螺旋波激发甲烷等离子体光谱诊断

利用螺旋波激发等离子体化学气相沉积(LPP-CVD)技术,以甲烷和氦气为反应气体产生等离子体.通过采集到甲烷的可见光到紫外发射光谱,对甲烷等离子体进行原位诊断,发现存在CH、Ha及Hβ等碎片粒子的光辐射,同时,分析了不同入射功率、气压下CH粒子以及Hβ、Hγ的相对强度变化情况.结果表明:CH粒子的相对强度随着射频功率是先增大而后减小,随工作气压的增大而逐渐减小;随气压及功率的增加,Hβ、Hγ相对强度变化的总体趋势都是先增加而后减小的.     

Quantum Decoherence of Neutrino Oscillation and Weak Measurement about Its Group Velocity

We theoretically explore the possibility of observing the quantum decoherence of neutrino oscillation due to the vacuum dispersion, that the wave-packet of neutrino spatially splits according to the different velocities of two mass eigenstates. We find that if this decoherence could be observed and the range of values of the mixing angle is known, then the superluminal neutrino phenomena could occur for some mixing angles as the consequence of a weak measurement about flavor mixing in the neutrino propagation. Our calculation gives the explicit dependence of group velocity shift to the decoherence factor and the weak value of neutrino's pre and post-selected states. We also study the related problems for the neutrino oscillation with three generations.     

Microstructural identification of Cu in solar cells sensitive to light‐induced degradation

Light‐induced degradation (mc‐LID or LeTID) can lead to a severe efficiency loss in multi‐crystalline solar cells. The underlying mechanism clearly distinguishes from known mechanisms as B‐O‐LID and Fe‐B‐LID. Various defect models have been suggested for mc‐LID mainly based on metal impurities, including Cu which is known to cause light‐induced degradation. We investigate mc‐LID sensitive PERC cells that show an efficiency degradation of 15%_rel. The weaker degradation of the grain boundaries (GBs) typical for mc‐LID is identified and further investigated from front and rear side with respect to recombination activities. The combination of local electrical measurements (LBIC), target preparation (REM, FIB) and element analysis (EDX, TEM) unveil Cu‐containing precipitates at the rear side of the solar cells. They accumulate at grain boundaries and at the rear surface of the Si‐bulk material where the passivation stack is damaged. We conclude that Cu originates from the cell material and discuss its relation to mc‐LID.

LBIC mapping (EQE at fixed wavelength) of a degraded mc‐Si PERC cell from front and rear side results in qualitatively different appearance of GBs.     

Photoactive Analogs of Farnesyl Pyrophosphate Containing Benzoylbenzoate Esters: Synthesis and Application to Photoaffinity Labeling of Yeast Protein Farnesyltransferase

Farnesyl pyrophosphate (FPP) is involved in a large number of cellular processes including the prenylation of transforming mutants of Ras proteins implicated in cancer. Photoactive analogs could provide useful information about enzyme active sites that bind farnesyl pyrophosphate; however, the availability of such compounds is extremely limited. Molecules that incorporate benzophenone moieties are attractive photoaffinity labeling reagents because of their useful photochemical properties. Here, the syntheses of two compounds, 3a and 3b, containing para- and meta-substituted benzoylbenzoates are described. Compounds 3a and 3b are competitive inhibitors (with respect to FPP) of yeast protein farnesyltransferase (PFTase) with K(i) values of 910 and 380 nM, respectively. Both compounds inactivate PFTase upon photolysis, resulting in as much as 44% inactivation of enzyme activity. Photolysis of PFTase in the presence of [(32)P]3a or of [(32)P]3b results in preferential labeling of the beta subunit, suggesting that this subunit is involved in prenyl group recognition. These compounds should be valuable tools for studying enzymes that utilize FPP as a substrate.     

Synthesis and multitopic complex formation of a photochromic bis(crown ether) based on benzobis(thiazole)

2,7-Bis[2-(6,7,9,10,12,13,15,16-octahydro-5,8,11,14,17-pentaoxabenzocyclopentadecen-2-yl)vinyl]-benzo[1,2-d;3,4-d']bisthiazole, 2, with crown ether styryl moieties substituted on a heterocyclic core, was synthesized and its complex forming ability with several metal cations was evaluated in acetonitrile by absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy. The results are compared to those for the analogous ligand possessing a single crown ether styryl moiety. Selective binding of the metal cation at the heterocyclic core of both ligands was observed only for Hg2+. Alkali and alkaline earth cations bind selectively at the crown ether moieties. Stability constants and pure spectra of defined stoichiometry were determined with the use of HYPERQUAD, a least-squares fitting program, and the results were validated in one case by subjecting the titration spectral matrix to singular value decomposition with self-modeling (SVD-SM). The multitopic ligand 2 forms relatively strong 2:2 stoichiometric complexes with K+, among the alkali metal cations, and Ba2+, among the alkaline earth metal cations, and is a promising selective optical sensor for these ions.