The self-diffusion of ions is a fundamental mass transport process in solids and has a profound impact on the performance of electrochemical devices such as the solid oxide fuel cell, batteries and electrolysers. The perovskite system lithium lanthanum titanate, La2/3-xLi3xTiO3 (LLTO) has been the subject of much academic interest as it displays very high lattice conductivity for a solid state ...

We have investigated the stimulated emission properties of Nd(3+) doped La(2)O(2)S powders at room temperature as a function of pumping energy density, excitation wavelength, and Nd(3+) ion concentration. The absolute stimulated emission energy has been measured. Expressions for the slope efficiencies and lasing thresholds as a function of rare earth concentration and pumping wavelengths, which...

Besides the ‘‘intrinsic’’ colossal magnetoresistance effect observed in single crystals, the polycrystalline manganate compounds also exhibit an ‘‘extrinsic’’ magnetoresistance related to the presence of grain boundaries. We report electrical transport and magnetic measurements carried out on a bigrain sample extracted from a floating zone method-grown rod of calcium doped lanthanum manganate. ...

A method is presented for compensating cavity thickness variations in conventional Fabry–Perot devices through the replacement of the input mirror with a holographic mirror, resulting in a self-tuned Fabry–Perot ~STFP! device. The technique is suitable for integrating large arrays of electro-optic Fabry–Perot modulators with silicon circuitry. Experimental results of a STFP modulator are presen...

The evaporation of LaCl3, LaBr3 and Lal3 was investigated in closed tubes under argon atmosphere and correlated with data in the literature. The enthalpies and entropies of evaporation were derived from the temperature functions of pressure: -AH°(v, LaCl3, T) = 48,5 ± 2 kcal/mol, Z\S°(v, LaCl3, T) = 22,0 ± 3 cal/K-mol _AH°(v, LaBr3, T) = 48,0 ± 2 kcal/mol, Z\S°(v, LaBr3, T) = 24,0 ± 2 cal/K-mol...

Microstructure and electric properties of lead lanthanum titanate thin film under transverse electric fields Z. T. Song Department of Applied Physics and Materials Research Center, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China and State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Metallurgy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 865 Changning...

The effect of isovalent lanthanum (La) doping on the monoclinic Y2WO6 photoluminescence was studied. Introducing the non-activated La(3+) into Y2WO6 brings new excitation bands from violet to visible regions and strong near-infrared emission, while the bands position and intensity depend on the doping concentration. It is interesting to find that doping La(3+) into Y2WO6 promotes the oxygen vac...

Lanthanum hexaboride is one of the cathode materials most used in high-power electronics technology, but the many experimental results do not provide a consistent picture of the surface properties. Therefore, we report the first ab initio calculations of the work functions and surface energies of the (001), (011), (111), (112), and (012) surfaces by considering the different surface termination...

Both relaxor ferroelectric and antiferroelectric materials can individually demonstrate large electrocaloric effects (ECE). However, in order to further enhance the ECE it is crucial to find a material system, which can exhibit simultaneously both relaxor ferroelectric and antiferroelectric properties, or easily convert from one into another in terms of the compositional tailoring. Here we repo...

The influence of reaction conditions on the catalytic performance of lanthanum vanadate (La0.1V0.9Ox) catalyst in the ammoxidation of 2-methylpyrazine (MP) to 2-cyanopyarazine (CP) has been investigated. This novel catalytic material exhibited remarkably good performance with very high space-time-yields (STY) of CP. The reaction parameters such as the effect of temperature, gas hourly space vel...