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
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
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