72 research outputs found
Assembling nanostructures from DNA using a composite nanotweezers with a shape memory effect
The article demonstrates a technique for fabricating a structure with the
inclusion of suspended DNA threads and manipulating them using composite
nanotweezers with shape memory effect. This technique could be suitable for
stretching of nanothin DNA-like conductive threads and for measuring their
electrical conductivity, including the I-V characteristic directly in the
electron microscope chamber, where the nanotweezers provide a two-sided
clamping of the DNA tip, giving a stable nanocontact to the DNA bundle. Such
contact, as a part of 1D nanostructure, is more reliable during manipulations
with nanothreads than traditional measurements when a nanothread is touched by
a thin needle, for example, in a scanning tunnel microscope.Comment: To be presented on IEEE 3M-NANO 201
Magnetocaloric effect and magnetization in a Ni-Mn-Ga Heusler alloy in the vicinity of magnetostructural transition
The magnetic and thermodynamic properties of a Ni2.19Mn0.81Ga alloy with
coupled magnetic and structural (martensitic) phase transitions were studied
experimentally and theoretically. The magnetocaloric effect was measured by a
direct method in magnetic fields 0-26 kOe at temperatures close to the
magnetostructural transition temperature. For theoretical description of the
alloy properties near the magnetostructural transition a statistical model is
suggested, that takes into account the coexistence of martensite and austenite
domains in the vicinity of martensite transformation point.Comment: presented at ICM-2003, to appear in JMM
Deciphering M-T diagram of shape memory Heusler alloys: reentrance, plateau and beyond
We present our recent results on temperature behaviour of magnetization
observed in Ni_47Mn_39In_14 Heusler alloys. Three regions can be distinguished
in the M-T diagram: (I) low temperature martensitic phase (with the Curie
temperature T_CM = 140 K), (II) intermediate mixed phase (with the critical
temperature T_MS = 230 K) exhibiting a reentrant like behavior (between T_CM
and T_MS) and (III) high temperature austenitic phase (with the Curie
temperature T_CA = 320 K) exhibiting a rather wide plateau region (between T_MS
and T_CA). By arguing that powerful structural transformations, causing drastic
modifications of the domain structure in alloys, would also trigger strong
fluctuations of the order parameters throughout the entire M-T diagram, we were
able to successfully fit all the data by incorporating Gaussian fluctuations
(both above and below the above three critical temperatures) into the
Ginzburg-Landau scenario
Experimental investigation of magnetic circular dichroism spectrum and stress induced optical activity in a single-defect photonic crystal
Experimental investigation results for the magnetic circular dichroism spectrum (MCD) of a photonic crystal (PC) are presented. We found that in the vicinity of the transmission peak within the photonic bandgap and also near the bandgap edges, the circular dichroism is measurable even in the absence of any applied magnetic field. The application of magnetic field leads to generating an additional MCD signal measurable at the wavelengths near the “defect mode” transmittance line
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