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Orientador: Alexys Bruno Alfonso / Banca: Lucila Helena Deliesposte Cesgato / Banca: Clarissa de Almeida Olivati / O Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciência e Tecnologia de Materiais, PosMat, tem carater institucional e integra as atividades de pesquisa em materiais de diversos campi / Resumo: Os cristais fotônicos têm recebido grande atenção da comunidade científica nos últimos anos. As suas aplicações incluem a construção de guias de onda, chips ópticos e células solares, o controle de emissão de radiação e o gerenciamento de informações. Neste trabalho são calculados os modos de propagação de ondas eletromagnéticas em cristais fotônicos bidimensionais. Os cristais estudados são arranjos de fios circulares infinitos de um tipo de meio óptico, imersos numa matriz de outro meio óptico. As estruturas cristalinas consideradas são a quadrada simples, hexagonal simples e honeycomb. É analisada a propagação perpendicular aos fios e, portanto, são consideradas duas polarizações: a transversão elétricas e a transversal magnética. Os cálculos numéricos são realizados para diferentes combinações dos materiais que compõem o cristal fotônico. Isto permite investigar como o espectro fotônico depende da geometria do cristal e do contraste entre os meios ópticos que o compõem. Para resolver a equação de ondas, o campo eletromagnético é expresso como combinação linear de um conjunto de ondas harmônicas planas. Foi encontrado bom acordo entre as frequencia calculadas e resultados disponíveis na literatura do tema, corroborando a existência de gaps fotônicos parciais nas estrutuaras simples e gaps fotônicos completos na estrutura honeycomb. Além disso, verificou-se que o surgimento de gaps requer menor constrate de índice de refração no caso hexagonal, quando comparado com o quadrado / Abstract: Photoic crystals have received some attention from the scientific community in the las years. Their applications include the fabrication of waveguides, optical chips and solar cells, control of radiation emission and information management. In this work, the propagation of electromagnetic waves in two-dimensional photonic crystals is theoretically investigated. The structures under study are periodic arrangements of infinite circular wires of a given optical medium, immersed in a matrix of another optical medium. The considered cyrstalline structures are the simple square, the simple hexagonal and the honeycomb lattices. Only the propagation perpendicular to the wires is analyzed. Hence, we consider two polarizations: transverse electrical and transverse magnetic. The calculations are performed for different combinations of the materials composing the crystal. This allows the investigation of how the photonic spectrum depends on both the crystal geometry and the contrast between the refractuve index of the composing materials. The wave equation is solved by expressing the solution as a linear combination of a set of harmonic plane waves. Good agreement between the calculated frequencies and the results available in the literature is found, thus confirming the existence of partial photonic gaps in the simple lattices and complete photonic gaps in the honeycomb lattice. Moreover, it was verified that occurrence of gaps in the hexagonal case requires less refractive-index contrast, when compared with the square one / Mestre

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:30:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-06-29Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:40:14Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 sereguetti_jm_me_bauru.pdf: 655401 bytes, checksum: f8b80337046a58d12f1aed1d4dc5a28c (MD5) / Os cristais fotônicos têm recebido grande atenção da comunidade científica nos últimos anos. As suas aplicações incluem a construção de guias de onda, chips ópticos e células solares, o controle de emissão de radiação e o gerenciamento de informações. Neste trabalho são calculados os modos de propagação de ondas eletromagnéticas em cristais fotônicos bidimensionais. Os cristais estudados são arranjos de fios circulares infinitos de um tipo de meio óptico, imersos numa matriz de outro meio óptico. As estruturas cristalinas consideradas são a quadrada simples, hexagonal simples e honeycomb. É analisada a propagação perpendicular aos fios e, portanto, são consideradas duas polarizações: a transversão elétricas e a transversal magnética. Os cálculos numéricos são realizados para diferentes combinações dos materiais que compõem o cristal fotônico. Isto permite investigar como o espectro fotônico depende da geometria do cristal e do contraste entre os meios ópticos que o compõem. Para resolver a equação de ondas, o campo eletromagnético é expresso como combinação linear de um conjunto de ondas harmônicas planas. Foi encontrado bom acordo entre as frequencia calculadas e resultados disponíveis na literatura do tema, corroborando a existência de gaps fotônicos parciais nas estrutuaras simples e gaps fotônicos completos na estrutura honeycomb. Além disso, verificou-se que o surgimento de gaps requer menor constrate de índice de refração no caso hexagonal, quando comparado com o quadrado / Photoic crystals have received some attention from the scientific community in the las years. Their applications include the fabrication of waveguides, optical chips and solar cells, control of radiation emission and information management. In this work, the propagation of electromagnetic waves in two-dimensional photonic crystals is theoretically investigated. The structures under study are periodic arrangements of infinite circular wires of a given optical medium, immersed in a matrix of another optical medium. The considered cyrstalline structures are the simple square, the simple hexagonal and the honeycomb lattices. Only the propagation perpendicular to the wires is analyzed. Hence, we consider two polarizations: transverse electrical and transverse magnetic. The calculations are performed for different combinations of the materials composing the crystal. This allows the investigation of how the photonic spectrum depends on both the crystal geometry and the contrast between the refractuve index of the composing materials. The wave equation is solved by expressing the solution as a linear combination of a set of harmonic plane waves. Good agreement between the calculated frequencies and the results available in the literature is found, thus confirming the existence of partial photonic gaps in the simple lattices and complete photonic gaps in the honeycomb lattice. Moreover, it was verified that occurrence of gaps in the hexagonal case requires less refractive-index contrast, when compared with the square one

The limitations of previous dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) experiments have been avoided by a transfer DNP approach whereby the nuclear spins are polarized by DNP at low magnetic field (0.33 T) and then quickly transferred to a high monitoring field (4.7 T). This approach provides an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity when compared to the usual low field DNP experiment. Also high resolution spectra commonly obtainable at high magnetic fields are now possible for the DNP enhanced signals. Using this method, we have observed large ¹H, ²D, ¹³C, ²⁹Si, and ¹⁵N scalar and dipolar enhancements (2-60 times of signal strength at 4.7 T NMR). Among the results, ¹⁵N and ²⁹Si liquid DNP enhancements are the first to be reported. The selective ¹³C and ¹H DNP enhancements at 0.33 T for different nuclei on the same molecule were observed. A mathematical model describing the low to high magnetic field transfer DNP experiments has also been developed. In ¹³C DNP, we find that the three-spin effect can significantly degrade the dipolar dominated enhancements unless high radical concentrations are used. The scalar dominated ¹³C DNP enhancements can be very large. In addition, the nitroxide radical (TEMPO) used in the present study can induce large scalar enhancements at carbon or nitrogen atoms which have weakly acidic hydrogens. These results indicate DNP can be a very sensitive probe to study weak intermolecular interactions (e.g., hydrogen bonding). / Ph. D.

Bhabha scattering, the process of e⁺e⁻ → e⁺e⁻, has been studied at center-of-mass energies from 50 to 58 GeV with the AMY detector at the KEK e⁺e⁻ storage ring TRISTAN. The study is based on a data sample of 79.7 <i>pb⁻¹</i> integrated luminosity. The differential cross section of Bhabha scattering has been measured. The measured cross section is found to agree fairly well with the Standard Model of the electroweak theory. The measured cross section is also compared with various four-fermion contact interaction models, and confidence level lower limits on the composite scale, A, are determined. In addition, the limits on VV model are converted to SM-break-down scales, which indicate the validity of the SM down to the distance of order ~ 10⁻¹⁷ cm and the electron charge radius of ~ 10⁻¹⁶ cm. Attempts are made in searching for an additional boson Z'. No clear signal of the existence of a Z' boson is found up to energy of ~160 GeV/c². The effect of transverse beam polarization on Bhabha scattering is also studied. The ϕ dependence of Bhabha events are fitted to the QED prediction and found to agree with the theory. However, no quantitative conclusion on polarization effect can be drawn based on current data sample, which does not provide enough statistics. More data is being accumulated and further study should be carried out. / Ph. D.

The primary difficulty for successful LC - ¹³C NMR (whether ¹H or ¹³C) is overcoming the relatively low sensitivity of NHR as a chromatographic detector. For the ¹H nuclide this is much less of a problem; the sensitivity ;s approximately 6000 times more sensitive than that of ¹³C nuclei. For this reason, much of the literature focuses on LC - ¹H NMR. To ever successfully realize LC - ¹³C NMR, it is mandatory that an augmentation of ¹³C signal intensity must be effectuated to overcome this sensitivity deficit (~ three orders of magnitude). To satisfy this requirement, our laboratory has utilized dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) to ameliorate these otherwise weak or non-existent signals. For favorable molecules, sensitivity recoveries of up to two orders of magnitude have been developed. This improvement (relative to 'H) narrows the sensitivity gap between 'H and ¹³C NMR detection of chromatographically separated analytes. Despite the fact that relatively large injection volumes were required in most LC experiments, the wealth of structural information inherent to ¹³C NMR justifies any attempt to successfully couple nuclear magnetic resonance to liquid chromatography. In addition, DNP was utilized in a series of SLIT and LLIT experiments where a test mixture was recycled through a NMR spectrometer. Results indicate that ¹³C spectra were obtained with a significantly higher signal-to-noise ratio in a shorter amount of analysis time relative to experiments where DNP was not employed for signal enhancement. / Master of Science

Thesis (M. Sc.)--Carleton University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 130-140). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

A l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, les complexes polyazaaromatiques du Ru(II) sont synthétisés et étudiés dans le cadre du développement d’outils de diagnostic de l’ADN, de drogues photo-activables, de nouveaux matériaux opto-électroniques … Certains de ces complexes possèdent une importante photoréactivité vis à vis de l’ADN ;elle résulte d’un transfert d’électron photo-induit entre une guanine, jouant le rôle de donneur, et le complexe dans un état excité 3MLCT. La photo-oxydation des acides aminés tryptophane et tyrosine a également été observée. La photo-oxydation de cibles biologiques peut conduire à la formation de photo-adduits covalents avec la guanine et avec le Trp. Ceci est à la base des travaux visant à développer des drogues photo-activables.\ / Doctorat en Sciences / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

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