Author(s):  
Karimat El-Sayed

Lead telluride is an important semiconductor of many applications. Many Investigators showed that there are anamolous descripancies in most of the electrophysical properties of PbTe polycrystalline thin films on annealing. X-Ray and electron diffraction studies are being undertaken in the present work in order to explain the cause of this anamolous behaviour.Figures 1-3 show the electron diffraction of the unheated, heated in air at 100°C and heated in air at 250°C respectively of a 300°A polycrystalline PbTe thin film. It can be seen that Fig. 1 is a typical [100] projection of a face centered cubic with unmixed (hkl) indices. Fig. 2 shows the appearance of faint superlattice reflections having mixed (hkl) indices. Fig. 3 shows the disappearance of thf superlattice reflections and the appearance of polycrystalline PbO phase superimposed on the [l00] PbTe diffraction patterns. The mechanism of this three stage process can be explained on structural basis as follows :


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Bo Zhang ◽  
Jianjun Gu ◽  
Xiaoxiao Zhang ◽  
Bin Yang ◽  
Zheng Wang ◽  
...  

Purpose. To explore the probability and variation in biomechanical measurements of rabbit cornea by a modified Scheimpflug device.Methods. A modified Scheimpflug device was developed by imaging anterior segment of the model imitating the intact eye at various posterior pressures. The eight isolated rabbit corneas were mounted on the Barron artificial chamber and images of the anterior segment were taken at posterior pressures of 15, 30, 45, 60, and 75 mmHg by the device. The repeatability and reliability of the parameters including CCT, ACD, ACV, and CV were evaluated at each posterior pressure. All the variations of the parameters at the different posterior pressures were calculated.Results. All parameters showed good intraobserver reliability (Cronbach’s alpha; intraclass correlation coefficient,α, ICC > 0.96) and repeatability in the modified Scheimpflug device. With the increase of posterior pressures, the ratio of CCT decreased linearly and the bulk modulus gradually reduced to a platform. The increase of ACD was almost linear with the posterior pressures elevated.Conclusions. The modified Scheimpflug device was a valuable tool to investigate the biomechanics of the cornea. The posterior pressure 15–75 mmHg range produced small viscoelastic deformations and nearly linear pressure-deformation response in the rabbit cornea.


2021 ◽  
pp. 100713
Author(s):  
Pradeep Kumar Sharma ◽  
T.D. Senguttuvan ◽  
Vijay Kumar Sharma ◽  
Sujeet Chaudhary

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 6567-6574
Author(s):  
B. Sherwood ◽  
C. J. Ridley ◽  
C. L. Bull ◽  
S. Fop ◽  
J. M. S. Skakle ◽  
...  

The pressure response of Ba3MoNbO8.5 reveals a structural transformation, which acts to increase the energy barriers to migration along all available transport pathways, and an exceptionally low bulk modulus.


2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. S. J. Méndez ◽  
F. Trybel ◽  
R. J. Husband ◽  
G. Steinle-Neumann ◽  
H.-P. Liermann ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 297-303
Author(s):  
Toru Akasofu ◽  
Masanobu Kusakabe ◽  
Shigeru Tamaki

AbstractThe bonding character of liquid lead telluride \text{PbTe} is thermodynamically investigated in detail. Its possibility as an ionic melt composed of cation {\text{Pb}}^{2+} and anion {\text{Te}}^{2-} is not acceptable, by comparing the ionization energy of \text{Pb} atom, electron affinity of \text{Te} atom and the ionic bonding energy due to the cation {\text{Pb}}^{2+} and anion {\text{Te}}^{2-} with the help of structural information. Solid lead telluride PbTe as a narrow band gap semiconductor might yield easily the overlapping of the tail of valence band and that of conduction one. And on melting, it becomes to an ill-conditioned metallic state, which concept is supported by the electrical behaviors of liquid Pb–Te alloys observed by the present authors. As structural information tells us about the partial remain of some sorts of covalent-type mono-dipole and poly-dipole of the molecule \text{PbTe}, all systems are thermodynamically explained in terms of a mixture of these molecules and cations {\text{Pb}}^{4+} and {\text{Te}}^{2+} and a small amount of the conduction electrons are set free from these elements based on the ternary solution model.


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