Large thermopower in the antiferromagnetic semiconductor BaMn2Bi2
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Wang, K.
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Impact of Mg concentration on energy-band-depth profile of Mg-doped InN epilayers analyzed by hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
The electronic structures of Mg-doped InN (Mg-InN) epilayers with the Mg concentration, [Mg], ranging from 1 × 10{sup 19} to 5 × 10{sup 19} cm{sup −3} were systematically investigated by soft and hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopies. The angle-resolved results on the core-level and valence band photoelectron spectra as a function of [Mg] revealed that the energy band of Mg-InN showed downward bending due to the n{sup +} surface electron accumulation and p type layers formed in the bulk. With an increase in [Mg], the energy-band changed from monotonic to two-step n{sup +}p homojunction structures. The oxygen concentration rapidly increased at the middle-bulk region (∼4.5 to ∼7.5 nm) from the surface, which was one of the reasons of the transformation of two-step energy band.
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GeV EMISSION DURING X-RAY FLARES FROM LATE INTERNAL SHOCKS: APPLICATION TO GRB 100728A
Recently, the GeV radiation during the X-ray flare activity in GRB 100728A was detected by Fermi/LAT. Here, we study the dynamics and emission properties of a collision between two homogeneous shells based on the late internal shock model. The GeV photons can be produced from X-ray flare photons being upscattered by relativistic electrons that are accelerated by forward-reverse shocks, where the involved radiative processes include synchrotron self-Compton and crossing inverse-Compton scattering. Using analytical and numerical calculations, the observed spectral properties in GRB 100728A can be well explained.
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High-quality Bi{sub 2}Te{sub 3} thin films grown on mica substrates for potential optoelectronic applications
We report high-quality topological insulator Bi{sub 2}Te{sub 3} thin films grown on muscovite mica substrates by molecular beam epitaxy. The topographic and structural analysis revealed that the Bi{sub 2}Te{sub 3} thin films exhibited atomically smooth terraces over a large area and a high crystalline quality. Both weak antilocalization effect and quantum oscillations were observed in the magnetotransport of the relatively thin samples. A phase coherence length of 277 nm for a 6 nm thin film and a high surface mobility of 0.58 m{sup 2} V{sup -1} s{sup -1} for a 4 nm thin film were achieved. These results confirm that the thin films grown on mica are of high quality.
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RMC - A Monte Carlo code for reactor physics analysis
A new Monte Carlo neutron transport code RMC has been being developed by Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing as a tool for reactor physics analysis on high-performance computing platforms. To meet the requirements of reactor analysis, RMC now has such functions as criticality calculation, fixed-source calculation, burnup calculation and kinetics simulations. Some techniques for geometry treatment, new burnup algorithm, source convergence acceleration, massive tally and parallel calculation, and temperature dependent cross sections processing are researched and implemented in RMC to improve the efficiency. Validation results of criticality calculation, burnup calculation, source convergence acceleration, tallies performance and parallel performance shown in this paper prove the capabilities of RMC in dealing with reactor analysis problems with good performances. (authors)
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Secondary fusion coupled deuteron/triton transport simulation and thermal-to-fusion neutron convertor measurement
A Monte Carlo tool RSMC (Reaction Sequence Monte Carlo) was developed to simulate deuteron/triton transportation and reaction coupled problem. The 'Forced particle production' variance reduction technique was used to improve the simulation speed, which made the secondary product play a major role. The mono-energy 14 MeV fusion neutron source was employed as a validation. Then the thermal-to-fusion neutron convertor was studied with our tool. Moreover, an in-core conversion efficiency measurement experiment was performed with {sup 6}LiD and {sup 6}LiH converters. Threshold activation foils was used to indicate the fast and fusion neutron flux. Besides, two other pivotal parameters were calculated theoretically. Finally, the conversion efficiency of {sup 6}LiD is obtained as 1.97x10{sup -4}, which matches well with the theoretical result. (authors)
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Research on acceleration method of reactor physics based on FPGA platforms
The physical designs of the new concept reactors which have complex structure, various materials and neutronic energy spectrum, have greatly improved the requirements to the calculation methods and the corresponding computing hardware. Along with the widely used parallel algorithm, heterogeneous platforms architecture has been introduced into numerical computations in reactor physics. Because of the natural parallel characteristics, the CPU-FPGA architecture is often used to accelerate numerical computation. This paper studies the application and features of this kind of heterogeneous platforms used in numerical calculation of reactor physics through practical examples. After the designed neutron diffusion module based on CPU-FPGA architecture achieves a 11.2 speed up factor, it is proved to be feasible to apply this kind of heterogeneous platform into reactor physics. (authors)
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Improved methods of handling massive tallies in reactor Monte Carlo Code RMC
Monte Carlo simulations containing a large number of tallies generally suffer severe performance penalties due to a significant amount of run time spent in searching for and scoring individual tally bins. This paper describes the improved methods of handling large numbers of tallies, which have been implemented in the RMC Monte Carlo code. The calculation results demonstrate that the proposed methods can considerably improve the tally performance when massive tallies are treated. In the calculated case with 6 million of tally regions, only 10% of run time is increased in each active cycle against each inactive cycle. (authors)
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Quasi-two-dimensional Dirac fermions and quantum magnetoresistance in LaAgBi2
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P-type InGaN across the entire alloy composition range
A systematic investigation on Mg doped and undoped InGaN epilayers grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy has been conducted. Single phase InGaN alloys across the entire composition range were synthesized and Mg was doped into In{sub x}Ga{sub 1-x}N (0.1 {<=} x {<=} 0.88) epilayers up to {approx}10{sup 20}/cm{sup 3}. Hall effect, thermopower, and electrochemical capacitance voltage experimental results demonstrate the realization of p-type InGaN across the entire alloy composition range for properly Mg doped InGaN. Hole densities have been measured or estimated to be in the lower {approx}10{sup 18}/cm{sup 3} range when the net acceptor concentrations are in the lower {approx}10{sup 19}/cm{sup 3} range across the composition range.
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Development of a novel ultrasonic temperature probe for long-term monitoring of dry cask storage systems
With the recent cancellation of the Yucca Mountain repository and the limited availability of wet storage utilities for spent nuclear fuel (SNF), more attention has been directed toward dry cask storage systems (DCSSs) for long-term storage of SNF. Consequently, more stringent guidelines have been issued for the aging management of dry storage facilities that necessitate monitoring of the conditions of DCSSs. Continuous health monitoring of DCSSs based on temperature variations is one viable method for assessing the integrity of the system. In the present work, a novel ultrasonic temperature probe (UTP) is being tested for long-term online temperature monitoring of DCSSs. Its performance was evaluated and compared with type N thermocouple (NTC) and resistance temperature detector (RTD) using a small-scale dry storage canister mockup. Our preliminary results demonstrate that the UTP system developed at Argonne is able to achieve better than 0.8 Degree-Sign C accuracy, tested at temperatures of up to 400 Degree-Sign C. The temperature resolution is limited only by the sampling rate of the current system. The flexibility of the probe allows conforming to complex geometries thus making the sensor particularly suited to measurement scenarios where access is limited.
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Iron chalcogenide superconductors at high magnetic fields
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Electronic Griffiths Phase in the Te-Doped Semiconductor FeSb2
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Electron impact excitation rate coefficients for P-like Ni XIV
We have calculated the atomic data including electron impact excitations and radiative decays among the lowest 143 fine-structure levels arising from 3s{sup 2}3p{sup 3}, 3s3p{sup 4}, 3s{sup 2}3p{sup 2}3d, 3p{sup 5}, 3s3p{sup 3}3d, and 3s{sup 2}3p3d{sup 2} configurations in P-like Ni XIV. Direct excitation collision strengths are calculated employing the relativistic distorted-wave method. Resonances are included via the isolated resonance approximation using distorted-waves. Resonance contributions from S-like [3s{sup 2}3p{sup 3}, 3s3p{sup 4}, 3s{sup 2}3p{sup 2}3d,3p{sup 5}, 3s3p{sup 3}3d,3s{sup 2}3p3d{sup 2}, 3p{sup 4}3d,3s3p{sup 2}3d{sup 2},3s{sup 2}3d{sup 3}]n{sup Prime }l{sup Prime} complex series are taken into account. Effective collision strengths are reported over an electron temperature range of 1.0 Multiplication-Sign 10{sup 5}-1.0 Multiplication-Sign 10{sup 8} K. -- Highlights: Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Radiative and collisional atomic data are presented for the lowest 143 fine-structure levels in P-like Ni XIV. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Calculations are performed using the FAC package. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Resonances enhance significantly a large amount of transitions. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Resonances play an important role of level population and line intensity ratios.
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GPU-accelerated 3D neutron diffusion code based on finite difference method
Finite difference method, as a traditional numerical solution to neutron diffusion equation, although considered simpler and more precise than the coarse mesh nodal methods, has a bottle neck to be widely applied caused by the huge memory and unendurable computation time it requires. In recent years, the concept of General-Purpose computation on GPUs has provided us with a powerful computational engine for scientific research. In this study, a GPU-Accelerated multi-group 3D neutron diffusion code based on finite difference method was developed. First, a clean-sheet neutron diffusion code (3DFD-CPU) was written in C++ on the CPU architecture, and later ported to GPUs under NVIDIA's CUDA platform (3DFD-GPU). The IAEA 3D PWR benchmark problem was calculated in the numerical test, where three different codes, including the original CPU-based sequential code, the HYPRE (High Performance Pre-conditioners)-based diffusion code and CITATION, were used as counterpoints to test the efficiency and accuracy of the GPU-based program. The results demonstrate both high efficiency and adequate accuracy of the GPU implementation for neutron diffusion equation. A speedup factor of about 46 times was obtained, using NVIDIA's Geforce GTX470 GPU card against a 2.50 GHz Intel Quad Q9300 CPU processor. Compared with the HYPRE-based code performing in parallel on an 8-core tower server, the speedup of about 2 still could be observed. More encouragingly, without any mathematical acceleration technology, the GPU implementation ran about 5 times faster than CITATION which was speeded up by using the SOR method and Chebyshev extrapolation technique. (authors)
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The first-principle coupled calculations using TMCC and CFX for the pin-wise simulation of LWR
The coupling of neutronics and thermal-hydraulics plays an important role in the reactor safety, core design and operation of nuclear power facilities. This paper introduces the research on the coupling of Monte Carlo method and CFD method, specifically using TMCC and CFX. The methods of the coupling including the coupling approach, data transfer, mesh mapping and transient coupling scheme are studied firstly. The coupling of TMCC and CFX for the steady state calculations is studied and described for the single rod model and the 3 x 3 Rod Bundle model. The calculation results prove that the coupling method is feasible and the coupled calculation can be used for steady state calculations. However, the oscillation which occurs during the coupled calculation indicates that this method still needs to be improved for the accuracy. Then the coupling for the transient calculations is also studied and tested by two cases of the steady state and the lost of heat sink. The preliminary results of the transient coupled calculations indicates that the transient coupling with TMCC and CFX is able to simulate the transients but instabilities are occurring. It is also concluded that the transient coupling of TMCC and CFX needs to be improved due to the limitation of computational resource and the difference of time scales. (authors)
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