Simulation of the superlinearity of dose characteristics of thermoluminescence of anion-defective aluminum oxide

The specific features revealed in the superlinearity of dose dependences of thermoluminescence of anion-defective aluminum oxide single crystals have been considered theoretically in terms of the model of an interactive trap system. The model explains the decrease in the degree of superlinearity at a low heating rate, as well as with an increase in the dose increment, the occupancy of deep traps, and the sensitivity of the crystals to radiation due to the increase in the concentration of luminescence centers. The obtained results indicate a widening of the possibilities of the model for interpreting experimental data in the investigation of the dose characteristics of thermoluminescence of the studied crystals.     

Heat of formation of solid solution of alkali halides

Based on a semicontinuum model, the electrostatic, the polarisation, and the repulsive energy change of a lattice is calculated numerically, as a function of the relaxation of the nearest neighbouring ions of a substitutional impurity in an alkali halide crystal. It is found that for a particular displacement, the total energy change of the lattice is a minimum. Thus the heat of formation of a dilute solid solution is obtained. Here, we report calculations on the heat of formation of the following systems-Na⁺ in LiCl, Li⁺ in NaCl, K⁺ in NaCl, Na⁺ in KCl, Rb⁺ in NaCl, Na⁺ in RbCl, F^? in NaCl, Cl^? in NaF. Br^? in NaCl and Cl^? in NaBr.     

Influence of angles of incidence of laser radiation on the generation of fast ions

It was established experimentally that the number and energy of fast ions in laser plasma increased with increasing angle of focusing laser radiation onto a flat target. Numerical calculations showed that the increase in angle of focusing brought the mean angle of incidence of laser radiation closer to the optimal angle corresponding to the maximal efficiency of the resonance absorption mechanism and, as a result, increased the fraction of absorbed laser energy in the energy of fast electrons and increased the number of fast electrons. In turn, the increase in the energy and number of fast electrons resulted in an increase in the number of fast electrons involved in the formation of a self-consistent electric field at the target edge and led to the growth of the field strength, which, eventually, was the reason for the increase in the number and energy of fast ions.     

Photoconductivity of thin films of modifications of zinc sulfide

Fine structure in the spectral response in the 300–340 nm range is reported for polycrystalline films at 90 ° and 293 ° K. The response spectrum is compared with the absorption and reflection spectra; peaks in absorption correspond to minima in the photocurrent. The detailed spectrum is dependent on the modification and on the structure defects.     

Model calculation of the density of states of dilute alloys

We show that the single pole dominance approximation in the theory of localized spin fluctuations gives the structure in the spectral density associated with the formation of localized magnetic moments in metals and with the Kondo effect, that is a triply peaked spectral density, in agreement with experiment.     

Effect of irradiation on the laws of annealing of impurity hardening of NaCl crystals

Studies were carried out on crystals containing various types of impurity: Ca²⁺, a hole-acceptor impurity, which dissolves well in NaCl; and Pb²⁺, an electronacceptor impurity, which dissolves poorly in NaCl. For the first time when doped crystals were annealed softening was observed to occur as a result of irradiation with soft x-rays prior to the annealing. The microhardness of irradiated doped NaCl crystals drops below the value that corresponds to the unannealed unirradiated sample. This effect is more pronounced in NaCl:Pb. It is postulated that the weakening effect is due to the breakup of impurity complexes. This assumption is supported by the results of studies on the laws governing the annealing of dislocation structures about the imprints of an indenter. These laws are shown to depend on the type of impurity: processes of dislocation polygonization were observed in NaCl:Ca crystals and the dislocation distribution was random in NaCl:Pb crystals. Pre-irradiation of the latter caused dislocations to be built in and polygonization to appear. Evidently, by breaking up impurity complexes in NaCl:Pb crystals x-ray irradiation brings the state of the impurity in them closer to that in NaCl:Ca.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 8, pp. 57–62, August, 1988.     

Cathodoluminescence of ruby as a function of angle of incidence

The effect is explained in terms of an increase in efficiency with angle of incidence. Inclined excitation is proposed as a method of preventing charging of the surface.We are indebted to Professor V. L. Levshin for discussions, to A. G. Dvchinnikov for assistance in making the attachment, and to Yu. V. Khrushchev for assistance in the experiments.     

Influence of the Concentration of Aqueous Solutions of Sulfuric Acid on the Reflection Spectra of Pine Needles

The effect of solutions of sulfuric acid of different concentrations on the optical characteristics of pine needles was investigated. It is found that an increase in the acid concentration results in a decrease in the content of pigments in pine needles and in their reflectance in the visible region. An analysis of experimental data by using the LIBERTY model has shown that the decrease in the pine needle reflectance with decrease in the pigment content depends on the change in the refractive index at the cell wall–binding medium interface.     

Application of new methods of interpretation of meteor observations at the Institute of Astrophysics of Tajikistan

New methods of interpretation of meteor observations were developed and published in [1?C9]. The interpretation of ground-based observations of meteors and bolides available today in the scientific literature all over the world suffers from serious contradictions. Observers use the so-called photometric approach for determination of extra-atmospheric masses of meteoric bodies. This approach is based on the formula proposed in 1933 [10] and very simple ideas of how to describe the interaction between the atmospheric air and the surface of a meteoric body. These ideas are provisionally suitable to describe the flow around a body in a free molecular regime. Subsequently, the photometric approach was applied to all the meteor events including bolides. The main effort aimed to elaborate the approach included a choice of new formulas for the radiative efficiency.     

Change in nature of the conductivity of germanides of rare-earth metals

Conclusions The change in the type of conductivity in REM germanides is due to a change in the energy state of electrons in these compounds.The temperatures at which changes occur in the electrophysical and thermal properties of REM germanides of the compositions MeGe₂, MeGe, and Me₅Ge₃ were determined.The transition temperatures are lowest for phases of the composition MeGe₂ and highest for phases of the composition Me₅Ge₃, and increase in the series of REM germanides with reduction in the atomic radius of the metal.The anomalous behavior of cerium germanides is due to the presence of tetravalent metal ions in addition to the trivalent ions.     

Kinetics of Macrolocalization Patterns of Plastic Flow of Metals

The features of the macroscopic inhomogeneity of plastic deformation in the form of autowaves with a pulsating amplitude are analyzed, and data on the localization of sources of acoustic emission at different stages of plastic flow in the stretching of fcc mono- and polycrystals are presented. The relationship between the local components of the plastic distortion tensor in the strain localization zone is traced. The role of acoustic phenomena accompanying the localization of plastic strain in the development of the process of plastic deformation is considered.     

Influence of deformations of a polymer matrix on the characteristics of dual fluorescence of 3-hydroxyflavone

The possibility of considerably changing the conditions for the proton transfer reaction in 3-hydroxyflavone molecules in polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) polymer matrices by stretching deformations is demonstrated. Samples of this kind are traditionally used to obtain ensembles of fluorophore molecules oriented along a chosen axis and for polarization measurements. The fluorescence spectrum of 3-hydroxyflavone in PVA has two characteristic bands in the violet and green spectral regions, which indicates excited-state proton transfer. Stretching leads to a strong reduction in the violet band, whose contribution in undeformed samples is comparable to the contribution of green fluorescence. Even twofold stretching of PVA films strongly decreases the violet band intensity, which is more pronounced in the case of sixfold stretching. In the latter case, the fluorescence spectrum behavior is very close to the pattern observed in nonpolar and aprotic solvents, in which the violet fluorescence intensity is very low. The data obtained indicate that mechanical stretching allows one to eliminate the main intermolecular factors that slow down the proton transfer between the active groups in PVA.     

Current status of equation of state of nuclear matter

The equation of state (EOS) of symmetric nuclear matter (SNM) is a very important ingredient in the study of various phenomena of interest in nuclear physics and astrophysics. Accurate assessment of the value of the SNM incompressibility coefficient, K, which is directly related to the curvature of the EOS, is needed to extend our knowledge of the EOS in the vicinity of the saturation point. We review the current status of K as determined from experimental data on compression modes in nuclei using the mean-field-based random-phase approximation. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

Theory of specific heat of vortex liquid of high T_c superconductors

Superconducting thermal fluctuation(STF) plays an important role in both thermodynamic and transport properties in the vortex liquid phase of high T_c superconductors.It was widely observed in the vicinity of the critical transition temperature.In the framework of Ginz burg-Landau-La wrence-Doniach theory in magnetic field,a self-consistent analysis of STF including all Landau levels is given.Besides that,we calculate the contribution of STF to specific heat in vortex liquid phase for high T_c cuprate superconductors,and the fitting results are in good agreement with experimental data.     

Features of the Mechanism of Formation of the Radiation Belt of High-Energy Electrons and Positrons

New results of the PAMELA experiment revealed significant difference in the electron and positrons flux and fraction between trapped particles of the radiation belt and quasitrapped particles. A decrease in the ratio of the electron-to-positron fluxes both with increasing altitude and with decreasing energy was observed for the inner radiation belt, but this does not fit in currently used models. The residual atmosphere density in the trapping region for L ~ 1.15?1.2 is estimated on the basis of calculations of trapped-particle trajectories in the Earth’s magnetosphere. It is shown that processes leading to the energy loss for trapped electrons and positrons in the interactions with residual-atmosphere atoms play an important role in the formation of fluxes of these particles, but these processes cannot cause the reduction of the positron fraction in the total flux at energies below some 100 MeV. The role of the process of δ-electron production in the formation of the belt of trapped electrons and positrons is considered. Allowance for this process makes it possible to explain the above reduction at least partly.     

元素周期表中元素单晶基于局域密度理论的正电子寿命计算

在局域密度近似理论（LDA）的基础上用中性原子叠加模型和有限插分方法（SNA-FD）计算了元素周期表中各种元素单晶的正电子体寿命和单空位寿命.分析了不同结构的单晶中自由正电子的分布信息和湮没信息.元素单晶的正电子寿命计算值与文献中的实验测量值相符合,表明LDA基础上的SNA-FD方法可以作为单晶中正电子湮没理论计算的有效研究手段. 关键词： 局域密度近似理论 正电子寿命     

Effect of Long-Period Ordering of the Structure of a Plant on the Initial Stages of Photosynthesis

Using data on the structure of plant leaves, specific features of light propagation in biophotoniccrystal structures have been established by the transfer matrix method. Splitting of the stopband in two bands has been found. The density of photonic states and the electromagnetic field value have been calculated. The occurrence of two photosystems (splitting of the stopband in two bands), the peculiarity of the long-wavelength quantum yield and its enhancement (Emerson effect), and water dissociation in the soft mode due to an increase in the electromagnetic field on the layers are explained.     

Magnetooptical studies of aggregates of nanoparticles in colloidal solutions of magnetite

The birefringence in a colloidal solution of nanosized magnetite particles in kerosene exposed to constant, alternating, and pulsed magnetic fields is studied. Data on the birefringence kinetics in nonstationary magnetic fields is used to determine the hydrodynamic radius of particle aggregates in solutions. The permanent dipole moment of aggregates and the anisotropy of the magnetic susceptibility are calculated based on the data of magnetooptical experiments. It is shown that the induced dipole moment plays a significant role in an orientation of aggregates of magnetic nanoparticles under the effect of a field.     

Evolution of disturbances of the sphericity of a bubble under strong compression

The growth in the amplitude of the small nonsphericity of cavitation bubbles in acetone and water under strong compression is considered. A hydrodynamic model is used in which the compressibility of the liquid, the nonstationary thermal conduction of the vapor and the liquid, and nonequilibrium evaporation–condensation processes, as well as imperfection of the vapor, are considered. It has been shown that the increase in the amplitude of the small nonsphericity of cavitation bubbles in the form of separate spherical harmonics during compression in water is substantially (more than 10 times) higher than during compression in acetone. This indicates that acetone is much more advantageous over water to implement a process of the nearer-to-spherical extreme compression of the medium in the cavitation bubbles.     

Spectroscopy of polarized luminescence of nanostructures

The effect of different distortions arising in nanostructures and of external fields on polarization of radiation has been studied. Occurrence of linear polarization of photoluminescence in a magnetic field applied in the plane of a structure containing a CdTe/CdMnTe quantum well has been considered. The influence of a magnetic field on the effects of optical orientation and optical alignment of excitons and trions in self-assembled CdSe/ZnSe quantum dots has been investigated. Analysis of the experimental data reveals low symmetry of the structures studied. It is shown that the distribution of the anisotropy axes in the plane of nanostructures is nearly random.