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Why do the maxima of the Q and Soret bands in phthalocyanines shift to a shorter wavelength in diffuse reflectance analysis in the solid state?

Phthalocyanines were deposited as thin films onto glass and silicon substrates.by high vacuum deposition.

03 October 2016 442 3 View

Where to find some databases, references or bibliographies recording bond lengths and bond angles of materials?

Hello! Could someone advise me where to find some databases, references or bibliographies recording bond lengths and bond angles of materials? For example, the O-H bonds, in different materials...

01 October 2016 3,694 2 View

Is there any free quantum chemistry package available for organic semiconductors?

Is there any free quantum chemistry and solid state physics package available for organic semiconductors? (If not, thn, is there any commercial software available to solve the problems of...

22 September 2016 4,544 5 View

Where can I find the dielectric constant of BTO thin films when annealed in vacuum?

I am looking at the integration of Bi4Ti3O12 thin films on Ultrananocrystaline diamond (UNCD) substrates. I deposit my thin films using RF-Sputtering, but am unable to do in-situ substrate...

12 September 2016 2,665 2 View

How to estimate the error of the lattice parameters from the result of Rieltveld refinement in fullprof?

Dear all, I did Rietveld refinement of XRD data with fullprof and now I would like to present the results with the corresponding error. There is somthing about the standard deviation of the...

08 September 2016 8,287 5 View

If I add an electronic field on a 2D topological insulator bar in one direction, will the potencial difference appear in the other direction?

Suppose a topological insulator stripe, oppen boundary in Y direction, periodical boundary in X direction. If I add an electronic field in X direction, what will happen in Y direction?

25 August 2016 4,449 3 View

What is the energy of an electron before merging with hole?

In p-type semiconductor, the holes' motion are imagined by motion of electron absence. Now my question is if a hole movement is meant by merging of an electron from covalent bond with a hole thus...

05 August 2016 1,854 29 View

Density of cavitation bubbles in a Ultrasonic Cleaner?

Hi everybody!anyone know Density of cavitation bubbles in a Ultrasonic Cleaner? I am using a Ultrasonic Cleaner with f = 35 kHz and P=240 W. Thanks so much!

14 July 2016 2,710 2 View

How to calculate alpha and fermi energy in NSPT hopping model?

Hy, i have a.c.conductivity data and i found nonoverlapping small poraron tunnling model is suitable for conduction mechanism. but i don't know how to calculate spatial extention of poloron...

08 July 2016 7,884 2 View

Can i add dielectric curves of spin up and dn of a half metal compund to obtain total curve just by adding their corresponding data, simply?

I obtain the dielectric curve versus energy of a half metal compound numerically for spin up and dn separately. Now I want to add them together to obtain total dielectric curve. Is it possible to...

05 July 2016 2,992 3 View

TCAD Sentaurus Optical Raytracing?

Hi all, I am trying to do optical simulation of a simple structure comprising of Si and SiO2 in sdevice. Everything seems to work except for the fact that while visualizing the plots of parameters...

26 June 2016 5,860 2 View

Any idea on PDMS-quartz bonding?

It is claimed everywhere that PDMS can be bonded with silica-based materials, such as glass, quartz, and PDMS. I have successfully done PDMS-glass bonding with the following steps: 1. Clean glass...

14 June 2016 3,006 3 View

Why the crystal property in the real space can be calculated by using only few point in momentum space?

I read from book that: the macroscopic dielectric function only depends on the position difference, the integral relation between E and ε in the real space can be transfered to momentum space...

14 June 2016 2,895 2 View

Why dielectric constant of a material starts increasing again after curie temperature, in case of high temperature and low frequency?

After curie temperature dielectric constant comes down. but in some materials it starts increasing again for high temperature and low frequencies. i want to know...why this happens? and how to...

09 June 2016 2,290 2 View

Where to buy metal microreactors?

does someone knows where to buy metal openable high pressure ( 200PSI) microreactors for the synthesis of magneitite nanofluids?

09 June 2016 2,276 3 View

In my one CCTO sample, CuO secondary phase is appeared as identified by JCPDS file. How to do Rietveld refinement for such biphasic materials ?

I gave all the information for both phases like space group, atomic coordinates, lattice parameters, asymmetric parameters etc. but the program is not running. Please help me friends

28 May 2016 3,851 13 View

At what temperature should the tip and the sample be maintained in a low temperature STM and in a variable temperature STM?

I read somewhere that the temperature of the tip and the sample must be maintained at the same low temperature in low temperature STM, but in case of variable temperature STM, the tip is...

27 May 2016 9,136 3 View

How to avoid breaking of KTaO3 pellet during the sintering?

KTaO3 is prepared using solid state reaction route which is calcined at 800 degree temperature with 5 degree per minute heating rate, but during the sintering the pellet is breaking may be due to...

26 May 2016 1,393 3 View

The correct equation to calculate the structure factor from (311) planes in Ferrites?

The structure factor from the (311) planes in ferries have been reported in two or three different equations such as: F311= 4(-sqrt(2) FA – 2 FB) F311= FB +FA/sqrt(2) F311= 8(FA+sqrt(2) FB). Which...

09 May 2016 4,957 4 View

Prediction of Ferro-, Antiferro- and Ferrimagnetism from DOS?

How can we predict the magnetic state of the materials from density of states (DOS) that is either the material is ferromagnetic, antiferromagnetic, ferrimagnetic or paramagnetic?

01 May 2016 3,949 7 View

How to create SiO2 grass by dry etching?

I am trying to create micrometer-size SiO2 grass by dry ething a SiO2 wafer. Anyone happen to see SiO2 grass during their fab? What is the condition you get this? Pressure, gas, power and flow? Best,

30 April 2016 3,499 1 View

Can any body tell me the lattice parameters including internal parameters of ZrO2 and TiO2. either it may be experimentally or theoretically ?

Solid State Physics

30 April 2016 1,956 4 View

Why material generally comes out from the walls of the ampoule while quenching it?

While quenching an ampoule containing Se, Ag and Bi in an electric furnace the material comes out of the ampoule from its walls, neither the ampoule gets burst nor the material is coming from the...

28 April 2016 6,885 11 View

Why We study Density Functional Approximations instead of Statistical Approximations in Solid State Physics? ?

Density Functional Theory

28 April 2016 8,706 4 View

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