Study of the Density of Interface States at the Insulator/In0.52Al0.48As Interface

Technical Physics Letters - The C–V characteristics of Au/Al2O3/In0.52Al0.48As and Au/SiO2/In0.52Al0.48As metal–insulator–semiconductor structures have been studied. It has been...     

Numerical simulation of typical contact situations of brake friction materials

In the paper, a model typical for contact situations of automotive brakes is established based on the method of movable cellular automata. The processes taking place at local contacts in an automotive brake system are analysed. Based on microscopic and micro-analytical observations, the following contact situations were simulated: (i) a couple of ferritic steel against pearlitic steel, both covered by an oxide layer mixed with graphite nanoparticles and (ii) the same situation but without oxide layers. The results of calculated mean coefficients of friction of the oxide-on-oxide contact correspond well to expected values for a real braking system, whereas steel-on-steel contact are twice as high. This allows one to make some conclusions; for example, oxide formation will take place more quickly than friction layer elimination, and finally this is responsible for the stabilisation of the coefficient of friction.     

Radiation-induced hydrogen yield from silicon bombarded with 710-MeV bismuth ions

The behavior of hydrogen in solids under the action of intense ionizing radiation is of importance in solving numerous problems of materials science for the nuclear and thermonuclear power industry, spacecraft engineering, hydrogen energetics, and microelectronics. Experimental results are presented that provide evidence of the radiation-induced yield of hydrogen from single crystal silicon bombarded with 710-MeV bismuth ions.     

Influence of the Temperature of a Body on Its Weight

The physical preconditions are considered for the temperature of a body to influence the force of gravity experienced by it. The results are given of experiments on weighing metal rods heated by ultrasound which confirm a dependence of the weight of the rods on their temperature.     

Concept and salient design features of a high-temperature nuclear reactor with solid coolant

The salient features of using a solid substance to cool the core of a nuclear reactor and the associated advantages and limitations are examined. Conceptual proposals concerning the core design and the arrangement of the in-reactor space of a high-temperature nuclear reactor with a solid coolant are presented. Evaluated data and some results for a model reactor are presented. __________ Translated from Atomnaya énergiya, Vol. 103, No. 3, pp. 156–161, September, 2007.     

Determining the gas content of the liquid on bubble trays

Gas bubbling on sieve and grid trays is considered. From the energy balance for the bubbled layer, a theoretical equation is derived for calculating the average gas content of the liquid on the trays of a bubble column. The data calculated using this equation are compared with experimental data available on the average gas content of the liquid on sieve and grid trays for water-gas and organic liquid-gas systems. The equation is compared with some empirical and theoretical relationships.     

Stability in an evaporating chain of identical droplets

Stability has been examined for an ordered chain of monodisperse droplets under vacuum, which interact one with another via the evaporating molecules.Translated from Inzhenerno-fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 60, No. 4, pp. 656–660, April, 1991.     

Spectropolarimetry of multimode quartz fibers in the infrared

Results are presented of experimental spectropolarimetric investigations of multimode fiber-optic waveguides with core diameters between 65 and 404 μm in the infrared (0.8, 1.3, and 1.55 μm). A theoretical explanation is proposed for the results. Pis’ma Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 24, 75–80 (December 12, 1998)