Structure and Electronic Properties of InSb Nanowires Grown in Flexible Polycarbonate Membranes (open access)

Structure and Electronic Properties of InSb Nanowires Grown in Flexible Polycarbonate Membranes

The article explores the various factors that affect nucleation and nanowire growth. A dense array of vertically aligned indium antimonide (InSb) nanowires with high aspect ratio were grown in the pores of a track-etched polycarbonate membrane via a one-step electrochemical method.
Date: September 5, 2019
Creator: Singh, Abhay; Roccapriore, Kevin M.; Algarni, Zaina; Salloom, Riyadh; Golden, Teresa Diane, 1963- & Philipose, Usha
System: The UNT Digital Library
Disentangling Orbital and Valley Hall Effects in Bilayers of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (open access)

Disentangling Orbital and Valley Hall Effects in Bilayers of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

This article shows that a bilayer of 2H-MoSâ‚‚ is an orbital Hall insulator that exhibits a sizeable orbital Hall effect in the absence of both spin and valley Hall effects. The results are based on density functional theory and low-energy effective model calculations and strongly suggest that bilayers of TMDs are highly suitable platforms for direct observation of the orbital Hall insulating phase in two-dimensional materials.
Date: February 5, 2021
Creator: Cysne, Tarik P.; Costa, Marcio; Canonico, Luis M.; Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco; Muniz, R. B. & Rappoport, Tatiana G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Giant increase in cross-magnetic-field transport rate as an electron-positron plasma cools (open access)

Giant increase in cross-magnetic-field transport rate as an electron-positron plasma cools

The article focuses on a study of an electron-positron plasma in thermal equilibrium within a uniform magnetic field using a classical trajectory Monte Carlo simulation. The cross-magnetic-field single-particle diffusion coefficient is evaluated as a function of the magnetic field strength and plasma temperature. The transport rate is found to increase by many orders of magnitude as the plasma temperature is lowered, for a magnetic field strength of 1 T. The sharp dependence on temperature is due to electrons and positrons becoming temporarily correlated and drifting across the magnetic field before dissociating.
Date: October 5, 2017
Creator: Aguirre, F. F. & Ordonez, Carlos A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anisotropic optical properties of single Si2Te3 nanoplates (open access)

Anisotropic optical properties of single Si2Te3 nanoplates

Article reporting a combined experimental and computational study of the optical properties of individual silicon telluride (Si2Te3) nanoplates.
Date: November 5, 2020
Creator: Chen, Jiyang; Bhattarai, Romakanta; Cui, Jingbiao; Shen, Xiao & Hoang, Thang
System: The UNT Digital Library