Internal Field (internal + field)

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Selected Abstracts


Magnetic field annihilators: invisible magnetization at the magnetic equator

GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL, Issue 2 2003
S. Maus
SUMMARY Some distributions of magnetization give rise to magnetic fields that vanish everywhere above the surface, rendering these distributions of magnetization completely invisible. They are the annihilators of the magnetic inverse problem. Known examples are the infinite sheet with constant magnetization and the spherical shell of constant susceptibility magnetized by an arbitrary internal field. Here, we show that remarkably more interesting annihilators exist for the Earth's dipole-dominated inducing field. Indeed, any susceptibility profile along the magnetic equator can be extended north/south into an annihilator. Consequently, the induced magnetization along the magnetic equator is entirely undetermined by the visible magnetic field. In contrast to the Backus effect, this ambiguity persists even if the full magnetic vector field is known. [source]


A comprehensive model of the quiet-time, near-Earth magnetic field: phase 3

GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL, Issue 1 2002
Terence J. Sabaka
Summary The near-Earth magnetic field is caused by sources in the Earth's core, ionosphere, magnetosphere, lithosphere and from coupling currents between the ionosphere and the magnetosphere, and between hemispheres. Traditionally, the main field (low degree internal field) and magnetospheric field have been modelled simultaneously, with fields from other sources being modelled separately. Such a scheme, however, can introduce spurious features, especially when the spatial and temporal scales of the fields overlap. A new model, designated CM3 (Comprehensive Model: phase 3), is the third in a series of efforts to coestimate fields from all of these sources. This model has been derived from quiet-time Magsat and POGO satellite and observatory hourly means measurements for the period 1960,1985. It represents a significant advance in the treatment of the aforementioned field sources over previous attempts, and includes an accounting for main field influences on the magnetosphere, main field and solar activity influences on the ionosphere, seasonal influences on the coupling currents, a priori characterization of the influence of the ionosphere and the magnetosphere on Earth-induced fields, and an explicit parametrization and estimation of the lithospheric field. The result is a model that describes well the 591 432 data with 16 594 parameters, implying a data-to-parameter ratio of 36, which is larger than several popular field models. [source]


Effect of Traps on Carrier Injection and Transport in Organic Field-effect Transistor

IEEJ TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, Issue 4 2010
Martin Weis Non-member
Abstract This study illustrates effect of traps on the charge injection and transport in the organic field-effect transistor (OFET). Here are included silicon nanoparticles (NPs) on a semiconductor-gate insulator interface, which work as trapping centers of charge carriers. Charge transport and injection phenomena are investigated by electrical measurements in presence of traps with designed densities. We find that OFETs with a low concentration of intrinsic carriers, such as a pentacene, are extremely sensitive to the internal electric fields. A significant threshold voltage shift due to trapped charge is observed, with a possibility to tune it by controlling the NP density. We demonstrate that the NP film can serve to design the amount of the accumulated charge in OFET and thus change the space-charge-limited conditions to the injection-limited conditions. A detailed analysis of pentacene OFET based on dielectric properties and the Maxwell-Wagner model reveals the internal electric field created by NPs. Additionally, the effect of NPs is discussed with respect to effective mobility, and its decrease is related to deceleration of carrier propagation by the trapping effect as well as low injection due to the increase of the carrier injection barrier by the internal field. Copyright © 2010 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [source]


Local dynamics in epoxy coatings containing iron oxide nanoparticles by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy

JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE, Issue 5 2008
G. Kortaberria
Abstract Nanocomposites of photocurable epoxy resin and epoxy-modified iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles were analyzed by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy to study the local dynamics at temperatures well below the glass-transition temperature. Two secondary processes were detected, , and , processes, but the second one was just detected at lower temperatures in the high-frequency part of the spectra and moved out of the frequency range at higher temperatures. Data were fitted to the Havriliak,Negami and Arrhenius models, and the obtained parameters were analyzed. Relaxation times of the , secondary relaxation did not change with the nanoparticle content, but the relaxation strength increased. The increase could not be explained when we took into account the molecular origin of the relaxation. The presence of ferromagnetic nanoparticles enhanced the internal field and increased the relaxation strengths. Transmission electron microscopy images showed that the nanoparticles were well dispersed in the matrix, without magnetic agglomerates. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 2008 [source]


Non-ideal evolution of non-axisymmetric, force-free magnetic fields in a magnetar

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, Issue 4 2008
A. Mastrano
ABSTRACT Recent numerical magnetohydrodynamic calculations by Braithwaite and collaborators support the ,fossil field' hypothesis regarding the origin of magnetic fields in compact stars and suggest that the resistive evolution of the fossil field can explain the reorganization and decay of magnetar magnetic fields. Here, these findings are modelled analytically by allowing the stellar magnetic field to relax through a quasi-static sequence of non-axisymmetric, force-free states, by analogy with spheromak relaxation experiments, starting from a random field. Under the hypothesis that the force-free modes approach energy equipartition in the absence of resistivity, the output of the numerical calculations is semiquantitatively recovered: the field settles down to a linked poloidal,toroidal configuration, which inflates and becomes more toroidal as time passes. A qualitatively similar (but not identical) end state is reached if the magnetic field evolves by exchanging helicity between small and large scales according to an ,-dynamo-like, mean-field mechanism, arising from the fluctuating electromotive force produced by the initial random field. The impossibility of matching a force-free internal field to a potential exterior field is discussed in the magnetar context. [source]


Optical properties of single non-polar GaN quantum dots

PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (B) BASIC SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 7 2006
F. Rol
Abstract We present a microphotoluminescence study of non polar GaN/AlN quantum dots (QDs) grown along the [110] axis. Despite the high QD density, single exciton lines could be isolated on the high energy side of the spectral distribution of the QD array emission. Linewidths down to 0.5 meV are reported, which is one order of magnitude lower than previously reported linewidths for polar GaN/AlN QDs. This difference is attributed to the drastic reduction of the internal field in non-polar quantum dots. Temperature dependent measurements were performed up to 180 K. (© 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [source]


Synthesis, characterization and ESR measurements of CoNiO nanoparticles

PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (B) BASIC SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 8 2005
Y. Köseo
Abstract Powders of cobalt core with a nickel (II) oxide shell (CoNiO) have been studied by Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) technique in the temperature range of 10,300 K. A strong and broad (1300 G) single ESR peak in X-, K- and Q-band spectra has been observed at all the temperature ranges. While the resonance field remains almost constant, both the ESR line intensity and the line width were seen to increase first slowly down to Tc = 160 K. And then both the resonance field and the ESR signal intensity decrease and the line width increase with decreasing temperature. Below Tc the intensity smoothly decrease down to 10 K. This kind of behavior is attributed to a typical spin-glass like behavior. Some small and relatively smooth changes at about 60 K, 90 K, 210 K, and 250 K are appeared as well. A linear dependence of resonance field to microwave frequency is observed at room temperatures and the effective g-value and internal field are theoretically found as 2,17 and 90 G, respectively. The experimental data indicate a very strong spin disorder (spin frustration) due to antiferromagnetic exchange interactions among the spins. This is attributed to the D-M anisotropy on the particle surfaces that it is expected to enhance due to increment of surface-to-volume ratio. (© 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [source]


ESR studies on superparamagnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles

PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (C) - CURRENT TOPICS IN SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 12 2004
Y. Köseo
Abstract In this study we have investigated temperature and frequency dependence of magnetic properties of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPION). ESR measurements have been carried out in a temperature range of 10,300 K. A single, relatively broad and temperature dependent EPR signal was observed at all measurement temperatures. The linewidth slightly increases with decreasing temperature down to 100 K, then it sharply increases down to 60 K. Below 60 K the trend is reversed and the linewidth start to decrease. The resonance field remains almost constant down to 100 K and decreases sharply as the temperature is decreased further. The resonance field of the ESR spectra of Fe3O4 shows a linear dependence on microwave frequency. By using experimental results, the effective g-value and internal field are deduced as 1.9846 and ,40 G, respectively. (© 2004 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [source]


Optical Properties of InAlGaN Heterostructures Grown by RF-MBE

PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (C) - CURRENT TOPICS IN SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 1 2003
M. Androulidaki
Abstract We performed optical characterisation on high-quality InAlGaN thin films and InAlGaN/GaN quantum wells (QWs) grown by rf-MBE. Our main findings are that the In bowing coefficient in In0.08Al0.29Ga0.63N alloys is found unexpectedly large (bI = 8.4 eV), and that the internal field in In0.08Al0.29Ga0.63N/GaN QWs is strongly reduced (0.25 MV/cm) as a consequence of enhanced polarisation matching between well and barrier layers. [source]