Magnetocaloric effect in ErCo2 compound

The ErCo2 compound is prepared by arc-melting and its entropy changes are calculated using Maxwell relation. Its entropy change reaches 38 J/（kg·K） and its refrigerant capacity achieves 291 J/kg at 0-5 T. The mean field approximation is used to calculate the magnetic entropy of ErCo2 compound. Results estimated by using the Maxwell relation deviate from mean field approximation calculations in ferrimagnetic state; however, the data obtained by the two ways are consistent in the vicinity of phase transition or at higher temperatures. This indicates that entropy changes are mainly derived from magnetic degree of freedom, and the lattice has almost no contribution to the entropy change in the vicinity of phase transition but its influence is obvious in the ferrimagnetic state below TC.     

Integral colorimeter based on compound LED illumination

Traditional integral colorimeters use tungsten–halogen or xenon lamps for illumination,as well as correcting filters to make the instrument's spectral response meet the Luther condition.This structure causes the instruments to have relatively higher error and poor repeatability.Thus,this letter proposes a new measurement design that uses compound LEDs as the instrument's measurement light source.The new design adjusts the instrument's spectral response by modifying the spectra of the compound LEDs.A compound LED light source is designed for integral colorimeters,and an experiment is conducted to evaluate the performance of the integral colorimeter.Experiments show that the design effectively reduces the error of integral colorimeters.     

Phase transitions in a hydrogen-rich compound：tetramethylsilane

High-pressure behavior of tetramethylsilane is investigated by synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction and Raman scattering at pressures up to 30 GPa and room temperature. Our results reveal the analogous phase transitions, though slight hysteresis for the certain phases. A new phase is found to appear at 4.2 GPa due to the disappeared Raman mode. These findings offer the possibility to understand the evolution of the H-H bonding with pressure in such hydrogen-rich compounds.     

Structural and thermodynamic properties of AlB2 compound

We employ a first-principles plane wave method with the relativistic analytic pseudopotential of Hartwigsen, Goedecker and Hutter (HGH) scheme in the frame of DFT to calculate the equilibrium lattice parameters and the thermodynamic properties of AlB₂ compound with hcp structure. The obtained lattice parameters are in good agreement with the available experimental data and those calculated by others. Through the quasi-harmonic Debye model, obtained successfully are the dependences of the normalized lattice parameters a/a₀ and c/c₀ on pressure P, the normalized primitive cell volume V/V₀ on pressure P, the variation of the thermal expansion α with pressure P and temperature T, as well as the Debye temperature \Theta_D and the heat capacity C_V on pressure P and temperature T.     

Cascade γ decay of the 191Os compound state

The intensities of two-step cascades to the final levels with excitation energies below 0.82 MeV have been determined from the accumulated experimental data on the γ-γ coincidences at thermal neutron capture into ¹⁹⁰Os. These intensities made it possible to establish the decay scheme for the compound nucleus to excitation energies of about 3 MeV. The intervals of the level densities and sums of radiative strength functions of the E1 and M1 transitions, which exactly reproduce the experimental cascade intensities, have been found from the total cascade intensities. The level density is approximated by the sum of the partial densities of levels for different numbers n of quasiparticles, with the coefficient of collective increase in the density, unambiguously determined by the accepted concepts about the energy dependence of the correlation functions of the nucleons of an excited nucleus.     

Two- and three-photon absorption in a novel fluorene-based compound

A novel symmetrical charge transfer fluorene-based compound 2,7-bis (4-methoxystyryl)-9, 9-bis (2-ethylhexyl)-9H-fluorene (abbreviated as BMOSF) was synthesized and its nonlinear absorption was investigated using two different laser systems: a 140-fs, 800-nm Ti:sapphire laser operating at 1-kHz repetition rate and a 38-ps, 1064-nm Nd:YAG pulsed laser operating at 10-Hz repetition rate, respectively. Unique nonlinear absorption properties in this new compound were observed that rise from multiphoton absorption. The nonlinear absorption coefficients were measured to be 6.02×10-3 cm/GW (due to two-photon absorption, exciting wavelength is 800 nm) and 3.6×10-20 cm3/W2 (due to three-photon absorption, exciting wavelength is 1064 nm). This new compound possesses strong fluorescence induced by two-photon absorption and obvious three-photon absorption optical limiting effects.     

Spontaneous magnetostriction of Y2Fe16Al compound

The structure and magnetic properties of Y₂Fe₁₆Al compound have been investigated by means of x-ray diffraction and magnetization measurements. The Y₂Fe Fe₁₆Al compound has a hexagonal Th$_{2}$Ni$_{17}$-type structure. Negative thermal expansion was found in Y₂Fe₁₆Al compound in the temperature range from 332 to 438K by x-ray dilatometry. The coefficient of the average thermal expansion is \alpha =-3.4\times 10^-5K^-1. The spontaneous magnetostrictive deformations from 293 to 427K have been calculated based on the differences between the experimental values of the lattice parameters and the corresponding values extrapolated from the paramagnetic range. The result shows that the spontaneous volume magnetostrictive deformation \textit{$\omega $}$_{\rm S}$ decreases from 5.4$\times $10^-3to near zero with temperature increasing from 293 to 427K, the spontaneous linear magnetostrictive deformation \textit{$\lambda $}$_{\rm c}$ along the $c$ axis is much larger than the spontaneous linear magnetostrictive deformation \textit{$\lambda $}$_{\rm a}$ in basal-plane in the same temperature range except near 427K.     

Auto-Bäcklund transformation and exact solutions for compound KdV-type and compound KdV–Burgers-type equations with nonlinear terms of any order

In this Letter, based on the idea of homogeneous balance (HB) method and with help of Mathematica, we obtain a new auto-Bäcklund transformation for compound KdV-type and compound KdV–Burgers-type equations with nonlinear terms of any order. Then based on the Bäcklund transformation, some solutions for these two equations are derived.     

Electronic structure and magnetic properties of metastable SmCo_7 compound

1 Introduction The rare-earth transition-metal intermetallic compounds have been widely investi-gated for many years, among them the Sm-Co series compounds with 1:5 and 2:17 crys-tal structures. These compounds have been used as sintered and bonded permanent magnets since the 1960s[1,2]. Interest recently has been focused on the TbCu7-type struc-ture Sm-Co intermetallic compounds with a strong uniaxial magnetocrytalline anisot-ropy and a low temperature coefficient (β = ?0.11%)[3―6] due t…     

γ-decay of the GDR in 147Eu compound nucleus

Results from the measurement of the GDR built on excited states of the ¹⁴⁷Eu compound nucleus are presented. Data corresponding to restricted regions of angular momenta and more selected data, associated with different residual nuclei are discussed. The behaviour of the GDR width, measured as a function of nuclear spin and temperature, is well described by the predictions of the thermal shape fluctuation model.     

First-principles calculations of structural and thermodynamic properties of BeB2 compound

The lattice parameter bulk modulus and pressure derivative of BeB2 are calculated by using the Cambridge Serial Total Energy Package （CASTEP） program in the frame of density function theory. The calculated results agree well with the average experimental data and other theoretical results. Through the quasi-harmonic Debye model, the dependences of the normalized lattice parameters a/ao, c/c0 and the normalized primitive cell volume V/Vo on pressure P, the variation of the thermal expansion coefficient ~ with pressure P and temperature T, as well as the dependences of the heat capacity Cv on pressure P and temperature T are obtained systematically.     

Far-infrared probe of energy gap in LaO1−xFxFeGe compound

We report on the electrical resistivity and far-infrared reflectance measurements of LaO_1?xF_xFeGe samples. Furthermore, we introduce a new method to probe the energy gap and determine its value. The onset transition temperature was 22.8 K for x = 0.13, and a clear anomaly was observed at 90 K in the ρ(T) curve for x = 0.11 with T_c = 20.6 K. We clearly observed the phonon-suppressed feature in reflectance spectra where F-doping caused a strong suppression of a peak at 200 cm^?1. The energy gap above T_c, 2Δ = 2.10 meV, was determined from the measured spectra based on the changes in reflectivity by F-doping.     

Reductions and conserved quantities for discrete compound KdV–Burgers equations

We present two methods to reduce the discrete compound KdV–Burgers equation, which are reductions of the independent and dependent variables: the translational invariant method has been applied in order to reduce the independent variables; and a discrete spectral matrix has been introduced to reduce the number of dependent variables. Based on the invariance of a discrete compound KdV--Burgers equation under infinitesimal transformation with respect to its dependent and independent variables, we present the determining equations of transformation Lie groups for the KdV--Burgers equation and use the characteristic equations to obtain new forms of invariants.     

Mössbauer studies of the layered compound 1T-TAS2

We report the temperature dependence in Tantalum Disulfide 1T-TaS₂ of the elastic and inelastic intensities of the first order satellite (1.285, 0, 0.333) and (3, 0, 0.21) near the Bragg peaks (1, 0, 0) and (3, 0, 0), respectively. The phason temperature factor has been measured as a function of temperature from 70 to 295 K using Mössbauer gamma-ray scattering. The high-energy resolution provided by this technique allowed experimental separation of the elastic scattering from the inelastic thermal diffuse scattering. The first order satellite is found to be 15% inelastic. The results were compared with those found by Chapman and Colella obtained by X-ray method (Moret and Colella, Phys. Rev. Lett. 52:652, 1984).     

Antiferromagnetic fluctuations in CePdSn Kondo compound from Mössbauer spectroscopy

¹¹⁹Sn Mössbauer spectroscopy was used to study the fluctuations of antiferromagnetic domains in the heavy-fermion CePdSn Kondo compound. The temperature evolution of the experimental spectra was described within both two- and multi-level relaxation models. The difference between these two approaches is discussed. The temperature dependence of the relaxation rate of the domain’s magnetization and the density of itinerant electrons near the tin atoms are investigated.     

Magnetic anisotropy of Pm impurity in rare earth–nickel compound

Low-temperature nuclear orientation was applied to study hyperfine interactions of ¹⁴²Pr, ¹⁴⁷Nd and ^143,144Pm nuclei in Pr^0.5Nd^0.5Ni single crystal. Angular distributions, temperature dependence and external magnetic field effects on the γ-ray anisotropy are presented. A Nd-Pm exchange interaction seems to dominate the magnetic properties of Pm ions in this system. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Recent developments in the optical spectroscopy of II–VI compound semiconductors

This review emphasises the information on the binding energies and the identities of electrically impurity and defect centres in II–VI semiconductors which may be obtained from optical spectra. Those shallow centres which may promote useful electrical conductivity are of particular interest. They contribute the richly structured near gap (edge) luminescence, containing weak to moderate phonon coupling and therefore very accessible information about the energy states of the different centres. It is shown that improved material and spectroscopic techniques have yielded considerable information about donors and, particularly shallow to moderately deep acceptors in ZnTe, a key II–VI semiconductor. Persistent impurities such as Li and Cu exert a greater influence on the properties of this semiconductor than formerly supposed. This influence is traced to other II–VI semiconductors, particularly ZnSe. Both the Cu_Zn and P_V acceptors appear to be much deeper in ZnSe than in ZnTe due to lattice relaxation, although evidence for a shallow P-related centre, probably a complex, is presented. Finally, some comments are made about the energy states of centres involving native defects in these compounds, particularly the V_Zn-donor associate centre, responsible for the self-activated luminescence.The author is grateful to D. Bensahel, R. N. Bhargava, S. G. Bishop, H. G. Grimmeiss, N. Magnea, J. E. Nicholls, J. Pautrat, D. J. Robbins, H. Tews and H. Venghaus for permission to use some of their data in this paper. He is also grateful to several of these and other colleagues. cited in the references for discussions of some of the problems described here.     

Electronic band transformation from indirect gap to direct gap in Si-H compound

The electronic band structures of periodic models for Si-H compounds are investigated by the density functional theory.Our results show that the Si-H compound changes from indirect-gap semiconductor to direct-gap semiconductor with the increase of H content.The density of states,the partial density of states and the atomic charge population are examined in detail to explore the origin of this phenomenon.It is found that the Si-Si bonds are affected by H atoms,which results in the electronic band transformation from indirect gap to direct gap.This is confirmed by the nearest neighbour semi-empirical tight-binding (TB) theory.     

Optical properties of some modified plant compound after 662 keV gamma radiation

Plant-isolated compounds, Osthol [7-methoxy-8-(3-methylbut-2-enyl) coumarin], were subjected to modification in the isopentenyl side chain to get an aldehyde of 2-methyl-4 (7-methoxy-2-oxo-2H-chromen-8-yl)-but-2-en-1-al. This modified compound was exposed to γ-radiation produced by ¹³⁷Cs source at room temperature. Pre- and post-irradiation study was carried out by ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy. The compound shows a sharp absorption peak at 322?nm. This observed absorption band decreases with irradiation up to a certain dose and then increases with a further increase in the radiation dose. This compound exhibits almost a linear response up to 7?Gy. From the optical data analysis, this compound follows indirect allowed transition and the optical gap was found around 3.58?eV. The systematic decrease in the band gap was found with an increase in the radiation dose. Urbach energy is also found to decrease with radiation. This parameter gives a clear indication of the defects and free radical created in the system after irradiation. The present features shown by this compound may be exploited as sensitive dosimeter in 0–7?Gy γ-radiation environment.     

Power flow transmission influenced by vibration source impedance for a compound system

I.IntroductionVeryofteninengineeringpracticemachinesareusuallyinstalledonflexiblestructures.Buildingfloors,shipdecks,aircraftfuselages,carortrainChassisarebutafewexamplesthatfallintothiscategory.Themachinetransmitsvibrationtothereceivingstructureandresultsinstructure-bornesoundtransmission.Especiallywhenaheaviermachinerunningathighspeedismoulltedonaflekib1efoundation,thesourceandthereceiverwillpresentsimilardynamiccharacteristicsattheirinterface.Asaresult,theconventionalanalysiscannotbeappli…