Investigation of the fluctuations in the angles of arrival of laser radiation in the surface layer of the atmosphere

The fluctuations in the angles of arrival of a laser beam along a route 1200 m in length are investigated experimentally. The aperture dimensions of the transmitting and receiving devices and the beam geometry were varied during the measurements. The results obtained are compared with the results obtained by simultaneously determining the fluctuations in the angles of arrival of the radiation from a source of spherical waves. It is shown that the angles of arrival have a normal distribution. The dispersion of the angles of arrival depends on the diameter of the receiving aperture raised to the power -1/3 and increases as the angular aperture of the beam is reduced, becoming greater than the dispersion of the angles of arrival of spherical waves.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii Fizika, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 103–106, January, 1969.     

Role of the near-electrode regions in the formation of the volume discharge heterogeneity in nitrogen in the pin-to-plane configuration

The development of streamers and sparks in nitrogen at atmospheric pressure in the pin-to-plane electrode configuration is studied in experiments and theoretical calculations. It is demonstrated that the near-electrode regions play the decisive role in streamer initiation. At a negative pin voltage, a spark is formed in the absence of fast primary streamers. At a positive pin voltage, streamer build-up is initiated by the current spots on the anode that result from the development of the ionization instabilities in the anode region. The calculations show that the formation of the current spot on the anode leads to a redistribution of the electric field in the vicinity of the anode, so that a single avalanche is transformed into a streamer under the conditions when the known criterion for streamer breakdown (the Meek-Raether criterion) is not satisfied. Original Text ? Astro, Ltd., 2006.     

On the possibility of using interferometry in the study of arc in the combustion plasma flow

The use of holographic interferometry in the visible spectral region and interferometry in the submillimeter region for diagnostics of arc in the combustion plasma flow is discussed. The experimental arrangement and results are presented. The use of these two methods enables to determine the gas temperature and the electron concentration in the arc.     

On the predictability of the positions of the convergence zones in the ocean

The disagreement between the experimental and calculated positions of the first convergence zone are known from many publications. The most probable cause for such a disagreement, namely, the incorrect specification of the input data for the calculations, is considered. The lack of simultaneity between the hydrological surveys of the region and the acoustic experiments is emphasized. The experimental data obtained by the author in five ocean regions are presented. These data characterize the diurnal variability of the distance from the source to the nearest boundary of the convergence zone. The relations proposed by different researchers for calculating the sound speed from the temperature, salinity, and hydrostatic pressure are analyzed. It is shown that these relations lead to a substantial difference in the estimated depth dependence of the hydrostatic gradient of the sound speed. The position of the first convergence zone is calculated for the propagation conditions determined by vertical temperature and salinity profiles with the subsequent recalculation of these profiles into sound speed profiles by using eight different formulas known from the literature. It is shown that different formulas lead to different values of the distance to the first zone; this difference is substantially greater than that between the calculations and experiment. The necessity of improving the recalculation relations in view of the experimental data on sound propagation in natural oceanic waveguides, including the data on the actual positions of the convergence zones, is emphasized.     

Breakdown of renormalizability in the Kondo problem in the high-temperature expansion of the free energy

It is shown that there are two energy scales in the Kondo problem: T _k and T ₀, one of which (T _k) is exponentially small in the coupling constant g. The second scale T ₀is proportional to the squared coupling constant. Perturbation theory is valid only in the region T? T ₀. The point T ₀ is apparently the crossover from weak to strong coupling. The first indications of the breakdown of the hypothesis of only one energy scale in the Kondo problem appear in fourth order of perturbation theory.     

On the role of the amplitude of the fricative noise in the perception of place of articulation in voiceless fricative consonants

The current study explores the role of the amplitude of the fricative noise in the perception of place of articulation in voiceless fricative consonants. The amplitude of the fricative noise in naturally produced fricative-vowel utterances was varied relative to the vowel and potential changes in perceptual responses were investigated. The amplitude of the fricative noise for [s] and [s] was reduced such that the amplitude of the noise relative to the vowel was similar to [f] and [O], and, conversely, the amplitude of the fricative noise of [f] and [O] was increased such that the amplitude of the noise relative to the vowel was similar to [s] and [s]. The fricative noise was presented to listeners in both its vowel context and in isolation. Results indicated that, when the spectral properties of the fricative noise and formant transitions are compatible, the perceptual effects of the amplitude manipulation of the amplitude of the noise had a small effect on the overall identification of place of articulation, and when effects emerged, they varied across the different fricative stimuli. Moreover, although decreasing the amplitude of [s] and [s] resulted in an increase in [f] and [O] responses, increasing the amplitude of [f] and [O] did not result in an increase in [s] and [s] responses. Implications of these findings for phonetic feature theories are considered.     

Industrial Responsibility in the Emission of Particulate Matter in the Atmosphere

The present investigation consists of the application of several techniques such as Mössbauer spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, atomic absorption, electron probe micro analysis (EPMA), and thermo-gravimetric analysis, to the identification of the particulate matter in atmospheric aerosols in the metropolitan region of Vitória (MRV), ES, Brazil. The main sources of particulate matter and its emission characteristics within the steel industry have been studied to identify its contribution to air particles in Vitória region. The analysis reveals the total amount of industrial emission of the iron containing components in the atmosphere. The presence of goethite, hematite, magnetite, pyrite, silicates, marine chloride and total absence of heavy metals could be confirmed.     

Increase in the accuracy of approximating the profile of the erosion zone in planar magnetrons

It has been shown that the use of the survival function of the Weibull distribution shifted along the ordinate axis allows one to increase the accuracy of the approximation of the normalized profile of an erosion zone in the area from the axis to the maximum sputtering region compared with the previously suggested distribution function of the extremum values. The survival function of the Weibull distribution is used in the area from the maximum to the outer boundary of an erosion zone. The major advantage of using the new approximation is observed for magnetrons with a large central nonsputtered spot and for magnetrons with substantial sputtering in the paraxial zone.

     

Estimation of the parameters of charge carriers in polymers in the vicinity of the threshold of thermally stimulated switching

The temperature dependences of the parameters of charge carriers in thin films of an electroactive poly(diphenylenephthalide) polymer are investigated in the range preceding the thermally stimulated electronic switching (110–400 K). The thermally stimulated current spectra and current-voltage characteristics are measured in the same temperature range. The parameters of charge carriers are estimated in the framework of the model of injection currents limited by the space charge. It is revealed that the charge carrier mobility decreases with an increase in the temperature in the range from 110 to 400 K. A correlation between the temperature behavior of the current-voltage characteristics and the thermally stimulated current spectra is established. The possible contribution of the Pool-Frenkel effect is considered, and the inference is made that the electric field plays an important role in the thermally stimulated electronic switching.     

Change in the Character of Stability of Equilibrium in the Case of a Change in the Rigidity of a Generalize Coordinate

Doklady Physics - A linear mechanical system with n degrees of freedom is considered. The change in the character of stability of trivial equilibrium is studied in the case when the rigidity in one...     

Dynamical systems in the theory of solitons in the presence of nonlocal interactions

The behavior of solitons in models which take into account complex dispersion or nonlocal interaction of nonlinear waves is examined. A method is proposed to reduce this problem to one involving special trajectories (homoclinic and heteroclinic) of the dynamic system. This method involves replacing the nonlinear integrodifferential equation with the differential equations which link the original nonlinear field with the auxiliary linear fields. The interaction of fields in such a model is a local interaction. The number of introduced linear fields is determined by the Laplace transform of the integral operator kernel of the basic integrodifferential equation. The problem involving topological solitons for the nonlocal generalization of the Klein-Gordon equation is considered. Nonlocal interactions are found to lead to a number of singularities (unrestricted increase in the slope of the topological soliton front, break in the solutions, and other singularities).     

Evaluation of the dose received in the tissues of the neck during quantification of iodine in the thyroid by X-ray fluorescence spectrometry

The determination of the iodine content in the thyroid is of great interest for many investigations of this gland. The conventional scintigraphic method, using radionuclides, is efficient but delivers a significant dose to the patient. The X-ray fluorescence spectrometry could give information about the iodine content in the thyroid. The measured signal is obtained after stimulation of the stable iodine contained in the gland by X-rays. The advantage of this technique is the complete absence of radioactive isotope injected into the patient body. By applying this, a decrease in effective dose to the patient should be obtained. In this work, the study of the dose received by a thyroid phantom (surrounded by the different tissues of the neck) was performed. The phantom is made of PLA. The dose is measured in optimised conditions defined for the analytical technique. A total head-neck phantom was also used in order to consider the absorbed dose in each different tissues and organs as spinal cord or eyes. Thermo-luminescence dosimeters were chosen for their small size, their sensitivity and the easy positioning on the surface of the phantom but also inside of it to evaluate dose to internal organs. Those LiF 100 dosimeters have been calibrated within the X-ray beam also used for the analysis of iodine. The repeatability and reproducibility of the method has been evaluated. The influence of parameters as concentration of iodine in the thyroid, distance between the X-ray generator and the neck, thickness of the tissues surrounding the thyroid, has been investigated in terms of modifying parameters of the dose received by different tissues situated in the neck and the head.     

Measurements of the magnetic moment of the negative muon in the bound state in various atoms

The magnetic moment of the negative muon in the 1s state was measured in carbon, oxygen, magnesium, silicon, sulfur, and zinc. The attained precision of measurements allowed the dependence of the relativistic correction to the magnetic moment of the bound muon on the charge of the nucleus to be verified.     

Role of the dopant in the superconductivity of diamond

We present an ab initio study of the recently discovered superconductivity of boron doped diamond within the framework of a phonon-mediated pairing mechanism. The role of the dopant, in substitutional position, is unconventional in that half of the coupling parameter lambda originates in strongly localized defect-related vibrational modes, yielding a very peaked Eliashberg alpha2F(omega) function. The electron-phonon coupling potential is found to be extremely large, and T(C) is limited by the low value of the density of states at the Fermi level. The effect of boron isotope substitution is explored.     

放大系统在惠斯通电桥灵敏度研究中的应用

基于惠斯通电桥原理,在电位比较的基础上,加入了放大系统,通过调节放大系统的电阻,得出了在该模型下且在一定范围内,惠斯通电桥灵敏度具有一定的可调性,并发现在该模型下与待测电阻同路的电阻阻值与待测电阻阻值越接近越能获得高灵敏度,同时给出了此模型最佳适用条件。     

Determination of the directions of the transition dipoles in tetrabutylperylene in stretched polymers

The directions of the transition dipole moments of 2,5,8,11,-tetra-butylperylene were determined from angle-resolved fluorescence depolarization experiments on molecules embedded in a stretched anhydrous nitrocellulose matrix. The absorption transition moments lies almost parallel to the elongated axis of the molecule, but the emission transition moment makes an angle of 20° with the axis. The orientational distribution of the molecules in the polymer indicates significant deviations from a circular form.     

ZnO可见区发光机理研究进展

近年来,科研工作者对ZnO纳米材料研究产生了浓厚的兴趣。ZnO是一种具有宽带隙(3.37 eV)和较大的激子束缚能(60 meV)的六方纤锌矿结构半导体材料。它具有优异的光电、压电、压敏及发光等特性,在发光(激光)二极管、传感器、发光器件、紫外探测器等领域都有非常好的应用前景。至今,有很多非常成熟的实验方法(包括静电纺丝、水热法、溶胶-水热法、化学气相沉积法、旋涂法及电化学沉积法等)用来合成ZnO纳米材料,如纳米线、纳米棒、纳米盘及量子点等。氧化锌纳米结构的制备和性质已得到了广泛的研究,ZnO的可见发光机理一直是研究的热点,但很少有人对可见光范围内的光致发光进行总结。光致发光光谱能反映一些重要信息,如表面缺陷和氧空位、半导体材料的表面状态、光诱导电荷转移过程等。有学者认为ZnO的发光机理与其晶体缺陷有关,还有研究者认为其发光机理与氧空位有关等。通过量子限域效应、带边调制、表面修饰方法、缺陷调控方法等方面综述了ZnO可见区发光机理。     

Deuteron break-up in the field of the nucleus

The break-up of deuterons in Coulomb and nuclear fields is calculated in the framework of a distorted-wave Born approximation (DWBA). The matrix element in the post-interaction formulation is evaluated using a partial-wave decomposition. The results are in very good agreement with recent experiments, but only if nuclear forces are included. In addition, other theoretical models for the disintegration of deuterons are reviewed critically.     

Change in the critical exponent of magnetization in maghemite in the temperature range of the structural phase transition

The magnetization of maghemite and magnetite thin films is measured as a function of the temperature and orientation of the film. It is established that the temperature dependence of the spontaneous magnetization deviates from the Bloch law at low temperatures and is adequately described by the linear function M/M _s = 2.2(1-T/T _C) below the Curie temperature T _C. The linear temperature dependence of the magnetization below the Curie temperature is explained by the change in the spin of iron ions in tetrahedral positions due to local deformations of the crystal lattice.     

Experimental investigation of the behavior of the specific heat in finite systems in the vicinity of the critical mixing point

The specific heat of a 2,6-lutidine-water mixture is measured in the vicinity of the lower critical mixing point in the bulk and in porous media. The results of the measurements are interpreted by finite-size scaling. In particular, a universal function of the ratio t/t* [t is the dimensionless deviation of the temperature from the specific-heat maximum T _m (L), and t* is the characteristic dimensionless temperature, which depends on the pore size] describing the behavior of the specific heat in the vicinity of the critical point in porous media with different pore sizes is obtained. The results obtained are consistent with the predictions of finite-size scaling and with the data from a numerical calculation of the specific heat of the finite three-dimensional Ising model. Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 113, 1071–1080 (March 1998)