Nanocrystalline versus microcrystalline Li(2)O:B(2)O3 composites: anomalous ionic conductivities and percolation theory

We study ionic transport in nano- and microcrystalline (1-x)Li(2)O:xB(2)O3 composites using standard impedance spectroscopy. In the nanocrystalline samples (average grain size of about 20 nm), the ionic conductivity sigma(dc) increases with increasing content x of B2O3 up to a maximum at x approximately 0.5. Above x approximately 0.92, sigma(dc) vanishes. By contrast, in the microcrystalline samples (grain size about 10 &mgr;m), sigma(dc) decreases monotonically with x and vanishes above x approximately 0. 55. We can explain this strikingly different behavior by a percolation model that assumes an enhanced conductivity at the interfaces between insulating and conducting phases in both materials and explicitly takes into account the different grain sizes.     

Melt fracture of entangled polymers ( small star, filled)

We construct a model for a slippage plane in a sheared melt, based on a balance between reptation bridging and shear debonding. The resulting state could show up at rather low shear rates and be locally stable. But it is not easy to nucleate: the conventional entangled state is also locally stable. We propose that slippage occurs on solid walls: either at the container surface, or on dust particles floating in the melt. Slippage at solid/melt interfaces was studied (experimentally and theoretically) long ago. There is a critical stress sigma* for slippage: our estimate (for strong adsorption of melt chains on the solid) gives sigma* approximately 1/3 (plateau modulus) for typical cases. Thus, melt fracture is expected at moderate stresses, in agreement with observations by S.Q. Wang and coworkers.     

无金和掺金Si-SiO2界面的氧退火特性

本文从实验上研究了氧退火后无金和掺金两类Si-SiO₂界面表面电荷、界面态以及禁带中态密度分布的热处理变化。考察了金的界面效应的退火行为。还给出了不同温度下干氧氧化所形成的Si-SiO₂界面(包括无金和掺金的)和相同温度下氧退火界面在电性能上的对比结果。 关键词：     

Self-focusing dynamics in monopolarly charged suspensions

The Smoluchowski equation for irreversible aggregation in suspensions of equally charged particles is studied. Accumulation of charges during the aggregation process leads to a crossover from power-law to sublogarithmic cluster growth at a characteristic time and cluster size. For larger times the suspension is usually called stable, although aggregation still proceeds slowly. In this regime the size distribution evolves towards a universal scaling form, independent of any parameter included in the theory. The relative width falls off to a universal value sigma(infinity)(r) approximately 0.2017 that is much smaller than in the uncharged case. We conjecture that sigma(infinity)(r) is a lower bound for the asymptotic relative width for all physical systems with irreversible aggregation.     

Cold collision frequency shift in two-dimensional atomic hydrogen

We report a measurement of the cold collision frequency shift in atomic hydrogen gas adsorbed on the surface of superfluid (4)He at T approximately < 90 mK. Using two-photon electron and nuclear magnetic resonance in 4.6 T field we separate the resonance line shifts due to the dipolar and exchange interactions, both proportional to surface density sigma. We find the clock shift Delta nu(c) = -1.0(1) x 10(-7) Hz cm(-2) x sigma, which is about 100 times smaller than the value predicted by the mean field theory and known scattering lengths in the three-dimensional case.     

Persistence in systems with algebraic interaction

Persistence in coarsening one-dimensional spin systems with a power-law interaction r(-1-sigma) is considered. Numerical studies indicate that for sufficiently large values of the interaction exponent sigma (sigma > or =1/2 in our simulations), persistence decays as an algebraic function of the length scale L, P(L) approximately L(-theta). The persistence exponent theta is found to be independent on the force exponent sigma and close to its value for the extremal (sigma-->infinity) model, theta =0.175 075 88. For smaller values of the force exponent (sigma < 1/2), finite size effects prevent the system from reaching the asymptotic regime. Scaling arguments suggest that in order to avoid significant boundary effects for small sigma, the system size should grow as [O(1/sigma)](1/sigma).     

Magic-angle-spinning 31P NMR spectra of solid dihydrogen phosphates. Comparison of ordered and dynamically disordered compounds.

High-resolution 31P NMR spectra are reported for several dihydrogen phosphates in the solid state. Shielding tensor components were retrieved by analysis of the sideband intensities. The results, together with previously published data, can be grouped according to the presence and type of proton exchange occurring in the crystals. Static MH2PO4 samples (M = Na, Li) show a shielding anisotropy delta sigma of approximately 120 ppm. In the case of M = Cs (one static P-OH bond and two oxygens attached to "half" hydrogens on the average) delta sigma is smaller (approximately 75 ppm) and can be understood in terms of the accepted, proton-exchange model. For highly disordered samples (M = K, NH4, Rb), where all four oxygens have nearby hydrogens with 50% occupancy, delta sigma is even smaller (approximately 30 ppm) but not zero. In the last-mentioned cases, 31P NMR information suggests that local PO4 environments may not have the symmetry that could be expected on the basis of the known crystal structures.     

How cold is cold dark matter? Small-scales constraints from the flux power spectrum of the high-redshift lyman-alpha forest

We present constraints on the mass of warm dark matter (WDM) particles derived from the Lyman-alpha flux power spectrum of 55 high-resolution HIRES spectra at 2.0 or approximately 1.2 keV (2sigma) if the WDM consists of early decoupled thermal relics and m(WDM) > or approximately 5.6 keV (2sigma) for sterile neutrinos. Adding the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Lyman-alpha flux power spectrum, we get m(WDM) > or approximately 4 keV and m(WDM) > or approximately 28 keV (2sigma) for thermal relics and sterile neutrinos. These results improve previous constraints by a factor of 2.     

Interaction of charged dust particles in clouds of thermodynamically equilibrium charges

The solution of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation for a cloud of charges surrounding two charged dust particles treated as Debye atoms forming a Debye molecule is investigated numerically using Cassini coordinates. The electric force exerted on a dust particle by the other dust particle was determined by integrating the electrostatic pressure on the surface of the dust particle. It is shown that attractive forces appear when the following two conditions are satisfied. First, the Debye radius (corresponding to the electron density at half the mean distance between the dust particles) must be approximately equal to half the mean distance between the dust particles. Attraction between the dust particles emerges at a distance equal approximately to half the mean distance between the dust particles. Second, attraction takes place when like charges are concentrated predominantly on the dust particles. If the particles carry a small fraction of charge of the same polarity, repulsion between the particles takes place at all distances.     

Anisotropy in conductance of a quasi-one-dimensional metallic surface state measured by a square micro-four-point probe method

We have devised a "square micro-four-point probe method" using an independently driven ultrahigh-vacuum four-tip scanning tunneling microscope, and succeeded for the first time to directly measure anisotropic electrical conductance of a single-atomic layer on a solid surface. A quasi-one-dimensional metal of a single-domain Si(111)4 x 1-In had a surface-state conductance along the metallic atom chains (sigma(axially)) to be 7.2(+/-0.6) x 10(-4) S/square at room temperature, which was larger than that in the perpendicular direction (sigma(radially)) by approximately 60 times. The sigma(axially) was consistently interpreted by a Boltzmann equation with the anisotropic surface-state band dispersion, while the sigma(radially) was dominated by a surface-space-charge-layer conductance.     

Conductivity of a clean one-dimensional wire

We study the low-temperature low-frequency conductivity sigma of an interacting one-dimensional electron system in the presence of a periodic potential. The conductivity is strongly influenced by conservation laws, which, we argue, need to be violated by at least two noncommuting umklapp processes to render sigma finite. The resulting dynamics of the slow modes is studied within a memory matrix approach, and we find an exponential increase as the temperature is lowered, sigma approximately (Deltan)(2)e(T0/(NT)) close to commensurate filling M/N, Deltan = n-M/N<1, and sigma approximately e((T(')(0)/T)(2/3)) elsewhere.     

Monolayers of graft and block copolymers

Surface pressure-area isotherms for monolayers from graft copolymers with one branch (or four) and diblock copolymers were determined at air/aqueous medium interfaces. The dependence of surface pressure on area for poly(vinyl acetate) (PVAc)-polystyrene(PS) graft and block copolymers was identical to that of pure PVAc at the large areas, while a sharp increase in pressure appeared with further compression. The surface pressure of PVAc-PS graft copolymer at the air/0. 2 N NaOH interface decreased with time, but the critical area at which the surface pressure increased rapidly remained constant, regardless or hydrolysis time. When a poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA)-PS graft or block copolymer was spread over water, the surface pressure originating from the PVA chain was too small to be observed, and merely that of the PS sequence appeared. It was concluded that the PS sequence was always present in the form of a tightly coiled sphere at the interfaces, whereas the PVAc sequence was spread as a monomolecular film on water but diffused into the alkaline substrate as a result of the hydrolysis to PVA. Thus the PVA-PS graft and block copolymers spread on water seem to be so oriented that the PVA chain “dissolved” in water is supported at the interface by the compact, monomolecular particle of PS on the surface.     

发射光谱研究大气压等离子体射流的气体温度

采用介质阻挡放电等离子体喷枪装置,在大气压下流动氩气中产生了射流等离子体。利用光电倍增管,对射流等离子体进行了时空分辨测量,分析了等离子体喷枪内介质阻挡放电和外部等离子体羽的放电特性。利用高分辨率光谱仪采集等离子体羽处的发射光谱,通过对发射光谱中OH(A2Σ+→X2Π,307.7～308.9nm)及N2+的第一负系(B2Σ+u→X2Π+g,390～391.6nm)谱线拟合得到了射流等离子体的转动温度,拟合得到的转动温度分别为443和450K。在5%的误差范围内,这2种方法得到的结果是一致的。由于在大气压下,转动温度近似等于产生气体放电的气体温度,所以可以确定大气压射流等离子体气体温度。利用该方法研究了不同电压下的气体温度,发现气体温度随着外加电压增加而增大。     

Role of remote Coulomb scattering on the hole mobility at cryogenic temperatures in SOI p-MOSFETs

The impacts of remote Coulomb scattering(RCS)on hole mobility in ultra-thin body silicon-on-insulator(UTB SOI)p-MOSFETs at cryogenic temperatures are investigated.The physical models including phonon scattering,surface roughness scattering,and remote Coulomb scatterings are considered,and the results are verified by the experimental results at different temperatures for both bulk(from 300 K to 30 K)and UTB SOI(300 K and 25 K)p-MOSFETs.The impacts of the interfacial trap charges at both front and bottom interfaces on the hole mobility are mainly evaluated for the UTB SOI p-MOSFETs at liquid helium temperature(4.2 K).The results reveal that as the temperature decreases,the RCS due to the interfacial trap charges plays an important role in the hole mobility.     

Static polarizability effects on counterion distributions near charged dielectric surfaces: A coarse-grained Molecular Dynamics study employing the Drude model

Coarse-grained implicit solvent Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations have been used to investigate the structure of the vicinal layer of polarizable counterions close to a charged interface. The classical Drude oscillator model was implemented to describe the static excess polarizability of the ions. The electrostatic layer correction with image charges (ELCIC) method was used to include the effects of the dielectric discontinuity between the aqueous solution and the bounding interfaces for the calculation of the electrostatic interactions. Cases with one or two charged bounding interfaces were investigated. The counterion density profile in the vicinity of the interfaces with different surface charge values was found to depend on the ionic polarizability. Ionic polarization effects are found to be relevant for ions with high excess polarizability near surfaces with high surface charge.     

Compact and dissociated dislocations in aluminum: implications for deformation

Atomistic simulations, confirmed by electron microscopy, show that dislocations in aluminum can have compact or dissociated cores. The calculated minimum stress (sigma(P)) required to move an edge dislocation is approximately 20 times smaller for dissociated than for equivalent compact dislocations. This contradicts the well accepted generalized stacking fault energy paradigm that predicts similar sigma(P) values for both configurations. Additionally, Frank's rule and the Schmid law are also violated because dislocation core energies become important. These results may help settle a 50-year-old puzzle regarding the magnitude of sigma(P) in face-centered-cubic metals, and provide new insights into the deformation of ultra-fine-grained metals.     

Current algebra of quarks confined to a cavity

Equal-time commutators of fields with charges are calculated in a cavity approximation to the MIT bag model, with N flavours of non-interacting quarks confined to a rigid spherical cavity and SU(N) symmetry arbitrarily broken by mass terms. It is proved that inside the cavity the algebra is identical with that of free field theory, whilst on the boundary quark fields commute with axial charges. Vector divergences and sigma commutators belong to a $\text{(N,}\text{N}\text{) + (}\text{N}\text{, N)}$ multiplet of chiral SU(N) × SU(N). Axial divergences contain additional surface terms which do not contribute to sigma commutators. A non-strange quark mass in the range 20–44 MeV is required to give a value 30–70 MeV for the nucleon matrix element of the sigma commutator relevant to pion-nucleon scattering.     

Elastoplastic contact between randomly rough surfaces

I have developed a theory of contact mechanics between randomly rough surfaces. The solids are assumed to deform elastically when the stress sigma is below the yield stress sigma(Y), and plastically when sigma reaches sigma(Y). I study the dependence of the (apparent) area of contact on the magnification. I show that in most cases the area of real contact A is proportional to the load. If the rough surface is self-affine fractal (Hurst exponent H) the whole way up to the lateral size L of the nominal contact area, then (assuming no plastic deformation) A approximately L(H).     

利用发射光谱研究脉冲电晕放电中的自由基

利用发射光谱技术在大气压下测量了以氮气为载气的不饱和水蒸气体系针-板式正脉冲电晕放电产生的OH(A^2∑→X^2Ⅱ0—O)自由基和O(3p^5P→3s^5S^02777．4nm),Ha(3P→2S 656．3nm)活性原子的发射光谱,并由N2(C^3Ⅱu→B^3Ⅱg)的△v=-3和△v=-4振动带序发射光谱强度计算得出N2(C,v)的相对振动布居及其振动温度,进而采用高斯分布拟合准确地求出了N2(C^3Ⅱu→B^3Ⅱg)的△v= 1振动带序发射光谱强度,从而可以由N2(C^3Ⅱu→B^3Ⅱg)的△v= 1振动带序与OH(A^2∑→X^2Ⅱ0—0)的重叠发射光谱中准确求出OH(A^2∑→X^2Ⅱ0—0)自由基的发射光谱强度。由发射光谱强度得到了激发态OH(A^3∑)自由基和O(3p^5P),Ha(3P)活性原子的布居。还研究了激发态OH(A^2∑)自由基和O(3p^5P),Ha(3P)活性原子的布居随放电电压和放电频率的变化以及氧气对激发态OH(A^2∑)自由基和O(3p^5P),Ha(3P)活性原子布居的影响。     

线性低密度聚乙烯中空间电荷陷阱的能量分布与空间分布的关系

使用激光感应压力波法和热刺激放电技术,系统地研究了直流高压作用下线性低密度聚乙烯(LLDPE)半导性电极试样中空间电荷的形成和演变及电荷陷阱分布和退极化过程.在直流高压作用下试样中空间电荷的分布明显地表现为两电极同极性电荷快速对称注入的特征,半导性电极与LLDPE的界面近乎呈现欧姆接触特征.LLDPE中的电荷陷阱分布表现出体内为浅陷阱、表层为深陷阱的特征.半导性电极与LLDPE薄片间的压合条件或电极材料对LLDPE表层的掺杂显著地影响表层陷阱的能量分布,导致表层中较深陷阱的深度和密度减小、较浅陷阱的密度增大.在整个短路退极化过程中,试样中正、负电荷的中心分别向距它们较近的电极迁移,而在开路退极后期则表现为与短路时不同的行为、被表层深陷阱再俘获的电荷脱阱后向背电极迁移. 关键词： 线性低密度聚乙烯 空间电荷 陷阱分布 热刺激放电