Investigation of the KLu(WO<Subscript>4</Subscript>)<Subscript>2</Subscript> crystal as an acousto-optic material

A KLuW laser crystal is investigated as an acousto-optic material. It is shown that the crystal can be used in devices for controlling high-power laser radiation. Obtainable characteristics of promising classical devices (modulator, deflector) are estimated. A possibility of developing a new type of device for both lasing and Q-switching is analyzed.     

Structure and properties of Li<Subscript>2</Subscript>Zn<Subscript>2</Subscript>(MoO<Subscript>4</Subscript>)<Subscript>3</Subscript> crystals activated with copper and chromium ions

Based on the corrected phase diagrams proper growth conditions for Li2Zn2(MoO₄)₃ crystals are selected. Large crystals (up to 100 mm), both impurity-free and activated by transition metal ions (Cu, Cr), are grown by the low-gradient Czochralski method. By the EPR method the charge state and structural position of copper and chromium ions are determined. The performed studies of luminescent properties show that for impurity-free crystals luminescence with λ = 388 nm with a two-exponential luminescence decay with τ₁ = 2 ns and τ₂ = 6 ns is observed at room temperature. At 77 K for both impurity-free crystals and those activated with transition metal ions luminescence with λ = 560 nm and the luminescence lifetime τ = 100 ns is observed, the intensity of luminescence with λ = 560 nm depending on the nature and concentration of transition metal ions. Cation vacancies responsible for the charge compensation of impurity transition metal ions are assumed to be also responsible for low-temperature luminescence.     

Mechanochemical synthesis of ferromagnetic semiconducting material from polymer and nanosized iron particles

Mechanochemical synthesis, magnetic and electrical properties of organic polymer-based semiconductors containing para- and ferromagnetic particles have been considered. Semiconductors have been obtained from polyaniline (emeraldine base), polystyrene, FeCl₃ · 6H₂O, and elemental sulfur. The presence of iron nanoparticles is confirmed by means of scanning electron microscopy. The conductivity of polymer composites containing iron particles turns out to be several orders of magnitude higher than that of the initial undoped polyaniline. The temperature dependence of conductivity of composites exhibits the semiconducting pattern.     

The Structure and Reactivity of Stereochemically Rigid Phosphoranyl Radicals

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The structure and reactivity of phosphoranyls prepared by the reaction of tert. buthylperoxide with phosphorus (III) compounds, containing 5-membered cycles have been investigated. The ESR spectra of diastereomeric isomers of phosphoranils obtained from 1,2,3 oxazaphospholans displayd the difference in HFS-constants. β-Scission rates of diastereomers was shown to differ in 1.3 time in magnititude. The reactivity of phosphoranyls formed by the interaction of tert. buthyl, methyl, boron centered carbonyl radicals with 2,6,7-tris(trichlorometyl)-1,4-diphospha-3,5,8-trioxabicyclo(2,2,2)octane was also studied. Their unusual reactivity, namely, the ability to be added to multiple C?O bonds of substituted phenoxyls occurs due to their rigid structure.     

Reasons for the line broadening in the epr spectra of copper ions in Li2-2x Zn2+x (MoO4)3 lithium-zinc molybdate crystals

An EPR study of Li_2?2x Zn_2+x (MoO₄)₃ crystals activated by copper ions shows that they occupy the M2 site, one of the three possible sites of both lithium and zinc. In the EPR spectra of Cu²⁺ copper a broadening of HFS lines and a nonequidistant splitting between them, which are unusual for the orientation H‖g _zz , A _zz , are observed. In this work possible reasons for such a broadening of HFS lines from copper ions are analyzed: a distortion of the oxygen octahedron due to the introduction of copper ions, second order perturbation theory corrections, superposition of HFS from ⁶³Cu and ⁶⁵Cu isotopes, and the effect of the charge redistribution in the oxygen octahedron because the cation vacancy providing charge compensation can be located at different distances from the copper ion. It is shown that the first three reasons do not explain the features observed in the EPR spectra. In the case of cation vacancies located in the M3 site and remote at different distances from the copper ion, the charge redistribution in the oxygen octahedron of copper should occur along with the dispersion of HFS parameters and the g-factor. The studies performed in X and Q bands confirm this assumption. The width of HFS lines from copper ions in the EPR spectra measured in the Q band is three times more compared to that measured in the X band.     

Phase formation in the Ag2MoO4-CuO-MoO3 system and the crystal structure of the new double molybdate Ag2Cu2(MoO4)3

Subsolidus phase relations in the Ag₂MoO₄-CuO-MoO₃ oxide-salt ternary system were determined. T-x diagram was plotted for the Ag₂MoO₄-CuMoO₄ quasi-binary join. Double molybdate Ag₂Cu₂(MoO₄)₃ was found to exist on this join. This compound is a superstructure derived from orthorhombic Li₃Fe(MoO₄)₃. Its structure was solved in terms of a subcell (a = 5.0749(3), b = 11.300(2), c = 18.127(3) ?, space group Pnma, Z = 4, R = 0.0678). In the true unit cell, the parameter a is tripled; suggested space group is P2₁2₁2₁. A characteristic feature of the Ag₂Cu₂(MoO₄)₃ structure is infinite columns (extended along axis a) of face-sharing oxygen octahedra, in which disordered silver atoms are located (Ag(21), Ag(22), and Ag(23)) with various degrees of irregularity of their octahedral coordination and a strong anisotropy of thermal vibrations. Distorted CuO₆ octahedra form zigzag ribbons extended in the same direction. MoO₄ tetrahedra, which are arranged according to the pseudo-hexagonal law, link the aforementioned major structural elements into a three-dimensional framework. Trigonal-prismatic voids of the framework are occupied by silver atoms Ag (1). Presumably, the disorder of the silver ions in octahedral columns can be responsible for the increased ion conductivity of silver copper molybdate. A partial order of the same ions is the most likely reason for the appearance of superstructure with the tripled unit cell volume. Original Russian Text ? G.D. Tsyrenova, S.F. Solodovnikov, E.T. Pavlova, E.G. Khaikina, Z.A. Solodovnikova, 2009, published in Zhurnal Neorganicheskoi Khimii, 2009, Vol. 54, No. 5, pp. 802–809.     

Constitutive Equations of an Isotropic Hyperelastic Body

Stress—strain equations for an isotropic hyperelastic body are formulated. It is shown that the strain energy density whose gradient determines stresses can be defined as a function of two rather than three arguments, namely, strain–tensor invariants. In the case of small strains, the equations become relations of Hooke's law with two material constants, namely, shear modulus and bulk modulus.     

Production of High-Transverse-Momentum Deuterons and Tritons at an Angle of 40 $${{}^{\circ}}$$ in Proton–Nucleus Interactions at a Beam Energy of 50 GeV

Physics of Atomic Nuclei - Data on the production of positively charged particles emitted at an angle of 40 $${}^{\circ}$$ (in the laboratory frame) with transverse momenta of up to 2.7 GeV $$/c$$...