Spectrometric analysis of non-metals introduced from a graphite furnace into a microwave-induced plasma

A low-power helium microwave-induced plasma, sustained in a cylindrical TM(010) cavity, has been used with sample introduction from a graphite furnace. An end-on optical configuration was employed to monitor both atomic and ionic emission from Cl, I, S and P. The operating parameters were optimized with respect to the nature of the plasma background response, the limits of detection, and the shapes and linearity ranges of the log-log analytical working curves. Possible applications were evaluated by determining iodine in milk and analysing a multi-component mixture of sulphur compounds.     

Study of structural and electronic transport properties of Ce-doped LaMnO3

The structural and electronic transport properties of La_1−x Ce _x MnO₃ (x=0.0–1.0) have been studied. All the samples exhibit orthorhombic crystal symmetry and the unit cell volume decreases with Ce doping. They also make a metal-insulator transition (MIT) and transition temperature increases with increase in Ce concentration up to 50% doping. The system La_0.5Ce_0.5MnO₃ also exhibits MIT instead of charge-ordered state as observed in the hole doped systems of the same composition.     

Two connected inverse spectral transforms

We establish a transformation which connects the potentials of the one-dimensional Dirac and Klein-Gordon operators. This transformation links the solutions of the nonlinear evolution equations solvable by means of the two inverse spectral transforms which use the Dirac and Klein-Gordon direct and inverse spectral problems.