We have investigated magnetic excitations for a mixed phase of hidden order (HO) and the antiferromagnetic (AF) order in U(Ru1−xRhx)2Si2 (x ≤ 0.03) by means of inelastic neutron scattering. The inelastic peaks observed at Q = (1, 0, 0) and (1,0.4,0) in the HO phase for x = 0 and 0.015 at 1.4 K are found to be strongly reduced in the AF dominant compositions of x = 0.02 and 0.03. Similar behavio...

Performance of (Pb0.97La0.02)(Zr,Sn,Ti)O3 Antiferroelectric Thick Films Xihong Hao, Ye Zhao, and Qi Zhang 1-School of Materials and Metallurgy, Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, Baotou 014010, China 2-State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China 3-Department of Manufacturing and ...

The reverse Pluronic, triblock copolymer 17R4 is formed from poly(propylene oxide) (PPO) and poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO): PPO14 - PEO24 - PPO14, where the number of monomers in each block is denoted by the subscripts. In water, 17R4 has a micellization line marking the transition from a unimer network to self-aggregated spherical micelles which is quite near a cloud point curve above which the s...

Temperature dependent x-ray absorption spectra investigation were measured for Ba(1-x)K(x)BiO3 (Bi L3-edge) with x =0.0, 0.25, 0.4, 0.5 and for BaPbO3 (Pb L3-edge). It was found that at low temperatures the Debye-Waller factor of the square diagonal Bi-Bi bond has the maximum value near the insulator-metal phase transition for the compound with x = 0.25 and x = 0.4. Temperature dependence of th...

Phases having compositional fields narrower than about 1 at.% and appearing as lines in binary phase diagrams often are assumed to have properties independent of composition. That such an assumption can be seriously in error is illustrated by recent measurements on pairs of samples prepared to have compositions at opposing phase boundaries. Two microscopic properties, lattice locations of highl...

Corrosion resistance of zircon reinforced alumina refractories has been carried out through static crucible test. The corrosion measurements with percentage, the penetration depth of molten steel and the microstructure of the refractories were evaluated after soaking 150 h at the temperature of 1500˚C. Results showed that the corrosion resistance of alumina increased by adding 20 wt% zirc...

We consider words over the alphabet [k] = {1, 2, . . . , k}, k ≥ 2. For a fixed nonnegative integer p, a p-succession in a word w1w2 · · ·wn consists of two consecutive letters of the form (wi, wi + p), i = 1, 2, . . . , n − 1. We analyze words with respect to a given number of contained p-successions. First we find the mean and variance of the number of p-successions. We then determine the dis...

(1 - x)(Bi1/2Na1/2)TiO3 - xBaTiO3 has been the most studied Pb-free piezoelectric material in the last decade; however, puzzles still remain about its phase transitions, especially around the important morphotropic phase boundary (MPB). By introducing the strain glass transition concept from the ferroelastic field, it was found that the phase transition from tetragonal (T, P4bm) to rhombohedral...

We employ a new method for studying compositionally disordered ferroelectric oxides. This method is based on the virtual crystal approximation (VCA), in which two or more component potentials are averaged into a composite atomic potential. In our method, we construct a virtual atom with the correctly averaged atomic size and atomic eigenvalues. We have used our new method to study the compositi...