Design and optimization of a low energy plasma focus for enhancing charged particle emission and x-ray radiation from the plasma focus device have been investigated. The design concept and the technical details are described. ...

Electronic structure of a conventional superconductor in the vicinity of a single, iso- lated magnetic impurity has been probed experimentally with scanning tunneling spectroscopy by Yazdani et al.. Motivated by their ...

Photon mass attenuation coefficients are indispensable input parameters for use in several disciplines. They are of value for medical diagnostics, radiation therapy, material science, etc. Currently, photon mass attenuation ...

A new resistive Geodesic Acoustic Mode (GAM) theory is developed by two-fluids analysis and resistive gyro-kinetic formulation in this thesis. An analytical expression is obtained for the resistive GAM frequency. This ...

The core of this project focuses on the development of a method for prediction of ion implantation dose in processing plasmas. The vital variable is fluence, i.e. ion implantation dose, which is currently predicted by ...

Silicon ceramics are popular in both commercial applications and material research. The purpose of this thesis is to present measurements and analysis of four different silicon ceramics: α, β and γ phases of silicon nitride ...

Over the past decade, new materials have been theoretically predicted and experimentally verified which are favourable candidates in the field of spintronics. These materials include topological insulators, graphene, and ...

Lactobacillus casei BL23 expresses two enzymes encoded by the genes iolG1 and iolG2. They have been putatively assigned as myo-inositol dehydrogenases by sequence comparison. The enzyme catalyzes the reversible conversion ...

A combined experimental and theoretical examination of the electronic structures of a number of modified helical peptides, specifically ferrocene-(proline)x-benzyl ester (referred to as Fc-Proₓ-OBz), is presented. Soft ...

In this thesis, knowledge on the production mechanisms of small scale (meter and decameter) irregularities in the auroral E region is advanced, both theoretically and experimentally. In the theoretical part of the ...