We report the realization of the optically induced inverse population of the ground-state spin sublevels of the silicon vacancies (V(Si)) in silicon carbide (SiC) at room temperature. The data show that the probed silicon vacancy spin ensemble can be prepared in a coherent superposition of the spin states. Rabi nutations persist for more than 80 μs. Two opposite schemes of the optical alignment...

Catalytic growth of GaN nanowires by hydride vapour phase epitaxy is demonstrated. Nickel-gold was used as a catalyst. Nanowire growth was limited to areas patterned with catalyst. Characterization of the nanowires with transmission electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, and low temperature photoluminescence shows that the nanowires are stoichiometric 2H-GaN single crystals growing in the [000...

We present an experimental study of turbulent convection in a cell with staggered fingers on its sidewall using water as the convecting fluid. Our measurements reveal that Nu , Ra20.27, and that the temperature probability density function (PDF) at the cell center is a double-peaked function which can be fitted by the superposition of two Gaussians. Moreover, it is found that the size of the lo...

By combining accurate heat capacity and x-ray resonant scattering results we have resolved the long standing question regarding the nature of the quadrupolar ordered phases in UPd(3). The order parameter of the highest temperature quadrupolar phase has been uniquely determined to be antiphase Q{zx} in contrast to the previous conjecture of Q{x{2}-y{2}}. The azimuthal dependence of the x-ray sca...

Diverse material classes exhibit qualitatively similar behavior when made viscous upon cooling toward the glass transition, suggesting a common theoretical basis. We used seven different measurement methods to determine the mechanical relaxation kinetics of a prototype molecular glass former over a temporal range of 13 decades and over a temperature range spanning liquid to glassy states. The d...

Thermal effects are important considerations at the initial stage in spark plasma sintering of non-conductive Al2O3 powders. The generalized thermo-elastic theory is introduced to describe the influence of the heat transport and thermal focusing caused by thermal wave propagation within a constrained space and transient time. Simulations show that low sintering temperature can realize high loca...

In this work, the material properties of a series of fly ash/polyurea composites were studied. Dynamic mechanical analysis was conducted to study the effect of the fly ash volume fraction on the composite’s mechanical properties, i.e., on the material’s frequencyand temperature-dependent storage and loss moduli. It was found that the storage and loss moduli of the composite both increase as the...

Quantum tunneling of the magnetization in a single-molecule magnet has been studied in experiments that combine microwave spectroscopy (10–50 GHz) with low temperature high sensitivity micro-Hall effect magnetometry (T = 0.4 K). This method enables the monitoring of spin-state populations in the presence of microwave radiation and a direct measure of the energy splitting between low lying high-...

We present a method to solve the inverse problem in pulsed photothermal radiometry sPPTRd that exploits advantages of truncated singular value decomposition sT-SVDd while imposing a non-negativity constraint to the solution. The presented method is a hybrid in the sense that it expresses the solution vector as a linear superposition of right singular vectors, but with a non-negative constraint ...

Three-dimensional superposition is an abstract task involving the placement of one object in the space of another. Computational techniques that superimpose molecules serve as a focal point for the interpretation and understanding of molecular data. Superposition plays an important role in correlating a wide assortment of information (e.g., energetic, physiochemical, biological, or pharmacokine...