Effectiveness of additional loading in drawing noncircular pipe

The influence of additional loading on the shape of the pipe and the drawing forces is investigated. The results of finite-element simulation are confirmed experimentally.     

Development and research of MIS varicaps with charge transfer

A new type of a double-electrode MIS varicap with a carrier transfer has been proposed. It is shown that in a device of this type, there are no negative effects associated with the processes of thermal generation and accumulation of minority carriers. This makes it possible to increase the limiting frequency and improve the temperature stability of varicap operation. Two designs of the device are considered. The characteristics of the varicaps that were measured experimentally agree with the results of the calculations.     

Kinetic features of optically stimulated luminescence in aluminum nitride powder

Room-temperature optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) response in UV-irradiated aluminum nitride (AlN) powders has been studied. Excitation of AlN powder by UV photons with energies within 3–5 eV gives rise to an intense afterglow that is related to isothermal quenching of recombination processes involving shallow donor centers. It is established that a useful OSL response separated on the background of this recombination afterglow represents a superposition of two components with decay kinetics order b = 1.0–1.2 and 1.7–2.1. Superlinear UV-dose dependences of the OSL light sum have been measured and the corresponding coefficients for each component have been analyzed in comparison to the available published data.     

Erratum to: Conductivity Sensors Based System Development and Application to Investigate the Interfacial Behaviour between Supersonic Steam Jet and Water

Instruments and Experimental Techniques - An Erratum to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020441221050249