The surface morphology evolution of Ni/W alloys was studied, as a function of the alloy composition. Using the modified plating baths developed in our laboratory recently, electroplated Ni/W alloys with different W content, in the range of 7–67 atom percent (a/o), can be obtained. This was found to lead to different structures, ranging from polycrystalline fcc-Ni type structure to amorphous, followed by orthorhombic with increasing W content in the alloy. Powder XRD was studied to determine the crystal structures. Ex situ STM, AFM and SEM were used to study in detail the surface morphologies of the different alloys, and their evolution with increasing W content.
The important findings are that a mixture of two crystalline forms can give rise to an amorphous structure. Hillocks that are usually a characteristic of epitaxial growth can also exist in the amorphous alloys. Oriented scratches caused by stress can also be formed.
Up to 20 a/o of W is deposited in the alloys in crystalline form, with the fcc-Ni type structure. Between 20 and about 40 a/o an amorphous structure is observed, and above that an orthorhombic crystal structure is seen, which is characteristic of the NiW binary alloy. Careful choice of the composition of the plating bath allowed us to deposit an alloy containing 67 a/o W, which corresponds to the composition NiW2. 相似文献
The inference of optical depth and particle size of clouds and aerosols using remotely sensed reflected radiance at solar wavelengths has received much attention recently. The information these measurements provide is path integrated. However, very little is known about the vertical distribution of this weighting. To characterize it, we first solve the radiative transfer equation (RTE) by a Green's function approach, and then investigate the sensitivity of the weighting to vertical inhomogeneities in the extinction by introducing a function that is closely related to the Green's function, herein called the contribution function. This function calculates the contributions to the radiance at the upper boundary of the medium by underlying layers. Three hypothetical clouds of identical optical depth but exhibiting different extinction profiles were used in this study. The contribution function was found very sensitive to the extinction profile. The global reflection and transmission matrices used to construct the Green's function, derived using an eigenmatrix method, resulted in an efficient, stable, and accurate method for calculating the emerging radiances that can be extended to multi-layered media. 相似文献
The new method is proposed for the numerical solution of a class of shape inverse problems. The size and the location of a small opening in the domain of integration of an elliptic equation is identified on the basis of an observation. The observation includes the finite number of shape functionals. The approximation of the shape functionals by using the so-called topological derivatives is used to perform the learning process of an artificial neural network. The results of computations for 2D examples show, that the method allows to determine an approximation of the global solution to the inverse problem, sufficiently closed to the exact solution. The proposed method can be extended to the problems with an opening of general shape and to the identification problems of small inclusions. However, the mathematical theory of the proposed approach still requires futher research. In particular, the proof of global convergence of the method is an open problem. 相似文献
Based on the analysis of the K2O-P2O5-D2O solubility phase diagram, the optimum conditions of KD2PO4 crystallization—the compositions of mother solutions and the temperature range of crystallization—in the KH2PO4-D2O system have been determined. The technique of K(DxH1 ? x)2PO4 growth is developed. The DKDP single crystals with deuterium concentration up to 88 wt % are grown on DKDP seeds from KH2PO4 solutions in D2O by the method of temperature decrease. 相似文献
The definition of the fundamental quantity, the chemical potential, is badly confused in the literature: there are at least
three distinct definitions in various books and papers. While they all give the same result in the thermodynamic limit, major
differences between them can occur for finite systems, in anomalous cases even for finite systems as large as a cm3. We resolve the situation by arguing that the chemical potential defined as the symbol μ conventionally appearing in the
grand canonical density operator is the uniquely correct definition valid for all finite systems, the grand canonical ensemble
being the only one of the various ensembles usually discussed (microcanonical, canonical, Gibbs, grand canonical) that is
appropriate for statistical thermodynamics, whenever the chemical potential is physically relevant. The zero–temperature limit
of this μ was derived by Perdew et al. for finite systems involving electrons, generally allowing for electron–electron interactions;
we extend this derivation and, for semiconductors, we also consider the zero–T limit taken after the thermodynamic limit.
The enormous finite size corrections (in macroscopic samples, e.g. 1 cm3) for one rather common definition of the c.p., found recently by Shegelski within the standard effective mass model of an
ideal intrinsic semiconductor, are discussed. Also, two very–small–system examples are given, including a quantum dot. 相似文献
To date, ten experimental measurements of the asymmetry parameter have been made for the positron decay of52Mn. The Fermi to Gamow-Teller mixing ratioy can be deduced from such measurements and this quantity is important because the time-reversal violating amplitude is proportional toy/(1+y2). Our theoretical calculation using the Collective Model yieldsy=? 3.5×10?4 for the deformation parameterβ=0.1 andy=? 4.6×10?4 forβ=0.2. Such small values ofy are consistent with time-reversal invarisance. 相似文献
This paper presents the study of the numerical solution of a reaction-diffusion system involving a reaction term of integral type arising from biological models. By means of a monotone approach we introduce upper and lower solutions and then we show the existence and the asymptotic behavior of nonnegative numerical solutions. To this end, we require the positivity of the numerical scheme and so we can use some properties of positive and M-matrices. Finally we give some sufficient conditions to verify the asymptotic stability of the numerical solution. 相似文献