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Research Papers in Physics and Astronomy

Peter Dowben Publications

2009

Magnetism of Cr-Doped Diamond-Like Carbon, J. A. Colón Santana, Ralph Skomski, V. Singh, V. Palshin, A. Petukhov, Ya. B. Losovyj, Andrei Sokolov, Peter Dowben, and Ihor Ketsman

3d transition metal doping of semiconducting boron carbides, Peter A. Dowben, Orhan Kizilkaya, Jing Liu, B. Montag, K. Nelson, Ildar F. Sabiryanov, and J. I. Brand

Adsorbate/absorbate interactions with organic ferroelectric polymers, Peter A. Dowben, Luis G. Rosa, Carolina C. Ilie, and Jie Xiao

Isomeric effects with di-iodobenzene (C₆H₄I₂) on adsorption on graphite, Keisuke Fukutani, Ning Wu, and Peter A. Dowben

4f hybridization and band dispersion in gadolinium thin films and compounds, Takashi Komesu, H. K. Jeong, David Wooton, Ya. B. Losovyj, J. N. Crain, M. Bissen, F. J. Himpsel, J. Petrosky, Jinke Tang, Wendong Wang, I. N. Yakovkin, and Peter A. Dowben

Comparison of n-type Gd₂O₃ and Gd-doped HfO₂, Ya. B. Losovyj, David Wooten, Juan Colon Santana, Joonhee Michael An, Kirill D. Belashchenko, N. Lozova, J. Petrosky, Andrei Sokolov, Jinke Tang, Wendong Wang, Navamoney Arulsamy, and Peter Dowben

Selective Nanoshaving of Self-Assembled Monolayers of 2-(4-Pyridylethyl)Triethoxysilane, Luis G. Rosa, Jinyue Jiang, Ocelio V. Lima, Jie Xiao, Emmanuel Utreras, Peter Dowben, and Li Tan

Fission processes following core level excitation in closo-1,2-orthocarborane, E. Rühl, A. P. Hitchcock, J. D. Bozek, T. Tyliszczak, A. L. D. Kilcoyne, D. N. McIlroy, A. Knop-Gericke, and Peter A. Dowben

Induced spin polarization of copper spin 1/2 molecular layers, David Wisbey, Ning Wu, Danqin Feng, A. N. Caruso, J. Belot, Ya. B. Losovyj, E. Vescovo, and Peter A. Dowben

Radiation-induced decomposition of the metal-organic molecule Bis(4-cyano-2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-3,5-heptanedionato)copper(II), David Wisbey, Ning Wu, Yaroslav Losovyj, Ihor Ketsman, A. N. Caruso, Danqin Feng, John Belot, Elio Vescovo, and Peter A. Dowben

The surface core level shift for lithium at the surface of lithium borate, David Wooten, Ihor Ketsman, Jie Xiao, Ya. B. Losovyj, J. Petrosky, J. McClory, Ya. V. Burak, V. T. Adamiv, and Peter A. Dowben

Changes in the Adsorbate Dipole Layer with Changing d-Filling of the Metal (II) (Co, Ni, Cu) Phthalocyanines on Au(111), Jie Xiao and Peter Dowben

Haloform adsorption on crystalline copolymer films of vinylidene fluoride with trifluoroethylene, Jie Xiao, Carolina C. Ilie, Ning Wu, Keisuke Fukutani, and Peter A. Dowben

2008

The local environment of Co in B₅CH_x, Peter Dowben, A. Yu. Ignatov, Jing Lui, and Ralph Skomski

Different approaches to adjusting band offsets at intermolecular interfaces, Peter Dowben, Jie Xiao, Bo Xu, Andrei Sokolov, and B. Doudin

Photofragmentation of closo-Carboranes Part 1: Energetics of Decomposition, Danqin Feng, Jing Liu, Adam P. Hitchcock, A. L. David Kilcoyne, Tolek Tyliszczak, Norman F. Riehs, Eckart Rühl, John D. Bozek, David McIlroy, and Peter Dowben

Gd-doping of HfO₂, Ihor Ketsman, Ya B. Losovyj, Jinke Tang, Zhenjun Wang, M. L. Natta, Jennifer I. Brand, and Peter Dowben

The gold and oxygen (3 × 1) structures on W(1 1 2), Ihor Ketsman, N. Lozova, John Scott, Peter Dowben, I. N. Yakovin, and S. M. Zuber

The bulk band structure and inner potential of layered In₄Se₃, Jing Liu, Ya. B. Losovyj, Takashi Komesu, Peter Dowben, L. Makinistian, E. A. Albinesi, A. G. Petukhov, P. Galiy, and Ya. Fiyala

The anisotropic band structure of layered In₄Se₃(001), Ya. B. Losovyj, L. Makinistian, E. A. Albanesi, A. G. Pethukov, Jing Liu, P. Galiy, O. R. Dveriy, and Peter Dowben

Interface-Induced Spin and Dipole Ordering of the Copper Spin ½ Molecule: Bis(4-cyano-2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-3,5-heptanedionato)copper(II), David Wisbey, Ning Wu, Danqin Feng, Anthony N. Caruso, John Belot, Yaroslav Losovyj, Elio Vescovo, and Peter Dowben

The kinetic energy dependent effective Debye temperature for CoS₂ (100), Ning Wu, David Wisbey, Takashi Komesu, Z. X. Yu, M. Manno, L. Wang, C. Leighton, and Peter Dowben

The kinetic energy dependent effective Debye temperature for CoS₂ (100), Ning Wu, David Wisbey, Takashi Komesu, Z. X. Yu, M. Manno, L. Wang, C. Leighton, and Peter Dowben

Electronic Structure Evidence for All-Trans Poly(methylvinylidene cyanide), Jie Xiao, Matt Poulsen, D. Sahadeva Reddy, James Takacs, Ya. B. Losovyj, and Peter Dowben

2007

Epitaxial growth and surface properties of half-metal NiMnSb films, C. N. Borca, D. Ristoiu, H.-K. Jeong, Takashi Komesu, A. N. Caruso, J. Pierre, L. Ranno, J. P. Nozieres, and Peter A. Dowben

Epitaxial growth and surface properties of half-metal NiMnSb films, C. N. Borca, D. Ristoiu, Takashi Komesu, A. N. Caruso, J. Pierre, L. Ranno, J. P. Nozieres, and Peter Dowben

Energetics of the dipole flip-flop motion in a ferroelectric polymer chain, Lei Cai, Xuewen Wang, Yesim Darici, Jiandi Zhang, and Peter A. Dowben

Half Metallic Ferromagnets, Peter A. Dowben

Electronic, magnetic and transport properties of rare-earth monopnictides, Chun-Gang Duan, Ildar F. Sabiryanov, W. N. Mei, Peter A. Dowben, Sitaram Jaswal, and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Identification of the Possible Defect States in Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Thin Films, D.-Q. Feng, A. N. Caruso, Y. B. Losovyj, D. L. Schulz, and Peter Dowben

Polyvinylidene fluoride–trifluoroethylene as a reservoir for absorbed water, P.A. Jacobson, Luis G. Rosa, Kristin Kraemer, Stephen Ducharme, and Peter A. Dowben

The n-type Gd-doped HfO₂ to silicon heterojunction diode, Ihor Ketsman, Y. B. Losovyj, Andrei Sokolov, J. Tang, Z. Wang, Kirill D. Belashchenko , and Peter Dowben

The electronic structure change with Gd doping of HfO₂ on silicon, Ya. B. Losovyj, Ihor Ketsman, Andrei Sokolov, Kirill D. Belashchenko , Peter Dowben, Jinke Tang, and Zhenjun Wang

Optimization of the 3 m TGM beamline, at CAMD, for constant initial state spectroscopy, Yaroslav Losovyj, Ihor Ketsman, Eizi Morikawa, Zhenjun Wang, Jinke Tang, and Peter Dowben

High-resolution photoemission study of organic systems at the CAMD 3 m NIM beamline, Yaroslav Losovyj, Kevin Morris, Luis Rosa, John D. Scott, and Peter Dowben

Correlation effects and electronic structure of Gd@C₆₀, R. F. Sabirianov, W. N. Mei, Jing Lu, Yi Gao, Xiao Cheng Zeng, R. D. Bolskar, P. Jeppson, Ning Wu, A. N. Caruso, and Peter A. Dowben

Electronic Structure of a Metal-Organic Copper Spin-½ Molecule: Bis(4-cyano-2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-3,5-heptanedionato)copper(II), David Wisbey, Danqin Feng, Marshall T. Bremer, Camelia N. Borca, Anthony N. Caruso, Carter M. Silvernail, John Belot, Elio Vescovo, Laurent Ranno, and Peter Dowben

The electronic band structure of CoS₂, Ning Wu, Ya B. Losovyj, David Wisbey, Kirill D. Belashchenko , M. Manno, L. Wang, C. Leighton, and Peter A. Dowben

Changing band offsets in copper phthalocyanine to copolymer poly(vinylidene fluoride with trifluoroethylene) heterojunctions, Jie Xiao, A. Sokolov, and Peter A. Dowben

Corrigendum, Re: The structure of the CoS₂ (100)-(1×1) surface, Z. X. Yu, M. A. Van Hove, S. Y. Tong, David Wisbey, Ya. B. Losovyj, Ning Wu, M. Manno, L. Wang, C. Leighton, W. N. Mei, and Peter A. Dowben

The structure of the CoS₂ (100)-(1 × 1) surface, Z. X. Yu, M. A. Van Hove, S. Y. Tong, David Wisbey, Ya. B. Losovyj, Ning Wu, M. Manno, L. Wang, C. Leighton, W. N. Mei, and Peter A. Dowben

2006

The electronic structure of 1,2-PCB₁₀H₁₁ molecular films: a precursor to a novel semiconductor, Snjezana Balaz, D.I. Dimov, N.M. Boag, K. Nelson, B. Montag, J.I. Brand, and Peter A. Dowben

The all boron carbide diode neutron detector: Comparison with theory, A.N. Caruso, Peter A. Dowben, S. Balkir, Nathan Schemm, Kevin Osberg, R.W. Fairchild, Oscar Barrios Flores, Snjezana Balaz, A.D. Harken, Brian W. Robertson, and Jennifer I. Brand

Defect contributions to conductivity in poly(3-hexylthiophene)?, A. N. Caruso, D.-Q. Feng, Ya. B. Losovyj, D. L. Schulz, Snjezana Balaz, Luis G. Rosa, Andrei Sokolov, B. Doudin, and Peter Dowben

The interface electronic structure of thiol terminated molecules on cobalt and gold surfaces, A. N. Caruso, Ligen Wang, Sitaram Jaswal, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, and Peter A. Dowben

Cobaltocene adsorption and dissociation on Cu(1 1 1), Jaewu Choi and Peter A. Dowben

Surface Segregation in Multicomponent Clusters, Peter A. Dowben, Ning Wu, Natalie Palina, R. Müller, J. Hormes, and Ya. B. Losovyj

Magnetic ordering in Gd monopnictides: Indirect exchange versus superexchange interaction, Chun-gang Duan, Renat F. Sabiryanov, W.N. Mei, Peter A. Dowben, Sitaram Jaswal, and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Erratum: Strain Induced Half-Metal to Semiconductor Transition in GdN, Chun-gang Duan, R.F. Sabiryanov, Jianjun Liu, W.N. Mei, Peter A. Dowben, and J.R. Hardy

Electronic structure and polymerization of a self-assembled monolayer with multiple arene rings, D.Q. Feng, David Wisbey, Ya. B. Losovyj, Y. Tai, M. Zharnikov, and Peter A. Dowben

Polyvinylidene fluoride–trifluoroethylene as a reservoir for absorbed water, P.A. Jacobson, Luis G. Rosa, Kristin Kraemer, Stephen Ducharme, and Peter A. Dowben

A Handheld Neutron-Detection Sensor System Utilizing a New Class of Boron Carbide Diode, Kevin Osberg, Nathan Schemm, M. Susan Hallbeck, Sina Balkir, Peter A. Dowben, Jennifer I. Brand, and Michael W. Hoffman

A hand-held neutron detection sensor systems, K. Osberg, N. Schemm, S. Balkir, J.I. Brand, S. Hallbeck, and Peter A. Dowben

The electronic structure and band hybridization of Co/Ti doped BaFe₁₂O₁₉, Natalie Palina, H. Modrow, R. Müller, J. Hormes, Peter A. Dowben, and Ya. B. Losovyj

Electronic structure and vibrational spectra of C₂B₁₀-based clusters and films, Kyungwha Park, M. R. Pederson, L. L. Boyer, Wai-Ning Mei, Renat F. Sabirianov, Xiao Cheng Zeng, Satya Silendra Bulusu, Seamus Curran, James Dewald, Ellen Day, Shireen Adenwalla, Manuel Diaz, Luis G. Rosa, S. Balaz, and Peter A. Dowben

Comparison of the electronic structure of two polymers with strong dipole ordering, Jie Xiao, Luis G. Rosa, Matt Poulsen, Danqin Feng, D. Sahadeva Reddy, James M. Takacs, Lei Cai, Jiandi Zhang, Stephen Ducharme, and Peter A. Dowben

2005

Metal hybridization and electronic structure of Tris(8-hydroxyquinolato)aluminum (Alq₃), Anthony N. Caruso, D. L. Schulz, and Peter Dowben

The electronic structure of oriented poly [2-methoxy-5-(2’-ethyl-hexyloxy)-1,4-phenylene-vinylene], D.K. Chambers, S. Karanam, D. Qi, S. Selmic, Y.B. Losovyj, L.G. Rosa, and Peter A. Dowben

Comparison of crystalline thin poly(vinylidene (70%)–trifluoroethylene (30%)) copolymer films with short chain poly(vinylidene fluoride) films, Jaewu Choi, Eizi Morikawa, Stephen Ducharme, and Peter A. Dowben

Strain Induced Half-Metal to Semiconductor Transition in GdN, Chun-gang Duan, Renat F. Sabirianov, Jianjun Liu, Wai-Ning Mei, Peter A. Dowben, and J. R. Hardy

The anomalous "stiffness" of biphenydimethyldithiol, D.Q. Feng, Peter A. Dowben, R. Rajesh, and J. Redepenning

Mercury and C₂B₁₀ Icosahedra Interaction, Carolina C. Ilie, Petru Lunca-Popa, J. Zhang, Bernard Doudin, and Peter A. Dowben

The coadsorption and interaction of molecular icosahedra with mercury, C.C. Ilie, S. Balaz, L.G. Rosa, Jun Zhang, P. Lunca-Popa, C. Bianchetti, R. Tittsworth, Jennifer I. Brand, B. Doudon, and Peter A. Dowben

Strain and strain relief in gd[0001] thin films on mo[112], T. Komesu, C. Waldfried, and Peter A. Dowben

Evidence for Multiple Polytypes of Semiconducting Boron Carbide (C₂B₁₀) From Electronic Structure, Petru Lunca-Popa, J. Brand, Snjezana Balaz, Luis Rosa, Neil M. Boag, Mengjun Bai, Brian W. Robertson, and Peter Dowben

Evidence for Multiple Polytypes of Semiconducting Boron Carbide (C₂B₁₀) from Electronic Structure, Petru Lunca-Popa, Jennifer I. Brand, Snjezana Balaz, Luis G. Rosa, Neil M. Boag, Mengjun Bai, Brian W. Robertson, and Peter A. Dowben

Intra-atomic aspects of magnon-plasmon interactions, Ralph Skomski and Peter A. Dowben

2004

Surface structure of ultrathin copolymer films of ferroelectric vinylidene fluoride (70%) with trifluoroethylene (30%) on graphite, Lei Cai, Hongwei Qu, Chenxi Lu, Stephen Ducharme, Peter A. Dowben, and Jiandi Zhang

Surface photovoltage effects on the isomeric semiconductors of boron-carbide, A.N. Caruso, Snjezana Balaz, Bo Xu, Peter A. Dowben, A.S. McMullen-Gunn, J.I. Brand, Ya. B. Losovyj, and D.N. McIlroy

Orientation and bonding of biphenyldimethyldithiol, A. N. Caruso, R. Rajesh, G. Gallup, J. Redepenning, and Peter A. Dowben

BORON-CARBIDE SOLID STATE NEUTRON DETECTOR AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME, Peter A. Dowben, Shireen Adenwalla, Brian W. Robertson, and Mengjun Bai

N-Type Boron-Carbide Semiconductor Polytype and Method of Fabricating the Same, Peter A. Dowben, Anthony N. Caruso, and Yaroslav Losovyj

Are half-metallic ferromagnets half metals? (invited), Peter A. Dowben and Ralph Skomski

Theoretical study of the magnetic ordering in rare-earth compounds with face-centered-cubic structure, Chun-gang Duan, Renat F. Sabirianov, Jianjun Liu, W.N. Mei, Peter A. Dowben, and John R. Hardy

Water absorption and dielectric changes in crystalline poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) copolymer films, P.A. Jacobson, Luis G. Rosa, C.M. Othon, Kristin L. Kraemer, A.V. Sorokin, Stephen Ducharme, and Peter A. Dowben

The surface band structure of W(112), Ya. B. Losovyj, I. N. Yakovkin, Hae-Kyung Jeong, and Peter Dowben

The elimination of the influence of ambient environmental effects on the structure of `inert' polymers, Luis G. Rosa, P.A. Jacobson, Raymond Lemoine, and Peter A. Dowben

Noncollinear spin states and competing interactions in half-metals, Ralph Skomski, Jian Zhou, Peter A. Dowben, and David J. Sellmyer

2003

The adsorption of orthocarborane on cobalt, L. Bernard, A.N. Caruso, Bo Xu, B. Doudin, and Peter A. Dowben

Magnetoresistance in boron carbide junctions, L. Bernard, J. Monson, A. Sokolov, Zong-Yuan Liu, C.S. Yang, Peter A. Dowben, B. Doudin, A. Harken, P. Welsch, and B.W. Robertson

Surface structure of ultrathin copolymer films of ferroelectric vinylidene fluoride (70%) with trifluoroethylene (30%) on graphite, Lei Cai, Hongwei Qu, Chenxi Lu, Stephen Ducharme, Peter A. Dowben, and Jiandi Zhang

Substrate Dependent Bonding of Chemisorbed 1,1’-Biphenyl-4,4’-Dimethanethiol, A.N. Caruso, R. Rajesekaran, Jody Redepenning, Ya.B. Losovyj, and Peter A. Dowben

Magnetic coupling in Co/Cr₂O₃/CrO₂ "trilayer" films, Ruihau Cheng, A.N. Caruso, Lu Yuan, Sy_Hwang Liou, and Peter A. Dowben

Boron-Carbide and Boron Rich Rhobohedral Based Transistors and Tunnel Diodes, Peter A. Dowben

Finite-temperature spin polarization in half-metallic ferromagnets, Peter A. Dowben and Ralph Skomski

Comparison of the theoretical and experimental band structure of poly(vinylidene fluoride) crystal, Chun-gang Duan, W.N. Mei, J.R. Hardy, Stephen Ducharme, Jaewu Choi, and Peter A. Dowben

Electronic structure of ErAs(100), Takashi Komesu,; Hae-Kyung Jeong; Jaewu Choi; C.N. Borca; Peter A. Dowben; A.G. Petukhov; B.D. Schultz; and C.J. Palmstrom

Consideration of possible mass and velocity corrections to magnetic cluster experiments, Z.Y. Liu, Peter A. Dowben, A.P. Popov, and David P. Pappas

Nanoscale polarization manipulation and conductance switching in ultrathin films of a ferroelectric copolymer, Hongwei Qu, Wei Yao, T. Garcia, Jiandi Zhang, A.V. Sorokin, Stephen Ducharme, Peter A. Dowben, and V.M. Fridkin

2002

Neutron Powder Diffraction Studies of the La_0.65Pb_0.35MnO₃ Perovskite, Camelia Borca, Shireen Adenwalla, Sy-Hwang Liou, Q.L. Xu, J. L. Robertson, and Peter Dowben

Electronic-structure modifications induced by surface segregation in La_0.65Pb_0.35MnO₃ thin films , C.N. Borca, B. Xu, T. Komesu, H.-K. Jeong, M.T. Liu, Sy_Hwang Liou, S. Stadler, Y. Idzerda, and Peter A. Dowben

Oxidation of metals at the chromium oxide interface, Ruihua Cheng, C.N. Borca, N. Pilet, Bo Xu, Lu Yuan, B. Doudin, Sy_Hwang Liou, and Peter A. Dowben

Boron-Carbide and Boron Rich Rhobohedral Based Transistors and Tunnel Diodes, Peter A. Dowben

The surface composition and spin polarization of NiMnSb epitaxial thin films, D. Ristoiu, J.P. Nozières , C.N. Borca, T. Komesu, H.-K. Jeong, and Peter A. Dowben

A class of boron-rich solid-state neutron detectors, B.W. Robertson, Shireen Adenwalla, A. Harken, P. Welsch, J.I. Brand, Peter A. Dowben, and J.P. Claassen

The finite-temperature densities of states for half-metallic ferromagnets, Ralph Skomski and Peter A. Dowben

Zero-bias anomaly in CrO₂ junctions, A. Sokolov, C.-S. Yang, Lu Yuan, Sy_Hwang Liou, Ruihua Cheng, H.-K. Jeong, T. Komesu, B. Xu, C.N. Borca, Peter A. Dowben, and B. Doudin

Spin blockade effects in chromium oxide intergrain magnetoresistance, A. Sokolov, C.S. Yang, Lu Yuan, Sy_Hwang Liou, Ruihua Cheng, B. Xu, C.N. Borca, Peter A. Dowben, and B Doudin

Band filling and depletion through the doping of polyaniline thin films, B. Xu, Jaewu Choi, A.N. Caruso, and Peter A. Dowben

Preferential orientation of short chain vapor deposited polyaniline thin films on gold, B. Xu, Jaewu Choi, and Peter A. Dowben