{"title":"An Investigation on Structural, Optical, Thermal, and Dielectric Analysis of L-Lysine Iodide Semiorganic Nonlinear Optical Single Crystal for Opto-electronic Application","authors":"P. Revathi, T. Balakrishnan, J. Thirupathy","doi":"10.1007/s13538-024-01588-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13538-024-01588-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A single crystal of L-lysine iodide (LLI) was created by utilizing a room-temperature slow evaporation approach. The monoclinic of the crystal lattice system was confirmed by estimating the lattice parameters of the synthesized single crystals using single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. The crystalline structure and planar indexing were confirmed by powder XRD. In order to confirm that the produced LLI crystals included functional groups, the FT-IR spectra were analyzed. Spectra of visible, near-infrared, and ultraviolet light (ranging from 200 to 1100 nm) were analyzed and the cutoff wavelength of 268 nm. Vickers microhardness tester was used to find out how strong the formed crystal was mechanically stable. From 50 Hz to 3 MHz, the dielectric response of the manufactured crystal was studied at different temperatures. Thermogravimetric analysis used to look at the thermal characteristics. Human pathogens were the primary focus of antimicrobial research. Using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), the surface characteristics of the generated crystal were examined. The produced LLI crystal was recommended for use in opto-electronic and biological applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":499,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Physics","volume":"54 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142193680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Giant Dielectric Permittivity and Electronic Structure in Hydrogenated (La/Mn) Merge Codoped TiO2 Ceramics","authors":"A. A. Dakhel","doi":"10.1007/s13538-024-01582-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13538-024-01582-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Titanium oxide (TiO<sub>2</sub>) nanoparticles (NPs) codoped with (La/Mn) ions were synthesized by a hydrothermal decomposition technique. The prepared codoped NPs were hydrogenated at 400 °C and systematically studied by X‐ray diffraction (XRD), optical diffuse reflection spectroscopy (DRS), and electrical insulating measurements. The codoped solid solution (SS) NPs were prepared to be built of core/shell-like electronic nanostructures that having giant permittivity (GP) of order 10<sup>4</sup>, which is extremely higher than that of undoped TiO<sub>2</sub>. The electronic nature of the built structures was described according to the foundation of the doping mechanisms. Thus, the codoping was employed in the present work to fabricate coalesce dielectric crystalline medium of GP. Two Mn-dopant concentrations were used in the present investigation for comparison. Thus, the objective of creation of GP properties was successfully achieved. Moreover, the results of the electrical measurements were analyzed according to the available models: the correlated barrier hopping (CBH) model, the polarons-hopping conduction model, and Jonsher’s AC power law.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":499,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Physics","volume":"54 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142193834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Emerging Strategy in Sequential Synthesis of Catalyst and Carbon Nanotube Foams by Employing a Chemical Vapor Deposition Procedure: Structural Evaluation and Growth Mechanism","authors":"J. Logeswari, T. Kamatchi, P. Kumaresan","doi":"10.1007/s13538-024-01583-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13538-024-01583-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In an effort to further expand the simplification of the bulk production of carbon nanotube (CNT) foams, herein, a new approach based on one-step synthesis procedure is developed, where the production of the catalyst is followed by CNT foam growth in a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) furnace during acetylene decomposition over three various mole ratios of Fe: Mo: MgO: PEG (polyethylene glycol) sol-gel viscous precursor catalyst (viz., 1: 0.5: 13: 4.8, 1: 1: 13: 5, and 1: 1: 50: 17.3) under Ar/H<sub>2</sub> atmosphere at various reaction conditions. The growth of multi-walled CNT foams was directly carried out, i.e., without preceding any reduction and oxidation phases over viscous gels. The various parameters such as molar ratio, reaction temperature, and acetylene flow rate were optimized individually for the production of ultra-lightweight foamed CNTs. The CNT foams grown from the optimized reaction conditions were discussed by using various physicochemical characterization studies, such as XRD, FT-Raman, SEM, TEM, FE-SEM with EDX, N<sub>2</sub> sorption isotherms, and thermal analysis. The issues regarding the growth mechanism of high specific surface area CNT foams are taken in the present approach. Such a mechanism has been proposed for the carbo-thermal reduction of acetylene over the optimized viscous catalyst precursors gel at 800 °C in a CVD furnace.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":499,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Physics","volume":"54 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142193811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantum Field Theoretical Study of Correlated Quantum Ising Model with Next-Nearest-Neighbour Interaction","authors":"Ranjith R. Kumar, Sujit Sarkar","doi":"10.1007/s13538-024-01584-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13538-024-01584-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We present the results of quantum Ising and longer range quantum Ising model for strongly correlated emergent Hamiltonian. We show explicitly that the ordered ferromagnetic (FM) phase to the disorder quantum paramagnet (dqpI) quantum phase transition occurs only in the strongly correlated regime for the quantum Ising model otherwise only dqpI phase appears for a non-interacting and attractive regime. We show that short-range FM coupling and longer range coupling are competing with each other and also the effect of strong correlation in this competition. We also show the most interesting feature that the transverse field opposes the FM coupling of quantum Ising model but it favours the longer range coupling. We find the evidence of another disorder quantum paramagnetic (dqpII) phase due to the relevance of longer-range coupling. We also present the existence of another quantum phase the transition from dqpII phase to the FM phase. We also observe three different kinds of coexistence phases depending on the correlated regime. The fixed point analysis of the three sets of RG equations is carried out.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":499,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Physics","volume":"54 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142193827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ahmed Mehaney, Ahmed M. El-Sherbeeny, Arafa H. Aly, Chittaranjan Nayak, Bhuvneshwer Suthar, Wail Al Zoubi, Mostafa R. Abukhadra, Hussein A. Elsayed
{"title":"The One-Dimensional Gyroidal Superconductor Photonic Crystals Based Cutoff Frequency Tunability for THz Applications","authors":"Ahmed Mehaney, Ahmed M. El-Sherbeeny, Arafa H. Aly, Chittaranjan Nayak, Bhuvneshwer Suthar, Wail Al Zoubi, Mostafa R. Abukhadra, Hussein A. Elsayed","doi":"10.1007/s13538-024-01577-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13538-024-01577-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>For possible uses in the THz frequency range, we investigated the one-dimensional gyroidal superconductor photonic crystals in the current work. In this regard, each unit cell is designed from gyroidal Bi<sub>2</sub>Sr<sub>2</sub>CaCu<sub>2</sub>O<sub>8</sub> (BSCCO) and SrTiO<sub>3</sub> layers. Here, BSCCO is embedded in a hosting dielectric medium of SrTiO<sub>3</sub> to design the gyroidal layer. The transfer matrix approach and the two-fluid model are both used in the computational analysis of the suggested structure. Studying the optical properties and investigating how several factors, including filling fraction, operating temperature, and layer thicknesses, affect the PC's performance. The results showed the emergence of the cutoff frequency at 5.35 THz. In this regard, the value of the cutoff frequency can be tuned based on the filling fraction, operating temperature, and refractive index of the hosting medium, making the structure promising for optical communication applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":499,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Physics","volume":"54 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142193829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decoherence Channels Effects on Thermal Quantum Correlations Within a Two-Dimensional Graphene System","authors":"Zakaria Bouafia, Mourad Benzahra, Mostafa Mansour","doi":"10.1007/s13538-024-01585-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13538-024-01585-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Two-dimensional graphene systems present considerable advantages for quantum information processing. Electrons within graphene possess not just spin but also additional attributes associated with their specific positions within the lattice and valley index. This study investigates how decoherence channels impact thermal quantum correlations within individual electrons in a two-dimensional graphene system, considering the electron pseudospin and valley index degrees of freedom. Using quantum metrics such as uncertainty-induced non-locality (UIN) and local quantum Fisher information (LQFI), this research evaluates skew-information and non-classical correlations among these extra degrees of freedom of electrons within the graphene system. The dynamics of the intra-particle quantum correlations in graphene’s thermal state is analyzed with respect to factors such as scattering strength, the band structure of graphene, and wavenumber operators. The findings suggest that adjusting the parameters of the graphene system holds promise for enhancing LQFI and UIN, thereby mitigating the adverse effects of increasing equilibrium temperature. Moreover, the study examines how intra-particle thermal quantum correlations evolve under various decoherence channels, including phase damping (PD), phase flip (PF), and amplitude damping (AD). It is observed that under AD and PD channels, both metrics display similar evolution, diminishing as the decoherence parameter increases, with LQFI demonstrating greater resilience compared to UIN. However, distinct behavior is observed when graphene’s thermal state undergoes the PF channel, where both metrics display symmetrical behaviors around the decoherence parameter of <span>(p=0.5)</span>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":499,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Physics","volume":"54 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142193826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigation of Hot Press and Cold Press Effects on Structural, Electrical and Magnetic Properties of Pyrene Added Bulk MgB2","authors":"O. Erdem","doi":"10.1007/s13538-024-01586-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13538-024-01586-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, the effects of hot pressing and cold pressing on the superconducting properties of pyrene (C<sub>16</sub>H<sub>10</sub>) added bulk MgB<sub>2</sub> were compared. For this aim, the polycrystalline disk-shaped MgB<sub>2</sub> samples with addition of 4 wt % C<sub>16</sub>H<sub>10</sub> powder were fabricated by a pellet/closed tube method at 850 °C, after hot pressing at 200 °C and cold pressing. The XRD and SEM results showed that although a-lattice parameters reduce for both C<sub>16</sub>H<sub>10</sub> added samples, the average crystallite size increases after cold pressing because of the accumulation and inhomogeneous distribution of C in the MgB<sub>2</sub> structure while it reduces for the C<sub>16</sub>H<sub>10</sub> added hot pressed sample. The resistivity measurements showed that the increment of electron scattering is higher for the C<sub>16</sub>H<sub>10</sub> added cold pressed sample than that of the C<sub>16</sub>H<sub>10</sub> added hot pressed one which shows relatively better grain connectivity, and the <i>T</i><sub><i>c</i></sub> values of the samples are not appreciably affected by the pressing conditions. From the magnetisation measurements the in-field <i>J</i><sub><i>c</i></sub> values at 10 K and 5.5 T were obtained as 8.41 × 10<sup>3</sup> A/cm<sup>2</sup>, 1.62 × 10<sup>4</sup> A/cm<sup>2</sup>, 6.90 × 10<sup>3</sup> A/cm<sup>2</sup> and the <i>H</i><sub><i>irr</i></sub> values while <i>J</i><sub><i>c</i></sub> = 100 A/cm<sup>2</sup> at 20 K were obtained as 5.99 T, 6.55 T and 6.19 T for the pure sample and the C<sub>16</sub>H<sub>10</sub> added hot and cold pressed samples, respectively. The higher <i>J</i><sub><i>c</i></sub> and <i>H</i><sub><i>irr</i></sub> values obtained for the C<sub>16</sub>H<sub>10</sub> added hot pressed sample is because of the homogenous C substitution into MgB<sub>2</sub> grains, as compatible with its lower Δ<i>ρ</i> value, and thus increased flux pinning ability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":499,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Physics","volume":"54 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142193828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. S. M. de Barros, M. E. Yamato, P. L. Guzzo, V. K. Asfora, C. N. P. Oliveira, H. J. Khoury
{"title":"Thermoluminescence Spectra of Rare-Earth Doped Calcium Fluoride","authors":"V. S. M. de Barros, M. E. Yamato, P. L. Guzzo, V. K. Asfora, C. N. P. Oliveira, H. J. Khoury","doi":"10.1007/s13538-024-01575-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13538-024-01575-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates the thermoluminescence (TL) emission spectra of various doped CaF<sub>2</sub> materials after exposure to ionizing radiation. The understanding of the TL spectra of these single-doped materials, systematically produced under the same sintering conditions, contributes to the interpretation of complex TL spectra observed in naturally occurring fluorite crystals. The production of Ce<sup>3+</sup>, Tm<sup>3+</sup>, Tb<sup>3+</sup>, Dy<sup>3+</sup>, Er<sup>3+</sup>, Pr<sup>3+</sup>, Nd<sup>3+</sup>, and Yb<sup>3+</sup> doped calcium fluoride was carried out using the combustion synthesis method. The emission spectrum lines could be ascribed to the RE transitions that occur when a trapped hole center recombines with a RE<sup>2+</sup>. Emissions range from the ultra-violet to the near-infrared. This study aids in tailoring new materials for specific applications and the matching of emitted light to specific filters and instrumentation used for detection.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":499,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Physics","volume":"54 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142193831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Rajesh, S. Senthilkumar, U. Surendar, J. William
{"title":"Design of Asymmetric Metamaterial 8-Circular Element Array Antenna for 5G MIMO Applications","authors":"B. Rajesh, S. Senthilkumar, U. Surendar, J. William","doi":"10.1007/s13538-024-01578-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13538-024-01578-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A new high gain MIMO array antenna with limited side lobe level between 27.5 and 28.5 GHz is modeled for 5G WLAN applications. The modeled configuration involves two-port MIMO with 8-element array antenna printed on a Rogers RT Duroid-5880 dielectric material. To enhance the antenna’s radiation characteristics, each element in the radiator is excited using corporate inset feeding. The proposed model operates well in the bandwidth of 27.5 to 28.5 GHz, resonating at 28 GHz with a return loss of − 40 dB. For an array configuration, the proposed MIMO array radiator exhibits better limited side lobe level of − 7 dBi (left) and − 4 dBi (right). The MIMO array antenna with a total footprint of 123 × 61 × 0.8 mm<sup>3</sup> offers 14 dBi gain in the operating bandwidth. Since the model is configured to be a MIMO antenna, the MIMO attributes such as isolation, TARC, diversity gain, and correlation parameters are analyzed and estimated to be around − 17.25 dB, − 24 dB, 10 dB, and 0.006, respectively, over the band of interest. The proposed model is fabricated and experimentally validated for its simulation results and is found to be in good agreement with simulation results.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":499,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Physics","volume":"54 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142224922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of Metamaterial Using Waste Materials for Microwave Absorption","authors":"Deeksha Gupta, Prabhakar Kumar, Ashish Dubey, Abhishek Kumar","doi":"10.1007/s13538-024-01571-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13538-024-01571-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The present study focuses on the use of waste materials to generate cost-effective microwave absorption composites. Rice husk (agricultural waste) and exhausted activated charcoal (water filter cartridge waste) were used as waste materials for microwave absorption. Both were blended in different proportions using a planetary ball mill to prepare samples. The XRF and particle size studies were carried out for element and particle size analysis, and for dielectric properties measurement, a vector network analyzer was used. The findings reveal the microwave absorption in the frequency range of 2 to 18 GHz by the blended composites. Sample RHC-11 with 20% exhausted activated charcoal showed a maximum reflection loss of − 38.3 dB at 12 GHz. For further improvement in microwave absorption, the dielectric characteristics of the composites were utilized to develop a layered metamaterial-based microwave absorber. The layered metamaterial is a unique and simple patch design that displays good microwave absorption > 90% and absorbs 99.34% of microwave energy at 16 GHz frequency. The developed metamaterial-based microwave absorber shows an absorption bandwidth of 6.60 GHz with a thickness of 2.3 mm. In addition, the proposed structure is independent of the oblique incidence angle and polarization angle.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":499,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Physics","volume":"54 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142193832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}