Four formalisms are outl ined. Crystal f ield theory explains the color as well as the f luorescence in transit ion-metal-containing minerals such as azurite and ruby. The trap concept, as part of crystal f ield theory, explains the varying stabi l i ty of electron and hole color centers with respect to l ight or heat bleaching, as well as phenomena such as thermoluminescence. The molecular orb...

A comparison of the transport properties of populations of single-crystal, In2O3 nanowires (NWs) grown by unassisted hot-wall chemical vapour deposition (CVD) versus NWs grown by laser-ablation-assisted chemical vapour deposition (LA-CVD) is presented. For nominally identical growth conditions across the two systems, NWs fabricated at 850 ◦C with laser-ablation had significantly higher average ...

A liquid-helium temperature study of Fe2+ and Mn2+ ions has been carried out on a single crystal of Fe2+-doped ZnSiF(6).6H2O at 5-35K at 170, 222.4 and 333.2G Hz. The spectra are found to be an overlap of two magnetically inequivalent Fe2+ ions, as well as that of an Mn2+ ion. From the simulation of the EPR line positions for the Fe2+ (d6, S=2) ion the spin-Hamiltonian parameters were estimated...

A theory of nonmagnetic impurities in an anisotropic superconductor including the effect of anisotropic (momentum-dependent) impurity scattering is given. It is shown that for a strongly anisotropic scattering the reduction of the pair-breaking effect of the impurities is large. For a significant overlap between the anisotropy functions of the scattering potential and that of the pair potential...

We demonstrate experimentally that structural perturbations imposed on highly dispersive photonic crystal-based waveguides give rise to spectral features that bear signatures of Anderson localization. Sharp resonances with effective Q's of over 30 000 are found in scattering spectra of disordered waveguides. The resonances are observed in a approximately 20-nm bandwidth centered at the cutoff o...

We present a computational approach for the WKB approximation of the wave function of an electron moving in a periodic one-dimensional crystal lattice by means of a nonstrictly hyperbolic system whose flux function stems from the Bloch spectrum of the Schrödinger operator. This second part focuses on the handling of the source terms which originate from slowly-varying exterior potentials. Physi...

Observing the effect of temperature, concentration, and impurity on crystal growth rate is accomplished by simulating sugar crystals. The volume diffusion model was used to examine crystallization process compare three parameters non-steady-state behavior examined using MATLAB simulation. A disturbance analysis has been conducted demonstrate their impact final size sugar. findings show that tem...

The perovskite SrVO$_3$ is of interest for a variety applications due to its simple metallic character and stability in reducing environments. Here we report the preparation single-crystal using laser floating zone technique. Laue diffraction implies single domains ca. 30 mm length. stoichiometry optimized crystals was found be Sr$_{0.985}$VO$_{2.91}$ inductively coupled plasma optical emission...

In this approach, the VO2 nanoparticles have been successfully fabricated via combusting the low-cost precursor solution consisted of NH4VO3, C2H6O2 and C2H5OH. By the XRD, TEM and XPS analysis, it can be found that the synthetic monoclinic VO2 is single crystal and no impurity is defined. After dispersing the VO2 nanoparticles into the polymer, the solar modulation of VO2-based composite film ...

The title compound, C(15)H(21)N(3)O(3)S, is known to be an impurity of gliclazide [systematic name: N-(hexa-hydro-1H-cyclopenta[c]pyrrol-2-ylcarbamo-yl)-4-methyl-benzene-sulfonamide], a sul-fonyl-urea anti-diabetic drug. Gliclazide has a p-tolyl group substituting the sulfonamide functionality, while the title mol-ecule contains an o-tolyl group. Both five-membered fused rings adopt envelope co...