用于第一镜表面的金属玻璃薄膜研究

为解决大口径非晶金属第一镜实现难题,在研究块体金属玻璃Co61.2B26.2Si7.8Ta4.8材料基础上,采用金属玻璃块体材料制作拼接成溅射靶材,通过非平衡磁控溅射镀膜方法,实现了Co61.2B26.2Si7.8Ta4.8非晶金属薄膜第一镜。研究结果表明:通过成分设计及合成靶材的设计,能够实现与块体金属玻璃具有相同光学特性的非晶薄膜第一镜;通过Cr成分改进,能够进一步提高非晶金属薄膜第一镜在可见光波段的光谱反射率。     

Energy loss and range of α-particles in different metallic foils

ABSTRACT

The energy loss and range of 5.486?MeV α-particles in Tb, Ta and Au metallic foils is measured, through transmission technique. These measured values are compared with the corresponding computed values adopting commonly used theoretical/semi-empirical formulations (Grande and Schiwietz (CasP 5.2 code), Northcliffe and Schilling, Benton and Henke, ICRU-49 report (ASTAR code) and Ziegler et al. (SRIM-2013.00 code)), with the intention to check the accuracy of the considered formulations.     

A high resolution field ion microscopic study of Fe40Ni40B20 metallic glass imaged at liquid hydrogen temperature

Metallic glass Fe₄₀Ni₄₀B₂₀ is imaged at liquid hydrogen temperature in field ion microscope. Pair and angular distributions are obtained from the analysis of a large number of micrographs. The pair distribution is found to exhibit features typical of metallic glasses. The angular distribution agrees well with the theoretical distribution for Lennard-Jones glass obtained by Jacobaeus et al. The closer agreement achieved has been attributed to the better experimental conditions and the improved resolution of field ion microscope.     

Ab?initio molecular dynamics model for density, elastic properties and short range order of Co-Fe-Ta-B metallic glass thin films

Density, elastic modulus and the pair distribution function of Co-Fe-Ta-B metallic glasses were obtained by ab initio molecular dynamics simulations and measured for sputtered thin films using x-ray reflectivity, nanoindentation and x-ray diffraction using high energy photons. The computationally obtained density of 8.19 g cm(-3) for Co(43)Fe(20)Ta(5.5)B(31.5) and 8.42 g cm(-3) for Co(45.5)Fe(24)Ta(6)B(24.5), as well as the Young's moduli of 273 and 251 GPa, respectively, are consistent with our experiments and literature data. These data, together with the good agreement between the theoretical and the experimental pair distribution functions, indicate that the model established here is useful to describe the density, elasticity and short range order of Co-Fe-Ta-B metallic glass thin films. Irrespective of the investigated variation in chemical composition, (Co, Fe)-B cluster formation and Co-Fe interactions are identified by density-of-states analysis. Strong bonds within the structural units and between the metallic species may give rise to the comparatively large stiffness.     

Zr基大块非晶中添加元素对非晶形成能力及耐蚀性的影响

运用实空间递归方法研究了添加元素Nb,Ta,Y,La对Zr基非晶合金的非晶形成能力和耐腐蚀性能的影响.用计算机编程构造了Zr基非晶中初始晶化相Zr₂Ni的原子结构模型,用Zr₂Ni中的二十面体原子团簇模拟非晶中的二十面体团簇.计算了替代二十面体中心或顶角位置原子前后Ni,Zr及合金元素的局域态密度、团簇中心Ni与近邻Zr原子及Ni与替代元素Nb,Ta,Y,La间的键级积分,还计算了合金元素替代前后团簇的费米能级.局域态密度计算结果表明：合金元素Cu占据二十面体团 关键词： 电子结构 Zr基大块非晶 非晶形成能力 耐蚀性     

Pressure dependence of the superconducting state parameters of a binary Ca<Subscript>70</Subscript>Mg<Subscript>30</Subscript> metallic glass superconductor

Theoretical computation of the pressure dependence of superconducting state parameters of a binary Ca₇₀Mg₃₀ metallic glass has been performed using the model potential formalism. Explicit expressions have been derived for the volume dependence of the electron-phonon coupling strength λ and the Coulomb pseudopotential μ*, considering the variation of the Fermi momentum k _F and Debye temperature θ_D with volume. Well-known Ashcroft’s empty core model pseudopotential and five different types of the local-field correction functions, namely, Hartree, Taylor, Ichimaru-Utsumi, Farid et al. and Sarkar et al. have been used for obtaining pressure dependence of transition temperature T _C and the logarithmic volume derivative Φ of the effective interaction strength N ₀ V for the metallic glass superconductor. It has been obtained that T _C of Ca₇₀Mg₃₀ metallic glass decreases rapidly with increasing pressure up to 60% decrease in the volume, for which the μ* and Φ curves show a linear nature. The superconducting phase disappears at about 60% decrease in the volume.     

Optical absorption of ultrafine metal spheres with dielectric cores

We compute the optical absorption of a glass containing a small fraction of silver particles with dielectric cores. The results are based on the Maxwell Garnett formalism. The dielectric permeability of the metallic shells is obtained by modifying experimental data for bulk silver to account for size dependent scattering of the conduction electrons. We find an absorption maximum in the visible range at a wavelength which, for sufficiently minute particles, depends rather strongly on the size of the cores and on their dielectric constant. The relevance of these results to recent experimental data by Smithard and by Genzel et al. is pointed out. We argue that their observed absorption maxima can be explained without invoking any quantum effects.     

Does bulk metallic glass of elemental Zr and Ti exist?

To verify the high-pressure formation of the bulk metallic glass in elemental Zr and Ti, which Zhang and Zhao [Nature (London) 430, 332 (2004)] and Y. Wang et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 155501 (2005)] recently reported, the high-pressure states were investigated by our newly developed in situ angle-dispersive x-ray diffraction using a two-dimensional detector and x-ray transparent anvils. Despite the disappearance of all the Bragg peaks in the one-dimensional energy-dispersive data, two-dimensional angle-dispersive data showed several intense Bragg spots even at the conditions where the amorphization was reported. This finding suggests that Zr and Ti do not transform into an amorphous state, but that their grain size becomes large, which causes the missing Bragg peaks in energy-dispersive data.     

Diffraction of picosecond bulk longitudinal and shear waves in micron thick films

Investigation of thin metallic film properties by means of picosecond ultrasonics [C. Thomsen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 989 (1984)] has been under the scope of several studies. Generation of longitudinal and shear waves [T. Pézeril et al., Phys. Rev. B 73, 132301 (2006); O. Matsuda et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 095501 (2004)] with a wave vector normal to the film free surface has been demonstrated. Such measurements cannot provide complete information about properties of anisotropic films. Extreme focusing of a laser pump beam (≈0.5 μm) on the sample surface has recently allowed us to provide evidence of picosecond acoustic diffraction in thin metallic films (≈1 μm) [C. Rossignol et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 166106 (2005)]. The resulting longitudinal and shear wavefronts propagate at group velocity through the bulk of the film. To interpret the received signals, source directivity diagrams are calculated taking into account material anisotropy, optical penetration, and laser beam width on the sample surface. It is shown that acoustic diffraction increases with optical penetration, so competing with the increasing of directivity caused by beam width. Reflection with mode conversion at the film-substrate interface is discussed.     

Positive temperature coefficient of resistivity of polyaniline films in the framework of phonon-assisted tunnelling model

In the present paper it is shown that a change from semiconducting behaviour of conductivity to metallic behaviour observed in polyaniline (PANI) films [Long et al., Physica B 325 (2003) 208; 344 (2004) 82] and fibres [Adams et al., Synth. Met. 101 (1999) 685] at higher temperatures could be explained on the basis of phonon-assisted tunnelling model. A transition from negative temperature coefficient of resistivity (TCR) to positive TCR in the framework of this model occurs at the temperatures, at which the phonon emission dominates in the process of tunnelling.     

The behaviour of water at stepped surfaces of single crystal gold electrodes

New information concerning the structure of the metal-electrolyte interface is obtained by comparing the electronic work function of metallic single crystals in vacuum and the potential of zero charge (pzc) at the metal-electrolyte interface. The close parallelism of these two properties is notable in comparing our results for the pzc of gold single crystals of a number of orientations located along the sides of the stereographic triangle and those for the work function of copper by Peralta et al. [24]. This comparison shows that the presence of an adsorbed water layer at the metal-electrolyte interface does not perturb to any large extent the atomic arrangement of the outermost metallic surface with respect to the structure assumed to be displayed in vacuum. In the case of stepped gold surfaces near the (111) face, a comparison between the work function measured by Besocke et al. [23] and our results for pzc allows us to conclude that the metal-solvent interaction depends on the nature of the monoatomic step whether it corresponds to a quaternary site in the case of the (100) step structure or to a ternary site for the (111) step structure.     

考虑热效应的Vinet状态方程及其应用

 基于爱因斯坦模型将Vinet等人提出的关于金属固体的通用物态方程推广到包括热效应。采用最近邻普遍化Lennard-Jones势描述金属离子之间的有效配对相互作用,将每个离子的势能展开为离子位移的二阶泰勒级数,从而推导出爱因斯坦温度和Grüneisen常数的解析表达式,该表达式只与体积有关而与温度无关。推广方程包括的7个参数只有5个是独立的,在高于德拜温度时,只需要4个参数。对典型金属及两种非金属材料计算的结果与实验符合得很好。     

Experimental verification of enhanced transmission through two-dimensionally corrugated metallic films without holes

We present experimental results to verify extraordinary optical transmission through two-dimensionally periodic, corrugated metallic films without holes as predicted by Bonod et al. [Opt. Express 11, 482 (2003)]. We also experimentally confirmed that using symmetric structures (metallic films sandwiched between two identical dielectric media) is advantageous for boosting the coupling of surface plasmons so as to create strong transmission peaks.     

Micromirror with large-tilting angle using Fe-based metallic glass

For enhancing the micromirror properties like tilting angle and stability during actuation, Fe-based metallic glass (MG) was applied for torsion bar material. A micromirror with mirror-plate diameter of 900?μm and torsion bar dimensions length 250?μm, width 30?μm and thickness 2.5?μm was chosen for the tilting angle tests, which were performed by permanent magnets and electromagnet setup. An extremely large tilting angle of over -270° was obtained from an activation test by permanent magnet that has approximately 0.2?T of magnetic strength. A large mechanical tilting angle of over -70° was obtained by applying approximately 1.1?mT to the mirror when 93?mAwas applied to solenoid setup. The large-tilting angle of the micromirror is due to the torsion bar, which was fabricated with Fe-based MG thin film that has large elastic strain limit, fracture toughness, and excellent magnetic property.     

Phase glass is a Bose metal: a new conducting state in two dimensions

In the quantum rotor model with random exchange interactions having a nonzero mean, three phases, a (i) phase (Bose) glass, (ii) superfluid, and (iii) Mott insulator, meet at a bicritical point. We demonstrate that proximity to the bicritical point and the coupling between the energy landscape and the dissipative degrees of freedom of the phase glass lead to a metallic state at T = 0. Consequently, the phase glass is unique in that it represents a concrete example of a metallic state that is mediated by disorder, even in 2D. We propose that the experimentally observed metallic phase which intervenes between the insulator and the superconductor in a wide range of thin films is in actuality a phase glass.     

Two-photon-excited fluorescence from silicate glass containing tantalum ions pumped by a near-infrared femtosecond pulsed laser

We report a novel phenomenon in sodium-calcium-silicate glass doped with Ta(5+). Under irradiation with a 780 nm femtosecond pulsed laser, strong blue emission centered at about 420 nm could be observed. The spectral characteristics are similar to those pumped by ultraviolet photons. The log-log correlation between integrated emission intensity and pump power reveals that a two-photon absorption process is involved in the phenomenon. It is suggested that the presence of localized Ta(5+)5d(0) energy levels is responsible for the appearance of the blue emission. The results indicate that transition metal ions without d electrons play an important role in fields of optics when embedded into glass hosts.     

铁磁异质结构中的超快自旋流调制实现相干太赫兹辐射

利用飞秒激光脉冲在生长于二氧化硅衬底上的W/CoFeB/Pt和Ta/CoFeB/Pt两类铁磁/非磁性金属异质结构中实现高效、宽带的相干THz脉冲辐射.实验中, THz脉冲的相位随外加磁场的反转而反转,表明THz辐射与样品的磁有序密切相关.为了考察三层膜结构THz辐射的物理机制,分别研究了构成三层膜结构的双层异质结构(包括CoFeB/W, CoFeB/Pt和CoFeB/Ta)的THz辐射.实验结果都与逆自旋霍尔效应相符合, W/CoFeB/Pt和Ta/CoFeB/Pt三层膜结构所辐射的THz强度优于同等激发功率下的ZnTe (厚度0.5 mm)晶体.此外,还研究了两款异质结构和ZnTe的THz辐射强度与激发光脉冲能量密度的关系,发现Ta/CoFeB/Pt的饱和能量密度略大于W/CoFeB/Pt的饱和能量密度,表明自旋电子在Ta/CoFeB/Pt中的界面积累效应相对较小.     

Second virial coefficient and mechanical moduli of metallic glasses

The relationship between the bulk, shear moduli and second virial coefficient of amorphous materials is derived according to their dependences with the radial distribution function. Lennard-Jones–Gaussian potential is used to investigate the relationship between second virial coefficient and temperature, where Lennard-Jones potential represents interactions with the nearest neighbor atoms, and Gaussian potential is responsible for the multi-atom interactions including the next nearest neighbor atoms and heterogeneous structures for a metallic glass. The results show that deep potential well formed by Gaussian potential causes a large second virial coefficient at low temperatures, which is very obvious for the larger fragility glasses. The quadratic form relationship of shear modulus and compositions is proposed, and confirmed by the experimental results of Pd_xNi_100−x−20P₂₀ alloy.     

Schottky barriers in carbon nanotube heterojunctions

Electronic properties of heterojunctions between metallic and semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes are investigated. Ineffective screening of the long-range Coulomb interaction in one-dimensional nanotube systems drastically modifies the charge transfer phenomena compared to conventional semiconductor heterostructures. The length of depletion region varies over a wide range sensitively depending on the doping strength. The Schottky barrier gives rise to an asymmetry of the I-V characteristics of heterojunctions, in agreement with recent experimental results by Yao et al. and Fuhrer et al. Dynamic charge buildup near the junction results in a steplike growth of the current at reverse bias.     

Extreme Scattering Effect: Light scattering analysis via the Discrete Sources Method

The effect of the Extraordinary Optical Transmission (Ebbesen et al. Nature 1998; 391, 667) through subwavelength holes array in noble metal screen is used for multiple practical applications in nanooptics and biophotonics. In this paper the Extreme Transmission Effect (Eremina et al. Opt. Comm. 2008; 281, 3581) in the noble metal film deposited on a glass prism in the evanescent wave’s area is in focus. The Discrete Sources Method (DSM) has been adjusted to calculate the polarized light scattering by an axially symmetric inclusion located in a film deposited on a glass prism. We extended the DSM for the evaluation of the Scattering Cross-Section in the prism domain. It has been shown that the maximum value of the Reflection Cross-Section appears at the same incident angle as for the Transmission Cross-Section. It has been demonstrated that the Reflection Cross-Section can exceed the Transmission Cross-Section under certain circumstances. Analysis of the correlation between the Plasmon Resonance in the gold film and the Extreme Scattering Effect demonstrates that the Plasmon Resonance plays an important but not the exclusive role in the appearance of the Extreme Scattering Effect.