Chuanwen Chen, Lei Qin, Maoxin Su, Yang Xiang, Liguo Tang, Kainan Xiong, Kechen Wu, Xiaoniu Tu, Wenyu Luo
{"title":"Characterization of Elastic Constants of Langatate Single Crystals with 32 Symmetry Using Ultrasonic Pulse‐Echo Technique","authors":"Chuanwen Chen, Lei Qin, Maoxin Su, Yang Xiang, Liguo Tang, Kainan Xiong, Kechen Wu, Xiaoniu Tu, Wenyu Luo","doi":"10.1002/crat.202400081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/crat.202400081","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, the propagation of plane waves in the lanthanum gallium tantalate (langatate, LGT) single crystals is investigated. Moreover, the flight time of different waves in the LGT rectangular parallelepiped sample is measured using the ultrasonic pulse‐echo (UPE) technique, and the elastic constants of the LGT sample are determined. The experimental results clearly show echoes corresponding to the longitudinal and transverse waves along the <jats:italic>x</jats:italic>‐axis. The waves along the <jats:italic>z</jats:italic>‐axis have a similar property. However, the waves along the <jats:italic>y</jats:italic>‐axis are more complex than those along the <jats:italic>x</jats:italic>‐ and <jats:italic>z</jats:italic>‐axes. The echoes corresponding to the quasi‐longitudinal waves along the <jats:italic>y</jats:italic>‐axis are clear, but those corresponding to the transverse and quasi‐transverse waves along the <jats:italic>y</jats:italic>‐axis are not. The elastic constant can be accurately determined if the wave echoes corresponding to this constant propagate without distinct distortion and are clear; otherwise, it may be impossible to accurately determine the constant using UPE. All elastic constants except of the LGT single crystals can be determined using UPE from one sample. This study uses UPE to provide a reference for the characterization of elastic constants of piezoelectric crystals with 32 symmetry from one sample.","PeriodicalId":10797,"journal":{"name":"Crystal Research and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142247749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adhesion, Stability and Electronic Properties of Ag/SnO2 Interface from First‐Principles Calculation","authors":"Yunhui Xu, Jintao Li, Wensong Teng, Defeng Cui, Xiaolong Zhou","doi":"10.1002/crat.202400126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/crat.202400126","url":null,"abstract":"The interfacial bonding state between each oxide and the silver matrix in AgCuOIn<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>O<jats:sub>3</jats:sub>SnO<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> electrical contact materials remains unclear. To address this, first‐principles calculations using density‐functional theory are employed to establish the low‐index surfaces of Ag and SnO<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> and perform convergence tests. Computational results reveal that the Ag (111) surface and the SnO<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>(110)‐O surface exhibit the highest stability among their respective low‐index surfaces. Consequently, these surfaces are chosen to form the interfacial model, and their atomic structure, adhesion work, and interfacial energies are systematically analyzed. The results demonstrate that the stability and interfacial bonding strength of the Ag(111)/SnO<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>(110)‐O interface are high, exhibiting metallic properties and strong conductivity. Moreover, at an interface spacing of d<jats:sub>0</jats:sub> = 2.4 Å, the interface stability is optimal. The redistribution of charge at the interface induces significant changes in the local atomic density of states, particularly noticeable in the Ag and O atoms. Additionally, the Ag/SnO<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> interface is predominantly bonded through ionic interactions, contributing to its robust bonding.","PeriodicalId":10797,"journal":{"name":"Crystal Research and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142183597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Determination of Thermal Properties of Carbon Materials above 2000 °C for Application in High Temperature Crystal Growth","authors":"Jonas Ihle, Peter J. Wellmann","doi":"10.1002/crat.202400080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/crat.202400080","url":null,"abstract":"This work reports on the determination of the heat conductivity of high temperature stable carbon materials in the temperature range well above 2000 °C where classic material characterization methods fail. Dense graphite (DG) materials as well as rigid and soft felt isolation (RFI/SFI) components have been investigated which are used during crystal growth of SiC by the physical vapor transport method (PVT) in the temperature regime of 2000 and 2400 °C. The applied materials characterization methods include low temperature physical heat conductivity measurements using laser flash analysis (LFA) in the temperature range 25–1200 °C, data extrapolation to elevated temperatures up to 2400 °C, and a correlation of heating processes and computer simulation of the temperature field of different hot zone designs. Using this approach, the calculated temperatures and experimentally determined values with an error of less than ± 2% at 2400 °C can be merged.","PeriodicalId":10797,"journal":{"name":"Crystal Research and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141947253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Dropka, M. Holeňa, Cornelia Thieme, Ta-Shun Chou
{"title":"Development of the VGF Crystal Growth Recipe: Intelligent Solutions of Ill‐Posed Inverse Problems using Images and Numerical Data","authors":"N. Dropka, M. Holeňa, Cornelia Thieme, Ta-Shun Chou","doi":"10.1002/crat.202300125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/crat.202300125","url":null,"abstract":"Development of the Vertical Growth Freeze crystal growth process is a typical example of solving the ill‐posed inverse problem, which violates one or more of Hadamard's well‐posedness criteria of solution existence, uniqueness, and stability. In this study, different data‐driven approaches are used to solve inverse problems: Reduced Order Modelling method of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition with Inverse Distance weighting (ROM POD InvD), an approximation method of Kriging and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) employing images, combination of images and numerical data and solely numerical data, respectively. The ≈200 training data are generated by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations of the forward problem. Numerical input data are related to the temperatures and coordinates in 10 characteristic monitoring points in the melt and crystal, while the image input data are related to the interface shape and position. Using the random mean squared error as a criterion, the Kriging method based on images and numerical data and the ANN method based on numerical data are able to capture the system behavior more accurately, in contrast to the ROM POD InvD method, which is based solely on images.","PeriodicalId":10797,"journal":{"name":"Crystal Research and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84068718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Masthead: Crystal Research and Technology 12'2021","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/crat.202170033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/crat.202170033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10797,"journal":{"name":"Crystal Research and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73006646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(Crystal Research and Technology 12/2021)","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/crat.202170032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/crat.202170032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10797,"journal":{"name":"Crystal Research and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84977378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Masthead: Crystal Research and Technology 11'2021","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/crat.202170031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/crat.202170031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10797,"journal":{"name":"Crystal Research and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77043996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(Crystal Research and Technology 11/2021)","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/crat.202170030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/crat.202170030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10797,"journal":{"name":"Crystal Research and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88919440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Vilela, M. C. Rodrigues, B. Fronza, R. B. Trinca, F. M. Vichi, R. Braga
{"title":"Effect of Temperature and pH on Calcium Phosphate Precipitation","authors":"H. Vilela, M. C. Rodrigues, B. Fronza, R. B. Trinca, F. M. Vichi, R. Braga","doi":"10.1002/crat.202100094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/crat.202100094","url":null,"abstract":"Calcium orthophosphates (CaP) synthesis involves several chemical equilibria that define the phases present in the final product. From the biomaterials standpoint, it is important to gain knowledge on how synthesis parameters affect phase formation and particle size. This study evaluates the interaction between temperature (24 or 45 °C) and pH conditions (4.5, 6.5, or drifting) on CaP precipitation in terms of yield, phase formation, density, morphology, and size distribution. Calcium and phosphate solutions (Ca/P = 1.0) are mixed and kept under stirring for 3 h. The precipitate is freeze‐dried and characterized. Under drifting pH and pH 4.5, dicalcium phosphate dihydrate (DCPD, CaHPO4 × 2H2O) is the predominant phase at both temperatures; however, some samples also present peaks ascribed to dicalcium phosphate anhydrous (DCPA, CaHPO4). At pH 6.5, diffractograms reveal a mixture of low‐crystallinity DCPD and DCPA (24 °C) or low crystallinity hydroxyapatite [HAP, Ca10(OH)2(PO4)6] (45 °C). In spite of the different morphologies (plates or aggregates), particle size remains within a relatively narrow range (D50 = 12–28 µm). DCPD precipitation is favored under more acidic or drifting pH, while HAP is formed under nearly neutral pH 6.5.","PeriodicalId":10797,"journal":{"name":"Crystal Research and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87928394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Amorphous Porous Molybdenum Dioxide as an Efficient Supercapacitor Electrode Material","authors":"Shuhua Liu, Li Tian, Xiang Qi","doi":"10.1002/crat.202100083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/crat.202100083","url":null,"abstract":"Molybdenum dioxide (MoO2) with amorphous and porous nanostructure is synthesized via a facile hydrothermal methodology in a short reaction time and used as a supercapacitors electrode material. X‐ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy and cyclic voltammetry, galvanostatic charge–discharge measurements, and cycle stability tests of the amorphous and porous MoO2 are investigated. The novel‐innovative structure conduces to the high specific capacity of 444.7 F g−1 at 1 A g−1 in 0.5 m H2SO4 solution. After 1000 cycles, 92% capacity is retained, indicating that the as‐prepared electrodes possess excellent stabilities. Furthermore, at a high current density of 8 A g−1, the capacity can reach 210.67 F g−1, exhibiting outstanding rate characteristics. The amorphous and porous MoO2 achieves preeminent electrochemical performance, which can be attributed to the short ion diffusion routes and can provide reversible and fast faradic reactions and the porous structure will increase the utilization of the electrode materials. Besides that, the amorphous and porous MoO2 will let each MoO2 nanoparticles to participate in electrochemical reactions due to the full contact between electrolyte and MoO2. Therefore, MoO2 will be a promising anode material for aqueous supercapacitors.","PeriodicalId":10797,"journal":{"name":"Crystal Research and Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77082015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}