Carbon-based nanoparticles have recently generated a great attention, as they could create
polymer nanocomposites with enhanced transport properties, overcoming some limitations …

Oxides have become a key ingredient for new concepts of electronic devices. To a large
extent, this is due to the profusion of new physics and novel functionalities arising from …

Propagation of elastic waves in acoustic metamaterials based on locally resonant
viscoelastic phononic crystals is discussed. A variational formulation of the complex band …

Using the first-principles full-potential linearized augmented plane-wave method based on
density functional theory, we have investigated the electronic structure and magnetism of …

We report cerium-based bulk metallic glasses with an exceptionally low glass transition
temperature T g, similar to or lower than that of many polymers. We demonstrate that, in near …

Spin-dependent conduction in metals underlies all modern magnetic memory technologies,
such as giant magnetoresistance (GMR). The charge current in ferromagnetic transition …

This paper provides a brief overview of the young, but rapidly growing field of spintronics. Its
primary objective is to explain how as electrons tunnel through simple insulators such as …

Using the fully relativistic screened Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method I study the orbital
magnetism in the half-metallic Heusler alloys. Orbital moments are almost completely …

The phenomenon of quantum tunneling, which was discovered almost a century ago, has
led to many subsequent discoveries. One such discovery, spin polarized tunneling, was …

Understanding of the structure and dynamics of liquids and glasses at an atomistic level lags
well behind that of crystalline materials, even though they are important in many fields …