A new donor-acceptor system, in which the electron donor triphenylamine (TPA) and the electron acceptor C60 are bridged through a cis- or trans-platinum(II) acetylide spacer have been prepared. Ground-state studies were conducted using electrochemistry and UV/Vis spectroscopy. Fluorescence studies suggested that charge transfer is the deactivation mechanism for the singlet excited state, and th...

The exchange interaction in a singlet-triplet qubit defined by two-electron states the double-quantum-dot system ("two-electron qubit") typically varies monotonically with and thus carries no sweet spot. Here we study four-electron ("four-electron qubit"). We demonstrate, using configuration-interaction calculations, that energy as function of detuning can be non-monotonic, suggesting existence...

We describe a beta electron spectrometer for use in an upcoming experiment that will measure the beta-antineutrino correlation coefficient (a coefficient) in neutron beta decay. Electron energy is measured by a thick plastic scintillator detector. A conical array of plastic scintillator veto detectors is used to suppress events where the electron backscattered. A Monte Carlo simulation of this ...

Scanning confocal electron microscopy (SCEM) is a new imaging mode in electron microscopy. Spherical aberration corrected electron microscope instruments fitted with two aberration correctors can be used in this mode which provides improved depth resolution and selectivity compared to optical sectioning in a conventional scanning transmission geometry. In this article, we consider a confocal op...

Properties of the major DNA-binding protein found in herpes simplex virus-infected cells were investigated by using a filter binding assay and electron microscopy. Filter binding indicated that the stoichiometry of binding of the protein with single-stranded DNA is approximately 40 nucleotides per protein molecule at saturation. Strong clustering of the protein in DNA-protein complexes, indicat...

Clusters of Hall thrusters are being considered for use on a variety of missions requiring electric propulsion systems capable of operating at power levels in excess of the current state of the art. One of the key factors to be considered in determining the optimum cluster architecture is the configuration of the electron-emitting cathode(s). This work presents experimentally determined plume p...

Clusters of Hall thrusters may be used to produce electric propulsion systems capable of operating at power levels in excess of the current state of the art. One of the key factors to be considered in determining the optimum cluster architecture is the configuration of the electron-emitting cathode(s). This work presents experimentally determined plume properties and discharge current character...

Funding information UK-EPSRC Grant ‘Attosecond Electron Dynamics in Molecular and Condensed Phase Systems’, Grant/Award Number: EP/I032517/1 Abstract We present an implementation of the spin-dependent unitary group approach to calculate spin densities for configuration interaction calculations in a basis of spin symmetry-adapted functions. Using S eigenfunctions helps to reduce the size of conf...

We report on measurements of the electron temperature in the hotspot of inertially confined, layered, spherical implosions on the National Ignition Facility using a differential filtering diagnostic. Measurements of the DT and DD ion temperatures using neutron time-of-flight detectors are complicated by the contribution of hot spot motion to the peak width, which produce an apparent temperature...

We use a vertical double quantum dot (QD) to study spin blockade (SB) for the twoto five-electron states. SB observed for the twoand four-electron states is both assigned to Pauli exclusion with formation of a spin triplet state, and lifted by singlet-triplet admixing due to fluctuating nuclear field. SB observed for the five-electron state is caused by combined Pauli effect and Hund’s rule. We...