Raman spectroscopy and Fermi resonance in Mn-doped ZnO bulk single crystal

For the first time the bulk oriented single crystals ZnO:Mn are obtained and the polarized Raman spectra are studied at excitation in the visible and near infrared regions. The resonance enhancing of the Raman scattering by Mn-related modes is found at the visible excitation due to the extra optical absorption in ZnO at the addition of Mn. It is shown that the resonance-enhanced overtone of Mn-related silent modes may be responsible for an appearance of anomalous modes of the A₁ symmetry at 500-600 cm⁻¹. A Fermi resonance between the overtone and one-phonon mode is analyzed.     

Dielectric spectroscopy of a high-polarization ferroelectric liquid crystal

Dielectric spectroscopy investigations in the frequency range 50?Hz to 1?MHz have been carried out on a new ferroelectric liquid-crystalline material (S-(-)-4-(2-n-hexylpropionyloxy)biphenyl-4′-(3-methyl-4-decyloxy)benzoate) possessing a relatively large spontaneous polarization (P _s?～?240?nC?cm^?2) and containing a lateral methyl group on the aromatic ring of the alkoxybenzoate unit. The effect of temperature on the dielectric relaxation modes has been investigated in the SmC* and N* phases. From dielectric dispersion data, relaxation frequency and dielectric strength of all detected relaxation modes have been evaluated and discussed. A new surface-like mode of relaxation frequency ～11?kHz and dielectric strength 3.8, is seen to appear in the SmC* phase.     

Dielectric and structural relaxation phenomena in Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3 single crystal

Abstract

Dielectric permittivity studies of Na_0.5Bi_0.5TiO₃ single crystals in a broad range of frequency up to 10 MHz and temperature 300—823 K are reported. In this temperature range dielectric dispersion below 1 MHz has been found. The obtained data were fitted to the Cole-Cole relation. The mean relaxation time τ is strongly temperature dependent (0.04 ? 2.6 × 10^?5 s). A remarkable hysteresis effect in the values of τ on cooling and heating took place. The Δε(T) dependence (the maximal value of Δε ～ 400) is similar to the global ε′(T) response at low frequency. An isothermal structural transformation in Na_0.5Bi_0.5TiO₃ was observed by X-ray measurements. The order of the time in which the transformation takes place (～300 minutes) corresponds to the time in which the strongest time evolution of electric permittivity and time changes of dielectric dispersion were detected.     

Comparative characterization of differently grown ZnO single crystals by positron annihilation and Hall effect

High-quality ZnO single crystals of dimensions 10×10×0.3 mm³, grown either using a pressurized melt or a hydrothermal growth approach, have been investigated in their as-received state and are compared regarding their properties revealed by positron annihilation and Hall effect measurements. By positron annihilation performed at room temperature it is found that the pressurized melt grown crystals contain a certain amount of Zn+O divacancies, but no Zn vacancies are detected, whereas the hydrothermally grown crystals contain a dominating defect yet unknown in its structure but possibly connected to the Zn vacancy. Furthermore, the influence of an additional refined chemical–mechanical polishing of the crystal surface by a special procedure on the depth distribution of vacancy-type defects is demonstrated. Hall measurements, performed in the temperature range 20–325 K, showed that the crystal growth method has a strong influence on the carrier mobility, and the estimated acceptor densities also differ significantly in both types of crystal.     

Compositional origin of surface roughness variations in air-annealed ZnO single crystals

We directly investigated the chemical compositional origin of surface roughness variations in air-annealed ZnO single crystal samples for annealing temperatures up to 1000 °C. Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) showed temperature-dependent changes in surface roughness and morphology, with a maximum in surface roughness of 2 nm found for samples annealed at 400 °C. The O(1s) line, measured by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) showed a maximum for Zn(OH)₂ and a minimum for off-stoichiometric ZnO at 400 °C; while the Zn(2p) peaks show an increase in slope at that temperature. These results indicate that the roughness arises from Zn diffusion and loss of surface oxygen.     

Dielectric investigation on some binary mixtures of hockey-stick-shaped liquid crystal and octyloxy-cyanobiphenyl

We report the measurement of temperature-dependent dielectric parameters in some binary liquid crystal mixtures comprising of a hockey-stick-shaped mesogen 4-(3-decyloxyphenyliminomethyl) phenyl-4-decyloxycinnamate (SF7) and calamitic compound 4′-octyloxy-4-cyanobiphenyl (8OCB). All the investigated mixtures possess a large positive dielectric anisotropy (Δε), although a noticeable reduction has been found by increasing the diverse-shaped dopant concentration. Investigation on the pretransitional behavior in the vicinity of isotropic to nematic (I–N) phase transition suggesting a tricritical character for all the studied mixtures. Parameterization of dielectric permittivity close to the nematic to smectic-A (N–Sm-A) phase transition exhibits non-universal values of the critical exponents describing a second-order nature of the transition. Systematic variation of critical exponents against dopant concentration and McMillan ratio reveals a well consistency with those obtained from the high-resolution optical birefringence measurements.     

Ammonia sensing characteristics of ZnO nanowires studied by quartz crystal microbalance

The ZnO nanowires have been prepared and studied as the sensing element for the detection of ammonia. The ZnO nanowires were first synthesized by evaporating high purity zinc pellets at 900 °C and then distributed onto the electrode surfaces of quartz crystals at room temperatures. Gas sensitive properties of ZnO nanowires layer were studied in terms of the quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) at room temperature. It is found that the obtained response of the sensors varied with the thickness of the ZnO nanowires layer. ZnO nanowires showed high sensitivity to ammonia in the range of 40-1000 ppm. The response time of the sensor was as fast as ∼5 s at any concentration (40-1000 ppm) of ammonia gas. The ZnO nanowires-coated sensors have a good frequency stability and reproducibility. All results demonstrated that the ZnO nanowire was a potential gas sensing material for practical use.     

Dielectric spectroscopy of liquid crystals. Theoretical model of ITO electrodes influence on dielectric measurements

Indium tin oxide (ITO) layers are widely used to make electrodes in measuring cells, because these layers are transparent and electrooptical investigations can be performed using such prepared cells. It was found during the dielectric spectroscopy measurements, performed for smectic liquid crystalline mixture, that it is not possible to detect some important relaxation modes in paraelectric SmA*, ferroelectric SmC*, and antiferroelectric SmC_A* phases for the frequencies higher than 300 kHz. The measuring cell does not allow to measure relaxations, because its own dielectric behaviour covers the dielectric response of a liquid crystalline medium. One can observe the spurious contribution for high frequency part of the dielectric spectrum, due to the finite resistance of ITO layers. The theoretical model was introduced, which shows how to calculate relaxations related to liquid crystals from dielectric response of the empty and filled measuring cell. The proof of strong influence of cell properties on effective (measuring) values of dielectric permittivities was shown.     

偏振拉曼散射研究ZnO单晶纳米压痕区内的晶格畸变分布

通过结合纳米压痕和偏振拉曼散射技术对压应力影响下ZnO单晶晶格出现的变化进行了研究。位错的滑移是导致ZnO单晶中出现多处塑性变形的原因而非相变。之后采用偏振拉曼Mapping成像技术以E2(high)模为对象, 监视其在整个压痕区内的强度变化分布。在压痕区中心累积的应力通过位错的滑移而释放, 同时导致压痕区中心处的晶格畸变程度最为严重。伴随着晶格失配的加剧, 拉曼选择定则放宽, 在Z(XX)配置下较弱的LO得到增强, 原本非拉曼活性的B1(high)模出现。此外, 在Z(XY)偏振下压痕区左侧的拉曼光谱中观察到位于130 cm-1处的拉曼异常振动模。此峰的出现可能与压痕区左侧由刃位错所形成的应力场吸引间隙离子导致的晶格畸变有关。     

Investigation of Relaxation Process of Nylon 1212 Using Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy

The relaxation processes of α-form nylon 1212 from 50°C up to 160°C were studied by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy (DRS) in a wide frequency range of 63 Hz to 5 MHz. The α relaxation, the electrode relaxation, and the conductivity relaxation of nylon 1212 were observed and analyzed in detail using permittivity and modulus formalism. Electrode polarization and dc conductivity were the origin of high dielectric permittivity values at low frequencies and high temperatures. The strength of the imaginary part of the electric modulus of conductivity relaxation M″ _max was nearly independent of temperature. The distribution of local conductivity and relaxation time became broader with decreasing temperature.     

氧化锌晶体的水热法生长及性能表征

报道以块状氧化锌陶瓷为培养料,KOH、LiOH和H2O2的混合水溶液为矿化剂体系,采用水热法生长出尺寸为30mm×38mm×8mm的氧化锌晶体。氧化锌晶体 c(0001)和-c(0001)方向的生长速度分别为0.17,0.09mm/day。 c面的颜色为浅绿色,而-c面的颜色为深褐色。在室温下测得 c面的载流子浓度为104cm-3,电阻率为80Ω·cm,迁移率为100cm2/V·s。晶体(0001)面的双晶摇摆曲线的FWHM为45arc-sec。对氧化锌晶体 c面在室温条件下的光致发光谱和吸收光谱进行了测试分析。     

PMN-PT single crystal focusing transducer fabricated using a mechanical dimpling technique

A ∼5 MHz focusing PMN-PT single crystal ultrasound transducer has been fabricated utilizing a mechanical dimpling technique, where the dimpled crystal wafer was used as an active element of the focusing transducer. For the dimpled focusing transducer, the effective electromechanical coupling coefficient was enhanced significantly from 0.42 to 0.56. The dimpled transducer also yields a −6 dB bandwidth of 63.5% which is almost double the bandwidth of the plane transducer. An insertion loss of the dimpled transducer (−18.1 dB) is much lower than that of the plane transducer. Finite element simulation also reveals specific focused beam from concave crystal surface. These promising results show that the dimpling technique can be used to develop high-resolution focusing single crystal transducers.     

Dielectric absorption in mixtures of anisole with some primary alcohols at microwave frequency

Dielectric properties of binary mixtures of anisole with methanol (MeOH), 1-propanol (1-PrOH), 1-butanol (1-BuOH) and 1-heptanol (1-HeOH) over an entire concentration range have been studied at a fixed temperature 40°C. The dielectric constant (ε′) and dielectric loss (ε″) of the binary mixtures of polar liquids have been determined at a microwave frequency of 9.1?GHz. The static dielectric permittivity (ε ₀) of the liquid samples was also determined using a precision LCR meter. Determined values of static dielectric permittivity (ε ₀) and dielectric permittivity (ε*) at 9.1?GHz frequency were used to evaluate relaxation time (τ) and high frequency limit dielectric permittivity (ε _∞). Dielectric parameters were interpreted in terms of molecular interaction between the anisole and alcohol molecules.     

High pressure studies on single crystals of zirconium sulphoselenides

Abstract

Electrical resistance measurements have been performed on ZrS₂, ZrSe₂, and ZrSSe single crystals grown by Iodine vapour transport technique in the pressure range 10 kilobar to 80 kilobar (1 GPa-8GPa). It is observed that all these crystals show a decrease in resistance with increase in pressure. The results have been discussed on the basis of energy band.     

Dielectric studies of some binary liquid mixtures using microwave cavity techniques

The excess parameter studies in the microwave frequency region (X-band) on complex dielectric permittivity for the binary mixtures are reported. The methods employed are fixed cavity perturbation technique and adjustable plunger cavity technique. Also Gopalakrishna method is used to calculate the relaxation time of the polar solute in a non-polar solvent. The samples under study are acetonitrile, chlorobenzene, dimethyl formamide, carbon tetrachloride and benzene.     

Study on infrared emissivity of biomimetic motheye sapphire single crystal

As a focus of research on materials science, bionic structure has drawn a great deal of attention from researchers. In this paper, patterned antireflection microstructure used for space optical window was fabricated on the surface of sapphire single crystal based on “Biomimetic Motheye Structure”. Meanwhile, emissivity of patterned sapphire at high temperature was investigated. The results indicated that transmittance of sapphire increased with spectrum red shift effect because of surface microstructures; the emissivity of patterned sapphire increased with rising of temperature in 6∼11 μm band; microstructures on surface led the scattering and attenuation coefficient of light to increase, thus, the emissivity of patterned sapphire was greater than that of contrast specimen which was not patterned. At the end of the paper, an audacious conclusion was made that the effect of microstructure on emissivity would decrease or even disappear with the increase of temperature.     

Observation of relaxation modes in room temperature ferroelectric liquid crystal mixtures

The dielectric measurements in SmC* and SmA phases of a room temperature ferroelectric liquid crystal mixture FLC-6980 in the cells of different thickness in planer alignment have been carried out in the frequency range 100 Hz to 1 MHz. A relaxation mode (called NRM) whose dielectric increment is less than the Goldstone mode has been observed in the SmC* phase. This mode appears due to the surface effect. Goldstone mode and the soft mode was observable in the vicinity of SmC*-SmA transition temperature (T _C*A). The dielectric parameters of the Goldstone mode, new mode and the soft mode have been studied as a function of frequency and temperature. The calculated values for f_NRM, δε^NRM and distribution parameter α_NRM are found to be 325 kHz, 6 and 0.156 for 5μm thick planer cell at 37°C. It is seen that in the vicinity of theT _C*A, soft mode obeys the Curie-Weiss law given by mean field theory. The results have been compared with materials of large spontaneous polarization.     

Dielectric measurements of new antiferroelectric liquid crystals

Three new pure antiferroelectric materials, synthesized at the Military University of Technology (MUT), were investigated by dielectric means. Clear relaxation modes were detected, i.e., Soft, Goldstone, low frequency in-phase (P_L) as well high frequency anti-phase (P_H) modes for paraelectric Sm A*phase, ferroelectric Sm C* phase and antiferroelectric Sm C_A* phase, respectively. Additionally, a high relaxation mode in Sm C_A* was found. The relaxation frequencies f_R of the observed modes were calculated from Cole-Cole diagrams.     

ZnO晶体的偏振拉曼散射的深入研究

利用拉曼选择定则,设计了ZnO单晶的直角偏振几何配置。在室温下测量了ZnO单晶的各种振动模式的偏振拉曼散射光谱。与原先的文献相比较,初步讨论了各种振动模式的线宽和强度的变化原因。除ZnO晶体中包括非极性和极性拉曼基频振动,准横光学和准纵光学模式和振动属性被指认外,它们的高阶拉曼散射模式首先被确定。本研究结果为深入了解ZnO晶体和薄膜的宏观性质和微观结构提供了依据。     

Spectral Representation Theory for Dielectric Behavior of Nonspherical Cell Suspensions

Recent experiments revealed that the dielectric dispersion spectrum of fission yeast cells in a suspension was mainly composed of two sub-dispersions. The low-frequency sub-dispersion depended on the cell length, while the high-frequency one was independent of it. The cell shape effect was simulated by an ellipsoidal cell model but the comparison between theory and experiment was far from being satisfactory. Prompted by the discrepancy, we proposed the use of spectral representation to analyze more realistic cell models. We adopted a shell-spheroidal model to analyze the effects of the cell membrane. It is found that the dielectric property of the cell membrane has only a minor effect on the dispersion magnitude ratio and the characteristic frequency ratio. We further included the effect of rotation of dipole induced by an external electric field, and solved the dipole-rotation spheroidal model in the spectral representation.Good agreement between theory and experiment has been obtained.