An active, photonic band gap-based microcavity emitter in the near infrared is demonstrated. We present direct measurement of the spontaneous emission power and spectrum from a microcavity formed using a two-dimensional photonic band gap structure in a half wavelength thick slab waveguide. The appearance of cavity resonance peaks in the spectrum correspond to the photonic band gap energy. For d...

The current electricity demand has asserted the mandatory requirement of establishing renewable energy systems. This paper reviews the major contributions on practically establishing the hybrid renewable energy systems. The contributions are investigated for its practical relevance with the growing demand, exploration of various renewable energy resources and performance accomplishment. The per...

The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) exploits low energy antideuterons produced in neutralino-neutralino annihilations as an indirect dark matter (DM) signature that is effectively free from background. When an antiparticle is captured by a target material, it forms an exotic atom in an excited state which quickly decays by emitting X-rays of precisely defined energy and a correlated pi...

in order to study the effect of canopy gap size on species diversity and composition in mixed stands, a reserved area which located in asalem forests was selected. all of gaps in this area identified and were divided into four categories: small gaps (1000 m2). in each category, 21 of gaps with a relatively homogeneous in terms of an aspect and slope were selected. the major and minor diameter o...

We report high-resolution neutron inelastic scattering experiments on the spin excitations of NaV(2)O(5). Below T(c), two branches with distinct energy gaps are identified. From the dispersion and intensity of the spin excitation modes, we deduce the precise zigzag charge distribution on the ladder rungs and the corresponding charge order: Delta(c) approximately 0.6. We argue that the spin gaps...

We report measurements of the quantum Hall state energy gap at avoided crossings between Landau levels originating from different conduction band valleys in AlAs quantum wells. These gaps exhibit an approximately linear dependence on the magnetic field over a wide range of fields and filling factors. More remarkably, we observe an unexpected dependence of the gap size on the relative spin orien...

The reduction of the energy gap due to Landau level mixing, characterized by the dimensionless parameter λ = (e/ǫl0)/h̄ωc, has been calculated by variational Monte Carlo for the fractional quantum Hall effect at filling fractions ν = 1/3 and 1/5 using a modified version of Jain’s composite fermion wave functions. These wave functions exploit the Landau level mixing already present in composite f...

This paper deals with a theoretical study of the shear thickening effects in concentrated suspensions of non-Brownian particles. Our analysis shows that an increase of the shear rate of the suspension flow leads to a decrease of the mean thickness of the gaps between the nearest particles in dense suspensions. In turn, this leads to the growth of energy dissipation in these gaps, which means an...

A systematic density functional theory (DFT)+U study is conducted to investigate the electron correlation and spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effects in US(3) and USe(3). Our calculations reveal that inclusion of the U term is essential to get energy band gaps for them, indicating the strong correlation effects for uranium 5f electrons. Taking consideration of the SOC effect results in small reductio...

The nanocrystalline silicon-germanium films (Si/Ge) and Si/Ge nanotubes have low band gaps and high carrier mobility, thus offering appealing potential for absorbing gas molecules. Interaction between hydrogen molecules and bare as well as functionalized Si/Ge nanofilm and nanotube was investigated using Monte Carlo (MC) and Langevin dynamic (LD) simulation methods. It was found that the bindin...