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Phonon confinement effects in Si-nanowires
Nanowires can be used for devices based on thermoelectrics and to convert the heat into electrical current. The material design challenge here is to create the materials where... -
Effect of electron and hole doping on the spin gap formation in Kondo insulat...
CeFe2Al10 belongs to the CeT2Al10 family (T: Ru, Os, Fe), which exhibits Kondo-insulator properties, with an unusual competition of strongly anisotropic crystal-field and... -
Origin of the magnetism in heavily electron-doped iron-selenide superconductor
Elucidating the nature of magnetism in a high temperature superconductor is important. Our previous neutron measurements at low temperature revealed a resonance mode at Q = (pi,... -
Phonon Anomalies in YMnO3 at High Temperature
The reported structural phase transition in YMnO3 from P63cm to P63/mmc space group occurs at 1258 ±14 K. For low temperature phase (space group P63cm) the phonon modes are... -
Spin wave excitations in the 2D honeycomb ferromagnets
Graphene is the single layer of honeycomb-shaped carbon network, for which 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded thanks to its novel electronic properties. One of such... -
Investigation of the temperature dependence of Q-dependent vibrational modes ...
This proposal seeks to measure the poly-CINS (polycrystalline coherent inelastic neutron scattering) spectrum from magnesium deuteride (MgD2); a powder sample on the MARI... -
Magnetic excitations in the new S = 1/2 kagome antiferromagnet and quantum sp...
Materials which display exotic electronic states are of great interest to fundamental science, such as quantum spin-liquids (QSL) which are theorised to underpin the transition... -
Study of the protein denaturation in glassy matrices
The proposed experiment is addressed to use the MARI spectrometer to study the thermal denaturation process of the psychrophile enzyme alpha-amylase in presence of bioprotectant... -
Muon Studies of Na-ion Diffusion in Novel Low-temperature Cathode Material: "...
The most important scientific problem to solve for our modern society is how to convert and store clean energy. We are currently on the verge for a general breakthrough in... -
Rattling modes in new thermoelectrics
NaxCoO2 has an exceptional combination of thermoelectric properties, including low thermal conductivity, and it is currently under consideration for use in power recovery and as... -
Understanding the ground state wavefunction in PrPtAl and YbNiSn
The proposal addreses the compounds PrPtAl and YbNiSn. Both systems are canted ferromagnets with both materials undergoing moment reorientation transitions as a function of... -
Study of hybridization gap and insulator-metal transition in caged compounds ...
Heavy fermion compounds with a small energy gap opening in the strongly hybridised 4f-band at EF are currently under intensive investigations. Recently some of us have...
