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
The 2019 materials by design roadmap (open access)

The 2019 materials by design roadmap

This roadmap article presents an overview of the current state of computational materials prediction, synthesis and characterization approaches, materials design needs for various technologies, and future challenges and opportunities that must be addressed.
Date: October 24, 2018
Creator: Alberi, Kirstin; Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco; Zakutayev, Andriy; Mitas, Lubos; Curtarolo, Stefano; Jain, Anubhav et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Synthesis of Amorphous InSb Nanowires and a Study of the Effects of Laser Radiation and Thermal Annealing on Nanowire Crystallinity (open access)

Synthesis of Amorphous InSb Nanowires and a Study of the Effects of Laser Radiation and Thermal Annealing on Nanowire Crystallinity

This article presents a strategy to grow amorphous InSb (a-InSb) nanowires (NWs) in a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system.
Date: August 9, 2018
Creator: Algarni, Zaina; Singh, Abhay & Philipose, Usha
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
Plasmonically-powered hot carrier induced modulation of light emission in a two-dimensional GaAs semiconductor quantum well (open access)

Plasmonically-powered hot carrier induced modulation of light emission in a two-dimensional GaAs semiconductor quantum well

Article describes an experiment in which a hot-electron-enabled route to controlling light with dissipative loss compensation in semiconductor quantum light emitters has been realized for tunable quantum optoelectronic devices via a two-species plasmon system.
Date: December 10, 2018
Creator: Ashalley, Eric; Gryczynski, Karol; Wang, Zhiming; Salamo, Gregory & Neogi, Arup
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
The XMM-SERVS survey: new XMM–Newton point-source catalogue for the XMM-LSS field (open access)

The XMM-SERVS survey: new XMM–Newton point-source catalogue for the XMM-LSS field

This article presents an X-ray point-source catalogue from the XMM-Large Scale Structure (XMMLSS) survey region, one of the XMM-Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (XMM-SERVS) fields.
Date: April 25, 2018
Creator: Chen, C. -T. J.; Brandt, William Nielsen; Luo, Bin; Ranalli, P.; Yang, G.; Alexander, David M. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Controlling Topological States in Topological/Normal Insulator Heterostructures (open access)

Controlling Topological States in Topological/Normal Insulator Heterostructures

This article contains a systematic investigation of the nature of the nontrivial interface states in topological/normal insulator (TI/NI) heterostructures.
Date: November 26, 2018
Creator: Costa, Marcio; Costa, Antônio T.; Freitas, Walter A.; Schmidt, Tome M.; Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco & Fazzio, Adalberto
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mimicking the collective intelligence of human groups as an optimization tool for complex problems (open access)

Mimicking the collective intelligence of human groups as an optimization tool for complex problems

This article presents a novel optimization algorithm belonging to the class of swarm intelligence optimization methods.
Date: April 4, 2018
Creator: De Vincenzo, Ilario; Massari, Giovanni F.; Giannoccaro, Ilaria; Carbone, Giuseppe & Grigolini, Paolo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engineered nonlinear materials using gold nanoantenna array (open access)

Engineered nonlinear materials using gold nanoantenna array

This article describes the use of a gold nanoantenna array to enhance both the nonlinear refractive index and two-photon absorption (2PA) of the organic dye 4,4'-bis(diphenylamino)stilbene (BDPAS), which is known as a dye with relatively large 2PA.
Date: August 21, 2017
Creator: Drachev, Vladimir P.; Kildishev, Alexander V.; Borneman, Joshua D.; Chen, Kuo-Ping; Shalaev, Vladimir; Yamnitskiy, Konstantin et al.
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
Gold Nanoparticles-enabled Efficient Dual Delivery of Anticancer Therapeutics to HeLa Cells (open access)

Gold Nanoparticles-enabled Efficient Dual Delivery of Anticancer Therapeutics to HeLa Cells

This article describes a facile one-step method to synthesize stable collodial gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) loaded with a combination of two anticancer therapeutics, -bleomycin and doxorubicin
Date: September 20, 2017
Creator: Farooq, Muhammad U.; Novosad, Valentyn; Rozhkova, Elena A.; Wali, Hussain; Ali, Asghar; Fateh, Ahmed A. 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
First Principles Study of the Optical Emission of Cadmium Yellow: Role of Cadmium Vacancies (open access)

First Principles Study of the Optical Emission of Cadmium Yellow: Role of Cadmium Vacancies

This article studies the role of structural defects in the CdS-based cadmium yellow paint to explain the origin of its deep trap states optical emission.
Date: June 1, 2018
Creator: Giacopetti, Laura; Nevin, Austin; Comelli, Daniela; Valentini, Gianluca; Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco & Satta, Alessandra
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
Extraordinary Light-Trapping Enhancement in Silicon Solar Cell Patterned with Graded Photonic Super-Crystals (open access)

Extraordinary Light-Trapping Enhancement in Silicon Solar Cell Patterned with Graded Photonic Super-Crystals

This article explores light-trapping enhancement in newly discovered graded photonic super-crystals (GPSCs) with dual periodicity and dual basis.
Date: December 7, 2017
Creator: Hassan, Safaa; Lowell, David; Adewole, Murthada; George, David; Zhang, Hualiang & 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 for confinement of effectively unmagnetized cryogenic antimatter plasmas (open access)

Artificially structured boundary for confinement of effectively unmagnetized cryogenic antimatter plasmas

The article is from conference proceedings that discuss an artificially structured boundary (ABS) considered to consist of a spatially periodic arrangement of electrostatically plugged magnetic cusps. As envisioned, a non-neutral positron plasma could be confined by an ASB along its edge, and the space charge of the positron plasma would serve to confine an antiproton plasma. If the conditions of the two-species plasma are suitable, production of antihydrogen via three-body recombination for antimatter gravity studies may be possible.
Date: January 23, 2018
Creator: Hedlof, R. M. & Ordonez, Carlos A.
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
Charged Particle Reflection by a Planar Artificially Structured Boundary With Electrostatic Plugging (open access)

Charged Particle Reflection by a Planar Artificially Structured Boundary With Electrostatic Plugging

This article uses a classical trajectory Monte Carlo simulation to investigate an artificially structured boundary for confinement and control of charged particles.
Date: November 30, 2017
Creator: Hedlof, R. M. & Ordonez, Carlos A.
System: The UNT Digital Library