Amorphous semiconductors, being intrinsically metastable in nature, exhibit a wide variety of
changes in their physical properties, particularly when photoinduced using bandgap …

The discovery of strong luminescence at room temperature from silicon cluster has attracted
an enormous attention in recent years due to its potential applications in Si-based …

Femtosecond laser pulses appear as an emerging and promising tool for processing wide
bandgap dielectric materials for a variety of applications. This article aims to provide an …

All-optical nonlinear activation functions (NAFs) are crucial for enabling rapid optical neural
networks (ONNs). As linear matrix computation advances in integrated ONNs, on-chip all …

A new multifunctional ion beam materials laboratory (IBML) has been established at the
University of Tennessee, in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The IBML is …

Measurements of photoluminescence (PL) from composites of silica nanoparticles (the
primary particle size 7 and 15 nm) as a function of heat treatment temperature show that the …

Abstract The photoluminescence (PL) from 7-and 15-nm silica (SiO 2) nanoparticles induced
both by ArF laser light [λ exc= 193 nm (6.4 eV), τ L= 15 ns] and by Nd: YAG (yttrium …

Using nanotechnology to increase the recovery of oil reservoirs can be a good way to meet
energy demand, in order to increase oil production and reduce production costs …

The book examines the design, application, and utilization of devices, techniques, and
technologies critical to research at the atomic, molecular, and macromolecular levels …

The time-of-flight of positronium emitted from single-crystal and amorphous SiO 2 has been
measured using a high-intensity pulsed positron beam at KEK. For both the samples, two …