Electrical studies of surface reconstruction resulting from chalcogen evaporation at the Ag2±δX/Vacuum interface (X=S, Se)X/Vacuum interface (X=S, Se)

We have investigated the dissociation rates of nonstoichiometric semiconductors Ag_2±δX (X=S, Se) to the vacuum by means of solid-state electrochemical technique. The values of chalcogen fluxes from the sample’s surface were measured versus compound’s composition and temperature. There has been obtained experimental evidence of the surface reconstruction of silver chalcogenides when the exact phase composition δ_cr.(T) is reached. This critical value δ_cr. correlates with the order-disorder transition in the silver sublattice for the Ag_2±δX/vacuum interface.     

Perturbation of nuclear excitons by ultrasound

Hyperfine Interactions - The coherent decay of a nuclear exciton created by synchrotron radiation in spatially separated targets is studied in the presence of ultrasound (US) vibrations in one of...     

Ferromagnetism in ZnCoO thin films deposited by PLD

Multilayer structures A–B–A⋅⋅⋅ consisting of alternating layers of a metal A and a semiconductor B can show large anisotropy in their transport properties. In tilted multilayer structures, where layer planes and sample surface include a nonzero tilt angle, nonvanishing off-diagonal elements in the sample’s transport tensors lead to transverse Seebeck and Peltier effects. Achievable temperature differences and figures of merit for transverse Peltier cooling are discussed and compared with experiments, coefficients of performance for transverse power generation are calculated.     

A study of the orientation dependence of the electron energy loss spectra for single crystal films of copper and silver

Apart from two peaks caused by bulk and surface plasmons, four or five peaks (depending on the crystal type) of electron energy losses due to inter- and intraband electron transitions are observed in the investigation of the electron energy loss spectra for metals (Cu, Ag). A comparative analysis of the spectra for Cu or Ag films reveals a shift of bulk plasmon loss peaks to higher values for polycrystals, as in the case of transition metals and semiconductors. In a study concerning the orientation dependence of the energy loss spectra (ELS) for electrons scattered from the copper and silver surface, the anisotropy of the bulk plasmon peak is found when the incident beam’s polar angle or the sample’s azimuthal angle are altered. The anisotropy of the primary electron energy loss for plasmon excitation is also observed, depending on the sample orientation relative to the direction incident electrons. The energy losses are found to increase with an increasing atomic packing density of planes and crystal transparency relative to the incident beam.     

Beta decay of highly charged ions

Ion storage rings and ion traps provide the very first opportunity to address nuclear beta decay under conditions prevailing in hot stellar plasmas during nucleosynthesis, i.e. at high atomic charge states. Experiments are summarized that were performed in this field during the last decade at the ion storage-cooler ring ESR in Darmstadt. Special emphasis is given to the first observation of bound-state beta decay, where the created electron remains bound in an inner orbital of the daughter atom. The impact of this specific ‘stellar’ decay mode for s-process nucleosynthesis as well as for nuclear ‘eon clocks’ is outlined. Finally, a new technique, single-ion decay spectroscopy, is presented, where one observes two-body beta decay characteristics (i.e. orbital electron capture or bound-state beta decay) of highly charged, single ions for well-defined nuclear and atomic quantum states of both the mother – and the daughter – ion.     

Thin-film electroluminescent structures on substrates with rough surfaces

It is shown that the use of substrates with inner rough and outer diffusely scattering surfaces in film electroluminescent structures makes it possible to substantially increase the coefficient of radiation extraction (by a factor of 1.3–2.5) and the brightness of luminescence (by a factor of 1.2–3.5) as compared to the structure on a smooth surface, which can be employed to enhance the brightness of individual colors of the luminescence of electroluminescent emitters. The results of the investigations indicate a substantial decrease in the constant of the time of brightness buildup (by a factor of 6–8 for MDSDM structures and by a factor of ∼3.8 for MDSCM structures) and the appearance of two segments of brightness decay for MDSMD structures with different constant decay times in going from the structure on a smooth substrate to the structures built on substrates with an inner rough surface. Unlike this, MDSCM structures have two segments of brightness decay on both a smooth substrate and a rough substrate. Ul’yanovsk State University, 42, L. Tolstoi St., Ul’yanovsk, Russia, 432700. Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 65, No. 5, pp. 787–793, September–October, 1998.     

Radiative decay of Wannier excitons in thin crystal films

The radiative decay of the Wannier exciton in thin crystal films is studied by the method of Heitler and Ma in the resonance approximation. It is shown that, while the broken crystal symmetry opens up the possibility of radiative decay, the correlation brought about by the interaction of the lattice atoms with a common radiation field leads to a superradiative enhancement of the decay rate. However, when it is compared with the corresponding case of a Frenkel exciton, the decay rate of the Wannier exciton is reduced due to the averaging of the dipole transition matrix element over the various possible distances between the widely separated electron and hole.     

Relativistic Bosons in Time-Harmonic Electric Fields

In the present paper, we consider a bi-dimensional thin sample, placed in a strong harmonically oscillating electric field and a static magnetic induction, both directed along the normal to the sample’s plane. The Klein–Gordon equation describing the relativistic bosons leads to a Mathieu’s type equation for the temporal part of the wave functions. It follows that, for the electric field pulsation inside a computable range, depending on the external fields intensities, the amplitude functions are turning from oscillatory to exponentially growing modes. For ultra-relativistic particles, one can recover the periodic stationary amplitude behavior.     

Photoreflection and photoconduction spectra of CdS crystals: Excitons in the electric fields of surface states

The exciton photoreflection spectra of CdS crystals are studied. It is found that the form of the exciton photoreflection spectrum is determined by a Stark shift of the exciton energy in the electric field of surface states. The dependences of the exciton photoreflection spectrum on temperature on the intensity and wavelength of the modulating radiation, and on the processes by which the photoreflection signal relaxes is determined. An energy scheme is proposed for the surface states which explains the observed effects of photoinduced changes in the surface field. A correlation is established between the exciton photoreflection spectrum and the form of the fine structure in the photoconductivity. Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 40, 875–876 (May 1998)     

Depth profile reconstruction of the thermal conductivity of inhomogeneous solids: application to laser-hardened Al alloys

Photoacoustic measurement techniques can be used to determine thermal properties on and below the sample’s surface, thus subsurface thermal inhomogeneities, such as continuous profiles of thermal parameters, become measurable by photoacoustic methods. In this paper, the study is focused on the quantitative characterization of material modifications in subsurface layers of laser-hardened Al alloy samples. The variation of surface temperature is measured by PA technique. Then a new numerical algorithm, carried out by employing the pulsed spectrum technique and the regularization method, is used to reconstruct thermal conductivity depth profiles. The experiment results demonstrate that the experiment and the algorithm are very effective for microstructure depth profile reconstruction by nondestructive method. Received: 18 February 2000 / Accepted: 28 February 2000 / Published online: 30 June 2000     

Photoemission and coincidence studies on gas-phase molecules

This article describes Young’s double-slit experiment using high-energy core-level photoemission from N₂ molecules and experimental identification of interatomic Coulombic decay in Ar₂ dimers after Auger decay using k-resolved electron–ion–ion coincidence spectroscopy, aiming to illustrate the leading edge of gas-phase experiments using synchrotron radiation.     

Dislocations as hypersound conductors in long range effect

A new mechanism for long range effect is proposed in this study. The decreased density region in the vicinity of dislocations or grain boundaries acts as a gradient waveguide for hypersound phonons generated in the sample oxide layer. As a result of this the elastic wave is conveyed to the sample’s back side with small loss in intensity, causing the rearrangement of defects. This eliminates the difficulty caused by spherical wave divergence in the hypersound model for long range effect.     

General properties of nuclear resonant scattering

The process of nuclear resonant scattering resonant scattering is considered on the basis of an optical model. The coherent properties coherent properties of the radiation and scattering mechanism are described. The complementary pictures of γ-ray resonant scattering in energy and time domains are presented. Special attention is paid to scattering of a γ quantum by an ensemble of nuclei. The central concept of the theory of nuclear resonant scattering, the nuclear exciton, nuclear exciton as a delocalized nuclear excitation, is described in detail. It is shown that both temporal and spatial aspects of coherence play a crucial role in the evolution of the nuclear exciton. A large place is given to the analysis of resonant scattering of synchrotron radiation by nuclear ensembles.

     

Way of detecting an electromagnetic earthquake precursor

A way of detecting an electromagnetic earthquake precursor is suggested. Detection is carried out with a device composed of a vertical electrical antenna and a toroidal magnetic antenna located on the Earth’s surface. It is shown that the detector is the most sensitive to the radiation of an electrical dipole inside the lithosphere that is oriented normally to the Earth’s surface. Such a pattern allows one to detect electromagnetic precursors by the method suggested.     

Triplet exciton diffusion and phosphorescence quenching in iridium(III)-centered dendrimers

A study of triplet-triplet exciton annihilation and nonradiative decay in films of iridium(III)-centered phosphorescent dendrimers is reported. The average separation of the chromophore was tuned by the molecular structure and also by blending with a host material. It was found that triplet exciton hopping is controlled by electron exchange interactions and can be over 600 times faster than phosphorescence quenching. Nonradiative decay occurs by weak dipole-dipole interactions and is independent of exciton diffusion, except in very thin films (<20 nm) where surface quenching dominates the decay.     

Choice of optimal exposures in photographing the earth’s surface by multispectral photographic equipment

An analysis of radiation fluxes entering the image plane of the spectral channels of multispectral photographic equipment (MSPE) used in photographing the earth’s surface from space, the illumination intensity levels created by these fluxes, and the degree of blackening of photographic materials depending on the exposure has been carried out. The method of selecting the optimal values for the exposure time in photographing various classes of the earth’s surface in each spectral channel of MSPE is proposed. Using the spectra of brightness, measured from aboard the orbital Salyut-7 and Mir stations, evaluations of the optimal exposure time of the basic classes of the earth’s surface depending on optical parameters of the MSPE were made. Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 67, No. 1, pp. 111–116, January–February, 2000.     

Excitonic polaron in the molecular crystal model: Nonlocal dynamic coherent-potential approximation

A nonlocal dynamic coherent-potential approximation is formulated as a further development of the dynamic coherent-potential method. The nonlocal dynamic coherent-potential approximation is an efficient method of determining the one-exciton Green’s function in a model with the Hamiltonian in the strong-coupling approximation, where a spectrum of optical phonons is assumed, and the exciton-phonon interaction operator is linear or quadratic in the phonon operators. A system of recursion equations is derived, from which the coherent potential is found as a function of the energy E and the wave vector k. An analytical expression is derived for the one-exciton Green’s function in the case of narrow (in comparison with the phonon energy) exciton bands and exciton-phonon interaction linear in the phonon operators. For broader exciton bands and more complex exciton-phonon interaction the system of equations determining the coherent potential represents a recursion algorithm, which can be effectively implemented by numerical means. Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 39, 1560–1563 (September 1997)     

Effect of metallic surface microroughness on the probability and spectrum of plasmon excitation by a fast charged particle moving parallel to the surface

The Green’s function of the electric field of plasmons is determined in a semi-infinite medium with an abrupt plasma boundary where nonequilibrium conduction electrons either undergo elastic reflection from the boundary or “stick” to it and give rise to a stationary surface charge. The angular reflection of elastically scattered electrons can be either specular or diffuse. The Green’s function is used to find the singleevent spectrum of energy loss by a fast electron moving parallel to the boundary. The effect of electronboundary scattering parameters on the structure of bulk and surface plasmon resonances is analyzed. The probability of transition radiation of bulk plasmon by an electron moving in vacuum is examined. A new type of surface resonance is found under conditions of perfectly elastic scattering of conduction electrons from the plasma boundary, similar in structure to a tangential surface plasmon.     

Calculation of Routh Sea Surface Reflection

A mathematical expression of surface reflectivity based on Fresnel’s formula and Snell’s law was particularly developed for the rough sea surface, the variation of whose slope in response to the surface wind is determined to the isotropic Gaussian distribution. Subsequently, reflection of rough sea surface in band of 3–5 and 8–12 μm was calculated and extensively analyzed in terms of viewing angle and surface wind. The corresponding results are of great practical significance to reducing the interference to the infrared detection due to reflection of the radiation from sun and sky.