Strong water repellency effect on SiO<Subscript>2</Subscript> films processed at a nanometric scale

The present study deals with the creation of nano-rough surfaces with stable and controlled high hydrophobicity. These surfaces were obtained by combining the ion track etching technique with a simple functionalization by grafting perfluoroctyltrichlorosilane (PFOTS) molecules. Surface morphology was investigated by AFM observations which evidenced a self-affine fractal structure with a fractal dimension D_f ~ 2.6. The study of the wetting properties of these surfaces allowed to elucidate the conditions for observing a high hydrophobicity phenomenon and to predict the contact angle values for surfaces designed at a nanometric scale.     

水基切伦科夫μ子探测器的研究

利用高速带电粒子在透明介质中产生切伦科夫辐射的特性,以蒸馏水作为辐射介质,搭建了一个小尺寸(π×22.52cm2×45 cm)的切伦科夫探测器,对能量在GeV量级的μ子进行了相应的测量,考虑其他能量损耗、光传输和收集效率、阴极量子效率后,实验结果与理论估计值有比较高的相符度,可以初步断定仪器具备探测GeV量级μ子的能力.     

基于倏逝场微小粒子驱动技术研究进展

处于倏逝场中的微小粒子会受到辐射压力的作用而朝着倏逝场的传播方向运动,基于此原理的微小粒子驱动技术可用于介质颗粒、胶体颗粒、生物细胞等微小粒子的捕获和驱动.由于倏逝场光学微操作系统不会受到物镜焦深和激光光斑尺寸的限制,因此它比自由空间系统的优越性更强,而波导形成的光学力可以应用于长距离驱动,其仅仅受限于系统的散射和吸收...     

Analytic treatment of the relativistic motion of charged particles in electric and magnetic field

Summary Using the Boris mover, or other standard methods, the error pile-up in the computation of the relativistic orbit of charged particles in electric and magnetic fields becomes quickly excessive, if one wants to keep reasonably limited the number of points employed to build the particle orbit. An analytical solution becomes, therefore, desirable and its construction is the subject of the present work.

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Riassunto Unsando il metodo di Boris, oppure altri metodi standard, l'accumulazione degli errori nella determinazione numerica delle orbite relativistiche di particelle cariche in campi elettrici e magnetici diventa intollerabile, se il numero dei punti impiegati per costruire le orbite stesse è mantenuto basso. Una soluzione analitica diviene quindi utile, e questa costituisce l'argomento del presente lavoro.

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Резюме В рамках стндартных методов погрешность при вычислении релятивистской орбиты заряженных частиц в электронном и магнитном полях становится чрезмерно большой, если для построения орбиты часицы используется ограниченное число точек. В связи с этим конструируется аналитическое решение.

     

125m Te (109.3 keV) stimulated emission and gamma lasers

Summary Proceeding from the drastic discrepancy between experimental data and theory, we show (contrary to other authors) that the relations between the Einstein's coefficients are true for transitions from any of the excited levels and theground state of the quantum system only. The relations connecting those coefficients are derived for transitions betweenany two states; the corresponding cross-sections are calculated and it is shown (contrary to other authors) that the stimulated emission cross-section may be large enough for the creation of gamma lasers. The new relation for Einstein's coefficients (and the corresponding cross-sections) are fundamentally different from those known so far (74 years after Einstein). The results are compared with experiment and the coincidence is very good. These investigations can lead to progress in the study of physical processes in star atmospheres. The author of this paper has agreed to not receive the proofs for correction.     

Antiferromagnetism in double-layered perowskitic oxides SrLa2Fe2O7 and BaLa2Fe2O7

Il Nuovo Cimento D - Two double-layered perowskitic compounds have been investigated by XRD analysis and Mössbauer spectroscopy. The experimental data allow the conclusion that magnetization...     

Beyond Einstein's radiation theory

Einstein's radiation mechanism is generalized to account for the possibility of population inversion by placing a nonlinear bound on the growth of an unstable perturbation. The nonstationary linear mechanism of relaxation to blackbody radiation below threshold is studied. The nonstationary photon distribution is the negative binomial distribution, and casting it as a law of error, for which the most probable value is the mean value, gives the expression for the statistical entropy. The second law yields a nonequilibrium generalization of Planck's radiation law. The nonlinear mechanism leading to the transformation from the negative binomial probability distribution, for chaotic light, to a Poisson probability distribution, for coherent light, is then analyzed. A criterion for lasing is given in terms of the chemical potential of radiation which is compared to the inequality for the transition from quantum to classical statistics.     

Ellipticity of the Linearly Polarized He-Ne Laser Radiation Reflected by the Leaves of Plants

The phenomenon of elliptical polarization of the linearly polarized radiation reflected near the Brewster angle by the leaves of plants has been investigated. It has been shown that the appearance of ellipticity is associated with the complex structure of the cuticle.__________Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 72, No. 2, pp. 236–240, March–April, 2005.     

Temperature profiles in a two-component heterogeneous system heated with a cw laser

A formalism has been developed to calculate the steady-state temperature profiles induced by a cw laser in a composite system comprising a thick medium covered with a film of another medium. The analysis is carried out assuming that thermal and optical properties of the media are temperature-independent. A concept of the effective thermal conductivity for the system is introduced in terms of the maximum temperature rise. Temperature-distributions are numerically computed in typical cases for a circular Gaussian beam to illustrate dependence on film thickness, thermal conductivities and absorption coefficients of the media and size of the laser beam.     

Valence band and band gap photoemission study of (1 1 1) In2O3 epitaxial films under interactions with oxygen, water and carbon monoxide

Synchrotron radiation ultraviolet photoemission experiments at photon energies of 150 and 49 eV were performed on an epitaxial layer of (1 1 1) In₂O₃ with good crystallinity as established by a standard scanning probe and diffraction methods. Valence band (VB) and band gap photoemission spectra were monitored under separate oxygen, water and carbon monoxide exposures (100 L) at different activation temperatures within the range utilized for chemiresistive gas sensors (160-450 °C). Large changes in photoemission response within the whole VB were observed for all gases. Regular shifts of the valence band edge relative to the Fermi energy were found under gas exposures on two kinds of surface (partially reduced or partially oxidized), and are interpreted as changes of surface potential. Treatments in oxygen resulted in upward band bending (∼0.5 eV at T = 320 °C). Regardless of activation temperature, treatments in water resulted in downward band bending, but with small changes (<0.1 eV). Reduction properties of carbon monoxide were observed only at high temperatures of T ? 370 °C. At temperatures of 160 and 250 °C unusual “oxidizing” behavior of CO was observed with upward band bending of ∼0.7 eV (160 °C). Oxidizing and reducing effects of the gas interactions with the (1 1 1) In₂O₃ surface in all cases were accompanied by a corresponding behavior, i.e., a decrease or increase in photoemission response from so-called defect states in the band gap near the top of the valence band. The increases of photoemission within a band gap with maxima at binding energies (BE) of 0.4 (O₂-induced peak) and 1.0 eV (CO-induced peak) were, respectively, found for interactions with O₂ and CO for low temperatures (T = 160 and 250 °C). These responses were ascribed to acceptor-like electronic levels of O₂ and CO chemisorption states, respectively. A definite split of the top VB peak (BE ∼ 4.0 eV) was found under CO dosing at 160 °C. Established knowledge of the CO interaction with the (1 1 1) In₂O₃ surface explains earlier revealed acceptor-like behavior of In₂O₃ film conductivity during CO detection at operational temperatures lower than 250 °C through the formation of acceptor-like electronic levels of adsorbed CO molecules.