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Spectroscopie infrarouge de matériaux supraconducteurs dans des conditions extrêmes de haute pression ou basse température
No full textSuperconductivity is highly studied in condensed matter physics for its potential applications. Indeed, this phenomenon is macroscopically characterized by remarkable properties, but generally occurs in materials at cryogenic temperature thus limitating their exploitation. Recently, renewed interest has appeared for conventional superconducting materials with the discovery of H₃S, whose transition temperature is at 200 K. For this compound, the coupling between electrons and phonons is at the origin of the electronic pairing, a necessary condition for superconductivity. The associated energy for this coupling belongs to the far infrared range, even THz, making infrared spectroscopy an ideal tool to study the mechanism. This thesis presents the studies of two superconducting materials in extreme experimental conditions of pressure and temperature, allowed by the high brilliance of synchrotron radiation. For the superconducting phase H₃S under pressures superior to 150 GPa, the environment of diamond anvil cell excludes most of the techniques to determine the nature of the mechanism but the optical studies remain adapted. The spectroscopic results presented here demonstrate a strong coupling between electrons and phonons, which explains the origin of such a high transition temperature. Complementary measurements aiming at characterizing NaCl under pressure is also described because this material is often used as a pressure transmitting medium in high pressure cells, in particular for the superconducting H₃S. The second study reports spectroscopic results in the THz on nanometric layers of Nb, whose superconducting transition temperatures are 4,5 K and 6,8 K. These measurements confirm that the conventional nature of the mechanism subsists within these quasi-bidimensional thin films. For this work, an instrumental ensemble allowing the spectroscopic measurements of materials down to 200 mK has been entirely developed based on an adiabatic demagnetization cryostat.La supraconductivité est intensément étudiée en physique de la matière condensée pour ses éventuelles applications. En effet, ce phénomène est caractérisé macroscopiquement par des propriétés remarquables, mais pour le moment, son exploitation est limitée par la nécessité de refroidir ces matériaux à des températures cryogéniques. Après la découverte de H₃S, dont la température de transition est de 200 K, un renouveau d’intérêt est apparu pour les matériaux supraconducteurs conventionnels. Pour ce composé, le couplage entre électrons et phonons est à l’origine de l’appariement électronique, une condition nécessaire à la supraconductivité. L’énergie associée à ce couplage se trouve généralement dans la gamme des infrarouges lointains, voire des THz, faisant de la spectroscopie infrarouge un outil idéal pour étudier ce mécanisme. Cette thèse présente les études de deux matériaux supraconducteurs dans des conditions expérimentales extrêmes de pression ou de température, permise grâce à la forte brillance du rayonnement synchrotron. Pour la phase supraconductrice H₃S à des pressions supérieures à 150 GPa, l’environnement en cellule à enclumes de diamant exclut la plupart des techniques pour déterminer la nature du mécanisme mais les études optiques restent adaptées. Les résultats spectroscopiques présentés ici démontrent un fort couplage entre électrons et phonons, qui explique l’origine d’une si haute température de transition. Des mesures complémentaires visant à caractériser NaCl sous pression sont également décrites car ce matériau est couramment utilisé comme transmetteur de pression dans les cellules `a haute pression, notamment pour le supraconducteur H₃S. La deuxième étude rapporte des résultats spectroscopiques dans le THz sur des couches nanométriques de Nb, dont les températures de transition supraconductrice sont de 4,5 K et 6,8 K. Ces mesures confirment que la nature conventionnelle du mécanisme subsiste au sein de ces films minces quasi-bidimensionnels. Pour ce travail, un ensemble instrumental permettant la mesure spectroscopique de matériaux jusqu’à des températures de 200 mK a été entièrement développé autour d’un cryostat à démagnétisation adiabatique
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Infrared spectroscopy of superconducting materials under extreme conditions of high pressure or low temperature
No full textLa supraconductivité est intensément étudiée en physique de la matière condensée pour ses éventuelles applications. En effet, ce phénomène est caractérisé macroscopiquement par des propriétés remarquables, mais pour le moment, son exploitation est limitée par la nécessité de refroidir ces matériaux à des températures cryogéniques. Après la découverte de H₃S, dont la température de transition est de 200 K, un renouveau d’intérêt est apparu pour les matériaux supraconducteurs conventionnels. Pour ce composé, le couplage entre électrons et phonons est à l’origine de l’appariement électronique, une condition nécessaire à la supraconductivité. L’énergie associée à ce couplage se trouve généralement dans la gamme des infrarouges lointains, voire des THz, faisant de la spectroscopie infrarouge un outil idéal pour étudier ce mécanisme. Cette thèse présente les études de deux matériaux supraconducteurs dans des conditions expérimentales extrêmes de pression ou de température, permise grâce à la forte brillance du rayonnement synchrotron. Pour la phase supraconductrice H₃S à des pressions supérieures à 150 GPa, l’environnement en cellule à enclumes de diamant exclut la plupart des techniques pour déterminer la nature du mécanisme mais les études optiques restent adaptées. Les résultats spectroscopiques présentés ici démontrent un fort couplage entre électrons et phonons, qui explique l’origine d’une si haute température de transition. Des mesures complémentaires visant à caractériser NaCl sous pression sont également décrites car ce matériau est couramment utilisé comme transmetteur de pression dans les cellules `a haute pression, notamment pour le supraconducteur H₃S. La deuxième étude rapporte des résultats spectroscopiques dans le THz sur des couches nanométriques de Nb, dont les températures de transition supraconductrice sont de 4,5 K et 6,8 K. Ces mesures confirment que la nature conventionnelle du mécanisme subsiste au sein de ces films minces quasi-bidimensionnels. Pour ce travail, un ensemble instrumental permettant la mesure spectroscopique de matériaux jusqu’à des températures de 200 mK a été entièrement développé autour d’un cryostat à démagnétisation adiabatique.Superconductivity is highly studied in condensed matter physics for its potential applications. Indeed, this phenomenon is macroscopically characterized by remarkable properties, but generally occurs in materials at cryogenic temperature thus limitating their exploitation. Recently, renewed interest has appeared for conventional superconducting materials with the discovery of H₃S, whose transition temperature is at 200 K. For this compound, the coupling between electrons and phonons is at the origin of the electronic pairing, a necessary condition for superconductivity. The associated energy for this coupling belongs to the far infrared range, even THz, making infrared spectroscopy an ideal tool to study the mechanism. This thesis presents the studies of two superconducting materials in extreme experimental conditions of pressure and temperature, allowed by the high brilliance of synchrotron radiation. For the superconducting phase H₃S under pressures superior to 150 GPa, the environment of diamond anvil cell excludes most of the techniques to determine the nature of the mechanism but the optical studies remain adapted. The spectroscopic results presented here demonstrate a strong coupling between electrons and phonons, which explains the origin of such a high transition temperature. Complementary measurements aiming at characterizing NaCl under pressure is also described because this material is often used as a pressure transmitting medium in high pressure cells, in particular for the superconducting H₃S. The second study reports spectroscopic results in the THz on nanometric layers of Nb, whose superconducting transition temperatures are 4,5 K and 6,8 K. These measurements confirm that the conventional nature of the mechanism subsists within these quasi-bidimensional thin films. For this work, an instrumental ensemble allowing the spectroscopic measurements of materials down to 200 mK has been entirely developed based on an adiabatic demagnetization cryostat
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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