A. Šuminienė, V. Jukna, R. Šuminas, G. Tamosauskas, M. Vengris, A. Dubietis
{"title":"LiSAF: an efficient and durable nonlinear material for supercontinuum generation in the ultraviolet","authors":"A. Šuminienė, V. Jukna, R. Šuminas, G. Tamosauskas, M. Vengris, A. Dubietis","doi":"10.3952/physics.v60i4.4357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3952/physics.v60i4.4357","url":null,"abstract":"We have experimentally studied supercontinuum generation in an undoped LiSAF crystal using ultraviolet, visible and near infrared pump pulses provided by fundamental and second harmonics of amplified femtosecond Ti:sapphire and Yb:KGW lasers. We have found that the optical degradation of the crystal, manifested by gradual narrowing of the supercontinuum spectrum, starts much faster using infrared pump pulses. This is attributed to the role of impact ionization, which increases with increasing the pump wavelength. The most reliable operation is achieved with the shortest pump wavelength of 400 nm (the second harmonic of a Ti:sapphire laser), where LiSAF produces a stable, almost 1.3 octave-spanning supercontinuum spectrum with a short-wavelength cut-off at 252 nm and shows no apparent optical degradation for one hour of continuous operation at 500 Hz repetition rate without crystal translation.","PeriodicalId":18144,"journal":{"name":"Lithuanian Journal of Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44675514","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}
E. Palaimiene, J. Macutkevič, J. Banys, I. Gruszka, A. Kania
{"title":"Broadband and infrared spectroscopy of Ag0.98Li0.02NbO3 ceramics","authors":"E. Palaimiene, J. Macutkevič, J. Banys, I. Gruszka, A. Kania","doi":"10.3952/physics.v60i4.4360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3952/physics.v60i4.4360","url":null,"abstract":"The dielectric properties of Ag0.98Li0.02NbO3 (ALN2) ceramics were investigated in a broad frequency range (20 Hz – 60 THz). The dielectric spectra of ALN2 ceramics are mainly impacted by electrical conductivity at higher temperatures (above 400 K) and low frequencies (below 100 Hz), ferroelectric domains below ferroelectric phase transition temperature Tc = 330 K and at low frequencies (below 1 MHz), and contribution of the soft ferroelectric mode, the frequency of which is below 50 cm–1. All phononic modes are slightly temperature dependent, thus confirming the influence of Ag, O and Li ions dynamics on the phase transitions. However, the most important contribution to the dynamics of phase transition is made by Nb ions. Ceramics exhibits a huge value of dielectric permittivity and relatively low losses in a microwave frequency range (ε΄ ≈ 250 and ε˝ ≈ 20 at 10 GHz and room temperature), indicating that it is suitable for various microwave dielectric applications.","PeriodicalId":18144,"journal":{"name":"Lithuanian Journal of Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48987937","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":"Negative flow of energy in a mechanical wave","authors":"A. Matulis, A. Acus","doi":"10.3952/physics.v60i4.4356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3952/physics.v60i4.4356","url":null,"abstract":"A classical system, which is analogous to the quantum one with a backflow of probability, is proposed. The system consists of a chain of masses interconnected by springs and attached by other springs to fixed supports. Thanks to the last springs the cutoff frequency and dispersion appears in the spectrum of waves propagating along the chain. It is shown that this dispersion contributes to the appearance of a backflow of energy. In the case of the interference of two waves, the magnitude of this backflow is an order of magnitude higher than the value of probability backflow in the mentioned quantum problem. The equation of Green’s function is considered and it is shown that the backflow of energy is also possible when the system is excited by two consecutive short pulses. This classical backflow phenomenon is explained by the branching of energy flow to local modes that is confirmed by the results for the forced damped oscillator. It is shown that even in such a simple system the backflow of energy takes place (both instantaneous and average).","PeriodicalId":18144,"journal":{"name":"Lithuanian Journal of Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42072496","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":"One SYK single electron transistor","authors":"D. Khveshchenko","doi":"10.3952/physics.v60i3.4305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3952/physics.v60i3.4305","url":null,"abstract":"We study the behaviour of a single electron transistor (SET) represented by a dissipative tunnel junction between a pair of quantum dots described by two (possibly, different) Sachdev–Ye–Kitaev (SYK) models. A combined influence of the soft collective charge and energy modes on charge transport is discussed, alongside the competing effects of the Coulomb blockade and emergent Kondo resonances which might all conspire to result in a non-monotonic behaviour of the system’s conductance.","PeriodicalId":18144,"journal":{"name":"Lithuanian Journal of Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45714216","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. Dlimi, L. Limouny, J. Hemine, A. Echchelh, A. E. Kaaouachi
{"title":"Efros–Shklovskii hopping in the electronic transport in 2D p-GaAs","authors":"S. Dlimi, L. Limouny, J. Hemine, A. Echchelh, A. E. Kaaouachi","doi":"10.3952/physics.v60i3.4303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3952/physics.v60i3.4303","url":null,"abstract":"a Physics Department, Faculty of Sciences, University Ibn Zohr, B. P 8106, Hay Dakhla, 80000 Agadir, Morocco b Laboratoire des systèmes électroniques, traitement de l’information, mécanique et énergétique, Faculté des Sciences, Université Ibn Tofaïl, Kénitra, Morocco c Laboratory of Energetic Engineering and Materials, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofaïl University, Kénitra, Morocco Email: dlimi1975@gmail.com","PeriodicalId":18144,"journal":{"name":"Lithuanian Journal of Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45552159","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":"Optimization of wide-field second-harmonic generation microscopy for fast imaging of large sample areas in biological tissues","authors":"A. Dementjev, R. Rudys, R. Karpicz, D. Rutkauskas","doi":"10.3952/physics.v60i3.4301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3952/physics.v60i3.4301","url":null,"abstract":"Second-harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy is a label-free imaging method that can be used to visualize the detailed arrangement of collagen structures in biological tissues. Here, we sought to optimize the speed of microscopic SHG image acquisition of macroscopic fixed tissue sample areas by employing the wide-field imaging with a high power and medium, 1 MHz pulse repetition frequency laser in combination with a mechanical sample scanning. Unlike in the conventional laser-scanning microscopy, the optimum of the wide-field acquisition entails an interplay between the size of the illuminated area and the intensity of the generated signal. We delineate quantitative procedures to set the image parameters for the maximum speed of the tiled image acquisition, and also describe the possible optimization of the laser parameters for further enhancement of the speed of acquisition.","PeriodicalId":18144,"journal":{"name":"Lithuanian Journal of Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45513694","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}
A. Cerskus, S. Ašmontas, K. Petrauskas, A. Sužiedėlis, J. Gradauskas, A. Opanasyuk, B. Vengalis
{"title":"Photoluminescence properties of hybrid perovskites in solar cells with TiO2 and Mg0.2Zn0.8O electron transport layers","authors":"A. Cerskus, S. Ašmontas, K. Petrauskas, A. Sužiedėlis, J. Gradauskas, A. Opanasyuk, B. Vengalis","doi":"10.3952/physics.v60i3.4304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3952/physics.v60i3.4304","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a study of the photoluminescence properties of hybrid perovskite films deposited on titanium and magnesium zinc oxide films, as electron transport layers, using the spin-coating technique. The subject of the investigation was continuous wave photoluminescence versus temperature, excitation power and transient photoluminescence. Moreover, the paper discusses possible carrier recombination mechanisms. Complex temporal decay was approximated through the use of several models, but only the four-exponent model and the model using the sum of two hyperbolic functions provided a good agreement with the experimental data. The first attempt to replace titanium dioxide with magnesium zinc oxide in conjunction with the perovskite layer showed improved optical properties such as a weaker non-radiative recombination process and a longer decay time constant. PACS: 81.10.Dn, 84.60.Jt, 78.55.-m, 78.47.D","PeriodicalId":18144,"journal":{"name":"Lithuanian Journal of Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46346697","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}
U. Makhmanov, A. Kokhkharov, S. Bakhramov, D. Erts
{"title":"The formation of self-assembled structures of C60 in solution and in the volume of an evaporating drop of a colloidal solution","authors":"U. Makhmanov, A. Kokhkharov, S. Bakhramov, D. Erts","doi":"10.3952/physics.v60i3.4306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3952/physics.v60i3.4306","url":null,"abstract":"The results of experiments on the self-aggregation of C60 fullerene molecules both inside a two-component solvent (xylene/tetrahydrofuran) and in the volume of an evaporating drop of C60 colloidal solution on a flat substrate surface are presented. The investigations of C60 solutions using dynamic light scattering, transmission electron microscopy and UV–Vis absorption spectroscopy methods revealed the possibility of synthesis of fractal nanoaggregates with a diameter of up to ~135 nm at low concentrations of C60 in the solutions. The final geometric dimensions of C60 nanoaggregates were determined by the initial concentration of fullerene in the solvent medium. Using the scanning electron microscopy method, we have shown that in an open dissipative system – in the volume of an evaporating droplet of the colloidal solution of fullerene C60 sessile on the surface of a flat glass substrate, large quasispherical nanoaggregates with an average diameter of ~380–800 nm are formed. The physical features and regularities that characterize the processes of self-aggregation of fullerene particles in the volume of a drying drop were determined.","PeriodicalId":18144,"journal":{"name":"Lithuanian Journal of Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44215715","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}
A. Poškus, Rokas Dobužinskas, M. Viliunas, K. Arlauskas
{"title":"A physical mechanism of sensitivity enhancement of organic X-ray detectors with tungsten nanoparticles","authors":"A. Poškus, Rokas Dobužinskas, M. Viliunas, K. Arlauskas","doi":"10.3952/physics.v60i2.4225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3952/physics.v60i2.4225","url":null,"abstract":"A simple theoretical model explaining the increase of X-ray sensitivity caused by adding tungsten nanoparticles into thin layers of organic materials is proposed. The mentioned increase of sensitivity is caused by quenched electron multiplication due to secondary electron emission from tungsten particles. After some simplifying assumptions, an expression of the electron multiplication factor K is derived for the case when tungsten atoms are uniformly mixed with the matrix material. The main assumption of the model is the existence of a threshold energy Emin of the order of 0.1 eV, below which the recombination of charge carriers prevents them from being accelerated by the electric field to energies sufficient for impact ionization. It is shown that this assumption makes the increase of K and photocurrent with increasing electric field much slower than the exponential increase commonly associated with an electron avalanche, and K may even start to decrease when the electric field strength exceeds a certain value. Another factor, which has an adverse effect on the X-ray sensitivity, is the ionization energy loss of photoelectrons inside metallic nanoparticles. The results of Monte Carlo simulations show that in the case of spherical tungsten particles with 0.8 μm diameter, the latter phenomenon may cause an additional decrease of the sensitivity by as much as 75%. In order to reduce this effect, the size of nanoparticles should be reduced, or, alternatively, most of the photoelectrons should be generated in the organic matrix rather than inside the nanoparticles.","PeriodicalId":18144,"journal":{"name":"Lithuanian Journal of Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46725483","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}
M. Misevicius, L. Dagys, A. Marsalka, Kristina Kristinaityte, V. Balevičius
{"title":"27Al MAS NMR spectroscopy study of Eu2+-doped and Dy3+-co-doped SrAl4O7","authors":"M. Misevicius, L. Dagys, A. Marsalka, Kristina Kristinaityte, V. Balevičius","doi":"10.3952/physics.v60i2.4224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3952/physics.v60i2.4224","url":null,"abstract":"The Eu2+-doped strontium aluminate SrAl4O7 samples have shown the blue-green persistent luminescence at 490 nm while the co-doping with Dy3+ shifts the maximum of emission to 475 nm. Undoped, 3% Eu-doped and 6% Dy-co-doped SrAl4O7 samples were prepared by the solid state-reaction method and studied by the solid-state 27Al MAS NMR applying the single pulse-acquire and Hahn-echo pulse sequences. It was shown that the Eu2+ with Dy3+ ion doping did not affect the bulk structure as well as the local Al environment in SrAl4O7. This means that large shifts of the emission maximum cannot be caused by changes in the local environment upon the co-doping of SrAl4O7:Eu2+ with Dy3+. However, the spectral features observed in the range between the signals of 4- and 6-coordinated Al (20–40 ppm) indicate that certain phase imperfections are present in all studied samples, and most probably amorphous/glassy domains were formed. Note that such amount of phase impurities was not detected by standard XRD or FTIR methods. This has revealed the 27Al MAS NMR technique to be a very effective tool monitoring the phase perfectness in series of strontium aluminate samples.","PeriodicalId":18144,"journal":{"name":"Lithuanian Journal of Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44499735","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}