The uniqueness of the integrated density of states for the Schrödinger operators with magnetic fields

The integrated density of states (IDS) for the Schr?dinger operators is defined in two ways: by using the counting function of eigenvalues of the operator restricted to bounded regions with appropriate boundary conditions or by using the spectral projection of the whole space operator. A sufficient condition for the coincidence of the two definitions above is given. Moreover, a sufficient condition for the coincidence of the IDS for the Dirichlet boundary conditions and the IDS for the Neumann boundary conditions is given. The proof is based only on the fundamental items in functional analysis, such as the min-max principle, etc. Received August 26, 1999; in final form February 21, 2000 / Published online February 5, 2001     

Microwave Invasion Through Anti-Reflecting Layers of Dielectrics at a Millimeter Wave Irradiation to Living Bodies

Microwave invasion into living bodies through a millimeter wave catheter irradiation is described. As radiation sources for millimeter wave irradiation tests both Impatt oscillator (IO) and a Gunn oscillator were used. Irradiated samples are cow livers and living rats. A newly designed wave-guide vent antenna (WVA) with an anti-reflecting layer (ARL) is used as a launcher for the irradiation and the reflectance measurements. The correlation between the denaturation of the tissue and the reflectance from the WVA is studied in detail.     

A new iron oxyfluoride cathode active material for Li-ion battery, Fe2OF4

The electrochemical properties of iron oxyfluoride of the Fe₂OF₄ type were investigated. The material exhibits a working potential at 3.0 V with a capacity of 200 mAh/g and cyclic reversibility in the range of 1.5–4.5 V. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) investigation of discharged material showed that iron was reduced to the divalent state. In this study, we report that Fe₂OF₄ material incorporates 1.4 Li per formula unit.     

Playback performance and microstructure of sputtered tape media formed by facing targets sputtering

Sputtered tape media of a CoPtCr–SiO₂ magnetic layer with a Ru underlayer was fabricated on a thin Aramid film by a facing targets sputtering (FTS) system at room temperature with no cooling. Transition electron microscope (TEM) images show columnar epitaxial growth of hcp-CoPtCr(1 0 0) plane on hcp-Ru(1 0 0). Average grain diameter of 10.2 nm with dispersion of 20.2% was obtained from TEM images. Enrichment of Co and Pt inside grains and segregation of Cr and Si to boundary were confirmed by point energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) measurements. Playback performance test on sputtered sample indicated that SNR is higher and PW50 value is lower than that of commercial coated tapes. These good playback properties could come from fine and isolated grain structure of magnetic layer of sputtered sample, as observed by TEM.     

Ru-O/Ru hybrid type of underlayer for CoPtCr-SiO2 perpendicular recording media on flexible tape

Ru/CoPtCr-SiO₂ bilayer prepared at 4 and 26 mTorr of Ar gas pressure for the deposition of Ru and CoPtCr-SiO₂ layers, respectively, exhibits better magnetic properties suitable for perpendicular magnetic recording media when they are deposited at room temperature on a Pt seed layer prepared at 450 °C. The Ru-O seed layer fabricated by a reactive sputtering method improves the Ru (0 0 1) texture deposited on a Ru-O layer. The Ru-O/Ru hybrid type of underlayer causes the improvement of the c-axis orientation of CoPtCr crystallites in the CoPtCr-SiO₂ layer deposited on it. Fine granulation of magnetic grains in the CoPtCr-SiO₂ layer is also attained when they are deposited on the Aramid type of flexible tape substrates.     

DNA mismatch detection using a pyrene-excimer-forming probe

A pyrene-excimer-forming probe allowed the easy and sensitive detection of a single base mismatch in target DNA. This was due to the faster strand exchange rate compared to a fully-matched target.     

Reactions of 1-naphthols with pi-acceptor p-benzoquinones: oxidative aryl coupling vs. non-oxidative electrophilic arylation

We investigated the reactions of various 1-naphthols (NPOHs; 1) with p-benzoquinones (Qs), such as 1,4-benzoquinone (BQ) and p-chloranil (CA), as pi-electron acceptors. With electron-rich NPOHs 1a-c, oxidative biaryl coupling and subsequent dehydrogenation reaction took place selectively to give the corresponding 2,2'-binapthyl-1,1'-quinones 3a-c in excellent yield. In the case of electron-deficient NPOHs 1e, f, two different types of reactions occurred in the presence of SnCl4 and ZrO2 under similar conditions: SnCl4 mediated oxidative dimerization and trimerization of NPOH, while ZrO2 promoted electrophilic arylation of Qs with NPOH. The resulting products 3 would be useful synthetic intermediates for naturally occurring diosindigo B, biramentaceone and violet-quinone.     

Dynamic study of the noncrystalline phase of 13C-labeled polyethylene by variable-temperature 13C CP/MAS NMR spectroscopy

The ¹³C spin-lattice relaxation times T₁ of ¹³C-labeled polyethylene crystallized under different conditions were measured at temperatures from ?120 to 44°C by variable-temperature solid-state high-resolution ¹³C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, in order to determine accurately the dynamics of the noncrystalline region of the polymer. From these results, it was found that the T₁ minimum for the CH₂ carbons in the noncrystalline region of solution-crystallized polyethylene with high crystallinity appears at higher temperature by about 20°C than that of melt-quenched polyethylene with low crystallinity. This means that the molecular motion of the CH₂ carbons in the noncrystalline regions is more constrained at a given temperature in the material of higher crystallinity. Furthermore, dynamics of the noncrystalline region is discussed in terms of the ¹³C dipolar dephasing times.