High energy electron radiation effect on Ni and Ti/4H-SiCSchottky barrier diode at room temperature

This paper reports that Ni and Ti/4H-SiC Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) were fabricated and irradiated with 1~MeV electrons up to a dose of 3.43×10¹⁴~e/cm². After radiation, the Schottky barrier height φ _B of the Ni/4H-SiC SBD increased from 1.20~eV to 1.21~eV, but decreased from 0.95~eV to 0.94~eV for the Ti/4H-SiC SBD. The degradation of φ _B could be explained by interface states of changed Schottky contacts. The on-state resistance R_S of both diodes increased with the dose, which can be ascribed to the radiation defects. The reverse current of the Ni/4H-SiC SBD slightly increased, but for the Ti/4H-SiC SBD it basically remained the same. At room temperature, φ _B of the diodes recovered completely after one week, and the R_S partly recovered.     

Tunable diode laser measurements of spectral parameters of HCN at room temperature

A tunable infrared diode laser was used to record 17 fully resolved vibration-rotation transitions in the v₁ fundamental band of HCN at 3μ. The experiments were conducted in an absorption cell on room temperature mixtures of HCN diluted by N₂ and Ar. The v₁ fundamental band strength of HCN was determined to be 267±8 cm^-2 atm^-1 at 273.2 K. Small but significant reductions in the residual errors were obtained by using the Galatry profile rather than the Voigt profile to fit the experimentally recorded line shapes. Collisional broadening and narrowing parameters were determined simultaneously from Galatry profile fits to the data. The collision-broadened linewidths of HCN lines in N₂ and Ar were determined as a function of rotational quantum number of transitions ranging from P(14) to R(14) (3268.22-3353.29 cm^-1). The optical diffusion coefficients of HCN in N₂ and Ar at 300 K were determined from the collisional narrowing parameters and were 0.074±0.01 and 0.016±0.03 cm²s^-1 respectively.     

An organic programmable diode with pentacene, zinc oxide nanoparticles and polymethylsilsesquioxane

In this paper, we proposed an organic programmable diode as a memory device. This device consists of layers of pentacene and zinc oxide nanoparticles embedded in polymethylsilsesquioxane. The device exhibits a change in current flow of an order up to 10⁵ and is comparable or better to many reported organic diode memory devices. A two-barrier model has been used to explain the memory effect of the organic diode. The device can be written and erased multiple times similar to a flash memory.     

Terahertz electromagnetic radiation from quantum wells

The observation of terahertz electromagnetic dipole radiation from quantum well structures has finally proven the existence of charge oscillations in semiconductors associated with wave packet dynamics. This article closely examines the physics behind the emission of terahertz electromagnetic radiation from excitonic charge oscillations in such quantum well structures, points out similarities and differences between the various generation schemes, and discusses the various relaxation mechanisms involved. Finally, we show how both amplitude and phase of charge oscillations and the corresponding terahertz emission can be manipulated using phase-locked optical pulses.     

Subband spectroscopy at room temperature

Distinct resonances of the infrared excitation of surface subbands on Si(100) are observed to ～ 300 K. The linewidth is found to increase with rising temperature. We show that in general the optical width cannot be directly related to transport mobility.     

Polariton condensates at room temperature

We review the recent developments of the polariton physics in microcavities featuring the exciton–photon strong coupling at room temperature, and leading to the achievement of room-temperature polariton condensates. Such cavities embed active layers with robust excitons that present a large binding energy and a large oscillator strength, i.e. wide bandgap inorganic or organic semiconductors, or organic molecules. These various systems are compared, in terms of figures of merit and of common features related to their strong oscillator strength. The various demonstrations of polariton laser are compared, as well as their condensation phase diagrams. The room-temperature operation indeed allows a detailed investigation of the thermodynamic and out-of-equilibrium regimes of the condensation process. The crucial role of the spatial dynamics of the condensate formation is discussed, as well as the debated issue of the mechanism of stimulated relaxation from the reservoir to the condensate under non-resonant excitation. Finally the prospects of polariton devices are presented.     

Wavelength-resolved lifetime measurements of emissions from DNA components and poly rA at room temperature excited with synchrotron radiation

The wavelength-resolved luminescence decays of the very weak emission from DNA and of some components at room temperature have been investigated by using the luminescence equipment recently built at Orsay. It combines the LURE synchrotron source with a spectrophotofluorometer using a fast single photon counting detection operating in the nanosecond range. The high intensity of the synchrotron source together with the high pulse frequency have allowed for the first time the luminescence decays of such weak emitters (φ_f ?10^-4) to be undertaken. It is shown that the room temperature fluorescence of the monomers (nucleosides) is indeed very short, τ < 0.1 ns. In polymeric structures (poly rA) longer lifetimes are observed, which appear to be wavelength dependent and which correlate with the multi-component nature of the total emission.     

Single-photon-level quantum memory at room temperature

Room-temperature, easy-to-operate quantum memories are essential building blocks for future long distance quantum information networks operating on an intercontinental scale, because devices like quantum repeaters, based on quantum memories, will have to be deployed in potentially remote, inaccessible locations. Here we demonstrate controllable, broadband and efficient storage and retrieval of weak coherent light pulses at the single-photon level in warm atomic cesium vapor using the robust far off-resonant Raman memory scheme. We show that the unconditional noise floor of this technically simple quantum memory is low enough to operate in the quantum regime, even in a room-temperature environment.     

Terahertz radiation from armchair carbon nanotube dipole antenna

This paper investigates the electromagnetic radiation characteristics of a metallic, large aspect ratio single walled carbon nanotube antenna in the terahertz frequency region below 12.5 THz. The key features of terahertz pulse have been revealed on the carbon nanotube antenna in comparison with conventional photoconductive switching. The terahertz waveforms, radiation power and their field distributions have been evaluated and are analysed. The Fourier transformed spectra over the whole frequency range demonstrate that the carbon nanotube antenna can be used as radiation source for broadband terahertz applications.     

Ferromagnetism in InMnAs layers at room temperature

The InMnAs layers with ferromagnetic properties at room temperature are prepared by laser ablation. This is confirmed by the results of investigating the anomalous Hall and magneto-optical Kerr effects and by magnetic-force microscopy. According to x-ray diffraction data, the InMnAs layers have a fairly high crystal quality but contain inclusions of the MnAs hexagonal phase. An analysis of the electrical properties of the InMnAs layers suggests that the ferromagnetism revealed at room temperature cannot be accounted for by the presence of the MnAs phase but is associated with the charge carrier transfer in the InMnAs matrix.     

Optical properties of KCP at room temperature

A fit of the reflectivity data of KCP is given using the expressions of the small polaron theory. It is further shown that small polaron theory gives the same optical properties as either a two site model with a deformation coordinate and Franck Condon transitions between the sites or a Peierls subband model for nearly free electrons.     

Hydrogen diffusion in titanium at room temperature

The diffusion of hydrogen in technically pure VT1-00 titanium is studied at room temperature under conditions of hydrogen penetration from a glow discharge plasma. Hydrogen penetration occurs under conditions of hydride phase growth. The diffusion coefficients of hydrogen in titanium at room temperature are estimated.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 3, pp. 43–47, March, 1982.     

室温下无耗散的量子自旋流

自旋电子学是近年来凝聚态物理研究中的一个热点．文章介绍了量子自旋流的概念，着重论述了一种新近出现的理论，其预言在一大类空穴掺杂的半导体中存在自旋流．计算了自旋流的大小，并论述了它在室温下无耗散的特性，最后给出了两种在实验中探测自旋流的方案．     

Hydrogen permeability of titanium at room temperature

The hydrogen permeability of titanium of grades VT1-00 and VT1-0 and of titanium iodide is investigated under saturation from glow-discharge plasma and in the cathodic process of the sulfuric acid electrolyte. A modified electrochemical method for investigating the hydrogen permeability of titanium at room temperature is proposed. Diffusion-coefficient values of hydrogen in titanium of differing purity are determined.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 4, pp. 51–54, April, 1982.     

室温下无耗散的量子自旋流

自旋电子学是近年来凝聚态物理研究中的一个热点.文章介绍了量子自旋流的概念,着重论述了一种新近出现的理论,其预言在一大类空穴掺杂的半导体中存在自旋流.计算了自旋流的大小,并论述了它在室温下无耗散的特性,最后给出了两种在实验中探测自旋流的方案.     

Condensation of electron-hole pairs in bulk GaAs at room temperature under conditions of femtosecond cooperative radiation

The results are given of an experimental investigation of the spectral characteristics of cooperative recombination of a high-density electron-hole plasma in GaAs. It is demonstrated that, under conditions of generation of high-power femtosecond pulses of superradiation, the properties of electrons and holes differ considerably from their properties under conditions of lasing or regular spontaneous recombination. The peak of the cooperative radiation line (?ω=1.405 to 1.407 eV) is shifted inward into a (nonrenormalized) forbidden band. It is located 20 meV lower on the energy scale than the lasing peak and more than 40 meV below the center of the line of spontaneous recombination at the same pumping level. This corresponds to electron-hole condensation to the bottom of the bands. The properties of cooperative recombination may be defined by the pairing of electrons and holes and by the formation of a short-lived coherent electron-hole BCS state. The estimated value of the order parameter Δ is approximately 2 meV.     

Physical grounds of high-sensitive room temperature detection of infrared radiation involving spherical excitons at impurities in crystals

The possibility of the IR-radiation detecting in crystals of direct-gap semiconductors, caused by effects of IR-quenching of probe visible-range radiation within the region of a crystal relative transparency, is studied both theoretically and experimentally. The comparison of some mechanisms investigated allows to conclude that the most probable explanation of the IR-quenching effect, experimentally observed in the CdS crystal, is the mechanism of probe radiation absorption with photon energy deficit with respect to exciton resonance, which is eliminated due to exchange interaction of a free exciton in the intermediate state with spherical excitons localized on manyelectron atoms of impurity.     

室温下1.3μm附近CO2的高灵敏度半导体激光吸收光谱

用DFB（分布反馈）半导体激光器结合波长调制吸收光谱技术观测了CO2在1.31μm附近的泛频吸收光谱，并获得的相应的光谱参数（如：谱线位置，谱线强度以及自加宽系数），同时发现了15条弱的新谱线。在665 Pa压力下，本实验可探测的最弱谱线是2.25163′10-27 cm-1/(molecule×cm-2)，相应的吸收是3.88′10-8。