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Synthesis of zinc oxide/silica composite nanoparticles by flame spray pyrolysis
Zinc oxide (ZnO)/silica (SiO2) composite nanoparticles were made by flame spray pyrolysis. The effects of the Zn/Si ratio on particle properties were examined and compared with those of the pure ZnO and SiO2 particles made at the same conditions. Polyhedral aggregates of nano-sized primary particles were obtained in all experiments. The mixed-oxide primary particle size was smaller than that of pure oxides. The primary particles consisted of ZnO nano-crystals and amorphous SiO2, as seen by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis using the fundamental parameter approach. The XRD size of ZnO was controlled from 1.2 to 11.3 nm by the initial precursor composition and it was consistent with HR-TEM. The composite particles exhibited an excellent thermal stability and little crystalline growth of ZnO (e.g., from 1.9 to 2.2 nm) was observed even after calcination at 600°
Nanometer-sized optical waveguides fabricated by anodic oxidation using a scanning near-field optical microscope
Cu- and Cl-NMR Studies of Triplet Localization in the Quantum Spin System NHCuCl
Cu- and Cl-NMR experiments were performed to investigate
triplet localization in the dimer compound NHCuCl, which shows
magnetization plateaus at one-quarter and three-quarters of the saturation
magnetization. In Cu-NMR experiments, signal from only the singlet Cu
site was observed, because that from the triplet Cu site was invisible due to
the strong spin fluctuation of onsite 3-spins. We found that the temperature
dependence of the shift of Cu-NMR spectra at the singlet Cu site
deviated from that of macroscopic magnetization below T=6 K. This deviation is
interpreted as the triplet localization in this system. From the
Cl-NMR experiments at the 1/4-plateau phase, we found the two
different temperature dependences of Cl-shift, namely the temperature
dependence of one deviates below T=6 K from that of the macroscopic
magnetization as observed in the Cu-NMR experiments, whereas the
other corresponds well with that of the macroscopic magnetization in the entire
experimental temperature region. We interpreted these dependences as reflecting
the transferred hyperfine field at the Cl site located at a singlet site and at
a triplet site, respectively. This result also indicates that the triplets are
localized at low temperatures. Cu-NMR experiments performed at high
magnetic fields between the one-quarter and three-quarters magnetization
plateaus have revealed that the two differently oriented dimers in the unit
cell are equally occupied by triplets, the fact of which limits the theoretical
model on the periodic structure of the localized triplets.Comment: 19 pages, 9 figures, submitted to PRB (in press
Single molecule and single quantum dot photodynamics by polarization-rotating modulation microscopy
We present our recent study of polarization modulating fluorescence imaging microscopy on single CdSe colloidal quantum dots (QDs) and quantum rods (QRs) adsorbed on silica glass substrates at room temperatures. Simple optical setup is introduced to provide detection of emission profiles projected on to the sample plane as well as detection of rotating excitation polarization effect. While most studies so far in structural changes in biological or amorphous systems rely on extrinsic fluorophores with linear transition dipoles, those with twofold degenerate dipoles are noteworthy due to the intrinsic advantage for 3D orientation information. Performance of modulations is also evaluated in combination with tetramethylrodamine moieties as typical linear emitters. CdSe QDs with aspect ratio of 1.3 actually reveal plane-polarized emission at room temperature and, based on maximum-likelihood analysis, are exceptionally highly oriented on silica glass substrates
Hidden magnetic transitions in thermoelectric layered cobaltite, [CaCoO][CoO]
A positive muon spin rotation and relaxation (SR) experiment on
[CaCoO][CoO], ({\sl i.e.}, CaCoO, a layered
thermoelectric cobaltite) indicates the existence of two magnetic transitions
at 100 K and 400 - 600 K; the former is a transition from a paramagnetic
state to an incommensurate ({\sf IC}) spin density wave ({\sf SDW}) state. The
anisotropic behavior of zero-field SR spectra at 5 K suggests that the
{\sf IC-SDW} propagates in the - plane, with oscillating moments directed
along the c-axis; also the {\sf IC-SDW} is found to exist not in the
[CaCoO] subsystem but in the [CoO] subsystem. In addition, it is
found that the long-range {\sf IC-SDW} order completes below 30 K,
whereas the short-range order appears below 100 K. The latter transition is
interpreted as a gradual change in the spin state of Co ions %% at temperatures
above 400 K. These two magnetic transitions detected by SR are found to
correlate closely with the transport properties of
[CaCoO][CoO].Comment: 7 pages, 8 figures. to be appeared in Phys. Rev.
Versatile implementation in angle-resolved optical microscopy: its application to local spectrometry of microcavities with PIC-J-aggregates
Versatile novel implementations in microspectroscopy are developed, which can provide angle-resolved optical spectroscopy at local sample areas almost in diffraction limit. By selecting focus position of light flux incident within the back focal plane of the objective lens radially from the position of the optical axis of the microscope with employing off-centered pinhole, we can obtain parallel beam with oblique incidence and its angle tuning at the sample surface. In this paper, we describe our specific optical setup and its practical working principle in detail. We report, as a demonstration of its performance, our latest studies on optical properties of cavity polariton states in the so-called quantum microcavity structures, which contain molecular J-aggregates of pseudoisocyanine (PIC) dye as active working materials. By using the microscope technique, we obtain a fair amount of improvement in the linewidth observation of cavity polariton spectra
Training of the Ni-Mn-Fe-Ga ferromagnetic shape-memory alloys by cycling in a high magnetic field
The temperature and magnetic field dependencies of Ni-Mn-Ga polycrystals
deformation are investigated. Ingots were prepared by arc-melting in argon
atmosphere and further annealing. A training procedure (cycling across the
martensitic transition point) for the two-way shape-memory effect was performed
with NiFeMnGa samples. Changes in sample
deformations were noticed with changing the magnetic field at a constant
temperature. The first cycle deformation increment as compared with the initial
value (in the austenitic state at zero field) in the course of the martensitic
transition was 0.29%, and 0.41% and 0.48% for the second and third cycles,
respectively.Comment: Presented at the Second Moscow International Symposium on Magnetism
(Moscow-2002
Relationships between a roller and a dynamic pressure distribution in circular hydraulic jumps
We investigated numerically the relation between a roller and the pressure
distribution to clarify the dynamics of the roller in circular hydraulic jumps.
We found that a roller which characterizes a type II jump is associated with
two high pressure regions after the jump, while a type I jump (without the
roller) is associated with only one high pressure region. Our numerical results
show that building up an appropriate pressure field is essential for a roller.Comment: 10 pages, 7 PS files. To appear in PR
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