The effects of oxygenation on the optical properties of dimethyl-dithienothiophenes: comparison between experiments and first-principles calculations

Modifications of the optical properties of dimethyl-dithienothiophenes due to the oxygen functionalization of the central sulfur atom are investigated. We have measured the absorption, photoluminescence (PL) and PL excitation spectra, the PL quantum efficiencies, and the PL decay times. These experimental results are interpreted and compared with first-principles time-dependent density-functional theory calculations, which predict, for the considered systems, excitation and emission energies with an accuracy of 0.1 eV. It is found that the oxygenation strongly changes optical and photophysical properties. These effects are related to the modifications of the energetically lowest-unoccupied molecular orbital and the energetically second highest occupied one, which change the relative position of the two lowest singlet and triplet excited states.     

The vane method and kinetic modeling: shear rheology of nanofibrillated cellulose suspensions

We conduct rheological characterization of nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) suspensions, a highly non-Newtonian complex fluid, at several concentrations. Special care is taken to cope with the prevalent problems of time scale issues, wall depletion and confinement effects. We do this by combining the wide-gap vane geometry, extremely long measurement times, and modeling. We take into account the wide-gap related stress heterogeneity by extending upon mainstream methods and apply a gap correction. Furthermore, we rationalize the experimental data through a simple viscous structural model. With these tools we find that, owing to the small size of the particles subjected to Brownian motion, the NFC suspensions exhibit a critical shear rate, where the flow curve experiences a turning point. This makes the steady state of these suspensions at low shear rates non-unique. To optimize various mixing and pumping applications, such history dependent tendency of NFC suspensions to shear band needs to be taken into account.     

聚合物材料表面化学镀铜的前处理研究进展

聚合物材料表面金属化在通讯、电子、航空航天领域具有重要应用. 化学镀铜是聚合物材料表面金属化的主要技术之一. 聚合物材料表面的前处理直接影响化学镀铜层的结合力及镀层平整度. 本综述详细介绍非导电聚合物材料的种类、组成以及性能, 并概述其表面化学镀铜前处理的研究进展.     

Pyrazole-based trinuclear and mononuclear complexes: synthesis,characterization, DNA interactions and cytotoxicity studies

Transition Metal Chemistry - A new trinuclear Cu(II) complex [Cu3(μ3-OH)(μ-pz)3(Hpz)2(HCOO)(BTAO)Cl] (1) (Hpz = pyrazole, BTAO = 4,6-bis(dimethylamino)-1,3,5-triazin-2(1H)-one) and four...     

Matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation of polyfluorene thin films

Poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene) (PF8) thin films have been deposited by matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation (MAPLE) using a KrF excimer laser. The influence of the laser fluence (50-500 mJ/cm²) and the nature of the solvent (chloroform, toluene, tetrahydrofuran) on the films properties have been studied. The chemical composition of the deposited films was investigated by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and compared with the one of spin coated films. To investigate the effect of the deposition parameters on the optical properties of the films, photoluminescence (PL) measurements were performed. Poor structural and optical properties were observed for films deposited starting from chloroform solutions. When using toluene as solvent, the spectra characteristics improved with increasing laser fluence, while wide PL spectra were observed. The characteristic emission bands of the PF8 polymer were nicely detected for films deposited starting from a tetrahydrofuran (THF) solution. Moreover, in this last case, the PF8 structure is preserved at high laser fluences, too.     

On the existence of semifields of prime power order admitting free automorphism groups

The purpose of this paper is to prove the existence of semifields of order q ⁴ for any odd prime power q = p^r, q > 3, admitting a free automorphism group isomorphic to Z ₂ × Z ₂.     

Study of spatial inhomogeneity in inverted all‐polymer solar cells: Effect of solvent and annealing

The efficiency optimization of bulk heterojunction solar cells requires the control of the local active materials arrangement in order to obtain the best compromise between efficient charge generation and charge collection. Here, we investigate the large scale (10–100 μm) inhomogeneity of the photoluminescence (PL) and the external quantum efficiency (EQE) in inverted all‐polymer solar cells (APSC) with regioregular poly(3‐hexylthiophene) (P3HT):poly(9,9‐dioctylfluorene‐co‐benzothiadiazole) (F8BT) active blends. The morphology and the local active polymer mixing are changed by depositing the active layer from four different solvents and by thermal annealing. The simultaneous PL and EQE mapping allowed us to inspect the effects of local irregularities of active layer thickness, polymer mixing, polymer aggregation on the charge generation and collection efficiencies. In particular, we show that the increase of the solvent boiling point affects the EQE non‐uniformity due to thickness fluctuations, the density non‐uniformity of rrP3HT aggregate phase, and the blend components clustering. The thermal annealing leads to a general improvement of EQE and to an F8BT clustering in all the samples with locally decrease of the EQE. We estimate that the film uniformity optimization can lead to a total EQE improvement between 2.7 and 6.3 times. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 2015 , 53, 804–813     

Emission studies of InGaN layers and LEDs grown by plasma-assisted MBE

We prepared InGaN layers on GaN/sapphire substrates using rf-MBE. Photoluminescence (PL) from these layers, grown at different temperatures T_S, shows that there is a strong tendency of GaN to form a separate phase as T_S is increased from 600°C to 650°C. Concomitant with the phase separation, the PL from the InGaN phase broadens, which indicates that indium composition in this phase becomes increasingly non-uniform. Indium compositions measured by Rutherford backscattering (RBS) are consistent with these results. We also observed an increase in PL intensity for InGaN layers grown at higher temperatures. In this paper, we also report on preparing a top-contact InGaN/GaN light emitting diode. The device was operated at 447 nm and had the emission line width of 37 nm with no observable impurity related features. The turn-on voltage was 3.0 V. The output power was 20 μW at 60 mA drive current.     

基于微观本义复原的人脸图像光照正规化

为解决变光照下人脸识别的识别率低,光照正规化算法复杂.不易实现的问题,提出一个新的光照正规化方法一微观本义复原,即通过微观邻域上像素本义特征的定义,将整体图像上变光照下的非线性灰度变化转化为微观邻域内的线性变化,一定程度上避免了包括图像自身结构在内的不确定因素对图像复原的不利影响;并以邻域内的本义特征为光照不敏感特征,对本义特征进行结构编码,并用最小二乘法拟合编码值与光照方向之间的关系,最后根据得到的光照正规化参数复原图像.实验结果表明,该方法算法简单,易于实现,能适应实时的人脸识别系统,在光照变化90.以内的Yale B库的平均识别率可达94.1%.