掺杂蓝青铜的低频电压噪声研究

通过对掺杂蓝青铜的低频宽带噪声(BBN)的研究,发现在掺杂样品中杂质和缺陷能大大的加强低频电压噪声,并且噪声的幅度、波形又强烈地与单晶在冷却过程中的初始电流状态有关,从而揭示出电荷密度波的宽带噪声可能来自于样品中宏观缺陷的微观实质。 关键词：     

Noise-created bistability and stochastic resonance of impurities diffusing in a semiconductor layer

We investigate the dynamics of impurities walking along a semiconductor layer assisted by thermal noise of strength D and external harmonic potential V(x). Applying a nonhomogeneous hot temperature in the vicinity of the potential minimum may modify the external potential into a bistable effective potential. We propose the ways of mobilizing and eradicating the unwanted impurities along the semiconductor layer. Furthermore, the thermally activated rate of hopping for the impurities as a function of the model parameters is studied in high barrier limit. Via two state approximation, we also study the stochastic resonance (SR) of the impurities dynamics where the same noise source that induces the dynamics also induces the transition from mono-stable to bistable state which leads to SR in the presence of time varying field.     

用于探测生物芯片的制冷型ICCD系统

利用光锥耦合的ICCD系统探测荧光染料标记的生物芯片,并对CCD芯片和像增强器制冷,以提高探测灵敏度。基于实验分析结果,指出背景噪声的主要来源为杂散光和生物芯片基底所发的荧光,指出用镜头成像限制了系统探测灵敏度的提高,可采用低荧光物质作为生物芯片的基底对系统加以改进。     

激光诱导击穿光谱技术定量分析SF_6中的痕量O

六氟化硫(SF_6)气体因其优良的绝缘和灭弧性能,被广泛应用于高压绝缘设备中。然而,当存在H_2O和O_2等杂质时,SF_6气体在局部放电等作用下分解成的低氟化物会进一步与杂质发生反应生成稳定的氟硫氧化物和氢化物,使得设备绝缘性能下降,危害电网安全,因此检测和分析SF_6中微水、微氧及其分解产物具有重要意义。采用激光诱导击穿光谱技术测量了SF_6中的痕量O含量。利用CaF2作为窗口材料,解决了窗口材料在不断腐蚀作用下引起的激发能量逐渐衰减以及窗口材料与SF_6气体击穿产物反应引入的污染影响测量结果的问题,消除了由激发条件改变引起的等离子体状态的变化;通过测量不同O含量的SF_6气体激光诱导击穿光谱,结合迭代小波分析对实测光谱进行基线校正和降噪处理,通过定标曲线获得了O元素检测限为38ppm。利用偏最小二乘法建立了稳定的定量分析模型,改善了定量分析模型的稳定性和精度。     

Modulation of noise in submicron GaAs/AlGaAs hall devices by gating

We present a systematic characterization of fluctuations in submicron Hall devices based on GaAs/AlGaAs two-dimensional electron gas heterostructures at temperatures between 1.5 to 60 K. A large variety of noise spectra, from 1/f to Lorentzian, are obtained by gating the Hall devices. The noise level can be reduced by up to several orders of magnitude with a moderate gate voltage of 0.2 V, whereas the carrier density increases less than 60% in the same range. The significant dependence of the Hall noise spectra on temperature and gate voltage is explained in terms of the switching processes related to impurities in n-AlGaAs.     

Strain field due to transition metal impurities in Ni and Pd

The strain field due to body centered substitutional transition metal impurities in Ni and Pd metals are investigated. The calculations are carried out in the discrete lattice model of the metal using Kanzaki lattice static method. The effective ion-ion interaction potential due to Wills and Harrison is used to evaluate dynamical matrix and the impurity-induced forces. The results for atomic displacements due to 3d, 4d and 5d impurities (Fe, Co, Cu, Nb, Mo, Pd, Pt and Au) in Ni and (Fe, Co, Cu, Ni, Nb, Mo, Pt and Au) impurities in Pd are given up to 25 NN’s of impurity and these are compared with the available experimental data. The maximum displacements of 4.6% and 3.8% of 1NN distance are found for NiNb and PdNb alloys respectively, while the minimum displacements of 0.63% and 0.23% of 1NN distance are found for NiFe and PdFe alloys respectively. Except for Cu, the atomic displacements are found to be proportional to the core radii and d state radius. The relaxation energies for 3d impurities are found less than those for 4d and 5d impurities in Ni and Pd metals. Therefore, 3d impurities may easily be solvable in these metals.     

Noise- and inertia-induced inhomogeneity in the distribution of small particles in fluid flows

The dynamics of small spherical neutrally buoyant particulate impurities immersed in a two-dimensional fluid flow are known to lead to particle accumulation in the regions of the flow in which vorticity dominates over strain, provided that the Stokes number of the particles is sufficiently small. If the flow is viewed as a Hamiltonian dynamical system, it can be seen that the accumulations occur in the nonchaotic parts of the phase space: the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser tori. This has suggested a generalization of these dynamics to Hamiltonian maps, dubbed a bailout embedding. In this paper we use a bailout embedding of the standard map to mimic the dynamics of neutrally buoyant impurities subject not only to drag but also to fluctuating forces modeled as white noise. We find that the generation of inhomogeneities associated with the separation of particle from fluid trajectories is enhanced by the presence of noise, so that they appear in much broader ranges of the Stokes number than those allowing spontaneous separation. (c) 2002 American Institute of Physics.     

Effect of quenching on the electrical conductivity of doped KCl crystals

Electrical conductivity and optical absorption of divalent cation and anion doped KCl crystals have been measured before and after quenching from 750 °C. The conductivity after quenching is found to decrease in undoped and cation doped crystals while it increases in the anion doped crystals. This is due to higher coagulation rate of cation impurities as compared to anion impurities. Since the divalent impurities diffuse in the form of impurity-vacancy complexs, the higher mobility of cation vacancies (which form dipoles with divalent cation impurities) accounts for the higher aggregation rate of the cation impurities. The aggregation rate, during annealing after quenching, has also been found to depend on concentration.The author is indebted to Prof. H. N.Bose for helpful discussions. Thanks are also due to Dr. M. L.Mukherjee for providing the crystals.     

A new dust mode in quantum plasmas

By employing the quantum hydrodynamic model for electron–ion–dust plasmas, we derive a dispersion relation for a new dust mode. The latter can appear as a quantum noise in microelectronics, and can be used for diagnostics of charged dust impurities.     

Clusterization of light interstitial impurities and the 1/f noise in metals

The effect of clusterization of light interstitial impurities on the 1/f noise spectrum in metals has been studied by numerical simulation. It is shown that an increase in the intensity of the 1/f noise may serve as an indication of clusterization, and that the shape of the activation energy spectrum can provide information on the character of impurity ordering in the clusters formed.     

Stable nonequilibrium probability densities and phase transitions for meanfield models in the thermodynamic limit

A nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation is derived to describe the cooperative behavior of general stochastic systems interacting via mean-field couplings, in the limit of an infinite number of such systems. Disordered systems are also considered. In the weak-noise limit; a general result yields the possibility of having bifurcations from stationary solutions of the nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation into stable time-dependent solutions. The latter are interpreted as non-equilibrium probability distributions (states), and the bifurcations to them as nonequilibrium phase transitions. In the thermodynamic limit, results for three models are given for illustrative purposes. A model of self-synchronization of nonlinear oscillators presents a Hopf bifurcation to a time-periodic probability density, which can be analyzed for any value of the noise. The effects of disorder are illustrated by a simplified version of the Sompolinsky-Zippelius model of spin-glasses. Finally, results for the Fukuyama-Lee-Fisher model of charge-density waves are given. A singular perturbation analysis shows that the depinning transition is a bifurcation problem modified by the disorder noise due to impurities. Far from the bifurcation point, the CDW is either pinned or free, obeying (to leading order) the Grüner-Zawadowki-Chaikin equation. Near the bifurcation, the disorder noise drastically modifies the pattern, giving a quenched average of the CDW current which is constant. Critical exponents are found to depend on the noise, and they are larger than Fisher's values for the two probability distributions considered.     

Theory of charged impurity scattering in two-dimensional graphene

We review the physics of charged impurities in the vicinity of graphene. The long-range nature of Coulomb impurities affects both the nature of the ground state density profile and graphene’s transport properties. We discuss the screening of a single Coulomb impurity and the ensemble averaged density profile of graphene in the presence of many randomly distributed impurities. Finally, we discuss graphene’s transport properties due to scattering off charged impurities both at low and high carrier density.     

Shot noise and multiple Andreev reflections in d-wave superconductors

We present a theoretical analysis of the shot noise in d-wave/d-wave contacts with arbitrary transparency, including the contribution of multiple Andreev reflections. The multiple charge quanta transferred in these processes are revealed as a huge enhancement of the noise-current ratio at low voltages, which survives for all crystal misorientations. We also show how different ingredients such as nonmagnetic impurities or a magnetic field produce very characteristic hallmarks in the shot noise, which can be used as a further test of the d-wave scenario in superconducting cuprates.     

Nonequilibrium noise as a probe of the Kondo effect in mesoscopic wires

We study the nonequilibrium noise in mesoscopic diffusive wires hosting magnetic impurities. We find that the shot-noise to current ratio develops a peak at intermediate source-drain biases of the order of the Kondo temperature. The enhanced impurity contribution at intermediate biases is also manifested in the effective distribution. The predicted peak represents an increased inelastic scattering rate at the nonequilibrium Kondo crossover.     

Local magnetic ordering of Fe impurities in Pd2MnSn

Mössbauer effect of Fe⁵⁷ embedded as very dilute substitutional impurities in Pd₂MnSn was studied. The impurities are seen to replace the three elements in the alloy. Although the Curie temperature of the alloy is 189K, well below the room temperature, the Mössbauer spectrum recorded at room temperature consisted of two distinct 6-finger magnetic hyperfine spectra and a single unsplit line. One of the 6-finger patterns which corresponds to an internal magnetic field ofH _int=?375 kOe is inferred to arise due to local magnetic coupling of the localized magnetic moments of Fe impurities at the Pd sites with those of the 4 Mn first nearest neighbours of the Fe impurities. The other 6-finger pattern which corresponds to an internal magnetic field ofH _int=?335 kOe is inferred to arise due to the local magnetic coupling of the localized magnetic moments of the Fe impurities at the Sn sites with those of the 6 Mn second nearest neighboours of the Fe impurities. The difference in the internal magnetic fields observed at the Pd and Sn sites in the alloy could be understood qualitatively, on the basis of RKKY theory, as arising due to the different conduction electron polarization contributions to the net internal magnetic field at the Fe impurity sites. The results of the measurements suggest that the localized magnetic moments of Fe⁵⁷ impurities at Pd and Sn sites are antiferromagnetically coupled with the moments of their neighbouring Mn atoms.     

Mobile Dopants in Inhomogeneous Superconductors

We consider a superconductor hosting mobile impurities, which locally change the superconducting transition temperature. The BCS interaction at the impurity is different both in magnitude and in sign from the BCS interaction in the bulk. It is shown that due to the attraction between impurities, they tend to form more condensed state. We also consider the distribution of mobile impurities with local BCS attraction or repulsion at the vicinity of the superconductor–normal metal interface.     

Tuning the effective fine structure constant in graphene: opposing effects of dielectric screening on short- and long-range potential scattering

We reduce the dimensionless interaction strength alpha in graphene by adding a water overlayer in ultrahigh vacuum, thereby increasing dielectric screening. The mobility limited by long-range impurity scattering is increased over 30%, due to the background dielectric constant enhancement leading to a reduced interaction of electrons with charged impurities. However, the carrier-density-independent conductivity due to short-range impurities is decreased by almost 40%, due to reduced screening of the impurity potential by conduction electrons. The minimum conductivity is nearly unchanged, due to canceling contributions from the electron-hole puddle density and long-range impurity mobility. Experimental data are compared with theoretical predictions with excellent agreement.     

Effect of magnetic impurities in chiral <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-wave superconducting nanoloops

The effect of many magnetic impurities in symmetric chiral p-wave superconducting nanoloops is investigated by numerically solving the BdG equations self-consistently. Two magnetic impurities can lead to the appearance of two impurity bound levels close to the Fermi level. The arising bound states can cross the Fermi level at the same impurity strength for the case of two independent midway impurities, while multiple zero-energy states can be obtained at two separated values of impurity strength when two independent edge impurities are present. Moreover, the multiple zero modes can only show up for appropriate relative positions between two edge impurities due to the quantum interference effect. Particularly, for some appropriate strength of two independent midway impurities, the impurity bound levels cross the Fermi level twice with increasing threaded flux, while the multiple zero modes can not emerge in the flux evolution.     

一种高噪声显微图像分割方法研究

传统的图像分割算法在处理高噪声显微图像时,由于背景复杂,很难得到目标完整的区域轮廓。通过对不同图像分割算法的性能进行对比,提出了一种改进的二维最大熵阈值遗传算法结合数学形态学除噪分割的方法。首先用改进的二维最大熵阈值算法结合遗传算法对高噪声显微图像进行粗分割,除去图像中大量的背景噪声,然后运用数学形态学进行细分割,滤除剩余少量杂质和孔洞,提取出目标轮廓。实验结果表明改进的方法较传统分割方法具有更强的抗噪声能力及更快的处理速度,有效地实现了高噪声显微图像的除噪分割。