The experiments were aimed to receive a space resolved information on the projectile and target K-shell radiation caused by inelastic collisions of fast heavy ions penetrating extended targets. Ca projectiles with the energies of 5.9 and 11.4 MeV/u were stopped in different media: quartz, CaF2 and porous SiO2 aerogels. X-ray emission from the ion beam target interaction zone were registered by ...

This paper describes the analysis, implementation and performance of a new clock synchronization algorithm, which utilizes the physical properties of synthetic quartz crystals. Thus a very high accuracy (down to a few milliseconds) can be achieved. This algorithm adjusts itself to the preferences of the local quartz oscillator and dynamically to the changing environment conditions such as tempe...

Mechanical Dauphiné twinning in quartz has been of long-standing interest, both in single crystals and polycrystalline aggregates. This study investigates texture development in fine-grained quartz rock novaculite with no initial texture using compression experiments conducted in the Paterson gas apparatus to explore the influence of stress and temperature. Texture patterns are measured with ti...

A quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCMD) has been used to monitor the adsorption and structure of lysozyme monolayers and multilayers, and poly-L-lysine (PLL)-polygalacturonic acid (PGalA) multilayers at a solid-liquid interface using freshly-cleaved mica as a substrate. QCMD measurements were complemented with atomic force microscopy (AFM). AFM images revealed that lyso...

Generally, AT-cut quartz crystals have a limited scope of use when it comes to high-precision measurement of very small impedance changes due to their nonlinear frequency-temperature characteristics in the range between 0 °C and 50 °C. The new method improving quartz oscillator frequency-temperature characteristic compensation is switching between two impedance loads. By modifying the oscillato...

The two independent components of the gyration tensor of quartz, g(11) and g(33), have been spectroscopically measured using a transmission two-modulator generalized ellipsometer. The method is used to determine the optical activity in crystals in directions other than the optic axis, where the linear birefringence is much larger than the optical activity.

Research has been conducted into the diagenesis of the Luxembourg Sandstone. Literature studies were followed by a visit to the outcrop, after which thin sections were studied. The Luxembourg Sandstone Formation has been deposited in the Hettangian and Sinemurian, both lower Jurassic ages. A sea strait connecting the Northern German Basin and the Paris Basin was located in present day Luxembour...