Giant Magnetoresistance at Low Fields in Discontinuous NiFe-Ag Multilayer Thin Films

A series of sputtered multilayers of Ni(80)Fe(20)-Ag was prepared to examine the giant magnetoresistance effect before and after annealing. For a wide range of NiFe and Ag thicknesses, no giant magnetoresistance was observed in the unannealed films. After annealing, a large, negative magnetoresistance was observed of order 4 to 6% in applied fields of order 5 to 10 oersteds at room temperature. The appearance of giant managetoresistance is concurrent with the breakup of the NiFe layers, which is attributable to a magnetostatic interaction that favors local antiparallel alignment of the moments in adjacent layers. These structures may be of significant practical importance as sensors that require large changes in resistance at low fields, such as magnetoresistive heads used in magnetic recording systems.     

Interplane Tunneling Magnetoresistance in a Layered Manganite Crystal

The current-perpendicular-to-plane magnetoresistance (CPP-MR) has been investigated for the layered manganite, La2-2xSr1+2xMn2O7 (x = 0.3), which is composed of the ferromagnetic-metallic MnO2 bilayers separated by nonmagnetic insulating block layers. The CPP-MR is extremely large (10(4) percent at 50 kilo-oersted) at temperatures near above the three-dimensional ordering temperature (Tc approximately 90 kelvin) because of the field-induced coherent motion between planes of the spin-polarized electrons. Below Tc, the interplane magnetic domain boundary on the insulating block layer serves as the charge-transport barrier, but it can be removed by a low saturation field, which gives rise to the low-field tunneling MR as large as 240 percent.     

Enhanced intergrain tunneling magnetoresistance in half-metallic CrO2 films

Low-field tunneling magnetoresistance was observed in films of half-metallic CrO2 that were grown by high-pressure thermal decomposition of CrO3. High-temperature annealing treatments modified the intergrain barriers of the as-grown films through surface decomposition of CrO2 into insulating Cr2O3, which led to a threefold enhancement of the low-field magnetoresistance. This enhancement indicates the potential of this simple method to directly control the interface barrier characteristics that determine the magnetotransport properties.     

Direct observation of percolation in a manganite thin film

Upon cooling, the isolated ferromagnetic domains in thin films of La0.33Pr0.34Ca0.33MnO3 start to grow and merge at the metal-insulator transition temperature TP1, leading to a steep drop in resistivity, and continue to grow far below TP1. In contrast, upon warming, the ferromagnetic domain size remains unchanged until near the transition temperature. The jump in the resistivity results from the decrease in the average magnetization. The ferromagnetic domains almost disappear at a temperature TP2 higher than TP1, showing a local magnetic hysteresis in agreement with the resistivity hysteresis. Even well above TP2, some ferromagnetic domains with higher transition temperatures are observed, indicating magnetic inhomogeneity. These results may shed more light on the origin of the magnetoresistance in these materials.     

Coherent electronic fringe structure in incommensurate silver-silicon quantum wells

Atomically uniform silver films grown on highly doped n-type Si(111) substrates show fine-structured electronic fringes near the silicon valence band edge as observed by angle-resolved photoemission. No such fringes are observed for silver films grown on lightly doped n-type substrates or p-type substrates, although all cases exhibited the usual quantum-well states corresponding to electron confinement in the film. The fringes correspond to electronic states extending over the silver film as a quantum well and reaching into the silicon substrate as a quantum slope, with the two parts coherently coupled through an incommensurate interface structure.     

Self-organized discotic liquid crystals for high-efficiency organic photovoltaics

Self-organization of liquid crystalline and crystalline-conjugated materials has been used to create, directly from solution, thin films with structures optimized for use in photodiodes. The discotic liquid crystal hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene was used in combination with a perylene dye to produce thin films with vertically segregated perylene and hexabenzocoronene, with large interfacial surface area. When incorporated into diode structures, these films show photovoltaic response with external quantum efficiencies of more than 34 percent near 490 nanometers. These efficiencies result from efficient photoinduced charge transfer between the hexabenzocoronene and perylene, as well as from effective transport of charges through vertically segregated perylene and hexabenzocoronene pi systems. This development demonstrates that complex structures can be engineered from novel materials by means of simple solution-processing steps and may enable inexpensive, high-performance, thin-film photovoltaic technology.     

Spin-polarized resonant tunneling in magnetic tunnel junctions

Insertion of a thin nonmagnetic copper Cu(001) layer between the tunnel barrier and the ferromagnetic electrode of a magnetic tunnel junction is shown to result in the oscillation of the tunnel magnetoresistance as a function of the Cu layer thickness. The effect is interpreted in terms of the formation of spin-polarized resonant tunneling. The amplitude of the oscillation is so large that even the sign of the tunnel magnetoresistance alternates. The oscillation period depends on the applied bias voltage, reflecting the energy band structure of Cu. The results are encouraging for the development of spin-dependent resonant tunneling devices.     

Solar Magnetic Sector Structure: Relation to Circulation of the Earth's Atmosphere

The solar magnetic sector structure appears to be related to the average area of high positive vorticity centers (low-pressure troughs) observed during winter in the Northern Hemisphere at the 300-millibar level. The average area of high vorticity decreases (low-pressure troughs become less intense) during a few days near the times at which sector boundaries are carried past the earth by the solar wind. The amplitude of the effect is about 10 percent.     

Room-temperature ferromagnetism in transparent transition metal-doped titanium dioxide

Dilute magnetic semiconductors and wide gap oxide semiconductors are appealing materials for magnetooptical devices. From a combinatorial screening approach looking at the solid solubility of transition metals in titanium dioxides and of their magnetic properties, we report on the observation of transparent ferromagnetism in cobalt-doped anatase thin films with theconcentration of cobalt between 0 and 8%. Magnetic microscopy images reveal a magnetic domain structure in the films, indicating the existence of ferromagnetic long-range ordering. The materials remain ferromagnetic above room temperature with a magnetic moment of 0.32 Bohr magnetons per cobalt atom. The film is conductive and exhibits a positive magnetoresistance of 60% at 2 kelvin.     

Giant electrocaloric effect in thin-film PbZr(0.95)Ti(0.05)O3

An applied electric field can reversibly change the temperature of an electrocaloric material under adiabatic conditions, and the effect is strongest near phase transitions. We demonstrate a giant electrocaloric effect (0.48 kelvin per volt) in 350-nanometer PbZr(0.95)Ti(0.05)O3 films near the ferroelectric Curie temperature of 222 degrees C. A large electrocaloric effect may find application in electrical refrigeration.     

不同区段和药剂处理对山药种薯出苗率的影响

试验结果表明:以不同区段的山药作为种薯进行栽培,选择栽子的效果较好,出苗率高达54.99%,较随机区段和山药尾子差异极显著;用50%多菌灵处理苗床育苗移栽大田效果显著,其出苗率达到91.76%,与其他处理的出苗率差异显著。     

Electrical Resistivity and Stoichiometry of CaxC60 and SrxC60 Films

The temperature- and concentration-dependent resistivities of annealed CaxC(60) and SrxC(60) films were measured near room temperature. Resistivity minima were observed at x = 2 and 5. The resistivities of these films were rho(min) approximately 1 ohm-centimeter for x = 2 and rho(min) approximately 10(-2) ohm-centimeter for x = 5. This latter value is comparable to the resistivities found in similar experiments on K(3)C(60) films. There is a maximum in the resistivity between x = 2 and 3, and another at x approximately 7. The conductivity is activated over the whole range of compositions, and the activation energy scales with the logarithm of the resistivity. The results suggest that the conductivity and superconductivity observed in Ca(5)C(60) are associated with the population of bands derived from the t(1g) level of C(6O).     

Three-dimensional atomic-scale imaging of impurity segregation to line defects

Clouds of impurity atoms near line defects are believed to affect the plastic deformation of alloys. Three-dimensional atom probe techniques were used to image these so-called Cottrell atmospheres directly. Ordered iron-aluminum alloys (40 atomic percent aluminum) doped with boron (400 atomic parts per million) were investigated on an atomic scale along the <001> direction. A boron enrichment was observed in the vicinity of an <001> edge dislocation. The enriched region appeared as a three-dimensional pipe 5 nanometers in diameter, tangent to the dislocation line. The dislocation was found to be boron-enriched by a factor of 50 (2 atomic percent) relative to the bulk. The local boron enrichment is accompanied by a strong aluminum depletion of 20 atomic percent.     

麦草碱木质素聚氨酯薄膜的合成条件优化

以麦草碱木质素、聚乙二醇(PEG)及多苯基甲烷多异氰酸酯(PAPI)为原料,以N,N-二甲基甲酰胺为溶剂,使用溶液固化成型法制备了碱木质素聚氨酯薄膜。采用差示扫描量热法(DSC)表征了薄膜的热性能,并测定了木质素聚氨酯薄膜的弹性模量、拉伸强度和拉伸率。试验结果表明:当使用PEG300、异氰酸酯指数为2.2、木质素加入量为11%(质量分数)时,聚氨酯薄膜的弹性模量为0.52GPa、拉伸强度69.1MPa、拉伸率15.6%,且成膜性能良好。     

Atmospheric Absorption Anomalies in the Ultraviolet near an Altitude of 50 Kilometers

Rocket-borne radiometer determinations of ozone distributions by absorption of ultraviolet sunlight show anomalous eflects near 3000 angstroms. The instrument uses four 40-angstrom filters in the spectral region between 2650 and 3300 angstroms. At altitudes below 40 kilometers, signals from filters centered near 3000 angstroms appear reduced at least 25 percent below calculated values. However, at higher altitudes an unpredicted sharp increase in signals is observed. These effects are inconsistent with ozone absorption and cannot be ascribed to instrument characteristics. A previously unobserved absorption band of an atmospheric constituent, possibly the metastable excited states of molecular oxygen O(2)((1)Delta(g)) or O(2)((1)Sigma(g)+) can account for the anomalous effects.     

Enhanced Room-Temperature Geometric Magnetoresistance in Inhomogeneous Narrow-Gap Semiconductors

A symmetric van der Pauw disk of homogeneous nonmagnetic indium antimonide with an embedded concentric gold inhomogeneity is found to exhibit room-temperature geometric magnetoresistance as high as 100, 9100, and 750,000 percent at magnetic fields of 0.05, 0.25, and 4.0 teslas, respectively. For inhomogeneities of sufficiently large diameter relative to that of the surrounding disk, the resistance is field-independent up to an onset field above which it increases rapidly. These results can be understood in terms of the field-dependent deflection of current around the inhomogeneity.     

水稻越冬品系的杂种优势及配合力分析

对3个越冬品系与4个籼稻品种配制的16个正反交F1代主要农艺性状的杂种优势、母体效应值和按不完全双列杂交配制的12个正交组合及亲本主要农艺性状的配合力、遗传力进行了分析,结果表明:(1)所有组合的播始历期、株高和结实率具有超亲优势,千粒重接近中亲值.(2)所有组合的播始历期、每穗总粒数和结实率的母体效应值较高.(3)亲本SW-1 和R195的一般配合力(GCA)较好,其所配制组合的特殊配合力(SCA)效应值也较高;而SW-3和R128的GCA也较好,其所配制组合的SCA效应值却偏低;表明亲本的GCA效应与组合的SCA效应关联不大.(4)亲本的播始历期、株高、结实率、谷粒长、谷粒长宽比、千粒重6个性状的GCA基因型方差在基因型总方差中比重大于60%,且它们的H2N也均大于60%,说明这些性状遗传主要受基因加性效应的影响;而单株产量的SCA方差对总方差的贡献率大于60%,且它的H2N仅为18.83%,说明其遗传主要受基因非加性效应的影响.父本和母本对GCA方差的贡献率在所有性状表现上相差较大,母本GCA方差的贡献率远大于父本,且双亲的互作效应不明显.(5)利用越冬品系进行品种选育应注重对杂交后代株高、结实率和千粒重等性状的选择.     

铷(Rb)标记棉盲蝽及其向棉田扩散为害的研究

 1990年在网室试验研究证实，用硝酸铷2000-4000ppm喷洒寄主标记棉盲蝽，方法简便、结果可靠。1991年分别在河南太康县和南阳市用2000ppm的硫酸铷喷洒棉盲蝽集中越冬区域（200m#+2）大量标记棉盲蝽。结果表明，从铷处理区扩散到棉田的铷标成虫占80%以上，其扩散高峰在5月下旬。对野生寄主区在成虫羽化前进行耕翻处理，附近棉田受害率仅6.8%，未处理区的棉花受害率达33.9%-36%，处理效果为80%左右，该研究结果为棉盲蝽的预测预报和综合治理提供了依据。     

Electrical resistivity and stoichiometry of kkhgr c60 films

Electrical resistances of polycrystalline fullerene (C(60)) films were monitored while the films were being doped in ultrahigh vacuum with potassium from a molecular-beam effusion source. Temperature- and concentration-dependent resistivities of K(chi) C(60) films in equilibrium near room temperature were measured. The resistance changes smoothly from metallic at chi approximately 3 to activated as chi --> = 0 or chi --> 6. The minimum resistivity for K(3)C(60) films is 2.2 microohm-centimeters, near the Mott limit. The resistivities are interpreted in terms of a granular microstructure where K(3)C(60) regions form nonpercolating grains, except perhaps at chi approximately 3. Stoichiometries at the resistivity extrema were determined by ex situ Rutherford backscattering spectrometry to be chi = 3 +/- 0.05 at the resistance minimum and chi = 6 +/- 0.05 at the fully doped resistance maximum.     

Conservation genetics of endangered fish populations in Arizona

Genetic diversity in remnant populations of the Sonoran topminnow Poeciliopsis occidentalis (Pisces: Poeciliidae) from Arizona, where the species is endangered, is compared with that in populations from Sonora, Mexico, where the fish is widespread and abundant. Geographically peripheral Arizona populations contain substantially lower levels of genetic variation than do Mexican populations near the center of the species' range. Allelic differences among three genetically and geographically distinct groups are responsible for 53 percent of the total genetic diversity in this species, 26 percent is due to differences among local populations within the groups, and 21 percent is due to heterozygosity within local populations. Recommendations for conservation and restocking efforts in Arizona are based on these genetic findings.