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Magnetic substitution in CePt₂Si₂ and CeCu₅In Kondo lattice
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
In the past few decades, the studies of f-electron materials have revealed unusual physical properties such as Fermi-liquid, non-Fermi-liquid behaviour at low temperatures, heavy- Fermion behaviour, valence fluctuation, ...
Thermochromic properties of VO2 nano-coatings by inverted cylindrical magnetron sputtering
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
Vanadium dioxide (VO2) films have been known as the most feasible thermochromic nano-coatings for smart windows which self control the solar radiation and heat transfer for energy saving and comfort in houses and automotives. ...
Nuclear level densities and gamma-ray strength functions in Ta isotopes and nucleo-synthesis of ¹⁸ᴼTa
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
Most stable and extremely low abundance neutron deficient nuclei with Z ≥ 34 are referred to as p-nuclei. Nearly all p-nuclei with A < 110 are most likely produced in the rp-process while almost all A > 110 are thought ...
The effects of environment on radio-loud AGN activity in Stripe 82
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
We investigate the link between environment and radiative accretion efficiency using a sample of 8946 radio-loud AGN detected at 1 − 2 GHz in the SDSS Stripe 82 region. We quantify their environments using the surface-density ...
Hydrogen storage in Ti-based coatings and Ti6Al4V alloy
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
Hydrogen has been regarded as an ideal energy carrier for future, it can be stored as a liquid in cryogenic tanks, a gas in high pressure cylinders and as solid in metal hydrides. Hydrogen storage in metal hydrides is of ...
Probing the large-scale structure of the universe with correlation functions
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
In this project we explore a new statistical package called KSTAT that computes the 2PCF and higher order correlation functions, such as the 3PCF, on BOSS, making use of high performance computing facilities to improve ...
Synthesis and characterisation of 114Cd targets
(2011)
To study nuclear reactions and nuclear structures, target materials are bombarded with high-energy particles. The target material can either be in a form of a metal film or gas. A target material designed to study certain ...
The impact of environment and mergers on the H I content of galaxies in hydrodynamic simulations
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
We quantitatively examine the effects of merger and environment within a cosmological hydrodynamic simulation. We show that our simulation model broadly reproduces the observed scatter in H I at a given stellar mass as ...
Radio-optical analysis of extended radio sources in the first look survey field
(2010)
I combine 610 MHz Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) data, 1.4 GHz Very
Large Array (VLA) data and 1.4 GHz Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT)
observations, encompassing a ∼ 4 square degree field (sq. deg. ...
Infrared-bright galaxies in the millennium simulation and Sunyaev Zeldovich effect contamination
(2010)
Measuring the evolution of the abundance of galaxy clusters puts constraints on cosmological parameters like the cosmological density parameter m, σ8 and the dark energy equation of state parameter, w. Current observations ...