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Physics: Recent submissions

  • Microstructural, optical, and impedance studies of porous Mn-α-Fe2O3/CuO/Ag heterostructures grown using solution-based methods 
    Kyesmen, Pannan Isa; Mosalakgotla, Nteseng Dorah Mano; Adeola, Adedapo Oluwasanu; Jubu, Peverga R.; Omolaye, Philip; Ahemen, I.; Diale, M. (Elsevier, 2025-02)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • MBE growth of highly sensitive silicon PIN diode with magnetic Mn-doped Ge quantum dots for photodetector and solar cell applications 
    Yahyaoui, Makrem; Aouassa, Mansour; Bouabdellaoui, Mohammed; Amdouni, Sonia; Aladim, A.K.; Ali, Abdulraoof I.; Boujdaria, Kais (Springer, 2024-10)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • Characterization of 2D-PEA2SnI4 perovskite thin films grown by sequential physical vapor deposition 
    Sembito, Alex; Ligavo, Margdaline Musanga; Mwabora, Julius M.; Nyongesa, Francis W.; Diale, M. (Elsevier, 2025-03)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • Interactions in GO/P3HT thin films : spectroscopic investigation for organic solar cells 
    Molefe, Fokotsa V.; Mothudi, B.M.; Dhlamini, Mokhotjwa S. (Springer, 2024-12-02)
    The present study was carried out to investigate the thin film properties of poly (3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) coupled with graphene oxide (GO) using different spectroscopic techniques. The X-ray diffraction spectrum of GO/P3HT ...
  • Investigating electrocatalytic properties of β12-borophene as a cathode material for an efficient lithium-oxygen battery : a first-principles study 
    Fwalo, Chewe; Kochaev, A.; Mapasha, Refilwe Edwin (Springer, 2024-10)
    Please read abstract in article.
  • X-shaped radio galaxies : probing jet evolution, ambient medium dynamics, and their intricate interconnection 
    Giri, Gourab; Fendt, Christian; Thorat, K.; Bodo, Gianluigi; Rossi, Paola (Frontiers Media, 2024-03)
    This review explores the field of X-shaped radio galaxies (XRGs), a distinctive subset of winged radio sources that are identified by two pairs of jetted lobes which aligned by a significant angle, resulting in an ...
  • The migration behaviour of strontium co-implanted with helium into SiC at room temperature and annealed at temperatures above 1000 °C 
    Hlatshwayo, Thulani Thokozani; Mokgadi, Thapelo Freddy; Sohatsky, A.; Abdalla, Zaki Adam Yousif; Skuratov, V.A.; Njoroge, Eric Gitau; Mlambo, M. (Elsevier, 2024-12)
    The study investigated the migration behaviour of Sr implanted into SiC in the presence of helium (He). Sr ions were implanted into polycrystalline SiC samples (Sr-SiC) at room temperature (RT), and co-implanted with ...
  • Effect of 710 MeV Bi+51 swift heavy ions irradiation on Se pre-implanted polycrystalline SiC 
    Mabelane, T.S.; Sall, M.; Abdalla, Zaki Adam Yousif; Skuratov, V.A.; Hlatshwayo, Thulani Thokozani (Elsevier, 2024-06)
    In this study, the effect of swift heavy ions (SHIs) irradiation in the recrystallization of polycrystalline SiC preimplanted with selenium (Se) ions and migration of Se was investigated. The main objective of this study ...
  • Structural and electrical characterization of solution-deposited β-Ga2O3:Al 
    Muramba, Valentine W.; Ali, Abdulraoof I.; Nel, Jacqueline Margot (Wiley, 2024)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • First Sagittarius A∗ Event Horizon Telescope Results. VII. Polarization of the Ring 
    Kazunori, Akiyama; Alberdi, Antxon; Alef, Walter; Algaba, Juan Carlos; Anantua, Richard; Asada, Keiichi; Azulay, Rebecca; Bach, Uwe; Baczko, Anne-Kathrin; Ball, David; Balokovic, Mislav; Bandyopadhyay, Bidisha; Barrett, John; Baubock, Michi; Benson, Bradford A.; Bintley, Dan; Blackburn, Lindy; Blundell, Raymond; Bouman, Katherine L.; Bower, Geoffrey C.; Boyce, Hope; Bremer, Michael; Brinkerink, Christiaan D.; Brissenden, Roger; Britzen, Silke; Broderick, Avery E.; Broguiere, Dominique; Bronzwaer, Thomas; Bustamante, Sandra; Byun, Do-Young; Carlstrom, John E.; Ceccobello, Chiara; Chael, Andrew; Chan, Chi-kwan; Chang, Dominic O.; Chatterjee, Koushik; Chatterjee, Shami; Chen, Ming-Tang; Chen (陈永军), Yongjun; Cheng, Xiaopeng; Cho, Ilje; Christian, Pierre; Conroy, Nicholas S.; Conway, John E.; Cordes, James M.; Crawford, Thomas M.; Crew, Geoffrey B.; Cruz-Osorio, Alejandro; Cui, Yuzhu; Dahale, Rohan; Davelaar, Jordy; De Laurentis, Mariafelicia; Deane, Roger; Dempsey, Jessica; Desvignes, Gregory; Dexter, Jason; Dhruv, Vedant; Dihingia, Indu K.; Doeleman, Sheperd S.; Dougal, Sean; Dzib, Sergio A.; Eatough, Ralph P.; Emami, Razieh; Falcke, Heino; Farah, Joseph; Fish, Vincent L.; Fomalont, Ed; Ford, H. Alyson; Foschi, Marianna; Fraga-Encinas, Raquel; Freeman, William T.; Friberg, Per; Fromm, Christian M.; Fuentes, Antonio; Galison, Peter; Gammie, Charles F.; García, Roberto; Gentaz, Olivier; Georgiev, Boris; Goddi, Ciriaco; Gold, Roman; Gomez-Ruiz, Arturo I.; Gomez, Jose L.; Gu (顾敏峰), Minfeng; Gurwell, Mark; Hada, Kazuhiro; Haggard, Daryl; Haworth, Kari; Hecht, Michael H.; Hesper, Ronald; Heumann, Dirk; Ho (何子山), Luis C.; Ho, Paul; Honma, Mareki; Huang, Chih-Wei L.; Huang (黄磊), Lei; Hughes, David H.; Ikeda, Shiro; Impellizzeri, C. M. Violette; Inoue, Makoto; Issaoun, Sara; James, David J.; Jannuzi, Buell T.; Janssen, Michael; Jeter, Britton; Jiang, Wu; Jimenez-Rosales, Alejandra; Johnson, Michael D.; Jorstad, Svetlana; Joshi, Abhishek, V.; Jung, Taehyun; Karami, Mansour; Karuppusamy, Ramesh; Kawashima, Tomohisa; Keating, Garrett K.; Kettenis, Mark; Kim, Dong-Jin; Kim, Jae-Young; Kim, Jongsoo; Kim, Junhan; Kino, Motoki; Koay, Jun Yi; Kocherlakota, Prashant; Kofuji, Yutaro; Koch, Patrick M.; Koyama, Shoko; Kramer, Carsten; Kramer, Joana A.; Kramer, Michael; Krichbaum, Thomas P.; Kuo, Cheng-Yu; La Bella, Noemi; Lauer, Tod R.; Lee, Daeyoung; Lee, Sang-Sung; Leung, Po Kin; Levis, Aviad; Li (李志远), Zhiyuan; Lico, Rocco; Lindahl, Greg; Lindqvist, Michael; Lisakov, Mikhail; Liu, Jun; Liu, Kuo; Liuzzo, Elisabetta; Lo, Wen-Ping; Lobanov, Andrei P.; Loinard, Laurent; Lonsdale, Colin J.; Lowitz, Amy E.; Lu, Ru-Sen; MacDonald, Nicholas R.; Mao, Jirong; Marchili, Nicola; Markoff, Sera; Marrone, Daniel P.; Marscher, Alan P.; Marti-Vidal, Ivan; Matsushita, Satoki; Matthews, Lynn D.; Medeiros, Lia; Menten, Karl M.; Michalik, Daniel; Mizuno, Izumi; Mizuno, Yosuke; Moran, James M.; Moriyama, Kotaro; Moscibrodzka, Monika; Mulaudzi, Wanga; Muller, Cornelia; Muller, Hendrik; Mus, Alejandro; Musoke, Gibwa; Myserlis, Ioannis; Nadolski, Andrew; Nagai, Hiroshi; Nagar, Neil M.; Nakamura, Masanori; Narayanan, Gopal; Natarajan, Iniyan; Nathanail, Antonios; Fuentes, Santiago Navarro; Neilsen, Joey; Neri, Roberto; Ni, Chunchong; Noutsos, Aristeidis; Nowak, Michael A.; Oh, Junghwan; Okino, Hiroki; Olivares, Hector; Ortiz-Leon, Gisela N.; Oyama, Tomoaki; Ozel, Feryal; Palumbo, Daniel C. M.; Paraschos, Georgios Filippos; Park, Jongho; Parsons, Harriet; Patel, Nimesh; Pen, Ue-Li; Pesce, Dominic W.; Pietu, Vincent; Plambeck, Richard; PopStefanija, Aleksandar; Porth, Oliver; Pötzl, Felix M.; Prather, Ben; Preciado-Lopez, Jorge A.; Psaltis, Dimitrios; Pu, Hung-Yi; Ramakrishnan, Venkatessh; Rao, Ramprasad; Rawlings, Mark G.; Raymond, Alexander W.; Rezzolla, Luciano; Ricarte, Angelo; Ripperda, Bart; Roelofs, Freek; Rogers, Alan; Romero-Cañizales, Cristina; Ros, Eduardo; Roshanineshat, Arash; Rottmann, Helge; Roy, Alan L.; Ruiz, Ignacio; Ruszczyk, Chet; Rygl, Kazi L. J.; Sanchez, Salvador; Sanchez-Arguelles, David; Sanchez-Portal, Miguel; Sasada, Mahito; Satapathy, Kaushik; Savolainen, Tuomas; Schloerb, F. Peter; Schonfeld, Jonathan; Schuster, Karl-Friedrich; Shao, Lijing; Shen, Zhiqiang; Small, Des; Sohn, Bong Won; SooHoo, Jason; Sosapanta Salas, León David; Souccar, Kamal; Stanway, Joshua S.; Sun, He; Tazaki, Fumie; Tetarenko, Alexandra J.; Tiede, Paul; Tilanus, Remo P. J.; Titus, Michael; Torne, Pablo; Toscano, Teresa; Traianou, Efthalia; Trent, Tyler; Trippe, Sascha; Turk, Matthew; Van Bemmel, Ilse; van Langevelde, Huib Jan; Van Rossum, Daniel R.; Vos, Jesse; Wagner, Jan; Ward-Thompson, Derek; Wardle, John; Washington, Jasmin E.; Weintroub, Jonathan; Wharton, Robert; Wielgus, Maciek; Wiik, Kaj; Witzel, Gunther; Wondrak, Michael F.; Wong, George N.; Wu, Qingwen; Yadlapalli, Nitika; Yamaguchi, Paul; Yfantis, Aristomenis; Yoon, Doosoo; Young, Andre; Young, Ken; Younsi, Ziri; Yu, Wei; Yuan, Feng; Yuan, Ye-Fei; Zensus, J. Anton; Zhang, Shuo; Zhao, Guang-Yao; Zhao, Shan-Shan (American Astronomical Society, 2024)
    The Event Horizon Telescope observed the horizon-scale synchrotron emission region around the Galactic center supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A* ), in 2017. These observations revealed a bright, thick ...
  • The effect of guanidinium tetrafluoroborate surface passivation on the stability of 2D-PEA2SnI4 perovskite thin films prepared by sequential physical vapor deposition 
    Sembito, Alex; Mwabora, Julius M.; Nyongesa, Francis W.; Diale, M. (Elsevier, 2025-01)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • Synthesis and characterization of activated carbon derived from agricultural waste (cocoa pod husks) as potential electrode for symmetric supercapacitor 
    Fasakin, Oladepo; Oyedotun, Kabir Oyeniran; Mirghni, Abdulmajid Abdallah; Sylla, Ndeye Fatou; Mahmoud, Badr Ahmed Mohammed; Manyala, Ncholu I. (Elsevier, 2024-12)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • Free fermions, neutrality and modular transformations 
    Mulokwe, Mbavhalelo; Zoubos, Konstantinos (IOP Publishing, 2024-10)
    With a view towards higher-spin applications, we study the partition function of a free complex fermion in 2d conformal field theory, restricted to the neutral (zero fermion number) sector. This restriction leads to a ...
  • Synthesis, structural characterization, and computational studies of novel Co(II) and Zn(II) fluoroquinoline complexes for antibacterial and antioxidant activities 
    Damena, Tadewos; Desalegn, Tegene; Mathura, Sadhna; Getahun, Alemayehu; Bizuayehu, Dereje; Alem, Mamaru B.; Gadisa, Shiferaw; Zeleke, Digafie; Demissie, Taye B. (American Chemical Society, 2024-08-27)
    Research into heterocyclic ligands has increased in popularity due to their versatile applications in the biomedical field. Quinoline derivatives with their transition metal complexes are popular scaffolding molecules in ...
  • Extending quantum detailed balance through optimal transport 
    Duvenhage, Rocco de Villiers; Skosana, Samuel; Snyman, Machiel (World Scientific Publishing, 2024-09)
    We develop a general approach to setting up and studying classes of quantum dynamical systems close to and structurally similar to systems having specified properties, in particular detailed balance. This is done in terms ...
  • Device architectures for photoelectrochemical water splitting based on hematite : a review 
    Nasejje, Stella; Mukhokosi, Emma Panzi; Diale, M. (Mmantsae Moche); Velauthapillai, Dhayalan (Springer, 2024-09)
    Hydrogen production by photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting is a sustainable means that can avert the effects of global warming caused by fossil fuels. For decades, a suitable semiconductor that can absorb solar ...
  • Energetic landscape and terminal emitters of phycobilisome cores from quantum chemical modeling 
    Cupellini, Lorenzo; Gwizdala, Michal; Kruger, T.P.J. (Tjaart) (American Chemical Society, 2024-09)
    Phycobilisomes (PBs) are giant antenna supercomplexes of cyanobacteria that use phycobilin pigments to capture sunlight and transfer the collected energy to membrane-bound photosystems. In the PB core, phycobilins are bound ...
  • Conformation-dictated aggregation photophysics in isoindigo-based copolymers 
    Asmare, Eninges; Bekri, Nika; Nchinda, Leonato Tambua; Hone, Fekadu G.; Mammo, Wendimagegne; Kruger, T.P.J. (Tjaart); Tegegne, Newayemedhin A. (American Chemical Society, 2024-09)
    The aggregation of polymer chains directly influences the morphology of thin films used in optoelectronic devices. Therefore, understanding the relationship between the backbone conformation and aggregation of conjugated ...
  • A DLTS analysis of alpha particle irradiated commercial 4H-SiC Schottky barrier diodes 
    Ahmed, M.A.M.; Auret, Francois Danie; Nel, Jacqueline Margot; Venter, A. (Springer, 2024-09)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • MXene-based ternary composites for supercapacitors : advancements and challenges 
    Otun, Kabir O.; Mukhtar, Azfarizal; Hossain, Ismail; Abdulsalam, Jibril (Elsevier, 2024-11)
    The acceleration of the global energy transition and the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) depend on promoting innovation in energy storage technologies. MXenes and their composites have emerged as novel ...