A Ginzburg-Landau–like functional is proposed reproducing the main low-energy features of various possible high-Tc superconducting mechanisms involving energy savings due to interlayer interactions. The functional may be used to relate these savings to experimental quantities. Two examples are given, involving the mean-field specific heat jump at Tc and the superconducting fluctuations above Tc...

A discontinuously reinforced MMC containing 12 vol % Sic particles in an Al-Cu-Mg alloy (AA 2124) matrix has been diffusion bonded. Thick interlayers of different superplastic aluminium alloys (Al-Li 8090 and A1-Cu SUPRAL) were used to reduce the bonding pressure and ensure complete surface contact. Microstructural studies shown higher continuity in joints bonded with 8090 interlayer than with ...

Significant enhancement of the interlayer coupling strength has been achieved by depositing Co nanolayers on both sides of the Ru layer in a conventional CoCrPt/Ru/CoCrPt antiferromagnetic interlayer exchange coupling structure. The interlayer coupling increases nearly linearly from 0.13 to 0.8 erg/cm and then levels off with an increase in Co thickness. Substrate bias was found to be very harm...

We report studies of pinning mode resonances in the low total Landau filling (nu) Wigner solid of a series of bilayer hole samples with negligible interlayer tunneling and with varying interlayer separation d. Comparison of states with equal layer densities (p,p) to single layer states (p,0) produced in situ by biasing, indicates that there is interlayer quantum correlation in the solid at smal...

Layered double hydroxide (LDH) single-layer nanosheets were traditionally prepared through a multi-step exfoliation process which is very time-consuming and of low efficiency. Herein we report the preparation of LDH single-layer nanosheets through a facile direct synthesis method. By introducing a layer growth inhibitor, one can directly synthesize LDH single-layer nanosheets instead of LDH lay...

Analyses are given for two three-dimensional lattice systems: A system of close-packed dimers placed in layers of honeycomb lattices and a layered triangular-lattice interacting domain wall model, both with nontrivial interlayer interactions. We show that both models are equivalent to a five-vertex model on the square lattice with interlayer vertex-vertex interactions. Using the method of Bethe...

We are focusing on the developed by us the mathematical analysis methods of the data obtained by three independent spectroscopic techniques and their application to study of atomic and chemical composition profiles across the air-exposed systems SrTiOx/B/Si with interfacial layers (B: SiO2, Si3N4 and HfO2) grown by the atomic layer deposition technique. It was established that the material of t...

The evolution of magnetic domain structures with temperature during magnetic reversal in Co 4 Å /Pt tPt multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy has been investigated using magneto-optical Kerr imaging. Relatively large Pt layer thicknesses tPt=43 and 63 Å are chosen for this study because the interlayer coupling strength in the multilayers varies from weak at room temperature to strong at low...

In construction industry, laminated glass is more and more used for transparent loadbearing building components. It is known that the residual load-carrying capacity after glass breakage of glass/PVB (polyvinyl butyral) laminates is relatively poor, mainly due to the limited stiffness and strength of PVB. For that reason, the failure behaviour of laminates composed with a stiffer and stronger i...

[1] To understand the role of hydrated clay minerals in active fault systems, a humidity chamber connected to an X-ray diffractometer was used to determine the adsorption of water onto and/or into the crystal structure of smectite. This new type of analysis was carried out under specific temperature and humidity conditions, using powdered clay size fractions (< 2 mm) of rock samples from the Sa...