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      Active process control of reactive sputter deposition 

      Voevodin, A. A.; Stevenson, P.; Rebholz, Claus; Schneider, J. M.; Matthews, A. (1995)
      Control of the density, composition, ionisation rate and arrival energy of species is one of the main objectives of research in the development of reactive magnetron sputtering. The deposition of the latest generation of ...
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      Analytic models of heterogenous magnetic fields for liquid metal flow simulations 

      Votyakov, E. V.; Kassinos, Stavros C.; Albets-Chico, X. (2009)
      A physically consistent approach is considered for defining an external magnetic field as needed in computational fluid dynamics problems involving magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The approach results in simple analytical ...
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      C-axis josephson tunneling between YBa2Cu3O7 − δ and Pb: Direct evidence for mixed order parameter symmetry in a high- Tc superconductor 

      Kouznetsov, K. A.; Sun, A. G.; Chen, B.; Katz, A. S.; Bahcall, S. R.; Clarke, J.; Dynes, R. C.; Gajewski, D. A.; Han, S. H.; Maple, M. B.; Giapintzakis, John; Kim, J.-T.; Ginsberg, T. M. (1997)
      C-axis Josephson tunneling experiments in which a conventional superconductor (Pb) is deposited across a single twin boundary of a YBa2Cu3O7 − δ (YBCO) crystal. We measure the critical current as a function of the magnitude ...
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      Comparison of free surface polarization of NiMnSb and Co2 MnSi 

      Miyoshi, Y.; Bugoslavsky, Y.; Syed, M. H.; Robinson, T.; Cohen, L. F.; Singh, L. J.; Barber, Z. H.; Grigorescu, C. E. A.; Gardelis, S.; Giapintzakis, John; Roy, W. Van (2006)
      We present a systematic study of the polarization of the transport current from a variety of NiMnSb and Co2 MnSi thin films and bulk material using point contact Andreev reflection spectroscopy. The simple analysis suggests ...
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      Coulomb repulsive correlation in A3B5 semiconductor quantum dots in the presence of a magnetic field 

      Avetisyan, A. A.; Djotyan, Anahit P.; Moulopoulos, Konstantinos (2006)
      The ground state total and correlation energies of a negative ion-electron and electron-electron systems in a parabolic QD with standard dispersion law are theoretically investigated in an external magnetic field by a ...
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      Coulomb repulsive correlation in systems with radial confinement: Quantum dots and the Overhauser model in an external magnetic field 

      Avetisyan, A. A.; Moulopoulos, Konstantinos; Djotyan, Anahit P. (2006)
      The ground-state correlation energy of an electron-negative ion system in a spherical quantum dot (QD) with parabolic confinement in an external homogeneous magnetic field is investigated. Both cases of finite and infinite ...
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      Direct measurement of the W Boson width in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV 

      Affolder, T.; Akimoto, H.; Akopian, A.; Albrow, M. G.; Amaral, P.; Amendolia, S. R.; Amidei, D.; Anikeev, K.; Antos, J.; Apollinari, G.; Arisawa, T.; Asakawa, T.; Ashmanskas, W.; Atac, M.; Azfar, F.; Azzi-Bacchetta, P.; Bacchetta, N.; Bailey, M. W.; Bailey, S.; De Barbaro, P.; Barbaro-Galtieri, A.; Barnes, V. E.; Barnett, B. A.; Barone, M.; Bauer, G.; Bedeschi, F.; Belforte, S.; Bellettini, G.; Bellinger, J.; Benjamin, D.; Bensinger, J.; Beretvas, Andrew; Berge, J. P.; Berryhill, J.; Bevensee, B.; Bhatti, A.; Binkley, M.; Bisello, D.; Blair, R. E.; Blocker, C.; Bloom, K.; Blumenfeld, B.; Blusk, S. R.; Bocci, A.; Bodek, A.; Bokhari, W.; Bolla, G.; Bonushkin, Yu Ye; Bortoletto, D.; Boudreau, J.; Brandl, A.; Van Den Brink, S.; Bromberg, C.; Brozovic, M.; Bruner, N.; Buckley-Geer, E.; Budagov, J.; Budd, H. S.; Burkett, K.; Busetto, G.; Byon-Wagner, A.; Byrum, K. L.; Calafiura, P.; Campbell, M.; Carithers, W.; Carlson, J.; Carlsmith, D.; Cassada, J.; Castro, A.; Cauz, D.; Cerri, A.; Chan, A. W.; Chang, P. S.; Chang, P. T.; Chapman, J.; Chen, C.; Chen, Y. C.; Cheng, M. -T; Chertok, M.; Chiarelli, G.; Chirikov-Zorin, I.; Chlachidze, G.; Chlebana, F.; Christofek, L.; Chu, M. L.; Ciobanu, C. I.; Clark, A. G.; Connolly, A.; Conway, J.; Cooper, J. M.; Cordelli, M.; Cranshaw, J.; Cronin-Hennessy, D.; Cropp, R.; Culbertson, R.; Dagenhart, D.; Dejongh, F.; Dell'Agnello, Simone; Dell'Orso, M.; Demina, R.; Demortier, L.; Deninno, M.; Derwent, P. F.; Devlin, T.; Dittmann, J. R.; Donati, S.; Done, J.; Dorigo, T.; Eddy, N.; Einsweiler, K.; Elias, John E.; Engels Jr., E.; Erdmann, W.; Errede, D.; Errede, S.; Fan, Q.; Feild, R. G.; Ferretti, C.; Field, R. D.; Fiori, I.; Flaugher, B.; Foster, G. W.; Franklin, M.; Freeman, J.; Friedman, J.; Frisch, H.; Fukui, Y.; Galeotti, S.; Gallinaro, M.; Gao, T.; Garcia-Sciveres, M.; Garfinkel, A. F.; Gatti, P.; Gay, C.; Geer, S.; Gerdes, D. W.; Giannetti, P.; Giromini, P.; Glagolev, V.; Gold, M.; Goldstein, J.; Gordon, A.; Goshaw, A. T.; Gotra, Y.; Goulianos, Konstantin; Green, C.; Groer, L.; Grosso-Pilcher, C.; Guenther, M.; Guillian, G.; Guimaraes Da Costa, J.; Guo, R. S.; Haas, R. M.; Haber, C.; Hafen, E.; Hahn, S. R.; Hall, C.; Handa, T.; Handler, R.; Hao, W.; Happacher, F.; Hara, K.; Hardman, A. D.; Harris, R. M.; Hartmann, F.; Hatakeyama, K.; Hauser, J.; Heinrich, J.; Heiss, A.; Herndon, M.; Hinrichsen, B.; Hoffman, K. D.; Holck, C.; Hollebeek, R.; Holloway, L.; Hughes, R.; Huston, J.; Huth, J.; Ikeda, H.; Incandela, J.; Introzzi, G.; Iwai, J.; Iwata, Y.; James, E.; Jensen, H.; Jones, M.; Joshi, U.; Kambara, H.; Kamon, T.; Kaneko, T.; Karr, K.; Kasha, H.; Kato, Y.; Keaffaber, T. A.; Kelley, K.; Kelly, M.; Kennedy, R. D.; Kephart, R.; Khazins, D.; Kikuchi, T.; Kilminster, B.; Kirby, M.; Kirk, M.; Kim, B. J.; Kim, D. H.; Kim, H. S.; Kim, M. J.; Kim, S. H.; Kim, Y. K.; Kirsch, L.; Klimenko, S.; Koehn, P.; Köngeter, A.; Kondo, K.; Konigsberg, J.; Kordas, K.; Korn, A.; Korytov, A.; Kovács, Eve V.; Kroll, J.; Kruse, M.; Kuhlmann, S. E.; Kurino, K.; Kuwabara, T.; Laasanen, A. T.; Lai, N.; Lami, S.; Lammel, S.; Lamoureux, J. I.; Lancaster, M.; Latino, G.; LeCompte, T.; Lee IV, A. M.; Lee, K.; Leone, S.; Lewis, J. D.; Lindgren, M.; Liss, T. M.; Liu, J. B.; Liu, Y. C.; Lockyer, N.; Loken, J.; Loreti, M.; Lucchesi, D.; Lukens, P.; Lusin, S.; Lyons, L.; Lys, J.; Madrak, R.; Maeshima, K.; Maksimovic, P.; Malferrari, L.; Mangano, M.; Mariotti, M.; Martignon, G.; Martin, A.; Matthews, J. A. J.; Mayer, J.; Mazzanti, P.; McFarland, K. S.; McIntyre, P.; McKigney, E.; Menguzzato, M.; Menzione, A.; Mesropian, C.; Miao, T.; Miller, R.; Miller, J. S.; Minato, H.; Miscetti, S.; Mishina, M.; Mitselmakher, G.; Moggi, N.; Moore, E.; Moore, R.; Morita, Y.; Mukherjee, A.; Muller, T.; Munar, A.; Murat, P.; Murgia, S.; Musy, M.; Nachtman, J.; Nahn, S.; Nakada, H.; Nakaya, T.; Nakano, I.; Nelson, C.; Neuberger, D.; Newman-Holmes, C.; Ngan, C. -Y P.; Nicolaidi, P.; Niu, H.; Nodulman, L.; Nomerotski, A.; Oh, S. H.; Ohmoto, T.; Ohsugi, T.; Oishi, R.; Okusawa, T.; Olsen, J.; Orejudos, W.; Pagliarone, C.; Palmonari, F.; Paoletti, R.; Papadimitriou, Vaia; Pappas, S. P.; Partos, D.; Patrick, J.; Pauletta, G.; Paulini, M.; Paus, C.; Pescara, L.; Phillips, T. J.; Piacentino, G.; Pitts, K. T.; Plunkett, R.; Pompos, A.; Pondrom, L.; Pope, G.; Popovic, M.; Prokoshin, F.; Proudfoot, J.; Ptohos, Fotios; Pukhov, O.; Punzi, G.; Ragan, K.; Rakitine, A.; Reher, D.; Reichold, A.; Riegler, W.; Ribon, A.; Rimondi, F.; Ristori, L.; Robertson, W. J.; Robinson, A.; Rodrigo, T.; Rolli, S.; Rosenson, L.; Roser, R.; Rossin, R.; Safonov, A.; Sakumoto, W. K.; Saltzberg, D.; Sansoni, A.; Santi, L.; Sato, H.; Savard, P.; Schlabach, P.; Schmidt, E. E.; Schmidt, M. P.; Schmitt, M.; Scodellaro, L.; Scott, A.; Scribano, A.; Segler, S.; Seidel, S.; Seiya, Y.; Semenov, A.; Semeria, F.; Shah, T.; Shapiro, M. D.; Shepard, P. F.; Shibayama, T.; Shimojima, M.; Shochet, M.; Siegrist, J.; Signorelli, G.; Sill, A.; Sinervo, P.; Singh, P.; Slaughter, A. J.; Sliwa, K.; Smith, C.; Snider, F. D.; Solodsky, A.; Spalding, J.; Speer, T.; Sphicas, Paris A.; Spinella, F.; Spiropulu, Maria; Spiegel, L.; Steele, J.; Stefanini, A.; Strologas, John; Strumia, F.; Stuart, D.; Sumorok, K.; Suzuki, T.; Takano, T.; Takashima, R.; Takikawa, K.; Tamburello, P.; Tanaka, M.; Tannenbaum, B.; Taylor, W.; Tecchio, M.; Teng, P. K.; Terashi, K.; Tether, S.; Theriot, D.; Thurman-Keup, R.; Tipton, P.; Tkaczyk, S.; Tollefson, K.; Tollestrup, A.; Toyoda, H.; Trischuk, W.; de Trocóniz, J. F.; Tseng, J.; Turini, N.; Ukegawa, F.; Vaiciulis, T.; Valls, J.; Vejcik III, S.; Velev, G.; Vidal, R.; Vilar, R.; Volobouev, I.; Vucinic, D.; Wagner, R. G.; Wagner, R. L.; Wahl, J.; Wallace, N. B.; Walsh, A. M.; Wang, C.; Wang, C. H.; Wang, M. J.; Watanabe, T.; Waters, D.; Watts, T.; Webb, R.; Wenzel, H.; Wester III, W. C.; Wicklund, A. B.; Wicklund, E.; Williams, H. H.; Wilson, P.; Winer, B. L.; Winn, D.; Wolbers, S.; Wolinski, D.; Wolinski, J.; Wolinski, S.; Worm, S.; Wu, X.; Wyss, J.; Yagil, A.; Yao, W.; Yeh, G. P.; Yeh, P.; Yoh, J.; Yosef, C.; Yoshida, T.; Yu, I.; Yu, S.; Yu, Z.; Zanetti, A.; Zetti, F.; Zucchelli, S. (2000)
      The W boson width, ΓW obtained in studies of the transverse-mass spectra of leptonic W decays is measured. Through analysis, the W width is determined from a binned log-likelihood fit to the transverse-mass distribution ...
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      Direct numerical simulation of turbulent liquid metal flow entering a magnetic field 

      Albets-Chico, X.; Grigoriadis, D. G. E.; Votyakov, E. V.; Kassinos, Stavros C. (2013)
      This paper presents direct numerical simulations (DNS) of fully developed turbulent liquid-metal flow in a circular duct entering a magnetic field. The case of a magnetohydrodynamic flow leaving a strong magnetic field has ...
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      Dispersed-phase structural anisotropy in homogeneous magnetohydrodynamic turbulence at low magnetic Reynolds number 

      Rouson, D. I.; Kassinos, Stavros C.; Moulitsas, I.; Sarris, I. E.; Xu, X. (2008)
      A new tensor statistic, the dispersed-phase structure dimensionality Dp, is defined to describe the preferred orientation of clusters of discrete bodies. The evolution of Dp is calculated via direct numerical simulations ...
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      Electron spin filtering in ferromagnet/semiconductor heterostructures 

      Bland, J. A. C.; Steinmuller, S. J.; Hirohata, A.; Cho, W. S.; Xu, Y. B.; Guertler, C. M.; Wastlbauer, G.; Ionescu, A.; Trypiniotis, Theodossis; Holmes, S. N. (2003)
      Circularly polarized light was used to generate spin-polarized electrons at room temperature in ferromagnet (FM)/GaAs Schottky diode structures. A change in the helicity-dependent photocurrent was obtained when the ...
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      Fabrication and characterization of magnetoresponsive electrospun nanocomposite membranes based on methacrylic random copolymers and magnetite nanoparticles 

      Savva, I.; Krekos, G.; Taculescu, A.; Marinica, O.; Vekas, L.; Krasia-Christoforou, T. (2012)
      Magnetoresponsive polymer-based fibrous nanocomposites belonging to the broad category of stimuli-responsive materials, is a relatively new class of soft composite materials, consisting of magnetic nanoparticles embedded ...
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      Fabrication, characterization, and evaluation in drug release properties of magnetoactive poly(ethylene oxide)-poly(l -lactide) electrospun membranes 

      Savva, I.; Odysseos, A. D.; Evaggelou, L.; Marinica, O.; Vasile, E.; Vekas, L.; Sarigiannis, Y.; Krasia-Christoforou, T. (2013)
      The fabrication of electrospun magnetoactive fibrous nanocomposite membranes based on the water-soluble and biocompatible poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO), the biocompatible and biodegradable poly(l-lactide) (PLLA) and preformed ...
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      Few-electron systems in a quantum dot in a magnetic field: The Wigner molecule and paired electron phases 

      Avetisyan, A. A.; Moulopoulos, Konstantinos (2006)
      We have developed a variational many-body description for few-electron systems in a parabolic quantum dot in an external magnetic field. The ground state energy of the electronic system has been theoretically investigated ...
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      Full magnetohydrodynamic solution of liquid-metal flow in an insulating pipe subjected to a strong fringing magnetic field 

      Albets-Chico, X.; Radhakrishnan, H.; Kassinos, Stavros C. (2012)
      This paper addresses liquid-metal flow under a strong, fringing, decreasing magnetic field in an insulating circular pipe by a full resolution of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. The aims of the paper are first to ...
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      Generators of dynamical symmetries and the correct gauge transformation in the Landau level problem: Use of pseudomomentum and pseudo-angular momentum 

      Konstantinou, Georgios; Moulopoulos, Konstantinos (2016)
      Due to the importance of gauge symmetry in all fields of physics, and motivated by an article written almost three decades ago that warns against a naive handling of gauge transformations in the Landau level problem (a ...
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      Large-eddy simulations of the turbulent Hartmann flow close to the transitional regime 

      Sarris, I. E.; Kassinos, Stavros C.; Carati, D. (2007)
      A series of large-eddy simulations (LES) of turbulent and transitional channel flows of a conductive fluid under the effect of a uniform magnetic field applied in the wall-normal direction, usually referred to as Hartmann ...
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      Linear dynamic polarizability and the absorption spectrum of an exciton in a quantum ring in a magnetic field 

      Ghazaryan, A. V.; Djotyan, Anahit P.; Moulopoulos, Konstantinos; Kirakosyan, Albert A. (2011)
      The problem of an electron-hole system interacting through a contact potential and moving in a one-dimensional quantum ring threaded by an Aharonov-Bohm flux is considered, with respect to the system's energetics as well ...
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      Localized magnetic fields in arbitrary directions using patterned nanomagnets 

      McNeil, R. P. G.; Schneble, R. J.; Kataoka, M.; Ford, C. J. B.; Kasama, T.; Dunin-Borkowski, R. E.; Feinberg, J. M.; Harrison, R. J.; Barnes, C. H. W.; Tse, D. H. Y.; Trypiniotis, Theodossis; Bland, J. A. C.; Anderson, D.; Jones, G. A. C.; Pepper, M. (2010)
      Control of the local magnetic fields desirable for spintronics and quantum information technology is not well developed. Existing methods produce either moderately small local fields or one field orientation. We present ...
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      Magneto-transport properties of NiMnSb thin films on InSb single crystals: Negative giant magnetoresistance 

      Gardelis, S.; Androulakis, J.; Viskadourakis, Z.; Papadopoulou, E. L.; Giapintzakis, John; Rai, S.; Lodha, G. S.; Roy, S. B. (2007)
      In this study we investigated the magneto-transport properties of the ohmic contact between polycrystal-line NiMnSb thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition and n-type degenerate InSb (100) substrates. An unusual negative ...
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      Magnetoexcitons in semiconductor quantum rings with complicated (Kane's) dispersion law 

      Avetisyan, A. A.; Ghazaryan, A. V.; Djotyan, Anahit P.; Klrakosyan, A. A.; Moulopoulos, Konstantinos (2009)
      The influence of the nonparabolicity of charge carriers dispersion law (Kane's dispersion) on a magnetoexciton energy spectrum in InSb quantum rings is theoretically investigated. The analytical expression for the energy ...