Vortex lattices of layered HTSCs at different vortex–vortex interaction potentials

• Valerii P. Lenkov,
• Anastasia N. Maksimova,
• Anna N. Moroz and
• Vladimir A. Kashurnikov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2025, 16, 362–370, doi:10.3762/bjnano.16.27

• sample, and the clusters are replaced by regions with a higher average vortex distribution density. It should be noted that clusters in the form of stripes were observed in the numerical simulation in [19]. Conclusion Within the framework of a two-dimensional model of a layered HTSC, the configurations

Advanced atomic force microscopy techniques V

• Philipp Rahe,
• Ilko Bald,
• Nadine Hauptmann,
• Regina Hoffmann-Vogel,
• Harry Mönig and
• Michael Reichling

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2025, 16, 54–56, doi:10.3762/bjnano.16.6

• accurate knowledge of the quartz cantilever stiffness, the authors develop a method to quantify the stiffness based on thermal noise measurements and numerical simulation. Calibrated measurements of conductivity and resistivity are the focus of the contribution by Piquemal et al. [3]. A particular

Heterogeneous reactions in a HFCVD reactor: simulation using a 2D model

• Xochitl Aleyda Morán Martínez,
• José Alberto Luna López,
• Zaira Jocelyn Hernández Simón,
• Gabriel Omar Mendoza Conde,
• José Álvaro David Hernández de Luz and
• Godofredo García Salgado

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 1627–1638, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.128

• properties are listed in Table 2. It should be noted that the surface film growth reactions are not considered in this study. The approximation of the thermodynamic properties of the superficial species is a study that we are still developing. Numerical simulation A 2D model of the HFCVD reactor was created

Quantum-to-classical modeling of monolayer Ge₂Se₂ and its application in photovoltaic devices

• Anup Shrivastava,
• Shivani Saini,
• Dolly Kumari,
• Sanjai Singh and
• Jost Adam

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 1153–1169, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.94

• the proposed solar cell, we performed a numerical simulation using SCAPS-1D, which solves the fundamental semiconductor equations such as drift–diffusion, Poisson’s equation, and continuity equations as: and where and are the electron and hole current densities at the Fermi levels EFn and EFp

Investigation on drag reduction on rotating blade surfaces with microtextures

• Qinsong Zhu,
• Chen Zhang,
• Fuhang Yu and
• Yan Xu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 833–853, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.70

• the cooling capability of turbine blades by adding grooves to the blade tips of axial turbines. Experimental and numerical simulation results showed that the addition of grooves increased turbine efficiency by 0.2% and 0.38%, respectively. In order to reduce aerodynamic losses in turbines caused by

• surfaces. (2) The analysis of drag reduction performance is mostly based on numerical simulation results, with a lack of technology research regarding the processing of microtextures and of analysis of experimental results. On the one hand, the small size of microtextures may lead to significant errors in

• wind tunnel experiments for solving the two problems discussed above. The main contributions of this article are as follows: (1) Based on the highly symmetrical characteristics of rotating machinery such as compressors, a new numerical simulation method for blade analysis was proposed to determine the

Ferromagnetic resonance spectra of linear magnetosome chains

• Elizaveta M. Gubanova and
• Nikolai A. Usov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 157–167, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.15

• nanoparticles; numerical simulation; Introduction Magnetotactic bacteria are living organisms that grow within themselves magnetite nanoparticles called magnetosomes [1][2][3][4]. In contrast to chemically synthesized magnetite nanoparticles [5][6], magnetosomes have a perfect crystal structure, a narrow size

• [1][2][3][4][7][8][9][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] accumulated to date for assemblies of magnetosome chains. Numerical Simulation Consider a dilute assembly of linear chains of magnetosomes consisting of Np spherical nanoparticles of average diameter D. Dynamics of the unit magnetization vector

• resolved for angles θ ≥ 75°. To summarize the numerical simulation data obtained for oriented assemblies, in Figure 3a we show the angle dependence of the resonance FMR field, Hres(θ), for linear chains with various average particle diameters. It is interesting to note the noticeable dependence of the

Measurements of dichroic bow-tie antenna arrays with integrated cold-electron bolometers using YBCO oscillators

• Leonid S. Revin,
• Dmitry A. Pimanov,
• Alexander V. Chiginev,
• Anton V. Blagodatkin,
• Viktor O. Zbrozhek,
• Andrey V. Samartsev,
• Anastasia N. Orlova,
• Dmitry V. Masterov,
• Alexey E. Parafin,
• Victoria Yu. Safonova,
• Anna V. Gordeeva,
• Andrey L. Pankratov,
• Leonid S. Kuzmin,
• Anatolie S. Sidorenko,
• Silvia Masi and
• Paolo de Bernardis

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 26–36, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.3

• of numerical simulation. The aim of the optimization was to bring the absorption bandwidth in line with the current requirements for the LSPE receiving system. According to these requirements, the width of the absorption line should be 20% of the operating frequency for the 210 GHz channel and 10% of

Biomimetics on the micro- and nanoscale – The 25th anniversary of the lotus effect

• Matthias Mail,
• Kerstin Koch,
• Thomas Speck,
• William M. Megill and
• Stanislav N. Gorb

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 850–856, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.69

• suspension feeding in common Crustacea. The results show that a system combining long and short setae with different mechanical properties has the best performance. The numerical simulation can in future be easily adapted to other systems and therefore be used for biomimetic developments (e.g., in the field

Specific absorption rate of randomly oriented magnetic nanoparticles in a static magnetic field

• Ruslan A. Rytov and
• Nikolai A. Usov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 485–493, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.39

• in the vicinity of the FFP has been obtained considering an inhomogeneous dc magnetic field created by two opposite magnetic fluxes, for the case of assemblies with different nanoparticle size distributions. Results and Discussion Numerical simulation Let us consider a dilute assembly of magnetic

• combined action of ac and dc magnetic fields is studied using a numerical simulation based on the solution of the stochastic Landau–Lifshitz equation [17][20][22][23][26]. The SAR of a randomly oriented assembly is calculated in terms of the area of the dynamic hysteresis loop according to the well-known

A distributed active patch antenna model of a Josephson oscillator

• Vladimir M. Krasnov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 151–164, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.16

• direct numerical simulation of the sine-Gordon Equation 3 for up and down current sweep. The red line shows the analytic solution with the excess current given by Equation 24. The agreement between exact (without linearization) numeric and (approximate) analytic solutions is quite good. It is seen that a

Numerical study on all-optical modulation characteristics of quantum cascade lasers

• Biao Wei,
• Haijun Zhou,
• Guangxiang Li and
• Bin Tang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1011–1019, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.88

• by Equation 4 and Equation 3, respectively. The numerical methods solving FRE are excellently recorded in [18]. By taking into account the effects of optical injection [19] and electron temperature [20][21], the full rate equation is modified to obtain a more accurate numerical simulation of the

• , and the modulation frequency can reach 60 GHz [13]. Moreover, all-optical modulation can directly alter the carrier distribution and is highly efficient. However, the mechanism of all-optical modulation is very complex. If we could effectively describe all-optical modulation of QCLs by numerical

• simulation, it would be very helpful for optimizing its use and dielectric nanostructure design. Although there has been much research on all-optical modulation of QCLs, only optical injection locking [14] and quenching [15][16] can currently provide one-sided numerical support. Based on the classical 1

Numerical modeling of a multi-frequency receiving system based on an array of dipole antennas for LSPE-SWIPE

• Alexander V. Chiginev,
• Anton V. Blagodatkin,
• Dmitrii A. Pimanov,
• Ekaterina A. Matrozova,
• Anna V. Gordeeva,
• Andrey L. Pankratov and
• Leonid S. Kuzmin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 865–872, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.77

• for CEB at high frequencies. In the process of numerical simulation, we calculated the dependence of the power, Pi, released on the active resistance of the i-th RC-chain of the array of receiving cells, on the frequency of the incident radiation, and the total power in all receiving cells: The

A broadband detector based on series YBCO grain boundary Josephson junctions

• Egor I. Glushkov,
• Alexander V. Chiginev,
• Leonid S. Kuzmin and
• Leonid S. Revin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 325–333, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.27

• –frequency characteristic, beam pattern, and fraction of the absorbed power in each Josephson junction were investigated. Based on the obtained results, a numerical simulation of one-dimensional arrays was carried out. The dc characteristics of the detector were calculated, that is, current–voltage

• the electromagnetic analysis and numerical simulation of the broadband detector based on a series of HTSC bicrystal Josephson junctions to maximize response, power dynamic range, and noise-equivalent power. Electromagnetic Simulation Figure 1a–c shows options for the geometry of a log-periodic antenna

Heating ability of elongated magnetic nanoparticles

• Elizaveta M. Gubanova,
• Nikolai A. Usov and
• Vladimir A. Oleinikov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 1404–1412, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.104

• of magnitude with an increase in the volume fraction of nanoparticles in a cluster in the range of 0.04–0.2. Keywords: elongated magnetic nanoparticles; magnetic hyperthermia; numerical simulation; specific absorption rate; Introduction Magnetic nanoparticle assemblies have great potential for the

• with an increase in the particle volume fraction in a cluster in the range η = 0.04–0.2. Numerical Simulation In this work the magnetic properties of various assemblies of elongated spheroidal magnetite nanoparticles with different aspect ratios a/b > 1 are studied by means of numerical simulation. It

• cubic [25] magnetic anisotropy showed the existence of an interval of optimal nanoparticle diameters where the SAR of the assembly reaches a maximum at a given frequency and amplitude of an ac magnetic field. In this work, using numerical simulation, similar results were obtained for spheroidal

Cantilever signature of tip detachment during contact resonance AFM

• Devin Kalafut,
• Ryan Wagner,
• Maria Jose Cadena,
• Anil Bajaj and
• Arvind Raman

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 1286–1296, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.96

• photodiode amplitude signal in units of μrad to a numerical simulation of the cantilever response driven by moment couples of different magnitudes. Figure 1c shows the maximum deflection of the cantilever about static equilibrium for the numerical simulations. The dashed grey line in this Figure indicates

• measurements. We also explore the aggregate numerical simulation data of Figure 1 by way of the phase space representation in Figure 3. The phase space has as many dimensions as state variables, but we restrict our viewing to the dominant contributors of the first three basis function modal coordinates

In situ transport characterization of magnetic states in Nb/Co superconductor/ferromagnet heterostructures

• Olena M. Kapran,
• Roman Morari,
• Taras Golod,
• Evgenii A. Borodianskyi,
• Vladimir Boian,
• Andrei Prepelita,
• Nikolay Klenov,
• Anatoli S. Sidorenko and
• Vladimir M. Krasnov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 913–923, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.68

• by SQUID magnetometry in a field parallel to the film in the normal state at T > Tc. A significant hysteresis of M(H) reveals the in-plane anisotropy of Co films (albeit with a small coercive field, HC ≈ 30 Oe), consistent with earlier studies [44][45][46][47]. Figure 1c shows a numerical simulation

Influence of the magnetic nanoparticle coating on the magnetic relaxation time

• Mihaela Osaci and
• Matteo Cacciola

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1207–1216, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.105

• fill in this gap, this study presents a numerical simulation model that elucidates how the nanoparticle coating affects the nanoparticle agglomeration tendency as well as the effective magnetic relaxation time of the system. To simulate the self-organization of the colloidal nanoparticles, a stochastic

• relaxation time; nanoparticle coating; numerical simulation; stochastic Langevin dynamics method; superparamagnetic nanoparticles; Introduction One of the most important biomedical applications of colloidal magnetic nanoparticle systems is magnetic hyperthermia applied as an alternative for cancer treatment

• corresponding magnetic configuration of the system. For the numerical simulation, two widely known models have been used [19][20][21]. We started with a system of single-domain magnetic nanoparticles, consisting of spherical iron-oxide nanoparticles with uniaxial magnetic anisotropy, which have a lognormal

Thermophoretic tweezers for single nanoparticle manipulation

• Jošt Stergar and
• Natan Osterman

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1126–1133, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.97

• , and the feedback loop frequency. The numerical simulation reproduced the experimental findings very well and can be thus utilized for the estimation of the stiffness for any combination of parameters. The all-optical creation of the tweezers allows for their dynamic relocation. Consequently, it

Current measurements in the intermittent-contact mode of atomic force microscopy using the Fourier method: a feasibility analysis

• Berkin Uluutku and
• Santiago D. Solares

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 453–465, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.37

• second case, we performed a numerical simulation for a dynamic AFM experiment that operates in the attractive tip–sample interaction regime. For this we have integrated the equation of motion of a spring–mass–dashpot model (Equation 21), customarily used to model dynamic AFM [45], where meff is the

• spectrum of the cantilever response (Figure 6), one can observe that the an values decrease rather rapidly, such that only the first peak contributes significantly. Therefore, the frequency representation of the tunnelling current obtained for the numerical simulation is very close to the representation

• numerical simulation for case 3 is similar to that of case 2, except that only repulsive forces are considered, which are based on the Hertzian contact model (for simplicity, the attractive forces are not included). The simulation parameters can be found in Table 2. Here we first consider (i) an unperturbed

Understanding nanoparticle flow with a new in vitro experimental and computational approach using hydrogel channels

• Armel Boutchuen,
• Dell Zimmerman,
• Abdollah Arabshahi,
• John Melnyczuk and
• Soubantika Palchoudhury

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 296–309, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.22

• results are grid independent. The computed mass losses of the particles are 1.341% and 6.253% for 4.12 g and 2.008 g inlet concentrations of NP fluid flow in hydrogel channels, respectively. It is observed that the numerical simulation results favorably agree with experimental data (1.286% and 5.96

An investigation on the drag reduction performance of bioinspired pipeline surfaces with transverse microgrooves

• Weili Liu,
• Hongjian Ni,
• Peng Wang and
• Yi Zhou

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 24–40, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.3

• Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary T2N1N4, Canada 10.3762/bjnano.11.3 Abstract A novel surface morphology for pipelines using transverse microgrooves was proposed in order to reduce the pressure loss of fluid transport. Numerical simulation and experimental research efforts

• obtained by an orthogonal analysis method. The comparative experiments were conducted in a water tunnel, and a maximum drag reduction rate of 3.21% could be achieved. The numerical simulation and experimental results were cross-checked and found to be consistent with each other, allowing to verify that the

• wall), which reduced the influence of wall grid density on computational accuracy. This is why the SST κ–ω model has been widely used to solve the turbulent flow field. Considering the computational accuracy and cost, the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) numerical simulation method with the SST

Mobility of charge carriers in self-assembled monolayers

• Zhihua Fu,
• Tatjana Ladnorg,
• Hartmut Gliemann,
• Alexander Welle,
• Asif Bashir,
• Michael Rohwerder,
• Qiang Zhang,
• Björn Schüpbach,
• Andreas Terfort and
• Christof Wöll

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2449–2458, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.235

• Figure 1). This expression is not strictly correct, but numerical simulation reveals a deviation of less than 1% [29]. In the following we assume a 1D transport of charges along the (112) direction, because from the packing of the PAT-molecules (see Figure 3 and Figure 1g), we expect good π–π-overlap

Dynamics of superparamagnetic nanoparticles in viscous liquids in rotating magnetic fields

• Nikolai A. Usov,
• Ruslan A. Rytov and
• Vasiliy A. Bautin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2294–2303, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.221

• SAR values of the order of 400–500 W/g can be obtained in a rotating magnetic field with a frequency f = 400 kHz and a moderate magnetic field amplitude H0 = 100 Oe. Keywords: magnetic hyperthermia; magnetic nanoparticles; numerical simulation; rotating magnetic field; specific absorption rate

• magnetic hyperthermia. As Figure 7b shows, in this case SAR values of about 400–600 W/g can be obtained over a wide range of nanoparticle diameters, D = 20–30 nm. Conclusion In this paper the dynamics of superparamagnetic nanoparticles in a viscous fluid in RMFs is studied using both numerical simulation

• in magneto-dynamics (MD) approximation are shown in slide 2. Numerical simulation results for the dynamics of vectors α and n in different modes are given in slides 3–5. The dynamics of vectors α and n for modes 1, 2, and 3 are shown in slides 3, 4, and 5, respectively. Supporting Information File

Heating ability of magnetic nanoparticles with cubic and combined anisotropy

• Nikolai A. Usov,
• Mikhail S. Nesmeyanov,
• Elizaveta M. Gubanova and
• Natalia B. Epshtein

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 305–314, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.29

• . However, the ability of magnetic nanoparticle assemblies to generate heat can be improved if the nanoparticles are covered by nonmagnetic shells of appreciable thickness. Keywords: fractal clusters; magnetite nanoparticles; magneto–dipole interaction; numerical simulation; specific absorption rate

• = 50–100 Oe, at a typical frequency f = 300 kHz. This shows the substantial potential of these nanoparticles for application in magnetic nanoparticle hyperthermia. Numerical Simulation It has been recently shown [22] that the technique based on the stochastic LL equation is preferable for investigation

• magnetite nanoparticles with diameter D ≥ D0. The results of the numerical simulation shown in Figure 2 and Figure 3 correspond to spherical magnetite nanoparticles. They are also qualitatively true for perfect magnetite nanoparticles of cubic external shape [8][10] having cubic magnetic anisotropy

Performance analysis of rigorous coupled-wave analysis and its integration in a coupled modeling approach for optical simulation of complete heterojunction silicon solar cells

• Ziga Lokar,
• Benjamin Lipovsek,
• Marko Topic and
• Janez Krc

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2315–2329, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.216

• solar cells, reliable and accurate optical models implemented in numerical simulation tools are of great importance [10]. The models that enable simulations of thick incoherent and thin coherent layers, including textures of nano-, micro- and several micro-(macro) meter size, are required. Different