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Wide Range Thin-FIlm Ceramic Metal-Alloy Thermometers with Low Magnetoresistance
Many thermal measurements in high magnetic fields require thermometers that
are sensitive over a wide temperature range, are low mass, have a rapid thermal
response, and have a minimal, easily correctable magnetoresistance. Here we
report the development of a new granular-metal oxide ceramic composite (cermet)
for this purpose formed by co-sputtering of the metallic alloy nichrome
NiCr and the insulator silcon dioxide SiO. The resulting
thin films are sensitive enough to be used from room temperature down to below
100 mK in magnetic fields up to at least 35 tesla
Wide Range Thin-Film Ceramic Metal-Alloy Thermometers with Low Magnetoresistance
Many thermal measurements in high magnetic fields require thermometers that are sensitive over a wide temperature range, are low mass, have a rapid thermal response, and have a minimal, easily correctable magnetoresistance. Here we report the development of a new granular-metal oxide ceramic composite (cermet) for this purpose formed by co-sputtering of the metallic alloy nichrome Ni0.8Cr0.2 and the insulator silcon dioxide SiO2. The resulting thin films are sensitive enough to be used from room temperature down to below 100 mK in magnetic fields up to at least 35 tesla
The seroprevalence and salivary shedding of herpesviruses in Behcet's syndrome and recurrent aphthous stomatitis
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Calorimetric Measurements of Magnetic-Field-Induced Inhomogeneous Superconductivity Above The Paramagnetic Limit
We report the first magneto-caloric and calorimetric observations of a
magnetic-field-induced phase transition within a superconducting state to the
long-sought exotic "FFLO" superconducting state first predicted over 50 years
ago. Through the combination of bulk thermodynamic calorimetric and
magnetocaloric measurements in the organic superconductor -
(BEDT-TTF)Cu(NCS), as a function of temperature, magnetic field
strength, and magnetic field orientation, we establish for the first time that
this field-induced first-order phase transition at the paramagnetic limit
for traditional superconductivity is to a higher entropy superconducting phase
uniquely characteristic of the FFLO state. We also establish that this
high-field superconducting state displays the bulk paramagnetic ordering of
spin domains required of the FFLO state. These results rule out the alternate
possibility of spin-density wave (SDW) ordering in the high field
superconducting phase. The phase diagram determined from our measurements ---
including the observation of a phase transition into the FFLO phase at
--- is in good agreement with recent NMR results and our own earlier
tunnel-diode magnetic penetration depth experiments, but is in disagreement
with the only previous calorimetric report.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Developing a conceptual framework for assessing the socio-economic benefits of regeneration projects in the UK
Recent decades have witnessed the evolution of building assessment methods for appraising the sustainability performance of building projects. In the UK for instance, the Government has initiated a number of assessment/evaluation methods to deal with some of the environmental problems associated with regeneration programmes. But attempts aimed at implementing sustainability assessment primarily have been limited to the environmental impact of buildings, with the socio-economic aspects often neglected. The findings of an exploratory case study on a housing regeneration project, which adopted a combination of literature review and focus-group interview approach with eight key stakeholders for data collection in the UK, are presented in this paper. The emergent framework developed and presented in hierarchical order in this paper incorporates project level and wider community socio-economic sustainability indicators
Physical Dependence of the Sensitivity and Room-Temperature Stability of AuxGe1-x Thin Film Resistive Thermometers on Annealing Conditions
The reported nearly constant temperature sensitivity of appropriately annealed polycrystalline AuxGe1-x thin films at cryogenic temperatures would appear to make them promising materials for low mass, rapid thermal response resistive thermometers, but their adoption has been limited by difficulties in fabrication and uncertainties in annealing. In this work, we present a method of fabrication and annealing which allows control of the two most important parameters for these films: the room-temperature resistivity ρRT and the temperature sensitivity η(T), where η ≡ -d In R/d In T. We find that the dependence of ρRT on total anneal duration t for x≈0.18 is given by ρRT=ρ∞[1-Aexp(-t/τ)], where the limiting room-temperature resistivity ρ∞, the annealing coefficient A, and relaxation time τ are annealing temperature dependent parameters. The dependence of ρRT and temperature calibration ρ(T) on anneal duration can be minimized by annealing above 250 °C. Like ρRT, the sensitivity η(T) also depends on annealing temperature, with higher annealing temperatures corresponding to lower cryogenic sensitivities. In all cases η(T) can be well described by a polynomial expansion in In T from room temperature down to at least 2 K
On the pathwidth of almost semicomplete digraphs
We call a digraph {\em -semicomplete} if each vertex of the digraph has at
most non-neighbors, where a non-neighbor of a vertex is a vertex such that there is no edge between and in either direction.
This notion generalizes that of semicomplete digraphs which are
-semicomplete and tournaments which are semicomplete and have no
anti-parallel pairs of edges. Our results in this paper are as follows. (1) We
give an algorithm which, given an -semicomplete digraph on vertices
and a positive integer , in time either
constructs a path-decomposition of of width at most or concludes
correctly that the pathwidth of is larger than . (2) We show that there
is a function such that every -semicomplete digraph of pathwidth
at least has a semicomplete subgraph of pathwidth at least .
One consequence of these results is that the problem of deciding if a fixed
digraph is topologically contained in a given -semicomplete digraph
admits a polynomial-time algorithm for fixed .Comment: 33pages, a shorter version to appear in ESA 201
Update on alpha-particle and Nucleon Widths in \u3csup\u3e19\u3c/sup\u3eF and \u3csup\u3e19\u3c/sup\u3eNe
This short article concerns α-particle and/or nucleon widths for several states in 19F and 19Ne. It addresses questions arising from new experiments or calculations. Many of the states involved are of interest in connection with reaction-rate calculations in astrophysics. For each state, or set of states, we discuss the new information in the context of what was previously known. Our recent article concerned states above 6.5 MeV in 19F. Except for one of those states, the present article primarily involves only states below 6.5 MeV. Unless otherwise noted, our energies and Jπ values are from the latest compilation
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