A recent paper by Huo et al.[1]reported a correlation between the entropy of mixing,ΔSmix(and the corresponding energy state)and the thermal stability and mechanical parameters,for three Zr-Ti-Cu-Ni-Be metallic glass...
This work is supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2017YFB0406004);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11890703);JH and JL are supported by the National Science Foundation of USA(Award No.CBET-1943813);the Faculty Research and Professional Development Fund at North Carolina State University.
The microscopic mechanism of thermal transport in liquids and amorphous solids has been an outstanding problem for a long time.There have been several approaches to explain the thermal conductivities in these systems,...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China;the National Basic Research Program of China
In order to understand the long-standing problem of the nature of glass states, we perform intensive simulations on the thermodynamic properties and potential energy surface of an ideal glass. It is found that the ato...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 51302276 and 51301043;the Ningbo Natural Science Foundation under Grant No 2013A610129
We describe the lateral-coupled junctionless indium-zinc-oxide (IZO) thin-film transistors (TFTs) in which there are no junctions between channel and source/drain electrodes and with solid-state phosphorosilieate ...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 60577008 and 60777038;China-Ireland Science and Technology Collaboration Research Fund and International Cooperation Project of Jilin Provincial Science&Technology Department of China under grant No 20070708-3.
Glass planar optical waveguides are fabricated by the copper ion-exchange technique.The refractive index(RI)profiles of waveguides are reconstructed by the inverse Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin(IWKB)method.Cu^(+)and Cu^...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 50890171,50921091 and 51071170;the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant Nos 2007CB613904 and 2010CB731603;Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The specific heat in a typical Pd_(40)Ni_(10)Cu_(30)P_(20) metallic glass forming system is investigated.It is found that the specific heat of the metallic liquid is around 4.7R (R is the gas constant) and that it is ...
Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No 2009CB320300, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 60978042, and the One-Hundred Talents Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
A tapered thin film of Ta2O5 was deposited by the masked sputtering method on a single-mode slab glass waveguide to form a composite optical waveguide (COWG) with a great modal birefringence. With the prism-coupling...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 60837002 and 60777033. YAO Lei would also like to thank China Scholarship Council for the State Scholarship Fund.
We introduce a defect site in the periodic structure of a photonic bandgap fiber, to confine and guide the second order mode by photonic bandgap effects. Based on a high air-filling fraction photonic crystal cladding ...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation under Grant No 50731005/50821001, the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No 2006CB605201, and the Programme for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (PCSIRT) under Grant No IRT0650, the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province under Grant No A2007000296.
Zr41 Ti14 Cu12.5Ni10Be22.5 bulk metallic glasses (BMG) are annealed at a temperature of 603 K under ambient and high pressures in the range of 3-6 GPa. The effect of high pressure annealing on the nanocrystallizatio...
Supported by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (1-BB84), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 50832002 and 10674061, the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No 2009CB925101 and 2006CB921802, and the 111 Project of the MOE of China.
Multiferroic behavior in an isotropic Heisenberg spin glass with Gaussian random fields, incorporated by magneto-electric coupling derived from the Landau symmetry argument, are investigated. Electric dipole glass tra...