The photoinduced hydrogen-elimination reaction in pyrrole via the conical intersections of the two 1 * excited states with the electronic ground states B1 * -S0 and A2 * -S0 have been investigated by time-dependent quantum wave-packet calculations. Model potential-energy surfaces of reduced dimensionality have been constructed on the basis of accurate multireference ab initio electronic-structu...

The conical air-void structure of an InGaN light-emitting diode (LEDs) was formed at the GaN/sapphire interface to increase the light extraction efficiency. The fabrication process of the conical air-void structure consisted of a dry process and a crystallographic wet etching process on an undoped GaN layer, followed by a re-growth process for the InGaN LED structure. A higher light output powe...

We discuss the sensitivity of the three-particle azimuthal cumulant method for a search and study of conical emission in central relativistic A+A collisions. Our study is based on a multicomponent Monte Carlo model which include flow background, Gaussian mono-jets, jet-flow, and Gaussian conical signals. We find the observation of conical emission is hindered by the presence of flow harmonics o...

Circular meshes are quadrilateral meshes all of whose faces possess a circumcircle,whereas conicalmeshes areplanar quadrilateralmeshes where the faces which meet in a vertex are tangent to a right circular cone. Both are amenable to geometricmodeling – recently surface approximation and subdivision-like refinement processes have been studied. In this paper we extend the original defining proper...

The involvement of three-state conical intersections in the photophysics and radiationless decay processes of the nucleobases has been investigated using multireference configuration interaction methods. Three-state conical intersections have been located for the pyrimidine base, uracil, and the purine base, adenine. In uracil, a three-state degeneracy between the S(0), S(1), and S(2) states ha...

Stromatolites may be Earth's oldest macroscopic fossils; however, it remains controversial what, if any, biological processes are recorded in their morphology. Although the biological interpretation of many stromatolite morphologies is confounded by the influence of sedimentation, conical stromatolites form in the absence of sedimentation and are, therefore, considered to be the most robust rec...

Single- and multiple-nanopore membranes are both highly interesting for biosensing and separation processes, as well as their ability to mimic biological membranes. The density of pores, their shape, and their surface chemistry are the key factors that determine membrane transport and separation capabilities. Here, we report silicon nitride (SiN) membranes with fully controlled porosity, pore g...

This article provides a classification of the partial conical flocks in PG(3,q) of (q-1) conics of a quadratic cone which admit a linear regular automorphism group on the conics.

We introduce and study the notions of conical and spherical graphs. We show that these mutually exclusive properties, which have a geometric interpretation, provide links between apparently unrelated classical concepts such as dominating sets, independent dominating sets, edge covers, and the homotopy type of an associated simplicial complex. In particular, we solve the problem of characterizin...

The need of ultrawideband (UWB) antennas with omni-directional coverage is increasing for both military and commercial applications (Wiesbeck et. al., 2009; Minin, 2010). The UWB radio technology promises high resolution radar applications, sensor networks with a large number of sensors for industrial or home surveillance as well as high data-rate communication over short range for personal are...