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Tao, Xu

Publications and source records attributed to Tao, Xu.

4 records

DOE OSTI2011

A line-imaging velocity interferometer technique for shock diagnostics without x-ray preheat limitation

A study was conducted with a line-imaging velocity interferometer on sandwich targets at the Shen Guang-III prototype laser facility in China, with the goal of eliminating the preheat effect. A sandwich target structure was used to reduce the x-ray preheat limitation (radiation temperature {approx}170 eV) in a radiative drive shock experiment. With a thick ablator, the preheat effect appeared before the shock arrived at the window. After adding a shield layer of high-Z material on the ablator, x-rays which penetrated the ablator were so weak that the blank-out effect could not be measured. This experiment indicates that the sandwich target may provide a valuable technique in experiments such as equation of state and shock timing for inertial confinement fusion studies.

46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ↗

DOE OSTI2011

Compressibility and hardness of Co-based bulk metallic glass: A combined experimental and density functional theory study

An incompressible Co{sub 54}Ta{sub 11}B{sub 35} bulk metallic glass (BMG) was investigated using in situ high-pressure synchrotron diffraction and nanoindendation. The elastic constants were deduced from the experiments based on the isotropic model. The Vickers hardness was measured to be 17.1 GPa. The elastic moduli and hardness are the highest values known in BMGs. The theoretically calculated elastic properties by density-functional study were well consistent with experimental measurements. The analysis of charge density and bonding character indicates the covalent character of Co-B and B-B bonds, underlying the unusually high elastic modulus and hardness in this material.

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗

DOE OSTI2011

Measurement of electric field across individual wurtzite GaN quantum dots using electron holography

Electrostatic potential profiles across wurtzite AlN/GaN quantum dot (QD) superlattices grown by molecular beam epitaxy have been measured using off-axis electron holography. The profiles for individual GaN QDs show large phase shifts which can be understood in terms of spontaneous polarization and piezoelectric fields and the accumulation of positive and negative charge at the GaN/AlN interfaces. An electric field with magnitude of {approx}7.8 {+-} 2 MV/cm was measured across the center of a GaN QD, in reasonable agreement with reported simulations.

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗

DOE OSTI2010

Integrability study on a generalized (2+1)-dimensional variable-coefficient Gardner model with symbolic computation

Gardner model describes certain nonlinear elastic structures, ion-acoustic waves in plasmas, and shear flows in ocean and atmosphere. In this paper, by virtue of the computerized symbolic computation, the integrability of a generalized (2+1)-dimensional variable-coefficient Gardner model is investigated. Painleve integrability conditions are derived among the coefficient functions, which reduce all the coefficient functions to be proportional only to {gamma}(t), the coefficient of the cubic nonlinear term u{sup 2}u{sub x}. Then, an independent transformation of the variable t transforms the reduced {gamma}(t)-dependent equation into a constant-coefficient integrable one. Painleve test shows that this is the only case when our original generalized (2+1)-dimensional variable-coefficient Gardner model is integrable.

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSIC↗