We report a detailed study of the electronic structure of the MgB2 with different lattice constants by using the full-potential linearized augmented plane wave(FPLAPW) method. It is found that the lattice parameters have great effect on the σ band of Boron. Our results indicate that increasing lattice constant along the c axis will increase the density of states(DOS) at the Fermi level, making ...

We present results on MgB2 hot-electron bolometer noise measurements to show reproducibility of achieved results and robustness of the fabricated devices, which being passivated with silicon nitride shows the same performance after 1.5 year storing in nitrogen atmosphere. Noise temperature measurements were performed for the HEB made of 10nm MgB2 thin film on Al2O3 with Tc of 8.5K for 1.6THz LO...

We have studied temperature evolution of the local as well as the average crystal structure of MgB2 and Mg0.5Al0.5B2 using real-space atomic pair distribution function (PDF) measured by high resolution neutron powder diffraction in a wide temperature range of T = 10–600 K. The mean square relative displacements (MSRD) of atomic B–B, B–Mg (B–Al) pairs are compared with mean-square displacements ...

Photoemission spectroscopy measurements of MgB2 are reviewed. From angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, band dispersion is observed as is theoretically predicted, suggesting that the electronic structure of MgB2 is well described within band theory. From angle-integrated photoemission spectroscopy, a clear peak ascribed to the superconducting coherent peak is observed. The shape of the sp...

Water splitting is unanimously recognized as environment friendly, potentially low cost and renewable energy solution based on the future hydrogen economy. Especially appealing is photocatalytic water splitting whereby a suitably chosen catalyst dramatically improves efficiency of the hydrogen production driven by direct sunlight and allows it to happen even at zero driving potential. Here, we ...

We performed all-electron ab initio self-consistent field Hartree-Fock linear combination of atomic orbital, in which electronic correlation using density functional were included to perform electronic calculations in MgB2 new superconductor. Superconductivity in this compound was correlated with existence of px,y band holes at Γ point. Typeset using REVTEX