Extended Hückel methods are known to be a useful tool in understanding surface phenomena. Important quantities about atoms and chemical bonds can be obtained from this computationally simple method, although caution must be exercised in interpreting the results. Application of Extended Hückel calculations to large metal clusters reveals the role of d orbitals in solids. Basic ideas of constructing model compounds have been developed. Several model systems for surface chemisorption processes are constructed in order to understand the surface catalyzed oxidative degradation of polyperfluoroethers. The activation of oxygen molecules can be explained. The Lewis acid character of the iron fluoride surface can be predicted. Based on these results, mechanisms of the degradation processes are discussed.

Submitted by Angela Maria de Oliveira (amolivei@uepg.br) on 2017-10-25T13:39:14Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Januario Kordiak.pdf: 1907122 bytes, checksum: a65c6272637170bbfa2b17ce2175c777 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-25T13:39:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Januario Kordiak.pdf: 1907122 bytes, checksum: a65c6272637170bbfa2b17ce2175c777 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-25 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O ensino de ligações químicas é uma das fases mais importantes no processo de ensino-aprendizagem da Química. Todavia, existe uma grande necessidade de introduzir aos educandos do Ensino Médio a conexão entre a ligação química e a sua natureza quântica. Para alcançar esse objetivo utilizou-se o método de Hückel, um método simples desenvolvido em pesquisas em Química Teórica, antes do início da química computacional. Como metodologia avaliativa o método foi contraposto com as concepções prévias e posteriores dos educandos e, separadamente, com as concepções de educandos ensinados pelo método tradicional, ou seja, quadro, giz e livro. Foi observado que o uso de conceitos atuais, principalmente com o uso do computador, melhorou as argumentações por parte dos educandos ao definirem as ligações químicas, indicando que as aplicações da química quântica aliada a programas computacionais contribuem para resultados expressivos no processo de ensino-aprendizagem da Química. / The nature of chemical bond is essential to understand chemistry concepts, mainly, at initial process in high school. From quantum mechanics concepts was possible describe the chemical bond basing in electronic density, which around the nucleus between two atoms. Hückel method was the first method presented to solve the Schrodinger Equation in approximate level and it reached good qualitative results for aromatic compounds indicating the feasibility of the computational chemistry. However, the Hückel method based on matrix is in accordance with molecular geometry proposed; then, the resolution of such method is possible for students in high level. From this idea, we presented the Hückel method as fundamental to understand the chemical bond for students in the first and second years of high school and we applied questions to evaluate the chemical bond knowledge before/after the Hückel method. We observed that there was increase and reinforce of the chemical bond concept for students.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Físicas e Matemáticas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Física, Florianópolis, 2011 / Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-26T06:08:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 295362.pdf: 3020430 bytes, checksum: 285ef19fb9a1893587d0bb0a78fe60f6 (MD5) / Um método computacional que combina mecânica molecular e mecânica quântica dependente do tempo é usado para descrever a cinética dos estados excitados (MLCT) em complexos de metais de transição solvatados. O formalismo semiempírico desenvolvido é capaz de descrever a polarização induzida em acetonitrila líquida e água, em comparação com os momentos de dipolo das moléculas CH3CN e H2O em vácuo. A investigação dos processos de transferência eletrônica inter-ligantes (ILET) no estado MLCT revela que um regime aleatório de transferência de carga inter-ligantes é estabelecido em escala temporal de subpicosegundos, para ambos os solventes, em menos de 350 fs na acetonitrila e menos que 700 fs na solução aquosa. Os resultados das simulações dão suporte à observação experimental do decaimento da anisotropia de polarização óptica em subpicosegundos e que o elétron perde memória do ligante fotoexcitado em menos de um picosegundo. Dois tipos de cinética ILET foram observadas: um simétrico, no qual todos os ligantes são igualmente acoplados em pares, e um assimétrico, onde um par de ligantes é fortemente acoplado enquanto que outro é fracamente acoplado. Nós atribuímos o acoplamento assimétrico à fixação de moléculas do solvente nos ligantes bipiridina. Em ambos os casos, o íon Ru (II) tem pouca influência na dinâmica de transferência eletrônica inter-ligantes. Os efeitos das dinâmicas de solvatação aqui investigados e sua influência na cinética MLCT são causados 1) pela flutuação térmica do potencial dipolar coletivo de longo alcance de todas as moléculas polares do solvente e 2) pelo potencial de polarização eletrônica induzido, cujo efeito é observado dentro de dezenas de femtosegundos após o início da dinâmica quântica do estado excitado MLCT. Verificou-se também que é importante incluir a flutuação geométrica interna de moléculas grandes do solvente, como a CH3CN, para uma dinâmica eletrônica adequada. Finalmente, notou-se que os modos internos de vibração e torção da estrutura de coordenação do complexo são as principais forças motrizes para a dinâmica de transferência eletrônica inter-ligantes observada em nossas simulações para o [Ru(bpy)3]2+ em acetonitrila e água. Tais resultados são relevantes para a compreensão da dinâmica de processos de transferência eletrônica interfacial em semicondutores sensibilizados por corantes.

Motion of ions under the influence of electric field has been a subject of scientific interest for many decades. Capillary electrophoresis in particular benefited greatly from this research and mathematical models of electromigration applicable to capillary electrophoresis have been developed. As the sophistication of the models grew, so did the computational demands to evaluate them. In order to fully exploit the possibilities of advanced mathematical models a computer implementation capable of solving non-trivial problems at sufficient speed is necessary. This dissertation thesis explores applications of computer implementations of mathematical models re- lated to electromigration in two different areas. The main focus of this thesis is on the topic of linear theory of electromigration. We discuss the extension of the linear theory of electromigration beyond of just acid-base equilibria and computer implementation of this extented theory which is specialized to include complex-forming equilibria in order to be able to deal with affinity capillary electrophoresis prob- lems. Some technical aspects of the computer implementation are also discussed. This is followed upon by investigating certain selected affinity capillary electrophoresis systems. The purpose of this investi- gation is to re-derive...

Heme-based gas sensor proteins have the ability to sense diatomic molecules such as O2 (FixL, EcDos or HemAT), CO (CooA, a CO-sensing protein of Rhodospirillum rubrum) and NO (guanylate cyclase) molecules and subsequently regulate numerous important biological processes in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. The sensing function of these proteins is initiated by the binding of an effector (i.e., O2, CO, etc5) to the heme iron which then leads to a cascade of conformational events which gives rise to changes in kinase activity, DNA-binding activity, etc... In order to better understand the mechanism heme-based signaling, time resolved photothermal methods as well as transient optical techniques were utilized to obtain thermodynamic profiles for ligand binding/release in heme based signaling proteins including HemAT from Bacillus subtilis (aerotactic transducer), FixL from Sinorhizobium meliloti (regulation of the nitrogen fixation) and CooA from Rhodospirillum rubrum (transcriptional activator). In addition, a number of model systems were examined to understand the underlying thermodynamic processes involved in heme ligation. The variation of volume and enthalpy changes associated with spin state change of the iron from high-spin to low-spin where examined using the spin crossover Fe(III)(salten)(mepepy) complex. In addition, the experimental determination of the volume change due to electrostriction events were using Ru(II)(L)3 and the Debye-Hückel equation. Finally, different model heme proteins were studied to understand how a signal is conformationaly transmitted within a heme protein matrix. Sandbar shark hemoglobin was examined as an example of a non-signaling an allosteric protein. Two different peroxidases (horseradish and soybean) which have a direct channel between the heme pocket and the solvent involving no barrier energetic for the photodissociated ligand leaving the heme pocket were examined as example of non-signaling, non-allosteric proteins. The results show that each protein has a unique thermodynamic profile to conformationaly transmit signals subsequent to photodissociation of CO, even within the same class of protein (i.e. PAS domains, globins, etc...).

The continuous migration to smaller feature sizes puts high demands on materials and technologies for future ultra-large-scale integrated circuits. Particularly, the copper-based interconnect system will reach fundamental limits soon. Their outstanding properties make metallic carbon nanotubes (CNTs) an ideal material to partially replace copper in future interconnect architectures. Here, a low contact resistance to existing metal lines is crucial. The present thesis contributes to the theory and numerical description of electronic transport in metallic CNTs with metal contacts. Different theoretical approaches are applied to various contact models and electrode materials (Al, Cu, Pd, Ag, Pt, Au) are compared. Ballistic transport calculations are based on the non-equilibrium Greens function formalism combined with tight-binding (TB), extended Hückel theory (EHT) and density functional theory (DFT). Simplified contact models allow a qualitative investigation of both the influence of geometry and CNT length, and the strength and extent of the contact on the transport properties. In addition, such simple contact models are used to compare the influence of different electronic structure methods on transport. It is found that the semiempirical TB and EHT are inadequate to quantitatively reproduce the DFT-based results. Based on this observation, an improved set of Hückel parameters is developed, which remedies this insufficiency. A systematic investigation of different contact materials is carried out using well defined atomistic metal-CNT-metal structures, optimized in a systematic way. Analytical models for the CNT-metal interaction are proposed. Based on that, electronic transport calculations are carried out, which can be extended to large systems by applying the computationally cheap improved EHT. The metal-CNT-metal systems can then be ranked by average conductance: Ag ≤ Au < Cu < Pt ≤ Pd < Al. This corresponds qualitatively with calculated contact distances, binding energies and work functions of CNTs and metals. To gain a deeper understanding of the transport properties, the electronic structure of the metal-CNT-metal systems and their respective parts is analyzed in detail. Here, the energy resolved local density of states is a valuable tool to investigate the CNT-metal interaction and its influences on the transport. / Die kontinuierliche Verkleinerung der Strukturgrößen stellt hohe Anforderungen an Materialen und Technologien zukünftiger hochintegrierter Schaltkreise. Insbesondere die Leistungsfähigkeit kupferbasierte Leitbahnsystem wird bald an fundamentale Grenzen stoßen. Aufgrund ihrer hervorragenden Eigenschaften könnten metallische Kohlenstoffnanoröhren (engl. Carbon Nanotubes, CNTs) Kupfer in zukünftigen Leitbahnsystemen teilweise ersetzen. Dabei ist ein geringer Kontaktwiderstand mit vorhandenen Leitbahnen von entscheidender Bedeutung. Die vorliegende Arbeit liefert grundlegende Beiträge zur Theorie und zur numerischen Beschreibung elektronischer Transporteigenschaften metallischer CNTs mit Metallkontakten. Dazu werden verschiedene theoretische Ansätze auf diverse Kontaktmodelle angewandt und eine Auswahl von Elektrodenmaterialen (Al, Cu, Pd, Ag, Pt, Au) verglichen. Die Beschreibung ballistischen Elektronentransports erfolgt mittels des Formalismus der Nichtgleichgewichts-Green-Funktionen in Kombination mit Tight-Binding (TB), erweiterter Hückel-Theorie (EHT) und Dichtefunktionaltheorie (DFT). Vereinfachte Kontaktmodelle dienen der qualitativen Untersuchung des Einflusses von Geometrie und Länge der Nanoröhren, sowie von Stärke und Ausdehnung des Kontaktes. Darüber hinaus erlauben solch einfache Modelle mit geringem numerischen Aufwand den Einfluss verschiedener Elektronenstrukturmethoden zu untersuchen. Es zeigt sich, dass die semiempirischen Methoden TB und EHT nicht in der Lage sind die Ergebnisse der DFT quantitativ zu reproduzieren. Ausgehend von diesen Ergebnissen wird ein verbesserter Satz von Hückel-Parametern generiert, der diesen Mangel behebt. Die Untersuchung verschiedener Kontaktmaterialien erfolgt an wohldefinierten atomistischen Metall-CNT-Metall-Strukturen, welche systematisch optimiert werden. Analytische Modelle zur Beschreibung der CNT-Metall-Wechselwirkung werden vorgeschlagen. Darauf aufbauende Berechnungen der elektronischen Transporteigenschaften, können mit Hilfe der verbesserten EHT auf große Systeme ausgedehnt werden. Die Ergebnisse ermöglichen eine Reihung der Metall-CNT-Metall-Systeme hinsichtlich ihrer Leitfähigkeit: Ag ≤ Au < Cu < Pt ≤ Pd < Al. Dies korrespondiert qualitativ mit berechneten Kontaktabständen, Bindungsenergien und Austrittarbeiten der CNTs und Metalle. Zum tieferen Verständnis der Transporteigenschaften erfolgt eine detaillierte Analyse der elektronischen Struktur der Metall-CNT-Metall-Systeme und ihrer Teilsysteme. Dabei erweist sich die energieaufgelöste lokale Zustandsdichte als nützliches Werkzeug zur Visulisierung und zur Charakterisierung der Wechselwirkung zwischen CNT und Metall sowie deren Einfluss auf den Transport.

Kohlenstoffnanoröhrchen (CNTs) sind vielversprechende Kandidaten für neuartige nanoelektronische Bauelemente, wie zum Beispiel Transistoren für Hochfrequenzanwendungen. Simulationen CNT-basierter Bauelemente sind dabei unverzichtbar, um deren Anwendungspotential und das Verhalten in Schaltungen zu untersuchen. Die vorliegende Arbeit konzentriert sich auf einen Methodenvergleich zwischen einem atomistischen Ansatz basierend auf dem Nichtgleichgewichts-Green-Funktionen-Formalismus und einem Modell zur numerischen Bauelementesimulation, welches auf der Schrödinger-Gleichung in effektiver-Massen-Näherung basiert. Ein Transistor mit zylindrischem Gate und dotierten Kontakten wird untersucht, wobei eine effektive Dotierung genutzt wird. Es wird gezeigt, dass die Beschränkungen des elektronischen Transports durch Quan- teneffekte im Kanal nur mit dem atomistischen Ansatz beschrieben werden können. Diese Effekte verhindern das Auftreten von Band-zu-Band-Tunnelströmen, die bei der numerischen Bauelementesimulation zu größeren Aus-Strömen und einem leicht ambipolaren Verhalten führen. Das Schaltverhalten wird hingegen von beiden Modellen vergleichbar beschrieben. Durch Variation der Kanallänge wird das Potential des untersuchten Transistors für zukünftige Anwendungen demonstriert. Dieser zeigt bis hinab zu Kanallängen von circa 8 nm einen Subthreshold-Swing von unter 80 mV/dec und ein An/Aus-Verhältnis von über 10⁶.

The continuous migration to smaller feature sizes puts high demands on materials and technologies for future ultra-large-scale integrated circuits. Particularly, the copper-based interconnect system will reach fundamental limits soon. Their outstanding properties make metallic carbon nanotubes (CNTs) an ideal material to partially replace copper in future interconnect architectures. Here, a low contact resistance to existing metal lines is crucial. The present thesis contributes to the theory and numerical description of electronic transport in metallic CNTs with metal contacts. Different theoretical approaches are applied to various contact models and electrode materials (Al, Cu, Pd, Ag, Pt, Au) are compared. Ballistic transport calculations are based on the non-equilibrium Greens function formalism combined with tight-binding (TB), extended Hückel theory (EHT) and density functional theory (DFT). Simplified contact models allow a qualitative investigation of both the influence of geometry and CNT length, and the strength and extent of the contact on the transport properties. In addition, such simple contact models are used to compare the influence of different electronic structure methods on transport. It is found that the semiempirical TB and EHT are inadequate to quantitatively reproduce the DFT-based results. Based on this observation, an improved set of Hückel parameters is developed, which remedies this insufficiency. A systematic investigation of different contact materials is carried out using well defined atomistic metal-CNT-metal structures, optimized in a systematic way. Analytical models for the CNT-metal interaction are proposed. Based on that, electronic transport calculations are carried out, which can be extended to large systems by applying the computationally cheap improved EHT. The metal-CNT-metal systems can then be ranked by average conductance: Ag ≤ Au < Cu < Pt ≤ Pd < Al. This corresponds qualitatively with calculated contact distances, binding energies and work functions of CNTs and metals. To gain a deeper understanding of the transport properties, the electronic structure of the metal-CNT-metal systems and their respective parts is analyzed in detail. Here, the energy resolved local density of states is a valuable tool to investigate the CNT-metal interaction and its influences on the transport. / Die kontinuierliche Verkleinerung der Strukturgrößen stellt hohe Anforderungen an Materialen und Technologien zukünftiger hochintegrierter Schaltkreise. Insbesondere die Leistungsfähigkeit kupferbasierte Leitbahnsystem wird bald an fundamentale Grenzen stoßen. Aufgrund ihrer hervorragenden Eigenschaften könnten metallische Kohlenstoffnanoröhren (engl. Carbon Nanotubes, CNTs) Kupfer in zukünftigen Leitbahnsystemen teilweise ersetzen. Dabei ist ein geringer Kontaktwiderstand mit vorhandenen Leitbahnen von entscheidender Bedeutung. Die vorliegende Arbeit liefert grundlegende Beiträge zur Theorie und zur numerischen Beschreibung elektronischer Transporteigenschaften metallischer CNTs mit Metallkontakten. Dazu werden verschiedene theoretische Ansätze auf diverse Kontaktmodelle angewandt und eine Auswahl von Elektrodenmaterialen (Al, Cu, Pd, Ag, Pt, Au) verglichen. Die Beschreibung ballistischen Elektronentransports erfolgt mittels des Formalismus der Nichtgleichgewichts-Green-Funktionen in Kombination mit Tight-Binding (TB), erweiterter Hückel-Theorie (EHT) und Dichtefunktionaltheorie (DFT). Vereinfachte Kontaktmodelle dienen der qualitativen Untersuchung des Einflusses von Geometrie und Länge der Nanoröhren, sowie von Stärke und Ausdehnung des Kontaktes. Darüber hinaus erlauben solch einfache Modelle mit geringem numerischen Aufwand den Einfluss verschiedener Elektronenstrukturmethoden zu untersuchen. Es zeigt sich, dass die semiempirischen Methoden TB und EHT nicht in der Lage sind die Ergebnisse der DFT quantitativ zu reproduzieren. Ausgehend von diesen Ergebnissen wird ein verbesserter Satz von Hückel-Parametern generiert, der diesen Mangel behebt. Die Untersuchung verschiedener Kontaktmaterialien erfolgt an wohldefinierten atomistischen Metall-CNT-Metall-Strukturen, welche systematisch optimiert werden. Analytische Modelle zur Beschreibung der CNT-Metall-Wechselwirkung werden vorgeschlagen. Darauf aufbauende Berechnungen der elektronischen Transporteigenschaften, können mit Hilfe der verbesserten EHT auf große Systeme ausgedehnt werden. Die Ergebnisse ermöglichen eine Reihung der Metall-CNT-Metall-Systeme hinsichtlich ihrer Leitfähigkeit: Ag ≤ Au < Cu < Pt ≤ Pd < Al. Dies korrespondiert qualitativ mit berechneten Kontaktabständen, Bindungsenergien und Austrittarbeiten der CNTs und Metalle. Zum tieferen Verständnis der Transporteigenschaften erfolgt eine detaillierte Analyse der elektronischen Struktur der Metall-CNT-Metall-Systeme und ihrer Teilsysteme. Dabei erweist sich die energieaufgelöste lokale Zustandsdichte als nützliches Werkzeug zur Visulisierung und zur Charakterisierung der Wechselwirkung zwischen CNT und Metall sowie deren Einfluss auf den Transport.

Les propriétés spectroscopiques du cuivre monovalent ont été étudiées dans deux familles de matériaux oxygénés.<br />Deux types de verres borate et phosphate, de composition nominales LaMgB5O10:Cu+ et LiLaP4O12:Cu+ ont été caractérisés, essentiellement par spectroscopie UV-visible et par EXAFS. Des tests d'émission laser ont été effectués sur un échantillon de verre borate.<br />Trois matériaux-modèle fortement concentrés en cuivre, dans lesquels cet élément adopte une coordinence linéaire par rapport à l'oxygène, ont fait l'objet de tentatives de modélisation visant à corréler structure et propriétés de spectroscopie optique. Il s'agit des delafossites CuLaO2 et CuYO2 ainsi que du phosphate CuTh2(PO4)3. Des calculs de structures de bandes ont été effectués pour les composés CuLaO2 et CuYO2 par les méthodes ASW et HÜCKEL ETENDUE. L'étude spectroscopique de CuTh2(PO4)3 a été étendue à la solution solide Na1-xCuxTh2(PO4)3 (0 < x < 0,25).