Absorption spectra of NH4MnCl3 and NH4MnF3

The absorption spectra of NH₄MnCl₃ and NH₄MnF₃ crystals have been measured down to 10 K in the 250 to 600 nm region. The observed bands are assigned to electronic transitions from the ⁶A_1g(S) ground state to various excited levels of Mn²⁺ ions in an octahedral crystalline field. The position of the bands have been fitted within the strong crystal field scheme. Resulting parameters at room temperature are B=741, C=2990 and Dq=520 cm⁻¹ for NH₄MnCl₃ and B=800, C=3139 and Dq=694 cm⁻¹ for NH₄MnF₃. At low temperature some bands show a rich fine structure in which some phonon progressions have been identified.     

Oscillator strengths of ND3– absorption bands in POCl3-SnCl4, POCl3-TiCl4, and POCl3-ZrCl4

Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 51–54, January, 1991.     

Specific heat of YFe3(BO3)4, Y0.5Gd0.5Fe3(BO3)4, and GdFe3(BO3)4

The specific heat was measured in the range 0.4–300 K in YFe₃(BO₃)₄, Y_0.5Gd_0.5Fe₃(BO₃)₄, and GdFe₃(BO₃)₄ single crystals. Sharp anomalies were found at temperatures of first-order structural, second-order antiferromagnetic, and first-order spin-reorientational transitions. A Néel temperature of about 37 K was found to be virtually independent of presence of rare-earth ions, indicating rather weak coupling of Gd and Fe subsystems. The contribution of the magnetic system to specific heat was separated through the scaling procedure allowing determination of the magnetic entropy of Fe and Gd subsystems. At the lowest temperatures, the specific heat in GdFe₃(BO₃)₄ exhibits a Schottky-type anomaly, which is due to Gd³⁺ eightfold degenerate ground-level splitting by the internal magnetic field of the Fe subsystem of about 7 T. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

A high-pressure study of Th3P4 and some U3X4 compounds

Abstract

The high-pressure crystal structures of Th₃P₄ and U₃X₄, where X = P, As and Sb, have been studied by means of synchrotron x-ray diffraction in the pressure range up to 50 GPa. The cubic phase of these compounds is retained in the whole pressure range. The bulk modulus B₀ and its pressure derivative B₀’ have been determined for each compound. A log-log plot of B₀ versus unit-cell volume gives a straight line for the uranium pnictides, with a slope about -5/3.     

Dipole properties of PH3, PF3, PF5, PCl3, SiCl4, GeCl4, and SnCl4

Experimental and theoretical photoabsorption cross sections combined with constraints provided by the Kuhn–Reiche–Thomas sum rule, the high-energy behaviour of the dipole oscillator strength density, static dipole polarisabilities, and molar refractivity data when available are used to construct dipole oscillator strength distributions for PH₃, PF₃, PF₅, PCl₃, SiCl₄, GeCl₄, and SnCl₄. The distributions are used to predict dipole sum rules S(k), mean excitation energies I(k), and van der Waals C₆ coefficients.     

Stability of 3He2 4He M and 3He3 4He M L = 0,1 Clusters

We have studied the stability of mixed ³He/⁴He clusters in L = 0 and L = 1 states by the diffusion Monte Carlo method, employing the Tang-Toennies-Yiu (TTY) He-He potential. The clusters ³He⁴He_M ( ) and ³He₂⁴He_M (L = 0, S = 0) are stable for M > 1, while to bind two ³He in a triplet state the minimum number of ⁴He is four. Considering clusters with three ³He, ³He₃⁴He₄ is the smallest stable system in the L = 1 state, while ³He₃⁴He₈ is the smallest stable system in the L = 0 state.     

Nuclear quadrupole resonance studies of209Bi in Bi4(GeO4)3 and Bi4(SiO4)3

Nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) of²⁰⁹Bi has been studied in Bi₄ (GeO₄)₃ and Bi₄ (SiO₄)₃ using a wide band coherence-controlled superregenerative oscillator-detector. All the four allowed (ΔM _I=±1) transitions are observed. In both cases the electric field gradient (EFG) tensor is axially symmetric (η=0.0). The quadrupole coupling constante ² qQ is measured to be 490.8±1 MHz and 470.4±1 MHz respectively. It is pointed out that the purely ionic model is inadequate to understand these results. With the available experimental accuracy and the strength of the applied electric field (∼ 6 KV/cm), no field-induced effects on the NQR spectrum could be observed in the case of Bi₄ (SiO₄)₃.     

Powder neutron diffraction study on TbPd3S4 and YbPd3S4

We report the results of low-temperature magnetic properties of newly synthesized samples of TbPd₃S₄ and YbPd₃S₄, which indicate that they merely exhibit antiferromagnetism below 2.9 and 1.8 K, respectively, without showing any other transitions above 0.4 K. From the powder neutron diffraction experiments, we determined the magnetic structure of these rare-earth palladium bronzes.     

Sr3Gd(PO4)3:Tm3+的真空紫外光谱特性

研究了Sr3Gd(PO4)3 : Tm3 和GdPO4 : Tm3 样品的结构特性、光谱特性.GdPO4 : Tm3 为单斜晶系,基质掺入铥离子后结构没有明显变化.GdPO4:Tm3 在164和210 nm附近有强烈的吸收峰.位于164 nm附近的强烈的吸收峰是归因于基质的吸收引起,210 nm附近的吸收峰则归因于Gd 的8S7/2-6GJ的能级跃迁.在164 nm真空紫外光激发下,样品于453及363 nm处有较强的发射峰,发射主峰位于453nm,属于Tm3 的1D2→3H4(22,123 cm-1)跃迁的典型发射.由于阳离子质量的不同,Sr3Gd(PO4)3:Tm3 在166 nm附近的激发峰高于GdPO4: Tm3 的同位置的激发峰,其在363 nm处的发射有明显减弱,而在453 nm处的蓝色发射有显著的增强.     

激光气体靶产生的类氖氪离子4d-2p共振跃迁其类Na 3l4l′双电子伴线的研究

用相对论多组态(HXR)方法,详细计算了类Ne氪离子4d-2p类Na3l4l′双电子伴线波长和强度因子,并模拟了实验光谱,解释了最新利用激光气体靶产生的0.525～0.555nm范围的氪X-Ray光谱,计算结果与实验符合得相当好。此外,还讨论了组态相互作用对双电子伴线结构的影响。     

Coupled magnetic cycloids in multiferroic TbMnO3 and Eu3/4Y1/4MnO3

Based on the detailed Mn L(2,3)-edge x-ray resonant scattering results, we report a new complexity in the magnetic order of multiferroic orthomangnites, which has been considered as the simple A-type cycloid order inducing ferroelectricity. The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction involved in the orthorhombic distortion brings on F-type canting from the A type, and the ordering type becomes the off-phase synchronized bc cycloid in TbMnO(3) or the tilted antiphase ab cycloid in Eu(3/4)Y(1/4)MnO(3). The F-type canting is responsible for the magnetic field-driven multiferroicity to weak ferromagnetism transition.     

Spin-lattice relaxation of protons and deuterons in NH4NO3 and ND4NO3

The spin-lattice relaxation timesT ₁ were measured for protons and deuterons in polycrystalline NH₄NO₃ and ND₄NO₃. The investigation was carried out at temperatures between about 80°K and 430°K using the NMR pulse method. From the measured values ofT ₁ the activation energies for the reorientation motions of NH ₄ ⁺ and ND ₄ ⁺ ions below 200°K were calculated to be 2.07±0.11 kcal/mole and 2.56±0.23 kcal/mole, respectively. The quadrupole coupling constante ² Qq/h of the deuteron in ND ₄ ⁺ ion was found to be 194±30 kc/s.     

Direct ultrasonic-assisted synthesis of sphere-like nanocrystals of spinel Co3O4 and Mn3O4

A simple sonochemical method was developed to synthesize uniform sphere-like or cubic Co(3)O(4) and Mn(3)O(4) nanocrystals by using acetate salts and sodium hydroxide or tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) as precursors. Influence of some parameters such as time of reaction, alkali salts, and power of the ultrasound and the molar ratio of the starting materials on the size, morphology and degree of crystallinity of the products was studied. Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), FTIR spectroscopy, Thermal gravimetry analysis and differential thermal analysis (TGA/DTA) were used to characterize the nanocrystals.     

Magnetic properties of HoFe3(BO3)4

The magnetic properties of an antiferromagnet with trigonal symmetry, namely, HoFe₃(BO₃)₄, have been investigated theoretically. The calculations have been performed in the molecular field approximation and in the framework of the crystal field model for the rare-earth subsystem. Extensive experimental data on the magnetic properties of HoFe₃(BO₃)₄ have been interpreted and good agreement between theory and experiment has been achieved using the obtained theoretical dependences. The spontaneous spin-reorientation transition and the spin-reorientation transition induced by a magnetic field B ‖ a from the easy-axis to easy-plane state, as well as the spin-flop transition in a magnetic field B ‖ c, have been described. It has been shown that the spontaneous spin-reorientation transition is a magnetic analog of the Jahn-Teller effect. The temperature dependences of the initial magnetic susceptibility at temperatures ranging from 2 to 300 K, the nonlinear curves of magnetization for B ‖ c and B ⊥ c in a magnetic field up to 1.2 T (which indicate the occurrence of first-order phase transitions), and their evolution with variations in the temperature have been described, as well as the temperature and field dependences of the magnetization in a magnetic field up to 9 T. The parameters of the trigonal crystal field for the rare-earth ion Ho³⁺ and the parameters of the Fe-Fe and Ho-Fe exchange interactions have been determined in the course of interpretation of the experimental data.     

Si3N4的晶体化和ZrN/Si3N4纳米多层膜的超硬效应

研究了Si3N4层在ZrN/Si3N4纳米多层膜中的晶化现象及其对多层膜微结构与力学性能的影响.一系列不同Si3N4层厚度的ZrN/Si3N4纳米多层膜通过反应磁控溅射法制备.利用X射线衍射仪、高分辨透射电子显微镜和微力学探针表征了多层膜的微结构和力学性能.结果表明,由于受到ZrN调制层晶体结构的模板作用,溅射条件下以非晶态存在的Si3N4层在其厚度小于0.9 nm时被强制晶化为NaCl结构的赝晶体,ZrN/Si3N4纳米多层膜形成共格外延生长的柱状晶,并相应地产生硬度升高的超硬效应.Si3N4随层厚的进一步增加又转变为非晶态,多层膜的共格生长结构因而受到破坏,其硬度也随之降低.