With more than 170 billion barrels of estimated oil sands reserves in Canada, Canada has the third largest oil reserves in the world. However, more than 80% of oil sand’s reserves are located deep underground and could not be accessed by surface mining. Nonetheless, a number of in-situ...

In this work, a Monte Carlo simulation, based on standard Metropolis algorithm, has been applied to investigate magnetic properties of a ferrimagnetic nanoparticle, with a cubic shape and core–shell structure. The nanoparticle is constituted of spin-1/2 in the core surrounded by spin-3/2 in...

We report a numerical simulation of the conduction and valence band edges of Cd<Subscript>1-x</Subscript>Zn<Subscript>x</Subscript>S nanocrystallites using a one — dimensional potential model. Electron — hole pairs are assumed to be confined in nanospheres of finite barrier heights. Optical absorption measurements are used to fit the...</subscript></subscript>