Recently added

Physics: Recent submissions

  • A review on the current approach for the sustainable production of nanocomposites from agricultural wastes and their application for the adsorption of organophosphate flame retardants 
    Ivbanikaro, Anna E.; Okonkwo, Jonathan O.; Sadiku, Emmanuel R.; Maepa, Charity E. (Sage, 2023-05)
    Water pollution caused by emerging organic pollutants such as the halogenated organophosphate flame retardants, has exacerbated the issue of water scarcity. An eco-friendly technology, e.g., the adsorption technique, ...
  • Synthesis and characterization of transparent conducting oxides for Stark e ect applications in single molecule spectroscopy 
    Cronje, Abraham Johannes (University of Pretoria, 2019-09)
    The desire to study the characteristics of transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) for Stark application in single molecule spectroscopy (SMS) stemmed from our interest in the dark states of light harvesting complex II ...
  • First-principles calculations to investigate the elastic, electronic, dynamical, and optical properties of cubic ZrCoAs half-Heusler semiconductor for photovoltaic applications 
    Allan, Lynet; Mapasha, Refilwe Edwin; Mulwa, Winfred M.; Mwabora, Julius M.; Musembi, Robinson J. (Elsevier, 2024-06)
    The electronic, mechanical, elastic, dynamical, and optical properties of the ZrCoAs half-Heusler compound have been systematically investigated using the plane wave self-consistent field approach with the Perdew-Burke-Erzerhof ...
  • Strong gravitational lensing as a probe of dark matter 
    Vegetti, S.; Birrer, S.; Despali, G.; Fassnacht, C.D.; Gilman, D.; Hezaveh, Y.; Levasseur, L.P.; McKean, J.P.; Powell, D.M.; O'Riordan, C.M.; Vernardos, G. (Springer, 2024)
    Dark matter structures within strong gravitational lens galaxies and along their lines of sight leave a gravitational imprint on the multiple images of lensed sources. Strong gravitational lensing provides, therefore, a ...
  • Erbium and titanium co-doped hematite nanorods : structural, optical, and catalytic properties for enhanced water splitting 
    Talibawo, Joan; Kyesmen, Pannan Isa; Cyulinyana, Marie C.; Diale, M. (Wiley, 2023-05)
    Herein, hydrothermally synthesized hematite nanorods (NRs) co-doped with erbium and titanium, using titanium tetrachloride and erbium(III) nitrate pentahydrate as the dopant sources, are presented. The effect of varied ...
  • The persistent shadow of the supermassive black hole of M 87 I. Observations, calibration, imaging, and analysis 
    Akiyama, Kazunori; Alberdi, Antxon; Alef, Walter; Algaba, Juan Carlos; Anantua, Richard; Asada, Keiichi; Azulay, Rebecca; Bach, Uwe; Baczko, Anne-Kathrin; Ball, David; Balokovic, Mislav; Bandyopadhyay, Bidisha; Barrett, John; Bauböck, Michi; Benson, Bradford A.; Bintley, Dan; Blackburn, Lindy; Blundell, Raymond; Bouman, Katherine L.; Bower, Geoffrey C.; Boyce, Hope; Bremer, Michael; Brissenden, Roger; Britzen, Silke; Broderick, Avery E.; Broguiere, Dominique; Bronzwaer, Thomas; Bustamante, Sandra; Carlstrom, John E.; Chael, Andrew; Chan, Chi-kwan; Chang, Dominic O.; Chatterjee, Koushik; Chatterjee, Shami; Chen, Ming-Tang; Chen, Yongjun; Cheng, Xiaopeng; Cho, Ilje; Christian, Pierre; Conroy, Nicholas S.; Conway, John E.; Crawford, Thomas M.; Crew, Geoffrey B.; Cruz-Osorio, Alejandro; Cui, Yuzhu; Dahale, Rohan; Davelaar, Jordy; De Laurentis, Mariafelicia; Deane, Roger; Dempsey, Jessica; Desvignes, Gregory; Dexter, Jason; Dhruv, Vedant; Dihingia, Indu K.; Doeleman, Sheperd S.; Dzib, Sergio A.; Eatough, Ralph P.; Emami, Razieh; Falcke, Heino; Farah, Joseph; Fish, Vincent L.; Fomalont, Ed; Ford, H. Alyson; Foschi, Marianna; Fraga-Encinas, Raquel; Freeman, William T.; Friberg, Per; Fromm, Christian M.; Fuentes, Antonio; Galison, Peter; Gammie, Charles F.; García, Roberto; Gentaz, Olivier; Georgiev, Boris; Goddi, Ciriaco; Gold, Roman; Gomez-Ruiz, Arturo I.; Gomez, Jose L.; Gu, Minfeng; Gurwell, Mark; Hada, Kazuhiro; Haggard, Daryl; Hesper, Ronald; Heumann, Dirk; Ho, Luis C.; Ho, Paul; Honma, Mareki; Huang, Chih-Wei L.; Huang, Lei; Hughes, David H.; Ikeda, Shiro; Impellizzeri, C. M. Violette; Inoue, Makoto; Issaoun, Sara; James, David J.; Jannuzi, Buell T.; Janssen, Michael; Jeter, Britton; Jiang, Wu; Jimenez-Rosales, Alejandra; Johnson, Michael D.; Jorstad, Svetlana; Jones, Adam C.; Joshi, Abhishek V.; Jung, Taehyun; Karuppusamy, Ramesh; Kawashima, Tomohisa; Keating, Garrett K.; Kettenis, Mark; Kim, Dong-Jin; Kim, Jae-Young; Kim, Jongsoo; Kim, Junhan; Kino, Motoki; Koay, Jun Yi; Kocherlakota, Prashant; Kofuji, Yutaro; Koch, Patrick M.; Koyama, Shoko; Kramer, Carsten; Kramer, J.A.; Kramer, Michael; Krichbaum, Thomas P.; Kuo, Cheng-Yu; La Bella, Noemi; Lee, Sang-Sung; Levis, Aviad; Li, Zhiyuan; Lico, Rocco; Lindahl, Greg; Lindqvist, Michael; Lisakov, Mikhail; Liu, Jun; Liu, Kuo; Liuzzo, Elisabetta; Lo, Wen-Ping; Lobanov, Andrei P.; Loinard, Laurent; Lonsdale, Colin J.; Lowitz, A.E.; Lu, Ru-Sen; MacDonald, Nicholas R.; Mao, Jirong; Marchili, Nicola; Markoff, Sera; Marrone, Daniel P.; Marscher, Alan P.; Marti-Vidal, Ivan; Matsushita, Satoki; Matthews, Lynn D.; Medeiros, Lia; Menten, Karl M.; Mizuno, Izumi; Mizuno, Yosuke; Montgomery, Joshua; Moran, James M.; Moriyama, Kotaro; Moscibrodzka, Monika; Mulaudzi, Wanga; Muller, Cornelia; Müller, H.; Mus, Alejandro; Musoke, Gibwa; Myserlis, Ioannis; Nagai, Hiroshi; Nagar, Neil M.; Nakamura, Masanori; Narayanan, Gopal; Natarajan, Iniyan; Nathanail, Antonios; Navarro Fuentes, Santiago; Neilsen, Joey; Ni, Chunchong; Nowak, Michael A.; Oh, Junghwan; Okino, Hiroki; Olivares, Hector; Oyama, Tomoaki; Ozel, Feryal; Palumbo, Daniel C. M.; Paraschos, Georgios Filippos; Park, Jongho; Parsons, Harriet; Patel, Nimesh; Pen, Ue-Li; Pesce, Dominic W.; Pietu, Vincent; PopStefanija, Aleksandar; Porth, Oliver; Prather, Ben; Psaltis, Dimitrios; Pu, Hung-Yi; Ramakrishnan, Venkatessh; Rao, Ramprasad; Rawlings, Mark G.; Raymond, Alexander W.; Rezzolla, Luciano; Ricarte, Angelo; Ripperda, Bart; Roelofs, Freek; Romero-Cañizales, Cristina; Ros, Eduardo; Roshanineshat, Arash; Rottmann, Helge; Roy, Alan L.; Ruiz, Ignacio; Ruszczyk, Chet; Rygl, Kazi L. J.; Sanchez, Salvador; Sánchez-Argüelles, David; Sánchez-Portal, Miguel; Sasada, Mahito; Satapathy, Kaushik; Savolainen, Tuomas; Schloerb, F. Peter; Schonfeld, Jonathan; Schuster, Karl-Friedrich; Shao, Lijing; Shen, Zhiqiang; Small, Des; Sohn, Bong Won; SooHoo, Jason; Sosapanta Salas, León David; Souccar, Kamal; Sun, He; Tazaki, Fumie; Tetarenko, Alexandra J.; Tiede, Paul; Tilanus, Remo P. J.; Titus, Michael; Toma, Kenji; Torne, Pablo; Toscano, Teresa; Traianou, Efthalia; Trent, Tyler; Trippe, Sascha; Turk, Matthew; Van Bemmel, Ilse; Van Langevelde, Huib Jan; Van Rossum, Daniel R.; Vos, Jesse; Wagner, Jan; Ward-Thompson, Derek; Wardle, John; Washington, Jasmin E.; Weintroub, Jonathan; Wharton, Robert; Wielgus, Maciek; Wiik, Kaj; Witzel, Gunther; Wondrak, Michael F.; Wong, George N.; Wu, Qingwen; Yadlapalli, Nitika; Yamaguchi, Paul; Yfantis, Aristomenis; Yoon, Doosoo; Young, Andre; Younsi, Ziri; Yu, Wei; Yuan, Feng; Yuan, Ye-Fei; Zensus, J. Anton; Zhang, Shuo; Zhao, Guang-Yao; Zhao, Shan-Shan; Allardi, Alexander; Chang, Shu-Hao; Chang, Chih-Cheng; Chang, Song-Chu; Chen, Chung-Chen; Chilson, Ryan; Rodríguez-Montoya, Iván; Shaw, Paul; Snow, William; Sridharan, Tirupati Kumara; Srinivasan, Ranjani; Wei, Ta-Shun; Yu, Chen-Yu (EDP Sciences, 2024-01)
    Please read abstract in article.
  • Single molecule spectroscopy on photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes 
    Kyeyune, Farooq (University of Pretoria, 2020-02)
    Single molecule spectroscopy (SMS) is a powerful approach to study subtle, fundamental properties of biological systems generally obscured by the ensemble average. SMS allows for a detailed understanding of the molecular ...
  • Ordered magnetic fields around the 3C 84 central black hole 
    Paraschos, Georgios Filippos; Kim, J.-Y.; Wielgus, Maciek; Röder, J.; Krichbaum, Thomas P.; Ros, Eduardo; Agudo, Iván; Myserlis, Ioannis; Moscibrodzka, Monika; Traianou, Efthalia; Zensus, J. Anton; Blackburn, Lindy; Chan, Chi-kwan; Issaoun, Sara; Janssen, Michael; Johnson, M.D.; Fish, Vincent L.; Akiyama, Kazunori; Alberdi, A.; Alef, Walter; Algaba, Juan Carlos; Anantua, Richard; Asada, Keiichi; Azulay, Rebecca; Bach, Uwe; Baczko, Anne-Kathrin; Ball, David; Baloković, Mislav; Barrett, J.; Bauböck, Michi; Benson, Bradford A.; Bintley, Dan; Blundell, R.; Bouman, Katherine L.; Bower, Geoffrey C.; Boyce, Hope; Bremer, Michael; Brinkerink, Christiaan D.; Brissenden, Roger; Britzen, Silke; Broderick, Avery E.; Broguiere, Dominique; Bronzwaer, Thomas; Bustamante, Sandra; Byun, Do-Young; Carlstrom, John E.; Ceccobello, Chiara; Chael, A.; Chang, Dominic O.; Chatterjee, K.; Chatterjee, Shami; Chen, Ming-Tang; Chen, Y.; Cheng, Xiaopeng; Cho, I.; Christian, P.; Conroy, Nicholas S.; Conway, John E.; Cordes, James M.; Crawford, Thomas M.; Crew, Geoffrey B.; Cruz-Osorio, Alejandro; Cui, Y.; Dahale, Rohan; Davelaar, Jordy; De Laurentis, Mariafelicia; Deane, Roger; Dempsey, Jessica; Desvignes, Gregory; Dexter, Jason; Dhruv, Vedant; Doeleman, Sheperd S.; Dougal, Sean; Dzib, Sergio A.; Eatough, Ralph P.; Emami, Razieh; Falcke, Heino; Farah, Joseph; Fomalont, Ed; Ford, H. Alyson; Foschi, Marianna; Fraga-Encinas, Raquel; Freeman, William T.; Friberg, Per; Fromm, Christian M.; Fuentes, Antonio; Galison, Peter; Gammie, Charles F.; García, R.; Gentaz, Olivier; Georgiev, Boris; Goddi, Ciriaco; Gold, R.; Gomez-Ruiz, Arturo I.; Gomez, Jose L.; Gu (顾敏峰), Minfeng; Gurwell, Mark; Hada, Kazuhiro; Haggard, Daryl; Haworth, Kari; Hecht, Michael H.; Hesper, Ronald; Heumann, Dirk; Ho (何子山), Luis C.; Ho, Paul; Honma, Mareki; Huang, Chih-Wei L.; Huang (黄磊), Lei; Hughes, David H.; Ikeda, Shiro; Impellizzeri, C. M. Violette; Inoue, Makoto; James, D. J.; Jannuzi, Buell T.; Jeter, Britton; Jaing, W.; Jimenez-Rosales, Alejandra; Jorstad, Svetlana; Joshi, Jayneel A.; Jung, Taehyun; Karami, Mansour; Karuppusamy, Ramesh; Kawashima, Tomohisa; Keating, Garrett K.; Kettenis, Mark; Kim, D.-J.; Kim, J.; Kino, Motoki; Koay, Jun Yi; Kocherlakota, Prashant; Kofuji, Yutaro; Koch, Patrick M.; Koyama, Shoko; Kramer, Carsten; Kramer, J.A.; Kramer, Michael; Kuo, Cheng-Yu; La Bella, Noemi; Lauer, Tod R.; Lee, Daeyoung; Lee, S.-S.; Leung, Po Kin; Levis, Aviad; Li, Z.; Lico, Rocco; Lindahl, Greg; Lindqvist, Michael; Lisakov, Mikhail; Liu, J.; Liu, Kuo; Liuzzo, Elisabetta; Lo, Wen-Ping; Lobanov, Andrei P.; Loinard, Laurent; Lonsdale, Colin J.; Lowitz, A.E.; Lu, Ru-Sen; MacDonald, Nicholas R.; Mao, Jirong; Marchili, Nicola; Markoff, Sera; Marrone, Daniel P.; Marscher, Alan P.; Marti-Vidal, Ivan; Matsushita, Satoki; Matthews, Lynn D.; Medeiros, Lia; Menten, Karl M.; Michalik, Daniel; Mizuno, Izumi; Mizuno, Yosuke; Moran, James M.; Moriyama, Kotaro; Mulaudzi, Wanga; Müller, C.; Müller, H.; Mus, Alejandro; Musoke, Gibwa; Nadolski, Andrew; Nagai, Hiroshi; Nagar, Neil M.; Nakamura, Masanori; Narayanan, Gopal; Natarajan, Iniyan; Nathanail, Antonios; Navarro Fuentes, Santiago; Neilsen, Joey; Neri, Roberto; Ni, Chunchong; Noutsos, Aristeidis; Nowak, Michael A.; Oh, Junghwan; Okino, Hiroki; Olivares, Hector; Ortiz-Leon, Gisela N.; Oyama, Tomoaki; Ozel, Feryal; Palumbo, Daniel C. M.; Park, Jongho; Parsons, Harriet; Patel, Nimesh; Pen, Ue-Li; Pietu, Vincent; Plambeck, Richard; PopStefanija, Aleksandar; Porth, Oliver; Pötzl, Felix M.; Prather, Ben; Preciado-Lopez, Jorge A.; Psaltis, Dimitrios; Pu, Hung-Yi; Ramakrishnan, Venkatessh; Rao, Ramprasad; Rawlings, Mark G.; Raymond, Alexander W.; Rezzolla, Luciano; Ricarte, Angelo; Ripperda, Bart; Roelofs, Freek; Rogers, Alan; Romero-Cañizales, Cristina; Roshanineshat, Arash; Rottmann, Helge; Roy, Alan L.; Ruiz, Ignacio; Ruszczyk, Chet; Rygl, Kazi L. J.; Sanchez, Salvador; Sanchez-Arguelles, David; Sanchez-Portal, Miguel; Sasada, Mahito; Satapathy, Kaushik; Savolainen, Tuomas; Schloerb, F. Peter; Schonfeld, Jonathan; Schuster, Karl-Friedrich; Shao, Lijing; Shen, Zhiqiang; Small, Des; Sohn, Bong Won; SooHoo, Jason; Sosapanta Salas, León David; Souccar, Kamal; Sun, He; Tazaki, Fumie; Tetarenko, Alexandra J.; Tiede, Paul; Tilanus, Remo P. J; Titus, Michael; Torne, Pablo; Toscano, T.; Trent, Tyler; Trippe, Sascha; Turk, Matthew; Van Bemmel, Ilse; van Langevelde, Huib Jan; Van Rossum, Daniel R.; Vos, Jesse; Wagner, Jan; Ward-Thompson, Derek; Wardle, John; Washington, J.E.; Weintroub, Jonathan; Wharton, Robert; Wiik, Kaj; Witzel, Gunther; Wondrak, Michael F.; Wong, George N.; Wu, Qingwen; Yadlapalli, N.; Yamaguchi, Paul; Yfantis, Aristomenis Ilias; Yoon, Doosoo; Young, Andre; Young, K.; Younsi, Ziri; Yu, W.; Yuan, Feng; Yuan, Ye-Fei; Zhang, Shuo; Zhao, Guang-Yao; Zhao, Shan-Shan (EDP Sciences, 2024-02)
    Please read abstract in article.
  • SPARCS-North Wide-field VLBI survey : exploring the resolved mu Jy extragalactic radio source population with EVN plus e-MERLIN 
    Njeri, Ann; Beswick, Robert J.; Radcliffe, Jack Frederick; Thomson, A.P.; Wrigley, N.; Muxlow, T.W.B.; Garrett, M.A.; Deane, Roger; Moldon, Javier; Norris, Ray P.; Kothes, Roland (Oxford University Press, 2023-02)
    The SKA PAthfinder Radio Continuum Surveys (SPARCS) are pro viding deep-field imaging of the faint (sub-mJy) extragalactic radio source populations through a series of reference surveys. One of the key science goals for ...
  • An interferometric SETI observation of Kepler-111 b 
    Wandia, Kelvin; Garrett, Michael A.; Radcliffe, Jack Frederick; Garrington, Simon T.; Fawcett, James; Gajjar, Vishal; MacMahon, David H.E.; Varenius, Eskil; Campbell, Robert M.; Paragi, Zsolt; Siemion, Andrew P.V. (Oxford University Press, 2023-05)
    The application of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has been limited to date, despite the technique offering many advantages o v er traditional single-dish ...
  • Biophysical Reviews’ “Meet the IUPAB councillor series” : a brief profile of Tjaart P. J. Krüger 
    Kruger, T.P.J. (Tjaart) (Springer, 2024)
    It is a great privilege for me to have been elected to the IUPAB Council earlier this year and to represent the African continent on the Council. In this short commentary, I am giving a very brief account of my academic ...
  • The study of transparent hematite films using ultrafast and Raman spectroscopies 
    Congolo, Sipho (University of Pretoria, 2019-11)
    Hematite (Fe2O3) is a promising photoanode material that is being studied immensely for its application in solar water splitting to produce hydrogen and oxygen as fuels. It has attractive properties such as a narrow bandgap ...
  • At the end of cosmic noon : short gas depletion times in unobscured quasars at z ∼1 
    Castillo, Frias M.; Rybak, M.; Hodge, Jacqueline; Van Der Werf, Paul; Abbo, Lars; Ballieux, Femke; Ward, Samuel R.; Harrison, Chris; Rivera, G. Calistro; McKean, J.P.; Stacey, Hannah R. (EDP Sciences, 2024-03)
    Please read abstract in article.
  • The Galactic latitude dependency of faraday complexity in the S-PASS/ATCA RM catalogue 
    Ranchod, Shilpa; Mao, S. A.; Deane, Roger; Sridhar, Sarrvesh S.; Damas-Segovia, Ancor; Livingston, Jack; Ma, Y. K. (EDP Sciences, 2024-06)
    The S -band Polarisation All Sky Survey (SPASS/ATCA) rotation measure (RM) catalogue is the largest broadband RM catalogue to date, increasing the RM density in the sparse southern sky. Through analysis of this catalogue, ...
  • Brightest cluster galaxy formation in the z = 4.3 protocluster SPT 2349-56 : discovery of a radio-loud active galactic nucleus 
    Chapman, S.C.; Hill, Ryley; Aravena, Manuel; Archipley, Melanie; Babul, Arif; Burgoyne, James; Canning, Rebecca E. A.; Deane, Roger; De Breuck, Carlos; Gonzalez, Anthony H.; Hayward, Christopher C.; Kim, Seon Woo; Malkan, Matt; Marrone, D.P.; McIntyre, Vincent; Murphy, Eric J.; Pass, Emily; Perry, Ryan W.; Phadke, Kedar A.; Rennehan, Douglas; Reuter, Cassie; Rotermund, Kaja M.; Scott, Douglas; Seymour, Nick; Solimano, Manuel; Spilker, Justin; Stark, Anthony A.; Sulzenauer, Nikolaus; Tothill, Nick; Vieira, Joaquin D.; Vizgan, David; Wang, George; Weiss, Axel (IOP Publishing, 2024-01)
    Please read abstract in article.
  • Investigating the impact of physical vapour deposition of palladium on electron-irradiated silicon substrates 
    Barnard, Abraham Willem; Auret, F.D. (Francois Danie); Meyer, W.E. (Walter Ernst) (Elsevier, 2024-07)
    This study reports on the effect of resistive physical vapour deposition of Pd Schottky contacts on the defects observed in an irradiated n-type Si substrate. Deep-level transient spectroscopy (DLTS) was used in order to ...
  • Wave function of Be 9 in the three-body (ααn) model 
    Rakityansky, Sergei Anatoljevich (American Physical Society, 2024-08)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • Study of the effect of implantation temperature on the migration behaviour of Xe implanted into glassy carbon 
    Ismail, Mahjoub Yagoub Abdalla; Abdalla, Zaki Adam Yousif; Njoroge, Eric Gitau; Hlatshwayo, Thulani Thokozani; Malherbe, Johan B.; Innocent, Audu Joseph; Elnour, Huzifa Mohammed Ahamed Mohammed (Elsevier, 2024-04)
    The effect of implantation temperature on the migration behaviour of xenon (Xe) implanted into glassy carbon and the effect of annealing on radiation damage retained by ion implantation were investigated. Glassy ...
  • Enhancement of electrochemical performance of monolayer SnS2 for Li/Na-ion batteries through a sulphur vacancy : a DFT study 
    Bekeur, Craig Arthur; Mapasha, Refilwe Edwin (Springer, 2023-09)
    Various transition metal dichalcogenides materials have been investigated from bulk to monolayer phases for different advanced technological applications. Tin disulfide monolayer offers advantages as an anode material for ...
  • Molecular events accompanying aggregation-induced energy quenching in fucoxanthin-chlorophyll proteins 
    Alexandre, Maxime T.A.; Kruger, T.P.J. (Tjaart); Pascal, Andrew A.; Veremeienko, Vasyl; Llansola-Portoles, Manuel J.; Gundermann, Kathi; Van Grondelle, Rienk; Büchel, Claudia; Robert, Bruno (Elsevier, 2024-11)
    In high light, the antenna system in oxygenic photosynthetic organisms switches to a photoprotective mode, dissipating excess energy in a process called non-photochemical quenching (NPQ). Diatoms exhibit very efficient ...