A. Asatryan, A. Movsisyan, L. Vardanyan, S. Hayrapetyan, A. Kirakosyan
{"title":"Quasi-One-Dimensional Fröhlich Polaron Characteristics in ZnO Nanowires under the External Fields","authors":"A. Asatryan, A. Movsisyan, L. Vardanyan, S. Hayrapetyan, A. Kirakosyan","doi":"10.1134/S1068337224700373","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1068337224700373","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A modified Lee, Low, and Pines intermediate coupling variational method is used to study the basic characteristics of the quasi-one-dimensional Fröhlich polaron in wurtzite cylindrical ZnO nanowires. The influence of external electric and magnetic fields is investigated and the spatial confinement of the optical phonon spectrum is considered. The results are compared with those obtained for the zinc-blende CdSe, GaAs, and wurtzite GaN cylindrical nanowires. An assessment of the contributions of different optical phonon modes indicates the predominant role of interface phonons in thin wires. It has been found that the influence of the magnetic field on the polaron self-energy and effective mass can be neglected as compared with the ones of the electric field. The results will be useful for further exploring the phonon-assisted electro-optical properties of wurtzite nanostructures<b>.</b></p>","PeriodicalId":623,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Physics (Armenian Academy of Sciences)","volume":"59 3","pages":"287 - 293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142994315","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":"Anisotropic Mechanical Properties of Transparent Wood","authors":"M. L. Sargsyan, R. S. Hakobyan","doi":"10.1134/S1068337224700476","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1068337224700476","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The work is dedicated to modeling the mechanical characteristics of transparent wood. In the study, to simplify the mathematical modeling of transparent wood samples, the assumption of transverse isotropy was used. Simple tensile experiments of transparent wood veneer were theoretically analyzed using the expression of the density of elastic free energy. As a result, theoretical relationships were obtained that relate the main elastic constants to the elasticity coefficients included in the expression of the free energy density. Then, the elasticity coefficients of a transparent wood sample based on balsa were calculated. These coefficients enable mechanical characterization of these materials, which is important in terms of their potential applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":623,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Physics (Armenian Academy of Sciences)","volume":"59 3","pages":"300 - 306"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142994778","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. V. Margaryan, S. N. Noreyan, V. R. Kocharyan, Yu. M. Cherepennikov, M. H. Mesropyan, A. E. Movsisyan, V. N. Aghabekyan, A. M. Mamyan, K. G. Trouni
{"title":"Diffraction Absorption in a Quartz Single Crystal in the Presence of a Temperature Gradient","authors":"V. V. Margaryan, S. N. Noreyan, V. R. Kocharyan, Yu. M. Cherepennikov, M. H. Mesropyan, A. E. Movsisyan, V. N. Aghabekyan, A. M. Mamyan, K. G. Trouni","doi":"10.1134/S1068337224700452","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1068337224700452","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The influence of a temperature gradient on anomalous absorption (Bormann effect) in quartz crystals observed in Bragg diffraction in Laue geometry in dynamic diffraction of X-rays for Lauе geometry when the orientations of the diffraction vectors and the temperature gradient (<b>g</b> ↑↑ <b>B</b>) are parallel is experimentally investigated. The study was carried out for various values of µ<i>t</i> ~ 0.5 (weak absorption) to 4 (strong absorption), where µ is the linear absorption coefficient, and <i>t</i> is the crystal’s thickness. In this range of crystal thicknesses, the role of abnormal absorption in forming the diffraction field in the deformed crystal lattice and outside the crystal in the recording plane was studied using a specially designed scheme for the experimental setup. Interpretations of the observed features were given based on the dynamic diffraction theory of X-rays in deformed crystal lattices.</p>","PeriodicalId":623,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Physics (Armenian Academy of Sciences)","volume":"59 3","pages":"332 - 336"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142994781","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":"Synthesis and Study of Dielectric Properties of Composite Material Consisting of Glass Ceramics Based on Pearlite and TiO2","authors":"L. N. Grigoryan, P. G. Petrosyan","doi":"10.1134/S1068337224700415","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1068337224700415","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A method for low-temperature synthesis of a composite material glass-ceramic—TiO<sub>2</sub> is proposed. Frequency dependencies of the dielectric permittivity and dielectric losses in the frequency range of 0–20 MHz are investigated. It is shown that an increase in the TiO<sub>2</sub> content in the composite material leads to an increase in dielectric permittivity and a decrease in dielectric losses. The structure and phase composition of the composite material were studied using X-ray diffraction, showing that during low-temperature heat treatment, the components of the composite material do not form new phases, and the obtained material can be represented as a mixture of non-interacting components randomly distributed in space.</p>","PeriodicalId":623,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Physics (Armenian Academy of Sciences)","volume":"59 3","pages":"294 - 299"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142994777","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}
N. R. Aghamalyan, I. A. Ghambaryan, H. T. Gyulasaryan, E. A. Kafadaryan, M. N. Nersisyan, G. N. Chilingaryan, A. S. Saakov, A. A. Sargsyan, T. S. Azatyan, V. V. Baghramyan
{"title":"Study of Emission and Absorption Properties of Natural and Artificial Glasses Exposed by Gamma Irradiation","authors":"N. R. Aghamalyan, I. A. Ghambaryan, H. T. Gyulasaryan, E. A. Kafadaryan, M. N. Nersisyan, G. N. Chilingaryan, A. S. Saakov, A. A. Sargsyan, T. S. Azatyan, V. V. Baghramyan","doi":"10.1134/S1068337224700348","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1068337224700348","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Samples of natural glass (translucent obsidian) and artificial glass obtained from natural perlite raw material and similar in composition to obsidian were irradiated at room temperature by γ‑photons with an average energy of 1.25 MeV in different doses up to 1300 kGy from a <sup>60</sup>Co radiation source. It is known that γ-radiation affects the optical properties of glass depending on the composition as well as on the presence of defects in the glass framework. The analysis was carried out using the methods of absorption, luminescence, Raman, and EPR spectroscopy depending on the γ-irradiation doses. A comparison of the transmission, photoluminescence, Raman, and EPR spectra for obsidian and perlite glass was carried out. The difference transmission spectra between non-irradiated and irradiated samples made it possible to isolate the absorption bands for which Fe<sup>3+</sup> ions in different coordination are responsible. Upon excitation with a laser with a wavelength of 473 nm, visible to the naked eye green–red photoluminescence was observed in natural and synthetic glasses before and after irradiation. Raman spectra upon excitation with a wavelength of 785 nm in both types of studied glasses before and after irradiation showed vibrational frequencies characteristic of glass matrices and a band associated with water in the silicate network of glass. In addition, during the registration of the Raman spectra, an intense asymmetric photoluminescence band was observed in the 850–950 nm region. EPR measurements showed three signals characteristic for Fe<sup>3+</sup> ions with <i>g</i>-factors of ~6.0, ~4.2 and ~2.0 in natural and synthetic glasses. In the region of the specified doses of γ-irradiation, obsidian and perlite glass turned out to be resistant to the formation of NBOHC paramagnetic defects.</p>","PeriodicalId":623,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Physics (Armenian Academy of Sciences)","volume":"59 3","pages":"307 - 314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142994779","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. A. Kuzanyan, V. R. Nikoghosyan, L. G. Mheryan, A. S. Kuzanyan
{"title":"Some Features of Heat Propagation in the W/La0.99Ce0.01B6/Mo/Al2O3 Thermoelectric Sensor of Single-Photon Detectors","authors":"A. A. Kuzanyan, V. R. Nikoghosyan, L. G. Mheryan, A. S. Kuzanyan","doi":"10.1134/S1068337224700439","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1068337224700439","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The results of modeling the heat propagation processes in a multilayer W/La<sub>0.99</sub>Ce<sub>0.01</sub>B<sub>6</sub>/Mo/Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> thermoelectric sensor of a single-photon detector are presented. The calculations were performed using the three-dimensional matrix method based on the heat propagation equation from a limited volume. The temperature temporal dependences of different areas of a sensor were investigated. The maximum temperature value in the center of the surface and at 10 points with a fixed step from the center to the edge of all layers, the time to reach the maximum temperature, the time of temperature equalization on the surface of the layers and the temperature at which this occurs, as well as the time of temperature decay in the hot spot to the background value were determined. The features and patterns of heat propagation in the thermoelectric sensor after absorption of photons with an energy of 7.1–0.8 eV were revealed. The obtained results are the necessary basis for creating a thermoelectric detector capable of registering single photons in a wide range of the electromagnetic spectrum.</p>","PeriodicalId":623,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Physics (Armenian Academy of Sciences)","volume":"59 3","pages":"323 - 331"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142994780","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":"X-Ray Phase Contrast in a Superlattice in the Presence of a Temperature Gradient","authors":"L. V. Levonyan, H. M. Manukyan","doi":"10.1134/S1068337224700440","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1068337224700440","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In problems of X-ray phase contrast in dynamic diffraction of a spherical wave, it is recommended to use a highly absorbing superlattice plate with a small period in the Laue geometry as an analyzer crystal. By choosing the value of the temperature gradient, it is proposed to focus all the satellites on the exit surface of the sample, guided by the lens formula for a crystalline medium. A method for recording reflexes without additional movement of the phase object is described.</p>","PeriodicalId":623,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Physics (Armenian Academy of Sciences)","volume":"59 3","pages":"337 - 341"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142994754","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":"Quantum Entanglement in a Mixed Spin Trimer (1/2,1/2,1) with Non-Conserved Magnetization at Finite Temperatures","authors":"Zh. A. Adamyan","doi":"10.1134/S1068337224700336","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1068337224700336","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A model of a molecular magnet consisting of three magnetic ions with spins (1/2, 1/2, 1) and non-conserved magnetization arising due to the heterogeneity of Lande multipliers. This study aims to explain the properties of quantum entanglement of the states of the system during magnetization (demagnetization) processes at finite temperatures. We show how the presence of inhomogeneous <i>g</i>-factors results in a significant enhancement of quantum entanglement and sometimes the expansion of the temperature range in which the spins (pseudospins) of magnetic ions of the model are in entangled states.</p>","PeriodicalId":623,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Physics (Armenian Academy of Sciences)","volume":"59 3","pages":"279 - 286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142994782","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. R. Arakelova, S. L. Grigoryan, S. G. Aghbalyan, A. B. Mirzoian, L. M. Savchenko, A. M. Khachatryan, A. S. Tsokolakyan
{"title":"Structural, Electrophysical, and Optical Characteristics of ZnO/Ag/Fe Thin Films of n- and p-Type Conductivity, Obtained by DC-Magnetron Method at Room Temperature","authors":"E. R. Arakelova, S. L. Grigoryan, S. G. Aghbalyan, A. B. Mirzoian, L. M. Savchenko, A. M. Khachatryan, A. S. Tsokolakyan","doi":"10.1134/S1068337224700361","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1068337224700361","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Doped (Ag + Fe) zinc targets were obtained: Zn/Ag/Fe (Zn96, Ag2, Fe 2%; Zn94, Ag2, Fe 4%; and Zn90, Ag2, Fe 8%). ZnO/Ag/Fe films with <i>n</i>- and <i>p</i>- type conductivity were obtained on glass substrates at room temperature using the method of DC-magnetron sputtering of Zn/Ag/Fe targets in a gas mixture of Ar : O<sub>2</sub>, in a vacuum of about 0.666 Pa. The structural, electrophysical, optical, and morphological characteristics of the obtained films were studied. The research was conducted using X-ray diffraction (XRD), atomic force microscopy, UV/VIS spectroscopy, and Hall measurements. The X-ray diffraction patterns of the ZnO/Ag/Fe films with <i>n</i>- and <i>p</i>-type conductivity showed characteristic reflections of interplanar distances on glass substrates along the crystallographic directions 100, 002, and 101. The transmittance of these films is about 85–95% in the wavelength range of 400–930 nm. The ZnO/Ag/Fe films with <i>p</i>-type conductivity have a concentration of free carriers on the order of 10<sup>18</sup> cm<sup>–3</sup>. The ZnO/Ag/Fe films obtained at room temperature of the substrate can be used in the development of functional optoelectronic devices.</p>","PeriodicalId":623,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Physics (Armenian Academy of Sciences)","volume":"59 3","pages":"315 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142994783","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":"Hydrogen-Like Impurity States in Doped Bilayer Graphene: Results for Different Trial Functions","authors":"A. A. Avetisyan, K. Moulopoulos, A. P. Djotyan","doi":"10.1134/S1068337224700385","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1068337224700385","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The binding energy of the ground state of an impurity electron in doped bilayer graphene is studied by a variational approach in momentum space using different trial functions and taking into account the screening of the Coulomb potential. A monotonic increase in the binding energy of a hydrogen-like impurity with increase of the gap and the tight binding parameter γ<sub>1</sub> is obtained. The results obtained on the basis of different trial functions are compared.</p>","PeriodicalId":623,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Physics (Armenian Academy of Sciences)","volume":"59 3","pages":"265 - 271"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142994718","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}