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Exploring Structural And Electronic Properties Of Triangular Adatom Layers On The Silicon Surface Through Adsorbate Doping, Tyler S. Smith Aug 2020

Exploring Structural And Electronic Properties Of Triangular Adatom Layers On The Silicon Surface Through Adsorbate Doping, Tyler S. Smith

Doctoral Dissertations

The analysis of the electronic structure and morphology of 1/3 monolayers (ML) of Sn or Pb on Si(111) and Ge(111) has played an important role in understanding the role of electronic correlations in two dimensions. Specifically, the two-dimensional lattice of partially filled dangling bonds of these so-called α-phases has been an important testbed for studying structural phase transitions and correlated electronic phenomena ever since the discovery of a surface charge density wave in the Pb/Ge(111) system more than two decades ago. With the exception of the novel Sn/Si(111) system, all $\alpha$-phases undergo a charge ordering transition at low temperature. The …


Magnesium Diboride Embedded Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Yarns, Ujjal Lamichhane May 2020

Magnesium Diboride Embedded Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Yarns, Ujjal Lamichhane

Theses and Dissertations

The discovery of superconductivity in a simple hexagonal binary compound of MgB2 at a relatively high critical temperature ~39 K renewed the interest in the field of superconductivity. Twisted laminar superconducting composite structures based on coiled multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) yarns were crafted by integrating magnesium and boron homogeneous mixture into the carbon nanotube sheets. After the ignition of the Mg/B/MWCNT system, under the controlled argon environment and uniform heating rate, the high exothermic reaction between magnesium (Mg) and boron (B) with stoichiometric ratio produced the MgB2/MWCNT superconducting composite yarns. The XRD analysis confirmed that the heated sample consists of …


The Synthesis Of Pb2sr2sm1-Xcaxcu3o8 And Characterization Of Its Structural And Superconducting Properties., Deblina Das Jan 2020

The Synthesis Of Pb2sr2sm1-Xcaxcu3o8 And Characterization Of Its Structural And Superconducting Properties., Deblina Das

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

Superconducting lead-based cuprate materials of the 2213 structural type, Pb2Sr2MCu3O8 (M=Sm1-xCax, Y1-xCax, Er1-xCax and Yb1-xCax), were synthesized and characterized using x-ray powder diffraction and the Rietveld structural refinements method. Pb2Sr2Sm1-xCaxCu3O8 single crystals were grown by an optimized flux method using various combinations of PbO/PbF2 solvents. Samples with different Sm/Ca ratios were investigated for their superconducting properties. Magnetic measurements reveal the presence of a transition at 120K. Preliminary x-ray diffuse scattering experiment at the Advanced Photon Source of Argonne National Laboratory demonstrates the high quality of one of our crystals and the presence of rod-like diffuse scattering connecting the Bragg peaks …