Pseudo-non-contact AFM imaging?

Recent non-contact atomic force microscopy studies have demonstrated that imaging of single atom defects is possible. However, the imaging mechanism was unclear. Long-range forces of attraction, which are normally associated with non-contact mode, are not known to produce sufficient lateral resolution to image atoms. In this study, we suggest a mechanism that could be responsible for the resolution achieved. We use realistic interatomic interaction parameters to do numerical simulations. These simulations are in good agreement with experimental data. As a result, we are able to ‘separate' the attractive and repulsive forces acting between the AFM tip and the sample surface. Calculations indicate that the force responsible for image contrast in the experimental studies mentioned above, is in most cases the repulsive contact force, and not the long-range attractive force. We check our conclusions against a variety of interatomic interaction parameters and our results remain valid for any reasonable set of such parameters, including the power law of the attractive potential N<9.     

Particle Simulation of Relativistic Laser Pulse Density Channeling

Two-dimensional particle simulation is carried out to study the interaction between a high-intensity finite-size spot laser beam and a plasma with linear density profile. The laser is allowed to propagate in underdense corona until it is cut off near the critical surface. The intense laser can drive various instabilities through particle collective motion and result in electron heating,while relativistic effect and ponderomotive force can bring strong energy absorption and electron heating in the overdense region. As the laser beam is nonuniform in the transverse direction,a density channel forms and hole boring effect occurs as a result of strong ponderomotive force pushing particle outwards. These processes can be investigated well by particle simulation.     

Concentration controlled multilevel self‐assembly of 3‐armed poly(ethylene glycol)‐b‐poly(ε‐caprolactone) block copolymers investigated by AFM

Concentration dependent morphology of 3‐armed poly(ethylene glycol)‐b‐poly(ε‐caprolactone) copolymer aggregates in aqueous system was investigated by atomic force microscopy (AFM). The AFM results show that, at a low concentration, 4 × 10^?5 g/mL, spherical micelles occur, and unmicellized molecules are not distributed homogeneously in the copolymer aqueous solution. Unequal outspread clusters composed of wormlike aggregates are formed at a moderate copolymer concentration, 4 × 10^?4 g/mL, those wormlike aggregates are orderly packed in the clusters. At a high concentration of 0.05 g/mL, the copolymer aqueous system is indeed a gel at room temperature, outspread clusters of wormlike aggregates join together to forma network structure. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 46: 1412–1418, 2008     

微波强场中的光谱激发现象

本文报道了元素，化合物和放电灯在微波强场产生的激发现象。介绍了一种在微波强场中产生原子发射光谱的新方法。采用作者自行改制的微波激发装置，即可使固态的元素和化合物产生光谱辐射，也可使各种放电灯和气体光谱管得以激发，用一种装置实现了几种装置的功能，对于该方法存在的问题，文中也作了一定的说明。     

模型外载与自重并存变动外载的光弹性分析法

提出一个变动模型外载，分析大模型在外载与自重共同作用时的尤弹性法。它与用离心力模拟自重试验的传统方法完全不同，只要在大模型上变动外载，就可以获得上述两种载荷共同作用下的应力分析结果。此法避免了用离心模型自重受模型尺寸限制等诸多因素影响的缺点，为自重不可的大型复杂空间工程结构模型试验应力分析提出了一条新的途径。文中给出了本方法的基本原理及其简要的实验验证和工程应用结果。     

力调制显微术在台阶边缘附近的边界效应

力调制显微术被用于观测铜基碳化硅样品，实验中发现在样品表面台阶边缘处出现一些异常信息。为此，文章作者通过测试一种表面同样有台阶但却是由同一种材料组成的样品来通信验证这些异常主要是由台阶的边界引起的，并对引起的异常作了半定量的估算。     

B~(4 )和H相互作用过程中径向偶合的理论计算

利用原子轨道展开的方法 ,对B4 和H碰撞过程中的径向偶合进行了理论计算。为了使计算结果精确并保持连续性 ,在波函数中加入了电子转移因子 ,并在中低能量范围内计算时对所使用的量子力学方程做了半经典近似。所得结果以曲线形式给出 ,是研究离子和原子相互作用的较直观的方法。     

Anharmonic effects on lattice resonant modes of impure metallic crystals

The effect of lattice anharmonicity on the resonant modes of dilute impurities for Au-Cu, Au-Ag and W-Cr metallic systems are studied from the poles of the double time temperature dependent impure Green’s function of these crystals. The third order force constants used in the present work are derived assuming the systems to obey the Lennard-Jones potential. The inclusion of lattice anharmonicity has been found to increase the resonant frequency which depends upon the mass defect, force constant change parameter and the impurity concentration terms. Some interesting features about the phase shift and the change in width of the vibrational spectrum are reported at room temperature for the isotopic defects and the defects interacting with host atoms. The results are found to be in qualitative agreement with the experiments on the systems considered.     

Analysis of additives in polymers by thin-layer chromatography coupled with Fourier transform-infrared microscopy

A new, fast and convenient method based on coupled thin-layer chromatography (TLC) and Fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) microscopy is developed to separate, detect and identify the additives in polymers. After the TLC development, the analytes were transferred on to a barium fluoride (BaF₂) salt plate via a special capillary technique and analysed by FT-IR microscopy. The additives used for stabilization of polypropylene and the plasticisers used for poly(vinyl chloride) were analysed as examples to illustrate this technique. The overall time taken for the experiment including transferring three marked spots and then identifying them was about 20 min. An amount as small as 0.5 μg can be easily detected and identified. It was a very convenient and reliable method to separate and evaluate complex additives for polymers without the interference from TLC adsorbent, because of a special transferring and identifying method, which is suitable to FT-IR microscopy.