Stationary Operated Lithium In-Vessel Elements of a Tokamak

Physics of Atomic Nuclei - The concept of plasma facing elements (PFE) of a stationary fusion tokamak reactor based on the use of stagnant or slow-flowing liquid lithium enclosed in a...     

Calculation of the surface tension of liquid Ga-based alloys

As known, Eyring and his collaborators have applied the structure theory to the properties of binary liquid mixtures. In this work, the Eyring model has been extended to calculate the surface tension of liquid Ga–Bi, Ga–Sn and Ga–In binary alloys. It was found that the addition of Sn, In and Bi into Ga leads to significant decrease in the surface tension of the three Ga-based alloy systems, especially for that of Ga–Bi alloys. The calculated surface tension values of these alloys exhibit negative deviation from the corresponding ideal mixing isotherms. Moreover, a comparison between the calculated results and corresponding literature data indicates a good agreement.     

HT-7装置液态锂限制器实验中锂的腐蚀与沉积特性的研究

在磁约束聚变等离子体装置中, 面对等离子体的第一壁将直接影响高温等离子体性能及第一壁寿命, 具有表面自我修复的、能有效抑制边界粒子再循环的液态金属锂第一壁越来越被重视, 其中液态锂第一壁与等离子体相互作用的研究尤其重要. 本文研究了HT-7装置液态锂限制器实验中锂的表面腐蚀及在装置内沉积特性、及其对等离子体性能影响. 实验表明, 当锂与等离子体相互作用较弱时, 锂以微弱的蒸发及溅射形式从表面腐蚀并进入等离子体, 表现为锂的线辐射有所增强, 等离子体内杂质水平降低, 氢再循环降低, 有利于等离子体约束性能提高; 当锂与等离子体间的相互作用比较强时, 锂主要以锂滴形式直接进入等离子体, 引起锂的辐射爆发, 最终引发等离子体放电破裂. 通过对锂斑及样品的分析发现, 锂主要沉积在限制器周围, 并且在低场侧及沿着等离子体电流方向沉积居多, 表现为极向和环向分布不均匀, 这也导致边界粒子再循环分布的不均匀. 这些实验为研究液态锂第一壁与等离子体相互作用, 分析液态锂第一壁在托卡马克装置上应用具有重要参考意义.     

Surface segregation in liquid GaSn alloys by AES

The surface segregation of Sn in liquid GaSn alloys has been studied by Auger electron spectroscopy as a function of bulk concentration at 350° C. The Sn was found to be strongly adsorbed at the surface. The surface concentrations of Sn and Ga were calculated from the Auger measurements using inelastic mean free paths and backscattering factors estimated in recent theoretical work. The values found for the surface concentrations are essentially in agreement with those deduced from surface tension measurements using Gibbs adsorption theory. This result supports a monolayer adsorption distribution in the GaSn system.     

The hall effect of amorphous-non transition metals

The amorphous metals Bi, Ga, Sn and Pb are obtained by quenched condensation. Their Hall effect is measured and compared with the model of free electrons. For Ga and Sn we find a good agreement with the free electron model. However, the Hall coefficient of Bi and Pb is only half as large as the theoretical value. This is particularly surprising because the corresponding liquids agree well with the free electron model and the amorphous state closely resembles the liquid. A trace effect of band structure may be responsible for the deviation.     

Adsorptions of metal adatoms on graphene-like BC_3 and their rich electronic properties: A first-principles study

Density functional calculations have been performed to investigate the adsorption of twenty two different kinds of metal adatoms on graphene-like BC_3. In contrast to the graphene adsorbed with adatoms, the BC_3 with adatoms shows many interesting properties.(1) The interaction between the metal adatoms and the BC_3 sheet is remarkably strong. The Li, Na, K, and Ca possess the binding energies larger than the cohesive energies of their corresponding bulk metals.(2)The Li, Na, and K adatoms form approximately ideal ionic bonds with BC_3, while the Be, Mg, and Ca adatoms form ionic bonds with BC_3 with slight hybridization of covalent bonds. The Al, Ga, In, Sn, and all transition metal adatoms form covalent bonds with BC_3.(3) For all the structures studied, there exhibit metal, half-metal, semiconducting, and spin-semiconducting behaviors. Especially, the BC_3 with Co adatom shows a quantum anomalous Hall(QAH) phase with a Chern number of -1 based on local density approximation calculations.(4) For Li, Na, K, Ca, Ga, In, Sn, Ti, V, Cr,Ni, Pd, and Pt, there exists a trend that the adatom species with lower ionization potential have lower work function. Our results indicate the potential applications of functionalization of BC_3 with metal adatoms.     

ICP-MS在城市道路尘土中非常规监测微量元素污染评价中的应用

采集了石河子城区32个站点的道路尘土样本,测定了样品中10种非常规监测微量元素(B,Be,Bi,Co,Ga,Li,Sb,Sn,Tl,V)的含量。并采用地积累指数法、元素相关性分析和主成分分析法对尘土中的微量元素污染程度和来源进行了分析。结果表明：道路尘土中微量B,Be,Bi,Co,Ga,Li,Sb,Sn,Tl和V的平均含量分别为41.11,1.68,0.52,13.58,36.26,24.91,3.37,3.64,0.42,72.66 mg·kg-1。其中,Co,Li和Tl的平均含量均低于新疆土壤元素背景值,B,Be和V的平均含量和新疆土壤元素背景值相似,Bi,Ga,Sb和Sn的平均含量高于新疆和世界土壤元素背景值。地积累指数计算结果表明：B,Be,Co,Ga,Li,Tl和V污染级数为0,说明无污染,而Sb,Bi和Sn污染较为严重(污染等级分别为2,1,1)。元素相关性分析和主成分分析多元统计方法计算结果表明,Bi,Co,Sb和Tl主要是人为来源,B,Be,Li和V主要是自然来源,而Ga和Sn可能受自然因素和人为因素的共同影响。     

Impurity doping into Mg2Sn: A first-principles study

We studied the formation energy and atomic structure of impurities in Mg₂Sn using first-principles plane-wave total energy calculations. Twenty elements, namely H, Li, Na, K, Rb, Sc, Y, La, Cu, Ag, Au, B, Al, Ga, In, N, P, As, Sb, and Bi, were selected as the impurity species. We considered structural relaxation of the atoms within the second nearest neighbors of the impurity atom in the 48-atom supercell. The results of the formation energy calculations suggested that Sc, Y, La, P, As, Sb, and Bi are good n-type dopants whereas Li and Na are good p-type dopants. The electrical properties of Li-, Na-, and Ga-doped Mg₂Sn and La-doped Mg₂(Si, Sn) composites reported previously can be explained by the low formation energies of Li, Na, Ga, and La in Mg₂Sn.     

Liquid metals with structure factor shoulders

Some liquid metals (e.g. Ga, Sn, Sb, Bi) exhibit a low lying shoulder on the high angle side of the principal peak in the structure factor. This feature is compatible with an interatomic potential consisting essentially of a hard core together with an adjacent ledge. Such a potential is entirely consistent with electron theory.     

Influence of phase transitions on the second harmonic generation in metal nanoparticles

In this work we use nonlinear optical properties of Ga nanoparticles monolayers of different average sizes embedded in dielectric matrices to investigate the liquid-solid phase transitions in these materials. Ga nanoparticles, formed by exploiting the partial wetting of liquid Ga over a SiO_x surface are irradiated with fs laser pulses from a Ti:sapphire source. The resulting Second Harmonic (SH) generated in the reflection and transmission directions is measured along the phase transitions by cooling the sample from 320 K down to liquid nitrogen temperature. Hysteresis cycles are observed in the nonlinear transmission, which exhibit a strong amplification from the solid to liquid values as compared to the linear optical results. A simple model for SH generation, based on Mie scattering calculations which includes the effect of surface plasmon resonance provides a fair key for the interpretation of the observed effects.     

Field emission and field ion microscope study of Ga,In and Sn on W: Structure,work function,diffusion and binding energy

Gallium, indium and tin were deposited on a tungsten tip by making a contact between the tip and these metals in the liquid state. The activation energies of diffusion of the adsorbates on tungsten were found to be 0.29 eV for Ga, 0.35 eV for In and 0.71 eV for Sn. The adsorbates were field-evaporated by gradually increasing a positive tip voltage by a small increment each time and the variation of the work function with the decreasing coverage was examined for each evaporation stage. The result indicates that the adatoms assume one of two different adsorption states. The adatoms bound as strongly as in a bulk crystal were field-evaporated at a low evaporation field. The remaining adatoms form a more strongly bound covering layer which maximizes the average work function of the covered surfaces, 4.75 eV for Ga, 4.63 eV for In and 5.10 eV for Sn, and are field-evaporated at a significantly higher field. The covering layer of the strongly bound adatoms were observed on the areas from the {001} to {114} planes and were hardly noticed on the {011} and 112 areas. The arrangement of the strongly bound adatoms, particularly on the {114} planes, is found to be a precise replica of the substrate arrangement. Thus, the surface density of the adatoms is exactly the surface density of the substrate atoms. The observed results suggest that an adatom occupying a tungsten lattice site and contacting four substrate tungsten atoms can establish unusually strong bonding with the substrate.     

Peculiar properties of hot plasma formation under the influence of intense femtosecond pulses on the surface of molten metal

The peculiar properties of plasma formation on the surface of different liquid metals by femtosecond laser radiation have been studied. It is shown that plasma formation and generation of hard X-radiation on the surface of molten metal depends substantially on the contrast and weakly on the polarization of laser radiation, which clearly distinguishes the plasma produced in our experiments from the plasma generated on the surface of a solid target.     

Momentum dependency of the volume plasmon damping in metals

The wave vector dependency of the damping of volume plasma oscillation has been studied on the metals Al, Ga and Sn by measuring the half-width ΔE _1/2 of the volume plasma loss of 51 kev electrons as a function of their scattering angle ?. We observed an interesting structure in the continuously increasing half width ΔE _1/2(?) which indicates resonance like processes at certain values of the plasmon wave vector.     

The absolute thermoelectric power of polyvalent liquid metals

Results on the measurement of the absolute thermoelectric power of ten polyvalent liquid metals (Al, Bi, Cd, Ga, Hg, In, Pb, Sn, Tl, Zn) from their melting points to about 750°C are reported. The electrical resistivities and the absolute thermoelectric powers of these metals have been calculated using the latest available data on structure factor and Harrison and Animalu form factors. These are compared with the experimental values. It is seen that whereas the predicted and experimental values of the electrical resistivities are in reasonable agreement, those for the absolute thermoelectric power are not. It is suggested that the experimental data on the absolute thermoelectric powers and the resistivities of liquid metals may be used to find the magnitude of the form factor at K = 2k _F.     

Higher harmonic generation in laser plasma upon interaction of femtosecond laser pulses with doubly and singly charged ions under conditions of resonance frequency conversion of laser radiation

The higher harmonic generation (HHG) in plasmas formed on the surface of different solid targets (Pb, Ag, Ge, In, Au, Cr, Pt, V, Mn, Ga, Bi, Sb, Cu, Al, Ca, and Sn) by laser ablation is studied. The possibility of HHG upon interaction of femtosecond radiation with doubly charged ions is studied on the example of Mn plasma. This process allowed generation of higher harmonics of up to the 101st order. The results of investigation of individual enhanced harmonics in Sn, Sb, In, and Cr plasmas are presented. Comparison of the conditions of HHG in weakly and strongly excited plasmas showed that the latter is preferable for efficient frequency conversion. It is demonstrated that the use of laser plasma spectroscopy with high time resolution allows one to determine the optimal conditions for generation of harmonics with a plateaulike distribution in the far-UV spectral region.     

Application of a structure factor-potential relationship to the electrical resistivity of the liquid alkali metals

In the Ziman formulation for the electrical properties of liquid metals, the resistivity depends on an average of the product of the structure factor and the pseudopotential. Ascarelli, Harrison and Paskin have derived a relationship for small wave vector between the structure factor and the pseudopotential for liquid metals such as the alkali metals. This formulation has been used over the entire range of wave vector (k = 0 to 2k _F). The resistivities of Na, K, Rb and Cs calculated with no adjustable parameters are within 25% of the observed values, while Li is underestimated by about a factor of five. The temperature dependencies of all but Li (which is anomalously non-linear) are in similar agreement with experiments made at constant volume.     

Binding states of Ga and Sn on W and Mo: Structures,evaporation field and its temperature dependence

Binding states of deposited Ga and Sn on the W and Mo substrates were studied by measuring the evaporation fields of the deposited metal atoms at various temperatures. Ga and Sn form two layers: an overlayer and an underneath pseudomorphic layer which directly contacts the substrate surface. The evaporation fieds of the overlayer Ga and Sn atoms were found to be the same on various crystal planes and significantly lower than that of the pseudomorphic Ga and Sn atoms, indicating that the binding between the overlayer atoms and the pseudomorphic atoms is much weaker than that between the pseudomorphic atoms and the substrate W and Mo atoms. The finding that the evaporation field of the pseudomorphic atoms on W is very close to that on Mo while the evaporation field of W is significantly higher than that of Mo was unexpected. Another interesting finding is that the field emission current from the (011) plane is not noticeably affected by the coverage of the mono-atomic Ga layer arranged in the superstructure while the current from other crystal planes covered by the pseudomorphic layer having the same atomic arrangement with the substrate surface is minimized. Furthermore, it has been found that the evaporation field of the Ga overlayer is lower than that of Sn, while the Ga pseudomorph is more stable than Sn pseudomorph on W surface at temperatures below about 100 K. The temperature dependence of the evaporation field was also examined and compared with existing models.     

Positron annihilation in solid and liquid metals

The angular correlation of the gamma rays resulting from the annihilation of positrons in 15 solid and liquid metals and semiconductors has been studied. Experiments have been done on each material at room temperature and at temperatures above and below the melting point.

The elements investigated fall into three categories according to the way the angular correlation distribution changes as the melting point is reached. To within the experimental angular resolution (0.5 milliradians) no change in the angular correlation distribution is observed for Li, Se, Na, and Tl upon heating from room temperature to beyond the melting point. The elements Sb, Bi, Ga, Hg, Sn and Te exhibit changes in their angular correlation distributions only upon being melted, whereas for the metals Al, Cd, In, Pb and Zn changes occur when the specimen is heated from room temperature to temperatures below the melting point.

Changes in the angular correlation distribution upon heating or melting are generally manifested as (a) a narrowing of the central part of the curve, (b) a rounding-off of the parts of the curve near the Fermi cut-off angle and (c) a change in the area of the broad background curve as compared with the area under the central peak.     

液态锂在铜的微通道中的流动行为

本文采用分子动力学方法模拟了液态锂在铜的微通道内的流动行为. 通过构建铜(111), (100)和(110)晶面的微通道内壁, 研究了液态锂在流固界面上的微观结构以及在铜微通道中的流动速度分布情况, 并探讨了微通道尺寸对液态锂流动行为的影响. 研究结果表明铜微通道内的液态锂在靠近铜固体壁附近区域呈有序的层状结构分布, 并受铜内壁晶面微观结构的影响. 铜(111)和(100)面内壁附近的液态锂有序层分布结构更明显. 外驱力作用下的液态锂在微通道内的流动速度呈抛物线分布, 流固界面和流动方向对液态锂的流动速度都会产生影响. 液态锂在铜(111)面内壁上流动的速度最大, 且出现了速度滑移; 在铜(110)面内壁上流动速度最小. 通过对不同尺寸的微通道内液态锂流动行为的研究, 发现流动速度的大小随着微通道尺寸的增加而增大, 且最大速度与微通道尺寸呈二次函数关系, 与有关理论计算结果符合得很好.     

Investigation of surface entropy for liquid less simple metals

We have derived an efficient expression in closed form for the surface entropy of liquid metals from the statistical mechanical theory of zeroth order involving hard sphere model interaction. Using this expression we have investigated the surface entropy for liquid less simple metals namely Zn, Cd, In, Sn, Pb, Sb, Tl and Bi selfconsistently. The effective hard sphere diameters are obtained from the thermodynamic perturbation theory called the LWCA. The prediction of the selfconsistent calculation improves significantly for all concerned systems except for Zn and Cd. The underlying cause of discrepancy for Zn and Cd is also discussed.