Investigation of heteroepitaxial diamond films by atomic force and scanning tunneling microscopy

We report on Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) investigations on chemical vapour deposited heteroepitaxial diamond films. Besides the good macroscopic crystal morphology a statistical tilt up to ±5.2° of the oriented crystallites has been found relative to the silicon substrates. By optimizing the process conditions, however, the crystal tilt of the films can be reduced, resulting in an improved film perfection. On crystallite (001)-surfaces a substructure of growth facets or islands has been found and high resolution STM images have established a 2×1 surface reconstruction on these growth facets. AFM and SEM were applied to study the morphology of diamond nuclei initially grown on the silicon substrate. Strong island like (Volmer-Weber) growth has been found, with a nucleus height to diameter ratio of 1:1. While the islands are growing in size with respect to time of nucleation, its aspect ratio does not change, due to the high surface free energy of the diamond relative to silicon.     

N-Soliton Solution in Wronskian Form for a Generalized Variable-Coefficient Korteweg--de Vries Equation

We concentrate on finding exact solutions for a generalized variable-coefficient Korteweg-de Vries equation of physically significance. The analytic N-soliton solution in Wronskian form for such a model is postulated and verified by direct substituting the solution into the bilinear form by virtue of the Wronskian technique. Additionally, the bilinear auto-Backlund transformation between the （ N - 1）- and N-soliton solutions is verified.     

1-soliton solution of the generalized Radhakrishnan, Kundu, Lakshmanan equation

This Letter carries out the integration of the generalized Radhakrishnan, Kundu, Lakshmanan equation to obtain the 1-soliton solution. The solitary wave ansatz is used to carry out the integration, to obtain an exact solution of this equation.     

On Some Classes of New Solutions of Continuous β-FPU Chain

A continuous β-Fermi--Pasta--Ulam (FPU) chain is investigated by using the knowledge of elliptic equation and Jacobian elliptic functions. We obtain the new solutions, two-kink soliton solution, breather solution and breather lattice solution, of the continuous β-FPU chain, besides the kink-soliton solution and chaos solution.     

Some new solitary and travelling wave solutions of certain nonlinear diffusion-reaction equations using auxiliary equation method

Attempts are made to look for the soliton content in the exact solutions of certain types of nonlinear diffusion-reaction (DR) equations with the quadratic and cubic nonlinearities. Such equations may arise in a variety of contexts in physical problems. In this Letter using the auxiliary equation method, some new solitary and travelling wave solutions of such nonlinear DR equations are obtained in a very general form. Several interesting special cases of these general solutions are also discussed.     

Dispersive optical solitons by Kudryashov's method

This paper studies the dynamics of dispersive optical solitions that is modeled by the fourth order nonlinear Schrödinger's equation and Schrödinger–Hirota equation, the latter of which is considered with power law nonlinearity. Kudryashov's method is applied to obtain soliton solutions to the model equations. These results and the solution methodology makes a profound impact in the study of optical solitons.     

New Doubly Periodic Waves of the （2＋1）-Dimensional Double Sine-Gordon Equation

New exact solutions of the （2 ＋1）-dimensional double sine-Gordon equation are studied by introducing the modified mapping relations between the cubic nonlinear Klein-Gordon system and double sine-Gordon equation. Two arbitrary functions are included into the Jacobi elliptic function solutions. New doubly periodic wave solutions are obtained and displayed graphically by proper selections of the arbitrary functions.     

Measurement of tortuosity in aluminum foams using airborne ultrasound

The slow compressional wave in air-saturated aluminum foams was studied by means of ultrasonic transverse transmission method over a frequency range from 0.2 MHz to 0.8 MHz. The samples investigated have three different cell sizes or pores per inch (5, 10 and 20 ppi) and each size has three aluminum volume fractions (5%, 8% and 12% AVF). Phase velocities show minor dispersion at low frequencies but remain constant after 0.7 MHz. Pulse broadening and amplitude attenuation are obvious and increase with increasing ppi. Attenuation increases considerably with AVF for 20 ppi foams. Tortuosity ranges from 1.003 to 1.032 and increases with AVF and ppi. However, the increase of tortuosity with AVF is very small for 10 and 20 ppi samples.     

New Periodic Solution to Jacobi Elliptic Functions of a (2+1)-Dimensional BKP Equation and a Generalized Klein-Gordon Equation

With the help of the homogeneous balance method, the Jacobi elliptic expansion method and the auxiliary equation method, the first elliptic function equation is used to obtain the Jacobi doubly periodic wave solutions of the (2+1)-dimensional B-type Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (BKP) equation and the generalized Klein-Gordon equation. The method is also valid for other (1+1)-dimensional and higher dimensional systems.     

Novel homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions for the 2D complex cubic Ginzburg-Landau equation

Homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions are two important concepts that are used to investigate the complex properties of nonlinear evolutionary equations. In this Letter, we perform hyperbolic and linear stability analysis, and prove the existence of homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions for two-dimensional cubic Ginzburg-Landau equation with periodic boundary condition and even constraint. Then, using the Hirota's bilinear transformation, we find the closed-form homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions. Moreover, we find that the homoclinic tubes and two families of heteroclinic solutions are asymptotic to a periodic cycle in one dimension.