Nanodomain structures formation during polarization reversal in uniform electric field in strontium barium niobate single crystals

We have studied the ferroelectric nanodomain formation in single crystals of strontium barium niobate Sr 0.61Ba 0.39Nb 2O 6 using piezoelectric force microscopy and Raman confocal microscopy. The nanodomain structures have been created by application of the uniform electric field at room temperature. Four variants of nanodomain structure formation have been revealed: (1) discrete switching, (2) incomplete domain merging, (3) spontaneous backswitching, and (4) enlarging of nanodomain ensembles. Kinetics of the observed micro- and nanodomain structures has been explained on the basis of approach developed for lithium niobate and lithium tantalate crystals. © 2012 American Institute of Physics

Synthesis and Cytotoxic Effect of 1-Aryl-Substituted-6-Imino-2,7-Dioxabicyclo[3.2.1]Octane-4,4,5-Tricarbonitriles

The work was carried out within the framework of scholarship SP-127.2016.4 from the President of the Russian Federation for young scientists and graduate students

Nanodomain structures formation during polarization reversal in uniform electric field in strontium barium niobate single crystals

We have studied the ferroelectric nanodomain formation in single crystals of strontium barium niobate Sr 0.61Ba 0.39Nb 2O 6 using piezoelectric force microscopy and Raman confocal microscopy. The nanodomain structures have been created by application of the uniform electric field at room temperature. Four variants of nanodomain structure formation have been revealed: (1) discrete switching, (2) incomplete domain merging, (3) spontaneous backswitching, and (4) enlarging of nanodomain ensembles. Kinetics of the observed micro- and nanodomain structures has been explained on the basis of approach developed for lithium niobate and lithium tantalate crystals. © 2012 American Institute of Physics

Tip-induced domain growth on the non-polar cuts of lithium niobate single-crystals

Currently, ferroelectric materials with designed domain structures are considered as a perspective material for new generation of photonic, data storage, and data processing devices. Application of external electric field is the most convenient way of the domain structure formation. Lots of papers are devoted to the investigation of domain kinetics on polar surface of crystals while the forward growth remains one of the most mysterious stages due to lack of experimental methods allowing to study it. Here, we performed tip-induced polarization reversal on X- and Y-non-polar cuts in single-crystal of congruent lithium niobate which allows us to study the forward growth with high spatial resolution. The revealed difference in the shape and length of domains induced on X- and Y-cuts is beyond previously developed theoretical approaches used for the theoretical consideration of the domains growth at non-polar ferroelectric surfaces. To explain experimental results, we used kinetic approach with anisotropy of screening efficiency along different crystallographic directions. © 2015 AIP Publishing LLC

Исследование возможности регенерации иода из газовых потоков при иодидном рафинировании

The article considers the possibility of recovering elemental iodine vapor from the waste gas in the zirconium refining section Carbon sorbents of various types produced in Russia were used for the refining. The sorbents were tested in laboratory units and directly in the production area. The optimal sorbent kind was found. The characteristics of iodine recovery from saturated sorbents were determined. Recommendations on the filter design are givenРассмотрена возможность улавливания паров элементарного иода из отходящих газов участка рафинирования циркония угольными сорбентами различных типов российского производства. Испытания сорбентов проведены на лабораторных установках и непосредственно на производственном участке. Подобран оптимальный вид сорбента. Определены показатели извлечения иода из насыщенных сорбентов. Выданы рекомендации конструкции фильтра

Light emission in the agglomeration of silver clusters

Small noble-gas droplets are generated by adiabatic expansion and travel over a heated crucible where evaporated Ag atoms are picked up. The subsequent agglomeration of these Ag atoms to clusters is associated with light emission. This effect is caused by the gain in binding energy by the clustering process leading to the ejection, preferably, of excited trimers. The heat released by condensation and coagulation of the Ag atoms on the droplets causes continuous evaporation of the noble-gas atoms, so that under suitable conditions even light emission from the decay of free Ag3∗ species could be observed and analyzed

Fluorescence spectroscopy of silver clusters formed in rare gas droplets

The Pick Up technique allows continuous formation of high density metal cluster beams in the otherwise hardly accessible size range Me2 to about Me50. With an apparatus based on the use of cryo-condensation pumps, Ar as inert gas for production of the host clusters by adiabatic expansion and silver as metal we demonstrate how the various source parameters influence the composition and mean size of the resulting cluster distributions. The analysis in the gas phase by means fluorescence spectroscopy allows to conclude that an Ar shell encapsulates the metal clusters