The growth of ZnWO4 and CdWO4 single crystals from melt by the low thermal gradient Czochralski technique

Crystallography Reports - The features of growth of single crystals of cadmium and zinc tungstates by the low thermal gradient Czochralski technique have been investigated. The effect of change in...     

Effect of the porosity and particle size of materials on sound-wave velocity

Methods were developed to measure longitudinal and transverse sound velocities in porous materials — various Zn-S mixtures and KBr samples. It is shown that, on exposure to ultrasound with a wavelength far exceeding the pore size in pressed samples, a porous body behaves as a continuous medium. Sound velocity in a porous material was found to depend on the quantitative ratio of vacuum, air, and toluene in the pores. Bulk sound velocities estimated using an additive method agree with experimental data within an error not more than 10%. It was found that removal of moisture traces from porous samples led to significant absorption of sound waves. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 121–127, July–August, 2009.     

Study of the possibility of growing germanium single crystals under low temperature gradients

The possibility of growing germanium single crystals under low temperature gradients in order to produce a dislocation-free material has been studied. Germanium crystals with a dislocation density of about 100–200 cm^?2 have been grown in a system with a weight control of crystal growth at maximum axial gradients of about 1.5 K/cm.     

Enriched Zn $$^{100}$$ MoO $$_4$$ scintillating bolometers to search for $$0\nu 2\beta $$ decay of $$^{100}$$ Mo with the LUMINEU experiment

In the present work, we consider a model with a fermionic field that is non-minimally coupled to gravity in the framework of teleparallel gravity. In order to determine the forms of the coupling and potential function of fermionic field for the considered model, we use the Noether symmetry approach. By applying this approach, for the Friedman–Robertson–Walker metric, we obtain the respective potential and coupling functions as a linear and power-law form of the bilinear \(\Psi \) . Furthermore, we search for the exact cosmological solution of the model. It is shown that the fermionic field plays the role of dark energy.