scholarly journals Phonon Conductance of Potassium- and Sodium-Doped Transpolyacetylene Chain

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
M. Belhadi ◽  
S. Kheffache

A theoretical approach for the study of phonon dynamics and scattering properties of doped transpolyacetylene chain is presented. The coherent reflection and transmission scattering cross-sections for phonons incident on the doped unit cell boundary are calculated in accordance with the Landauer-Buttiker electron scattering description, using the matching procedure with the nearest and next nearest neighbor elastic force constants. This is done for two different dopants, namely, the potassium and sodium atoms. Our numerical results yield an understanding of the transpolyacetylene chain dynamical properties and the effects on phonon conductance due to phonon incident on the doped unit cell boundary. The coherent reflection and transmission coefficients show characteristic spectral features, depending on the cutoff frequencies for the propagating phonons and on the nature of the dopants. They illustrate the occurrence of Fano resonances in the scattering spectra that result from the interactions of propagating elastic waves of the undoped transpolyacetylene chain with the localized modes due to the breakdown of the translation symmetry in the x direction.

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (02) ◽  
pp. 271-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. KHATER ◽  
M. BELHADI

A theoretical model is presented for the study of the scattering of phonons at an extended inhomogeneous boundary separating thin solid monatomic films. The model system consists of two solid films with otherwise stress-free surfaces on either side of an atomic well boundary. The coherent reflection and transmission scattering cross sections for phonons incident from the interior of the thin films on the inhomogeneous atomic well boundary are calculated in accordance with the Landauer–Büttiker coherent scattering description, using the matching method with nearest and next-nearest neighbor elastic force constants. This is done specifically for two different cases of elastic interactions on the boundary to investigate the consequences of their softening and hardening for the coherently scattered spectra. The numerical results yield an understanding for the effects on coherent phonon conductance due to phonon incidence and to the elastic nature of the boundary. The coherent reflection and transmission scattering cross sections show characteristic spectral features that are invariant with the change of the boundary force constants, depending solely on the cutoff frequencies for the propagating phonons and on incidence angle. They also show the Fano resonances that result from the interactions of propagating phonons with the localized vibrational Rayleigh-like modes on the boundary, depending on the boundary elastic force constants. The evolution of the system average conductance per phonon mode with incidence illustrates an interesting effect. An experimental observable this average conductance remains constant at half a phonon in intensity over significant frequency intervals. The effect is remarkable inasmuch as it permits in principle the possibility of a constant intensity phonon source.


Sensors ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 449
Author(s):  
Anton Nemykin ◽  
Leonid Frumin ◽  
David Shapiro

We calculate the light transmission by a subwavelength plasmonic array using the boundary element method for parallel cylinders with different cross-sections: circular or elliptic with axis ratio 4:1. We demonstrate that plasmonic resonance is sharper for the case of horizontal ellipses. This structure is susceptible to refractive index variations in the media since the high derivatives of reflection and transmission coefficients are near the angle of total internal reflection. To obtain an approximate analytical expression, we used the model of a metallic layer. We explore the “sandwich” structure with an anisotropic film between two dielectrics and demonstrate its quantitative agreement with numerical results.


Author(s):  
P.A. Crozier

Absolute inelastic scattering cross sections or mean free paths are often used in EELS analysis for determining elemental concentrations and specimen thickness. In most instances, theoretical values must be used because there have been few attempts to determine experimental scattering cross sections from solids under the conditions of interest to electron microscopist. In addition to providing data for spectral quantitation, absolute cross section measurements yields useful information on many of the approximations which are frequently involved in EELS analysis procedures. In this paper, experimental cross sections are presented for some inner-shell edges of Al, Cu, Ag and Au.Uniform thin films of the previously mentioned materials were prepared by vacuum evaporation onto microscope cover slips. The cover slips were weighed before and after evaporation to determine the mass thickness of the films. The estimated error in this method of determining mass thickness was ±7 x 107g/cm2. The films were floated off in water and mounted on Cu grids.


2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hidenori Fukaya ◽  
Shoji Hashimoto ◽  
Takashi Kaneko ◽  
Hiroshi Ohki

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (S1) ◽  
pp. 600-602
Author(s):  
Zezhong Zhang ◽  
Annick De Backer ◽  
Ivan Lobato ◽  
Sandra Van Aert ◽  
Peter Nellist

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 2179
Author(s):  
Tae-Young Han ◽  
Jin-Young Cho ◽  
Chang-Keun Jo ◽  
Hyun-Chul Lee

For the resonance treatment of a very high temperature reactors (VHTR) fuel with the double heterogeneity, an extension of the pin-based pointwise energy slowing-down method (PSM) was developed and implemented into DeCART. The proposed method, PSM-double heterogeneity (DH), has an improved spherical unit cell model with an explicit tri-structural isotropic (TRISO) model, a matrix layer, and a moderator for reflecting the moderation effect. The moderator volume was analytically derived using the relation of the Dancoff factor and the mean chord length. In the first step, the pointwise homogenized cross-sections for the compact was obtained after solving the slowing down equation for the spherical unit cell. Then, the shielded cross-section for the homogenized fuel compact was generated using the original PSM. The verification calculations were performed for the fuel pins with various packing fractions, compact sizes, TRISO sizes, and fuel temperatures. Additionally, two fuel block problems with very different sizes were examined and the depletion calculation was carried out for investigating the accuracy of the proposed method. They revealed that the PSM-DH has a good performance in the VHTR problems.


The methods by which neutron diffraction and inelastic scattering may be used to study the structure and dynamics of solutions are reviewed, with particular reference to solutions of amphiphile and biological molecules in water. Neutron methods have particular power because the scattering lengths for protons and deuterons are of opposite sign, and hence there exists the possibility of obtaining variable contrast between the scattering of the aqueous medium and the molecules in it. In addition, the contrast variation method is also applicable to inelastic scattering studies whereby the dynamics of one component of the solution can be preferentially studied due to large and variable differences in the scattering cross sections. Both applications of contrast variation are illustrated with examples of amphiphile-water lamellar mesophases, diffraction from collagen, viruses, and polymer solutions. Inelastic scattering observations and the dynamics of water between the lamellar sheets allow microscopic measurements of the water diffusion along and perpendicular to the layers. The information obtained is complementary to that from nuclear magnetic resonance and electron spin resonance studies of diffusion.


Particles ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Soloveva ◽  
P. Moreau ◽  
L. Oliva ◽  
V. Voronyuk ◽  
V. Kireyeu ◽  
...  

We study the influence of the baryon chemical potential μ B on the properties of the Quark–Gluon–Plasma (QGP) in and out-of equilibrium. The description of the QGP in equilibrium is based on the effective propagators and couplings from the Dynamical QuasiParticle Model (DQPM) that is matched to reproduce the equation-of-state of the partonic system above the deconfinement temperature T c from lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). We study the transport coefficients such as the ratio of shear viscosity η and bulk viscosity ζ over entropy density s, i.e., η / s and ζ / s in the ( T , μ ) plane and compare to other model results available at μ B = 0 . The out-of equilibrium study of the QGP is performed within the Parton–Hadron–String Dynamics (PHSD) transport approach extended in the partonic sector by explicitly calculating the total and differential partonic scattering cross sections based on the DQPM and the evaluated at actual temperature T and baryon chemical potential μ B in each individual space-time cell where partonic scattering takes place. The traces of their μ B dependences are investigated in different observables for symmetric Au + Au and asymmetric Cu + Au collisions such as rapidity and m T -distributions and directed and elliptic flow coefficients v 1 , v 2 in the energy range 7.7 GeV ≤ s N N ≤ 200 GeV.


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