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Magnetism In Γ-Fesi2 Nanostructures: A First Principles Study, Sahil Dhoka Jan 2020

Magnetism In Γ-Fesi2 Nanostructures: A First Principles Study, Sahil Dhoka

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First-principles calculations are performed on γ-FeSi2 nanostructures grown on Si (111) and (001) substrate. An attempt to explain the origin of emergent magnetic properties of the metastable gamma phase of iron di-silicide (γ-FeSi2) is made, which show ferromagnetic behavior on nanoscale, unlike its possible bulk form. Many papers try to explain this magnetism from factors like bulk, epitaxial strain, interface, surface, edges, and corners but doesn’t provide an analytical study for these explanations. Density functional theory is used to analyze the magnetic effects of these factors. The results for the epitaxial structures show no magnetic behavior for …


Optical Dispersion Relations From Three-Dimensional Chiral Gold Nanocubes In Periodic Arrays, Manpreet Boora Jan 2020

Optical Dispersion Relations From Three-Dimensional Chiral Gold Nanocubes In Periodic Arrays, Manpreet Boora

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Chiral metamaterials are artificially tailored materials that are composed of nanoparticles that lack in-plane mirror symmetry. Application of chirality to plasmonic nanostructures can lead to chiro-optical effects such as asymmetric transmission of circularly polarized light, circular dichroism and optical activity. When light is incident on metallic nanoparticles, conduction electrons undergo collective oscillations within the nanoparticles, resulting in localized surface plasmon (LSP) resonance. Surface lattice resonances (SLRs) are hybrid plasmonic-photonic modes arising from the radiative coupling between LSPs and electromagnetic waves diffracted in the plane of the periodic array. Because of the collective dipole interactions, SLRs have less radiative losses compared …