Research Articles (Physics)

Research Articles (Physics)

 

A collection containing some of the full text peer-reviewed/ refereed articles published by researchers from
the Department of Physics

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  • Deane, Roger; Radcliffe, Jack F.; Njeri, Ann; Akoto-Danso, Alexander; Bernardi, Gianni; Smirnov, Oleg M.; Beswick, Rob; Garrett, Michael A.; Jarvis, Matt; Whittam, Imogen H.; Bourke, Stephen; Paragi, Zsolt (Oxford University Press, 2024-04)
    The past decade has seen significant advances in wide-field cm-wave very long baseline interferometry (VLBI), which is timely given the wide-area, synoptic survey-driven strategy of major facilities across the electromagnetic ...
  • Heywood, I.; Ponomareva, A.A.; Maddox, N.; Jarvis, M.J.; Frank, B.S.; Adams, E.A.K.; Baes, M.; Bianchetti, A.; Collier, J.D.; Deane, Roger; Glowacki, M.; Jung, S.L.; Pan, H.; Rajohnson, S.H.A.; Rodighiero, G.; Ruffa, I.; Santos, M.G.; Sinigaglia, F.; Vaccari, M. (Oxford University Press, 2024-09)
    The MIGHTEE survey utilizes the South African MeerKAT radio telescope to observe four extragalactic deep fields, with the aim of advancing our understanding of the formation and evolution of galaxies across cosmic time. ...
  • Deane, Roger (Oxford University Press, 2024-09)
    The Square Kilometre Array mid-frequency array will enable high-redshift detections of neutral hydrogen ( H I ) emission in galaxies, providing important constraints on the evolution of cold gas in galaxies over cosmic ...
  • Mutua, Hellen Ngunya; Tarimo, Delvina Japhet; Rutavi, Gift; Maphiri, Vusani M.; Mwabora, Julius; Musembi, Robinson J.; Manyala, Ncholu I. (Elsevier, 2025-01)
    Activated carbon (AC) and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) electrodes were successfully synthesized from Eucalyptus grandis tree bark and a mixture of boric acid and urea in the ratio of 2:3, respectively. The optimal composite ...
  • Nothling, Johan Oliviette; Mancal, T.; Kruger, T.P.J. (Tjaart) (American Institute of Physics, 2025-01)
    Much can be learned about molecular aggregates by modeling their fluorescence-type spectra. In this study, we systematically describe the accuracy of various methods for simulating fluorescence-type linear spectra in a ...
  • Kyesmen, Pannan Isa; Mosalakgotla, Nteseng Dorah Mano; Adeola, Adedapo Oluwasanu; Jubu, Peverga R.; Omolaye, Philip; Ahemen, I.; Diale, M. (Elsevier, 2025-02)
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  • Yahyaoui, Makrem; Aouassa, Mansour; Bouabdellaoui, Mohammed; Amdouni, Sonia; Aladim, A.K.; Ali, Abdulraoof I.; Boujdaria, Kais (Springer, 2024-10)
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  • Sembito, Alex; Ligavo, Margdaline Musanga; Mwabora, Julius M.; Nyongesa, Francis W.; Diale, M. (Elsevier, 2025-03)
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  • Molefe, Fokotsa V.; Mothudi, B.M.; Dhlamini, Mokhotjwa S. (Springer, 2024-12-02)
    The present study was carried out to investigate the thin film properties of poly (3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) coupled with graphene oxide (GO) using different spectroscopic techniques. The X-ray diffraction spectrum of GO/P3HT ...
  • Fwalo, Chewe; Kochaev, A.; Mapasha, Refilwe Edwin (Springer, 2024-10)
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  • Giri, Gourab; Fendt, Christian; Thorat, K.; Bodo, Gianluigi; Rossi, Paola (Frontiers Media, 2024-03)
    This review explores the field of X-shaped radio galaxies (XRGs), a distinctive subset of winged radio sources that are identified by two pairs of jetted lobes which aligned by a significant angle, resulting in an ...
  • Hlatshwayo, Thulani Thokozani; Mokgadi, Thapelo Freddy; Sohatsky, A.; Abdalla, Zaki Adam Yousif; Skuratov, V.A.; Njoroge, Eric Gitau; Mlambo, M. (Elsevier, 2024-12)
    The study investigated the migration behaviour of Sr implanted into SiC in the presence of helium (He). Sr ions were implanted into polycrystalline SiC samples (Sr-SiC) at room temperature (RT), and co-implanted with ...
  • Mabelane, T.S.; Sall, M.; Abdalla, Zaki Adam Yousif; Skuratov, V.A.; Hlatshwayo, Thulani Thokozani (Elsevier, 2024-06)
    In this study, the effect of swift heavy ions (SHIs) irradiation in the recrystallization of polycrystalline SiC preimplanted with selenium (Se) ions and migration of Se was investigated. The main objective of this study ...
  • Muramba, Valentine W.; Ali, Abdulraoof I.; Nel, Jacqueline Margot (Wiley, 2024)
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  • Kazunori, Akiyama; 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; Baubock, Michi; Benson, Bradford A.; Bintley, Dan; Blackburn, Lindy; Blundell, Raymond; 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, Andrew; Chan, Chi-kwan; Chang, Dominic O.; Chatterjee, Koushik; Chatterjee, Shami; Chen, Ming-Tang; Chen (陈永军), Yongjun; Cheng, Xiaopeng; Cho, Ilje; Christian, Pierre; Conroy, Nicholas S.; Conway, John E.; Cordes, James M.; 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.; Dougal, Sean; 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 (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; Issaoun, Sara; James, David J.; Jannuzi, Buell T.; Janssen, Michael; Jeter, Britton; Jiang, Wu; Jimenez-Rosales, Alejandra; Johnson, Michael D.; Jorstad, Svetlana; Joshi, Abhishek, V.; Jung, Taehyun; Karami, Mansour; 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, Joana A.; Kramer, Michael; Krichbaum, Thomas P.; Kuo, Cheng-Yu; La Bella, Noemi; Lauer, Tod R.; Lee, Daeyoung; Lee, Sang-Sung; Leung, Po Kin; Levis, Aviad; Li (李志远), 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, Amy 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; Moscibrodzka, Monika; Mulaudzi, Wanga; Muller, Cornelia; Muller, Hendrik; Mus, Alejandro; Musoke, Gibwa; Myserlis, Ioannis; Nadolski, Andrew; Nagai, Hiroshi; Nagar, Neil M.; Nakamura, Masanori; Narayanan, Gopal; Natarajan, Iniyan; Nathanail, Antonios; Fuentes, Santiago Navarro; 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.; Paraschos, Georgios Filippos; Park, Jongho; Parsons, Harriet; Patel, Nimesh; Pen, Ue-Li; Pesce, Dominic W.; 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; Ros, Eduardo; 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; Stanway, Joshua S.; Sun, He; Tazaki, Fumie; Tetarenko, Alexandra J.; Tiede, Paul; Tilanus, Remo P. J.; Titus, Michael; 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; Young, Ken; Younsi, Ziri; Yu, Wei; Yuan, Feng; Yuan, Ye-Fei; Zensus, J. Anton; Zhang, Shuo; Zhao, Guang-Yao; Zhao, Shan-Shan (American Astronomical Society, 2024)
    The Event Horizon Telescope observed the horizon-scale synchrotron emission region around the Galactic center supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A* ), in 2017. These observations revealed a bright, thick ...
  • Sembito, Alex; Mwabora, Julius M.; Nyongesa, Francis W.; Diale, M. (Elsevier, 2025-01)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • Fasakin, Oladepo; Oyedotun, Kabir Oyeniran; Mirghni, Abdulmajid Abdallah; Sylla, Ndeye Fatou; Mahmoud, Badr Ahmed Mohammed; Manyala, Ncholu I. (Elsevier, 2024-12)
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  • Mulokwe, Mbavhalelo; Zoubos, Konstantinos (IOP Publishing, 2024-10)
    With a view towards higher-spin applications, we study the partition function of a free complex fermion in 2d conformal field theory, restricted to the neutral (zero fermion number) sector. This restriction leads to a ...
  • Damena, Tadewos; Desalegn, Tegene; Mathura, Sadhna; Getahun, Alemayehu; Bizuayehu, Dereje; Alem, Mamaru B.; Gadisa, Shiferaw; Zeleke, Digafie; Demissie, Taye B. (American Chemical Society, 2024-08-27)
    Research into heterocyclic ligands has increased in popularity due to their versatile applications in the biomedical field. Quinoline derivatives with their transition metal complexes are popular scaffolding molecules in ...
  • Duvenhage, Rocco de Villiers; Skosana, Samuel; Snyman, Machiel (World Scientific Publishing, 2024-09)
    We develop a general approach to setting up and studying classes of quantum dynamical systems close to and structurally similar to systems having specified properties, in particular detailed balance. This is done in terms ...

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