113 research outputs found
Charge inhomogeneities and transport in semiconductor heterostructures with a manganese -layer
We study experimentally and theoretically the effects of disorder, nonlinear
screening, and magnetism in semiconductor heterostructures containing a
-layer of Mn, where the charge carriers are confined within a quantum
well and hence both ferromagnetism and transport are two-dimensional (2D) and
differ qualitatively from their bulk counterparts. Anomalies in the electrical
resistance observed in both metallic and insulating structures can be
interpreted as a signature of significant ferromagnetic correlations. The
insulating samples turn out to be the most interesting as they can give us
valuable insights into the mechanisms of ferromagnetism in these
heterostructures. At low charge carrier densities, we show how the interplay of
disorder and nonlinear screening can result in the organization of the carriers
in the 2D transport channel into charge droplets separated by insulating
barriers. Based on such a droplet picture and including the effect of magnetic
correlations, we analyze the transport properties of this set of droplets,
compare it with experimental data, and find a good agreement between the model
calculations and experiment. Our analysis shows that the peak or shoulder-like
features observed in temperature dependence of resistance of 2D
heterostructures -doped by Mn lie significantly below the Curie
temperature unlike the three-dimensional case, where it lies above and
close to . We also discuss the consequences of our description for
understanding the mechanisms of ferromagnetism in the heterostructures under
study.Comment: 13 pages, 12 figures, RevTe
Enzymatic oligomerization and polymerization of arylamines: state of the art and perspectives
The literature concerning the oxidative oligomerization and polymerization of various arylamines, e.g., aniline, substituted anilines, aminonaphthalene and its derivatives, catalyzed by oxidoreductases, such as laccases and peroxidases, in aqueous, organic, and mixed aqueous organic monophasic or biphasic media, is reviewed. An overview of template-free as well as template-assisted enzymatic syntheses of oligomers and polymers of arylamines is given. Special attention is paid to mechanistic aspects of these biocatalytic processes. Because of the nontoxicity of oxidoreductases and their high catalytic efficiency, as well as high selectivity of enzymatic oligomerizations/polymerizations under mild conditions-using mainly water as a solvent and often resulting in minimal byproduct formation-enzymatic oligomerizations and polymerizations of arylamines are environmentally friendly and significantly contribute to a "green'' chemistry of conducting and redox-active oligomers and polymers. Current and potential future applications of enzymatic polymerization processes and enzymatically synthesized oligo/polyarylamines are discussed
Karyotype differentiation in 19 species of river loach fishes (Nemacheilidae, Teleostei): extensive variability associated with rDNA and heterochromatin distribution and its phylogenetic and ecological interpretation
Construction of an arbitrage hedging strategy in a market with assets depending on the same random factor
Steplike contrast structure in a singularly perturbed system of equations with different powers of small parameter
Cobitis derzhavini sp. novaâa New Spined Loach Species (Teleostei: Cobitidae) Discovered in the Transcaucasia
Existence and Stability of a Front-Type Periodic Solution of a Two-Component System of Parabolic Equations
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