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Advanced acoustic and aerodynamic 20-inch fan program
The aerodynamic analyses, mechanical analyses, and stress tests of a 20-inch diameter advanced fan design intended for acoustic investigation by NASA-LeRC are discussed. A high tip speed transonic fan rotor was scaled directly to 20.0 inches (0.508 m) from a 28.74-inch (0.73-m) diameter rotor. A new stator was designed and fabricated for the fan and incorporated with a test rig housing and adapter hardware for installation in the NASA-LeRC Jet Noise Facility for acoustic evaluation. The stator was designed to allow mounting at three axial locations, and the fan, housing, and adapters are reversible so that either the inlet or the exhaust ends of the assembly face the open room of the test facility. Excellent aerodynamic performance is predicted, and a low noise signature is expected since the unique aerodynamic design features of this fan are directly conductive to producing minimum sound power
Electronic Structure of Superconducting Ba6c60
We report the results of first-principles electronic-structure calculations
for superconducting Ba6C60. Unlike the A3C60 superconductors, this new compound
shows strong Ba-C hybridization in the valence and conduction regions, mixed
covalent/ionic bonding character, partial charge transfer, and insulating
zero-gap band structure.Comment: 11 pages + 4 figures (1 appended, others on request), LaTeX with
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A piezoelectrically actuated ball valve
Bimorph strip composed of two layers of poled piezoelectric ceramic material closes and opens valve. Strip performs like capacitator, allowing initial inrush of current when valve is energized and then only small leakage current flows as valve remains energized
Three-dimensional electronic instabilities in polymerized solid A1C60
The low-temperature structure of A1C60 (A=K, Rb) is an ordered array of
polymerized C60 chains, with magnetic properties that suggest a non-metallic
ground state. We study the paramagnetic state of this phase using
first-principles electronic-structure methods, and examine the magnetic
fluctuations around this state using a model Hamiltonian. The electronic and
magnetic properties of even this polymerized phase remain strongly three
dimensional, and the magnetic fluctuations favor an unusual three-dimensional
antiferromagnetically ordered structure with a semi-metallic electronic
spectrum.Comment: REVTeX 3.0, 10 pages, 4 figures available on request from
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Important role of alkali atoms in A4C60
We show that hopping via the alkali atoms plays an important role for the t1u
band of A4C60 (A=K, Rb), in strong contrast to A3C60. Thus the t1u band is
broadened by more than 40 % by the presence of the alkali atoms. The difference
between A4C60 and A3C60 is in particular due to the less symmetric location of
the alkali atoms in A4C60.Comment: 5 pages, revtex, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B more
information at http://www.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de/dokumente/andersen/fullerene
Commensurate and modulated magnetic phases in orthorhombic A1C60
Competing magnetically ordered structures in polymerized orthorhombic A1C60
are studied. A mean-field theory for the equilibrium phases is developed using
an Ising model and a classical Heisenberg model to describe the competition
between inter- and intra-chain magnetic order in the solid. In the Ising model,
the limiting commensurate one-dimensional and three-dimensional phases are
separated by a commensurate three-sublattice state and by two sectors
containing higher-order commensurate phases. For the Heisenberg model the
quasi-1D phase is never the equilibrium state; instead the 3D commensurate
phases exhibits a transition to a continuum of coplanar spiral magnetic phases.Comment: 11 pages REVTeX 3.0 plus 4 figures appende
Singe ferroelectric and chiral magnetic domain of single-crystalline BiFeO in an electric field
We report polarized neutron scattering and piezoresponse force microscopy
studies of millimeter-sized single crystals of multiferroic BiFeO. The
crystals, grown below the Curie temperature, consist of a single ferroelectric
domain. Two unique electric polarization directions, as well as the populations
of equivalent spiral magnetic domains, can be switched reversibly by an
electric field. A ferroelectric monodomain with a single- single-helicity
spin spiral can be obtained. This level of control, so far unachievable in thin
films, makes single-crystal BiFeO a promising object for multiferroics
research.Comment: 4 figures in separate jpg file
Diffuse Neutron Scattering Study of Relaxor Ferroelectric (1-x)Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3-xPbTiO3(PZN-xPT)
Diffuse neutron scattering is a valuable tool to obtain information about the
size and orientation of the polar nanoregions that are a characteristic feature
of relaxor ferroelectrics. In this paper, we present new diffuse scattering
results obtained on Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3 (PZN for short) and
(1-x)Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3-xPbTiO3(PZN-xPT)single crystals (with x=4.5 and 9%),
around various Bragg reflections and along three symmetry directions in the
[100]-[011] zone. Diffuse scattering is observed around reflections with mixed
indices, (100), (011) and (300), and along transverse and diagonal directions
only. No diffuse scattering is found in longitudinal scans. The diffuse
scattering peaks can be fitted well with a Lorentzian function, from which a
correlation length is extracted. The correlation length increases with
decreasing temperatures down to the transition at Tc, first following a
Curie-Weiss law, then departing from it and becoming flat at very low
temperatures. These results are interpreted in terms of three temperature
regions: 1) dynamic polarization fluctuations (i.e. with a finite lifetime) at
high temperatures, 2) static polarization reorientations (condensation of polar
nanoregions) that can still reorient as a unit (relaxor behavior) at
intermediate temperatures and 3) orientational freezing of the polar
nanoregions with random strain fields in pure PZN or a structural phase
transition in PZN-xPT at low temperatures. The addition of PT leads to a
broadening of the diffuse scattering along the diagonal ([111]) relative to the
transverse ([100]) direction, indicating a change in the orientation of the
polar regions. Also, with the addition of PT, the polar nanoregions condense at
a higher temperature above Tc.Comment: AIP 6x9 style files, 9 pages, 5 figures, Conference-Fundamental
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