Thermal annealing synthesis of titanium-dioxide nanowire-nanoparticle hetero-structures

Crystalline TiO₂ nanowire-nanoparticle hetero-structures were successfully synthesized from titanium foils by using a simple thermal annealing method with the aid of CuCl₂ at the atmospheric pressure. Nanowires were grown from Ti foils by simply annealing Ti foils at 850 °C. Then, TiCl₄ was delivered to TiO₂ nanowires so as to precipitate TiO₂ nanoparticles on nanowire surfaces. At 750 °C reaction temperature, nanoparticles of tens of nanometers in diameter were well distributed on pre-grown nanowire forests. Nanoparticles were likely to be precipitated by TiCl₄ decomposition or oxidation and that require high temperatures above ∼650 °C. Electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and UV-vis spectroscopy analyses show they have the rutile polycrystalline structure with a slightly enlarged bandgap compared to that of bulk TiO₂. The influence of key synthesis parameters including reaction temperature, reaction time, and quantity of supplied materials on the incorporating nanoparticles was also systematically studied. The optimum reaction condition in the present paper was identified to be 750 °C annealing with repetitive 20 min reactions. A higher reaction temperature yielded larger diameter particles, and higher loading of Ti produced dense particles without changing the particle size. Finally, this method could be utilized for synthesizing other metal oxide nanowires-nanoparticle hetero-structures.     

三维多孔锌钨氧化物异质结的制备、组分调控与光催化性能

采用真空冷冻干燥技术, 通过调控前驱体溶液的组成, 实现了锌钨氧化物异质结材料的可控制备. 前驱物中高分子的引入使煅烧后的氧化物材料很好地保持了三维连通的多孔结构. 光催化实验结果表明, 获得的系列材料均能够实现对罗丹明B的脱色降解, 并表现出组分依赖的光催化活性. 氧化锌/钨酸锌三维多孔异质结材料相比于其它样品具有更高的光催化活性, 可在180 min内将罗丹明B完全脱色.     

A channel drop filter in hetero-woodpile-structure

By finite difference time domain method, a channel drop filter with four-port is designed, analyzed, and theoretically simulated in the hetero-woodpile-structure. Hetero-woodpile-structure includes three parts namely, along the propagation direction, the constant lattice in the core woodpile is different from two cladding woodpiles. This channel drop filter is comprised of two straight waveguides separated by an air-cavity in the same layer. Through simulations, we found that adjustment of the resonant-mode in heterostructure can be achieved in various ways, such as only changing the lattice constants, or changing both lattice constants, and the cavity size. The results also show that this structure can realize the energy transfer between bus and drop waveguides.     

CdS/FeP复合光催化材料界面结构与性质的理论研究

构建同质异相或异质结构是提高光催化材料性能的有效途径之一,尤其是对于CdS这类具有光腐蚀的材料,这种方法还能起到提高光催化材料稳定性的作用。因此目前制备CdS基复合光催化材料得到了广泛的研究,但是目前对其中的一些基本问题和关键因素仍需要进一步探讨和解释。本文采用第一性原理方法对CdS/FeP复合光催化材料中异质结构的界面微观结构和性质进行深入研究。计算结果表明,由于在界面上部分悬挂键被饱和,界面模型呈现出与体相或表面模型不同的电子结构特征,并且有界面态的存在。在CdS/FeP异质结构的界面处,CdS和FeP的能带都相对向下移动,而且FeP的能带（费米能级）插入到CdS的导带下方;同时在界面达到平衡态之后,异质结构的内建电场由FeP层指向CdS层,因而能够实现光生电子-空穴对在CdS/FeP界面处的空间有效分离,这对于光催化性能的增强极其有利。此外,构建CdS/FeP异质结构也能够进一步增强CdS在可见光区的光吸收。本文研究结果为构建具有异质结构的高效复合光催化材料提供了机理解释和理论支持。     

A study of electrical enhancement of polycrystalline MgZnO/ZnO bi-layer thin film transistors dependence on the thickness of ZnO layer

A polycrystalline MgZnO/ZnO bi-layer was deposited by using a RF co-magnetron sputtering method and the MgZnO/ZnO bi-layer TFTs were fabricated on the thermally oxidized silicon substrate. The performances with varying the thickness of ZnO layer were investigated. In this result, the MgZnO/ZnO bi-layer TFTs which the content of Mg is about 2.5 at % have shown the enhancement characteristics of high mobility (6.77–7.56 cm² V⁻¹ s⁻¹) and low sub-threshold swing (0.57–0.69 V decade⁻¹) compare of the ZnO single layer TFT (μ_FE = 5.38 cm² V⁻¹ s⁻¹; S.S. = 0.86 V decade⁻¹). Moreover, in the results of the positive bias stress, the ΔV_on shift (4.8 V) of MgZnO/ZnO bi-layer is the 2 V lower than ZnO single layer TFT (ΔV_on = 6.1 V). It reveals that the stability of the MgZnO/ZnO bi-layer TFT enhanced compared to that of the ZnO single layer TFT.