Distinctive features of time-resolved photoluminescence of porous silicon coated with a layer of diamondlike carbon

Time-resolved photoluminescence from porous silicon coated with a diamondlike carbon film is investigated. The intensity of the photoluminescence from the carbon film is obserd to increase after deposition, and there is an accompanying change in the intensity and a shortwavelength shift of the photoluminescence band of porous silicon that depends on the porosity of its original layers. These changes are explained by the formation of carbon nanoclusters on the surface of the silicon filaments. Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 68, 83–87 (April 1998)     

Structure of the attraction zones of the final states in the presence of dynamical period doubling bifurcations

The structure of the attraction zones of the final states associated with dynamical period doubling bifurcations is investigated. It is found that on the “initial value—transition rate” plane the attraction zones of the two possible final states alternate with each other and that a subdivision of the attraction regions occurs with a decrease in the transition rate. It is shown that the boundaries of the attraction zones are smeared out because of the effect of noise and in this situation the fine structure of the attraction zones is destroyed. As analytical and numerical calculations have shown, the critical value of the noise variance, corresponding to the boundary between the dynamical (or predictable) and stochastic (or unpredictable) modes, has a power-law dependence on the transition rate with a typical exponent value of one. The existence of “noise” invariants is also observed: the integrated (over all initial values) probability of achieving the final state is invariant with respect to the noise level. Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 113, 369–380 (January 1998)     

Influence of deformation on the force characteristics of shape memory effects in alloys based on titanium nickelide

Studies of the influence of plastic deformation and the straining temperature on the temperature dependence of the stresses developed in titanium nickelide shape memory alloys are described. Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 68, 141–142 (July 1998)     

Effect of the susceptibility on the magnetic phase diagrams of a ferrimagnet with magnetic instability

The magnetic phase diagrams of a two-sublattice ferrimagnet with a magnetically unstable subsystem are calculated taking account of the susceptibility. Analytic expressions are obtained for the phase-transition fields and critical values of the parameters of the ferrimagnet. The evolution of the magnetic phase diagrams as the susceptibility of the unstable sublattice increases is analyzed.     

On variable stepsize Runge-Kutta approximations of a Cauchy problem for the evolution equation

We consider a Cauchy problem for the sectorial evolution equation with generally variable operator in a Banach space. Variable stepsize discretizations of this problem by means of a strongly A(φ)-stable Runge-Kutta method are studied. The stability and error estimates of the discrete solutions are derived for wider families of nonuniform grids than quasiuniform ones (in particular, if the operator in question is constant or Lipschitz-continuous, for arbitrary grids).     

Stress state of infinite medium with elastic paraboloidal inclusion

S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 29, No. 12, pp. 15–21, December, 1993.     

New numerical methods and some applied aspects of the p-regularity theory

The theory of p-regularity is applied to optimization problems and to singular ordinary differential equations (ODE). The special variant of the method of the modified Lagrangian function proposed by Yu.G. Evtushenko for constrained optimization problems with inequality constraints is justified on the basis of the 2-factor transformation. An implicit function theorem is given for the singular case. This theorem is used to show the existence of solutions to a boundary value problem for a nonlinear differential equation in the resonance case. New numerical methods are proposed including the p-factor method for solving ODEs with a small parameter.     

Experimental investigation of highly excited states of the 5,6He and 5,6Li nuclei in the (6Li, 7Be) and (6Li, 7Li) one-nucleon pickup reactions

The (⁶Li, ⁷Be) and (⁶Li, ⁷Li) reactions on ⁶Li and ⁷Li nuclei were investigated in the angular interval 0°–20° in the laboratory system at a ⁶Li energy of 93 MeV. In addition to low-lying states of the ^5,6He and ^5,6Li nuclei, broad structures were observed near the t(³He)+d and t(³He)+t thresholds at the excitation energies of 16.75 (3/2⁺) and ～20 MeV (for ⁵He), 16.66 (3/2⁺) and ～20 MeV (⁵Li), 14.0 and 25 MeV (⁶He), and ～20 MeV (⁶Li). The angular distributions measured in the ⁷Li(⁶Li, ⁷Be)⁶He reaction for transitions to the ground state (0⁺) and excited states at E _x=1.8 MeV (2⁺) and 14.0 MeV of the ⁶He nucleus were analyzed by the finite-range distorted-wave method assuming the 1p-and 1s-proton pickup mechanism. The (⁶Li, ⁷Be) and (⁶Li, ⁷Li) reactions were shown to proceed predominantly through the one-step pickup mechanism, and the broad structures observed at high excitation energies are considered as quasimolecular states of the t(³He)+d and t(³He)+t types.