Том 62, № 10 (2017)

The main investigations carried out by Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk at the Ioffe Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences have been presented. His investigations were aimed at developing methods of recording and projecting three-dimensional images in order to reduce the volume of information contained in the images for use in optical computers, optical interconnections, and displays.

We have proposed an effective method for modeling the steel reinforcement in the buildings for electrophysical devices to take into account the magnetic field perturbation caused by the magnetization of bars. The reinforcement lattice has been represented by one or several layers of a homogeneous isotropic material with preliminarily calculated equivalent (averaged) magnetic properties. Examples of calculating these magnetic properties have been considered using a simplified analytic approach, as well as by the numerical simulation of the magnetic field in a 3D cell of a periodic reinforcement lattice. The efficiency of the method has been demonstrated based on an important practical example of simulating the perturbation of a uniform magnetic field caused by the reinforced slab. The results have been compared with the simulation data based on different approaches.

A variational formulation has given the problem of the shape of the lateral surface of a small vertical liquid θ bridge between two parallel solid surfaces that take into account the gravity force in the axisymmetric case. An algorithm has been constructed for the iterative solution of the problem for small Bond numbers. The dependence of the number of solutions on the liquid bridge height has been analyzed.

The model of dynamic resistive evaporation in vacuum has been considered, and the model takes into account the structural peculiarities of the corresponding evaporator. In the model, the dependences to determine the time of material heating up to evaporation temperature as well as dynamic characteristics of the evaporation have been obtained. It has been shown that the obtained characteristics are nonharmonic and periodically repeated. The adequacy of the developed model to the physical model has been corroborated. It has been found that the discrepancy between the experimental and calculated time characteristics of shutter movement is not higher than 5%. The recommendations for using the suggested model to fabricate of thin films of multicomponent materials via thermal evaporation have been considered.

The influence of the electric field on a single air bubble in transformer oil has been studied. It has been shown that, depending on its size, the bubble may initiate breakdown. The sizes of air and sulfur hexafluoride bubbles at which breakdown will not be observed have been estimated based on the condition for the avalanche-to-streamer transition.

The relation between neutron yield Y and magnetic field energy variations ΔW in the discharge circuit has been studied for a Mather-type plasma-focus camera. The activation technique (activation of silver isotopes) has been used to measure the integral yield of DD neutrons from the source. The time dependence of the neutron yield has been recorded by scintillation detectors. For the device used in the investigations, the neutron yield exhibits a linear dependence on variations in the magnetic field energy ΔW in the discharge circuit at the instant of neutron generation. It is also found that this dependence is related to the initial deuteron pressure in the discharge chamber.

The self-healing effect has been found in a study of the microstructure of the bands of localized deformation. It has been shown that interstitial elements (O, C) and the particles of a doping phase migrate to the zone of growing spallation damageability from the matrix material. When considering the wave pattern of the process of localization, it has been ascertained that the formation of bands of localized deformation is accompanied by the process of reverberation which is characterized by the formation of periodically repeated compression–extension cycles. A weak attenuation of the reverberation has led to an increase in the duration of the deformation pulse of the sample by two to three orders of magnitude compared with the time of the initial compression pulse.

Various types of plastic instabilities that emerge in intermittent creep have been studied experimentally for AlMg6 aluminum–magnesium alloy. It has been shown that intermittent creep exhibits threshold dynamics. The deformation step on the creep curve of amplitude is ~1–6% and begins when the rate of the preceding continuous creep attains a certain critical value. In the course of evolution of the step, the strain rate varies in the interval that spans more than two orders of magnitude, and transitions occur between different dynamic regimes of type A and B characterized by different stress drop regularity levels in the force response. Nonlinear aspects of the deformation behavior of the alloy in the intermittent creep conditions are considered.

Data for the vapor-phase doping (300°C) of nickel phthalocyanine (NiPc) by sodium taken in different concentrations (x), as well as structural analysis data for Na_{x = 0.2}NiPc, Na_{x = 1}NiPc, and Na_{x = 3}NiPc samples, have been reported. The structure of the samples and their atomic configuration versus the doping level have been studied by transmission electron microscopy, Raman scattering, X-ray diffraction, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, and extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy. The structural parameters of Ni–N, Ni–C, and Ni–Ni bonds have been determined, and it has been found that, at a low level of doping by sodium, local structural distortions are observed in some molecules of the NiPc matrix near nickel atoms. The fraction of these molecules grows as the doping level rises from x = 0.2 to x = 1.0. It has been shown that doping changes the oscillation mode of light atoms, which indicates a rise in the electron concentration on five- and six-membered rings. At a high level of sodium doping (x = 3.0), nickel nanoparticles with a mean size of 20 nm and molecule decomposition products have been observed in the NiPc matrix. It has been found that the fraction of nickel atoms in the Na_{x = 3}NiPc nanoparticles as estimated from EXAFS data is sufficient for the room-temperature magnetic properties of the samples to persist for a long time.

Optical and transport properties of the heterostructure with the InAs/GaAs quantum dots doped with manganese or chromium atoms in the course of growth using metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) are analyzed. Circularly polarized luminescence was obtained due to doping of quantum dots with the Mn or Cr atoms. The sign of the degree of circular polarization was found to depend on the dopant. The effect is interpreted using specific features of the radiative recombination in quantum dots in the presence of resident electrons and holes.

Ray paths in a quasi-periodic optical system (waveguide of cavity) with smoothly varying properties have been constructed along the ray path. The ray-transfer matrix is constructed for a large number of ray paths; it has been shown that the conventional stability condition (the modulus of the ray-transfer matrix trace for a ray path is smaller than two) does not ensure the boundedness of the beam path after a large number of paths.

Significant (up to 10%) broadening of the band of noise-like radiation in gyrotrons is possible due to specific tuning of gyrofrequency relative to the critical frequency of the working mode when the high- and low-frequency cyclotron resonances are substantially separated at the given translation and transverse velocities of electrons. The generation bands at the resonances are overlapped under operation above the threshold. The analysis with allowance for finiteness of the electron transit time in the interaction space and, hence, different slopes of the dispersion characteristics of electron beam and wave is critically important for correct investigation of the generation regimes in the framework of the average approach. The results are verified using direct 3D particle-in-cell simulation of the chaotic generation regimes of the gyrotron generation in the 8-mm-wavelength range.

We have proposed an analytical model of a quadrupole mass filter with an additional rf quadrupole (prefilter) at its entry, which is based on the model of a transient field in the region between the edges of the mass filter electrodes and the prefilter electrodes. The characteristics of the complex mass filter have been investigated by the methods of phase space dynamics. In the presence of the entrance prefilter, instead of the entrance diaphragm, the y acceptance increases by 1.5 times relative to the x acceptance. Upon an increase in the ion residence time in the fringing field, the y acceptance contour exhibits the tendency to rotation on the phase plane, while the x acceptance contour is broadened in the x coordinate. The transmission function increases and oscillates upon an increase in the ion residence time in the fringing field. The result of numerical experiment using the SIMION 8 software differs from the result of analytical calculation by 14% for the x acceptance and by 35% for the y acceptance.

The mechanism of interactions between the eigenwaves of a dielectric cylinder and a nonrelativistic tubular electron beam moving over its surface has been considered theoretically. A dispersion relation for the coupled waves of beam electrons and the dielectric cylinder has been derived. The conditions for coupled wave instability have been formulated and an expression for instability increments has been found. It follows from the dispersion relation and the expression for the increments that electric waves with high azimuthal indices are excited most effectively at a narrow gap between the beam and cylinder.

The influence of the pressure of working gas during the ion–plasma sputtering on properties of deposited ferroelectric barium strontium titanate coatings has been experimentally studied. Variations in the of pressure of the working gas during deposition allows the component composition of the deposited layer to be changed, which leads to the diffusion of the phase transition and the improvement of temperature stability of properties of ferroelectric film. The gradation of layers has an impact on the temperature of the dielectric permittivity maximum, the shape of the dependence of the capacity on temperature, and the capacitance–voltage characteristics of the capacitor structures.

Methods of Hilbert optics are used to visualize evolution of convective structures and wave front of crystallization in a horizontal layer of supercooled water bounded by thermally stabilized plane surfaces. Measured phase velocities and shapes of the crystallization front approximated with the aid of the Bezier curves are presented. The spatiotemporal quasi-periodicity of the phase-velocity field can be related to oscillatory modes of the crystallization front as a dynamic surface of the water–ice interphase transition.