受限胶体液滴蒸发过程中胶体颗粒沉积过程观察

亲水玻璃基片在掩模板的保护下, 通过喷涂超疏水层, 得到了被疏水层包围的圆形亲水区域. 胶体液滴在这一区域被很好地限制, 并且液滴体积可以在较大范围内变化, 体积的变化可以改变液滴与基片的表观接触角. 通过显微观察手段原位观察了表观接触角为疏水的受限胶体液滴蒸发过程中粒子沉积行为. 在整个蒸发过程中, 受限液滴边界被钉扎在亲疏水交界处. 粒子沉积过程中, 驱动粒子的液滴内部流动会发生变化. 粒子沉积图案形成过程由三种流体行为控制, 最初, Marangoni效应占主导作用, 驱动粒子在液滴表面聚集, 随之沉积到液滴边缘; 随着蒸发进行, 当接触角变小(<60°)时, 由于边界蒸发速度更快导致的毛细补偿流使得粒子直接向边界沉积. 在干燥的最后阶段, 亲水区域内的液层变得很薄, 只有一单层粒子存在于这一薄液层中, 蒸发继续进行时, 薄液层发生失稳使得粒子迅速聚集而形成网络化图案, 由于粒子间距变小, 球间的液桥毛细力也会参与到这一聚集过程中.     

Comparative studies of silicon photomultipliers and traditional vacuum photomultiplier tubes

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are a new generation of semiconductor-based photon counting devices with the merits of low weight, low power consumption and low voltage operation, promising to meet the needs of space particle physics experiments. In this paper, comparative studies of SiPMs and traditional vacuum photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) have been performed regarding the basic properties of dark currents, dark counts and excess noise factors. The intrinsic optical crosstalk effect of SiPMs was evaluated.     

1,10-菲啰啉修饰Cu/Al2O3催化肉桂醛羰基高效选择性加氢

肉桂醛作为α,β-不饱和醛的代表性物质,其羰基选择性加氢的高效催化剂设计还存在一定挑战.经过1,10-菲啰啉(L₁)修饰制备的Cu催化剂(Cu/Al₂O₃-L₁),可以在肉桂醛几乎完全转化的情况下实现>95%的肉桂醇选择性.表征和DFT结果表明,1,10-菲啰啉的空间位阻限制了肉桂醛的平面吸附,提高了肉桂醇的选择性,同时其与Cu的相互作用降低了H₂的解离能,提高了催化剂的活性.这项工作强调了含N-配体在催化剂表面修饰中的重要性,并为进一步合理设计高选择性加氢催化剂提供了一些借鉴.     

Design and performance study of the LEPD silicon tracker onboard the CSES satellite

The low energy particle detector (LEPD) is one of the main payloads onboard the China seismic electromagnetic satellite (CSES). The detector is designed to ascertain space electrons (0.1-10 MeV) and protons (2-50 MeV). It has the capability of identifying the electrons and protons, to measure the energy spectrum and the incident angle of the particles. The LEPD is made up of a silicon tracker system, a CsI (Tl) mini-calorimeter, an anti-coincidence system made by plastic scintillator, as well as electronics and a data acquisition system (DAQ). The tracker is also a kind of E-E telescope; it consists of two layers of double-sided silicon strip detectors (DSSD). The signals emerging from the silicon tracker can be read out by two pieces of application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), which also can generate an event trigger for the LEPD. The functions of the DSSD system in the LEPD for charged particles were tested by 241Am @5.486 MeV α particles. The results show that the DSSD system works well, and has high performance to detect charged particles and measure the position of incident particles.     

A geometric factor calculation method based on the isotropic flux assumption

One of the instruments onboard the China Seismic Electromagnetic Satellite （CSES） is the Low Energy Particle Detector （LEPD）. The primary objective of LEPD is to provide measurements of the fluxes, energy spectra and pitch angles of 100 keV to 10 MeV electrons and protons from 2 to 50 MeV in the Earth＇s magnetosphere. The geometric factor is one of the principle parameters of a detector, which converts the physical quantity-count rate to the particle quantity-flux. In this paper, we calculated the geometric factor of LEPD via computer modeling of an isotropic radiation environment. It was first demonstrated that the radiation intensity related should obey a cosine-law, then a general sampling method of generating this distribution via GPS of GEANT4 was explained. Furthermore, combined with flux normalization, a comparison of the geometric factor calculation of a set of 2-layer detectors with different shapes （cylinder, truncated cone and rectangle） was performed. Results show a generally good agreement between simulation and analytical calculations for the cylinder and truncated cone detectors, and the result of the rectangular one, for which there is no accurate analytical formula, is consistent with the previous simulated results by others. As a practical instance of the 2-layer rectangle detector, the geometric factor of LEPD is 10.336±0.036 m cm2·sr for 10 MeV proton and 8.211±0.032 m cm2·sr for 8 MeV electron.     

Design and simulations for the detector based on DSSSD

The present paper describes the design and simulation results of a position-sensitive charged particle detector based on the Double Sided Silicon Strip Detector （DSSSD）. Also, the characteristics of the DSSSD and its testing result were are discussed. With the application of the DSSSD, the position-sensitive charged particle detector can not only give particle flux and energy spectra information and identify different types of charged particles, but also measure the location and angle of incident particles. As the detector can make multi-parameter measurements of charged particles, it is widely used in space detection and exploration missions, such as charged particle detection related to earthquakes, space environment monitoring and solar activity inspection.     

MCP参数对微光像增强器分辨力影响研究

为了全面分析微通道板(MCP)参数对微光像增强器分辨力的影响,利用电子散射理论分析了MCP输出电子横向散射和MCP非开口面的电子散射情况,得到了MCP通道间距、输出电极结构和开口面积比等参数对微光像增强器分辨力的影响.分析结果指出:通过减小通道间距、采用MCP输出面镀多层电极或增加MCP输出端电极深度实现减小MCP输出电子横向扩散、增加开口面积比等,提高整个微光像增强器的分辨力.试验证明该方法有助于提高微光像增强器分辨力.     

透射式蓝延伸GaAs光电阴极光学结构对比

用金属有机物化学气相沉积法外延制备了一个透射式蓝延伸GaAs光电阴极,积分灵敏度达到1980 μA/lm,同时与美国ITT公司的一条蓝延伸阴极光谱响应曲线对比,分别对两者进行了光学结构拟合. 结果表明,国内阴极在Ga_1-xAl_xAs层厚度、Al组分、电子扩散长度和后界面复合速率上与国外 存在差距,这导致国内阴极的蓝延伸性能不及国外.国内蓝延伸阴极的表面电子逸出几率、发射层厚度与 国外阴极拟合结果一致,这使得两者长波响应性能差别远小于短波部分的差别.另外响应波段全谱的吸收率 小于国外阴极,导致国内透射式蓝延伸GaAs光电阴极光谱响应、积分灵敏度尚不及国外.     

Performance study of a micro-pattern gas detector: leak microstructure

A micro-pattern gas detector named leak microstructure (LM) has been studied. A new chemical electrolytic technique is introduced to make perfect shaped LM needles with very sharp tips, and this method may be developed to make LM array detectors in batches. The experimental results are presented for both a single needle LM detector and a small LM array detector. The gas gain is up to 10⁵ by calculation from the waveform. Good gain stability and uniformity are achieved. The light emission from the needle tip is also measured in Ar/CF₄(95/5) gas mixture. The result shows a promising application for imaging.