Synthesis and Crystal Structure of the Europium(II) Hydride Oxide Iodide EuHOI Showing Blue-Green Luminescence.

As the first europium(II) hydride oxide iodide, dark red single crystals of EuHOI could be synthesized from oxygen-contaminated mixtures of EuH and EuI. Its orthorhombic crystal structure ( = 1636.97(9) pm, = 1369.

Association of Long-term Statin Use With the Risk of Intracerebral Hemorrhage: A Danish Nationwide Case-Control Study.

Background And Objectives: A causal relationship between long-term statin use and the risk of intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) remains uncertain. We investigated the association with statin use before hospital admission for ICH in a Danish population-based, nationwide case-control study.

Methods: We used the Danish Stroke Registry to identify all patients aged 45 years or older with a first-ever ICH between 2005 and 2018.

Sub-nanosecond acousto-electric carrier redistribution dynamics and transport in polytypic GaAs nanowires.

The authors report on a combined structural, optical and acousto-electric study of polytypic GaAs nanowires. Two types of nanowires with different zincblende and wurtzite crystal phase mixing are identified by transmission electron microscopy and photoluminescence spectroscopy. The nanowires exhibit characteristic recombination channels which are assigned to different types of spatially direct recombination (electron and hole within the same crystal phase segment) and spatially indirect recombination (electron and holes localized in different segments).

Ultrafast electron cycloids driven by the transverse spin of a surface acoustic wave.

Spin-momentum locking is a universal wave phenomenon promising for applications in electronics and photonics. In acoustics, Lord Rayleigh showed that surface acoustic waves exhibit a characteristic elliptical particle motion strikingly similar to spin-momentum locking. Although these waves have become one of the few phononic technologies of industrial relevance, the observation of their transverse spin remained an open challenge.

Disseminated infection and native valve endocarditis.

is a rapidly growing mycobacterium. It rarely causes disseminated infection or endocarditis. A 55-year-old male with a history of hepatitis C, liver cirrhosis, intravenous drug use (last use was four years ago), and chronic back pain presented with a three-week history of a right calf nodular lesion.

Paraganglioma of the middle mediastinum.

A 60-year-old female was evaluated for significant weight loss, nausea, vomiting, and dysphagia. A computed tomography (CT) of the chest showed a 3 cm mass in the middle mediastinum. CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis revealed no abnormality.

Cavitating pulmonary metastases from a renal cell carcinoma.

Cavitary lung lesions are quite common findings on chest imaging and often pose a diagnostic challenge to the clinicians. We describe a case of a 75-year-old male who presented to the emergency room with hemoptysis. Computed tomography of the chest demonstrated multiple cavitary pulmonary nodules with peripheral groundglass opacities.

Breakdown of Corner States and Carrier Localization by Monolayer Fluctuations in Radial Nanowire Quantum Wells.

We report a comprehensive study of the impact of the structural properties in radial GaAs-AlGaAs nanowire-quantum well heterostructures on the optical recombination dynamics and electrical transport properties, emphasizing particularly the role of the commonly observed variations of the quantum well thickness at different facets. Typical thickness fluctuations of the radial quantum well observed by transmission electron microscopy lead to pronounced localization. Our optical data exhibit clear spectral shifts and a multipeak structure of the emission for such asymmetric ring structures resulting from spatially separated, yet interconnected quantum well systems.

Health-Related Genetic Direct-to-Consumer Tests in the German Setting: The Available Offer and the Potential Implications for a Solidarily Financed Health-Care System.

Background: The global genetic direct-to-consumer (DTC) market will reach a volume of USD 230 billion in 2018. The expenditures for this genetic analysis are borne by the customer, whereas consequential costs may arise for a solidarily financed system. In a first step, it is essential to gain an overview of the currently available offer in the German setting.

Crystal Phase Quantum Dots in the Ultrathin Core of GaAs-AlGaAs Core-Shell Nanowires.

Semiconductor quantum dots embedded in nanowires (NW-QDs) can be used as efficient sources of nonclassical light with ultrahigh brightness and indistinguishability, needed for photonic quantum information technologies. Although most NW-QDs studied so far focus on heterostructure-type QDs that provide an effective electronic confinement potential using chemically distinct regions with dissimilar electronic structure, homostructure NWs can localize excitons at crystal phase defects in leading to NW-QDs. Here, we optically investigate QD emitters embedded in GaAs-AlGaAs core-shell NWs, where the excitons are confined in an ultrathin-diameter NW core and localized along the axis of the NW core at wurtzite (WZ)/zincblende (ZB) crystal phase defects.

Tunable quantum confinement in ultrathin, optically active semiconductor nanowires via reverse-reaction growth.

A unique growth scheme is demonstrated to realize ultrathin GaAs nanowires on Si with sizes down to the sub-10 nm regime. While this scheme preserves the bulk-like crystal properties, correlated optical experiments reveal huge blueshifted photo-luminescence (up to ≈100 meV) with decreasing nanowire cross-section, demonstrating very strong quantum confinement effects.

Dynamic acoustic control of individual optically active quantum dot-like emission centers in heterostructure nanowires.

We probe and control the optical properties of emission centers forming in radial heterostructure GaAs-Al0.3Ga0.7As nanowires and show that these emitters, located in Al0.

Lasing from individual GaAs-AlGaAs core-shell nanowires up to room temperature.

Semiconductor nanowires are widely considered to be the next frontier in the drive towards ultra-small, highly efficient coherent light sources. While NW lasers in the visible and ultraviolet have been widely demonstrated, the major role of surface and Auger recombination has hindered their development in the near infrared. Here we report infrared lasing up to room temperature from individual core-shell GaAs-AlGaAs nanowires.

High mobility one- and two-dimensional electron systems in nanowire-based quantum heterostructures.

Free-standing semiconductor nanowires in combination with advanced gate-architectures hold an exceptional promise as miniaturized building blocks in future integrated circuits. However, semiconductor nanowires are often corrupted by an increased number of close-by surface states, which are detrimental with respect to their optical and electronic properties. This conceptual challenge hampers their potentials in high-speed electronics and therefore new concepts are needed in order to enhance carrier mobilities.

Spontaneous alloy composition ordering in GaAs-AlGaAs core-shell nanowires.

By employing various high-resolution metrology techniques we directly probe the material composition profile within GaAs-Al0.3Ga0.7As core-shell nanowires grown by molecular beam epitaxy on silicon.

Direct observation of a noncatalytic growth regime for GaAs nanowires.

We identify a new noncatalytic growth regime for molecular beam epitaxially grown GaAs nanowires (NWs) that may provide a route toward axial heterostructures with discrete material boundaries and atomically sharp doping profiles. Upon increase of the As/Ga flux ratio, the growth mode of self-induced GaAs NWs on SiO(2)-masked Si(111) is found to exhibit a surprising discontinuous transition in morphology and aspect ratio. For effective As/Ga ratios <1, in situ reflection high-energy electron diffraction measurements reveal clear NW growth delay due to formation of liquid Ga droplets since the growth proceeds via the vapor-liquid-solid mechanism.

Directional and dynamic modulation of the optical emission of an individual GaAs nanowire using surface acoustic waves.

We report on optical experiments performed on individual GaAs nanowires and the manipulation of their temporal emission characteristics using a surface acoustic wave. We find a pronounced, characteristic suppression of the emission intensity for the surface acoustic wave propagation aligned with the axis of the nanowire. Furthermore, we demonstrate that this quenching is dynamical as it shows a pronounced modulation as the local phase of the surface acoustic wave is tuned.