Measurement of small displacement based on surface plasmon resonance heterodyne interferometry

This paper proposes an optical method for measuring small displacements using the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) heterodyne interferometry. A heterodyne light beam reflected by a mirror passes through a hemisphere glass and then enters into a surface plasmon resonance apparatus at the resonant angle. A small displacement of the mirror will introduce a phase-difference variation between p- and s-polarizations of the light emerging from the SPR apparatus. The phase-difference variation can be precisely measured with the heterodyne interferometric technique, and the associated displacement can be estimated. The feasibility of this method was verified by experiment, and the displacement measurement resolution of about 1.4 nm over a traveling range of 6 μm was achieved. Our method of measurement has the merits of both common-path interferometry and heterodyne interferometry.     

The chemisorption of hydrogen on silicon and silicon carbide (1 0 0) surfaces

The chemisorption of hydrogen onto semiconductor surfaces is examined. The hydrogen bonds to the dangling bond of a surface atom. These dangling bonds also dictate the reconstruction of the crystal surface. The chemisorbed hydrogen therefore modifies the reconstructed surface topology. In this work theoretical calculations of the surface structures of both covalent elemental silicon and polar silicon carbide are presented. The periodic MINDO method is employed to determine the topologies for the 2 × 1 reconstructed (1 0 0) surfaces. These topologies are obtained from the minimisation of the total energy, for silicon and silicon carbide films of 14 layer thickness, with respect to the atomic co-ordinates of the hydrogen adsorbate and the first four layers of the substrate. The results show that the formation of the hydrogen bond to the substrate leads to a general lengthening of the surface dimer bond. In addition, the buckling of the silicon dimer determined for silicon terminated SiC is removed by hydrogen chemisorption.     

一种基于FPGA的外差干涉仪动态数据采集方法

介绍了利用现场可编程门阵列(FPGA)来实现外差干涉仪动态数据采集的信号处理方案。在这套方案中,在锁存位置计数信息的同时,还可以启动两路模拟信号的A/D转换,并将结果写入缓存,实现了动态数据的采集。     

Micro-Gal laser absolute gravimeter based on high precision heterodyne interferometer

A micro-Gal absolute gravimeter based on high-precision and high-stability heterodyne interferometer is presented. The distance measuring technology of the gravimeter is studied in detail. The experimental results of distance measuring for a free-falling motion show that the high-precision heterodyne interferometer described in this paper can meet the demand of a micro-Gal absolute gravimeter with relative uncertainty of 6.4 × 10-9. Moreover, the heterodyne interferometer is more stable than the Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) which is widely used in present absolute gravimeters.     

Measurement of residual wedge angle with a reversal shear interferometer

A technique for determination of residual wedge angle of high optical quality transparent parallel plate using a reversal shear interferometer-based optical system has been discussed. In this technique the parallel plate to be tested is used to introduce angular tilt in the preset two-beam interference fringes of a reversal shear interferometer. The parallelism is calculated from the angular tilt of the fringes. The technique is more sensitive compared to techniques using Fizeau interferometer and is most suitable for highly parallel transparent plate with very low residual wedge angle.     

Doppler振镜正弦调制多光束激光外差二次谐波测量角度的方法

提出了一种多光束激光外差测微小角度的新方法. 基于激光外差技术和Doppler效应, 通过做简谐振动的Doppler振镜对不同时刻入射光的正弦调制, 把待测角度信息加载到外差信号的频率差中, 经信号解调后可以得到待测角度参数值, 经加权平均处理可以提高待测角度的测量精度. 利用这种新方法, 通过Matlab仿真了平面标准镜不同入射角的模拟结果, 表明该仿真结果的最大相对误差小于0.789677%. 关键词： 角度测量 多光束激光外差 激光Doppler技术 Fourier分析     

Methanol adsorption on silicon (0 0 1)

Using a first-principles pseudopotential technique, we have investigated the adsorption of CH₃OH on the Si(0 0 1) surface. We have found that, in agreement with the overall experimental picture, the most probable chemisorption path for methanol adsorption on silicon (0 0 1) is as follows: the gas phase CH₃OH adsorbs molecularly to the electrophilic surface Si atom via the oxygen atom and then dissociates into Si-OCH₃ and H, bonded to the electrophilic and nucleophilic surface silicon dimer atoms, respectively. Other possible adsorption models and dissociation paths are also discussed. Our calculations also suggest that the most probable methanol coverage is 0.5 ML, i.e., one molecule per Si-Si dimer, in agreement with experimental evidences. The surface atomic and electronic structures are discussed and compared to available theoretical and experimental data. In addition, we propose that a comparison of our theoretical STM images and calculated vibrational modes for the adsorbed systems with detailed experimental investigations could possibly confirm the presented adsorption picture.     

Fabrication of broadband poly(vinylidene difluoride-trifluroethylene) line-focus ultrasonic transducers for surface acoustic wave measurements of anisotropy of a (1 0 0) silicon wafer

This paper investigates a new method for fabrication of broadband line-focus ultrasonic transducers by sol–gel spin-coating the poly(vinylidene difluoride-trifluroethylene) [P(VDF-TrFE)] copolymer film on a concave fine-polished beryllium copper backing. The ferroelectric hysteresis loops of the P(VDF-TrFE) films spin-coated from different molar ratios of VDF/TrFE, 77/23 and 55/45, were measured to select the better mixture. Owing to the better acoustic matching to water, compared with lead zirconate titanate (PZT), the fabricated transducers show relatively wide bandwidth of approximately 50 MHz with high central frequency of 60 MHz obtained at the focal plane when a fused-quartz acts as a reflecting target. Each one of the two finished transducers has a focal length of 5 mm and a full aperture angle of 90°. After applying the specially developed digital signal processing algorithm to the defocusing experiment data, which is called V(f,z) analysis method based on two-dimensional fast Fourier transform (2-D FFT), the operating frequency can extend from several MHz to over 90 MHz. Surface acoustic wave (SAW) velocities of a typical (1 0 0) silicon wafer was measured along various directions between [1 0 0] and [0 1 0] to represent the anisotropic features.     

激光干涉数字化角度计量系统分析

通过对数字干涉测角系统的组成、原理、误差、精度等方面的阐述与分析介绍了一种新型的精密角度测量系统。该系统是基于激光干涉技术的一种角度测量系统 ,系统以激光作为干涉光源 ,迈克耳逊干涉仪作为角度量测量的核心装置 ,通过机械装置将角度 (角位移 )量转换为迈克耳逊干涉仪干涉光路中可反映光程差变化的线位移量 ,进而反映为干涉条纹的变化 ,最后通过有关电路对干涉条纹进行的一系列处理 ,实现了对大转角的精密测量。还就上述有关问题用计算机模拟的方法作了定量分析     

A new electro-optic modulated circular heterodyne interferometer for measuring the rotation angle in a chiral medium

A new optical polarimeter capable of measuring the rotation angle in a chiral medium is developed successfully, and is an extension of previously developed simultaneous or sequential measurement system of the principal axis and retardance in linearly birefringent materials. The polarimeter for measuring the rotation angle is based on an electro-optic modulated circular heterodyne interferometer and using phase-lock technique to measure the rotation angle directly and precisely. The validity of the proposed design is demonstrated by the measurement of rotation angle in a half-wave plate and the glucose sample. The average relative error in rotation angle level of 0.00284° has been obtained for a half-wave plate. A correlation coefficient value of 0.9999975 is determined; it indicates a highly linear relationship between the reference values and the measured rotation angles. Moreover, a standard deviation in rotation angle level of 0.005275° has been obtained for glucose solutions with concentrations ranging from 0 to 1.2 g/dl in 0.2 g/dl increments, with a correlation coefficient value of 0.99915 between the reference and the measured values. This setup is compact in configuration, and is easy in calibration. The linearity and resolution characteristics of this system are comparable to those previous studies adopting phase-sensitive techniques.     

Self-aligned silicon quantum wires on Ag(1 1 0)

Upon deposition of silicon onto the (1 1 0) surface of a silver crystal we have grown massively parallel one-dimensional Si nanowires. They are imaged in scanning tunnelling microscopy as straight, high aspect ratio, nanostructures, all with the same characteristic width of 16 Å, perfectly aligned along the atomic troughs of the bare surface. Low energy electron diffraction confirms the massively parallel assembly of these self-organized nanowires. Photoemission reveals striking quantized states dispersing only along the length of the nanowires, and extremely sharp, two-components, Si 2p core levels. This demonstrates that in the large ensemble each individual nanowire is a well-defined quantum object comprising only two distinct silicon atomic environments. We suggest that this self-assembled array of highly perfect Si nanowires provides a simple, atomically precise, novel template that may impact a wide range of applications.     

Miniature lamellar grating interferometer based on silicon technology

We present a lamellar grating interferometer realized with microelectromechanical system technology. It is used as a time-scanning Fourier-transform spectrometer. The motion is carried out by an electrostatic comb drive actuator fabricated by silicon micromachining, particularly by silicon-on-insulator technology. For the first time to our knowledge, we measure the spectrum of an extended white-light source with a resolution of 1.6 nm at a wavelength of 400 nm and of 5.5 nm at 800 nm. The wavelength accuracy is better than 0.5 nm, and the inspected wavelength range extends from 380 to 1100 nm. The optical path difference maximum is 145 microm. The dimensions of the device are 5 mm x 5 mm.     

Performance and testing of a four channel high-resolution heterodyne interferometer

When studying complex vibrations, simultaneous measurements at several points are indispensable if one is dealing with objects whose vibrational behavior is not guaranteed to be stable over longer periods of time, such as biological specimens, micro-mechanical elements or objects characterized by nearly resonant normal modes with different vibrational patterns. Obviously, both amplitude and phase need to be measured at each point to obtain a full characterization of the vibration. We introduce birefringent beam displacers as a highly efficient beam multiplying method to create a system of four heterodyne interferometers operating in parallel from a single laser source. The design and the performance characteristics (resolution, cross-talk) of the instrument will be discussed. The system revealed the existence of running vibrational modes on an electrically driven plate clamped along its outer edge.     

Compact temperature-insensitive modulator based on a silicon microring assistant Mach-Zehnder interferometer

<正>On the silicon-on-insulator platform,an ultra compact temperature-insensitive modulator based on a cascaded microring assistant Mach-Zehnder interferometer is proposed and demonstrated with numerical simulation.According to the calculated results,the tolerated variation of ambient temperature can be as high as 134℃while the footprint of such a silicon modulator is only 340μm~2.     

Addition reaction and characterization of chlorotris(triphenylphosphine)iridium(I) on silicon(1 1 1) surfaces

Studies were performed to determine the chemical addition of a metal complex molecule, chlorotris(triphenylphosphine)iridium(I), on hydrogen passivated Si(1 1 1) surfaces to form a self-assembled monolayer (SAM). The iridium complex was synthesized prior to chemical addition, for which modified reaction conditions were chosen. Following addition, the silicon surfaces were characterized with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and cyclic voltammetry (CV). The XPS results revealed that the surfaces consisted of the expected elemental percentages and that the iridium has a slightly higher success rate at attaching to oxide-free surfaces. XPS data also strongly indicate that the iridium complex remained intact upon chemisorption and did not decompose during the addition reaction. CV data show a difference between iridium treated surfaces and control samples. Hydrogen passivated wafers with iridium complex were much more conductive than those which were terminated with just an oxide or with an oxide and iridium complex. Furthermore, no free iridium reagent was detected as an additional feature in the current profile, indicating there was no physisorbed layer.     

Diffusions of small clusters on Pt(1 1 1) and Cu(1 1 1) surfaces

Diffusions of small cluster Pt₆ on Pt(1 1 1) surface and Cu₆ on Cu(1 1 1) are studied by molecular dynamics simulation, respectively. The atomic interaction is modeled by the semiempirical potential. The results show that the diffusion processes in the two systems are far different. For example, on Pt(1 1 1) surface, the hopping of single atom and the shearing of two atoms of hexamer only occur on the adatom(s) adsorbed at B-step, while on Cu(1 1 1) surface they can appear on the adatom(s) either at A-step or B-step. To the concerted translation of the parallelogram hexamer, the anisotropy in the diffusion path is observed in the two systems, the mechanisms and then the preferential paths, however, are completely different. The reasons for these diffusion characteristics and differences are discussed.     

Calibration of high-frequency hydrophone up to 40 MHz by heterodyne interferometer

A calibration technique for high-frequency hydrophone utilizing a heterodyne interferometer is presented in this article. The calibration system is mainly composed of optical and signal processing modules. In the displacement measurement, a pellicle is mounted at the surface of water to avoid acousto-optical interaction. The phase modulated carrier signal is digitized and transferred to the computer, then processed by digital phase demodulation. A phase unwrapping algorithm is employed to remove ambiguity of the arctangent function and has proven effective in large displacement measurements. Pellicle displacement and voltage output of the hydrophone in focused ultrasonic field are processed by DFT to determine the amplitudes of the fundamental and harmonic components. Experiments show that the heterodyne technique can provide hydrophone calibration up to 40 MHz, with a slightly smaller sensitivity compared with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) calibration results for most frequency ranges. Since the heterodyne technique is independent on assumptions about the geometry of the ultrasonic field and the performance of the transducer, it can be easily extended to high frequency and high power ultrasound measurement applications.     

Etching of silicon nanowires on Ag(1 1 0) by atomic hydrogen

Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy, High Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy and High Resolution X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy have been used to study the adsorption of atomic hydrogen onto Si nanowires grown on Ag(1 1 0). We demonstrate that the hydrogen strongly interacts with the Si nanowires modifying their structural and electronic properties. Hydrogen atoms etch the Si nanowires and eventually lead to their complete removal from the Ag(1 1 0) surface.