Craters formation in a graphite cathode produced by pulsed arc at low pressure

DC pulsed arcs, between face to face opposite electrodes of graphite and stainless steel at pressures varying from 50 to 500 Pa into nitrogen environment, with a current and voltage of 300 A and 167 V, respectively, and a pulsed arc time of 30 ms were produced.Several consecutive craters, created by explosive way and by inclusions over the graphite cathode were found. These are located principally at the outskirts of the center and at the half of the graphite cathode radius; they are originated because of the cathode spots chaotic movement. The most representative craters have sizes over than 300 μm and some melted sectors were observed by means of the SEM technique, corroborating that there are temperatures higher or equal than the melting point of the graphite. The film surface is composed by small spheres with structures similar to the ones in the cauliflower diamond. Craters in some melted sectors on the anode surface were observed.     

低温低压氢等离子体的光谱分析

采用螺旋波激发氢等离子体,测得氢的Balmer线系前三条谱线的强度.利用二谱线法求电子温度Te,并由Hβ的Stark展宽得到电子密度Ne,简要分析了Te、Ne以及强度与各种参数之间的关系.     

The Coulomb Gas at low temperature and low density

We study the quantum Coulomb Gas ofN particles with HamiltonianH at low temperature and negative values of the chemical potential. If is sufficiently negative the Coulomb gas is approximately a perfect rare gas of charged particles, as expected. The interesting fact is that for higher (but still negative) values of the gas changes to a rare gas of some atom or molecule (which is most likely neutral). The type of molecule is determined by the ground state of the HamiltonianH —N with center of mass motion removed.Dedicated to Roland DobrushinWork partially supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant DMS 8600748 (J.C.), PHY 85-15288-(A03) (E.L.) and DMS-8601978 and DMS-8806731 (H.-T.Y.)     

Phase diagram of aqueous solution at high pressure and low temperature

Abstract

This paper presents a constant mass high pressure isothermal calorimeter and describes the range of applications that this type of equipment can deal with. As an example, the thermophysical properties of an aqueous solution of MgSO₄ at low temperature and at high pressure have been investigated. The main results showed that the phase change heat of the solution decreased with increasing pressure and the phase change temperature of the eutectic concentration was depressed under high pressure. Those changes could be related to the MgSO₄ solubility and to water latent heat changes.     

常温常压下BiMnO_3纳米粉末的制备与物性分析

钙钛矿型BiMnO3是同时具有铁磁性和铁电性的多铁性材料,在传感器,信息存储等方面具有潜在的应用前景.但是它的制备条件非常苛刻,需要高温、高压、密封等,这极大地限制了它的应用与发展.本文采用共沉淀法,以MnCl2·4H2O,Bi2O3,NaOH,HNO3和聚乙二醇为材料,在100℃的水溶液中成功地制备出了BiMnO3材料,此方法大大降低了制备的温度和压强,从而节约了能源,降低了成本.同时利用X射线衍射仪(XRD),透射电子显微镜(TEM),振动样品磁强计(VSM)等对其结构、相貌及磁性等进行了检测,并讨论了制备条件及煅烧温度对BiMnO3物性的影响.     

采用发射光谱和朗缪尔探针诊断低温低压氢等离子体

 使用发射光谱诊断法和Langmuir探针诊断法,测量了螺旋波激发等离子体化学气相沉积装置中产生的氢等离子体的发射光谱和电流-电压曲线。运用日冕模型和Druyvestey方法,对不同放电参数条件下激发态氢原子密度﹑等离子体密度及电子能量分布的变化规律进行了研究。结果表明：激发态氢原子密度随射频功率增大而增大,随工作气压的增大先增大,后缓慢下降。等离子体密度随射频功率增大线性增大,随工作气压的增加也是先增大,出现峰值后缓慢下降。电子平均能量随射频功率的变化是先增大,后达到平衡;随着工作气压的增大逐渐减小。两种诊断方法得到的结果基本相符。在低温低压等离子诊断中,两种诊断方法结合使用,可以得到更准确和更多的等离子体信息。     

Synthesis of corundum structure ITO nanocrystals by hydrothermal process at low pressure and low temperature

The corundum structures of In₂O₃:Sn (ITO) nanoparticles were synthesized by hydrothermal processing of InCl₃ and SnCl₄·5H₂O precursor at low temperature of 250 °C and 40 bar pressure for 3 h. The precursor was precipitated in a white gel of InOOH. After drying at 150 °C in air, it was crystallized in orthorhombic structure. InOOH powder was transformed into dark-gray rhombohedral In₂O₃ by sintering at 420 °C in forming gas for 1 h. The samples were characterized by means of XRD, SEM, and TEM. The particle size of the resulted ITO powder was about 32 nm.     

采用发射光谱和朗缪尔探针诊断低温低压氢等离子体

使用发射光谱诊断法和Langmuir探针诊断法,测量了螺旋波激发等离子体化学气相沉积装置中产生的氢等离子体的发射光谱和电流-电压曲线。运用日冕模型和Druyvestey方法,对不同放电参数条件下激发态氢原子密度﹑等离子体密度及电子能量分布的变化规律进行了研究。结果表明：激发态氢原子密度随射频功率增大而增大,随工作气压的增大先增大,后缓慢下降。等离子体密度随射频功率增大线性增大,随工作气压的增加也是先增大,出现峰值后缓慢下降。电子平均能量随射频功率的变化是先增大,后达到平衡;随着工作气压的增大逐渐减小。两种诊断方法得到的结果基本相符。在低温低压等离子诊断中,两种诊断方法结合使用,可以得到更准确和更多的等离子体信息。     

Work function changes during low pressure oxidation of aluminum at room temperature

The oxidation kinetics of clean bulk aluminum surfaces exposed to low oxygen pressures (10^?8 to 2 × 10^?6 torr) at room temperature were followed by measurement of work function changes. The interaction of oxygen with aluminum resulted in a decrease in the work function, indicating that the chemisorbed surface oxygen was unstable and incorporation into the subsurface region took place even at very small surface coverages. A “stable layer” of constant work function was finally formed on the aluminum surface. The limiting work functio nchange (work function change to form the “stable layer”) became less negative with increase in oxygen pressure. It was not possible to explain these results on the basis of previously published oxygen uptake models. A new model based on a pressure dependent limiting amount of outer surface and incorporated oxygen is proposed to explain the pressure dependence of the limiting work function change.     

Superconducting transition temperature in mercury HTSC-cuprates under hydrostatic pressure

A study is made of the properties of the homologous series of mercury HTSC-cuprates HgBa₂Ca_n−1Cu_nO_2n +2+δ with n=1–8. Experiments are conducted under pressure for samples with n=1–5. The Hg-1223 and Hg-1234 phases were synthesized using a controlled high pressure chamber. The oxygen content of an initial mixture corresponding to the Hg-1234 phase was varied by changing the composition of the initial BaO/BaO₂ oxides. The dependence of the superconducting transition temperature T _c on the lattice constant a (and, therefore, on the oxygen content) and of T _c ^max and dT _c ^max /dp on n are convex upward up to n=4, 5. The maximum values always correspond to the Hg-1223 phase. Experimental T _c ^max (n) curves for the phases with n=1–6 and dT _c ^max /dp curves for n=1–5 are compared with Anderson’s theory (the so-called RVB model). A general analysis of these results indicates that the mercury cuprates have an ideal structure for HTSC. The Hg-1223 phase is the “champion” in this ideal structure and the critical temperature corresponding to this phase (T _c =135 K) is the highest at atmospheric pressure. Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 113, 1474–1483 (April 1998)     

Methanation on Rh surfaces at low pressure and low temperature: A pulsed-laser imaging atom-probe study

We have successfully detected methanation on Rh surfaces at low pressure (∼10⁻⁸ Torr) and low temperature (150 K) using pulsed-laser imaging atom-probe. Thus it is possible to observe directly the reaction intermediates in a time-of-flight mass spectrum and study the atomic steps of such reaction. We find direct evidence of dissociative chemisorption of CO on Rh surfaces and show that under the conditions of our experiment, a dissociative mechanism is responsible for methanation on Rh surfaces. We have also observed an oscillation in signal intensity of CO⁺ and that of methanation products with a time period of ∼ 8 s under the conditions of that experiment.     

The low temperature hyperfine structure of quartz under uniaxial pressure

The uniaxial pressure dependence of the muonium hyperfine tensor was measured at 80 K. Uniaxial pressures (0 and 0.2 GPa) were applied along the a‐axis of quartz, and the hyperfine tensor was measured by applying various transverse fields between 0 and 7 G. The structure appears to be the result of the three chemically equivalent sites in quartz. When pressure is applied perpendicular to the crystallographic c‐axis of quartz, the symmetry of these sites is broken such that two chemically inequivalent sites are observed. The resulting hyperfine structure is discussed and qualitative explanations are proposed. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Heat transfer in a lattice at low temperature

It is found that in the low temperature region the Callaway expression for the lattice thermal conductivity reduces to the expression obtained by Kazakov and Nagaev which is based on the nonlinear heat transfer theory.     

Calculation of the electrode surface temperature in the cathode spot of normal glow discharge at atmospheric pressure

The system of equations relating the electrode surface temperature in the cathode spot of normal glow discharge at atmospheric pressure to the discharge cathode sheath parameters is formulated. An analytical expression for the cathode surface temperature in the spot has been obtained, and the parameters of the spot and discharge cathode sheath in helium have been calculated.     

The thermal characteristics of a closed two-phase thermosyphon at low temperature difference

The applications of closed two-phase thermosyphons are increasing in heat recovery systems because of their high effective conductivity. However, their range of application is limited by the need for some minimum temperature difference between the evaporator and condenser sections to initiate nucleate boiling. In the project described, the steady state heat transfer characteristics for vertical two-phase closed thermosyphons at low temperature differences with R11, R22, and water as working fluid were studied experimentally. From these experimental results, the minimum temperature differences required to initiate and sustain boiling in the low temperature thermosyphons have been established for the above working fluids. A method for improving the performance at low temperature difference was devised on the basis of a thermal triggering system. Triggering could also be achieved by mechanical vibration.     

Reflex discharges at low pressure

An investigation is made of reflex discharges with cold and hot cathodes at low pressures at which the free path of the electrons exceeds the dimensions of the discharge region. It was found that in the reflex discharge with hot cathode radial deformation of the potential is produced even at weak magnetic fields. The relationship between the anomalous motion of electrons emitted by the cathode and the experimentally determined anomalies of the static and dynamic characteristics of the suppressed reflex discharge was determined. The changes in the linear dimensions of the discharge region were also investigated for all the given forms of discharge.     

Johnson noise at low temperature

It has long been accepted that Johnson noise in metals is proportional to absolute temperature, and is materials-independent. This is a semi-classical result, based on the equipartition of energy. Johnson noise in copper below 10 mK suggests a departure from this relation. The data have been fitted empirically to T_J = T_o coth $\text{T}{}_{\mathrm{<mtext>o</mtext>}}\text{T}$, where T_J is the “Johnson noise” temperature, T is measured by CMN, and T_o is chosen for best fit and is about 2 mK. T_o is now identifiable with a zero-point frequency of electronic charge imbalance, which moves with average Fermi velocity ν from end to end of the resistor of length l. $\text{T}{}_{\mathrm{<mtext>o</mtext><mtext>\; =\; </mtext><mtext>h\nu </mtext><mtext>2kl\; \approx \; 2\; </mtext><mtext>mK</mtext>}}$, and so is materials- and geometry-dependent.     

High pressure room temperature and high pressure low temperature resistivity studies on As-Te-Se glasses

Abstract

The electrical resistivity measurements have been carried out on bulk As_xTe_100-x-ySe_y (30 ≤ ′ ≤ 50; 10 ≤ y ≤ 25) glasses up to 8 Gpa pressure, and temperature down to 77 K. All the As-Te-Se glasses are found to exhibit a continuous semiconductor to metal transition under pressure. However, glasses with a mean coordination number Z ≥ 2.4 show an initial plateau in resistivity, followed by a continuous decrease. This behaviour is consistent with the earlier observation on the As-Te glasses and is explained in terms of the changes in the local structure of the chalcogenide glasses with the composition.     

Wide-aperture high-current electron beam in a discharge with cathode plasma at elevated pressure

This work pursues investigations into the discharge with a cathode plasma in a cavity one wall of which is an insulating plate with a hole D in diameter (the cavity is 0.5 or 1.5 mm wide). This discharge is thoroughly analyzed in comparison with the high-voltage hollow-cathode discharge. Owing to the reduced emission of electrons from the cathode plasma, the discharge becomes more stable against transition to the low-voltage form, as a result of which an electron beam can be generated under higher gas pressures. Such a beam formed at the entrance to the cavity is used as an auxiliary one that propagates over the remaining (flat) surface of the cathode and adds to the gas ionization. Accordingly, the beam current from the main discharge to the anode rises (high-current regime). Wide-aperture (D = 22 mm) ≈1-μs-long pulsed beams with a current an order of magnitude higher than the total current of the equivalent anomalous discharge are obtained. Experiments are carried out at a helium pressure to 20 Torr and a voltage from 1 to 20 kV.     

The three-gluon condensates at finite (low) temperature

The three-gluon condensates at finite temperature are found to be of two types. It turns out that these two types of gluon condensates differ only in sign. The value of these condensates is investigated in the framework of the grand partition function for a dilute instanton medium at finite (low) temperature, and found to decrease slowly with the temperature even for very low temperature and vanish nearly atT=240 MeV.