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Pulsed Laser Deposition of Silicon Nanostructures
Silicon nanostructures embedded in an amorphous matrix have been synthesized by Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) at room temperature. The structural and optical properties of the materials were tailored by varyin...
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The Magneto-Optical Quantum Size Effect in bcc-Fe(001) and (110) Ultrathin Films
Recently, the oscillation of the magneto-optical effect with respect to the ferromagnetic layer thickness was observed for bcc-Fe(001) ultrathin films. The oscillation periods have been explained by the theory...
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Ab Initio Study of Curie Temperatures of Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors
The Curie temperature of diluted (Ga,Mn)As magnetic semiconductors in the presence of As antisites is studied from first principles. We map total energies associated with rotations of Mn-magnetic moments onto ...
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Source apportionment of gaseous atmospheric pollutants by means of an absolute principal component scores (APCS) receptor model
A multivariate statistical method has been applied to apportion the atmospheric pollutant concentrations measured by automatic gas analyzers placed on a mobile laboratory for air quality monitoring in Taranto ...
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Effect of Cap-Layers on Interlayer Exchange Coupling
The effect of non-magnetic cap-layers on the amplitudes and the phases of the oscillations of interlayer exchange coupling (IEC) is studied theoretically on ab initio level. We employ a spin-polarized surface Gre...
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Magneto-Optical Effects of Ultrathin Ferro-, Antiferro- and Non-Magnetic Films
Thickness dependence of the magneto-optical Kerr effects (MOKE) in ultrathin ferromagnetic films, antiferromagnetic films and nonmagnetic films were measured carefully employing wedge shaped samples at room te...
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XPS, ICP and DPASV analysis of medieval pottery — Statistical multivariate treatment of data
Medieval ceramic sherds have been studied by inductively coupled plasma (ICP) emission spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) in order to acquire knowledge about technological achievements in ...
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Magnetic Order and Structure of Ultrathin Films and Multilayers
Ultrathin epitaxial films grown in UHV - Fe(110) on Au(111) and Ag(111), Co(0001) on Au(111) -, sputtered Fe films between Ag and sputtered Fe/Au multilayers were studied by SQUID magnetometry and Mössbauer sp...
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Magnetization and Curie Temperature of Ferromagnetic Ultrathin Films: The Influence of Magnetic Anisotropy and Dipolar Interactions (invited)
Theoretical investigations of the magnetization and Curie temperature of ferromagnetic ultrathin films in the presence of magnetic anisotropy and long-range dipolar interactions are presented. The Curie temper...
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Magnetic surface anisotropy of transition metal ultrathin films
In order to study the magnetic anisotropy of transition metal ultrathin films, we have performed tight-binding calculations including spin-orbit coupling. Beside the anisotropy energy these calculations also y...
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Hexamethylphosphoramide as analytical reagent: Isolation and characterization of Fe(SCN)3(HMPA)3 complex. gravimetric determination of iron
Quantitative separation of iron as Fe(SCN)3(HMPA)3 complex has been studied in function of acidity, thiocyanate and HMPA concentration. Precipitates of the same composition with definite melting point (187±1° C) ...
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Hexamethylphosphoramide (HMPA) as a colour-enhancing agent for the thiocyanate cobalt complex. New spot test for cobalt detection
A new spot test for cobalt detection as Vogel Blue, using HMPA as a colour-enhancing agent, is reported. Interferences by many other ions have been taken into account. Limit of sensibility is about 3 ppm. Colo...