The Phase Transition of Eu2O3 under High Pressures

Pressure-induced phase transition of cubic Eu2 03 is studied by angle-dispersive x-ray diffraction （ADXD） up to 42.3 GPa at room temperature. A structural transformation from a cubic phase to a hexagonal phase is observed, which starts at 5.0 GPa and finishes at about 13.1 GPa. The phase transition leads to a volume collapse of 9.0% at 8.6 GPa. The hexagonal phase of Eu2 03 maintains stable up to the highest experiment pressure. After re/ease of pressure, the high-pressure phase transforms to a monoclinic phase. The pressure-volume data are fitted with the Birch-Murnaghan equation of state. The bulk moduli obtained upon compression from the fitting are 145（2） GPa and 151（6） OPa for the cubic and hexagonal phases, respectively, when their first pressure derivatives are fixed at 4.     

Phase Transition in CCI4 under Pressure： a Raman Spectroscopic Study

High-pressure Raman studies at room temperature are performed on CC14 up to 13 GPa. The Raman bands of the internal modes （v2, v4 and vl） show entirely positive pressure dependence. The slopes dω/dP of the internal modes exhibit two sudden changes at O. 73 GPa and 7.13 GPa, respectively. A new lower frequency mode （225 em-1） appears at 3.03 GPa, and the splitting of v2, v3 and v4 occurs at about 7.13 GPa. Moreover, Raman spectra of Fermi resonance show that the relative position of the v1 ＋ v4 combination and the v3 fundamental firstly interchanges corresponding to that at ambient pressure, then the v1 ＋ v4 combination disappears in the gradual process of compression. It is indicated that the pressure-induced phase transition from CC14 Ⅱ to CC14 Ⅲ occurs at 0.73 GPa, and CC14 Ⅲ undergoes a transition to CC14 IV below 3.03 GPa. Further CC14 Ⅳ transforms in a new high-pressure phase at about 7.13 GPa, and the symmetry of the new high-pressure phase is lower than that of CC14 Ⅳ. All the transitions are reversible during decompression.     

Structural phase transition,strength,and texture in vanadium at high pressure under nonhydrostatic compression

The structural phase transition, strength, and texture of vanadium have been studied under nonhydrostatic compression up to 70 GPa using an angle-dispersive radial x-ray diffraction technique in a 2-fold paranomic diamond anvil cell and up to 38 GPa using an angle-dispersive x-ray diffraction technique in a modified Mao–Bell diamond anvil cell at room temperature. We have confirmed a phase transition from body-centered cubic structure to rhombohedral structure at 27–32 GPa under nonhydrostatic compression. The radial x-ray diffraction data yields a bulk modulus K_0= 141(5) GPa and its pressure derivative K_0′= 5.4(7) for the bcc phase and K_0= 154(13) GPa with K_0′= 3.8(3) for the rhombohedral phase at ψ = 54.7°. The nonhydrostatic x-ray diffraction data of both bcc and rhombohedral phases yields a bulk modulus K_0= 188(5) GPa with K_0′= 2.1(3). Combined with the independent constraints on the high-pressure shear modulus, it is found that the vanadium sample can support a differential stress of ～1.6 GPa when it starts to yield with plastic deformation at ～36 GPa. A maximum differential stress as high as ～ 1.7 GPa can be supported by vanadium at the pressure of ～ 47 GPa.In addition, we have investigated the texture up to 70 GPa using the software package MAUD. It is convinced that the bodycentered cubic to rhombohedral phase transition and plastic deformation due to stress under high pressures are responsible for the development of texture.     

High pressure X-ray diffraction study of CaMnO3 perovskite

Using a diamond anvil cell device and synchrotron radiation,the in-situ high-pressure structure of CaMnO3 has been investigated.In the pressure up to 36.5 GPa,no pressure-induced phase transition is observed.The pressure dependence on the lattice parameters of CaMnO3 is reported,and the relationship of the axial compression coefficients is βa 〉 βc 〉 βb.The isothermal bulk modulus K298=224（25） GPa is also obtained by fitting the pressure-volume data using the Murnaghan equation of state.     

Pressure-induced enhancement of optoelectronic properties in PtS_2

PtS_2, which is one of the group-10 transition metal dichalcogenides, attracts increasing attention due to its extraordinary properties under external modulations as predicted by theory, such as tunable bandgap and indirect-to-direct gap transition under strain; however, these properties have not been verified experimentally. Here we report the first experimental exploration of its optoelectronic properties under external pressure. We find that the photocurrent is weakly pressuredependent below 3 GPa but increases significantly in the pressure range of 3 GPa–4 GPa, with a maximum ～ 6 times higher than that at ambient pressure. X-ray diffraction data shows that no structural phase transition can be observed up to26.8 GPa, which indicates a stable lattice structure of PtS_2 under high pressure. This is further supported by our Raman measurements with an observation of linear blue-shifts of the two Raman-active modes to 6.4 GPa. The pressure-enhanced photocurrent is related to the indirect-to-direct/quasi-direct bandgap transition under pressure, resembling the gap behavior under compression strain as predicted theoretically.     

Carrier behavior of Hg Te under high pressure revealed by Hall effect measurement

We investigate the carrier behavior of Hg Te under high pressures up to 23 GPa using in situ Hall effect measurements.As the phase transitions from zinc blende to cinnabar, then to rock salt, and finally to Cmcm occur, all the parameters change discontinuously. The conductivity variation under compression is described by the carrier parameters. For the zinc blende phase, both the decrease of carrier concentration and the increase of mobility indicate the overlapped valence band and conduction band separates with pressure. Pressure causes an increase in the hole concentration of Hg Te in the cinnabar phase, which leads to the carrier-type inversion and the lowest mobility at 5.6 GPa. In the phase transition process from zinc blende to rock salt, Te atoms are the major ones in atomic movements in the pressure regions of 1.0–1.5 GPa and1.8–3.1 GPa, whereas Hg atoms are the major ones in the pressure regions of 1.5–1.8 GPa and 3.1–7.7 GPa. The polar optical scattering of the rock salt phase decreases with pressure.     

Pressure induced magnetic and semiconductor–metal phase transitions in Cr_2MoO_6

We investigate magnetic ordering and electronic structures of Cr_2MoO_6under hydrostatic pressure. To overcome the band gap problem, the modified Becke and Johnson exchange potential is used to investigate the electronic structures of Cr_2MoO_6. The insulating nature at the experimental crystal structure is produced, with a band gap of 1.04 eV, and the magnetic moment of the Cr atom is 2.50 μB, compared to an experimental value of about 2.47 μB. The calculated results show that an antiferromagnetic inter-bilayer coupling–ferromagnetic intra-bilayer coupling to a ferromagnetic inter-bilayer coupling–antiferromagnetic intra-bilayer coupling phase transition is produced with the pressure increasing. The magnetic phase transition is simultaneously accompanied by a semiconductor–metal phase transition. The magnetic phase transition can be explained by the Mo–O hybridization strength, and ferromagnetic coupling between two Cr atoms can be understood by empty Mo-d bands perturbing the nearest O-p orbital.     

Phase Transition of Graphitic-C3N4 under High Pressure by In Situ Resistance Measurement in a Diamond Anvil Cell

In situ resistance measurement of Graphitic-C3N4 has been performed under high pressure in a diamond anvil cell. The result reveals that there are changes of electron transport behaviour. As the pressure increases from ambient to 30 GPa, three abnormal resistance changes can be found at room temperature and two are found at 77K. The abnormal resistance dropped at 5 GPa is close to the phase transition pressure from the P6m2 structure to the p structure predicted by Lowther et al. [Phys. Reg. B 59 (1999) 11683] Another abnormal change of resistance at 12 GPa is related to the phase transition from g-C3N4 to cubic-C3N4 [Teter and Hemley, Science 271 (1990) 53].     

High-Pressure Phase Transition in CTAB-Micellar Solutions： A Raman Spectroscopic Study

We use a diamond anvil cell for the first time to investigate the Raman spectra of an aqueous micellar solution of hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide （CTAB） at pressures up to 3.85 GPa. The pressure-induced phase transition between the micellar and coagel phases is found to occur at 0.64 GPa and 60℃. This phase transition has a pressure hysteresis, and thus exhibits the first-order phase transition properties. Further experimental results show that although the structure of the coagel phase is similar to that of the CTAB crystal, the interchain distance is slightly larger in the coagel phase than that in the CTAB crystal.     

Atomistic simulation of fcc-bcc phase transition in single crystal Al under uniform compression

By molecular dynamics simulations employing an embedded atom model potential,we investigate the fcc-to-bcc phase transition in single crystal Al,caused by uniform compression.Results show that the fcc structure is unstable when the pressure is over 250 GPa,in reasonable agreement with the calculated value through the density functional theory.The morphology evolution of the structural transition and the corresponding transition mechanism are analysed in detail.The bcc (011) planes are transited from the fcc (11) plane and the (11) plane.We suggest that the transition mechanism consists mainly of compression,shear,slid and rotation of the lattice.In addition,our radial distribution function analysis explicitly indicates the phase transition of Al from fcc phase to bcc structure.     

从理想气体压强到大气压强的教学讨论

从理想气体模型出发,讨论压强产生的物理实质,推广到大气层中的空气,考虑其因重力影响使粒子数密度按势能分布,导致大气压强随高度发生变化.这一分析讨论过程能帮助学生建立清晰的物理认知,有效地培养学生的科学思维、分析解决实际问题的能力.     

3 GPa熔融盐固体介质高温高压三轴压力容器的围压标定

 新研制的3 GPa熔融盐固体介质高温高压三轴实验系统,改进了高压容器的装样方式以及样品的尺寸,由于装样部件之间摩擦以及克服传压介质本身的强度,视载围压和真实围压具有较大差异,在完成压力容器温度标定的基础上,采用部分熔融法在不同温度和压力条件下进行围压标定实验研究。实验使用LiCl-KCl混合氯化盐样品,分别在300~1 400 MPa视载围压的条件下,对样品进行缓慢加温,成功观测到实验力学数据和温度数据的同时响应,确定了混合氯化盐的初熔温度,通过已知熔融曲线方程计算得出真实围压。通过比较不同的实验条件和观察实验后装样结构,给出了摩擦力的变化规律：在300~500 MPa压力条件下,摩擦力百分比呈现降低趋势,从52%降低到31.2%;在700~1 200 MPa压力条件下,摩擦力约占11.4%;在1 400 MPa压力条件下,摩擦百分比从11.4%上升到15.5%。通过对比国内外同类实验设备摩擦力认为,该设备真实围压的精度达到了国际同类设备的水平。     

压力和重力

从力的性质上讲,压力和重力具有质的区别,但在很多情况下,压力和重力又存在着数值上的关系,所以教学中应注意强调二者质的区别和数值上的关系,以免学生形成模糊概念。本文通过例题浅析这一关系。     

高灵敏度光纤光栅压力传感器及其压力传感特性的研究

采用增敏罐封装的方法 ,设计并研究了一种新型高灵敏度的光纤光栅压力传感器 ,其压力灵敏系数可高达- 3.41× 10 - 3 MPa- 1 (相应于灵敏度 - 5 .2 77nm MPa) ,压力灵敏系数较裸光纤提高了 172 2倍 ,且线性度良好 ,可应用于低压情况下物理量的传感测量     

光学极压润滑脂

本文提供一种原材料易得,价格便宜,制造工艺简便,且具有实用价值的光学极压润滑脂的配方、制造方法及技术参数。     

Pressure and protein dynamism

The dynamism of life depends critically on the dynamism of bio-macromolecules themselves, notably proteins. The bio-macromolecular dynamism originates from weak non-bonding interactions, which inevitably fluctuate under physiological conditions. The fascination lies in the fact that, in proteins, the basically random “non-biological fluctuations” of atoms are often turned into specific “biological fluctuations” of larger amplitude, which would be directly coupled to protein function and consequently the dynamism of life such as growth, motility, sensing, adaptation and disease. The success of the combination of pressure perturbation with advanced nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy by using the online cell method has provided a powerful means for investigating details of such “biological fluctuations”, which encompass, in general, a much wider conformational space of a protein than hitherto explored. Some representative strategies of high pressure NMR spectroscopy for characterizing protein dynamism will be discussed with actual examples.     

Pressure inactivation of microorganisms

Abstract

The kinetics of inactivation by hydrostatic pressure is measured for Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, bacteriophage T4, and the spores of Bacillus subtilis. Temperature and pressure effects are discussed as well as the interrelation between germination and inactivation in the case of bacterial spores.     

Liquid Pressure Varifocus Lens

A liquid pressure varifocus lens that consists of a thin polymer film and liquid is described. The lens can be continuously changed from a concave to a convex shape by driving the liquid pressure in the lens. The dynamic range of the focal length of the convex lens is from 50 to 250 mm. A beam spot verifies the variable focal function on a photographic film exposed by a He-Ne laser. In addition, the application of the laser for processing is demonstrated to manufacture Fe compressed powder sheets by normal pulse YAG laser. Its melting marks along a focus change are formed with a minimum width of 0.1 mm.