EPR spectrum of donors in 6H SiC in a broad temperature range

An EPR study of donors in 6H SiC crystals with an uncompensated donor concentration (N _D−N _A) of 2×10¹⁸ to 1×10¹⁶ cm⁻³ performed in the temperature range 4.2 to 160 K at frequencies of 9 and 140 GHz showed that 6H n-SiC samples have two donor states in the gap. One of them originates from nitrogen occupying three inequivalent lattice sites with ionization energies of 150 and 80 meV, and the second is connected with a structural defect lying deeper in the gap than nitrogen. The temperature dependences of donor EPR line intensities have been found to deviate from the Curie law. The observed EPR line-intensity peaks of donors are produced in a temperature-driven successive redistribution of donor electrons between the donor levels. The temperature dependences of EPR line intensities obtained from samples with low donor concentrations were used to determine the valley-orbit splitting of nitrogen in cubic sites. Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 40, 1824–1828 (October 1998)     

Charge states of atoms in the lattices of the high-temperature superconductors Tl2Ba2Ca n−1CunO2n+4 and Bi2Sr2Ca n−1CunO2n+4

To determine the charges of atoms in the lattices of the compounds Tl₂Ba₂Ca _n?1Cu_nO_2n+4 and Bi₂Sr₂Ca _n?1Cu_nO_2n+4 (n=1,2,3), the parameters of the electric field gradient tensor at the copper sites of the indicated lattices were found by emission Mössbauer spectroscopy on the isotopes ⁶¹Cu(⁶¹Ni) and ⁶⁷Cu(⁶⁷Zn), and a calculation of these parameters was performed in the point-charge approximation. A comparison of the resulting values and the published data on ⁶³Cu nuclear quadrupole resonance showed that agreement between the experimental and computed values of the parameters obtains for models in which the holes resulting from a reduction in the valence of some of the thallium (bismuth) atoms are localized predominantly at oxygen sites located in the same plane as the copper atoms (for the compounds Tl₂Ba₂Ca₂Cu₃O₁₀ and Bi_1.6Pb_0.4Sr₂Ca₂Cu₃O₁₀—at oxygen sites in the same plane as the Cu(2) atoms).     

Binary subwavelength diffractive-lens design

We present a procedure for the design of binary diffractive lenses with pulse-width-modulated subwavelength features. The procedure is based on the combination of two approximate theories, effective medium theory and scalar diffraction theory, and accounts for limitations on feature size and etch depth imposed by fabrication. A design example is presented.     

Construction of a generalized solution to an equation that preserves the Bellman type in a given domain of the state space

A Cauchy problem is considered for a Hamilton-Jacobi equation that preserves the Bellman type in a spatially bounded strip. Sufficient conditions are obtained under which there exists a continuous generalized (minimax/viscosity) solution to this problem with a given structure in the strip. A construction of this solution is presented.     

Exotic nuclei produced by heavy-ions induced fission

About thirty nuclei in theA≈100 mass region have been produced as fission fragments following the fusion-evaporation reactions^28,30Si+¹⁷⁶Yb at 145 MeV bombarding energy. These nuclei have been individually identified from their γ-ray cascades detected with the Eurogam2 array. The level schemes of several stable or neutron-rich nuclei have been extended to higher spins. From cross coincidences between transitions in complementary fragments, γ-rays de-exciting high-spin states of new isotopes can be identified and some aspects of the fission mechanism can be analyzed.     

Simulation of Reciprocal Space Maps with the Use of Spectral Angular Diagrams in the Triple Crystal X-Ray Diffraction Scheme

An approach to the simulation of reciprocal space maps corresponding to the maps obtained experimentally by the triple crystal X-ray diffractometry (TXD) is proposed. A specific feature of the approach is the use of spectral angular distribution diagrams of X-ray radiation, which allows one to visualize the two-dimensional pattern of the spectral angular “composition” of an X-ray beam after its interaction with each element of the scheme and thus to take into account the contribution of the hardware function of the experimental setup. The algorithms developed allow calculations for a wide class of radiation sources (from an X‑ray tube with any material of the anode to a synchrotron radiation source) and X-ray optical elements (slits, X-ray mirrors of monochromators, and analyzers). The results of simulation are compared with the experimental data for dispersive diffraction geometry, which confirms the adequacy of the proposed approach and its applicability to the simulation of a diffraction pattern corresponding to a real experiment in the triple crystal scheme.     

High-Harmonic Generation upon Propagation of an Ultimately Short Optical Pulse in a Medium of Carbon Nanotubes Exhibiting Nonlinear Absorption

Optics and Spectroscopy - The problem of propagation of an ultimately short optical pulse in a medium of carbon nanotubes exhibiting nonlinear absorption and gain is analyzed. Nonlinear absorption...     

Structural Transformations of Ni1 – xCuxFe2O4 Nanoparticles Depending on the Number of Cu Ions

Physics of the Solid State - Changes in the structure and properties of the Ni1 – xCuxFe2O4 ferrites-spinel magnetic nanoparticles depending on the Cu ion concentration (0...     

Nakai's conjecture for varieties smoothed by normalization

The notion of D-simplicity is used to give a short proof that varieties whose normalization is smooth satisfy Ishibashi's extension of Nakai's conjecture to arbitrary characteristic. This gives a new proof of Nakai's conjecture for curves and Stanley-Reisner rings.