Photoluminescence of focused ion beam implanted Er3+:Y2SiO5 crystals

Erbium‐doped low symmetry Y₂SiO₅ crystals attract a lot of attention in perspective of quantum information applications. However, only doping of the samples during growth is available up to now, which yields a quite homogeneous doping density. In the present work, we deposit Er³⁺‐ions by the focused ion beam technique at yttrium sites with several fluences in one sample. With a photoluminescence study of these locally doped Er³⁺:Y₂SiO₅ crystals, we are able to evaluate the efficiency of the implantation process and develop it for the highest efficiency possible. We observe the dependence of ion activation after the post‐implantation annealing on the fluence value. (© 2014 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH &Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Vibration and waves in a cylinder with screw anisotropy

On the basis of the three-dimensional theory of elasticity, we consider the features of propagation of harmonic waves in a hollow cylinder with screw anisotropy. The main attention is focused on studying axisymmetrical oscillations. To describe low-frequency long-wavelength longitudinal-torsional oscillations by perturbation theory methods, we construct an applied theory and evaluate the area of its applicability. To analyze high-frequency oscillations, a numerical method of determining the critical frequencies and dispersion curves is developed and implemented. It is shown that in the axisymmetrical case, screw anisotropy generates a relation between longitudinal and torsion oscillations, which is mathematically described by the amplitude coefficients of homogeneous waves.     

Speed of a ferrite—ferroelectric microwave planar resonator

The speed of a ferrite—ferroelectric microwave planar resonator consisting of a YIG film and a barium strontium titanate plate is investigated. It is shown that the speed of the resonator is governed by the rate of resonance frequency electrical tuning and the tuning is accompanied by a change in the electrical bias. The rate of frequency tuning in the resonator is 1.3–3.3MHz/fus.     

Strength and Fracture Toughness of Polyurethane Elastomers Modified with Carbon Nanotubes

Very small additions of single-wall carbon nanotubes produce an anomalous change in the mechanical properties of a cross-linked polyurethane-amide-urea elastomer containing 10% of polyamide-6: its elastic modulus and ultimate stress reveal local maxima at a nanofiller content of hundredths and thousandths of a percent. Previously, the behavior of the elastic modulus was simulated reasoning from the formation of an intermediate phase layer in the elastomer at particle contact boundaries. Here, on the same basis, we simulate the behavior of its strength as a function of nanotube concentration and consider crack models accounting for the influence of nanotubes on the crack tip zone and fracture toughness.     

Fracture Model of Anisotropic Rocks under Complex Loading

The paper proposes a deformation and fracture model for anisotropic stratified rocks and presents theoretical and experimental data on how the rock strength and fracture geometry are influenced by principal stresses and their orientation to bedding planes. Two possible mechanisms are considered for rock fracture under true triaxial load: along bedding planes of weakness and along planes in which Mohr-Coulomb stresses reach a critical combination with cohesion coefficients and internal friction angles typical of the rock. The transition of rocks to inelastic deformation is described in the context of two criteria of which one accounts for the above fracture mechanisms and the other, being a semi-empirical analogue of the Hill yield criterion, accounts for the effect of normal stress. The experimental data presented are for the strain and strength properties of rocks sampled from the Fedorovskoye and Talakanskoye oil and gas fields and tested on an original loading system for true triaxial compression with lateral pressure (similar to the Karman scheme) and for generalized shear (three unequal and nonmonotonic principal stresses). The experimental and theoretical results, including total stress-strain curves, are in good qualitative agreement and demonstrate the possibility to evaluate the parameters entered in the model from tests of particular rocks.     

Structural aspects of thermal instability of polytypes in the Co?C system

The stability of the irregular long-period structures being formed in Co C alloys during β → α transformation has been studied according to the carbon content. In the concentration range 0.2 to 1.2 at.% C the type of the short-range order concerning the atomic layer stacking sequence remains unaffected on subsequent cooling of the alloy, whereas the α-phase crystalline structure of the alloys with the carbon content of 1.3 to 2.17% C suffers polytype transformation. The transition from one polytype structure to another is found to be due to the decrease in length of the cubic-type stacking sequences.