Influence of Hydrothermal Temperature on Structures and Photovoltaic Properties of SnO2 Nanoparticles

Two SnO₂ nanoparticles were synthesized by hydrothermal method at 170°C and 180°C, respectively. Transmission electron microscope observations reveal that the diameters of both the nanoparticles are around 6nm. At the same time, surface photovoltage spectroscopy measurements show that the nanoparticle synthesized at 180°C has more surface electronic states at 0.3eV below the conduction band than the one synthesized at 170°C. This means that the temperatures chosen in hydrothermal synthesis have significant influence on the surface electronic characteristics of resultant SnO² nanoparticles but the effect on their sizes is not obvious. However, after being calcined at 500°C for 2h, the diameter of the nanoparticle synthesized at 180°C increased to 23nm and that of the nanoparticle synthesized at 170°C increased to 32nm as calculated from X-ray diffraction pattern.     

A high flux,liquid-helium cooled source of metastable rare gas atoms

We have developed a novel, high flux source of metastable rare gas atoms (helium, neon and argon) that uses liquid helium cooling to reduce the initial atomic velocity. Fluxes exceeding 10¹⁴ atoms/ster/s with He and Ne were obtained. With average velocities of 600 m/s for He and 300 m/s for Ne and Ar, this source will enable simpler, more compact beam lines for loading magneto-optical traps. PACS 34.80.Dp; 39.10.+j; 39.25.+k     

Spectroscopy of alkali atoms and molecules attached to liquid He clusters

Large helium clusters, ranging in size from a few hundred to several thousand atoms, are produced in a nozzle expansion. Combining this source with a pick-up scattering cell in which the clusters can be seeded with chromophores allows us to probe the influence of the helium environment on the atoms and molecules attached to the clusters. Using an alkali as chromophore we recorded laser induced fluorescence spectra of Na atoms and molecules attached to helium clusters. Apart from the spectrum of the Na monomer, we have found spectroscopic bands which can unambiguous be assigned to two bound Na atoms. The first of this bands is due to 1^{1 +} (A) 1¹ _g ⁺ (X) excitations of the covalently bound singlet Na₂ molecule while the second is due to 1³ _g ⁺ 1^{3 +} excitations for the van der Waals bound triplet Na₂ dimer. Both bands have been vibrationally resolved. Furthermore we found very large fluorescence intensities in the region 605–635 nm which are likely due to the excitation of a species containing three Na atoms attached to a helium cluster.     

A method for investigations of solid surfaces by nuclear spin relaxation

A method is presented which allows to investigate hot metal surfaces (1,000 K to 1,600 K) by use of nuclear spin polarized alkali atom beams (⁶Li,⁷Li,²³Na). At these temperatures the atoms are adsorbed for about 10^–4 s to 1 s. During the residence time on the surface the nuclear moments interact with the electromagnetic fields of their environment. The nuclear spin polarization of the ions desorbing from the surface is detected by beam foil spectroscopy. The depolarization gives information on electric field gradients and magnetic fields originating in the surface and on the electronic state of the absorbed alkali atoms.Supported partly by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie, both Bonn, FRG     

Product states for local algebras

Let ()() and () () be the von Neumann algebras associated with the space-tiem regions and respectively in the vacuum representation of the free neutral massive scalar field. For suitably chosen spacelike separated regions and it is proved that there exists a normal product state of (), Some consequences for the algebraic structure of the local rings are pointed out.     

Systematic study of muon transfer to sulphur dioxide

In a systematic study of the transfer process to sulphur dioxide, in seven different H₂ + SO₂ gas mixtures, the time spectra of the muonic sulphur X-rays yield muon transfer rates to the SO₂ molecule, deduced from the lifetimes of the p atoms, which agree all well with each other. The muonic oxygen time spectra show an additional structure as if p atoms of another kind were present. Reduced transfer rates_O are reproducible if one uses the model of ephemeral p atoms. The intensity ratios between the different kinds of p atoms are also discussed in the framework of this model and the one of black and white p atoms.     

Squeezed “atomic” states,pseudo-Hermitian operators and Wigner D-matrices

The states of N two-level atoms can be mapped onto the eigenvectors of angular momentum (with j=N/2) and this system in interaction with a radiation field constitutes a fundamental model in Quantum Optics. There from one may construct atomic coherent states and minimum uncertainty packets. The squeezing of such states is of considerable contemporary interest. We show that the properties of squeezed atomic states are most elegantly and economically expressed in terms of pseudo-Hermitian operators and through Wigner D-matrices and their analytical continuation.     

The crystal structure of copper dipyridine dibromide Cu(C5H5N)2Br2

The X-ray structural analysis of copper dipyridine dibromide was carried out. The substance is monoclinic, its space group isP2₁/n, having the lattice constantsa=8.30 kXU,b=17.72 kXU,c=4.04 kXU,=96°,Z=2. The localization of the heavy atoms was carried out by means of the projections of the Patterson functionsP(u, v) andP(v, w), which provided the bases for determining the signs of the majority of structure factors. The projections of the electron density(x, y) and(y, z) were calculated on the basis of these data. The positions of the atoms were refined three times by methods of differential syntheses and by geometrical analysis. The structure of CuPy₂Br₂ is very close to that of CuPy₂Cl₂ [1], [2], differing from it primarily in the orientation of the symmetry elements with respect to the crystallographic axes. In both structures the copper atom is octahedrally coordinated with four halogen and two nitrogen atoms. The nitrogen atoms and two bromine atoms are bound to the copper covalently in the structure of the bromine derivative, as follows from the length of the bonds (Cu-N 1.99 kXU, Cu-Br, 2.46 kXU), while the remaining two bromine atoms are bound to the copper by weaker bonds and mediate the chain formation of molecules in the direction of thec axis.

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Cu(C₅H₅N)₂Br₂

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The authors thank M. Serátor for supplying the crystal samples and for initiating the work, the management of the Institute of Technical Physics, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, in Prague and especially Dr. A. Línek for making it possible to calculate some of the Fourier maps on the special computer Elika and finally A. lechtová for carefully calculating the Fourier maps and structure factors.

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The first stage of this work was reported on at the 3rd State Conference on Inorganic Chemistry, held in Bratislava from June 29th to July 4th, 1959.     

The temperature vibrations of urea molecules

The structural and dynamic parameters of urea at 112°K and 295°K were determined by the least squares method. The characteristic temperature of the torsional optical vibrations of a molecule about a C-O bond was determined and is in good agreement with the value determined by Raman scattering. The fractional X-coordinate of the nitrogen atom corrected for torsional vibrations was determined and it was found that the magnitude of the projection of the C-N bond in the given temperature range changes only within the limits of observational errors. A new method, called temperature difference synthesis, is described and it is shown that it is suitable for rapid qualitative determination of the thermal anisotropy of the vibrations of atoms in a crystal lattice.

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Ionization of atomic vapors and helium by collision with relativistic heavy ions

We have studied collisions of atomic vapors and helium with relativistic, highly charged ions having Z v c. Formulas for the cross-sections of ionization and excitation of discrete levels of the atomic vapor and the cross-section of single and double ionization of helium atoms have been obtained. Comparisons with experimental data of the single and double ionization of helium are presented.Tashkent University. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 2, pp. 23–29, February, 1995.     

Appearance of P-odd nuclear forces in photoproduction of pions on6Li

P-odd effects in the photoproduction of pions on⁶Li nuclei, +⁶Li ⁺ +⁶He, are studied. Collisions of linearly and circularly polarized photons with a polarized nuclear target are studied, and in addition both vectorial and tensorial polarization are taken into account. It is shown that in the general case P-odd effects in +⁶Li ⁺ +⁶He are characterized by 18 real structure functions, which determine different P-odd asymmetries in the angular distribution of the pions. The structure functions in their turn depend on different products of three p-even and three p-odd amplitudes of the process +⁶Li ⁺ +⁶He. The P-odd effects at the threshold of the reaction +⁶Li ⁺+⁶He are analyzed. Using available experimental data on the behavior of the cross section of the reaction +⁶Li ⁺ +⁶He at threshold, the ⁶Li⁶He strong-interaction constant is evaluated.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 7, pp. 78–82 July 1985.     

Micron-sized atom traps made from magneto-optical thin films

We have produced magnetic patterns suitable for trapping and manipulating neutral atoms on a 1-m length scale. The required patterns are made in Co/Pt thin films on a silicon substrate, using the heat from a focused laser beam to induce controlled domain reversal. In this way we draw lines and paint shaped areas of reversed magnetisation with sub-micron resolution. These structures produce magnetic microtraps above the surface that are suitable for holding rubidium atoms with trap frequencies as high as 1 MHz. PACS 39.25.+k; 03.75.Be; 75.50.Ss; 75.70.-i     

The effect of microsegregation on the generation of dislocations in zinc single crystals

The applicability of Tiller's considerations on the production of dislocations is proved. The density of dislocations appearing during impurity microsegregation increases with increasing rate of growth as a consequence of the corresponding change in the effective distribution coefficient. The real value of C at the microsegregation boundaries is at least twice as great as the average value of the concentration of impurities in the crystal in question.

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Current transfer mechanism in metal-dielectric-metal systems based on vanadium-phosphorus glasses

Based on an analysis of the volt-ampere characteristics and temperature dependence of conductivity, the mechanism of current transfer is discussed in thin-film systems of metal/vanadium -phosphorus glass/metal. The conclusion is drawn that the magnitude of the current in samples obtained by sputtering of the glass on a hot backing (T_b = 200°C) is determined by the resistance of the volume of the glass film, but for samples sputtered on a cold backing (T_b = 30–90°C), by the resistance of the potential barriers at the metalglass interface. It is supposed that current transfer in a film of glass is accomplished by polarons of small radius.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No.2, pp. 107–115, February, 1976.     

Experimental Test of a Time-Temperature Formulation of the Uncertainty Principle Via Nanoparticle Fluorescence

No Heading The uncertainty in the measured fluorescence decay lifetimes of 30 nm particles of YAG:Cc was used to evaluate the predictions of a novel form of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle suggested by de Sabbata and Sivaram, T t h/k. The worst-case uncertainty in temperature of 4.5 °K (as derived from the relationship between temperature and lifetime) and the measured uncertainty in decay lifetime, 0.45 ns, yielded an internal estimate of T t = 2.0 × 10^–9 °K s, which is 263 times larger than /k = 7.6 × 10^–12 °K s. An external estimate of T t = 4.5 × 10¹¹ °K s (which is = 6 times /k) is derived from the independently measured uncertainty in the temperature of the sample and the experimentally determined uncertainty in lifetime. These results could be low by a factor of 5.6 if signal averaging must be taken into account. If valid, the findings are consistent with the predictions of this version of the uncertainty principle and they imply the existence of a type of thermal quantum limit.     

The motion of 90° wedge domains in BaTiO3 in an alternating electric field

The paper deals with the motion of 90° wedge domains in BaTiO₃ in an alternating field of 50 c/s. The critical field, the positional hysteresis loops with double asymmetry, the production of wedges with polarization perpendicular to the field and 180° substructure in the wedges were studied. The differences between the behaviour of the wedges and the individual 90° walls are pointed out which are caused by differences in the energy balance of these formations and by different interactions with 180° processes. The upper limit of contribution of the wedge motion to the initial permittivity is estimated. The results are discussed from the phenomenological point of view.

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90° BaTiO₃

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On the problem of the phase shifts of reflected light

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On the problem of the phase shifts of reflected light

The paper solves the topical question of phase shifts when light is reflected. By introducing the reflection tensor and its transformation it was found that all phase shifts hitherto given in the literature can be used. It was proved that when different phase shifts are used the corresponding unit vectors must be oriented. If an arbitrary coordinate system and the relations pertaining to it are used consistently it is not possible by calculation or experiment to arrive at contradictory results.

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On the theory of gravitational radiation

The equations of motion of weakly radiating particles are investigated in a linear approximation in which the pseudo-Euclidian metric remains valid but energy changes caused by gravitational radiation are considered. The classical relativistic equations of motion with variable rest mass are applied. An elementary theory of the gravitational radiation of a rotator is formulated. The results are applied for particles in circular accelerators. It is found that a rotator with non-zero rest mass cannot exist for an unlimited period and that it cannot exceed the velocity of light. This explains why particles with non-zero rest mass cannot attain the velocity of light in circular accelerators; it is also shown that the gravitational radiation of particles in circular accelerators does not exist in practice.

     

Implementation of comparative probability by normal states. Infinite dimensional case

Let be an infinite dimensional Hilbert space and () the set of all (orthogonal) projections on . A comparative probability on () is a linear preorder on () such thatOP1,1O and such that ifP┴R,Q┴R, thenPQP+RQ+R for allP, Q, R in (). We give a sufficient and necessary condition for to be implemented in a canonical way by a normal state onB(), the bounded linear operators on .     

The influence of tensile stress on grain and cell boundary precipitation in supersaturated Al-Zn alloys during creep

The results are presented of the optical microscopic and X-ray diffraction study of the stress-induced nucleation and growth of (Zn) precipitates at grain and cell boundaries (GB's and CB's) during uniaxial creep at 200 °C of supersaturated AlZn20 and AlZn30 alloys. The rate of precipitation is increased mainly owing to the modifying effect of tensile stress on diffusion processes in alloy samples during their anneal. The diffusion of Zn atoms toward GB's and CB's from adjacent regions of grains is accompanied during creep by diffusive flux of Zn along boundaries parallel or nearly parallel to the tensile creep axis toward boundaries with near to normal orientation to that axis. Enhanced precipitation of results then preferentially at the latter and is supressed at the former boundaries where even the dissolution of preexisting has been found during a later application of tensile stress. The stress-induced precipitation of at GB's gradually ceases with prolonged creep exposures due to the lengthening of duffusion paths of Zn atoms from grain interior to GB's.Dissolution of lamellae by their regress toward GB's and CB's is assisted with the stress-induced diffusion of Zn along epitaxial / lamellar interfaces. Copious precipitation of at the parts of GB's and/or CB's with near to normal orientation to the creep axis is then observed on account of Zn from dissolved lamellae. Creep strain also leads to the fragmentation of lamellae and thus also to breaking down of the paths for diffusion of Zn along / interfaces. Spheroidization of fragmented parts of lamellae is then observed. Spheroids of remain embedded within the former lamellar regions.Large creep strains and high strain rates observed on fine-grained alloy samples may be associated with an enhanced viscous GB sliding due to the stress-dependent flow of Zn along GB's and/or CB's.