Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles were synthesized by spray pyrolysis method using an aqueous solution of zinc acetate at various concentrations from 5 to 25 wt%. The decomposition of precursor solutions was carried out at 800, 1000 and 1200ºC under different atomizing pressures. The crystal structure and morphology of synthesized nanoparticles were characterized by X-Ray Diffraction ...

We report on the synthesis of single crystals of BaFe(2)Se(3) and study their crystal and magnetic structures by means of synchrotron single-crystal x-ray and neutron powder diffraction. The crystal structure has orthorhombic symmetry and consists of double chains of FeSe(4) edge connected tetrahedra intercalated with barium. Below 240 K, long range spin-block checkerboard antiferromagnetic ord...

Ribbon Growth on Substrate (RGS) silicon wafers are casted directly from the silicon melt onto reusable substrates. Material losses by wafer sawing are omitted and high production speeds can be achieved. However, multicrystalline RGS silicon as it is produced today incorporates high densities of crystal defects and impurities limiting the efficiency of the corresponding solar cells. The local i...

We study the interplay of crystal field splitting and Hund coupling in a two-orbital model which captures the essential physics of systems with two electrons or holes in the e(g) shell. We use single site dynamical mean field theory with a recently developed impurity solver, which is able to access strong couplings and low temperatures. The fillings of the orbitals and the location of phase bou...

Bragg's second law, which deserves to be more widely known, is recounted. The significance of Bragg's law in electron diffraction and microscopy is then discussed, with particular emphasis on differences between X-ray and electron diffraction. As an example of such differences, the critical voltage effect in electron diffraction is described. It is then shown that the lattice imaging of crystal...

We study the influence of antiprotons and protons traveling through LiF on the band structure of the insulator using the embedded-cluster method. The crystal is represented by Fm − Lin + clusters with up to 19 fluorine ions embedded in a lattice of point charges representing the remainder of the crystal. The minimum excitation energy of LiF perturbed by the anti proton impurity is calculated em...

THE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE TITLE COMPOUND [SYSTEMATIC NAME: 3,5,7-triaza-1-azoniatricyclo-[3.3.1.1(3,7)]decane (E)-3-carb-oxy-prop-2-enoate], C(6)H(13)N(4) (+)·C(4)H(3)O(4) (-), had been determined previously by Bowes et al. [Acta Cryst. (2003), B59, 100-117]. Their structure contained an approximately 3:1 ratio of fumarate and succinate monoanions disordered over the same position. The succi...

The central shifts of the emission Mössbauer spectra on 67Cu(67Zn) impurity atoms in crystal lattices sodium and copper halides are determined, relativistic Doppler calculated, and, as a result, isomeric obtained, which compared with nature chemical bonding zinc halogen studied crystals. values quadrupole interaction constants for centers consistent results calculating these within framework io...

Using DFT + U calculations, the crystal structure and electronic properties of nonmetal co-doping with sulfur in anatase TiO2 are systematically investigated. The initial purpose of this work is to improve the photocatalytic performance of S mono-doped TiO2, in which S occupies the lattice Ti site and acts as a recombination center. Among eight nonmetal impurities that occupy the interstitial s...

The free growth of ice crystals in supercooled bulk water containing an impurity of glycoprotein, a bio-macromolecule that functions as 'antifreeze' in living organisms in a subzero environment, was observed under microgravity conditions on the International Space Station. We observed the acceleration and oscillation of the normal growth rates as a result of the interfacial adsorption of these ...