六方柱与六角片状CdS晶体的水热法生长

本研究工作先用CdCl2和S粉在120℃碱性水溶液中合成了CdS粉末前驱体,再以NaOH为矿化剂,不同的水热条件下分别生长了六方柱和六角片状的CdS晶体。用X射线衍射（XRD）、扫描电子显微镜（SEM）及晶体显微照片对产物进行了表征,并分别探讨了水热条件与晶体形貌、六角片状晶体的大小与生长条件之间的关系。     

物理气相传输法生长氧化锌晶体

以高纯氧化锌粉为升华源,采用物理气相传输法(PVT)法在1500℃下生长出了ZnO多晶体,生长速率达0.24 mm/h.样品XRD测试和拉曼分析表明,无籽晶自发成核生长的ZnO多晶体不仅具有六方纤锌矿结构,而且具有c轴方向择优生长特征.实验结果表明了PVT法可以进行大尺寸ZnO晶体的生长,并且可以达到0.2 mm/h以上的生长速率.     

高浓度Co掺杂ZnO晶体的水热法制备及磁性

采用水热法以CoO、ZnO混合为前驱物制备了ZnO晶体,矿化剂为6 mol/L KOH,填充度70;,温度430℃,两种样品CoO、ZnO组分物质的量百分比分别为0.5∶1和1∶1.当前驱物为nCo∶nZn=0.5∶1时,合成出Zn1-xCoxO晶体,Co元素掺杂量分别为6.83 at;和9.30 at;.当前驱物中nCo∶nZn=1∶1时,Zn1-xCoxO晶体中Co掺杂比例达到9.31 at;,同时伴有Co3O4生成,其中Zn掺杂比例达到14.59 at;,SEM显示,所制备的Zn1-xCoxO具有明显的ZnO晶体特征,形态完整,最大尺度约为50 μm.SQUID测量显示,生成物中Zn1-xCoxO晶体具有顺磁性,Zn1-xCoxO和Co3-xZnxO混合晶体也显示为顺磁性.     

Co、Sn共掺杂ZnO晶体的制备及其磁性

采用6 mol/L KOH作为矿化剂,SnO2、CoCl2和ZnO按物质的量比为0.02∶0.5∶1的比例混合作为前驱物,填充度70;,温度430℃,时间24h,采用水热法制备出Co、Sn元素掺杂的ZnO晶体.Sn元素掺杂明显改变了晶体的极性生长特征,较大面积的显露正极面c｛0001｝面,还显露柱面m{l0l0｝、正锥面p{1011｝、负锥面｛1011｝和负极面｛0001｝以及正锥面{1012｝和负锥面{1012｝,晶体长度约为50 μm.经过EDS测量表征,发现制备的ZnO单晶中Co元素的含量达到10.89at;,生成物中出现少量Co氧化物,SQUID测量表明样品主要表现为顺磁性.     

不同矿化剂对水热法生长的ZnO晶体发光的影响

采用水热法,以3 mol/L KOH为矿化剂,填充度35%,温度430℃,前驱物Zn(OH)2,比较研究了三种矿化剂条件下合成晶体的形貌和发光性能。三种矿化剂条件分别为样品1,3 mol/L KOH;样品2,3 mol/L KOH,1 mol/LLiOH;样品3,3 mol/L KOH,CaO∶Zn(OH)2=2%(物质的量百分比)。添加适量比例的LiOH或CaO,合成了非极性生长的ZnO晶体,晶体c轴方向生长速度明显减小,所合成的晶体大面积显露正极面c{0001},同时显露负极面-c{0001}、正锥面p{101}、负锥面-p{10}和柱面m{100}。只添加KOH或辅助添加LiOH时,合成晶体的发光光谱中只有可见光谱,无紫外线带边跃迁发光谱,说明晶体缺陷发光中心较多。添加CaO时合成晶体的发光光谱中有较强的紫外带边跃迁发光,说明晶体缺陷发光中心减少。     

化学气相输运法制备ZnO晶体

本文采用化学气相输运法在常压开放系统中以(0001)蓝宝石为基片制备出定向生长的ZnO晶体.以ZnO粉体为原料,NH4Cl为输运气体,O2和H2O为反应气体,加入适量的HCl作刻蚀性气体,通过调节NH4Cl输运量,获得两种不同生长方向的ZnO晶体,分别为(1010)方向和(0002)方向.(0002)方向上生长的晶体呈现六角片状,a、b轴生长速度明显高于c轴方向,晶体在基片上呈外延生长,大面积显露c面,且和蓝宝石c面平行.文中对O2、H2O、NH4Cl、HCl在晶体的生长中的作用和生长机制进行了讨论.     

氧化锌单晶的水热生长与结晶习性

本文应用水热生长法,采用双温区高压反应釜,黄金内衬(φ35mm ×2mm),碱性溶液矿化剂,生长出了毫米级的透明氧化锌单晶,最大单晶可达2mm ×3mm ×6mm.所生长氧化锌晶体为纤锌矿型的六方晶体,晶体呈上部锥形的六棱柱体,{10(1-)1}、{10(1-)0}和{000(1-)}面有较大的显露平面.本文中从温差和填充度方面研究了实验条件对ZnO晶体的生长及其形貌的影响,使用黄金内衬前后的结果表明,用贵金属内衬可以有效阻止釜内壁杂质的进入,使晶体完整透明.     

绿柱石晶体的水热法生长及特征研究

采用温差水热法,以分析纯的Al(OH)3和BeO以及无色纯净的石英为原材料,球形和//s(1121)的片状无色绿柱石为籽晶,在复杂的盐酸混合溶液中生长了无色透明的绿柱石晶体.利用双圈反射测角仪、电子探针、X射线衍射仪和红外光谱仪等仪器,对合成绿柱石晶体的形态、成分及晶体结构进行了详细的研究.结果表明,合成的绿柱石晶体为六方短柱状,主要发育平行双面c{0001}、六方柱m{1010}、a{1120}和六方双锥p{1011}四种单形.合成的绿柱石晶体的成分中(Na2O+ K2O)的质量分数约为0.59;,且c0/a0值为0.9988,可归属于"正常"绿柱石向"四面体"绿柱石的过渡范畴.在中性或弱碱性环境体系中,通过调整绿柱石中各成分的百分含量,有望在更低的温度、压力条件下合成出高质量的板柱状绿柱石晶体.     

LiOH矿化剂对水热合成ZnO晶体形貌的影响

本文研究了在430℃,填充度为35用了3mol/L,5mol/L LiOH做矿化剂,所获得晶体均为10μm以下的微晶.当矿化剂为1mol/L LiOH和1mol/L KBr时,所获得晶体同样为几微米的微晶,显露完整的正极面{0001}、负极面{0001}、锥面{1011}和柱面{1010}.矿化剂为3M LiOH和3M KBr时,出现个体较大的晶体,直径超过100μm,显露正极面{0001}、正锥面{1011}和柱面{1010},负极面出现缺损现象.由此说明和K+相比溶液中的Li+不利于生成大尺寸ZnO晶体.     

In掺杂对水热法合成ZnO晶体形貌的影响

本文采用水热法,在ZnO中添加In2O3为前驱物,3mol/L KOH作矿化剂,温度430℃,填充度35;,反应24h,制备了掺In的ZnO晶体.未掺杂In2O3合成的纯ZnO晶体呈六棱锥状,显露负极面-c{0001}、六棱锥面+p{1011}和-p{1011},一般不显露{0001}面.前驱物中掺杂In2O3所合成的ZnO晶体呈六角片状,直径约为5～20 μm,大面积显露{0001}面,另外还显露正锥面+p{1011}、负锥面-p{1011}和负极面-c{0001}.由此可见In掺杂可以明显的改变晶体的形态,使c轴极性快速生长趋向得到明显改善,有利于降低晶体生长缺陷.当采用ZnO晶片为籽晶时,通过水热反应在晶片上生长了一层掺In的ZnO薄膜,通过Hall参数测量得到晶体膜层的电子迁移率约为22cm2/(V·s),载流子浓度约为2×1020 cm-3,具有良好的导电性,同时也说明In可以微量掺入氧化锌晶体.     

Science for the small and the tall,the young and the old

Public engagement becomes increasingly important for scientists. One reason is the demand of the taxpayer to know what her or his money is being spent on, and why. The other one is that in a world that increasingly relies on technology, student engagement even at a very young age becomes a target to assure the needed supply of well-educated and especially motivated scientists for the decades to come. And it falls on the older generation of current researchers to leave the comfort of their lab once in a while, to awaken the interest for science among the population. Many people may know that there is a ‘liquid crystal’ in their mobile (cell) phone display, but when prompted, no one really knows what that liquid crystal actually is, let alone how the display they use many times every day, actually works in principle. It is part of our job to change this. In this contribution Valentina Domenici and Ingo Dierking would like to report on two recent Science Festival events in which they took part, one held in Genoa, Italy, and the other in Manchester, UK.     

On the role of the porous shell of the solid core of the earth in the anomalous heat and mass flow to the mantle

The model of the pressure-induced first-order phase transition of a metal melt to the metallicglass state considers a thermodynamically nonequilibrium porous near-surface shell of the solid core of the Earth, which contacts cyclonic vortices in the liquid core. Anomalous flows of heat and light-material mass to the mantle from the solid core at these contact points are calculated. These anomalous flows are shown to be comparable with the observed ones under the assumption of a rapid increase in the melt viscosity at pressures of 1–10 Mbar, which is characteristic of a solid core. In this case, the porous layer permeability may be very low.     

On the dependence of the surface tension at the crystal-melt interface on the impurity concentration

The stationary task of impurity diffusion in a melt has been solved within a two-dimensional crystallization model in a second-order approximation with respect to the amplitude of deviation from a smooth crystallization front. The dependence of the surface tension Γ at the interface on the impurity concentration C is taken into account in the form Γ = Γ₀ + ζ _d C, where Γ₀ and ζ _d are constants. The variational method is used to obtain the condition for the transition from a smooth crystallization front to a cellular one. It is shown that calculated cell sizes are in agreement with the experimental data in the literature only when the parameter ζ _d ≠ 0. For binary systems with distribution coefficients k < 1 and k > 1, ζ _d should be positive and negative, respectively.

     

On the inhomogeneity of the transition surface layer of the solid core of the earth

Different geophysical data and conclusions of theoretical models, which can give information about the behavior of the solid and liquid cores of the Earth as well as about the existence of a transition layer as a temperature-hysteresis region at a relatively weak first-order phase transition, are compared. It is concluded that liquid inclusions inevitably exist in this region; these inclusions are involved (due to the complex convective processes occurring in the liquid core) in the transport of light materials from some areas of the solid-core surface. The porosity and permeability of the transition layer determine the seismic acoustic inhomogeneities in these areas, which contact the convective flows in the liquid core. In particular, this explains the well-known ??east-west?? effect. Obviously, the model of the crystalline core is not the only possible alternative for a model of a core with a metallic glasslike structure.     

A new example for the applicability of the relationship between the particle size and the kinetic of the crystal growth

Experiments have been made with PbCrO₄ precipitating system in a batch type tank. In the experiments the speeds of stirring and the residence times were changed. The particle size distribution of precipitates formed has been determined. The rate determining mechanism of the crystal growth were evaluated by two different methods (NIELSEN method and method elaborated in our institute). The two methods used have indicated the same informations about the rate determining processes. It also has been stated that the coagulation does not disturb the selection of the suitable growing mechanism.     

On the entropy difference between the vitreous and the crystalline state

The paper deals with the entropy difference between frozen-in phases and their equilibrium counterparts. First, the nature of data compiled in thermochemical data collections are briefly reviewed, comprising data for non-equilibrium phases. Then, experimental evidence from earlier literature is compiled showing that the conventional entropy of a frozen-in phase at zero Kelvin assumes a non-zero residual value S(0). Based on calorimetric data from multiple sources, the same evidence is elaborated for diopside glass, yielding S_glass(0) = 24.8 ± 3 J/(mol K), a value reproducing a result publishes earlier. The zero Kelvin enthalpy of this glass is H_glass(0) = 81±8 kJ/mol. For S_glass(0), a structural interpretation in terms of silicate chain mixing is proposed, yielding a lower threshold for S_glass(0). From the point of view of statistical mechanics, non-zero residual entropies of frozen-in phases can be derived from ensemble averages, however, not from time averages.     

On the slope of the growing pyramids

By means of some theoretical models the present work shows that pyramids of different slopes can grow on a crystal face at constant supersaturation due to the interaction between steps, arising from close spaced screw dislocations. Pairs of adjacent screw dislocations of opposite sign, as well as other groups of closely spaced screw dislocations, can operate as more active sources of growing steps than the single screw dislocations. Both independent and dependent step propagation velocities have been considered in the present discussion.     

On the Influence of the Crystallization Conditions on the Microstructure of the Directionally Solidified Eutectic of the LiF – LiYF4 System

This paper particularly deals with the transitions in degree and type of ordering of a given microstructure. As a model system the eutectic of the LiF – LiYF₄ system was used for studies of transitions from ‘anomal’ microtextures with non-cooperative production of seeds of both phases to the fibrous microtexture. It was shown that even if the matrix phase LiYF₄ contains a relative high volume ratio (36%) of LiF it is possible to create highly ordered fibrous microtextures with pronounced hexagonal ordering of particular LiF fibres. It was also shown that methods of image processing could be used for sensitive evaluation of small changes in degree of ordering of the microstructure. These procedures make possible a deeper understanding of the influence of the solidification conditions on the microstructure of the directionally solidified eutectic and creates possibilities for optimalisation of the technological process.