Simplified Method for the Calculation of Characteristic Temperatures of Diamond and Sphalerite-Structure Solids

1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (17) ◽  
pp. 2287-2290 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. R. Reeber ◽  
D. McLachlan Jr.

Characteristic temperatures of crystals having the diamond and sphalerite crystal structures were calculated by use of a model based on lattice theory. In the calculations the elastic longitudinal mode of vibration in the [Formula: see text] crystallographic direction has been directly related to the cutoff frequency of the acoustical part of the lattice-vibration spectrum. Characteristic temperatures so calculated may provide a convenient single parameter for relating the acoustical part of the frequency spectrum to some of the observed physical and thermal properties of these solids.

1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (11) ◽  
pp. 1220-1221 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Aggarwal ◽  
V. Raju ◽  
J. K. D. Verma

The characteristic temperatures of III–V sphalerite semiconductors have been calculated by using the Reeber–McLachlan relation. These values do not follow the same trend as obtained for II–VI solids. However, the agreement with the Debye characteristic temperature is fair.


Author(s):  
N.-H. Cho ◽  
S. McKernan ◽  
C.B. Carter ◽  
K. Wagner

Interest has recently increased in the possibility of growing III-V compounds epitactically on non-polar substrates to produce device quality material. Antiphase boundaries (APBs) may then develop in the GaAs epilayer because it has sphalerite structure (face-centered cubic with a two-atom basis). This planar defect may then influence the electrical behavior of the GaAs epilayer. The orientation of APBs and their propagation into GaAs epilayers have been investigated experimentally using both flat-on and cross-section transmission electron microscope techniques. APBs parallel to (110) plane have been viewed at the atomic resolution and compared to simulated images.Antiphase boundaries were observed in GaAs epilayers grown on (001) Ge substrates. In the image shown in Fig.1, which was obtained from a flat-on sample, the (110) APB planes can be seen end-on; the faceted APB is visible because of the stacking fault-like fringes arising from a lattice translation at this interface.


2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-454
Author(s):  
James W. Beauchamp

Abstract Source/filter models have frequently been used to model sound production of the vocal apparatus and musical instruments. Beginning in 1968, in an effort to measure the transfer function (i.e., transmission response or filter characteristic) of a trombone while being played by expert musicians, sound pressure signals from the mouthpiece and the trombone bell output were recorded in an anechoic room and then subjected to harmonic spectrum analysis. Output/input ratios of the signals’ harmonic amplitudes plotted vs. harmonic frequency then became points on the trombone’s transfer function. The first such recordings were made on analog 1/4 inch stereo magnetic tape. In 2000 digital recordings of trombone mouthpiece and anechoic output signals were made that provide a more accurate measurement of the trombone filter characteristic. Results show that the filter is a high-pass type with a cutoff frequency around 1000 Hz. Whereas the characteristic below cutoff is quite stable, above cutoff it is extremely variable, depending on level. In addition, measurements made using a swept-sine-wave system in 1972 verified the high-pass behavior, but they also showed a series of resonances whose minima correspond to the harmonic frequencies which occur under performance conditions. For frequencies below cutoff the two types of measurements corresponded well, but above cutoff there was a considerable difference. The general effect is that output harmonics above cutoff are greater than would be expected from linear filter theory, and this effect becomes stronger as input pressure increases. In the 1990s and early 2000s this nonlinear effect was verified by theory and measurements which showed that nonlinear propagation takes place in the trombone, causing a wave steepening effect at high amplitudes, thus increasing the relative strengths of the upper harmonics.


1990 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanislav Böhm ◽  
Josef Kuthan

Ab initio MO optimalization of the 2H-pyran molecule leads to a defined equilibrium geometry of this so far not identified heterocyclic molecule and to a physical justification of its existence. More advanced nonempirical wavefunctions and temperature corrections indicate that heterocyclic molecule I is energetically less stable than non-cyclic isomers II and III. Wavenumbers of fundamental vibrational transitions of heterocycle I and also known (2E)-2,4-pentadienal (IIIb were calculated using 3-21 G wavefunctions. The vibrational spectrum of compound I is predicted on the basis of correlation corrections.


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