-water interfaces using explicit and implicit descriptions for liquid water (open access)

Absolute band alignment at semiconductor-water interfaces using explicit and implicit descriptions for liquid water

Article presents a rigorous and systematic study of the band alignment of semiconductors in aqueous solutions by contrasting a range of hybrid explicit/implicit models against explicit atomistic simulations based on density-functional theory.
Date: October 11, 2019
Creator: Hörmann, Nicolas; Guo, Zhendong; Ambrosio, Francesco; Andreussi, Oliviero; Pasquarello, Alfredo & Marzari, Nicola
System: The UNT Digital Library
Formation and characterization of embedded Fe3Si binary structures in Si (open access)

Formation and characterization of embedded Fe3Si binary structures in Si

Article studying chemical and electronic properties of ion beam synthesized Fe-Si binary structures using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy binding energy analysis.
Date: May 16, 2019
Creator: Lakshantha, Wickramaarachchige J.; McDaniel, Floyd Del. (Floyd Delbert), 1942- & Rout, Bibhudutta
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electrostatic equilibria of non-neutral plasmas confined in a Penning trap with axially varying magnetic field (open access)

Electrostatic equilibria of non-neutral plasmas confined in a Penning trap with axially varying magnetic field

This article describes a procedure for computing the electrostatic equilibria of non-neutral plasmas in a Penning trap with a nonuniform magnetic field by solving Poisson's equation using an iterative method. Plasma equilibria in a model Penning trap with high and low field regions are computed. The plasma is assumed to follow the Boltzmann density distribution along magnetic field lines.
Date: May 21, 2019
Creator: Lane, Ryan A. & Ordonez, Carlos A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Stability of Metallic MoS₂ Nanosheets and Their Property Change by Annealing (open access)

The Stability of Metallic MoS₂ Nanosheets and Their Property Change by Annealing

This article focuses on the effects of mild annealing on the structural and physical properties of the MoS₂ by heating the nanosheets in air and vacuum up to 350 °C. It was found that the annealing leads to an increase in resistivity for the nanosheets by 3 orders of magnitude, the appearance of two absorption bands in the visible range, and a hydrophilic to hydrophobic change in the surface wetting properties. Overall, this study provides another way to control the electrical, optical, and surface properties of MoS₂ nanosheets for fulfilling the needs of various applications.
Date: September 24, 2019
Creator: Li, Li; Chen, Jiyang; Wu, Keyue; Cao, Chunbin; Shi, Shiwei & Cui, Jingbiao
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
Dual-Band High Efficiency Terahertz Meta-Devices Based on Reflective Geometric Metasurfaces (open access)

Dual-Band High Efficiency Terahertz Meta-Devices Based on Reflective Geometric Metasurfaces

Article proposing a novel reflective building block (unit cell) to work at two arbitrary terahertz frequency bands with independent phase control at each band.
Date: April 18, 2019
Creator: Lin, Yuankun; Wang, Tailei; Xie, Rensheng; Zhu, Shouzheng; Gao, Jianjun; Xin, Mingbo et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Classical trajectory Monte Carlo simulation of plasma fueling using magnetic plasma expulsion (open access)

Classical trajectory Monte Carlo simulation of plasma fueling using magnetic plasma expulsion

Article describes a study exploring the possibility of fueling a magnetically confined plasma using particle sources located inside of the plasma.
Date: July 11, 2019
Creator: Martinez, Armando & Ordonez, Carlos A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Amplification of photoacoustic effect in bimodal polymer particles by self-quenching of indocyanine green (open access)

Amplification of photoacoustic effect in bimodal polymer particles by self-quenching of indocyanine green

This article presents a new type of bimodal contrast agent that is based on the self-quenching of indocyanine green (ICG) encapsulated in a biocompatible and biodegradable polymer shell.
Date: August 23, 2019
Creator: Mokrousov, Maksim D.; Novoselova, Marina V.; Nolan, Jackie; Harrington, Walter; Rudakovskaya, Polina; Bratashov, Daniil N. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library