Can someone give a simple explanation of refractive index using photon-electron interaction?

I am from material science and would like to understand in a simple manner how particle physicists would explain refractive index as the cross section of interaction between photon and electron of...

08 September 2018 4,345 2 View

Can the effective mass be determined experimentally by some other mnethod then by cyclotron method?

I want to determine effective mass of charge carriers in thin films

04 May 2018 6,972 4 View

Data Analysis of Ellipsometry and Coding?

I am developing a code for data analysis of ellipsometry data. Please find attached the graphs of psi versus lambda and delta versus lambda. The delta graph is a good fit and psi graphs...

10 November 2015 781 5 View

Has Gans Model on SPR been extended to multi-particle clusters?

While extinction peak due to SPR can be calculated for a single metal cluster. Has the theory been extended to multi-particle clusters (say two metal clusters kept in close proximity)?

02 March 2015 9,716 0 View

How to experimentally distinguish between propagating SPR and localized SPR?

UV-visible spectra peak clearly gives signature of LSPR. How to confirm propagating SPR?

04 May 2014 4,602 2 View

How can one determine the refractive index from transmission data of a film if its value is expected to be less than the substrates?

Swanpoel Method.

08 September 2013 4,952 6 View

Has anyone found the "graphical highlight" and "highlights" which elsevier journals demand as meaningful and useful?

Journal publication

01 February 2013 8,685 2 View

Data Analysis of Ellipsometry

Is there any literature which explains computation of refractive index etc from the ellipsometry data in a simple way?

06 July 2012 2,155 7 View

Resistor definition in Piezoelectric bimorph with ANSYS workbench

Hello, good day! I am trying to simulate similar bimorph piezoelectric harvester with below commands. However, the output power doesn't change with resistor value. Please help to find the reason. ET,10,CIRCU94,0 !SET UP RESISTOR R,1,100000 !RESISTANCE VALUE TYPE,10 !SET ELEMENT TYPE E,1,2 !CREATE RESISTOR BETWEEN NODES 1 AND 2 Thanks in advance Regards,

02 March 2021 0 0 View

Why Austenite grains in steel show much more twinning than ferrite grains?

It is oftentimes said to be a distinctive metallographic trait that differentiates a fully austenitic and a fully felly ferritic steel without etching that might distinguish between two. Why...

02 March 2021 728 2 View

What are the application of Fixed points thoery in Chemistry.?

It is said that fixed point theory has lot of applications not in the field of mathematics only but also in various areas. So I am looking for applications in Chemistry only..

26 February 2021 3,533 1 View

How to replicate the well conditions of a crystal hit with 20%(w/v) isopropanol?

I had a crystal hit in a well with 0.1M HEPEs pH 7.5, 10%(w/v) PEG 4000, and 20%(w/v) isopropanol. Why is isopropanol in w/v here if it's just solvent? How do I recreate this well condition?

25 February 2021 9,761 1 View

How to search for crystal structure for material with atomic position labelled?

I am using the crystallographic open database and materials project to search for cif file but the exact structure is not mentioned or how can I deduce that the given structure and atomic position...

23 February 2021 6,723 2 View

Can I ask did any good platform or journals for learning the calcluation on the reference governors and command governor?

Recently I face some problems with the mathematical ( calculation) on the reference governor and command governor, so I need some help from you all to get which platform or journal can let me...

23 February 2021 7,746 2 View

How to generate AA6061 alloy or any aluminium alloy crystal in material studio?

I need to carry out molecular dynamics simulation on Aluminium alloy. For this i need the crystal structure that which could be further replicated to form a structure.

22 February 2021 1,410 1 View

Build an orthogonal box in ASE?

Hello, I was wondering the best way to build an orthogonal box filled with a defined crystal structure in ASE. I know it could be easily done in LAMMPS, but I guess it is also doable in ASE. The...

21 February 2021 5,899 4 View

Special issue on PLS-SEM in Mathematics. Are you interested?

21 February 2021 5,601 3 View

What is the better software for approximation of 3D surface with equations?

I have a massive of x, y, z coordinates of 2D surface in 3D space, which builded in Ansys HFSS or AutoCAD. How can I get the analitical aproximation of this surface by formulas?

21 February 2021 3,444 7 View