Radiation coupling with two‐dimensional electron systems in the low limit of the microwave band: magnetoresistance response

We report on a theoretical study of radiation‐induced resistance oscillations and zero‐resistance states in two‐dimensional electron systems when the irradiation frequency is very low. In this situation the photon energy is much smaller than the spacing between the Landau levels and therefore interlevel transitions are excluded. Experiments show that when these frequencies are used, resistance oscillations disappear and, instead, a strong suppression of magnetoresistance response is obtained. We apply the radiation‐driven electron orbit model concluding that the resistance suppression is a manifestation of an oscillation of very large wavelength. Under this regime we study the connection with larger frequencies and the dependence on radiation power and temperature. For high enough radiation intensity, we predict that a regime of zero‐resistance states can be reached at these low frequencies, too. The calculated results are in good agreement with experiments. (© 2012 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Cherenkov quartz calorimeter

A Cherenkov quartz detector possesses a high radiation resistance because of the radiation resistance of quartz fibers in which a light signal is formed and which are used to transfer signals to photodetectors. Owing to properties of Cherenkov radiation, such as the existence of a threshold with respect to the velocity of radiating charged particles and an instantaneous character of the radiation, this type of calorimeter is not sensitive to neutrons and the majority of radiative-decay products and generates a short signal within a narrow spatial region. In view of these special features of a Cherenkov quartz calorimeter, it is advantageous (with respect to other calorimetric methods) in detecting narrow jets of high-energy particles against the background of high-density energy fluxes, this being necessary, for example, in experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, which is presently under construction at CERN. The results obtained by measuring the radiation resistance of quartz fibers and the main features of a Cherenkov quartz calorimeter that were measured for prototypes are discussed in the present article.     

Thermodynamical Stability of Hagedorn and Radiation Regimes in Closed String Gas Cosmology

In this paper, we investigate thermal equilibrium in string gas cosmology which is dominated by closed string. We consider two interesting regimes, Hagedorn and radiation regimes. We find that for short strings in small radius of Hagedorn regime very large amount of energy requested to have thermal equilibrium but for long strings in such system a few energy is sufficient to have thermal equilibrium. On the other hand in the large radius of Hagedorn regime, which pressure is not negligible, we obtain a relation between the energy and pressure in terms of cosmic time which is satisfied by thermal equilibrium. Then we discuss about radiation regime and find that in all cases there is thermal equilibrium.     

Subdiffusion and cage effect in a sheared granular material

We investigate experimentally the diffusion properties of a bidimensional bidisperse dry granular material under quasistatic cyclic shear. The comparison of these properties with results obtained both in computer simulations of hard spheres systems and Lennard-Jones liquids and experiments on colloidal systems near the glass transition demonstrates a strong analogy between the statistical behavior of granular matter and these systems, despite their intrinsic microscopic differences (thermal vs athermal). More specifically, we study in detail the cage dynamics responsible for the subdiffusion in the slow relaxation regime, and obtain the values of relevant time and length scales.     

Elliptical-hole photonic crystal fibers

We study the dispersive properties of photonic crystal fibers (PCF's) with elliptical air holes. The unusual guidance of PCF leads to novel behavior of the birefringence, group-velocity walk-off, and dispersion parameters, including the possibility of zero walk-off with high birefringence in the single-mode regime. A number of these effects are closely tied to the underlying radiation states of the air-hole lattice.     

考虑接触热阻的纳米颗粒堆积热导率的分析

本文首先使用Callaway热导率模型对SiO₂纳米颗粒的热导率进行了近似计算,然后耦合堆积纳米孔隙内的导热和辐射、颗粒接触热阻,基于颗粒堆积单元结构模型的一维传热分析,最终推导得到了颗粒堆积有效热导率关于颗粒直径和温度、堆积孔隙率、颗粒热导率、气相热导率、辐射传热和接触热阻的关系式,并用该式进行了相关讨论。研究结果表明,对于纳米颗粒堆积,界面接触热阻不容忽略;在低孔隙率和颗粒不参与辐射的条件下,由于受到接触热阻的影响,存在最佳孔隙率（或密度）使得堆积热导率存在最大值。     

THERMAL RADIATION PROPERTY OF A THREE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL BASED ON MULTIPLE SCATTERING METHOD

We have studied absorption and thermal radiation for a three dimensional lossy photonic crystal of dielectric spheres by using a multiple scattering method. It is shown that such simple structures have excellent selective thermal radiative characteristics in different photonic bands. There is stronger thermal radiation at high frequency than that at low frequency. In comparison with the uniform slab without photonic crystal structure, in the photonic band gap, the thermal emission intensity is greatly suppressed and very weak, but not zero due to the penetration depth. Under the same lattice structure, the thermal emission of photonic crystal varies with the change of the radius of the spheres.     

Second-order Percus–Yevick theory for the radial distribution functions of a mixture of hard spheres in the limit of zero concentration of the large spheres

The radial distribution functions of a mixture of hard spheres are quite interesting when the ratio of diameters is large and the concentration of the large spheres is very small. In this regime, the radial distrbution functions change rapidly with concentration. The usual PercusYevick theory, which is adequate over most of the concentration range, fails at low concentrations of the large spheres. Values are reported of the radial distribution functions for zero concentration of the large spheres using the most accurate theory presently available, secondorder Percus-Yevick theory. Agreement with recent formulae for the contact values of these functions is very good except for the contact value for a pair of large spheres, where the agreement is fairly good. It is possible that the radial distribution function for a pair of large spheres may be a little larger than the already large values given by this recent formula.     

碳遮光石英气凝胶传热机制与热性能数值模拟

建立了碳遮光石英气凝胶传热机制及热性能数值模拟方法,在交叉立方阵列导热模型、热辐射传输谱带模型、辐射导热耦合传热模型基础上,采用蒙特卡罗方法与有限体积法数值模拟了气凝胶内的热辐射传输及辐射导热耦合传热,并以表观导热系数描述气凝胶传热性能.以某石英气凝胶为例,定量模拟了热性能、各种传热方式的作用及温度依赖性,分析了应用Rosseland扩散近似引起的误差.     

Technology of PLZT ceramics microfibers for multiferroics composites

Compactness and large energy conversion capacity are the main reasons of development of sophisticated ceramics materials in microfibers form, which are prepared for high-speed multiferroic systems and devices. These multifunctional composite applications are owing to coupling of electrical and magnetic properties, as well as additional thermal and mechanical properties. So that, they are suitable for magnetic sensors, electrically tunable non-linear transducers, and non-volatile memories. In our experiment, the thin fibers ceramics have been produced using special environmental chamber where the high temperature sintering can be protected by controlling such parameters as temperature and sintering atmosphere. Consequently, for these purposes structural and physical properties, preparation and thermal synthesis of micrometer sized lead lanthanum zirconate titanate (PLZT) fibers were investigated thoroughly. Since the phase transition properties of PLZT fibers differ much, the production process of fibers suffers from lack of proper high temperature control. Consequently, our experiments should help to eliminate this drawback, so that various technological conditions, parameters, and subsequent sintering atmosphere with different mixtures of PbO and ZrO were experimentally tested. Final conclusions include comparative analysis of obtained PLZT fibers ferroelectric phase transition properties to specific sintering atmosphere.     

Characterisation Studies and Impact of Chemical Treatment on Mechanical Properties of Sisal Fiber

The availability of natural fibers with their high performance and low cost contributes to a healthy ecosystem and fulfills the economic interests of the society. Sisal fiber, which is easily cultivated, is one of the most widely used natural fibers. For the present studies, characterisation of locally available sisal fiber of M.P. state in India was carried out with the investigation on the effect of alkali treatment with a wide range of different concentrations on the mechanical properties of sisal fiber. The physical and chemical properties of sisal fiber were analyzed with known methods and results were found to be similar to earlier reported values. Alkali treatment was carried out with different concentrations and mechanical properties were evaluated with Lloyd Fiber Testing Instrument. The results show that the chemical treatment enhances the mechanical properties of fiber up to a limit and is found to decrease with further increase in concentration. Scanning Electron Microscopy was used to investigate the morphology of untreated and alkali treated sisal fibers which indicated that the different concentrations of alkali alter the fiber surfaces with variations. Sisal fibers before and after alkali treatment were characterised further by thermogravimetry to establish their thermal stability, and measurements showed that alkali treated fiber became more thermal resistant than the untreated fiber and it was also noticed that thermal resistance decreases at higher concentration.     

Defocusing as a means of light removal from an amplifying medium

Defocusing as a means of light removal from an amplifying medium is studied. The wave propagation in a simple layer and in an Epstein layer is considered. It is shown that defocusing leads to additional nonsaturatable, nonresonante losses. When defocusing is optimum, it is profitable to operate in the saturation regime with no limitations on the length of the active medium. Defocusing naturally leads to a single-mode regime and to a high directivity of the output radiation. Experiment showed that defocusing is present in the superluminescence of a dye excited by a narrow knife-shaped pumping beam. The properties of defocusing layers and fibers are, in some respects, familiar to those of unstable resonators.     

Salt-modulated structure of polyelectrolyte-macroion complex fibers

The structure and stability of strongly charged complex fibers, formed by complexation of a single long semi-flexible polyelectrolyte chain and many oppositely charged spherical macroions, are investigated numerically at the ground-state level using a chain-sphere cell model. The model takes into account chain elasticity as well as electrostatic interactions between charged spheres and chain segments. Using a numerical optimization method based on a periodically repeated unit cell, we obtain fiber configurations that minimize the total energy. The optimal fiber configurations exhibit a variety of helical structures for the arrangement of macroions including zig-zag, solenoidal and beads-on-a-string patterns. These structures result from the competition between attraction between spheres and the polyelectrolyte chain (which favors chain wrapping around the spheres), chain bending rigidity and electrostatic repulsion between chain segments (which favor unwrapping of the chain), and the interactions between neighboring sphere-chain complexes which can be attractive or repulsive depending on the system parameters such as salt concentration, macroion charge and chain length per macroion (linker size). At about physiological salt concentration, dense zig-zag patterns are found to be energetically most stable when parameters appropriate for the DNA-histone system in the chromatin fiber are adopted. In fact, the predicted fiber diameter in this regime is found to be around 30 nanometers, which roughly agrees with the thickness observed in in vitro experiments on chromatin. We also find a macroion (histone) density of 5–6 per 11nm which agrees with results from the zig-zag or cross-linker models of chromatin. Since our study deals primarily with a generic chain-sphere model, these findings suggest that structures similar to those found for chromatin should also be observable for polyelectrolyte-macroion complexes formed in solutions of DNA and synthetic nano-colloids of opposite charge. In the ensemble where the mean linear density of spheres on the chain is fixed, the present model predicts a phase separation at intermediate salt concentrations into a densely packed complex phase and a dilute phase.     

两相复合材料有效热导率的理论推导

复合材料有效热导率的解析表达式一直是传热问题中人们想要解决的问题.本文选用合适的单元体,采用热阻模型和积分平均方法,分别对分散相为球体和圆柱体的两相复合材料的有效热导率进行了推导.对于多孔复合材料,当孔隙率较大或温度较高时辐射换热的影响不能忽略,本文分析了气孔为球体或圆柱体时辐射换热对其有效热导率的影响.将计算所得有效热导率与相关实验数据进行了比较,结果表明两者吻合较好,证明了公式的准确性.     

A modal Pritchard approximation for computing array element mutual impedance.

An investigation into the applicability and accuracy of Pritchard's approximation for closely packed transducer arrays is undertaken. A new, "modal" Pritchard approximation is developed, based upon normal modes of the acoustic medium, and is tested for arrays of acoustically hard spheres to ascertain its accuracy in determining the mutual acoustic radiation impedance between array elements. For ka approximately 1, it is found that the modal Pritchard approximation works quite well in approximating the mutual radiation impedance of a two-element array, even for relatively close spacing; but for arrays of three or more scatterers in close proximity the approximation may have relatively large errors. The effect of neglecting inter-element scattering is analyzed for the monopole-to-monopole scattering of various configurations of a three-element array and a sixteen-element double line array.     

Radiative properties of densely packed spheres in semitransparent media: A new geometric optics approach

This contribution presents a new Ray-tracing method for calculating effective radiative properties of densely packed spheres in non-absorbing or semitransparent host medium. The method is restricted to the geometric optic objects and neglects the wave effects. The effective radiative properties such as the absorption and scattering coefficients, and phase function are retrieved from the calculation of mean-free paths of scattering and absorption, and the angular scattering probability of radiation propagating in the dispersed medium. The model accounts for the two geometric effects called here as non-point scattering and ray transportation effects. The successful comparison of the current model with data of radiative properties and transmittances of particle beds in a non-absorbing medium reported in the literature confirm its suitability. It is shown that: (i) for opaque or absorbing particles (not systematically opaque), the non-point scattering is the dominant geometric effects whereas both non-point scattering and ray transportation effects occur for weakly absorbing and transparent particles. In the later cases, these two geometric effects oppose and may cancel out. This may explain why the Independent scattering theory works well for packed of quasi-transparent particles; (ii) the non-point scattering and ray transportation effects can be captured through the scattering and absorption coefficients while using the classical form of phase function. This enables using the standard radiative transfer equation (RTE); (iii) the surrounding medium absorption can be accounted for without any homogenization rule. It contributes to increasing the effective absorption coefficient of the composite medium as expected but, at the same time, it reduces the particle extinction; and (iv) the current transfer calculation predicts remarkably the results of direct Monte Carlo (MC) simulation. This study tends therefore to confirm that the RTE can be applied to densely packed media by using effective radiative properties.     

Biologically relevant physical measurements in the ice-free valleys of southern Victoria Land: soil temperature profiles and ultraviolet radiation

As part of the ongoing comprehensive study of the cryptoendolithic microbial community in the ice-free valleys of southern Victoria Land, thermal properties of the soil and the ultraviolet radiation regime were measured. Although soil temperature profiles have been measured in the ice-free valleys (e.g., Cameron et al. 1970; Cameron 1972), these are the first such data from higher elevations. This is apparently the first time the ultraviolet radiation regime has been measured in the Antarctic.     

Elastic “hard” fibers. I.

Elastic “hard” fibers may be prepared from a number of semicrystalline polymers, notably polypropylene, poly-3-methylbutene-1, and polyoxymethylene. These materials show typically a high degree of length recovery from large extensions, a marked, more-or-less recoverable reduction of apparent density on stretching, and the generation of very large amounts of accessible volume and surface area on stretching. Wide- and low-angle X-ray and electron-microscopic observations indicate that the morphological basis for these properties lies in an array of closely packed lamellae of which the normals lie predominantly parallel to the fiber extrusion direction. It is the tilting and splaying apart of the lamellar network which creates the internal volume and surface area on stretching. The long-range elasticity is believed to be distinctly nonrubberlike, as reflected in an insensitivity of mechanical properties to low temperatures, and to arise from bending of the lamellae. This unusual class of materials provides a significant link between macroscopic properties and a particular morphological structure.     

Closely packed micro optical fiber arrays in laser scanning system

Closely packed optical fiber arrays are used to increase the scanning speed in some laser scanning systems, but standard optical fibers are shown to be unsuitable for these systems. In this paper, a closely packing technique of micro optical fiber arrays is presented. The fabrication and properties of micro fibers, whose diameters range from several hundred nanometers to several microns, are introduced. These micro fibers are arranged side by side in V-shaped grooves, which are fabricated by photolithography and etching techniques on silicon substrate. Comparing to standard optical fiber arrays, such closely packed micro optical fiber arrays can eliminate the dark area among output light spots and can solve the problem of high accuracy demand of exposure location. This closely packing technique is also proved to be a feasible method in practical scanning systems.