Electromechanical properties of a textured ceramic material in the (1 − <Emphasis Type="Italic">x</Emphasis>)PMN-<Emphasis Type="Italic">x</Emphasis>PT system: Simulation based on the effective-medium method

A complete set of dielectric, piezoelectric, and elastic parameters for the textured ceramic material 0.67PMN-0.33PT is calculated by the self-consistency method with due regard for the anisotropy and piezoelectric activity of the medium. It is shown that the best piezoelectric properties corresponding to those of a single crystal are observed for the ceramic material with a texture in which all crystallites are oriented parallel to the [001] direction of the parent perovskite cubic cell. The simplest models of the polarization of an untextured ceramic material with a random initial orientation of crystallites are considered. The results obtained are compared with experimental data.     

Electrical and optical properties of composites based on carbazole derivatives and silicon particles

The electrical and optical properties of polymer-silicon composites with particles incorporated by different means have been studied. It is shown that both when silicon particles are embedded in a carbazole-containing polymer matrix and in the case of a pure polymer, the I–V characteristics are nonlinear and asymmetric (the I–V characteristics of the carbazole-containing polyorganosiloxane, which has silicon atoms in the monomer link, behave in a more symmetric pattern). In all cases, the I-V characteristics can be fitted with power laws, I(V) ～ V ^p , with three different slopes for different voltage intervals, which remainds one of the pattern typical of the mechanism of space-charge-limited currents. It is shown that, in its luminescent properties, the carbazole-containing polyorganosiloxane is similar to a carbazole-containing polymer matrix with embedded silicon particles. The results obtained argue for charge transfer between the polymer and silicon nanoparticles if they are embedded in the matrix and for an formation of an interchain charge-transfer complex in the case of chemically bound silicon.     

Dielectrometry of liquid media using a piezoelectric resonator

A technique for measuring the permittivity coefficient of liquids based on the dependence of a piezoelectric resonator on ambient conditions is suggested. A model of a resonator, which allowed calculating its resonance frequency with the permittivity of the ambient liquid, is presented. Theoretical calculations are in good agreement with the experimental data. The dependence of the permittivity coefficient of an “ethyl alcohol-water” system on the concentration of components is determined with the given technique.     

Model for the emission of quasi-thermal atoms during sputtering of metals in the nonlinear collision cascade regime

The ion sputtering of metals and frozen inert gases in the nonlinear collision cascade regime, where the density of the energy released in the bulk of the thermal peak exceeds the critical medium temperature, initiates the emission of quasi-thermal atoms. The energy spectrum of such atoms is substantially shifted toward low energies and is not described by a Maxwellian distribution. A simple emission model is proposed on the assumption of collisional motion of sputtered atoms in their flight from a target, and this model is used to derive an analytical formula for the calculation of the energy spectra of quasi-thermal atoms. A comparison of the calculated energy spectra of indium, krypton, and xenon atoms and the spectra measured during ion sputtering of indium and frozen inert gases in the nonlinear collision cascade regime shows their agreement at reasonable values of fitting parameters.     

Compensation Effect for Grain Boundary Diffusion in a Bicrystalline Experiment

The paper is devoted to the problem of the compensation effect for grain boundary (GB) diffusion, i.e. the linear dependence of the pre-exponential factor of the GB diffusion coefficient on the activation energy. Specific features of GB diffusion as a thermally activated process namely, the influence of segregation factor, K, and variation of the GB width, d, on the diffusion rate are discussed. A special diffusion experiment was designed to estimate the contribution of the separate component parts of the triple product, KdD_GB (D_GB is the GB diffusion coefficient). The experiment was performed with Al bicrystals. The variation of the GB width d, and a value of the segregation factor K, due to GB structure change are estimated. It is concluded that D_GB is the main GB structure-sensitive parameter in the triple product. This circumstance allows us to consider the GBs in Al bicrystals as a series of uniform objects and to describe the kinetics of GB diffusion in terms of the compensation temperature T_c and a “barrier” phase. The value of T_c for GB diffusion of Zn and Ge in Al bicrystals is practically the same and equals 709 and 706 K, respectively. The character of the “barrier” phase is discussed.     

Cobalt/silica gel system as a chemisorbent for oxygen

A study has been made of oxygen chemisorption and the phase composition of cobalt/silica gel samples containing from 1.1 to 7.7% Co by weight. Reduction in hydrogen leads to the formation of metallic cobalt with a crystal size of about 50 Å. The quantity of chemisorbed O₂ at 20°C increases in proportion to the increase of [Co]. The uptake of O₂ is essentially completed at 300°C with the formation of Co₃O₄. The high adsorption capacity for O₂ is preserved unchanged in repetitive reduction-oxidation cycles. The residual content of O₂ in the gas after passage through the layer of the cobalt/silica gel chemisorbent is 3·10^–6% by volume.N. D. Zelinskii Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117913 Moscow. Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya, Khimicheskaya, No. 1, pp. 40–43, January, 1992.