Spectroscopic investigation of 4f correlations in CeAg; comparison between LDA and many-body descriptions

High resolution photoemission and bremsstrahlung isochromat spectroscopy experiments have been carried out on CeAg and LaAg. From a comparison between these two compounds, we extract the cerium 4f spectral function, we compare it with band structure calculations and with many-body model simulations based on the single-impurity Anderson Hamiltonian. We show that the localized 4f charge estimated from previous band structure calculations cannot be identified with the 4f occupation number deduced from the Anderson model.     

Static polarizabilities for the ne-isoelectronic series using Harbola–Sahni potential

The recently proposed Harbola–Sahni local potential in its exchange-only version [Phys. Rev. Lett. 62 , 689 (1989)] is found to give the static dipole and quadrupole polarizabilities for the Neisoelectronic series in excellent agreement with the corresponding Hartree–Fock estimates. © 1992 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

A novel approach to thermal Analysis of Thin films

A novel instrument is described called the Thin film Analyser (TFA) which quantitatively measures changes in mechanical and rheological properties of drying films in-situ on a test panel. It is based around a simple force-sensing device, capable of carrying various probes, which can be positioned in anX-Y plane over the panel. Temperature control is achieved by means of a heating block under the sample. By imposing a thermal gradient along the block, measurements can be obtained at a series of temperatures in a single experiment. Several applications of the TFA to the drying of curable and latex-based coatings are discussed, as well as some more specialized uses. The TFA concept represents a novel approach to the thermal analysis of thin films.The authors gratefully acknowledge the design, engineering and software development work of the Instrument Group at ICI Paints, in particular John Hayton, Neil Burrows, Tony Evans and Ian Francis, who have now built three versions of the TFA.     

Synthesis of sterically hindered aromatic dialdehydes

A study was carried out on the formylation of a series of aromatic compounds containing two mesitylene or durene residues [dimesityl (I), dimesitylmethane (II), 1,2-dimesitylethane (III), 1,6-dimesitylhexane (IV), dimesityl sulfide (V), 1,1-dimesitylethylene (VI), 1,1-dimesityl-1-butene (VII), and didurylmethane (VIII)] by the action of dichloromethyl methyl ether (DCM) in the presence of A1C1₃ and TiCl₄. The corresponding dialdehydes are the major products. The formylation products when the reaction is carried out in the presence of A1C1₃ in the case of (I) and (V) contain significant amounts of monoaldehydes, while partial cleavage of the substrates with the formation of products containing only one benzene ring is observed in the case of (II) and (VIII) in addition to formylation.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 7, pp. 1700–1703, July, 1991.     

Multiparameter Polynomial Adaptive Stabilizers

In 1983 Morse proved, for unknown scalar one-dimensional linearsystems, the nonexistence of rational or polynomial universalstabilizers (UAS). In 1983, Nussbaum gave an example of an analyticUAS. In our paper, it is shown that there exist time-invariantpolynomial UAS's with multidimensional gain adaptation. Thedesign procedure is developed for linear, minimum-phase systemsof relative degree one. Convergence of the closed-loop systemis proved. Some numerical simulations are provided.     

The X-ray diffraction crystal structure determination and electron impact fragmentations of the gaseous ions of 3-(p-chlorophenyl)-1-methyltriazene-1-oxide and its 3-methyl derivative

The decomposition of the gaseous positive ions of the title compounds obtained by electron impact have been completely mapped. The X-ray structural determinations of these two substances established their identity definitively and allowed to reveal some interesting features of these molecules of pharmaceutical interest.     

A laser micro-chopper approach for molecular beam probe

A laser micro-chopper has been designed to respond fast to a molecular beam. A method of spectral structure measurement is established to analyse the responding signals. In experiments, the minimum detectable signals correspond to an air molecular-beam intensity of 5 × 10⁸/s