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Fermi Velocity Renormalization in Graphene

  • Hwang, Choongyu;Siegel, David A.;Lanzara, Alessandra
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2014.02a
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    • pp.163.1-163.1
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    • 2014
  • Electron-electron interactions bear important information on fundamental electronic properties such as electron effective mass, conductivity, and charge mobility. By using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, here we address unusual electron self-energy in graphene induced by the electron-electron interactions, which are distinguished from those of an ordinary Fermi liquid. Our findings provide a new route for two-dimensional electron systems toward device applications.

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Radiation belt electron losses induced by wave-particle interactions

  • Summers, Danny
    • Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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    • 2009.10a
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    • pp.32.2-32.2
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    • 2009
  • We examine cyclotron resonant interactions of radiation belt electrons with VLF chorus, plasmaspheric ELF hiss and electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves. Bounce-averaged diffusion rates depend on wave mode, equatorial pitch-angle, electron energy and L-shell. As well, diffusion rates can be sensitive to the latitudinal distributions of particle density and wave power. For different configurations of the plasmasphere, we calculate electron precipitation loss timescales due to combined scattering by VLF chorus, ELF hiss and EMIC waves.

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Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Study of Al-incorporated ZnO:Mn Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors

  • Park, Jun Kue;Lee, K.W.;Choi, D.M.;Lee, Cheol Eui
    • Journal of the Korean Physical Society
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    • v.73 no.12
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    • pp.1884-1888
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    • 2018
  • We have employed electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy and magnetization measurements in order to study the effect of Al-incorporation on the magnetic interactions in ZnO:Mn diluted magnetic semiconductors. Al-doping is shown to decrease the antiferromagnetic correlation and to increase the ferromagnetic interaction, which is attributed to the hydrogen-mediated ferromagnetic Mn complexes in our Mn-doped ZnO samples.

Effect of the non-Coulombic Long-Range Forces and the Next Nearest Neighbor Interactions on the Lattice Properties of Alkali Halide Crystals

  • Shin, Yeon-Kyun;Kim, Yung-Sik
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.194-196
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    • 1986
  • The effect of the non-Coulombic long-range forces and the next nearest neighbor interactions on the lattice properties of alkali halide crystals is calculated using the Electron Gas model and Electron Gas Drude model. It is found that these often neglected interactions make changes in the lattice properties that are indeed small, but by no means negligible.

Characterization of Anthraquinone-Based Electron Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells (유기태양전지용 안트라퀴논 기반 전자 받게 분자의 특성 분석)

  • Hyun, Chang-Seok;An, Byeong-Kwan
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.366-371
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    • 2022
  • Recently many efforts have been made to develop a novel class of non-fullerene electron acceptor materials for high-performance organic solar cells. In this work, anthraquinone derivatives, TMAQ and THAQ, were prepared and their availability as electron acceptor materials for organic solar cells were investigated in terms of optical, thermal, electrochemical properties, and solar cell devices. Compared to TMAQ, a significant bathochromic shift of absorption band was observed for THAQ owing to intramolecular hydrogen-bond-assisted CT interactions. Thanks to the fused aromatic ring structure and benzoquinone unit, both TMAQ and THAQ exhibited a high thermal stability and an efficient electron reduction process. In particular, the intramolecular O-H---O=C hydrogen bond of THAQ plays an important role in improving the thermal stability and electron reduction properties. In the P3HT:acceptor solar cell system, THAQ-based devices had more than ca. 6 times higher power conversion efficiency than TMAQ -based devices. These results serve as a guide for developing high-efficient anthraquinone-based electron acceptor materials.

Recent Advances in Electron Crystallography

  • Chung, Jeong Min;Lee, Sangmin;Jung, Hyun Suk
    • Applied Microscopy
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    • v.47 no.3
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    • pp.160-164
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    • 2017
  • Electron crystallography has been used as the one of powerful tool for studying the structure of biological macromolecules at high resolution which is sufficient to provide details of intramolecular and intermolecular interactions at near-atomic level. Previously it commonly uses two-dimensional crystals that are periodic arrangement of biological molecules, however recent studies reported a novel technical approach to electron crystallography of three-dimensional crystals, called micro electron-diffraction (MicroED) which involves placing the irregular and small sized protein crystals in a transmission electron microscope to determine the atomic structure. In here, we review the advances in electron crystallography techniques with several recent studies. Furthermore, we discuss the future direction of this structural approach.

The Electron Detector in Scanning Electron Microscope (주사전자현미경용 전자검출기)

  • 이상욱;전종업;한상훈
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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    • 2004.04a
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    • pp.513-517
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    • 2004
  • The nature of the signals collected by an SEM(Scanning Electron Microscope) in order to form images are all dependent on the detector used to collect them, and the quality of an acquired image is strongly influenced by detector performance. Therefore, the development of detector with high performance is very important in pulling up the resolution of SEM. In this article, electron beam-specimen interactions, the detection principle of secondary electrons and backscattered electrons, and the structure of a conventional detector are described. The structure of an experimental apparatus for the future study on our hopeful novel electron detector is presented as well.

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Electron Accelerator Shielding Design of KIPT Neutron Source Facility

  • Zhong, Zhaopeng;Gohar, Yousry
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.48 no.3
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    • pp.785-794
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    • 2016
  • The Argonne National Laboratory of the United States and the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology of the Ukraine have been collaborating on the design, development and construction of a neutron source facility at Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology utilizing an electron-accelerator-driven subcritical assembly. The electron beam power is 100 kW using 100-MeV electrons. The facility was designed to perform basic and applied nuclear research, produce medical isotopes, and train nuclear specialists. The biological shield of the accelerator building was designed to reduce the biological dose to less than 5.0e-03 mSv/h during operation. The main source of the biological dose for the accelerator building is the photons and neutrons generated from different interactions of leaked electrons from the electron gun and the accelerator sections with the surrounding components and materials. The Monte Carlo N-particle extended code (MCNPX) was used for the shielding calculations because of its capability to perform electron-, photon-, and neutron-coupled transport simulations. The photon dose was tallied using the MCNPX calculation, starting with the leaked electrons. However, it is difficult to accurately tally the neutron dose directly from the leaked electrons. The neutron yield per electron from the interactions with the surrounding components is very small, ~0.01 neutron for 100-MeV electron and even smaller for lower-energy electrons. This causes difficulties for the Monte Carlo analyses and consumes tremendous computation resources for tallying the neutron dose outside the shield boundary with an acceptable accuracy. To avoid these difficulties, the SOURCE and TALLYX user subroutines of MCNPX were utilized for this study. The generated neutrons were banked, together with all related parameters, for a subsequent MCNPX calculation to obtain the neutron dose. The weight windows variance reduction technique was also utilized for both neutron and photon dose calculations. Two shielding materials, heavy concrete and ordinary concrete, were considered for the shield design. The main goal is to maintain the total dose outside the shield boundary less than 5.0e-03 mSv/h during operation. The shield configuration and parameters of the accelerator building were determined and are presented in this paper.

A Light and Electron Microscopical Study of Compatible and Incompatible Interactions between Phytophthora capsici and Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) (Phytophthora capsici 균주와 토마토의 친화적, 불친화적 상호작용에 대한 광학 및 전자현미경적 연구)

  • 황재순;황병국;김우갑
    • Korean Journal Plant Pathology
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.83-91
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    • 1994
  • Stem tissues of tomato plants (cv. Kwanyang) inoculated with Phytophthora capsici were examined by light and electron microscopy to compare early cytological differences between comaptible and incompatible interactions of tomatoes with the fungus. Twenty four hours after inoculation, the compatible isolate S 197 colonized severely the epidermis, cortex, and xylem vessels of stem tissue, whereas only few fungal cells colonized the stem tissues inoculated with the incompatible isolate CBS 178.26. Fragmented plasma membrane, distorted chloroplast, degraded cell wall, remnants of host cytoplasm were early ultrastructural features of the damaged host cell observed both in the compatible and incompatible interaction, a number of vesicles were distributed in the space between fungal cell walls and plasma membrane. The degradation of host cell walls by P. capsici was more pronounced in the compatible than the incompatible interactions. The incompatible interactions of tomato cells with P. capsici were characterized by formation of host cell wall apposition in the cortical parenchyma cells, indicating that the apposition of electron-dense material from the host cell walls may function as a plant defense reaction to the fungus. The fungal cells encased by wall appositions had abnormal cytoplasm and separated plasma membranes. The haustorium which formed from the fungal hyphae did not further penetrate through the host wall apposition and cytoplasmic aggregation, especially in the incompatible reactions. In contrast, the haustorium of the compatible isolate S 197 was not encased by wall appositions.

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Bond Distortion and Electron States in Charged $C_{60}{^2-}$

  • Fu, Rong-Tang;Fu, Rou-Li;Lee, Kee-Hag;Sun, Xin;Ye, Hong-Juan
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.740-743
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    • 1993
  • By considering both electron-electron and electron-lattice interactions, the effect of charge transfer on the bond structure and electronic states of $C_{60}$ is studied without configuration limitation. The results show that the electron-electron interaction does not eliminate the layer structure of the bond distortion and the self-trapping of transferred electrons. For charged ${C_{60}}^{2-}$, there exist two localized electronic states, which possess laminar wave functions, and four nonequivalent groups of carbon atoms, which induce a fine-structure in the NMR spectrum line.