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Vector vibrating-sample magnetometer with permanent magnet flux source
(2006)A compact magnetometer, which uses two nested 1?T Halbach cylinders to generate a variable magnetic field of up to 2?T in any direction in the xy plane, has two sets of quadrupole pickup coils to detect the components mx ... -
Very low 1/f barrier noise in sputtered MgO magnetic tunnel junctions with high tunneling magnetoresistance
(2012)Low frequency 1/f barrier noise has been investigated in sputtered MgO magnetic tunnel junctions(MTJs) with a tunnelingmagnetoresistance ratio of up to 330% at room temperature. The lowest normalized noise parameter ? of ... -
Very thin transparent, conductive carbon nanotube films on flexible substrates
(2010)We investigate the morphological, electrical, and optical properties of carbon nanotube thin films, focusing on films with transmittance, T > 90%. For films with T approximate to 90% we measure sheet resistance of R-s<400 ... -
Vibron-assisted spin relaxation at a metal/organic interface
(2015)Inspired by recent experiments for hybrid organic-ferromagnet interfaces, we propose a spin-relaxation mechanism which does not depend on either the spin-orbit or the hyperfine interaction. This takes place when a molecule ... -
VirE2: A Unique ssDNA Compacting Molecular Machine
(2008)The translocation of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) across membranes of two cells is a fundamental biological process occurring in both bacterial conjugation and Agrobacterium pathogenesis. Whereas bacterial conjugation spreads ... -
Viscoelastic Polymer Nanocomposites for Strain Sensing Applications
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2021)Strain sensors are a technology that have developed in parallel with the major milestones in material science over the last century. Most recently, the field of 2D materials has proven to have found a wide range of ... -
Visible light scattering from micron scale silicon nitride structures
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Physics, 2012)Light scattering from complex and irregular shapes is responsible for many optical effects in nature. Butterfly wings change colour when viewed from different angles, due to a complex nanoscale scattering structure. Ice ... -
Visualizing the Mott transition
(2012)Correlated electronic systems involve strong short-range repulsion. At integer filling, the primary effect of correlation is the emergence of an insulating state where band theory predicts a metal. Understanding the ... -
Vortex state in ferromagnetic nanoparticles
(2014)The evolution of the magnetic state of a soft ferromagnetic nanoparticle with its size is usually thought to be from superparamagnetic single domain to blocked single domain to a blocked multidomain structure. Néel pointed ... -
Vortex states in soft magnets in two and three dimensions
(2010)The magnetization curves of arrays of near-spherical soft ferromagnetic particles are compared with those of quasi-two-dimensional dots with similar radius prepared by a rapid e-beam lithographic technique. Curves for the ... -
Vortex states of a disordered quantum Hall bilayer
(2009)We present and solve a model for the vortex configuration of a disordered quantum Hall bilayer in the limit of strong and smooth disorder. We argue that there is a characteristic disorder strength below which vortices will ... -
Wall slip of bubbles in foams
(American Institute of Physics, 2006)We present a computational analysis of the flow of liquid foam along a smooth wall, as encountered in the transport of foams in vessels and pipes. We concentrate on the slip of the bubbles at the wall and present some ... -
Wannier-function-based constrained DFT with nonorthogonality-correcting Pulay forces in application to the reorganization effects in graphene-adsorbed pentacene
(2018)Pulay terms arise in the Hellmann-Feynman forces in electronic-structure calculations when one employs a basis set made of localized orbitals that move with their host atoms. If the total energy of the system depends on a ... -
Water vapor on Betelgeuse as revealed by TEXES high-resolution 12 micron spectra
(American Astronomical Society, 2006)The outer atmosphere of the M supergiant Betelgeuse is puzzling. Published observations of different kinds have shed light on different aspects of the atmosphere, but no unified picture has emerged. They have shown, for ... -
Water vapor on supergiants. The 12 micron TEXES spectra of ? Cephei
(American Astronomical Society, 2006)Several recent papers have argued for warm, semidetached, molecular layers surrounding red giant and supergiant stars, a concept known as a MOLsphere. Spectroscopic and interferometric analyses have often corroborated this ... -
The wave properties of coronal bright fronts observed using SDO/AIA
(2011)Coronal bright fronts (CBFs) are large scale wavefronts that propagate though the solar corona at hundreds of kilometers per second. While their kinemat- ics have been studied in detail, many questions remain regarding the ... -
Waveguide Loss Measurement Using the Reflection Spectrum
(2008)A method for waveguide loss measurement purely based on the reflection spectrum is proposed. Using the Fourier series expansion of the single longitudinal mode in the reflection spectrum, the ratio between the second ... -
Wavelength, concentration, and distance dependence of nonradiative energy transfer to a plane of gold nanoparticles.
(2012)Nonradiative energy transfer to metal nanoparticles is a technique used for optical-based distance measurements which is often implemented in sensing. Both Förster resonant energy transfer (FRET) and nanometal surface ... -
Weak ferromagnetism and magnetoelectric coupling in bismuth ferrite
(American Physical Society, 2005)We analyze the coupling between the ferroelectric and magnetic order parameters in the magnetoelectric multiferroic BiFeO3 using density functional theory within the local spin density approximation (LSDA) and the LSDA+U ... -
Weyl points and exceptional rings with polaritons in bulk semiconductors
(2020)Weyl points are the simplest topologically protected degeneracy in a three-dimensional dispersion relation. The realization of Weyl semimetals in photonic crystals has allowed these singularities and their consequences to ...