UP-conversion of terahertz radiation induced by photon drag effect

An all-optical approach to convert terahertz radiation (THz, wavelength λ₁) into infrared (IR, peak wavelength λ₂) is presented. We show that this up-conversion process is due to the photon drag effect induced by the THz radiation in intrinsic narrow-gap semiconductors followed by spatial redistribution of current carriers and band-to-band radiative recombination. The process results in non-selective high-speed (ns range rise/fall times) IR imaging of positive (conventional luminescence) and/or negative (negative luminescence) contrasts. Estimates made for an InSb pixelless converter at 300 K and moderate THz intensity (kW/cm²) show that this up-conversion process (with λ₁/λ₂>10²) can be observed with a conventional thermal imaging camera.     

Rigidity of Branch Groups Acting on Rooted Trees

Automorphisms of groups acting faithfully on rooted trees are studied. We find conditions under which every automorphism of such a group is induced by a conjugation from the full automorphism group of the rooted tree. These results are applied to known examples such as Grigorchuk groups, Gupta–Sidki group, etc.     

Direct Single-Stage Conversion of Synthesis Gas to Dimethoxymethane: Influence of the Sequence of Metal Introduction into Cu, Pd-Zeolite Catalysts on the Degree of Cu and Pd Reduction and Catalyst Acidity

The influence of the sequence of Cu and Pd introduction into zeolite matrice when preparing Cu, Pd-zeolite catalysts on their acidity and degree of metal reduction was studied. The mutual influence of Cu and Pd on their reducibility was analyzed. The selectivity of Cu, Pd-zeolite catalysts in conversion of synthesis gas to different products was elucidated.     

Spectral Properties of Image Measures Under the Infinite Conflict Interaction

We introduce the conflict interaction with two positions between a couple of image probability measures and consider the associated dynamical system. We prove the existence of invariant limiting measures and find the criteria for these measures to be a pure point, absolutely continuous, or singular cotinuous as well as to have any topological type and arbitary Hausdorff dimension.     

1-amino-2-thiobenzimidazoleimines as novel ambidentate ligand systems

Azomethine derivatives of 1-amino-2-thiobenzimidazole (H₂L) were synthesized and studied by IR and ¹H NMR spectroscopy. Thiobenzimidazoline tautomeric form of these compounds was found to predominate in a solid state and DMSO solution. Novel mono-and binuclear metal chelates M(HL)₂ and M₂L₂ (M = Ni(II), Cu(II), Co(II), Zn(II), Cd(II)) were synthesized on the basis of H₂L derivatives and their composition and structures were established from IR, ¹H NMR, EXAFS, and magnetochemical data. The composition of coordination sphere was shown to produce no effect on ferromagnetic exchange in binuclear Cu(II) complexes.     

Features of the photochromic behavior of spiroanthrooxazine in solutions

The photochromic properties of 1,3,3-trimethylspiro[indolin-2,3-3H-anthraceno[2,1-b][1,4]-oxazine] (SAO) in solutions of different polarity [n-BuOH and petroleum ether (PETh)] were studied. It was established that the quantum yield of the photocoloration AB and the energy of activation of the thermal decolorization E_a in the PETh depend on the temperature; this is not the case in n-BuOH. The luminescence properties of SAO were investigated. It was found that the spectrum of the excitation of the luminescence in PETh depends on the temperature. These features, as well as the slower thermal decolorization of the colored form of SAO in PETh by comparison with the solutions in n-BuOH, are explained by the presence of dimers of the SAO molecules in nonpolar media in the temperature range investigated (77–300 K), whereas the SAO molecules already occur in the monomeric state at 150 K in the polar n-BuOH.N. N. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117977 Moscow. Branch of the Institute of the Physics of Solids and Semiconductors, Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 211177 Vitebsk. Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 1, pp. 93–98, January, 1992.     

Dissociation of photochromic spiroanthrooxazine dimers in the excited state

The influence of temperature and concentration on the spectral polarization properties of the luminescence and absorption of molecules of the original form of photochromic spiroanthrooxazine (SAO) in petroleum ether and polyethylene was investigated. It was shown that the long-wave part of the absorption spectra of the molecules is formed by at least two -*-type electronic transitions, the oscillators of which are mutually orthogonal. It is suggested that the SAO molecules form dimers in nonpolar media through dipole-dipole interaction, and at high concentrations they also form higher associates. Dimers stable in the ground state dissociate when excited to the second electronic transition with a rate constant of 10¹²–10¹³ s^–1.N. N. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117977 Moscow. Department of the Institute of Solid-State Physics and Semiconductors, Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 211177 Vitebsk. Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 1, pp. 99–106, January, 1992.     

Investigation of catalytic purification of gases from aromatic hydrocarbons

1,1- (AH) ([AH]=6,9 /, 50°C). AH W_i/W_{O 3}=0,40±0,16.

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The kinetics and oxidation products of 1,1-diethoxyethane (AH) ozonolysis have been investigated at [AH]=6.9 mol/l and 50 °C. The initiation efficiency of radical oxidation by ozone is W_i/W_{O 3}=0.40±0.16.