Phase-transition phenomena of 0.8 microm superfluid 3He slab.

We have investigated the transition phenomena of superfluid 3He in thin 0.8 microm slabs with a cw-NMR method. We found that, just below the phase-transition temperature, only the A phase appeared at any pressure. At lower temperatures, the phase transition to the B phase occurred between 0.3 and 2.74 MPa. We obtained a universal critical thickness delta as a function of pressure. When the reduced slab thickness, d/xi(T), is smaller than delta, only the A phase becomes stable.