Electric stimulation of magnetoplasticity and magnetic hardening in crystals

The effect of electric field E on the magnetoplastic effect (MPE) has been investigated in NaCl crystals with different impurities, which provide either the plasticization of the samples in the magnetic field (positive MPE) or their magnetic hardening (negative MPE). The mobility of individual dislocations under the joint action of the magnetic and electric fields and the mechanical load on the crystals has been studied. The sharp electric stimulation of the MPE of both signs has been revealed, i.e., an increase or a decrease in the mean free path of dislocations that is roughly proportional to exp(±E/E ₀) at E ? E ₀ ～ 1–10 kV/m. In particular, in the negative-MPE NaCl(Pb) crystals, the accompanying electric field enhances the magnetic suppression of plasticity. The results are attributed to the electrically induced transformation of the additional part of the pinning impurity ions Me⁺⁺ to the magnetically active state of Me⁺ on the dislocations. The subsequent magnetic transformation of the structure of these pinning centers should lead to a sharper variation of the dislocation pinning force (either an increase or a decrease, depending on the MPE sign).     

Level-crossing-Experiment zur Untersuchung des Einflusses eines elektrischen Feldes auf die Hyperfeinstruktur des 4p 2 P 3/2-Terms im Cu I-Spektrum

Level-crossing technique applying parallel electric and magnetic fields has been used to investigate the influence of an electric fieldE _z on the hyperfine structure of the 4p ² P _3/2-state. The Stark shift of the level-crossing nearH _z =155 Oe and the modification of the magnetic zero-field level-crossing signal due to the electric fieldE _z was observed. Both experimental results can be explained with a Stark-constantβ=7.2(1.1)kc(kV/cm)^?2.     

Electrical properties of highly (111)-oriented lead zirconate thin films

Antiferroelectric PbZrO₃ thin films were grown on Pt/Ti/SiO₂/Si substrates with predominant (111) orientation using a sol-gel process. The Pt/PbZrO₃/Pt film capacitor showed well-saturated hysteresis loops at an applied voltage of 5 V with remanent polarisation (P_r) and coercive electric field (E_c) values of 8.97 μC/cm² and 162 kV/cm, respectively. The leakage current density of the highly (111)-oriented PbZrO₃ film was less than 1.0×10⁻⁷ A/cm² over electric field ranges from 0 to 105 kV/cm. The conduction current depended on the voltage polarity. The PbZrO₃/Pt interface forms a Schottky barrier at electric fields from 20 to 160 kV/cm. The dielectric relaxation current behaviour of Pt/PbZrO₃/Pt capacitor obeys the well-known Curie-Von Schweidler law at electric field of 20-80 kV/cm, the currents have contributions of both dielectric relaxation current and leakage current.     

Magnetic field effects on the nonohmic impurity conduction of uncompensated crystalline silicon

The impurity conduction of a series of crystalline silicon samples with the concentration of major impurity N ≈ 3 × 10¹⁶ cm^?3 and with a varied, but very small, compensation K was measured as a function of the electric field E in various magnetic fields H-σ(H, E). It was found that, at K < 10^?3 and in moderate E, where these samples are characterized by a negative nonohmicity (dσ(0, E)/dE < 0), the ratio σ(H, E)/σ(0, E) > 1 (negative magnetoresistance). With increasing E, these inequalities are simultaneously reversed (positive nonohmicity and positive magnetoresistance). It is suggested that both negative and positive nonohmicities are due to electron transitions in electric fields from impurity ground states to states in the Mott-Hubbard gap.     

High electric-field-induced strain of Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 crystals in multilayer actuators

An optimum composition range (29%≤x≤31%) of 〈001〉 oriented (1−x)Pb(Mg_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃-xPbTiO₃(PMNT) crystals was ascertained for multilayer actuator applications, which exhibited high-strain and low-hysteresis behavior. A −1.5 kV/cm negative E-field can be applied to PMNT ferroelectric samples with low hysteresis. Forty layer actuators with individual element sizes of 7×7×0.7 mm³ were fabricated under identical processing conditions using two different materials: (1) single crystal PMNT and (2) commercial PZT-SF ceramics. Under free-load conditions, 48 μm displacements can been achieved in PMNT actuators at electric fields ranging from −1.5 to 10 kV/cm, which is more than twice the displacement of the PZT-SF actuators driven from −10 to 10 kV/cm. Under 4 kg loading, the displacements in PMNT stain actuators are decreased to 42.5 μm.     

Dynamic response of converse magnetoelectric effect in a PMN-PT-based multiferroic heterostructure

A multiferroic heterostructure, consisting of a 25 μm thick Metglas® ribbon affixed to a lead magnesium niobate–lead titanate (PMN-PT) crystal, was systemically studied to investigate the time response of converse magnetoelectric coupling under the application of electric fields at low frequencies (0.05<f<10 Hz). This multiferroic heterostructure exhibits a considerably strong converse magnetoelectric effect, CME=?80%, where CME=[M(E)?M(0)]/M(0), and a converse ME coupling constant, A=22.5 Oe-cm/kV, at frequencies below 1 Hz and near saturation electric polarization. A switching time (t _s), representing the response time of the CME coupling, is measured to be 0.6 seconds for this heterostructure under the application of instantaneous electric fields. The switching time results in significant influences on the magnetoelectric effect especially at frequencies higher than 2 Hz. The dynamic response of CME coupling is predominantly determined by ferroelectric relaxation within the PMN-PT crystal, as opposed to the magnetic relaxation of the Metglas® ribbon. A model was used to describe the dynamic behavior of CME coupling in disordered systems such as PMN-PT.     

Effect of an electric field on brucite dehydroxylation

The dehydroxylation of brucite has been investigated in electric fields up to 400 kV/m at T=623 K. It is revealed that this reaction in the presence and absence of the field is a diffusion-controlled process, and its rate is governed by the diffusion rate of “slow” protons (the O^2? states) in the Mg(OH)₂ crystal structure. A decrease in the activation energy for diffusion of these protons in an electric field can be explained by both the additional energy acquired by the proton upon its migration through a distance of about 10³ A and a certain decrease in the potential barrier. It is shown that the found decrease in height of this barrier can be caused by the ionic polarization of the brucite lattice in an electric field whose effect on the barrier depends on the net dipole moment responsible for the generation of dipoles in the structural region of radius ～200 Å.     

Doppelresonanzuntersuchung des Einflusses eines elektrischen Feldes auf die Zeeman-Aufspaltung des 5s 5p 3P1-Terms im SrI-Spektrum

Under the simultaneous action of external electric and magnetic fields the 5s 5p ³ P ₁-level of the even Sr-isotopes splits into three non-equidistant Zeeman-sublevels. In an atomic beam experiment the spacings between the sublevels were investigated by the double resonance method at a magnetic field strength of ca. 22 Oe and at electric field strengths up to ca. 17 kV/cm. From the r.f.-resonance signals the tensor polarizability of the 5s 5p ³ P ₁-level was deduced to be α_ten(³ P ₁)=6.1(8) kHz/(kV/cm)². This value may be used to get an estimate of the oscillator strength of the infrared transitions between the multiplets 5s 5p ³P and 5s 4d ³ D. Taking into account oscillator strengths of electric dipole transitions to other low lying levels one obtainsf(³ P→³ D)≈0.09.     

Exact Solutions Describing Collapse of Landau Levels in Graphene

The eigenequation for single-layer graphene in transverse electric and perpendicular magnetic fields is investigated at a critical value |E| = υ _F B. The critical solutions are not bound states and contain two unknown constants. Different from the case of the “classical” Hall effect, the electric current in the direction perpendicular to the electric and magnetic fields could be positive or negative depending on the values of the unknown constants.     

Change in the magnetoresistance of n-GaAs in an electric field

The effect of an electric field on the magnitude of the magnetoresistance in epitaxial n-GaAs films with free carrier concentrations n_e=4.0.10¹⁵–1.12. 10¹⁶ cm^–3 at T=4.2K was investigated. It was found that in weak electric and magnetic fields for E < E_b (E_b is the intensity of the low-temperature impurity breakdown field) the magnetoresistance (MR) is negative, and for EE_b only a positive magnetoresistance is observed. The experimental results are explained by a change in the concentration of centers with a magnetic moment and of electrons in the impurity band in prebreakdown electric fields.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 7, pp. 51–55, July, 1981.     

Resonanzstreuung von Licht in magnetischen und elektrischen Feldern zur Untersuchung der Hyperfeinstruktur des 7d 2 D 3/2-Terms im Thallium I-Spektrum

Observing the resonance fluorescence of the transition 7d ² D _3/2-6p ² P _1/2 (λ=2379 Å) in the Tl I-spectrum the level crossing technique with combined electric and magnetic fields was used to investigate the hyperfine structure and the Stark effect of the 7d ² D _3/2-state. For electric field strengthsE?25 kV/cm the Stark shifts are considerably greater than the hyperfine splitting. Therefore the crossing signals for the case of decoupled hyperfine structure could be detected. The following values of the magnetic hyperfine constantA and the Stark parameterβ were deduced: ¦A¦=55(1) Mc/sec·g _J /0.8, ¦β¦=0.20(4) Mc/sec/(kV/cm)²·g _J /0.8 andA/β>0. The widths of the signals yielded the mean lifetimeτ=2.7(5)·10^?8 sec· 0.8/g _J . Sign and values ofA andβ are discussed.     

Effect of electric fields on the dynamics of silicon microhardness changes induced by low-intensity β irradiation

Decelerating effect of electric fields on silicon microhardness changes induced by low-intensity (I = 10.4 × 10⁴ cm^?2 s^?1) β irradiation has been revealed. The threshold character of the electric field effect is found (the effect is absent at electric fields E < 350 V cm^?1).     

Electric field effect on the luminescence of KI:T1

Thermoluminescence of KI: T1, X- or β-irradiated at T ?77°K shows two main peaks at 105°K and 170°K. They are respectively attributed to the recombination of mobile V_K centres with T1^O centres and to the recombination of thermally released electrons from T1^O centres with T1²⁺ centres. Similar experiments performed under static electric fields (E <40kV cm^-1) show that the intensity of the second glow peak is strongly reduced. The relative intensity variation is anticorrelated with the intensity of glow peaks occurring at T > 230 °K. We suggest that in the temperature range in which T1^O centres are thermally ionised, the effect of the electric field is to favour the retrapping of these electrons on other traps (still unknown). Irradiation doses also play an important role and their effects are studied at T = 77 °K and T = 200 °K.     

Quantum transport in GaInAs-AlInAs heterojunctions,and the influence of intersubband scattering

Shubnikov-de Haas and cyclotron resonance results are presented for GaInAs-AlInAs heterojunctions in both perpendicular and tilted magnetic fields. Two electric subbands are occupied in zero magnetic field. Magnetic depopulation of the higher (E₁) subband is observed in both perpendicular and tilted orientations. This enables a demonstration of the importance of intersubband scattering in both resistivity and cyclotron resonance. A shift of the relative positions of the E_o and E₁ subbands by parallel magnetic fields is measured to be 0.26 meV/T².     

The nEDM experiment at the SNS

The nEDM collaboration proposes to measure the neutron electric dipole moment at the Spallation Neutron Source (Oak Ridge National Laboratory). The nEDM is a clear signature of CP violation. According to the Standard Model the nEDM is very small (～10^?31 e cm), but many theories predict much higher values. In the proposed experiment polarized cold neutrons from the SNS would be trapped in liquid helium at a temperature of about 400 mK. The neutron spin would precess in a very uniform magnetic field (H ～ 30 mG), and the experiment would measure the change in the precession frequency when a very strong electric field (E ～ 50 kV/cm) is applied. Polarized ³He atoms serve as a co-magnetometer. The goal of the experiment is to measure the nEDM with an accuracy of ～9 × 10^?28 e cm, which is more than an order of magnitude better than existing results.     

Electric-field-induced orientation of iron tetragonal centers in KTaO3

Fe _K ³⁺ -O _i ^2? impurity centers in a KTaO₃ sample to which a dc electric field E=75 kV/cm is applied are shown to be oriented at temperatures T≥120 K. In these conditions, the effective local field acting on the electric dipole moment of a center exceeds the applied field by a factor 7.6.     

On thermodynamic properties of the chromoplasma

We calculate the contributions of electric and magnetic modes to some thermodynamic functions in SU(2)-gauge theory on the lattice 4×12³. It is shown that the behaviour of the chromoelectric part of the energy E_E can be interpreted within the Ising-type model in agreement with the universality hypothesis. At the same time the behaviour of the magnetic parts of the internal energy and pressure (i.e. E_M and P_M) differs drastically from that of E_E and P_M. The character of the temperature dependence of E_M and P_M exhibited here testifies to the presence of highly nonidentical properties of electric and magnetic excitation modes of chromoplasma and may shed light on the role of unstable modes in gauge theories.     

Electric-field dependence of muonium formation in liquid helium

The influence of electric fields on the formation of muonium in liquid helium (⁴He,³He, and mixture of⁴He + 0.2%³He) has been studied. It was found that the relative distribution of muon-electron pairs is anisotropic. The maximum muon density is shifted with respect to the electrons in the direction of the initial muon momentum. Due to the anisotropy the muonium asymmetry in normal liquid helium is enhanced by a factor of 3 in an electric fieldE=1 kV/cm.     

Structure of soot clusters formed in a hydrocarbon flame under the action of the electric field of a DC corona discharge

Electron microscopy was used to study the structure of soot clusters formed is a natural gas diffusion flame in the presence of the electric field of a dc corona discharge. It was demonstrated that the structure of such clusters depends on the electric field strength E and temperature T. As E increases from 0 to 2.3 kV/cm, the specific surface area of soot does so from 90.2 to 347.2 m²/g. The adsorbability of soot with respect to toluene vapor also increases, by a factor of 3. As E and/or T increase, the mean size of soot clusters decreases. The dependence of the mass of soot deposited on the grounded electrode exhibits an extreme character, passing through a maximum at E = 0.8 kV/cm.     

Reversible permittivity of a photosensitive relaxor ferroelectric

The reversible permittivity of barium strontium niobate, a photosensitive relaxor ferroelectric, doped with lanthanum and cerium is investigated in the dark and under illumination with a power density of 0.22 mW/cm². The permittivity is measured under a combined effect of a weak ac electric field at a frequency of 1 MHz and a slowly varying periodic field E _b with an amplitude of ±2.3 kV/cm. It is shown that the illumination significantly increases the permittivity, changes the dependence of the permittivity on the periodic field E _b , and eliminates the possible unipolarity of the crystal, thus significantly improving the reproducibility of the permittivity during repeated measurements.