Graphene is one of the ideal nanomaterials to be paired with silicon, and their complementary properties can be exploited in field emission (FE) devices. We reported an efficient way to produce and adjust the dimension of uniform protrusions within graphene. First, a multistep template replication process was utilized to fabricate highly periodic and well-aligned silicon nanowires (SiNWs) of di...

Random structures are typically used for light trapping in thin-film silicon solar cells. However, theoretically periodic structures can outperform random structures in such applications. In this paper we compare random and periodic structures of similar shape. Both types of structure are based on atomic force microscopy (AFM) scans of a sputtered and etched ZnO layer. The absorption in a solar...

Sub-wavelength laser-induced periodic surface structures (LIPSS) created by ultrashort pulsed laser irradiation on the of titanium are used for first time to template electrochemical growth dioxide nanotube arrays, creating a combined structure we term LIPSS-Sticks. This is an example double self-organized process, as both LIPSS formation and anodization involve spontaneous generation order fro...

._ leads to faster and/or more accurate solutions. Of particular interest to the accelerator community are periodic structures. Quasi-periodic boundary conditions allow modes with any desired phase advance given a single cell of the periodic structure. For symmetric periodic structures there is a variation which requires only a half cell of the periodic structure. These boundary conditions can ...

quasicrystals are a group of materials with the quasi-periodic structure, and since their discovery in 1980 their specially interesting physical properties have attracted the attention of many researchers. the lack of translational periodicity makes the numerical calculations of their physical properties much more difficult than the crystalline solids. in this work we present a detailed numeric...

Transfer of nucleotide strings in the Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 genome is investigated to exhibit periodic and non-periodic correlation structures by using the recurrence plot method and the phase space reconstruction technique. The periodic correlation structures are generated by periodic transfer of several substrings in long periodic or non-periodic nucleotide strings embedded in the coding ...

Periodic structures are of great importance in electromagnetics due to their wide range of applications such as frequency selective surfaces (FSS), electromagnetic band gap (EBG) structures, periodic absorbers, meta-materials, and many others.The aim of this book is to develop efficient computational algorithms to analyze the scattering properties of various electromagnetic periodic structures ...

Typically, many of the modern buildings have concrete walls constructed from cinder block walls, that have periodic nature in their relative dielectric constant. This periodic nature excites higher-order Floquet harmonic modes at microwave frequencies, which leads to the propagation of scattered waves along with non-specular directions. Periodic structures exhibit different behaviors when illum...