二氧化钒纳米点阵红外光学特性研究

针对二氧化钒纳米点阵从半导体到金属的可逆相变,考虑到点阵中各个点之间散射光的交互作用,基于VO2在不同温度和波长下的折射率和消光系数,以及小颗粒的吸收和散射特性,建立了VO2纳米颗粒的数学模型,研究了VO2纳米颗粒的相变光学特性.结果表明,随着波长变化,吸收截面相对散射截面占主导,金属相在980 nm附近出现吸收峰值|随着温度变化,可见光区域的消光系数变化较小,而红外区域较大,其中在近红外区域的消光系数变化最大.在纳米点阵中,消光截面随着颗粒间距变化,当颗粒间距增大时,消光峰值出现红移,且峰值大小也会随之增大|当间距超过一定数值后,峰值反而会逐渐减小.采用多孔氧化铝掩模的方法,通过磁控反应溅射制备VO2纳米点阵,测试结果表明其透过率比薄膜的透过率高.     

纳米银六角阵列在掺氧氮化硅中的局域表面等离激元共振特性仿真

通过COMSOL Multiphysics 和 Lumerical FDTD solution对不同尺寸纳米银六角阵列在非晶态掺氧氮化硅(a-SiN_x:O)介质中的局域表面等离激元共振(LSPR)特性进行仿真, 计算结果表明半径为25 nm的纳米银六角阵列形成的局域表面等离激元(LSP)与厚度为70 nm的a-SiN_x:O的蓝光发射(460 nm)的共振效果最为显著, 随着纳米银颗粒尺寸的增大其消光共振峰红移. 在460 nm波长激发下半径为25 nm的纳米银阵列在a-SiN_x:O中的极化强度和表面极化电荷的分布模拟证明了该阵列在460 nm激发下形成的LSP为偶极子极化模式, 通过对该尺寸的纳米银阵列的LSP 在a-SiN_x:O中的最强垂直辐射空间计算, 获得了银颗粒上方a-SiN_x:O的最佳厚度为30 nm, 仿真结果对硅基蓝光发射器件(450–460 nm)的设计提供了重要的理论参考.     

Numerical and experimental investigations of dependence of photoacoustic signals from gold nanoparticles on the optical properties

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are used as a contrast agent of the photoacoustic (PA) imaging. The efficiency of AuNPs has been discussed with the absorption cross section. However, the effects of the scattering of the light by AuNPs and surrounding medium on the PA signal from AuNPs have not been discussed. The PA signals from the aqueous solution of AuNPs were examined in the numerical simulation and the experiment. In the numerical simulation, the absorption and scattering cross sections of spherical and polyhedral AuNPs were calculated by Mie theory and discrete dipole approximation. Monte Carlo simulation calculated the absorbed light energy in the aqueous solution of AuNPs. Based on the PA wave equation, the PA signals were simulated. In the experiment, the PA signal from the aqueous solution of AuNP was measured by use of a piezoelectric film and a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser operated at 532 nm. The results of the numerical simulation and the experiment agreed well. In the numerical simulation and the experiment, a single Au nanocube with 50-nm edge generated the peak value of the PA signal significantly. It was approximately 350 times and twice as large as the peak values of the spherical AuNPs with 10- and 50-nm diameters, respectively. The peak value of the PA signal depended on both the absorption and scattering coefficients of the AuNPs and the surrounding medium. The peak value increased with the scattering coefficient in a quadratic manner. The character of the temporal profile of the PA signal such as full width at half maximum depended on the scattering coefficient of the AuNPs.     

基于Mie散射理论的MgF_2颗粒散射特性研究

本文应用Mie散射理论对微球体颗粒光散射的性质进行了理论分析与数值计算,得到了吸收截面与波长,散射强度与散射角以及散射强度与参数x的关系。结果表明,入射波长在300~4800 nm,粒子的吸收截面都为零;当λ>4800 nm,吸收截面随着粒子半径的增大而增大。     

Measurement of the absorption coefficient of scattering liquid media by the calorimetric method

Using the example of a number of hydrosols (gold nanorods and nanoshells, silver nanoshells, zinc phthalocyanine nanoparticles), we show that the absorption coefficient of a scattering liquid medium can be measured from its heating by a short-time laser irradiation. The degree of heating was determined from expansion of the liquid in an ampoule with a capillary (the principle of liquid thermometer). Irradiation was performed at a wavelength of 671 or 1069 nm. From the transmission of samples of hydrosols at these wave-lengths, the sum of the absorption and scattering coefficients has been determined. To measure the absorption spectra of scattering liquids by this method, a laser with a tunable radiation wavelength is required. In the case of monodisperse colloidal solutions, the method ensures the measurement of the absorption and scattering cross-section ratio of particles.     

Absorption of a Massive Scalar Field by Wormhole Space-Times

In this paper we consider the problem of the test massive scalar field propagating in the background of a class of wormhole space-times. Basing on the quantum scattering theory, we analyze the Schrödinger-type scalar wave equation and compute transmission coefficients for arbitrary coupling of the field to the background geometry with the WKB approximation. We numerically investigate its absorption cross section and analyze them in the high frequency regime. We find that the absorption cross section oscillates about the geometric optical value and the limit of absorption cross section is uniform in the high frequency regime.     

纳米GaP粉体反射光谱的测量及其分析

通过测量纳米磷化镓(GaP)粉体在紫外可见光波段(200-800nm)的反射光谱,运用三流理论由反射光谱计算出纳米GaP粉体的吸收系数(Ea)和散射系数(Es)的比值(Ea/Es)。纳米GaP粉体的反射光谱的形状主要受吸收的影响,即GaP禁带结构的影响。     

非相干光宽带腔增强吸收光谱技术应用于SO_2弱吸收的测量

非相干光宽带腔增强吸收光谱作为高灵敏检测技术,已成功应用于多种大气痕量气体浓度的测量。根据腔增强吸收光谱技术测量原理可知,若已知测量气体准确浓度,镜片反射率随波长的变化曲线、有效吸收长度、光学腔内有无测量气体吸收前后的光辐射变化,可测量出待测气体的吸收截面。SO_2由于a~3 B_1—X~1 A_1自旋禁阻跃迁,在345~420nm波段吸收截面较低(~10~(-22) cm2/molecule),其测量有一定难度,而准确的弱吸收截面对于卫星反演大气痕量气体浓度以及大气研究等方面均有重要意义。采用365nm LED光源的宽带腔增强吸收光谱实验装置测量357~385nm波段范围SO_2的弱吸收,获得该波段SO_2弱吸收截面,并与已公开发表的SO_2吸收截面进行对比,相关系数r为0.997 3,验证了非相干光宽带腔增强吸收光谱技术准确测量气体弱吸收截面的适用性。     

Synthesis and antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles with different sizes

Silver nanoparticles with different sizes (7, 29, and 89 nm mean values) were synthesized using gallic acid in an aqueous chemical reduction method. The nanoparticles were characterized using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), dynamic light scattering (DLS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and ultraviolet–visible (UV–Vis) absorption spectroscopy; the antibacterial activity was assessed using the standard microdilution method, determining the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) according to the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards. From the microscopies studies (TEM) we observed that silver nanoparticles have spherical (7 and 29 nm) and pseudospherical shape (89 nm) with a narrow size distribution. The sizes of the silver nanoparticles were controlled by varying some experimental conditions. It was found that the antibacterial activity of the nanoparticles varies when their size diminishes.     

Stimulated Low-Frequency Raman Scattering in LaF<Subscript>3</Subscript> Suspensions

We observe stimulated low-frequency Raman scattering (SLFRS) caused by laser pulse interaction with acoustic vibrations of nanoparticles in water suspensions of LaF₃ nanoparticles. We show that frequency shifts of the scattering correspond to the eigenfrequencies of nanoparticles vibrations. LaF₃ nanoparticles were synthesized in the presence of glycine by a double jet precipitation technique at various initial concentrations of reagents. We investigate the morphologies and particle sizes as well as size distributions of the particles prepared using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and dynamical light scattering (DLS). In view of the absorption spectroscopy, we show that the reaction system components and products have no absorption in the visible region, including λ = 694.3 nm. From the luminescence spectroscopy, we find also that they do not emit at λ = 694.3 nm excitation.     

Absorption,extinction and phase function measurements for algal suspensions of chlorella pyrenoidosa

Optical property measurements have been made for unicellular algal suspensions of C. pyrenoidosa in the spectral range from 380 to 720 nm. The measurements include the extinction and absorption cross sections and the scattering phase function. Although the spectral dependence of the extinction cross section is weak, there is a strong wavelength dependence for absorption which is related to cell pigment content. The absorption cross section increases with increasing cell size and pigment content. The scattering albedo is approximately 0.9 over the entire spectrum, and the scattering phase function is strongly peaked in the forward direction.     

Amplification of raman scattering by localized plasmons in silver nanoparticles on the surface of zinc oxide nanorods

The magnetron sputtering of Ag nanoparticles onto ZnO nanorod arrays is studied. The lateral faces of the nanorods are coated with nanoparticles at a much lower density as compared to the flat faces at comparable sputtering times. The silver density is high on the edges of the lateral faces of the nanorods. The plasmon absorption in the synthesized arrays of nanorods coated with individual Ag nanoparticles is maximal at 450?C500 nm. The appearance of local plasmon excitations increases the intensity of the multiphonon processes with the participation of ZnO polar modes in Raman spectra. The cross section of resonance Raman scattering for A ₁(LO) phonon overtones increases with the equivalent Ag film thickness.     

Dependent scattering effects in latex-sphere suspensions and scattering powders

The dependent scattering effects in ideal latex-sphere suspensions and beds of irregularly shaped powder grains are theoretically described by means of a coherent addition formalism together with the statistical Percus-Yevic hard sphere model for the particle separation.

Measurements are performed with a light scattering apparatus and a linear photo diode array. The latter allows scattered and directly transmitted radiation to be separated and thus the scattering cross section of the spheres in dependence of their volume fraction to be derived. For high volume fractions, a decrease of scattering efficiency occurs in the calculated as well as the measured cross sections.

For TiO₂ powders a similar behaviour of the effective scattering and absorption cross section is derived for the near- and mid-infrared region. The relevant quantities are obtained from directional-hemispherical transmission and reflection measurements using a three-flux model. Due to the irregular shape of the powder grains Mie scattering theory has to be modified for each powder to fit the experimental data.     

Investigation of halloysite nanotubes with deposited silver nanoparticles by methods of optical spectroscopy

Halloysite nanotube composites covered by silver nanoparticles with the average diameters of 5 nm and 9 nm have been studied by methods of optical spectroscopy of reflectance/transmittance and Raman spectroscopy. It has been established that silver significantly increases the light absorption by nanocomposites in the range of 300 to 700 nm with a maximum near 400 nm, especially for the samples with the nanoparticle size of 9 nm, which is explained by plasmonic effects. The optical absorption increases also in the long-wavelength spectral range, which seems to be due to the localized electronic states in an alumosilicate halloysite matrix after deposition of nanoparticles. Raman spectra of nanocomposites reveal intense scattering peaks at the local phonons, whose intensities are maxima for the samples with the silver nanoparticle sizes of 9 nm, which can be caused by plasmonic enhancement of the light scattering efficiency. The results show the ability to use halloysite nanotube nanocomposites in photonics and biomedicine.     

Micro-hot-spot model taking into account the temperature dependence of the laser pulse absorption efficiency factor

An improved model of the laser initiation of the explosive decomposition of energetic materials containing light-absorbing nanoparticles is investigated. The model takes into account how the light absorption efficiency factor changes with an increasing temperature. It is demonstrated that, as the temperature of an aluminum nanoparticle in pentaerythritol tetranitrate increases from 300 to 700 K, the light absorption efficiency factor increases by a factor of over 2. It is also shown that, for each particular nanoparticle radius in the 40–150 nm range, the temperature dependence of the light absorption efficiency factor over the relevant temperature range can be interpolated well by a second-order polynomial. Taking into account the variation of the efficiency of light absorption by the aluminum nanoparticle in the initiation of the explosive decomposition of pentaerythritol tetranitrate by a 12-ns-long neodymium laser pulse reduces the calculated critical energy density by a factor of 2.11 and decreases the optimum nanoparticle radius from 98 to 92 nm.     

The use of mössbauer scattering spectroscopy for the determination of physical parameters

The procedures for the determination of the linewidth of the scatterer, the surface density of the scattering layer, the angular correlation function, the interference parameter, the Debye-Waller factor for Rayleigh scattering, Lamb-Mössbauer factors for the absorption and reemission of Mössbauer radiation, the mass resonance absorption coefficient of Mössbauer radiation, and attenuation coefficients for Rayleight and Compton scattering are considered. It is shown that for the conversion of experimentally determined reduced attenuation coefficients of different absorption or scattering processes to the cross sections or mass attenuation coefficients, one needs to know the photoelectric absorption cross section or mass photoelectric absorption coefficient of Mössbauer radiation in the K-shell of Fe, which can be determined experimentally.     

Numerical investigation of the effect of soot aggregation on the radiative properties in the infrared region and radiative heat transfer

The effect of aggregation on soot radiative properties in the infrared region of the spectrum is numerically investigated using Rayleigh-Debye-Gans theory for fractal aggregates (RDG-FA). In order to use the RDG-FA theory for a wide range of aggregate sizes and wavelengths, the predicted phase functions, scattering and absorption coefficients are compared with a more accurate theory, the integral equation formulation for scattering—IEFS. The importance of scattering when compared with absorption is investigated, as well as the effect of aggregation on the phase function shape and on the scattering cross section. It is concluded that in the case of small aggregates formed with small primary particles the scattering coefficient is negligible compared with the absorption coefficient, and scattering and aggregation of primary particles can be ignored. Thus, the Rayleigh approximation can be used leading to isotropic scattering. In the case of large aggregates constituted by large primary particles, aggregation becomes important and the scattering cross section is of the same order of magnitude of the absorption cross section. Moreover, the phase function becomes highly peaked in the forward direction. Therefore, the Rayleigh and the equivalent volume Mie sphere approximations are not valid, and the RDG-FA method emerges as a good compromise between accuracy and simplicity of application. However, radiative transfer calculations between two infinite, parallel, black walls show that scattering may always be neglected in the calculation of total radiative heat source and heat fluxes to the walls. The minor influence of scattering on the accuracy of the predictions is explained by the shift between the spectral region where scattering is important and the region where the spectral radiative heat source is large.     

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering using bismuth nanoparticles: a study with amino acids

Bismuth nanoparticles produced by laser ablation synthesis in solution (LASiS) show localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs). The nanoparticles show surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) activity for several tested amino acids. Optical absorption, dynamic light scattering (DLS), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) as well as Raman scattering were used to characterize the samples. The search for new biocompatible nanoparticles for diagnostic purposes is important, and the demonstration that a semimetal is capable to act as a SERS active system opens new possibilities for molecular detection.     

Direct measurement of the Rayleigh scattering cross section in various gases

Using the laser-based technique of cavity ring-down spectroscopy extinction measurements have been performed in various gases straightforwardly resulting in cross sections for Rayleigh scattering. For Ar and N₂ measurements are performed in the range 470-490 nm, while for CO₂ cross sections are determined in the wider range 470-570 nm. In addition to these gases also for N₂O, CH₄, CO, and SF₆ the scattering cross section is determined at 532 nm, a wavelength of importance for lidar applications and combustion laser diagnostics. In O₂ the cross section at 532 nm is found to depend on pressure due to collision-induced light absorption. The obtained cross sections validate the cross sections for Rayleigh scattering as derived from refractive indices and depolarization ratios through Rayleigh's theory at the few %-level, although somewhat larger discrepancies are found for CO, N₂O and CH₄.     

Monte-Carlo calculations of keV electron and positron slowing down in solids

A Monte-Carlo simulation technique based on the screened Rutherford differential cross section for the elastic scattering and Gryzinski's semiempirical expression for the inelastic core and valence electron excitation is used to describe electrons and positrons slowing down in solids. The theoretical results are compared with the experimental backscattering, absorption and transmission results for aluminum, silicon, copper, and gold thin film and semi-infinite targets and good agreement is observed. The simulated stopping profiles are fitted with a simple analytic expression. The profiles are Laplace-transformed to give a useful data base for analyzing phenomena associated with slow positron re-emission from solids.