Linked plasmonic nanoparticles made of noble metal materials exhibit significant enhancement of the amplitude of electromagnetic-field and strongly frequency-selective response at visible ranges which are distinct from that of individual nanoparicles. We introduce recent progress in the fabrication processes to achieve linked plasmonic nanostructures with various configurations. It includes the...

Highly active, durable, and cost-effective electrocatalysts for water oxidation to evolve oxygen gas hold a key to a range of renewable energy solutions, including water-splitting and rechargeable metal-air batteries. Here, we report the synthesis of ultrathin nickel-iron layered double hydroxide (NiFe-LDH) nanoplates on mildly oxidized multiwalled carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Incorporation of Fe i...

The lateral dimensions of CdSe nanoplatelets have a strong and unique influence on their opto-electronic properties, with sizes that can be tuned from the weak to the strong exciton confinement regime. There are state-of-the-art reports on several nanoplatelet syntheses; however, at present only the thickness is well-controlled. We demonstrate here that we can achieve a control over the aspect ...

Electron energy-loss magnetic chiral dichroism is a powerful technique that allows the local magnetic properties of materials to be measured quantitatively with close-to-atomic spatial resolution and element specificity in the transmission electron microscope. Until now, the technique has been restricted to measurements of the magnetic circular dichroism signal in the electron beam direction. H...

In this paper, we connect rectangular free probability theory and spherical integrals. In this way, we prove the analogue, for rectangular or square non symmetric real matrices, of a result that Guionnet and Mäıda proved for symmetric matrices in [GM05]. More specifically, we study the limit, as n,m tend to infinity, of 1 n logE{exp[nmθXn]}, where Xn is an entry of UnMnVm, θ ∈ R, Mn is a certai...

to detection of suitable sampling method to study tree canopy cover in the northern zagros forest, baneeh region forest, kurdistan province, and west of iran was selected. 40 square sample plots one hectare (100×100 m) were selected and perfect inventoried. in every sample plot the position of tree, kind of species and two diameter of crown (m) were recorded. to study of canopy cover different ...

A rectangular layout is a partition of a rectangle into a finite set of interior-disjoint rectangles. These layouts are used as rectangular cartograms in cartography, as floorplans in building architecture and VLSI design, and as graph drawings. Often areas are associated with the rectangles of a rectangular layout and it is desirable for one rectangular layout to represent several area assignm...

the rectangular broad crested weirs are widely used to measure the water dischargewhich is one of the most popular tools in the irrigation canals particularly, in developingcountries.the present article is trying to demonstrate the results of an experimental work carriedout on rectangular broad crested weir with sloped upstream face to investigate the effect ofupstream slope on discharge effici...