Alumina films containing gold nanoparticles (NPs) were grown by magnetron radio frequency (rf) sputtering technique. They were investigated by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and optical absorption spectroscopy. It is suggested that the increase of the contrast of surface plasmon resonance band after annealing is connected with increasing of electron free mean pass in Au NPs rath...
Nanocomposite materials based on an organic-inorganic ureasilicate matrix with embedded CdS nanoparticles were produced and characterized by optical (UV/Vis), FTIR, secondary ion mass spectroscopy, inductively-coupled plasma optical emission and steady-state photoluminescence measurements. The ureasilicate precursor was obtained by the reaction between silicon alkoxyde modified by isocyanate groups and polyethy...
This paper discusses hadron energy reconstruction for the ATLAS barrel prototype combined calorimeter (consisting of a lead-liquid argon electromagnetic part and an iron-scintillator hadronic part) in the framework of the non-parametrical method. The non-parametrical method utilizes only the known e/h ratios and the electron calibration constants and does not require the determination of any parameters by a min...