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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Education•Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil•
About: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais is a education organization based out in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 41631 authors who have published 75688 publications receiving 1249905 citations.
Topics: Population, Context (language use), Medicine, Immune system, Health care
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TL;DR: The stimuli and mechanisms underlying chemokine production following infection in vitro and in vivo are examined and the ability of chemokines to coordinate the influx of inflammatory and immune cells to the site of parasite infection, and to control T. cruzi growth is examined.
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TL;DR: It is demonstrated that bound-exciton emission induced by monosulfur vacancies is concentrated near the edges of as-grown monolayer tungsten disulfide.
Abstract: Defects play a significant role in tailoring the optical properties of two-dimensional materials. Optical signatures of defect-bound excitons are important tools to probe defective regions and thus interrogate the optical quality of as-grown semiconducting monolayer materials. We have performed a systematic study of defect-bound excitons using photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy combined with atomically resolved scanning electron microscopy and first-principles calculations. Spatially resolved PL spectroscopy at low temperatures revealed bound excitons that were present only on the edges of monolayer tungsten disulfide and not in the interior. Optical pumping of the bound excitons was sublinear, confirming their bound nature. Atomic-resolution images reveal that the areal density of monosulfur vacancies is much larger near the edges (0.92 ± 0.45 nm−2) than in the interior (0.33 ± 0.11 nm−2). Temperature-dependent PL measurements found a thermal activation energy of ~36 meV; surprisingly, this is much smaller than the bound-exciton binding energy of ~300 meV. We show that this apparent inconsistency is related to a thermal dissociation of the bound exciton that liberates the neutral excitons from negatively charged point defects. First-principles calculations confirm that sulfur monovacancies introduce midgap states that host optical transitions with finite matrix elements, with emission energies ranging from 200 to 400 meV below the neutral-exciton emission line. These results demonstrate that bound-exciton emission induced by monosulfur vacancies is concentrated near the edges of as-grown monolayer tungsten disulfide.
216 citations
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TL;DR: A perturbation theory of the static response of insulating crystals to homogeneous electric fields that combines the modem theory of polarization (MTP) with the variation-perturbation framework is developed at the unrestricted order of perturbations in this article.
Abstract: A perturbation theory of the static response of insulating crystals to homogeneous electric fields that combines the modem theory of polarization (MTP) with the variation-perturbation framework is developed at unrestricted order of perturbation. First, we address conceptual issues related to the definition of such a perturbative approach. In particular, in our definition of an electric-field-dependent energy functional for periodic systems, the position operator appearing in the perturbation term is replaced by a Berry-phase expression, along the lines of the MTP. Moreover, due to the unbound nature of the perturbation, a regularization of the Ferry-phase expression for the polarization is needed in order to define a numerically stable variational procedure. Regularization is achieved by means of discretization, which can be performed either before or after the perturbation expansion. We compare the two possibilities and apply them to a model tight-binding Hamiltonian. Lowest-order as well as generic formulas are presented for the derivatives of the total energy, the normalization condition, the eigenequation, and the Lagrange parameters.
216 citations
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TL;DR: Eigenstates describing pairs of photons from spontaneous parametric down-conversion reveal classes of photon conversion with angular momentum conservation and cases where the initial angular momentum from the pump laser beam is shared between the converted photons and the generating medium.
Abstract: States of light that are simultaneously eigenstates of orbital, intrinsic, and total angular momentum are found and eigenstates describing pairs of photons from spontaneous parametric down-conversion reveal classes of photon conversion with angular momentum conservation and cases where the initial angular momentum from the pump laser beam is shared between the converted photons and the generating medium. These angular momentum conservation laws open up a wide range of applications to be explored.
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TL;DR: In order to demonstrate the usefulness of the presented consensus scheme, a technique for multicriteria analysis, based on fuzzy preference relation modeling, is utilized for solving a hypothetical enterprise strategy planning problem, generated with the use of the Balanced Scorecard methodology.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Michael Marmot | 193 | 1147 | 170338 |
Pulickel M. Ajayan | 176 | 1223 | 136241 |
Alan D. Lopez | 172 | 863 | 259291 |
Jens Nielsen | 149 | 1752 | 104005 |
Mildred S. Dresselhaus | 136 | 762 | 112525 |
Jing Kong | 126 | 553 | 72354 |
Mauricio Terrones | 118 | 760 | 61202 |
Michael Brammer | 118 | 424 | 46763 |
Terence G. Langdon | 117 | 1158 | 61603 |
Caroline A. Sabin | 108 | 690 | 44233 |
Michael Brauer | 106 | 480 | 73664 |
Michael Bader | 103 | 735 | 37525 |
Michael S. Strano | 98 | 480 | 60141 |
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero | 91 | 245 | 39171 |
Riichiro Saito | 91 | 502 | 48869 |