Mechanodynamic penetration of helium atoms into aluminum and its alloys under strain in liquid helium

The specific features of helium penetration into aluminum and its alloys, V95 and D16T, at a temperature of 4.2 K under uniaxial tension, compression, and reversal of the sign of the load are investigated. The role played by serrated strain in the intensity of the effect under consideration and the influence of impurities on the number of helium atoms penetrating into strained samples are elucidated. It is shown that the condition of additivity of the effect observed under successive reversal of the sign of the load depends on the specific features of the tensile and compressive strains.     

Mechanodynamic diffusion of helium atoms into porous copper

Mechanodynamic penetration of helium atoms into porous copper compressively strained at 4.2 K is studied. Porous copper is obtained by vaporizing zinc out of brass in vacuum at a temperature of 800°C for 8 h. The number of helium atoms which penetrated into the sample increased monotonically with strain to reach 2.9 × 10¹⁶ atoms/cm² at ? = 42%. This amount of helium is two and even more orders of magnitude larger than that obtained from the data available thus far on mechanodynamic penetration of atoms of an external medium into crystalline and amorphous materials under strain. The relations obtained suggest that specific types of helium traps determine the kinetics of mechanodynamic diffusion of helium into solids.     

Influence of the deformation type and medium on the mechanodynamic penetration of nitrogen molecules into surface layers of armco iron

The extraction of nitrogen molecules from deformed samples of armco iron with different initial structures (annealed and subjected to equal-channel angular pressing) and different deformation prehistories (deformation in liquid nitrogen at 77 K, rolling in air at room temperature, and their combination) has been studied. It has been shown that the preliminary deformation in liquid nitrogen increases its concentration in the surface layer of the material and shifts the principal peak of its release toward low temperatures during heating. The results are associated with the existence of different types of nitrogen traps in annealed and nanostructured armco iron and with their changes during subsequent deformation.     

Mechanodynamic penetration of helium atoms into nanocrystalline iron

A relation between the characteristics of plastic deformation and the specific features of mechanodynamic penetration of helium into nanocrystalline iron compressively strained at 4.2 K is investigated. Iron samples with a grain size of about 200 nm are prepared by the multiple equal-channel angular pressing technique. The samples deformed in giant (6–7%) sample-averaged serrations, which amounts to several thousand percent strain in a shear band. The amount of helium in samples strained to various degrees is measured, and curves of helium extraction from these samples are obtained in the temperature range 300–1400 K. At a strain of ～50%, the amount of helium built up in a sample is found to be substantially higher (more than hundredfold) than that in samples subjected to lower strains. It is found that an increase in the strain rate gives rise to a strain within a serration (the strain localization is enhanced) and that the amount of accumulated helium decreases, most probably, because of the shorter deformation time. The helium extraction curves obtained with increasing temperature exhibit several peaks. The temperature positions of some of them are about the same for samples strained to different extents, while the other peaks are characteristic of samples subjected to a specific strain only. The results obtained suggest the existence of helium traps of different types, which depend on the original structure and the magnitude of the strain and differ both in the amount of helium they contain and in the temperatures at which helium is released from these traps.     

Cascade diffusion of water molecules in a porous granular medium

Water vapor inleakage to a porous granular adsorbent was studied by diode laser spectroscopy. Stepping in the temporal variation of the diffusivity, probably associated with porous matrix space fractality, was detected. The H₂O molecular sensing technique is proposed as a tool for experimental study of the structure of porous media and processes occurring in them.     

Anisotropic diffusion of single molecules in thin liquid films

The European Physical Journal E - Single molecule wide field imaging is applied to study the diffusion in ultrathin liquid films on solid surfaces. The results show a broad distribution of...     

Anisotropic diffusion of single molecules in thin liquid films

Single molecule wide field imaging is applied to study the diffusion in ultrathin liquid films on solid surfaces. The results show a broad distribution of diffusion coefficients. This is tentatively ascribed to an anisotropy of the diffusion coefficient perpendicular to the surface and a slow exchange of molecules between regions of different diffusion coefficients. We have evidence, that these changes as well as the slow motion perpendicular to the surface are related to the molecular layering of the liquid close to the surface.     

Rotational diffusion motion of PAA molecules in liquid crystal state

Inelastic neutron scattering measurements were performed on PAA in liquid crystal state. Interpretation of the quasi-elastic results was by the circular random walk model with N = 8 sites and K = 10¹⁰sec^-1 rate constant.     

Specific features of helium penetration into single-crystal and nanocrystalline copper under deformation in liquid helium

This paper reports on experimental data on the penetration of helium atoms into single-crystal and nanocrystalline copper samples subjected to tensile and compressive strains at T=4.2 K, respectively. The dependences of the helium concentration N in the samples on the strain ? and the curves of helium extraction in the temperature range 300–1000 K at different strains ? are determined. It is found that the dependences N(?) and σ(?) correlate qualitatively with each other for single-crystal copper and do not correlate for nanocrystalline copper. This is associated with the different mechanisms of deformation in these samples. The deformation proceeds through the dislocation mechanism in single-crystal copper and through the jumpwise (twinning, rotational) mechanisms in nanocrystalline copper during local heating in regions of plastic shears. These factors are also responsible for the considerable difference between the curves of helium extraction from samples of both types. The curves of helium extraction exhibit two maxima for single-crystal copper and five maxima for nanocrystalline copper samples. The results obtained are discussed in terms of both the dynamic dislocation pipe diffusion and grain-boundary mechanisms of particle penetration from the surrounding medium into copper through different-type moving defects under applied stresses and due to the gradient of the chemical potential at the metal-surrounding medium interface.     

Rotational diffusion and orientation relaxation of rodlike molecules in a biaxial liquid crystal phase

The longitudinal relaxation time and the complex dielectric polarizability of rod-like molecules with dipole moment parallel to the long axis in a biaxial nematic liquid crystal are calculated using as model the rotational Brownian motion in a mean field potential so reducing the problem to a solution of a set of linear differential-recurrence relations for statistical moments (the appropriate equilibrium orientational correlation functions). The solution of this set is obtained by matrix continued fractions. Moreover, simple analytic equations (based on the exponential separation of the time scales of the intrawell and overbarrier (interwell) relaxation processes), allowing one to understand the qualitative behavior of the system and accurately predicting the longitudinal complex polarizability for wide range of the barrier height and anisotropy parameters, are proposed.     

Gold nanoparticle production by laser ablation in liquid nitrogen medium followed by cryogenic medium substitution with ethanol

The use of liquid nitrogen as a medium for laser ablation made it possible to obtain Au particles shaped as cores, cores/hollow shells, and hollow shells by radiation of a picosecond Nd:YAG laser. In this case, the substitution of the cryogenic liquid medium of the colloid by evaporating on the surface of a room-temperature liquid causes the shift and broadening of the plasmon resonance peak of Au nanoparticles, which results from the formation of fractal nanoparticle aggregates.     

液氮冲击中锑化铟焦平面探测器形变研究

液氮冲击中锑化铟红外焦平面探测器(InSb IRFPAs)的形变研究对理解探测器结构设计可靠性、预测探测器耐冲击寿命具有重要意义.在系统分析液氮冲击结束时模拟得到的InSb IRFPAs形变分布与方向的基础上,提出了降温过程中累积热应变完全弛豫的设想,升至室温后的模拟结果重现了室温下拍摄的InSb IRFPAs典型形变分布特征.经分析认为室温下拍摄的InSb IRFPAs表面屈曲变形源于底充胶固化中引入的残余应力应变,变形幅度随降温过程逐步减弱,至77 K时完全消失,升温过程则依据弹性变形规律复现典型棋盘格屈曲模式.这为后续InSb IRFPAs结构设计、优化及耐冲击寿命预测提供了理论分析基础.     

Nonlinear oscillations of a charged jet of a conducting liquid under multimode initial deformation of its surface

The subject of consideration is a uniformly charged jet of an ideal incompressible conducting liquid moving with a constant velocity along the symmetry axis of an undisturbed cylindrical surface. An evolutionary expression for the jet shape is derived accurate to the second order of smallness in oscillation amplitude for the case when the initial deformation of the equilibrium surface is a superposition of a finite number of both axisymmetric and nonaxisymmetric modes. The flow velocity field in the jet and the electric field distribution near it are determined. The positions of internal nonlinear secondary combined three-mode resonances are found, which are typical of nonlinear corrections to the analytical expressions for the jet shape, flow velocity field potentials, and electrostatic field in the vicinity of the jet.     

Orientation phenomena in nematic liquid crystals under a periodic compressional deformation

The orientation behavior of homogeneous planar layers of nematic liquid crystals with open and closed ends in the field of compressional deformations caused by an acoustic effect is studied. The mechanisms determining the connection of the optical response of a nematic liquid crystal (the variable component of an optical signal and its spectrum) with the acoustic parameters (the oscillation amplitude and frequency, and the amplitude of sound pressure) and the layer thickness are revealed. The factors responsible for the mechanism and modes of acoustooptic conversion are considered. It is demonstrated that, by varying the layer thickness, it is possible to implement different modes of signal conversion. The possibility of designing a new modification of a sound receiver based on a nematic liquid crystal and the specific features of this design are discussed. Its advantages over conventional sound pressure receivers based on nematic liquid crystals are indicated, in particular, the absence of limitation of the frequency of the received signal in the low-frequency range.     

液氮下绕包绝缘的电性能研究

高温超导电缆具有载流能力大、损耗低和体积小的优点,传输容量将比常规电缆高3~5倍,而电缆本体的焦耳热损耗几乎为零。因而,高温超导电缆相对于常规电缆具有极大的优势,其研制水平也在迅速提高。超导电缆中,其绕包绝缘的性能对于超导电缆稳定运行起着十分重要的作用。随着超导电缆的电压等级的提高,对绝缘的性能要求也随之提升。用PPLP,100HN,100CR,150FCR019绕制绕包绝缘并测试了它们的击穿性场强,并对它们的击穿性能进行对比分析,为超导电缆绝缘的选材和设计提供参考。     

Nonlinear diffusion of water molecules in glycerol

The dependence of the concentration of water molecules in water vapor brought into contact with glycerol surface was measured in a time window of 10⁻¹–10³ s. An obvious nonlinearity of water molecule diffusion was found in a short time approximation (within a minute). A proposal is made with regard to the convective character of diffusion due to heat release during absorption.     

Dynamic diffusion of helium into various types of solids during their deformation and dispersion

Quantitative relations governing the penetration of helium atoms into various types of solids in the course of their plastic deformation in liquid ³He (T = 0.6–1.8 K) and ⁴He (T = 4.2 K) and dispersion in gaseous helium at 300 K were obtained and analyzed. Experiments were carried out on metals with different lattice types, ionic single crystals, amorphous alloys, and barite and titanium dioxide powders dispersed in helium. Curves illustrating helium extraction from deformed specimens under dynamic annealing were obtained. The temperature range of helium extraction was found to correlate with the melting temperature and the initial and deformed structures of a material, which determine the number and character of helium traps present in the material. The dependence of helium penetration intensity on the type of defects forming under plastic deformation for various materials, as well as the formation of chemical bonds of helium atoms to the defected structure of these materials, is discussed.     

Nonstationary diffusion in a multiphase medium

The process of nonstationary diffusion of matter in a multiphase medium with sharp steps of the diffusion coefficient and an arbitrary number of phases is considered. The boundary conditions at the points of phase separation are determined. An exact solution is obtained, and the nonstationary concentration of matter is shown to be described by an infinite superposition of time-dependent Gaussian curves. Some examples are proposed and the results obtained are interpreted physically.State University, Nizhny Novgorod. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 38, Nos. 1–2, pp. 56–68, January–February, 1995.