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Mass-selected deposition of Ag 7 on Pd(100). Evidence for implantation and strong fragmentation

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What interactions can distort the orientational distribution of interfacial water molecules as probed by second harmonic and sum frequency generation?

Aqueous interfaces are omnipresent in nature. Nonlinear optical methods such as second harmonic and sum frequency generation (SHG/SFG) are valuable techniques to access molecular level information from these interfaces. In the interpretation of SHG and SFG ...

American Institute of Physics2016

Extracting partial decay rates of helium from complex rotation: autoionizing resonances of the one-dimensional configurations

Pierre Lugan

Partial autoionization rates of doubly excited one-dimensional helium in the collinear Zee and eZe configuration are obtained by means of the complex rotation method. The approach presented here relies on a projection of back-rotated resonance wave functio ...

IOP Publishing2015

Visualization of electronic density

The spatial volume occupied by an atom depends on its electronic density. Although this density can only be evaluated exactly for hydrogen-like atoms, there are many excellent algorithms and packages to calculate it numerically for other materials. Three-d ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Characterization of Solid-Liquid Interfaces with High-Resolution Atomic Force Microscopy

Maria Ricci

Solid-liquid interfaces are ubiquitous. Despite the unquestioned relevance, many scientific research fields rely on simplified or macroscopic descriptions, discarding the molecular nature of the constituents. However, it is the specific molecular interacti ...

EPFL2015

On the Impact of Wind Farms on a Convective Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Fernando Porté Agel, Hao Lu

With the rapid growth in the number of wind turbines installed worldwide, a demand exists for a clear understanding of how wind farms modify land-atmosphere exchanges. Here, we conduct three-dimensional large-eddy simulations to investigate the impact of w ...

Springer2015

Hardening induced by radiation damage and helium in structural materials

Irradiation is known to lead to degradation of mechanical properties of materials. Structural materials for nuclear applications can be affected by helium produced by transmutations. The objectives of this work were: (a) to investigate the effects of He on ...

EPFL2015

Preparation of state purified beams of He, Ne, C, N, and O atoms

Andreas Osterwalder, Justinas Jankunas

The production and guiding of ground state and metastable C, N, and O atoms in a two-meter-long, bent magnetic guide are described. Pure beams of metastable He(3S1) and Ne(3P2), and of ground state N(4S3/2) and O(3P2) are obtained using an Even-Lavie valve ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Embrittlement induced by the synergistic effects of radiation damage and helium in structural steels

Kun Wang

Ferritic/martensitic steels are candidate materials for fusion reactor structural components, liquid metal containers of spallation neutron sources, and accelerator driven systems, with good radiation resistance and thermo-mechanical properties. However, e ...

EPFL2015

Ab initio simulation of particle momentum distributions in high-pressure water

Michele Ceriotti

Applying pressure to water reduces the average oxygen-oxygen distance, and facilitates the delocalisation of protons along the hydrogen bond. This pressure-induced delocalisation is further enhanced by the quantum nature of hydrogen nuclei, which is very s ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2014

Canopy-wake dynamics and wind sheltering effects on Earth surface fluxes

Fernando Porté Agel, Corey Dean Markfort

The atmospheric boundary layer adjustment at the abrupt transition from a canopy (forest) to a flat surface (land or water) is investigated in a wind tunnel experiment. Detailed measurements examining the effect of canopy turbulence on flow separation, red ...

Springer2014