Convergence rates of iterative algorithms for solving non-linear fixed-point (or root-finding) problems depend on the quality of the solution guess done in each iteration, which is used as the starting value in the next step. To avoid instabilities and oscillations, that guess is u...

Undoped and doped zinc oxide in film form is used in a wide range of applications. Its electrical and optical properties depend on the oxide conditions during preparation, which are influenced by many deposition parameters. The aim of this work was to experimentally investigate...

The present work aimed to study the properties of medium-carbon steel during tempering treatment and to present the strength increase of medium-carbon spring steels by strain-assisted tempering (SAT). The effect of double-step tempering and double-step tempering with rotary swaging, also known&#x...

The nexus between classic ferroelectricity and the structure of perovskite materials hinges on the concept of lattice disorder. Although the ordered perovskites display short-range displacements of the central cations around their equilibrium points, the lattice disorder dynamically unfolds to generat...

Self-assembled nanolines are attractive to build the technological devices of next generation, but characterizing their electronic properties is often difficult to achieve. In this work we employ angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and density functional theory to clarify the electronic structure...

Laves RFe 2 compounds, where R is a rare earth, exhibit technologically relevant properties associated with the interplay between their lattice geometry and magnetism. We apply ab initio calculations to explore how magnetic properties of Fe in RFe 2 systems vary with temperature. W...

Synthesis of single-crystalline NaMnAs is reported, and we confirm its high quality by x-ray photoemission spectra. Magnetometry results are consistent with previous findings of antiferromagnetic order. The electronic structure was further studied using optical transmittance and by theoretical modeling...

beta-Si6-zAlzOzN8-z is a prominent example of systems suitable as hosts for creating materials for light-emitting diodes (LEDs). In this work, the electronic structure of a series of semiordered and disordered beta-Si6-zAlzOzN8-z systems is investigated by means of ab initio calculations, using&#...

Hybridization between f electrons and conduction bands (c-f hybridization) is a driving force for many unusual phenomena. To provide insight into it, systematic studies of CeCoIn 5 heavy fermion superconductor have been performed by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) in a large...

In the context of current state of the art, understanding the laser ablation efficiency decrease for pulse durations High-entropy alloy; CrMnFeCoNi; Ultrafast laser ablation; Pulse duration; Ablation efficiency; Stress confinementexceeding the mechanical relaxation time of a few ps remains a pend...

the chalcopyrite alloys Cu1–xNaxTlSe2, with x = 0.00, 0.25, and 0.50 were studied through density functional theory calculations. The Wu–Cohen generalized gradient and the Tran–Blaha modified Becke–Johnson approximations have been employed to describe the exchange–correlation potential. Energy band structu...

Owing to the tremendous energy storage capacity of two-dimensional transition metal carbides (MXenes), they have been efficiently utilized as a promising candidate in the field of super-capacitors. The energy storage capacity of MXenes can be further enhanced using metal dopants. Herein, we&...

It was hypothesized already more than 40 years ago that photoelectron spectroscopy should in principle be able to image atomic orbitals. If this can be made to work for orbitals in crystalline solids, one would have literally a different view on the electronic structure of...

Rashba materials have appeared as an ideal playground for spin-to-charge conversion in prototype spintronics devices. Among them, α-GeTe(111) is a non-centrosymmetric ferroelectric semiconductor for which a strong spin-orbit interaction gives rise to giant Rashba coupling. Its room temperature ferroelectri...

In spite of advanced research on functional colloidal inorganic nanoparticles and their reactivity, room temperature reactive interactions between two different colloids have remained challenging so far. Laser ablation of titanium monoxide and silicon monoxide in ethanol and water allows the gene...

We explore possibilities for control of magnons in two-dimensional heterostructures by an external electric field acting across a dielectric barrier. By performing ab initio calculations for a Fe monolayer and Fe bilayer, both suspended in vacuum and deposited on Cu(001), we demonstrate ...

Using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we show direct evidence for charge transfer between adsorbed molecules and metal substrates, i.e., chemisorption of CO on Pt(111) and Pt-Sn/Pt(111) 2 x 2 surfaces. The observed band structures show a unique signature of charge transfer as ...

The lack of time-reversal symmetry and Weyl fermions give exotic transport properties to Co-based Heusler alloys. In the present study, we have investigated the role of chemical disorder on the variation of Weyl points in Co2Ti1−xVxSn magnetic Weyl semimetal candidate. We employ the...

The layered two-dimensional material MoTe2 in the T-d crystal phase is a semimetal which has theoretically been predicted to possess topologically nontrivial bands corresponding to Weyl fermions. Clear experimental evidence by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) is, however, lacking, which&#x...

Herein, we studied the novel and emerging group of 2D materials namely MXene along with its nanocomposites. This work entails detailed experimental as well as computational study of the electrochemical behavior of vanadium carbide (V2CTx) MXene and MnO2-V2C nanocomposite with varying percent...