V. Pushkarchuk, A. Nizovtsev, A. Pushkarchuk, A. Filonov, V. Borisenko, S. Kuten, S. Kilin
{"title":"Modeling of electronic and spin structure of single NV centers in nanostructured diamond: influence of nanodiamond surface","authors":"V. Pushkarchuk, A. Nizovtsev, A. Pushkarchuk, A. Filonov, V. Borisenko, S. Kuten, S. Kilin","doi":"10.1117/12.836169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.836169","url":null,"abstract":"Modeling of atomic structure and distribution of spin density for the NV center formed close to the surface (111) of nano-diamond has been carried out using quantum-chemical PM3 and DFT methods. The case is considered where the nitrogen atom of NV center is located in the near-surface atomic layer of a face (111). The relaxation of surface atoms relative to the initial position results in N atom to be shifted from the cluster center parallel to the <111> direction by 0.16Å, and C atoms belonging to the surface layer are also shifted parallel to the <111> direction to the center by 0.18Å. As this takes place, C-C and C-N distances between relaxed atoms decrease and a graphite-like structure is formed on a (111) crystal face. In the structure, the N atom and C atoms nearest to it lay practically in the same plane. The formed CN bond can be considered as one-and-a-half bond. It has been found that unlike the NV center in bulk diamond for which the spin density is located mainly on the carbon atoms, being nearest neighbors to the vacancy of the NV center, in the case of the NV center located in immediate proximity to the surface, there is a redistribution of spin density resulting in its major allocation in three C atoms, the nearest neighbors to the N atom, that form the first atomic layer of a surface (111) of nano-crystal.","PeriodicalId":117315,"journal":{"name":"Nanodesign, Technology, and Computer Simulations","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124678446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y. Golovin, A. Dmitrievskiy, N. Efremova, V. M. Vasyukov
{"title":"The combined influence of low-flux electrons irradiation and weak magnetic field on silicon microhardness","authors":"Y. Golovin, A. Dmitrievskiy, N. Efremova, V. M. Vasyukov","doi":"10.1117/12.836914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.836914","url":null,"abstract":"The combined influence of low-flux electron irradiation and weak magnetic and electric fields on silicon single-crystal microhardness was investigated. It is shown that the microhardness is more sensitive to low-doses effects irradiation than conductivity. The effect of magnetic and electric fields on the process of secondary radiation defects generation was revealed.","PeriodicalId":117315,"journal":{"name":"Nanodesign, Technology, and Computer Simulations","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117252011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling of defects in wide-gap semiconductors using cluster approach","authors":"A. Gurskii","doi":"10.1117/12.837009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.837009","url":null,"abstract":"Recent work on modeling of spatial configuration of native and impurity defects in wide-band gap semiconductors such as ZnSe and GaN was reviewed. The calculations were performed by semi-empirical and non-empirical SCF MO LCAO method in the frame of the cluster approach, with full energetic optimization of the spatial atomic configurations. In ZnSe, the calculations allowed to rule out some spatial configurations of nitrogen-related defects discussed in the literature. A metastable behavior of nitrogen-related defects was predicted, and the correlation of the results of modeling with transformation of excitonic photoluminescence spectra after annealing was observed. For wurtzite type GaN, incorporation of Si in GaN lattice sites on Ga place leads to the lattice relaxation including an increase of the c lattice parameter with simultaneous decrease of the a parameter. The result is the reduction of compressive strain in GaN grown on sapphire, in accordance with the data of reflection spectra, or the increase of tensile strain in GaN/Si, in accordance with the literature data. In GaN, calculated spatial configurations showed both anisotropic and isotropic type of lattice relaxation, depending on the nature of impurity. The importance of defect modeling in heteroepitaxial heterostructures taking into account lattice mismatch strain is discussed.","PeriodicalId":117315,"journal":{"name":"Nanodesign, Technology, and Computer Simulations","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121612943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Sokol, S. Gaponenko, V. Yakovtseva, G. Litvinovich, S. Prislopsky, A. Lutich
{"title":"Nanoporous alumina films for display devices","authors":"V. Sokol, S. Gaponenko, V. Yakovtseva, G. Litvinovich, S. Prislopsky, A. Lutich","doi":"10.1117/12.836976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.836976","url":null,"abstract":"Anisotropic optical properties of free nanoporous anodic alumina films transparent in the visible spectrum for the restricted range of pore diameters and pore intervals are discussed. The basic experimental procedure is presented for the production of these films. Diagrams of elastic light scattering in two-dimensional nanoporous alumina structures demonstrated anisotropy due to the spatial distribution of the photon density of states because of the photonic band gap formation in materials with a periodic change of the refraction index on the scale of the wavelength. A birefringence value (the difference in the normal and tangential refraction indices) was found from the measurements and computer modeling to be up to 0.08. Light scattered along pores was experimentally found to have a polarization perpendicular to the polarization of the incident light. The results obtained show that the nanoporous structure of anodic alumina films can be purposefully used to control a light propagation, namely, to perform anisotropic light scattering in LCD backlight systems as well as potential modification of light polarization.","PeriodicalId":117315,"journal":{"name":"Nanodesign, Technology, and Computer Simulations","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122979603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. B. Lisovskaya, S. Chizhik, A. Salamianski, V. Agabekov, G. Zhavnerko
{"title":"Modeling of the process of superhydrophobic surface formation","authors":"G. B. Lisovskaya, S. Chizhik, A. Salamianski, V. Agabekov, G. Zhavnerko","doi":"10.1117/12.837073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.837073","url":null,"abstract":"Thin composite films of nanoparticles formed by Layer-by-Layer method on a glass substrate from colloid solutions of titanium oxide, zinc oxide or silicon oxide are studied. Atomic Force microscopy, Scanning Electronic Microscopy and contact angle measurements were used for investigation of the surface properties of coatings. Bicomponent TiO2/SiO2 and ZnO/SiO2 films modified by octadecyltrichlorosilane are found to acquire superhydrophobic properties depending on the surface coatings roughness. To simulate superhydrophobic surface formation process, roughness coefficient was calculated by equation of Ventelia-Deragina. Correlation of the effect of film roughness on surface wettability depending on the number of the layers and the size of nanoparticles were demonstrated. The method developed for producing of superhydrophobic materials and can be used for production of self-cleaning surfaces.","PeriodicalId":117315,"journal":{"name":"Nanodesign, Technology, and Computer Simulations","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116516674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the nature of void swelling","authors":"A. Melker","doi":"10.1117/12.836492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.836492","url":null,"abstract":"In this contribution we considered the nucleation and growth of vacancy clusters in nickel. All the molecular dynamics calculations were done with the help of one and the same interatomic potential found on the basis of the pseudopotential theory. We studied influence of alloying elements (tungsten, scandium) on trapping and mobility of vacancies and bivacancies, and calculated binding energies. It was found that different types of vacancy clusters (stacking fault tetrahedra, dislocation loops and voids) can be analyzed quantitatively with the help of simple geometrical principles. Swelling mechanism for irradiated metals, which is based on the peculiarities of void growth discovered by computer simulations, is proposed. The mechanism incorporates four postulates which explain why pure metals swell at all, why there exists incubation time for swelling, and why swelling is proportional to irradiation time to some power m, where m is at first larger and then smaller than one. The estimates give m ≅ 1.87 at the first stage and m=1/3 at the last one.","PeriodicalId":117315,"journal":{"name":"Nanodesign, Technology, and Computer Simulations","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114814440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Molecular dynamics simulation of mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes and their contact interaction with substrate","authors":"V. Barkaline, A. S. Chashynski, S. Chizhik","doi":"10.1117/12.836153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.836153","url":null,"abstract":"Molecular dynamics simulation of individual carbon nanotube mechanical properties and these of ordered carbon nanotube arrays as well as contact interaction with diamond surface is presented. Carbon nanotube with closed end was shown to possess large elastic deformation during indenting smooth surface or moving across roughened one. Spontaneous penetration of nanotube into triangular groove on the diamond surface is also demonstrated. This effect can be used for self-assembling of nanoelectronics structures.","PeriodicalId":117315,"journal":{"name":"Nanodesign, Technology, and Computer Simulations","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129990645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Variations of attractors and wavelet spectra of the immunofluorescence distributions for women in the pregnant period","authors":"N. Galich","doi":"10.1117/12.836455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.836455","url":null,"abstract":"Communication contains the description of the immunology data treatment. New nonlinear methods of immunofluorescence statistical analysis of peripheral blood neutrophils have been developed. We used technology of respiratory burst reaction of DNA fluorescence in the neutrophils cells nuclei due to oxidative activity. The histograms of photon count statistics the radiant neutrophils populations' in flow cytometry experiments are considered. Distributions of the fluorescence flashes frequency as functions of the fluorescence intensity are analyzed. Statistic peculiarities of histograms set for women in the pregnant period allow dividing all histograms on the three classes. The classification is based on three different types of smoothing and long-range scale averaged immunofluorescence distributions, their bifurcation and wavelet spectra. Heterogeneity peculiarities of long-range scale immunofluorescence distributions and peculiarities of wavelet spectra allow dividing all histograms on three groups. First histograms group belongs to healthy donors. Two other groups belong to donors with autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Some of the illnesses are not diagnosed by standards biochemical methods. Medical standards and statistical data of the immunofluorescence histograms for identifications of health and illnesses are interconnected. Peculiarities of immunofluorescence for women in pregnant period are classified. Health or illness criteria are connected with statistics features of immunofluorescence histograms. Neutrophils populations' fluorescence presents the sensitive clear indicator of health status.","PeriodicalId":117315,"journal":{"name":"Nanodesign, Technology, and Computer Simulations","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131107043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Kolbun, T. Borbotko, Alexander Kazeka, A. Proudnik, L. Lynkou
{"title":"Simulation of electromagnetic radiation passing through liquid-containing nanostructured materials","authors":"N. Kolbun, T. Borbotko, Alexander Kazeka, A. Proudnik, L. Lynkou","doi":"10.1117/12.836443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.836443","url":null,"abstract":"A process of electromagnetic radiation traveling through liquid-containing nanostructured heterogeneous materials was simulated. Mobile phone antenna pattern is calculated and its change when applying protective shield made of said materials is studied. Transmission/reflection characteristics of antenna are calculated.","PeriodicalId":117315,"journal":{"name":"Nanodesign, Technology, and Computer Simulations","volume":"15 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130444766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Molecular dynamics simulation of carbon nanotube structural transformations under heating","authors":"M. Britch, K. Dobrego, L. Krasovskaya","doi":"10.1117/12.836981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.836981","url":null,"abstract":"The stability of the carbon nanotube subjected to Joule's heating is investigated by means of classic molecular dynamics simulation. The systems without side heat sink and with side heat sunk were considered. The later consisted of a nanotube loosely incorporated into diamond nanocristal. The results of the molecular dynamics simulation have shown that a carbon nanotube is able to conserve its regular structure under high electric power dissipation rates (up to 10 mkW for a nanotube of the length of 4 nm). The efficiency of heat sink can be increased by means of diamond matrix.","PeriodicalId":117315,"journal":{"name":"Nanodesign, Technology, and Computer Simulations","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127526818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}