Relationship of annealing time and intrinsic defects of unintentionally doped 4H-SiC

With annealing temperature kept at 1573 K, the effects of annealing time on stability of the intrinsic defects in epitaxial unintentionally doped 4H-SiC prepared by low pressure chemical vapour deposition have been studied by electron spin resonance （ESR） and low temperature photoluminescence. This paper reports the results shown that annealing time has an important effect on the intrinsic defects in unintentionally doped 4H-SiC when annealing temperature kept at 1573 K. When the annealing time is less than 30 min, the intensity of ESR and photoluminescence is increasing with annealing time prolonged, and reaches the maximum when annealing time is 30 min. Then the intensity of ESR and photoluminescence is rapidly decreased with the longer annealing time, and much less than that of as-grown 4H-SiC when annealing time is 60 min, which should be related with the interaction among the intrinsic defects during the annealing process.

Effect of annealing time on microstructure and mechanical properties of cryorolled AISI 310S stainless steel

AISI 310S stable austenitic stainless steel was subjected to 90%cryorolling and then annealed at 800 ℃ for 2-60 min.The effect of annealing time on the microstructure and mechanical properties was studied by optical microscopy,scanning electron microscopy,transmission electron microscopy,microhardness and tensile test.The results show that the grain size of AISI 310S stainless steel is refined to the nanometer level after 90%cryorolling,and the grain size is approximately 20 nm.With the increase in annealing time,the degree of grain recrystallization occurs more fully and completely,as the grain begins to grow and then tends to stabilize.The strength and hardness of the annealed specimens decrease with increasing annealing time,while elongation tends to increase.When the annealing time is 10 min,the yield strength increases by about 2 times compared to that of the original austenite(unrolled),and the elongation is also above 20%,which is the best preparation process for ultra-fine grain austenitic stainless steel under this experimental condition.As the annealing time treatment increases,the fracture morphology changes from mixed quasi-cleavage and ductile fracture(after cryorolling)to ductile fracture(after annealing).

Effect of oxygen addition and annealing time on microstructure and mechanical properties of Ti-34Nb alloy

The effect of oxygen addition and annealing time on microstructure and mechanical properties of Ti-34Nb and Ti-34Nb-0.2O alloys was investigated.The addition of O suppresses the martensitic transformation.The phase composition changes from singleα''phase toα''+βphases with oxygen addition.The addition of oxygen increases strength significantly at as-received,cold-rolled,and annealed alloys through solid solution strengthening.The accumulation of abundance of defects and grain refinement introduced by cold rolling have a significant strengthening effect but also damage plasticity.The addition of oxygen increasesα/βtransformation temperature and promotes the precipitation ofαphase during annealing in Ti-34Nb-0.2O alloy.αprecipitates can inhibit grain growth during annealing.The strength decreases with annealing time increased due to the increase in grain size in Ti-34Nb alloy,while the strength increases in Ti-34Nb-0.2O alloy mainly due to the precipitation ofαphase.The cold rolling followed by annealing and addition of oxygen can improve the properties of alloys.

Effects of pretreatment of substrates on the preparation of large scale ZnO nanotube arrays

Well-aligned hexagonal ZnO nanotubes （NTs） arrays were synthesized on pretreated indium tin oxide （ITO） substrates by a simple hydro- thermal method. The morphology and structure of the products were characterized by scanning electron microscopy （SEM） and X-ray diffraction analysis （XRD）. A new method of substrate pretreatment was introduced to prepare ZnO coated films. The size of ZnO seeds and the formation rate of ZnO NTs were investigated. Further, the mechanism of the preparation of ZnO NTs was discussed. The photoluminescence （PL） spectrum measurement shows fairly internal defects existing in ZnO nanotubes.

Structure, Plastic Deformation of Polyethylene: A Molecular Dynamics Method

This paper studies the influence factors of atoms number (N) at temperature (T) and after annealing time (t) on the structure shape and the plastic deformation of Polyethylene C2H4 (PE) by the Molecular Dynamics (MD) method with Dreading pair interaction, cyclic boundary conditions and plastic deformation of Polyethylene (PE) be done by stretching method according to the z-axis. The results of structure, plastic deformation of PE are analyzed through size (l), the total energy of the system (Etot), shape and associated energy (Ebond), angular binding energy (Eangle), energy Edihedral, interactive energy Vander Walls (Enon-bonding). When increasing N, t leads to the number of structural units of Face-Centred Cubic (FCC), Body-Centered Cubic (BCC) and Hexagonal Close-Packed (HCP) increasing, but Amorphous (Amor) decreases while the angle between the atoms is a constant corresponding to 109.5°. Besides, the length of the link (r) increases from r = 1.529 Å to r = 1.558 Å while the plastic deformation energy of PE gets an enormous change and the bonding angle at 109.27°. The length of the link r = 1.529 Å and the size (l) of the PE material increase from l = 3.73 nm to l = 6.63 nm while the total energy of system (Etotal) decreases from Etotal = −1586 eV to Etotal = −7891 eV with the transition temperature is T = 103 K. Increasing the number of atoms leads to increasing the length of the link. The total energy Etotal of the system decreases, but the number of structural units in FCC, HCP, BCC and Amor increase, which leads to the length of the link increases, the Etotal decreases, and there is a change in the plastic deformation characteristics of PE. In contrast, increasing T leads to the plastic deformation increases, and PE moves from the amorphous state to the liquid state. The obtained results are very significant for future experimental research.

Effects of Heating Rate on the Process Parameters of Superplastic Forming for Zr_(55)Cu_(30)Al_(10)Ni_5

We investigated the effects of heating rate on the process parameters of superplastic forming for Zr55Cu30Al10Ni5 by differential scanning calorimetry. The continuous heating and isothermal annealing analyses suggested that the temperatures of glass transition and onset crystallization are heating rate-dependent in the supercooled liquid region. Then, the time-temperature-transformation diagram under different heating rates indicates that increasing the heating rate can lead to an increase of the incubation time at the same anneal temperature in the supercooled liquid region. Based on the Arrhenius relationship, we discovered that the incubation time increases by 1.08-1.11 times with double increase of the heating rate at the same anneal temperature, and then verified it by the data of literatures and the experimental results. The obtained curve of the max available incubation time reveals that the incubation time at a certain anneal temperature in the supercooled liquid region is not infinite, and will increase with increasing heating rate until this temperature shifts out of the supercooled liquid region because of exceeding critical heating rate. It is concluded that heating rate must be an important processing parameter of superplastic forming for Zr55Cu30Al10Ni5.