基于ZnO:In纳米棒阵列的X射线闪烁转换屏制备与性能研究

为了满足高能物理和核物理领域在探究一些超快物理事件时,对兼顾高时间和高空间分辨的X射线闪烁转换屏的迫切需求,本文利用磁控溅射和水热反应法制备了ZnO:In纳米棒阵列X射线闪烁转换屏,并对其进行氢气氛下的等离子处理优化其闪烁发光性能.X射线激发发射谱显示ZnO:In纳米棒阵列具有395 nm的紫外发光和450—750 nm的可见发光两个发光峰,同时表明氢气氛等离子体处理可显著增强ZnO:In纳米棒阵列的紫外发光,抑制其可见发光.发光衰减时间测量表明,ZnO:In纳米棒阵列紫外发光衰减时间在亚纳秒级,其可见发光衰减时间在纳秒级,两者均可满足高时间分辨的X射线探测需求.在上海同步辐射光源的X射线空间分辨率测试表明,在能量为20 keV的X射线光束辐照下,厚度为12μm的ZnO:In纳米棒阵列作为X射线闪烁转换屏可达到1.5μm的系统空间分辨率.本研究表明利用ZnO:In纳米棒阵列作为X射线闪烁转换屏是实现兼顾高时间和高空间分辨的X射线探测与成像的一种可行方案.     

二价铕激活的氟氯化钡的合成反应机理及其在X线照像增感屏中的应用

二价铕激活的氟氯化钡是一种高效率的X射线发光材料。Stevels和Pingault[1]曾研究过BaFCl:Eu2+在X射线激发下的发光性质。E.I.Du Pont公司用BaFCl:Eu2+制成X射线照像用增感屏[2]。     

氧化锌纳米结构的制备及发光性质研究

采用化学气相沉积方法,在氩气和氧气混合气氛下制备了两种四角结构的纳米氧化锌。初始反应物为纯锌粉,反应过程中没有采用任何触媒。采用X射线衍射、扫描电子显微镜、透射电子显微镜、光致发光光谱研究了纳米产物的结构和光学性质。获得的纳米产物为高纯的纤锌矿结构氧化锌。两种氧化锌纳米产物具有三维立体的四角结构,分别为四角锥-片状结构和四角锥-线状结构,具有较大的长径比,呈典型的微/纳结构。通过对两种氧化锌纳米结构的紫外发射峰和可见发射带的对比研究,探讨了氧化锌纳米产物可见发射带的起源,以及影响其发光性质的主要因素。     

氧化锌纳米晶体的光谱分析

采用沉淀法并通过控制前驱体的煅烧温度来制备粒径不同的氧化锌(ZnO)纳米晶体,对粒子的透射电镜照片进行分析,结果表明,制备出的纳米粒子分散性好、形貌一致、粒径分布集中。样品的X射线衍射光谱分析表明,随着前驱体煅烧温度增加,晶体粒径增大、结晶度提高;样品的紫外-可见吸收光谱的峰位随粒径减小而发生蓝移,这一实验结果表明ZnO纳米晶体呈现出较明显的量子限域效应;红外吸收光谱测量结果表明,用沉淀法制备的ZnO纳米晶体的表面会吸附一小部分残余的离子,对红外吸收光谱中的ZnO特征振动峰随粒径减小发生宽化和红移的现象进行了理论分析;光致发光光谱测量结果表明,ZnO纳米晶体在紫外区(360 nm)存在一较弱的发光峰,而在可见区(468 nm)存在一较强的发光峰,与理论计算结果进行比较后,认为锌空位点缺陷是导致ZnO纳米晶体可见区发光的主要原因。     

纳米氧化锌粉体的制备及发光性质的研究

采用沉淀法制备纳米ZnO粉体，探讨了晶粒尺寸与反应浓度和热处理温度的关系，并对所得到的纳米ZnO粉体的发光性质进行了研究，对不同温度热处理的样品的发光性质做了比较。ZnO的可见发光机制的解释一直未有定论。一部分作者认为绿光是由氧空位引起的；另一部分认为是锌空位造成的。本文的实验结果揭示了可见发光的内部过程，肯定了双声子参与的发光过程，支持了绿色是由锌空位造成的这一观点。此外，用230nm以下波长激发样品时，可见发光的行为明显不同于用325nm以上的波长去激发同一样品时的发光情形。实验表明高能激发，样品能发白光，因此，用ZnO做白光二极管是可能实现的。     

花状的氧化锌纳米结构的制备及其光学性能

以氢氧化钠和六水合硝酸锌为反应物,在未使用任何表面活性剂的简单反应体系中制得了玫瑰花状ZnO纳米结构,采用X射线衍射(XRD)、扫描电子显微镜(SEM)和室温荧光光谱对产物的晶体结构、形貌和发光性质进行了表征和分析.测试结果表明,所得产物为六方纤锌矿结构ZnO纳米材料,产物结晶完整,尺寸较均匀.这种简单水热法制备的ZnO纳米材料仅在384nm处具有一个较强的紫外发光峰,而在黄绿区几乎没有发光峰,进一步证明了所得样品结晶良好,没有缺陷和空位.以上结果表明所制备的氧化锌纳米材料具有优异的紫外光发射能力.     

氧和氩等离子辅助电子束蒸发制备高质量ZnO薄膜

采用等离子辅助电子束蒸发技术制备高纯金属锌膜，然后在氧气气氛下经高温热处理得到氧化锌的多晶薄膜。X射线衍射谱的结果表明：未经热氧化样品由金属锌和氧化锌纳米晶组成，随着热氧化温度的升高氧化锌纳米晶粒长大，形成纳米氧化锌多晶薄膜且薄膜结晶性增强；光致发光谱表明：样品均具有较强的紫外自由激子发光。由于未经热氧化样品中氧化锌纳米晶粒较小，具有较强的量子限域效应，因而经高温氧化后样品发光峰有较大红移。随着热氧化温度的进一步升高，束缚激子发射随热氧化温度升高而减弱，且发光峰位随热氧化温度升高出现蓝移；变温光致发光谱表明：紫外发光主要来自自由激子发射。     

二氧化钛阵列的制备及其光学性能

以水热法制备了由纳米棒组成的二氧化钛阵列。通过控制反应时间,对组成阵列的二氧化钛纳米棒的尺寸进行调节。利用扫描电镜和X射线衍射光谱分析了样品的形貌和晶体结构,发现将反应时间由4 h延长至8 h,二氧化钛纳米棒的直径由100 nm增大到200 nm。利用紫外-可见吸收光谱测量了样品的光吸收特性,发现了尺寸效应引起的吸收边和带隙变化,反应时间由4 h延长至8 h,样品带隙由3.09 eV变化至2.97 eV。利用荧光光谱研究样品的光致发光性能,发现了样品的近带边发光(382 nm左右)、自陷激子发光(420 nm左右)、束缚激子发光(456 nm左右)和缺陷能级发光(492 nm左右)。     

ZnO薄膜的分子束外延生长及性能

利用分子束外延(MBE)和氧等离子体源辅助MBE方法分别在Si(100)、GaAs(100)和蓝宝石Al2O3(0001)衬底上用Zn、ZnS或以一定Zn-O化学计量比作缓冲层,改变衬底生长温度和氧压,并在氧气氛下,进行原位退火处理,得到ZnO薄膜。依据X射线衍射(XRD)图,表明样品的结晶性能尚好,且呈c轴择优取向;实验结果表明在不同衬底上生长的ZnO薄膜,由于晶格失配度不同,其衍射峰也有区别。用原子力显微镜(AFM)观测薄膜的表面形貌,为晶粒尺寸约几十纳米的ZnO纳米晶,且ZnO晶粒呈六边形柱状垂直于衬底的表面。采用掠入射X射线反射率法测膜厚。在360nm激发下,样品的发光光谱是峰值为410,510nm的双峰谱,是与样品表面氧缺陷有关的深能级发光。     

CdS半导体纳米晶体高强度激发下光谱特性研究

CdS半导体微晶作为代表性介观材料(mesoscopic material)其光学吸收和发光与量子尺寸效应的关系已经得到广泛研究[1-4],发现随着CdS微晶尺寸减小,CdS本征吸收和发射带呈现显著蓝移.Rossetti等人[3]和Y.Wang等人[4]分别通过对溶胶、沸石、聚合物和玻璃中CdS纳米晶体的光致发光测量研究了发光来源以及发光与尺寸的关系,确定了两个宽带发光分别属于带隙发光(350-500nm)和表面态或缺陷发光(500-700nm).本文首次报道了利用溶胶凝胶方法制备的钠硼硅中纳米尺寸CdS晶体高激发功率条件下的发光光谱测量结果,观察到随激发功率增加发光光谱兰移和线宽明显宽化,讨论了其物理机制.     

Guided-Wave Two-Dimensional Acousto-Optic Scanner Using Proton-Exchanged Lithium Niobate Waveguide

Two-dimensional scanning of a 0.6328 mum guided-light beam has been realized using noncolinear acousto-optic (AO) coplanar Bragg diffraction together with colinear AO guided-mode to substrate radiation-mode conversion in a Z-cut Xpropagation LiNbO3 proton-exchanged (PE) waveguide. The two surface acoustic (SAW) waves utilized are at the center frequencies of 500 and 200 MHz, propagating in the Y and X axes, respectively. Two-dimensional scanning of approximately 720 resolvable light beam spots, namely, 18 40 (horizontal vertical) scanning, has been demonstrated using a light beam of 1.0 mm aperture. The total number of resolvable beam spots can be greatly increased from 720 by simply utilizing SAW transducers of larger bandwidth and a light beam of greater aperture. It should also be possible to significantly increase the diffraction efficiency from 3 % by optimizing the parameters of the PE waveguide and the SAWs.     

Femtosecond Transform-Limited Pulse Generation by Compensating for the Linear Chirp of SPM Spectra in Dispersion Shifted Fibers

A simple technique of pulse compression, based on the linear chirp compensation of self-phase modulation (SPM) spectra in dispersion shifted fibers, is demonstrated. The optimization procedure is carried out, for a short span of a single-mode fiber, using a parabolic law, which describes the behavior of the squared output pulse width versus the pump peak power in the case of Gaussian pulses. The experimental results give a minimum pulse duration of 233 fs, which is in good agreement with the model. Shorter and coherent pulses, down to 90 fs, have been obtained by inserting an interference filter at the optical output.     

Hybrid Wavelength and Code Division Multiple Access in Optical Networks

A review of schemes for multiple access in fiber optic networks shows that a hybrid of wavelength and code division multiple access (WCDMA) combines the best features of both. In particular, the hybrid scheme retains the large information carrying capacity of wavelength division multiple access (WDMA) and flexibility of code division multiple access (CDMA). In this paper WDMA, optical CDMA (OCDMA), and WCDMA networks are discussed. In OCDMA networks, concept of incoherent and coherent coding including inverse decoding and matched filter is introduced. The delay performance of both WDMA and WCDMA networks, under the simple suboptimum access protocols based on cyclic search, is computed. It has been shown quantitatively that tuning delay significantly affects the delay performance of both WDMA and WCDMA networks. Futhermore, delay performance of WCDMA networks is always better than the WDMA networks for the same tuning delay, load, and number of users.     

Effect ofγ-radiation on the spectral luminescence characteristics of impure cadmium tungstate crystals

Results of a study of the effect of γ-radiation on the spectral luminescence properties of cadmium tungstate crystals doped with silver, bismuth, and molybdenum cations are presented. Spectral characteristics of the nondnnnoped crystals are briefly described. Absorption and photo and X-ray luminescence spectra of the crystals taken before and after exposure to γ-radiation (5.5·10⁴ Gy) are compared. It is found that the spectral characteristics of the crystals doped with silver, bismuth, and molybdenum cations do not change markedly after the exposure. The relation between the type of impurity-induced defects, individual characteristics of the impurity cations, and the character of the effect of γ-radiation on the spectral luminescence properties of impure crystals is analyzed (preliminarily). Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 55–60, January–February, 1997.     

Sorting of bending magnets for the SSRF booster

The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility(SSRF)booster ring,a full energy injector for the storage ring,is deigned to accelerate the electron beam energy from 150MeV to 3.5GeV that demands high extraction efficiency at the extraction energy with low beam loss rate when electrons are ramping.Closed orbit distortion(COD)caused by bending magnet field uniformity errors which affects the machine performance harmfully could be effectively reduced by bending magnet location sorting.Considering the affections of random errors in measurement,both ideal sorting and realistic sorting are studied based on measured bending magnet field uniformity errors and one reasonable combination of bending magnets which can reduce the horizontal COD by a factor of 5is given as the final installation sequence of the booster bending magnets in this paper.     

Measurement of nonlinear coefficient of optical fiber based on small chirped soliton transmission

We measure the waveform and phase curves of short optical pulses before and after transmission over different lengths of fibers by use of the pulse analyzer with the frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG),and numerically simulate pulse evolution under the experimental conditions.The nonlinear coefficient of the fiber is given by comparing the experimental results with the numerical ones.Difference between the experiment and numerical simulation is analyzed.     

Resonance scattering of canonical elastic shells in absorbing fluid medium

Resonance scattering of elastic spherical shell and cylindrical shell while the surrounding fluid medium has absorption is studied. The normal mode solution derived using exact elastic theory and the separation of variables is still applicable. However, the scattering form function has to be modified for the absorbing medium, otherwise the unreasonable result would be obtained. The backscattering form function in the absorbing medium is redefined, and the form function of elastic spherical and cylindrical shell with vacuum or solid matter filled is calculated in various absorption conditions. The results show that the absorption of surrounding fluid leads to notable attenuation of the coincidence resonances in the mid-frequency, but it has a little influence on the low-frequency resonance scattering induced by the filler inside the shell.     

Single-beam self-referenced phase-sensitive surface plasmon resonance sensor with high detection resolution

A versatile and low-cost single-beam self-referenced phase-sensitive surface plasmon resonance(SPR)sensing system with ultra-high resolution performance is presented.The system exhibits a root-mean-square phase fluctuation of ±0.0028.over a period of 45 min.i.e.a resolution of±5.2×10-9 refractive index units.The enhanced performance has been achieved through the incorporation of three design elements:a true single-beam configuration enabling complete self-referencing so that only the phase change associated with SPR gets detected,a differential measurement scheme to eliminate spurious signals not related to the sensor response,and the elimination of retardation drifts by incorporating temperature stabilization in the liquid crystal phase modulato .Our design should bring the detection sensitivity of non-labeling SPR biosensing closer to that achievable by conventional fluorescence-based techniques.     

Influences of SiO2 protective layers and annealing on the laser-induced damage threshold of Ta2O5 films

Ta2O5 films are prepared on BK7 substrates with conventional electron beam evaporation deposition.The effects of SiO2 protective layers and annealing on the laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT) of the films are investigated.The results show that SiO2 protective layers exert little influence on the electric field intensity(EFI)distribution,microstructure and microdefect density but increase the absorption slightly.Annealing iS effective on decreasing the microdefect density and the absorption of the films.Both SiO2 protective layers and annealing are beneficial to the damage resistance of the films and the latter is more effective to improve the LIDT.Moreover,the maximal LIDT of Ta2O5 films is achieved by the combination of SiO2 protective layers and annealing.