89 research outputs found
Magnetically induced spin-dependent photoemission from p-GaAs(Cs,O) into vacuum
A spin-dependent emission of optically oriented electrons from p-GaAs(Cs,O)
into vacuum was experimentally observed in a magnetic field normal to the
surface. This phenomenon is explained within the model which takes into account
the jump in the electron g factor at the semiconductor-vacuum interface. Due to
this jump, the effective electron affinity on the semiconductor surface depends
on the mutual direction of optically oriented electron spins and the magnetic
field, resulting in the spin-dependent photoemission. It is demonstrated that
the observed effect can be used for the determination of spin diffusion length
in semiconductors.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, published versio
Kramers-Kronig constrained variational analysis of optical spectra
A universal method of extraction of the complex dielectric function
from
experimentally accessible optical quantities is developed. The central idea is
that is parameterized independently at each node of a
properly chosen anchor frequency mesh, while is
dynamically coupled to by the Kramers-Kronig (KK)
transformation. This approach can be regarded as a limiting case of the
multi-oscillator fitting of spectra, when the number of oscillators is of the
order of the number of experimental points. In the case of the normal-incidence
reflectivity from a semi-infinite isotropic sample the new method gives
essentially the same result as the conventional KK transformation of
reflectivity. In contrast to the conventional approaches, the proposed
technique is applicable, without readaptation, to virtually all types of
linear-response optical measurements, or arbitrary combinations of
measurements, such as reflectivity, transmission, ellipsometry {\it etc.}, done
on different types of samples, including thin films and anisotropic crystals.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figure
Terahertz radiation driven chiral edge currents in graphene
We observe photocurrents induced in single layer graphene samples by
illumination of the graphene edges with circularly polarized terahertz
radiation at normal incidence. The photocurrent flows along the sample edges
and forms a vortex. Its winding direction reverses by switching the light
helicity from left- to right-handed. We demonstrate that the photocurrent stems
from the sample edges, which reduce the spatial symmetry and result in an
asymmetric scattering of carriers driven by the radiation electric field. The
developed theory is in a good agreement with the experiment. We show that the
edge photocurrents can be applied for determination of the conductivity type
and the momentum scattering time of the charge carriers in the graphene edge
vicinity.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure, additional Supplemental Material (3 pages, 1
figure
The Global Burden of Alveolar Echinococcosis
Human alveolar echinococcosis (AE), caused by the larval stage of the fox tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis, is amongst the world's most dangerous zoonoses. Transmission to humans is by consumption of parasite eggs which are excreted in the faeces of the definitive hosts: foxes and, increasingly, dogs. Transmission can be through contact with the definitive host or indirectly through contamination of food or possibly water with parasite eggs. We made an intensive search of English, Russian, Chinese and other language databases. We targeted data which could give country specific incidence or prevalence of disease and searched for data from every country we believed to be endemic for AE. We also used data from other sources (often unpublished). From this information we were able to make an estimate of the annual global incidence of disease and disease burden using standard techniques for calculation of DALYs. Our studies suggest that AE results in a median of 18,235 cases globally with a burden of 666,433 DALYs per annum. This is the first estimate of the global burden of AE both in terms of global incidence and DALYs and demonstrates the burden of AE is comparable to several diseases in the neglected tropical disease cluster
Magnetohydrodynamic Oscillations in the Solar Corona and Earth’s Magnetosphere: Towards Consolidated Understanding
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