Positron confinement in ultrafine embedded particles: Quantum-dot-like state in an Fe-Cu alloy

Y Nagai, M Hasegawa, Z Tang, A Hempel, K Yubuta… - Physical Review B, 2000 - APS
A quantum-dot-like positron state is demonstrated in the “defect-free” particles using
coincidence Doppler broadening of positron annihilation radiation. The wave functions of all …

Density functional study on metastable bcc copper: Electronic structure and momentum density of positron-electron pairs

Z Tang, M Hasegawa, Y Nagai, M Saito - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
The stability, electronic structure, and positron-electron pair momentum of body-centered-
cubic (bcc) copper, which is metastable, are theoretically studied and are compared with …

Stable vacancy clusters in neutron-irradiated graphite: evidence for aggregations with a magic number

Z Tang, M Hasegawa, T Shimamura, Y Nagai, T Chiba… - Physical review …, 1999 - APS
By combining positron-annihilation experiments and first-principles calculations, abundant
planar V 6 rings are identified in heavily neutron-irradiated graphite. The calculations show …

First-principles calculation of coincidence Doppler broadening of positron annihilation radiation

Z Tang, M Hasegawa, Y Nagai, M Saito, Y Kawazoe - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
We report a first-principles method for calculating the momentum density of positron-electron
pairs in materials, which can be accurately measured, in a wide momentum range, by …

Electronic band structures of group-V two-dimensional materials

NAP Namari, M Saito - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We systematically study the electronic properties of two-dimensional group-V materials, ie
phosphorene, arsenene, antimonene, and bismuthene. The density functional calculations …

Composition dependence of positron states in zincblende Ga1−xInxN

N Bouarissa - Philosophical Magazine B, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
The positron states in the ternary alloys Ga1− xInx N in the zincblende structure in the range
from x= 0 to x= 1 have been investigated. The electron wavefunction is calculated using the …

Spin polarized positron lifetimes in ferromagnetic metals: First-principles study

J Lin, T Yamasaki, M Saito - Japanese Journal of Applied …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We carry out spin-polarized positron lifetime calculations for ferromagnetic metals using the
electron–positron density functional theory (DFT). We investigate Fe, Co, and Ni and find …

Magnetic properties, Heisenberg exchange interaction, and curie temperature of CdS nanoclusters

XG Zhao, JH Chu, Z Tang - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2015 - ACS Publications
In recent years the magnetism demonstrated in undoped oxide and sulfide semiconductor
nanoparticles was intensively studied for the potential applications in nanoscale science …

HPHT synthesis of large, high-quality, single crystal diamonds

H Sumiya - Comprehensive hard materials, 2014 - elibrary.ru
Large-sized high-quality type IIa diamond crystals (8-10. ct, 10-12. mm across) have been
successfully synthesized by a temperature-gradient method under high-pressure and high …

POSITRON STATES IN Si1-xGex ALLOYS: DEVIATION FROM VEGARD'S LAW

N Bouarissa - Modern Physics Letters B, 2002 - World Scientific
Electron-positron momentum densities along different crystallographic directions and
positron bulk lifetime in Si 1-x Ge x alloys have been investigated within the pseudopotential …