We present low temperature Raman measurements on Ca3Co2O6. Shell model lattice dynamics calculations were done to determine the vibrational pattern of the expected Raman modes. In the temperature window 300K to 52K the mode frequencies and the full width at half maxima (FWHM) of the modes vary in an expected fashion, i.e., the mode frequencies shift to higher values and the FWHM decreases with ...

We investigated the FeII optical emission in a sample of about 220 low-redshift quasars and luminous Seyfert 1 galaxies. We found that a scaled and broadened FeII template based on the I Zw 1 spectrum satisfactorily reproduce the FeII emission of almost all AGN of our sample. We also confirm that FWHM of Hβ and FeIIλ4570 are tightly correlated. However, the correlation takes two slightly differ...

The devitrification of initially amorphous Ni80B20 has been studied by x-ray-absorption spectroscopy as a function of the annealing temperature. It is found that the full width at half maximum ~FWHM! of the main absorption peak at '850 eV is sensitive to the degree of amorphization of the specimen. The initial FWHM of 2.51 eV for the homogeneous amorphous Ni80B20 decreases to a value of 2.12 eV...

Instrument-limited suppression of out-of-band Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE) is demonstrated in a Nd:YLF Diode-Pumped Regenerative Amplifier (DPRA) using a Volume Bragg Grating (VBG) as a spectrally selective reflective element. A VBG with 99.4% diffraction efficiency and 230-pm-FWHM reflection bandwidth produced a 43-pm- FWHM output spectral width in an unseeded DPRA compared to 150-pm F...

We present a new continuity correction to the P value for local maxima of a statistical parametric map that bridges the gap between small FWHM, when the Bonferroni correction is accurate, and large FWHM, when random field theory is accurate. The new method, based on discrete local maxima, is always an upper bound (like the Bonferroni), but lower and hence more accurate for large FWHM, without i...

We report the writing of very high resolution tungsten containing dots in regular arrays by electron beam-induced deposition (EBID). The size averaged over 100 dots was 1.0 nm at fwhm. Because of the statistical spread in the dot size, large and small dots are present in the arrays, with the smallest having a diameter of only 0.7 nm at fwhm. To date these are the smallest features fabricated by...

We propose a modified version of the observed non-linear relation between the X-ray (2 keV) and the ultraviolet (2,500 Å) emission in quasars (i.e., LX ∝ LγUV) which involves the full width at half-maximum, FWHM, of the broad emission line, i.e., LX ∝ Lγ̂UV FWHM β̂ . By analyzing a sample of 550 optically selected non-jetted quasars in the redshift range of 0.36–2.23 from the Sloan Digital Sky Su...

The performance of scintillating fibre detectors was studied with electrons at the spectrometer facility of the Mainz microtron MAMI, as well as in a C beam of 2AGeV energy and in a beam of different particle species at GSI. Multi-anode photomultipliers were used to read out one or more bundles of 128 fibres each in different geometries. For electrons a time resolution of FWHM ∼ 1 ns was measur...