Spectral Study of Effects of Aluminium Nanoparticles on Fast Reaction of Nitromethane

Fast reactions between nitromethane and aluminium nanoparticles are studied using transient spectral methods. In comparison with species produced by pure nitromethane, the emergence time for species produced by nitromethane after addition of 1 g of aluminium nanoparticles decreases by 46-58% and the emission intensity increases by 13-100%. The results demonstrate that aluminium nanoparticles have positive effect on accelerating the decomposition rate of nitromethane and that the explosion efficiency of nitromethane is greatly improved. Fast reactions carried out between nitromethane and aluminium nanoparticles in different environments （CO2, H2O and O2） reveal that O2 and an appropriate amount of H2O improve the explosion efficieney of nitrornethane, whereas CO2 has the weakest effect on improving this parameter. The investigations provide insights into the process occurring in actual systems involving propellants and fuel-air explosives.     

Contribution from the Earth's Bow Shock to Region 1 Current under Low Alfvén Mach Numbers

Using global MHD simulations of the solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere system, we investigate the dependence of the contribution from the Earth's bow shock (I_1bs) to ionospheric region 1 field aligned current (FAC) (I₁). It is found that I_1bs increases with increasing southward interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) strength B_s, if the Alfvén Mach number M_A of the solar wind exceeds 2, a similar result as obtained by previous authors. However, if M_A becomes close to or falls below 2, I_1bs will decrease with B_s in both magnitude and percentage (i.e., I_1bs}/I₁) because of the resultant reduction of the bow shock strength. Both the surface current density J_bs at the nose of the bow shock and the total bow shock current I_bs share nearly the same relationship with M_A, and vary non-monotonically with M_A or B_s. The maximum point is found to be located at M_A = 2.7. Three conclusions are then made as follows: (1) The surface current density at the nose, which is much easier to be evaluated, may be used to largely describe the behaviour of the bow shock instead of the total bow shock current. (2) The peak of the total bow shock current is reached at about M_A = 2.7 when only B_s is adjusted. (3) The non-monotonic variation of the bow shock current with M_A causes a similar variation of its contribution to region 1 FAC. The turning point for such contribution is found to be nearly M_A= 2. The implication of these conclusions to the saturation of the ionospheric transpolar potential is briefly discussed     

Stability Investigation of Colloidal FePt Nanoparticle Systems by Spectrophotometer Analysis

FePt magnetic nanoparticle systems are an excellent candidate for ultrahigh-density magnetic recording. Monodisperse FePt nanoparticles are synthesized by superhydride reduction of FECl2·4H2O and Pt （acac）2 at 263℃ under N2 atmosphere. Transmission electron microscopy （TEM） images show monosize EePt nanoparticles with diameter of 4 nm and a standard deviation of about 10%. The average distance between monodispesre particles is nearly 3 nm, and oleic acid and oleylamine surround the nanoparticles as surfactants. Stability investigation of nanoparticle colloidal solution is done via speetrophotometery analysis. The results for FePt nanoparticles dispersed in hexane indicate that adding surfactants with concentration of 3 × 10^-3 part by volume for centrifugation stage increases the stability of FePt nanoparticles solution with concentration of 16 mg/mL, about 67%.     

Influence of pH on Nanofluids' Viscosity and Thermal Conductivity

Aiming at the dispersion stability of nanopartieles regarded as the guide of heat transfer enhancement, we investigate the viscosity and the thermal conductivity of Cu and Al2O3 nanoparticles in water under different pH values. The results show that there exists an optimal pH value for the lowest viscosity and the highest thermal conductivity, and that at the optimal pH value the nanofluids containing a small amount of nanoparticles have noticeably higher thermal conductivity than that of the base fluid without nanoparticles. For the two nanofluids the enhancements of thermal conductivity are observed up to 13% （Al2O3-water） or 15% （Cu-water） at 0.4 wt%, respectively. Therefore, adjusting the pH values is suggested to improve the stability and the thermal conductivity for practical applications of nanofluid.     

Microwave Magnetic Permeability of Fe3O4 Nanoparticles

Well-dispersed Fe3O4 nanoparticles are synthesized via an oxidization method with NANO2 as oxidant. The microwave magnetic properties of the composites are studied with different volume fractions of fe3O4 nanoparticles. It is found that a lower volume fraction corresponds to a higher magnetic resonance frequency. This could be ascribed to the enhancement of exchange interaction with a weakened dipolar interaction when the volume fraction decreases.     

Complete Gluonic Phase in Two-Flavour Colour Superconductivity

We study a typical complete gluonic phase （LGP） in two-flavour colour superconductivity （2SC） by calculating the essential cubic and quartic interfering term between the gluonic condensates （Az^（8）） and/Az^（6）） with a gauged NJL model. It is proven that the coefficients of the cubic interfering term and the vacuum contributions of the cubic and quartic interfering term are all equal to zeroes. The coefficients of the quartic interfering term and the /Az^（6）） ＇s quartic self-interaction term at stationary points of Larkin-Ovchinnikov-Fulde-Ferrell （LOFF） phase are calculated. Comparisons among the effective potentials of LOP, g2SC and LOFF phase indicate that LOP could be the genuine ground state of 2SC for some reasonable paxameters.     

Polarized Micro-Raman Study of the Temperature-Induced Phase Transition In 0.67 Pb（Mg1/3Nb2/3）O3-0.33PbTiO3

Polarized Raman spectra of ferroelectric relaxor 0.67Pb（Mg1/3Nb2/3）O3-0.33PbTiO3 （0.67PMN-0.33PT） single crystal are systematically investigated in a wide temperature range from -196 to 600℃ by micro-Raman scattering technique. The results clearly reveal that there are two structural phase transitions in such composite ferroelectric relaxor： the rhombohedral-tetragonal （R- T） phase transition and the tetragonal-cubic （T- C） phase transition. The former occurs at about TR-T =34℃, corresponding to the vanishing of the soft A1 mode at 106cm^-1 recorded in the parallel polarization. The latter appears at about TT-C = 144℃, which can be verified with the vanishing of mode at 780cm^-1 measured in the crossed polarization.     

Structural and Magnetic Properties of Fe-Doped Anatase TiO2 Films Annealed in Vacuum

Structural and magnetic properties of Fe-doped anatase TiO2 films fabricated by sol-gel spin coating are investigated. X-ray diffraction measurements reveal that Fe^3＋ ions are incorporated into the TiO2 lattice. No ferromagnetism-related secondary phases and magnetic nanopaxticles are observed in the films. The presence of electron paramagnetic resonance signals at 9- 2.0 supports oxygen vacancies and/or defects generated in the films after annealing in vacuum. Magnetic measurements indicate that Fe-doped anatase TiO2 films are ferromagnetic at room temperature. These observations suggest that oxygen vacancies and/or defects axe energetically favorable for the long range Fe^3＋-Fe^3＋ ferromagnetic coupling in Fe-doped anatase TiO2 films.     

Formation Mechanisms of Electrical Conductivity and Optical Properties of ZnO:N Film Produced by Annealing Treatment

The effects of annealing on the chemical states of N dopant, electrical, and optical properties of N-doped ZnO film grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) are investigated. Both the as-grown ZnO:N film and the film annealed in N₂ are of n-type conductivity, whereas the conductivity converts into p-type conductivity for the film annealed in O₂. We suggest that the transformation of conductivity is ascribed to the change in ratio of the N molecular number on O site (N₂)_O to the N atom number on O site (N_O) in ZnO:N films under the various annealed atmosphere. For the ZnO:N film annealed in N₂, the percentage content of (N₂)_O is larger than that of N_O, i.e.the ratio >1, resulting in the n-type conductivity. However, in the case of the ZnO:N film annealed in O₂, the percentage content of (N₂)_O is fewer than that of N_O, i.e., the ratio <1, giving rise to the p-type conductivity. There is an obvious difference between low-temperature (80K) PL spectra of ZnO:N film annealed in N₂ and that of ZnO:N film annealed in O₂. An emission band located at 3.358eV is observed in the spectra of the ZnO:N film after annealed in N₂, this emission band is due to donor-bound exciton (D⁰X). After annealed in O₂, the PL of the donor-bound exciton disappeared, an emission band located at 3.348eV is observed, this emission band is assigned to acceptor-bound exciton (A⁰X).     

Optical transient bleaching and induced absorption of surface-oxidized CuFeS nanoparticles

Nonlinear optical properties of surface-oxidized CuFe_xS_y (x=1, 2, y=2, 3) nanoparticles incorporated in polymeric film are studied. Surface oxidation of CuFeS₂ and CuFe₂S₃ nanoparticles results in appearance of the additional absorption band with maximum at 1.03 and 1.15 7m, respectively. Bleaching of this additional absorption band in CuFe₂S₃ particles and the induced absorption in all studied samples after picosecond laser excitation take place. An energy level scheme for CuFeS₂ and CuFe₂S₃ nanoparticles with long-lived trap levels in the band gap is proposed and the origin of additional absorption is discussed. Characteristic times for career relaxation from conduction band to these trap levels are ᅉLJ ps for CuFe₂S₃ and ᅶᆞ ps for CuFeS₂ oxidized nanoparticles. The relaxation of electrons from trap levels has a characteristic time of more than 500 ps.     

Phase-Transition and Magnetic Moment of the Gd3+ Ion in the Gd2Fe17 Compound

The structure and magnetic phase transitions of the Gd2Fe17 compound are investigated by using a differential thermal/thermogravimetric analyzer, x-ray diffraction, and magnetization measurements. The result shows that there are two phase structures for the Gd2Fe17 compound： the hexagonal Th2Nilr-type structure at high temperatures （above 1243℃）, and the rhombohedral Th2Zn17-type structure, respectively. A method to measure the magnetic moments of the Gd-sublattice and the Fe-sublattice in the Gd2Fe17 compound is presented. The moments of the Gd-sublattice and the Fe-sublattice in the Gd2Fe17 compound from 77 to 500 K are measured in this way with a vibrating sample magnetometer. A detailed discussion is presented.     

Electronic Structure and Elastic Properties of Ti3AlC from First-Principles Calculations

We perform a first-principles study on the electronic structure and elastic properties of TiaA1C with an antiperovskite structure. The absence of band gap at the Fermi level and the finite value of the density of states at the Fermi energy reveal the metallic behavior of this compound. The elastic constants of Ti3AlC are derived yielding c11 = 356 GPa, c12 = 55 GPa, c44 = 157 GPa. The bulk modulus B, shear modulus G and Young＇s modulus E are determined to be 156, 151 and 342 GPa, respectively. These properties are compared with those of Ti3AlC2 and Ti2AlC with a layered structure in the Ti-Al-C system and FeaAlC with the same antiperovskite structure.     

Identification of Acceptor States in Li-N Dual-Doped p-Type ZnO Thin Films

Li-N dual-doped p-type ZnO （ZnO：（Li, N）） thin films are prepared by pulsed laser deposition. The optical properties are studied using temperature-dependent photoluminescence. The Lizn-No complex acceptor with an energy 1evel of 138 me V is identified from the free-to-neutral-acceptor （e, A0 ） emission. The Haynes factor is about 0.087 for the Lizn-No complex acceptor, with the acceptor bound-exciton binding energy of 12meV. Another deeper acceptor state located at 248 meV, also identified from the （e, A0） emission, is attributed to zinc vacancy acceptor. The two acceptor states might both contribute to the observed p-type conductivity in ZnO：（Li,N）.     

Influence of Gamma-Ray Irradiation on Absorption and Fluorescent Spectra of Nd：YAG and Yb：YAG Laser Crystals

We investigate the influence of gamma-ray irradiation on the absorption and fluorescent spectra of Nd^3＋：Y3A15 O12 （Nd： YAG） and Yb^3＋ ： Y3A15 O12 （Yb： YAG） crystals grown by the Czochralski method. Two additional absorption （AA） bands induced by gamma-ray irradiation appear at 255nm and 340nm. The former is contributed due to Fe^3＋ impurity, the latter is due to Fe^2＋ ions and F-type colour centres. The intensity of the excitation and emission spectra as well as the fluorescent lifetime of Nd：YAG crystal decrease after the irradiation of 100 Mrad gamma-ray. In contrast, the same dose irradiation does not impair the fluorescent properties of Yb：YAG crystal. These results indicate that Yb： YA G crystal possesses the advantage over Nd： YA G crystal that has better reliability for applications in harsh radiant environment.     

纳米氧化钛团聚结构的研究

爆轰形成的高温、高压持续时间短,使得新生的氧化钛来不及长成较大的晶粒,只能形成大量的类球形纳米微粒。在潮湿的爆生气体环境中,这些纳米氧化钛颗粒间的相互作用(如碰撞、摩擦、挤压、渗透和粘附等)比较剧烈,极易聚集成团聚体。初步分析了以硫酸氧钛为钛源、采用爆轰法合成的纳米氧化钛的团聚结构和分散形态,对经过加热至500℃、保温1 h热处理后的纳米氧化钛的团聚结构也进行了分析。研究结果表明:用爆轰法合成的纳米氧化钛存在软团聚和硬团聚两种形式,而经过热处理(500℃、1 h)的纳米氧化钛的团聚程度得到了一定的改善。此外,还分析了纳米粉体的特性、爆轰特点和爆生气体环境等因素对产生纳米氧化钛团聚结构的影响。     

A Charge-Trap Memory Device with a Composition-Modulated Zr-Silicate High-k Dielectric Multilayer Structure

We report a novel charge-trap memory device with a composition-modulated Zr-silicate high-k dielectric mul- tilayer structure prepared by using the pulsed laser deposition technique. The device employs amorphous （ZrO2）0.5（SiO2）0.5 as the tunneling and blocking oxide layers, and ZrO2 nanocrystals as the trapping storage layer. Zr02 nanocrystals are precipitated from the phase separation of （ZrO2）0.5（SiO2）0.2 films annealed at 800℃, and isolated from each other within the amorphous （ZrO2）0.5（SiO2）0.5 matrix. Our charge trapping device shows a memory window of 2.6 V and a stored electron density of 1×10^13/cm2.     

Finite Abnormal Nuclei

We solved the problem for both the normal and abnormal finite nuclei from a simple relativistic model,and found eritical mass numbers A₁=85 and A₂=165.Only nuclei with mass numbers A≥A₁ may bave bound abnormal states,and only abnormal nuclei with mass number A≥A₂ have binding energies larger than those of corresponding normal nuclei.Abnormal nuclei become unbound again if A>3310,because of the Coulomb repulsion.     

Giant Birefringence of Lithium Niobate Crystals in the Terahertz Region

Terahertz time-domaln spectroscopy （THz-TDS） is used to study the spectral response of lithium niobate crystals （LiNbO3） in the far infrared region. The optical constants are derived from the measured complex refractive index. A giant birefringence is observed in this material, and the average refractive-index difference between the ordinary wave and the extraordinary wave, no - ne, can reach up to about 1.6. Such a large birefrlngence is attributed to the different p honon modes orAl（z） and E （ x , y ）. This unusual property makes LiNbO3 a promising material to be used as a functional material in the terahertz region, e.g. employed as wave-plates and polarization separators.     

Effect of In-Doping on Electronic Structure and Optical Properties of Sr2TiO4

The effect of In doping on the electronic structure and optical properties of Sr2 TiO4 is investigated by a firstprinciples calculation of plane wave ultrasoft pseudopotentials based on density functional theory. The calculated results reveal that corner-shared TiO6 octahedra dominate the main electronic properties of Sr2TiO4 and the covalency of the Ti-O（1） bond in the ab plane is stronger than that of the Ti-O（2） bond along the c-axis. After In doping, there is a little lattice expansion in Sr2In0.125 Ti0.875 O4 and the interaction between the Ti-O bond near the impurity In atom is weakened. The binding energies of Sr2TiO4 and Sr2In0.125Ti0.875O4 estimated from the electronic structure calculations indicate that the crystal structure of Sr2In0.125 Ti0.875 O4 is still stable after doping, but its stability is lower than that of undoped Sr2TiO4. Moreover, the valence bands （VBs） of the Sr2In0.125Ti0.875O4 system consist of O 2p and In 4d states, and the mixing of O 2p and In 4d states makes the top VBs shift significantly to high energies, resulting in visible light absorption. The adsorption of visible light is of practical importance for the application of St2 TiO4 as a photocatalyst.     

凝聚炸药中超压爆轰的实验研究

 采用飞片碰撞技术，在TNT/RDX（40/60）炸药中获得了2.5倍于正常爆轰的最大超压值，得到了超压爆轰下爆轰产物物态方程p=Aρ^{k+A₁(p-p_J)}（p－爆压，单位GPa，ρ－密度，单位kg/m³，A=ρ_J/ρ^k_J，p_J=27.06 GPa，ρ_J=2.3×10³ kg/m³，k=2.77，A₁=2.7×10^-3 GPa^-1，下表J代表正常爆轰状态）。该方程还可以较好地描述超压爆轰产物的二次冲击状态。