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Temperature influence on NaLaF 4 :Er 3+ green luminescence
2016
Abstract Er 3+ doped NaLaF 4 is a promising material for up-conversion luminescence applications due to low phonon energy and multisite nature of the crystalline lattice. In this work, luminescence processes in NaLaF 4 :Er 3+ materials have been studied at different temperatures. Spectra and decay kinetics of the green luminescence were measured under excitation to 4 F 7/2 state. Analysis of the green luminescence excitation spectra, the luminescence spectra and the luminescence decay kinetics at different temperatures reveals that the observed single green luminescence spectra at room temperature are related to overlapping of the green luminescence excitation bands from erbium ions located…
Ab Initio Thermodynamics of Oxygen Vacancies and Zinc Interstitials in ZnO.
2015
ZnO is an important wide band gap semiconductor with potential application in various optoelectronic devices. In the current contribution, we explore the thermodynamics of oxygen vacancies and zinc interstitials in ZnO from first-principles phonon calculations. Formation enthalpies are evaluated using hybrid DFT calculations, and phonons are addressed using the PBE and the PBE+U functionals. The phonon contribution to the entropy is most dominant for oxygen vacancies, and their Gibbs formation energy increases when including phonons. Finally, inclusion of phonons decreases the Gibbs formation energy difference of the two defects and is therefore important when predicting their equilibrium c…
X-ray versus Ultraviolet Irradiation of Astrophysical Ice Analogs Leading to Formation of Complex Organic Molecules
2019
In astrochemistry, complex organic molecules (COMs) are defined as species with at least one C atom and six or more atoms in total. More than 70 COMs were detected toward various interstellar and c...
<title>Collisional and thermal ionization of sodium Rydberg atoms in single and crossed atomic beams</title>
2006
The results of the experimental and theoretical study on associative ionization of laser excited Na Rydberg atoms in collisions with ground-state atoms and on thermal ionization by blackbody radiation in single and crossed effusive atomic beams are reported and discussed.
Box 5: Surface Crystallography Terminology
2009
The crystalline nature of the surface differs from the bulk because atoms on the surface experience a different force field due to unterminated bonds, oxidation by adatoms etc. [1]. Free energy minimisation leads to reconstruction of the surface layer from the bulk by formation of dimers and displacement of atoms from their normal sites.
Real-space Wigner-Seitz Cells Imaging of Potassium on Graphite via Elastic Atomic Manipulation
2015
Atomic manipulation in the scanning tunnelling microscopy, conventionally a tool to build nanostructures one atom at a time, is here employed to enable the atomic-scale imaging of a model low-dimensional system. Specifically, we use low-temperature STM to investigate an ultra thin film (4 atomic layers) of potassium created by epitaxial growth on a graphite substrate. The STM images display an unexpected honeycomb feature, which corresponds to a real-space visualization of the Wigner-Seitz cells of the close-packed surface K atoms. Density functional simulations indicate that this behaviour arises from the elastic, tip-induced vertical manipulation of potassium atoms during imaging, i.e. el…
Poly[μ2-chloro-μ2-1,4-oxathiane-κ2S:S-copper(I)]
2007
The title complex, [CuCl(C4H8OS)]n, contains infinite spiral (CuS)n chains linked by bridging Cl atoms into layers. The Cl atoms do not form polymeric fragments with CuI, but combine into isolated centrosymmetric Cu2Cl2 units. The compound is non-isomorphous with the Br-containing analogue, which contains Cu8S8 rings linked by Br atoms into chains. The O atom of the 1,4-oxathiane molecule does not realize its coordination abilities in the known copper(I)-halide complexes, while in copper(II)-halide complexes, oxathiane is coordinated via the S and O atoms. This falls into a pattern of the preferred interactions, viz. weak acid (CuI atom) with weak base (S atom) and harder acid (CuII atom)…
"Table 20" of "Energy dependence of event shapes and of alpha(s) at LEP-2."
1999
Distribution of Oblateness at cm energy 183 GeV.
Lamb shift of a uniformly accelerated hydrogen atom in the presence of a conducting plate
2009
We investigate the effects of acceleration on the energy-level shifts of a hydrogen atom interacting with the electromagnetic field and in the presence of an infinite perfectly conducting plate. We consider the contributions of vacuum fluctuations and of the radiation reaction field to the Lamb shift, and we discuss their dependence from the acceleration of the atom. We show that, because of the presence of the boundary, both vacuum field fluctuations and radiation reaction field contributions are affected by atomic acceleration. In particular, the effect of the vacuum field fluctuations on the energy-level shifts is not equivalent to that of a thermal field. We also discuss the dependence …
The limits of the rotating wave approximation in electromagnetic field propagation in a cavity
2005
We consider three two-level atoms inside a one-dimensional cavity, interacting with the electromagnetic field in the rotating wave approximation (RWA), commonly used in the atom-radiation interaction. One of the three atoms is initially excited, and the other two are in their ground state. We numerically calculate the propagation of the field spontaneously emitted by the excited atom and scattered by the second atom, as well as the excitation probability of the second and third atom. The results obtained are analyzed from the point of view of relativistic causality in the atom-field interaction. We show that, when the RWA is used, relativistic causality is obtained only if the integrations …