Low-temperature electrical discharge through solid xenon

Electrical and Electrostatic Discharge Solid Rocket Booster Ignition

In missile propulsion technology it is conventional to employ solid rocket boosters. These boosters are loaded with solid propellants, which are energetic compositions where raw materials are comprised of solid particulates, such as fuel, and oxidizer particles, in which are dispersed and immobilized throughout a binder (polymeric) matrix. The processability of these compositions is not simple ...

Imaging of laser-polarized solid xenon.

The enhanced spin polarization produced by optical pumping of gaseous rubidium/xenon samples has made possible a number of recent experiments in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Here we report MRI of laser-polarized xenon in the solid phase at low temperature. Due to the high xenon density in the solid phase and the enhanced spin polarization, ...

Bismuth titanate nanobelts through a low-temperature nanoscale solid-state reaction

In this study, an effective low-temperature method was developed, for the first time, for the synthesis of bismuth titanate nanobelts by using Na2Ti3O7 nanobelts as the reactants and templates. The experimental procedure was based on ion substitution followed by a nanoscale solid-state reaction. In the first step, Na2Ti3O7 nanobelts were soaked in a bismuth nitrate solution where ion substituti...

Low-temperature Electrical Transport and Double Exchange In

Low-temperature Transport through a Quantum Dot

We review mechanisms of low-temperature electronic transport through a quantum dot weakly coupled to two conducting leads. Transport in this case is dominated by electron-electron interaction. At temperatures moderately lower than the charging energy of the dot, the linear conductance is suppressed by the Coulomb blockade. Upon further lowering of the temperature, however, the conductance may s...