G. Kontenis, D. Gailevičius, V. Jukna, K. Staliūnas
{"title":"Chirped LG modes interference formed chiral beams","authors":"G. Kontenis, D. Gailevičius, V. Jukna, K. Staliūnas","doi":"10.3952/physics.2023.63.3.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3952/physics.2023.63.3.4","url":null,"abstract":"Non-Gaussian spatial intensity distribution beams used in laser micro- and nano-machining find many applications. For instance, Bessel beams, having a small diameter and a very long focal zone, allow the fabrication of high aspect ratio modifications in transparent materials. Higher-order Laguerre–Gauss modes are used in particle manipulation and even for multiplexing in optical communication. The temporal intensity distribution of a pulse is mostly overlooked or fixed to Gaussian shape distribution. However, pulse-shaped beams could improve the same fields of particle manipulation as optical traps, or the laser manufacturing. In this paper, we demonstrate a method of constructing a helical spatiotemporal intensity distribution beam the rotation of which in time can be varied. We demonstrate the analytical and numerical results and show an experimental realization of such a structure.","PeriodicalId":18144,"journal":{"name":"Lithuanian Journal of Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139235700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Mundrys, S. Orlov, P. Kizevičius, L. Minkevičius, G. Valušis
{"title":"On evaluation of image quality in nonparaxial single-pixel imaging","authors":"S. Mundrys, S. Orlov, P. Kizevičius, L. Minkevičius, G. Valušis","doi":"10.3952/physics.2023.63.3.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3952/physics.2023.63.3.1","url":null,"abstract":"High numerical apertures lead to an appearance of distortions in a single-shot image, which make obtaining images troublesome if not impossible. These obstacles can be overcome in single-pixel imaging, where different strategies lead to inspection of objects with a good resolution, contrast and brightness. Recent advances in flat photonic elements have enabled the creation of compact nonparaxial imaging systems, which are especially promising in the THz range of wavelengths, bringing advances to such fields as communication, material inspection and spectroscopy. In this work, we dive into the problematics of single-pixel imaging: we introduce an object sample, which we use to investigate the resolution, contrast and brightness of the classical two-lens imaging setup. We evaluate the nonparaxial imaging of the sample and report that the conditions for the best contrast and the best brightness are decoupled in nonparaxial single pixel imaging. To overcome this hurdle, we use two integral image quality assessment techniques from computational imaging theory and estimate the quality of the image in a virtual numerical THz imaging scenario. The localized mean square error metric did not cause additional constraints to the quality of the image, whereas the global mean square error has restricted the range of possible imaging setups. Thus, the computational integral image quality assessment techniques back up the main claim of this study that in the single-pixel imaging the resolution is decoupled from the image brightness.","PeriodicalId":18144,"journal":{"name":"Lithuanian Journal of Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139238831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stochastic theory of charge dynamics and recombination in defect clusters in bulk silicon.","authors":"D. Abramavičius","doi":"10.3952/physics.2023.63.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3952/physics.2023.63.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"Various types of defect clusters are generated in bulk Si-based high-energy particle detectors. They become either recombination centres or charge trapping centres. Populated trapping centres create internal fields which may affect the dynamics and recombination of remaining free charges. In the semiclassical regime, the charge dynamics can be described by the Boltzmann equation. In this paper, the stochastic description is presented as an alternative to a direct solution of the Boltzmann equation approach. It is demonstrated that the hole dynamics can be described in the overdamped regime in both light-hole and heavy-hole cases. Electrons have to be described by including ballistic components. The theory allows an efficient simulation of the electron and hole dynamics in the vicinity of a defect cluster and demonstrates that local trapping centres are the major components enabling fast charge recombinations. The dipolar type internal fields of permanently trapped charges only weakly influence the charge recombination kinetics.","PeriodicalId":18144,"journal":{"name":"Lithuanian Journal of Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41518152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Increase of the surface recombination velocity at high bias voltage in silicon irradiated by neutrons to extremely high fluences","authors":"J. Vaitkus, A. Mekys","doi":"10.3952/physics.2023.63.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3952/physics.2023.63.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"The upgrading of ionizing radiation detectors is an actual problem especially related to the high energy physics and space research experiments. The simplest way to restore the signal of the irradiation degraded detector is the increase of the detector bias voltage. This method is widely used worldwide, including high energy physics experiments in ATLAS and CMS. This work presents an effect, which was caused by increased bias voltage in detectors irradiated to extreme high neutron fluence at low temperature. The effect could be related to the increase of surface recombination velocity.The intrinsic photoconductivity spectra were exploited in order to investigate the properties of highly irradiated silicon as this effect depends on parameters that are important in radiation detectors. Two characteristic effects were observed in such highly irradiated samples: the increase of photoconductivity quantum yield and the enhancement of surface recombination at higher bias voltages. The increase of the quantum yield was analyzed in Ref. [1]. The increase of the surface recombination with bias electric field was analyzed in this work as an extension of the performed investigation in the same samples as in Ref. [1]. The investigated silicon samples were irradiated by neutrons to wide range fluence up to 1017 n/cm2.The origin of this effect was analyzed and related to the radiation clusters, which decrease the free carrier lifetime.","PeriodicalId":18144,"journal":{"name":"Lithuanian Journal of Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44183248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Romanenko, G. Lujaniene, S. Šemčuk, J. Mažeika, O. Jefanova
{"title":"Assessment of the input of particulate 239,240Pu and 137Cs from the Neman River into the Curonian Lagoon","authors":"V. Romanenko, G. Lujaniene, S. Šemčuk, J. Mažeika, O. Jefanova","doi":"10.3952/physics.2023.63.2.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3952/physics.2023.63.2.6","url":null,"abstract":"The Curonian Lagoon is a unique system that is a temporary reservoir of water, accumulating about 62% of the suspended solids in the river runoff. The average activity of plutonium in the suspended particulate matter in the water of the Neris River was 0.26±0.02 Bq/kg, and the activity of 137Cs ranged from 23±8 to 49±12 Bq/kg. The average 137Cs flux to the Curonian Lagoon in the particulate and dissolved species was estimated to be (78±61) × 109 Bq/year. Preliminary estimates indicate that the annual input of 239,240Pu from the Neman River into the Curonian Lagoon is about 0.9 GBq, of which 0.56 GBq accumulates in the sediment of the lagoon.","PeriodicalId":18144,"journal":{"name":"Lithuanian Journal of Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45530600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y. Qian, L. Wang, G. Shi, Y. Zhang, Z. Sun, Y. Lin
{"title":"The impact of groupvelocity dispersion on femtosecond laser filamentation with higher-order Kerr effect at different atmospheric pressures","authors":"Y. Qian, L. Wang, G. Shi, Y. Zhang, Z. Sun, Y. Lin","doi":"10.3952/physics.2023.63.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3952/physics.2023.63.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"The impact of group velocity dispersion (GVD) on femtosecond laser filamentation with the higher-order Kerreffect is studied at different atmospheric pressures. The results show that GVD makes the collapse distance to not meet the semi-empirical formula proposed by Dawes and Marburger, suppresses multiple focusing and splitting in time during the propagation process, and reduces the length of filament. In addition, we also compared the results with those considering only the third-order Kerr effect. This provides some information for the study of whether the defocus effect in the femtosecond laser filamentation is the higher-order Kerr effect or the plasma effect.","PeriodicalId":18144,"journal":{"name":"Lithuanian Journal of Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44451166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A computational study of the electronic and thermoelectric properties of metal halide cubic perovskites CsBX3 (B = Ge, Sn, Pb and X = Cl, Br, I)","authors":"M. Zemzemi","doi":"10.3952/physics.2023.63.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3952/physics.2023.63.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"Metal halide perovskites have received a tremendous interest recently in new applications. Photovoltaic, diverse photonic and optoelectronic applications of these materials are in full expansion, but thermoelectricity also instigates a great interest. In this work, we will focus on the thermoelectric properties of a particular material family of metal halide cubic perovskites CsBX3 (B = Ge, Sn, Pb and X = Cl, Br, I). The structural and electronic properties of CsBX3 are computed using first-principles calculations based on the density functional theory which allows calculating equilibrium lattice parameters, band structures, the nature (direct/indirect) and value of the band gap. These studied compounds are semiconductors with direct band gap energy. We have also detected the effect of replacement of halogen and metal cation atoms with other halogen and metal cation atoms on electronic and thermoelectric properties. Boltzmann transport calculations are carried out to explore their thermoelectric properties like the Seebeck coefficient, electrical conductivity and power factor. Large values of the Seebeck coefficient and the power factor obtained for these compounds indicate that these compounds can be used for thermoelectric devices. Our theoretical analysis of the electronic and thermoelectric properties of these compounds suggests that CsSnBr3 and CsGeBr3 are the best Pb-free inorganic metal halide semiconductor for a high thermoelectric performance.","PeriodicalId":18144,"journal":{"name":"Lithuanian Journal of Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48235632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Novel approaches to generic non-Fermi liquids: higher- dimensional bosonization vs generalized holography","authors":"D. V. Khveshchenko","doi":"10.3952/physics.2023.63.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3952/physics.2023.63.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the problem of computing fermion propagators in a broad variety of strongly correlated systems that can be mapped onto the theory of fermions coupled to an (over)damped bosonic mode. A number of the previously applied approaches and their results are reviewed, including the conventional diagrammatic resummation and eikonal technique, as well as the ‘experimental’ higher-dimensional bosonization and generalized (i.e. ‘bottom-up’ or ‘non-AdS/non-CFT’) holographic conjecture. It appears that, by and large, those results remain either in conflict or incomplete, thereby suggesting that the ultimate solution to this ubiquitous problem is yet to be found.","PeriodicalId":18144,"journal":{"name":"Lithuanian Journal of Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42483509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O. Balaban, O. Izhyk, A. Zaichenk, N. Mitina, I. Grygorchak, K. Harhay
{"title":"Li+ intercalation current generation in amorphous and crystalline MoS2: Experiment and theory","authors":"O. Balaban, O. Izhyk, A. Zaichenk, N. Mitina, I. Grygorchak, K. Harhay","doi":"10.3952/physics.2023.63.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3952/physics.2023.63.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, crystalline and amorphous nano-MoS2 materials for effective Li+-intercalation current generation have been synthesized. The effect of disordering on the structural and electrochemical properties of nano-MoS2 has been systematically investigated by multiple characterizations: transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction method and electrochemical measurements. Thermodynamic and kinetic peculiarities of intercalation processes have been studied. Dependences of the change in Gibbs’ free energy of the intercalation reaction on the extent of ‘guest’ lithium loading are analyzed. The distinctive feature of disordered structures is their ability to show colossal lithium ‘guest’ load, which ensures the specific capacity of the material in cathode processes up to ~2500 mAh·g–1 under the discharge not less than 2.6 V relative to lithium. The diffusion coefficient of lithium cations in the structure of disordered nano-MoS2 is two orders of magnitude higher than that in the crystalline MoS2.A quantum-mechanical model of the observed phenomena is suggested.","PeriodicalId":18144,"journal":{"name":"Lithuanian Journal of Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42075565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Physical-and-chemical processes at the interfaces of (Cu–Ni–Mn–Fe)/ (W–C) composites","authors":"O. Sukhova","doi":"10.3952/physics.2023.63.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3952/physics.2023.63.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"The spontaneous infiltration method for fabricating composites was used, in which molten Cu–Ni–Mn–Fe binders penetrated W–C filler particles due to capillary forces. The metal matrix composites thus obtained were characterized for phase composition, microstructure, porosity and microhardness. All composites were studied in their as-prepared condition with further annealing at 900°С for 60 and 750 h. It was shown that the mechanism based on the dissolution/diffusion bonding of the particulate/matrix interface was in agreement with the results of this study. The interfacial reactions provided a driving force for wetting but did not give rise to unwanted phases that could degrade the properties of the composite materials. From the EDX measurements it was concluded that mainly Fe atoms diffused from the Cu–Ni–Mn–Fe binders into the WC phase of the eutectic (WC+W2C) filler. Dissolution of this phase resulted in the appearance of W2C layer at the interface. Annealing at 900°С significantly promoted the interfacial reaction especially during the first 60 h of heat treatment. The degree of the reaction between the molten Cu–Ni–Mn–Fe alloys and W–C particulate could be limited by controlling the iron content of the binders to obtain an optimal interface.","PeriodicalId":18144,"journal":{"name":"Lithuanian Journal of Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46844884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}