Tunneling spectroscopy has been used to detect the photoexcitation of charge carriers in the wide band-gap semiconductors, ZnO and cubic SiC. Because the process is energy sensitive, valence-toconduction hand or defect charge transfer transitions may be selectively excited and detected with the scanning tunneling microscope. Two types of transitions were detected which change the tunneling resp...

A complete resonance Raman excitation profile of the heme charge-transfer band known as band III is presented. The data obtained throughout the near-infrared region show preresonance with the Q-band, but the data also clearly show the enhancement of a number of modes in the spectral region of band III. Only nontotally symmetric modes are observed to have resonance enhancement in the band III re...

A sensing materiel based on calix[4]arene molecules is electrochemically deposited on ITO electrode coated. A brown film was electrodeposited at a potential Eimp = -1.00 V versus SCE in acetonitrile solvent, however in dichloromethane solvent, a bluish film auto-assembled on the ITO electrode coated at a potential Eimp = -0.65 V versus SCE. Both films are subsequently analyzed by cyclic voltamm...

External electric field control of topological surface states (SSs) is significant for the next generation of condensed matter research and topological quantum devices. Here, we present a first-principles study of the SSs in the magnetic topological insulator (MTI) Cr-doped Bi2Se3 under external electric field. The charge transfer, electric potential, band structure and magnetism of the pure an...

Femto-second transient absorption spectroscopy has been applied to investigate the back-electron transfer process after the photo-excitation of p-nitroaniline (PNA) in water from ambient to supercritical condition. After PNA was photo-excited at 400 nm, the bleach recovery signal was observed due to the back-electron transfer from the excited state to the ground state within about 1 ps. In the ...

Band Jahn-Teller type structural instabilities of cubic Mn(2)YZ Heusler compounds causing tetragonal distortions can be predicted by ab initio band-structure calculations. This allows for identification of new Heusler materials with tunable magnetic and structural properties that can satisfy the demands for spintronic applications, such as in spin-transfer torque-based devices.

fac-[Re(CO)3(dppz)] complexes of amido ligands generated in situ under basic conditions display an intense (ε = 16460 L mol-1 cm-1) absorption band between 500-700 nm which are assigned to an n(amido,RNH-) → π* (dppz) inter-ligand charge transfer band offering an extraordinarily low energy charge separating absorption with potential for imaging and energy application.