Abstract Urban centers across the globe are responsible for a significant fraction of energy consumption and CO 2 emission. As urban continue to grow, popularity glass as cladding material in buildings is an alarming trend. Dynamic windows reduce heating cooling loads by passive cold seasons mitigating solar heat gain hot seasons. Here, reduced highly glazed mesoscopic building model demonstrat...

The phase transitions of two different liquid crystal materials adsorbed on graphite were studied using scanning tunneling microscopy. From the dimensions, the periodicity and the symmetry of the observed structures at different temperatures, a strong relationship between the bulk phases and the adsorbed monolayer phases was found. In addition, this study shows that the transition temperatures ...

Resonant piezoelectric spectroscopy shows polar resonances in paraelectric SrTiO3 at temperatures below 80 K. These resonances become strong at T<40  K. The resonances are induced by weak electric fields and lead to standing mechanical waves in the sample. This piezoelectric response does not exist in paraelastic SrTiO3 nor at temperatures just below the ferroelastic phase transition. The inter...

In this paper, we calculate theoretically the relaxation rates of hot, thermal and antinodal quasiparticles by using Fermi’s golden rule. The transition probabilities at low temperatures express in terms of Bogoliubov coefficients, singlet and triplet scattering amplitudes and dimensionless Landau parameters. The values of Landau parameters may be determined by comparison with the experimental ...

We show how to model the transition between distinct quantum Hall plateaus in terms of D-branes in string theory. A low energy theory of 2 + 1 dimensional fermions is obtained by considering the D3-D7 system, and the plateau transition corresponds to moving the branes through one another. We study the transition at strong coupling using gauge/gravity duality and the probe approximation. Strong ...

Using the Eliashberg strong coupling theory with vertex correction, we calculate maps of transition temperatures ( Tc ) of electron-phonon superconductors in full parameter space. The maximums of transition temperatures for superconductors are predicted based on the maps and the criterion of instability of superconductivity. The strong vertex correction and high transition temperature are tight...

An excitation-emission model for the H2 IΠ +/− g −BΣu transition has been developed based on the coronal equilibrium. Within the framework of the adiabatic theory, the vibronic transition probability is calculated instead of the Franck-Condon factor. The ro-vibrational temperatures are evaluated through the experiment carried out in a low-density hollow-cathode plasma. The evaluated temperature...

The phase diagram for LixFePO4 has been determined for different lithium concentrations and temperatures. The two lowtemperature phases, heterosite and triphylite, have previously been shown to transform to a disordered solid solution at elevated temperatures. This disordered phase allows for a continuous transition between the heterosite and triphylite phases and is stable at relatively low te...

The derivation of material properties of chemical compounds directly from their chemical structure can be used to plan chemical syntheses more efficiently. Here, feed forward-back propagation neural networks are devised to predict the transition temperatures of smectic liquid crystalline compounds based on a set of data that contains 6304 different structural patterns. The trained networks were...