Effects of Strategically Placed Water Droplets on Monolayer Growth of Molybdenum Disulfide (open access)

Effects of Strategically Placed Water Droplets on Monolayer Growth of Molybdenum Disulfide

This article presents results of molybdenum disulfide monolayer (MoS₂) growth by strategically placing water droplets on the growth substrate and/or in the source prior to its loading in the growth chamber.
Date: November 21, 2018
Creator: Jiang, Yan; Lin, Yuankun; Cui, Jingbiao & Philipose, Usha
System: The UNT Digital Library
All-acoustic signal modulation and logic operation via defect induced cavity effects in phononic crystal coupled-resonator acoustic waveguides (open access)

All-acoustic signal modulation and logic operation via defect induced cavity effects in phononic crystal coupled-resonator acoustic waveguides

Article describes experiment where a coupled resonant acoustic waveguide (CRAW) in a phononic crystal (PnC) was engineered to manipulate the propagation of ultrasonic waves within a conventional phononic bandgap for wavelength division multiplexing.
Date: November 6, 2019
Creator: Reyes, Delfino; Walker, Ezekiel; Zubov, Yurii; Heo, Hyeonu; Krokhin, Arkadii A. & Neogi, Arup
System: The UNT Digital Library
Growth of Highly-Ordered Metal Nanoparticle Arrays in the Dimpled Pores of an Anodic Aluminum Oxide Template (open access)

Growth of Highly-Ordered Metal Nanoparticle Arrays in the Dimpled Pores of an Anodic Aluminum Oxide Template

Article presents a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive technology for the fabrication of ordered arrays of metal nanoparticles with large areal coverage on various substrates. Using a simple model, the experimental results were interpreted and supported by numerical estimations.
Date: November 8, 2022
Creator: Farmer, Gavin; Abraham, James; Littler, Chris; Syllaios, A. J. & Philipose, Usha
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
Fast-Growing SMBHs in Fast-Growing Galaxies, at High Redshifts: The Role of Major Mergers as Revealed by ALMA (open access)

Fast-Growing SMBHs in Fast-Growing Galaxies, at High Redshifts: The Role of Major Mergers as Revealed by ALMA

This article presents a long-term, multi-wavelength project to understand the epoch of fastest growth of the most massive black holes by using a sample of 40 luminous quasars at z ≃ 4.8.
Date: September 30, 2017
Creator: Trakhtenbrot, Benny; Lira, Paulina; Netzer, Hagai; Cicone, Claudia; Maiolino, Roberto & Shemmer, Ohad
System: The UNT Digital Library
Using a Novel Approach to Estimate Packing Density and Related Electrical Resistance in Multiwall Carbon Nanotube Networks (open access)

Using a Novel Approach to Estimate Packing Density and Related Electrical Resistance in Multiwall Carbon Nanotube Networks

Article using contrast image processing to estimate the concentration of multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) in a given network.
Date: September 25, 2020
Creator: Philipose, Usha; Jiang, Yan; Farmer, Gavin; Howard, Chris; Harcrow, Michael; Littler, Chris et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Long-range current-induced spin accumulation in chiral crystals (open access)

Long-range current-induced spin accumulation in chiral crystals

Article states that chiral materials, similarly to human hands, have distinguishable right-handed and left-handed enantiomers which may behave differently in response to external stimuli, so for the first time the authors use an approach based on the density functional theory (DFT)+PAOFLOW calculations to quantitatively estimate the so-called collinear Rashba–Edelstein effect (REE) that generates spin accumulation parallel to charge current and can manifest as chirality-dependent charge-to-spin conversion in chiral crystals. The authors reveal that the spin accumulation induced in the bulk by an electric current is intrinsically protected by the quasi-persistent spin helix arising from the crystal symmetries present in chiral systems with the Weyl spin–orbit coupling.
Date: November 18, 2022
Creator: Roy, Arunesh; Cerasoli, Frank T.; Jayaraj, Anooja; Tenzin, Karma; Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco & Sławińska, Jagoda
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
Computational Topology Techniques Help To Solve A  Long-Lasting Forensic Dilemma: Aldo Moro's Death (open access)

Computational Topology Techniques Help To Solve A Long-Lasting Forensic Dilemma: Aldo Moro's Death

The article shows how a recently-introduced method from algebraic topology, namely proximal planar vortex 1-cycles, might be helpful in detecting hidden features of the shapes and holes in images, therefore contributing to the solution of both cold and fresh forensic cases. They apply this technique in a recent case, Aldo Moro's death.
Date: November 13, 2018
Creator: Peters, James F. & Tozzi, Arturo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sub-wavelength lateral detection of tissue-approximating masses using an ultrasonic metamaterial lens (open access)

Sub-wavelength lateral detection of tissue-approximating masses using an ultrasonic metamaterial lens

Article demonstrating a phononic metamaterial lens (ML) for detection of laterally subwavelength object features in tissue-like phantoms beyond the phononic crystal evanescent zone and Fresnel zone of the emitter.
Date: November 24, 2020
Creator: Walker, Ezekiel; Jin, Yuqi; Reyes, Delfino & Neogi, Arup
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
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