Influence of boron on the giant magnetocaloric effect of La(Fe0.9Si0.1)13

The influences of boron addition on the phase formation, Curie temperature and magnetic entropy change of the NaZn₁₃-type La(Fe_0.9Si_0.1)₁₃ compound have been investigated. Eight boron containing La(Fe_0.9Si_0.1)₁₃B_x samples were prepared with x=0, 0.03, 0.06, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.5 and 0.6, respectively. Experimental results show that a small amount of B addition in La(Fe_0.9Si_0.1)₁₃ forms the solid solution NaZn₁₃-type structure phase by substituting B for Si or doping B into interstitial position of the lattice, preserves its giant magnetocaloric effects due to their first-order structural/magnetic transition, as well as increase its Curie temperature T_c slightly. The maximum magnetic entropy changes in the magnetic field change of 0–1.6 T are around 20 J kg^–1 K^–1 for the samples with Boron addition less than 0.3, while improving the Curie temperatures by 2 K.     

Kink and conductance of an organic molecular wire

The effect of a kink on the conductance of a nanoscale polymer molecular wire is theoretically investigated on the basis of the Su–Schrieffer–Heeger (SSH) model combined with the Green's function formalism. It is found that, due to the appearance of kink, the molecular conductance decreases rapidly with the molecular length and reaches near zero when the molecular length is over a critical value. The reason is attributed to the localized effect of kink on the electronic state at the Fermi energy. The effect of electron-lattice coupling strength on the conductance is also discussed.     

Surface luminescence in ZnO nanoparticles

Spectral and time-resolved photoluminescence (TRPL) measurements were performed on ZnO nanoparticles of different sizes (17-300 nm). Under a low photon energy excitation of 2.33 eV, the time-integrated PL spectra (TIPL) clearly exhibit broad emission in the range of 1.2-2.3 eV. Upon increase of the particle size, a red-shift in the PL peak position was observed. Gaussian analysis indicates that this red-shift corresponds to the increased relative magnitude of the Gaussian combination in the low energy region. In addition, TRPL demonstrates a clear relationship between the particle diameters and the PL decay times. The shortening of the PL lifetime could be explained by a surface states model.     

Effects of sintering temperature and atmosphere on magnetism in Mn-doped TiO2 bulk samples

Magnetic properties have been investigated on Mn doped TiO₂(Ti_0.98Mn_0.02O₂) bulk samples prepared by solid state reaction, which were sintered at different temperature ranging from 450 ^°C to 900 ^°C in air and argon atmosphere, respectively. The results show that the magnetic properties were strongly dependent on the sintering temperature and atmosphere. For samples sintered in air, the magnetization initially increase with the increase of sintering temperature up to 600 ^°C and thereafter it decrease. While the magnetization of samples sintered in argon atmosphere decreases monotonically with the increase of sintering temperature. Furthermore, for samples sintered at 600 ^°C in air, the magnetic susceptibility exhibits a dominant Curie-Weiss behaviour and no magnetic transition is observed over the temperature range from 10 to 300 K. In contrast, for samples sintered in argon atmosphere, besides the magnetic transition near 45 K perhaps caused by Mn₃O₄, another magnetic transition appears near room temperature.     

Photoresponse of the In0.3Ga0.7N metal-insulator-semiconductor photodetectors

In0.3Ga0.7N metal-insulator-semiconductor （MIS） and metal-semiconductor （MS） surface barrier photodetectors have been fabricated. The In0.3Ga0.7N epilayers were grown on sapphire by metalorganic chemical vapour deposition （MOCVD）. The photoresponse and reverse current-voltage characteristics of the In0.3Ga0.7N MIS and MS photodetectors were measured. A best zero bias responsivity of 0.18 A/W at 450 nm is obtained for the In0.3Ga0.7N MIS photodetector with 10 nm Si3N4 insulator layer, which is more than ten times higher than the In0.3Ga0.7N MS photodetector. The reason is attributed to the decrease of the interface states and increase of surface barrier height by the inserted insulator. The influence of the thickness of the Si3N4 insulator layer on the photoresponsivity of the MIS photodetector is also discussed.     

Multiple ionization of argon accompanied by electron loss and capture of 0.22-6.35 MeV C^q＋ ions

In this paper a projectile ions recoil ions coincidence technique is employed to investigate the target ionization and projectile charge state changing processes in the collision of 0.22-6.35 MeV Cq^＋ （q = 1 - 4） ions with argon atoms. The partial cross section ratios of the double, triple, quadruplicate ionization to the single ionization （or the single capture） of argon associated with single electron loss （or single electron capture） by the projectile are measured and compared with the previous experimental results. In the present experiment, it is observed that the ratios of ionization cross sections R associated with single loss and single capture depend strongly on the projectile charge state and vary significantly with different reaction channels as impact energy increases. In addition, this paper gets empirical scaling laws for the ionization cross section ratios R corresponding to the projectile single loss and finds that the ratios of the double ionization to the single ionization associated with single electron capture remain constant in the present energy range.     

化学气相沉积法中SnO2一维纳米结构的控制生长

以Sn和SnO为源材料,化学气相沉积法中通过控制反应物配比及载气中的氧含量等宏观实验条件,实现了SnO2一维纳米结构的控制生长,成功获得各种不同横向尺度的SnO2纳米线、纳米带以及直径连续变化的针状纳米结构. 通过扫描电子显微镜、X射线衍射仪对不同实验条件下所制备的样品进行形貌和晶格结构表征,认为高温生长点附近锡与氧的相对含量是控制SnO2一维纳米结构生长的关键因素;并在此基础上对SnO2一维纳米结构的生长机理进行了深入的讨论.     

火灾烟颗粒的分形结构形状模拟与光散射计算

针对火灾烟颗粒的形状特点，提出并建立火灾烟颗粒分形结构凝团的形状模型，并对烟颗粒扫描电镜(SEM)图像进行分析，获取分形结构模型中的单个凝团中基本颗粒个数、凝团分形维数、基本颗粒半径等参数.利用该模型对火灾烟颗粒的形状进行模拟的结果表明，该模型能够较好反映出烟颗粒的形貌特征.利用形状模型对火灾烟颗粒散射进行初步计算表明，在其他参数相同的情况下，相对于同体积的球形颗粒，分形凝团具有前向散射较弱，后向散射较强的特征.