Wang, Y, Zhang F, Stumpf R, Lin P, Chou MY.
2011.
Catalytic effect of near-surface alloying on hydrogen interaction on the aluminum surface, May. Physical Review B. 83:5., Number 19
AbstractA small amount of catalyst, such as Ti, was found to greatly improve the kinetics of hydrogen reactions in the prototypical hydrogen storage compound sodium alanate (NaAlH(4)). We propose a near-surface alloying mechanism for the rehydrogenation cycle based on a detailed analysis of available experimental data as well as first-principles calculations. The calculated results indicate that the catalyst remains at subsurface sites near the Al surface, reducing the dissociation energy barrier of H(2). The binding between Ti and Al modifies the surface charge distribution, which facilitates hydrogen adsorption and enhances hydrogen mobility on the surface.
Barraza-Lopez, S, Kindermann M, Chou MY.
2012.
Charge Transport through Graphene Junctions with Wetting Metal Leads, Jul. Nano Letters. 12:3424-3430., Number 7
AbstractGraphene is believed to be an excellent candidate material for next-generation electronic devices. However, one needs to take into account the nontrivial effect of metal contacts in order to precisely control the charge injection and extraction processes. We have performed transport calculations for graphene junctions with wetting metal leads (metal leads that bind covalently to graphene) using nonequilibrium Green's functions and density functional theory. Quantitative information is provided on the increased resistance with respect to ideal contacts and on the statistics of current fluctuations. We find that charge transport through the studied two-terminal graphene junction with Ti contacts is pseudo-diffusive up to surprisingly high energies.
Cancio, AC, Chou MY, Hood RQ.
2001.
Comparative study of density-functional theories of the exchange-correlation hole and energy in silicon, Sep. Physical Review B. 64:15., Number 11
AbstractWe present a detailed study of the exchange-correlation hole and exchange-correlation energy per particle in the Si crystal as calculated by the variational Monte Carlo method and predicted by various density-functional models. Nonlocal density-averaging methods prove to be successful in correcting severe errors in the local-density approximation (LDA) at low densities where the density changes dramatically over the correlation length of the LDA hole. but fail to provide systematic improvements at higher densities where the effects of density inhomogeneity are more subtle. Exchange and correlation considered separately show a sensitivity to the nonlocal semiconductor-crystal environment, particularly within the Si bond. which is not predicted by the nonlocal approaches based on density averaging. The exchange hole is well described by a bonding-orbital picture, while the correlation hole has a significant component due to the polarization of the nearby bonds, which partially screens out the anisotropy in the exchange hole.
Chen, YH, Chou MY.
1994.
CONTINUOUS FEEDBACK APPROACH FOR CONTROLLING CHAOS, Sep. Physical Review E. 50:2331-2334., Number 3
AbstractWe show that the continuous feedback approach is highly effective for controlling chaotic systems. The control design for the Lorenz system is presented as an example to demonstrate the strength of this approach. The proposed control is able to eliminate chaos and bring the system toward any of the three steady states. Two different control input locations are considered. Only one system variable is used in the feedback. The control scheme can tolerate both measurement noise and modeling uncertainty as long as they are bounded.
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