127 research outputs found

    Tauberian Theorems for Power Series Methods Applied to Double Sequences

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    AbstractWe discuss the relations between power series methods, weighted mean methods, and ordinary convergence for double sequences. In particular, we study Tauberian theorems for methods being products of the related one-dimensional summability methods

    Direct evidence for efficient ultrafast charge separation in epitaxial WS2_2/graphene heterostructure

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    We use time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (tr-ARPES) to investigate ultrafast charge transfer in an epitaxial heterostructure made of monolayer WS2_2 and graphene. This heterostructure combines the benefits of a direct gap semiconductor with strong spin-orbit coupling and strong light-matter interaction with those of a semimetal hosting massless carriers with extremely high mobility and long spin lifetimes. We find that, after photoexcitation at resonance to the A-exciton in WS2_2, the photoexcited holes rapidly transfer into the graphene layer while the photoexcited electrons remain in the WS2_2 layer. The resulting charge transfer state is found to have a lifetime of 1\sim1\,ps. We attribute our findings to differences in scattering phase space caused by the relative alignment of WS2_2 and graphene bands as revealed by high resolution ARPES. In combination with spin-selective excitation using circularly polarized light the investigated WS2_2/graphene heterostructure might provide a new platform for efficient optical spin injection into graphene.Comment: 28 pages, 14 figure

    Direct evidence for efficient ultrafast charge separation in epitaxial WS<sub>2</sub>/graphene heterostructures

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    We use time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (tr-ARPES) to investigate ultrafast charge transfer in an epitaxial heterostructure made of monolayer WS2 and graphene. This heterostructure combines the benefits of a direct-gap semiconductor with strong spin-orbit coupling and strong light-matter interaction with those of a semimetal hosting massless carriers with extremely high mobility and long spin lifetimes. We find that, after photoexcitation at resonance to the A-exciton in WS2, the photoexcited holes rapidly transfer into the graphene layer while the photoexcited electrons remain in the WS2 layer. The resulting charge-separated transient state is found to have a lifetime of ∼1 ps. We attribute our findings to differences in scattering phase space caused by the relative alignment of WS2 and graphene bands as revealed by high-resolution ARPES. In combination with spin-selective optical excitation, the investigated WS2/graphene heterostructure might provide a platform for efficient optical spin injection into graphene

    Structure and electronic properties of the (3×3\sqrt{3}\times \sqrt{3})R30R30^{\circ} SnAu2_2/Au(111) surface alloy

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    We have investigated the atomic and electronic structure of the (3×3\sqrt{3}\times \sqrt{3})R30R30^{\circ} SnAu2_2/Au(111) surface alloy. Low energy electron diffraction and scanning tunneling microscopy measurements show that the native herringbone reconstruction of bare Au(111) surface remains intact after formation of a long range ordered (3×3\sqrt{3}\times \sqrt{3})R30R30^{\circ} SnAu2_22/Au(111) surface alloy. Angle-resolved photoemission and two-photon photoemission spectroscopy techniques reveal Rashba-type spin-split bands in the occupied valence band with comparable momentum space splitting as observed for the Au(111) surface state, but with a hole-like parabolic dispersion. Our experimental findings are compared with density functional theory (DFT) calculation that fully support our experimental findings. Taking advantage of the good agreement between our DFT calculations and the experimental results, we are able to extract that the occupied Sn-Au hybrid band is of (s, d)-orbital character while the unoccupied Sn-Au hybrid bands are of (p, d)-orbital character. Hence, we can conclude that the Rashba-type spin splitting of the hole-like Sn-Au hybrid surface state is caused by the significant mixing of Au d- to Sn s-states in conjunction with the strong atomic spin-orbit coupling of Au, i.e., of the substrate.Comment: Copyright: https://journals.aps.org/authors/transfer-of-copyright-agreement; All copyrights by AP

    Utilizing linked open data for web service selection and composition to support e-commerce transactions

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    © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. Web Services (WS) have emerged during the past decades as a means for loosely coupled distributed systems to interact and communicate. Nevertheless, the abundance of services that can be retrieved online, often providing similar functionalities, can raise questions regarding the selection of the optimal service to be included in a value added composition. We propose a framework for the selection and composition of WS utilizing Linked open Data (LoD). The proposed method is based on RDF triples describing the functional and non-functional characteristics of WS. We aim at the optimal composition of services as a result of specific SPARQL queries and personalized weights for QoS criteria. Finally we utilize an approach based on the particle swarm optimization (PSO) method for the ranking of returned services

    Ultrafast optically induced spin transfer in ferromagnetic alloys

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    The vision of using light to manipulate electronic and spin excitations in materials on their fundamental time and length scales requires new approaches in experiment and theory to observe and understand these excitations. The ultimate speed limit for all-optical manipulation requires control schemes for which the electronic or magnetic subsystems of the materials are coherently manipulated on the time scale of the laser excitation pulse. In our work, we provide experimental evidence of such a direct, ultrafast, and coherent spin transfer between two magnetic subsystems of an alloy of Fe and Ni. Our experimental findings are fully supported by time-dependent density functional theory simulations and, hence, suggest the possibility of coherently controlling spin dynamics on subfemtosecond time scales, i.e., the birth of the research area of attomagnetism

    A case study for the formation of stanene on a metal surface

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    The discovery and realization of graphene as an ideal two-dimensional (2D) material has triggered extensive efforts to create similar 2D materials with exciting spin-dependent properties. Here, we report on a novel Sn 2D superstructure on Au(111) that shows similarities and differences to the expected electronic features of ideal stanene. Using spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we find that a particular Sn/Au superstructure reveals a linearly dispersing band centered at the Γ-point and below the Fermi level with antiparallel spin polarization and a Fermi velocity of vF ≈ 1×106 m/s, the same value as for graphene. We attribute the origin of the band structure to the hybridization between the Sn and the Au orbitals at the 2D Sn-Au interface. Considering that free-standing stanene simply cannot exist, our investigated structure is an important step towards the search of useful stanene-like overstructures for future technological applications
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