A model of heating a particle in a dusty plasma is developed to predict the particle kinetic temperature. A Langevin approach is developed, generalizing a familiar Brownian motion model. Particles are cooled by neutral gas while being heated by one of two mechanisms: fluctuating electric fields and randomly fluctuating particle charge. Expressions are derived for the particle temperature result...

Luminescence from crystals is often anisotropic and it leads to the polarization behavior of luminescence from single crystalline particles, as exemplified here with the upconversion luminescence from a single NaYF4 nanodisk. Nanodisk aggregates exhibit polarization dependent luminescence with different polarization degrees, which depends on the orientation and distribution of nanoparticles.

As new genome sequencing initiatives are completed, one of the next great challenges of cell biology is the atomic resolution structure determination of the enormous number of proteins they encode. Single particle analysis is a technique which produces 3D structures by computationally aligning high resolution electron microscope images of individual, randomly oriented molecules. One of the limi...

As single particle cryo-electron microscopy has evolved to a new era of atomic resolution, sample heterogeneity still imposes a major limit to the resolution of many macromolecular complexes, especially those with continuous conformational flexibility. Here, we describe a particle segmentation algorithm towards solving structures of molecules composed of several parts that are relatively flexib...

It has been found that quantum corrections can substantially affect the classical results of tracking for trajectories close to the separatrix. Hence the development of a basic formalism for obtaining the quantum maps for any particle beam optical system is called for. To this end, it is observed that several aspects of quantum maps for the beam optics of spin2 particles can be studied, at the ...

in this work, mn ferrite nanopowders were prepared by co-precipitation method and were characterized. phase identification of the nanopowders was performed by x-ray diffraction method and the mean particle size of the nanopowders was calculated by scherrer's formula, using necessary corrections. magnetic parameters of the prepared nanopowders were measured by a vibrating sample magnetomete...

stoichiometric tetragonal bal-xsrxtio3 (x = 0.23) nanopowders were prepared by stearic acid gel(sag) method using barium stearate, strontium stearate, tetrabutyl titanate as ba, sr, ti sourcesand stearic acid as complexing reagent. thermal analysis including differential thermogravimetric(dtg) and tg, fourier transform infrared spectrometry (ftir), x-ray diffraction (xrd) andtransmission electr...