Investigation of phonon anomalies in intermediate valence compounds SmS and Sm0·65Y0·25S

Phonon anomalies in two intermediate valence compounds (IVC), SmS and Sm_0·75Y_0·25S have been investigated using breathing shell model (BSM). The BSM includes breathing motion of electron shells of the rare earth atom due tof−d hybridization. The phonon dispersion curves of IVC, calculated from the present model, agree well with the measured data. One-phonon density of states calculated from the present model compares well with the Raman spectra.     

Intensification of the Emission Signals Using the Reflection Mirrors Mounted to the Sample Holder of a Fluorimeter

Effects of the reflection mirrors mounted to the sample holder of a fluorimeter have been investigated. Analytical expressions are given for the emission intensity measured as a function of the concentration or optical density of the sample, in case one or two reflection mirrors are attached beside the sample holder to intensify the emission signals. The emission intensity calculated as a function of the sample concentration agreed well with the experimental data. By mounting two reflection mirrors, the emission signal was intensified by a factor of near 3.5. However, the degree of intensification depended strongly on the sample concentration and the linearity between the sample concentration and the emission intensity deviated significantly with increasing the sample concentration.     

The sloshing of stratified liquid in a two-dimensional rectangular tank

The sloshing of inviscid liquid of stratified density in a rectangular tank is analyzed.As the flow is no longer irrotional,the governing equation is found to be quite different from the Laplace equation used for the liquid of constant density.In particular it contains terms of mixed temporal and spatial derivatives.The problem is solved based on the variable separation method and Laplace transform for the constant Vaisala-Brunt frequency.It is found that the stratification of density may have small effects...     

Engineering of hydrophilic and plasmonic properties of Ag thin film by atom beam irradiation

Hydrophilic Ag nanostructures were synthesized by physical vapour deposition of 5 nm Ag thin films followed by irradiation with 1.5 keV Ar atoms. Optical absorbance measurements show a characteristic surface plasmon resonance absorption band in visible region. A blue-shift in absorbance from 532 to 450 nm is observed with increasing fluence from 1 × 10¹⁶ to 3 × 10¹⁶ atoms/cm². Atomic force microscopy was performed for the pristine and irradiated samples to study the surface morphology. The atom beam irradiation induced sputtering and surface diffusion lead to the formation of plasmonic surface. Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy of the pristine and irradiated film indicates that metal content in the film decreases with ion fluence, which is attributed to the sputtering of Ag by Ar atoms. The contact angle measurement demonstrates the possibility of engineering the hydrophilicity by atom beam irradiation.     

Large‐Scale Fluctuation Behavior Prior to the Crystallization of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) Glass: A Small‐Angle Light Scattering Study

The crystallization processes of amorphous, glassy‐state poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) at two temperatures, a low temperature near T _g where PET has a slow crystallization speed and a middle temperature (about 55°C above T _g ) where PET crystallization is rapid, were monitored in situ by a time‐resolved small‐angle light scattering (SALS) device. It was found that large‐scale fluctuations happened prior to the crystallization at both temperatures, but the kind of fluctuation had a temperature dependence: at the middle temperature, pure density fluctuation took place during the induction period, whereas at low temperature, both density fluctuation and orientation fluctuation occurred, but the latter was the dominant factor. Analyses of the kinetics of these two kinds of fluctuation processes demonstrated that the spinodal decomposition (SD) type of phase‐separation character was undistinguishable in the SALS scale, while the nucleation‐growth (NG) type of phase behavior could describe the scattering results as well.     

Multi-environment probability density function method for modelling turbulent combustion using realistic chemical kinetics

A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tool for performing turbulent combustion simulations that require finite-rate chemistry is developed and tested by modelling a series of bluff-body stabilized flames that exhibit different levels of finite-rate chemistry effects ranging from near equilibrium to near global extinction. The new modelling tool is based on the multi-environment probability density function (MEPDF) methodology and combines the following: the direct quadrature method of moments (DQMOM); the interaction-by-exchange-with-the-mean (IEM) mixing model; and realistic combustion chemistry. Using DQMOM, the MEPDF model can be derived from the transport PDF equation by depicting the joint composition PDF as a weighted summation of a finite number of multi-dimensional Dirac delta functions in the composition space. The MEPDF method with multiple reactive scalars retains the unique property of the joint PDF method of treating chemical reactions exactly. However, unlike the joint PDF methods that typically must resort to particle-based Monte-Carlo solution schemes, the MEPDF equations (i.e. the transport equations of the weighted delta-peaks) can be solved by traditional Eulerian grid-based techniques. In the current study, a pseudo time-splitting scheme is adopted to solve the MEPDF equations; the reaction source terms are computed with a highly efficient and accurate in-situ adaptive tabulation (ISAT) algorithm. A 19-species reduced mechanism based on quasi-steady state assumptions is used in the simulations of the bluff-body flames. The modelling results are compared with the experimental data, including mixing, temperature, major species and important minor species such as CO and NO. Compared with simulations using a Monte-Carlo joint PDF method, the new approach shows comparable accuracy.     

铈掺杂高钆镥氧化物玻璃制备和光谱性能

实验中采用高温熔融法制备了一系列高钆镥硼硅酸盐新型玻璃体系样品,研究了这种新型玻璃体系的玻璃形成区,测量了样品的玻璃稳定性和密度。结果表明,玻璃体系的玻璃形成区较广,玻璃稳定性良好（析晶温度与转变温度的差为262 ℃）,且玻璃样品的密度达到5 g/cm3。以此种玻璃体系作为基质掺入Ce3+离子,测量其透过光谱、激发光谱、发射光谱、X射线激发发射光谱以及Gd3+离子的衰减时间。结果表明,玻璃的透过性能适合Ce3+离子的掺杂,并且Gd2O3和Lu2O3对闪烁体发光都具有积极的影响,同时研究了Gd3+离子和Ce3+离子的能量传递机理及最佳能量传递掺杂摩尔比。从玻璃的物理性能和光谱性能考虑,这种闪烁玻璃系统具有广泛应用于高能物理材料中的一定潜力。     

一种基于光纤萨尼亚克环的新型传感结构

提出了一种实现全光纤多扰动测量的基于光纤萨尼亚克环的新型传感结构。该传感结构采用新型的双萨尼亚克环结构并用波分复用技术代替了传统的双光源结构，减小了系统损耗，实现了对多扰动的位置的测量。分析了传感原理，推导了数学模型，表明测量误差与解调电路的频率响应有关，并进行了单频和多频扰动的实验研究，实验证明了理论分析的正确性。