We have used Brillouin light scattering (BLS) to investigate the mechanical properties of thin polystyrene (PS) and polyisoprene (PI) films incorporated in a multilayer geometry consisting of alternating layers of the...
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A detailed analysis is reported examining the local magnetic susceptibility chi(r), in relation to the correlation function GIR) and correlation length xi, of a spherical model ferromagnet confined to geometry Omega =...
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A detailed analysis is reported examining the local magnetic susceptibility chi(r), in relation to the correlation function GIR) and correlation length xi, of a spherical model ferromagnet confined to geometry Omega = L(d-d') x infinity(d') (d' less than or equal to 2, d > 2) under a continuous set of twisted boundary conditions. The ''twist'' parameter ($) under bar tau in this problem may be interpreted as a measure of the geometry-dependent doping level of interfacial impurities (or antiferromagnetic seams) in the extended system at various temperatures. For tau(j) --> 0, For All j is an element of d-d', no seams are present except at infinity, whereas if tau(j) = 1/2, impurity saturation occurs. For 0 < tau(j) < 1/2 the physical domain Omega(phys) = D-d-d' x infinity(d') (D > L), defining the region between seams containing the origin, depends on temperature above a certain threshold (T > T-0). Below that temperature (T < T-0), seams are frozen at the same position (D approximate to L/2 tau, d-d' = 1), revealing a smoothly varying large-scale structural phase transition.
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LIU, WKDepartment of Physics
Guelph- Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physacs (GWP) University of Waterloo
The theory of the nonlinear optical processes in recent high-resolution coherent Raman spectroscopic studies of gases is reviewed, and a unified description of various spectroscopic techniques in terms of the correlat...
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The theory of the nonlinear optical processes in recent high-resolution coherent Raman spectroscopic studies of gases is reviewed, and a unified description of various spectroscopic techniques in terms of the correlation functions of molecular polarizability tenser is presented. A theoretical description of spectral line shapes in terms of a relaxation matrix, which provides the connection between the microscopic intermolecular potential and the experimental observables, is discussed. We pay particular attention to ab initio scattering calculations starting from accurate interaction potentials for the linewidths, line shifts, and line-mixing parameters for the system of deuterium molecules interacting with a bath of inert gas atoms, under a wide range of perturber densities. It is clear that for simple systems involving foreign gas broadening, the theory has reached the maturity that first-principles calculation of line spectra is highly feasible. Future directions of theoretical research from both a fundamental point of view and practical considerations are indicated.
The photoresponse of polycrystalline ZnO films generally contains both a true photoconductivity and a contribution from surface structural changes which can alter the surface conductance via the chemisorption and phot...
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The photoresponse of polycrystalline ZnO films generally contains both a true photoconductivity and a contribution from surface structural changes which can alter the surface conductance via the chemisorption and photodesorption of an active ambient-gas component. The surface structural changes can increase the conductance by up to seven orders of magnitude for a 500 nm thick sample when illuminated with an intensity of 4 x 10(16) photon cm(-2) s(-1) UV light, but the response times are very slow. Newly prepared samples exhibit a fast response characteristic such as a true photoconductivity, but after exposure to air for several months the slower response dominates. Thus if used as a photoconductor, oxygen adsorption or desorption from the surface of a ZnO film is particularly problematic, but some surface stability can be achieved by adding nitrogen to the surface layers of the ZnO film and these samples exhibit more normal and improved photoconducting behaviour.
A strong accumulation layer can be produced on the surface of polycrystalline ZnO films when the samples are exposed to ions from an inert gas discharge in Ar or Kr. A combination of surface conductance and surface po...
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A strong accumulation layer can be produced on the surface of polycrystalline ZnO films when the samples are exposed to ions from an inert gas discharge in Ar or Kr. A combination of surface conductance and surface potential measurements show that an accumulation layer is induced by the adsorption of charges from the inert gas plasma which neutralizes and removes chemisorbed oxygen atoms, and this can increase the conductance by more than 6 orders of magnitude, for 500 nm thick films. Electrical neutrality in the ZnO provides the electrons for the accumulation layer, either from the ohmic contacts or the plasma. This accumulation layer can be further enhanced by illumination with UV light.
We calculate the far-infrared absorption spectrum of the endohedral fullerene He@C-70. In this molecule the He inclusion experiences a strongly anisotropic potential V(rho, z). The 2D Schrodinger equation governing it...
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We calculate the far-infrared absorption spectrum of the endohedral fullerene He@C-70. In this molecule the He inclusion experiences a strongly anisotropic potential V(rho, z). The 2D Schrodinger equation governing its rovibrational motion is solved variationally. The spectrum consists of strong P- and R-branches (Delta m = +/-1) and a much weaker Q-branch (Delta m = 0), and peaks near 100cm(-1). Despite its apparent complexity, however, the eigenvalue spectrum is essentially regular, and the system displays little evidence of chaos.
A Fourier cosine transform method, based on the Rayleigh-Gans-Debye thin-shell approximation, was developed to retrieve vesicle size distribution directly from the angular dependence of scattered light intensity. Its ...
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A Fourier cosine transform method, based on the Rayleigh-Gans-Debye thin-shell approximation, was developed to retrieve vesicle size distribution directly from the angular dependence of scattered light intensity. Its feasibility for real vesicles was partially tested on scattering data generated by the exact Mie solutions for isotropic vesicles. The noise tolerance of the method in recovering unimodal and biomodal distributions was studied with the simulated data. Applicability of this approach to vesicles with weak anisotropy was examined using Mie theory for anisotropic hollow spheres. A primitive theory about the first four moments of the radius distribution about the origin, excluding the mean radius, was obtained as an alternative to the direct retrieval of size distributions.
Based on the Rayleigh-Gans-Debye thin shell approximation, a fast Fourier cosine transform method was developed to retrieve vesicle size distributions directly from the light scattering measurement. The method was tes...
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We present a renormalization group theory in polymer conformation space to describe randomly branched polymers in which monomers interact with each other through the excluded volume interaction. We make a perturbation...
We present a renormalization group theory in polymer conformation space to describe randomly branched polymers in which monomers interact with each other through the excluded volume interaction. We make a perturbation expansion for the mean square radius of gyration of randomly branched polymers with annealed structures and identify the appropriate scaling variable. We further perform a renormalization group analysis that results in the ε expansion for the critical exponents of the radius of gyration ν=1/4+ε/36 and of the number of configurations θ=5/2-ε/12, which are consistent with the results of an earlier theory.
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