A three‐crystal spectrometer for high‐energy resolution fluorescence‐detected X‐ray absorption spectroscopy and X‐ray emission spectroscopy at SSRF

A Johann‐type spectrometer for the study of high‐energy resolution fluorescence‐detected X‐ray absorption spectroscopy, X‐ray emission spectroscopy and resonant inelastic X‐ray scattering has been developed at BL14W1 X‐ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy beamline of Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility. The spectrometer consists of three crystal analyzers mounted on a vertical motion stage. The instrument is scanned vertically and covers the Bragg angle range of 71.5–88°. The energy resolution of the spectrometer ranges from sub‐eV to a few eV. The spectrometer has a solid angle of about 1.87 × 0^?3 of 4π sr, and the overall photons acquired by the detector could be 10⁵ counts per second for the standard sample. The performances of the spectrometer are illustrated by the three experiments that are difficult to perform with the conventional absorption or emission spectroscopy. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Enhanced Efficiency of Polymer Light-Emitting Diodes by Dispersing Dehydrated Nanotube Titanic Acid in the Hole-buffer Layer

Efficiency of polymer light-emitting diodes (PLEDs) with poly(2-methoxy-5-(2-ethyl hexyloxy)-p-phenylene vinylene) (MEH-PPV) as an emitting layer was improved if a dehydrated nanotubed titanic acid (DNTA) doped hole-buffer layer polyethylene dioxythiophene (PEDOT) was used. Photoluminescence (PL) and Raman spectra indicated a stronger interaction between DNTA and sulfur atom in thiophene of PEDOT, which suppresses the chemical interaction between vinylene of MEH-PPV and thiophene of PEDOT. The interaction decreases the defect states in an interface region to result in enhancement in device efficiency, even though the hole transporting ability of PEDOT was decreased.     

Inverse Filter of Chaos with Applications on Parameter Estimation

Linear filter may hide simple nonlinearity of chaotic dynamics, which would decrease the accuracy of parameter estimation, and reduce the effect of signal processing. Based on theoretical and experimental analysis, this paper provides a method to recover the dynamics. An example of radar data proves that the dynamics hidden in observed data can be found by inverse filter of chaos. It is also pointed out that inverse filter of chaos can be applied to mine inner regulation of some time series and estimate parameters of nonlinear models in data processing for radar. And the method is significant to clutter modeling.     

Complex-enhanced chaotic signals with time-delay signature suppression based on vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers subject to chaotic optical injection

A chaotic system is constructed on the basis of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), where a slave VCSEL subject to chaotic optical injection (COI) from a master VCSEL with the external feedback. The complex degree (CD) and time-delay signature (TDS) of chaotic signals generated by this chaotic system are investigated numerically via permutation entropy (PE) and self-correlation function (SF) methods, respectively. The results show that, compared with master VCSEL subject to optical feedback, complex-enhanced chaotic signals with TDS suppression can be achieved for S-VCSEL subject to COI. Meanwhile, the influences of several controllable parameters on the evolution maps of CD of chaotic signals are carefully considered. It is shown that the CD of chaotic signals for S-VCSEL is always higher than that for M-VCSEL due to the CIO effect. The TDS of chaotic signals can be significantly suppressed by choosing the reasonable parameters in this system. Furthermore, TDS suppression and high CD chaos can be obtained simultaneously in the specific parameter ranges. The results confirm that this chaotic system may effectively improve the security of a chaos-based communication scheme.     

锰/磷、钛/磷二元团簇的激光溅射产生与光解

利用激光溅射法直接产生了锰／磷、钛／磷二元团簇正、负离子MxPy^±(M=Mn、Ti） ,并用串级飞行时间质谱仪研究了团簇离子的组成与激光光解规律。实验表明钛与磷间成簇的能力强于锰与磷间成簇的能力,且MPy^+(M=Ti、Mn)团簇离子系列表现出峰强度了胡所含磷原子数目的奇偶性变化,这可能与P4结构的特殊稳定性有关。激光光解实验表明,失去中性P2、P4的通道为主要光解通道。随着团簇离子的生长,锰／磷团簇正离子逐渐由富磷簇向富金属簇过渡,钛／磷则趋向于形成钛原子数目与磷原子数目接近相等的团簇正离子,而二者与磷形成的团簇负离子MxPy^-(M=Mn、Ti) 逐渐趋向于x ≈ y,随样品中磷含量增加,锰／磷易形成富磷簇,钛／磷的组成趋向不改变。     

Study of the d-f Emission,and f-d Ground-State and Excited-State Absorption of Nd3+ in Crystals Using the Simple Model

The simplified model for 4f-5d transitions is applied to obtain the line strengths for emission, ground-state absorption and excited states absorption involving 4f-5d transitions of Nd³⁺ in crystals. The results are host independent for the usual case where 5d crystal-field interaction can be considered as strong, in the sense that the calculated 5d-4f emission relative line strengths will be the same for Nd³⁺ in any host. Also the calculated 4f-5d absorption line strengths can be grouped by the 5d crystal-field components. For each 5d crystal-field component, the group of absorption line strengths for different 4f²5d transition final states forms a pattern independent of the 5d crystal-field component and the host. For practical cases, due to strong but still limited 5d crystal-field splitting, the transitions to different 5d crystal-field components may overlap each other. The theoretical results are used to interpret available experimental data.     

Study of the effect of precipitant on the high-temperature phase stability of SrO-ZrO2 prepared by n-butanol soft-template method

SrO doped zirconia (20%) was synthesized by n-butanol soft-template method using both NaOH and ammonia solution as precipitants. The high-temperature phase stability was investigated following further heat treatment at 1000°C for 2 h. XRD and Raman spectra were used to characterize the crystal form of zirconia. In addition, TEM was used to characterize the dispersibility of SrO doped zirconia. The results indicated that the concentration of OH^? introduced into the ZrO₂ lattice was the main factor controlling the crystal form of nanosized zirconia. The NaOH solution precipitant could improve the dispersibility of SrO doped t-ZrO₂, and could also prevent the phase transformation of zirconia from t-ZrO₂ to m-ZrO₂ effectively.     

Microplasma Technology and Its Applications in Analytical Chemistry

Abstract

This review article describes some existing microplasma sources and their applications in analytical chemistry. These microplasmas mainly include direct current glow discharge (DC), microhollow-cathode discharge (MHCD) or microstructure electrode (MSE), dielectric barrier discharge (DBD), capacitively coupled microplasmas (CCμPs), miniature inductively coupled plasmas (mICPs), and microwave-induced plasmas (MIPs). The historical development and recent advances in these microplasma techniques are presented. Fundamental properties of the microplasmas, the unique features of the reduced size and volume, as well as the advantageous device structures for chemical analysis are discussed in detail, with the emphasis toward detection of gaseous samples. The analytical figures of merit obtained using these microplasmas as molecular/elemental-selective detectors for emission spectrometry and as ionization sources for mass spectrometry are also given in this review article.     

Coherent spectroscopy of a strongly driven triple quantum dot molecule

Based on a calculation model,we study the interference phenomena of serially coupled V-type and Λ-type triple quantum dots (CTQDs) driven simultaneously by a strong driving field and a weak probe field.Strongly depending on the configuration of the three-level CTQD,the probe absorption spectra,which are shown in the tunneling current,exhibit various quantum coherence properties.In the case where the two pairs of transitions of the CTQD have a small eigenfrequency difference △ω,the double-coupling effect of the driving field results in two Autler-Townes doublets and one weak Mollow triplet in one spectrum.With the value of △ω increasing,only one Autler-Townes splitting remains due to the single-coupling of the field.We also find that the effect of spontaneous emission of phonons may lead to an obvious background current,which can be used to distinguish which transition is driven by the driving field in experiment.The interesting quantum property of a CTQD revealed in our results suggests its potential applications in quantum modulators and quantum logic devices.     

InOOH压致氢键对称化及其弹性性质

利用第一性原理研究了InOOH在高压下的氢键对称化行为及其对InOOH弹性等性质的影响.结果表明约在18 GPa时InOOH中的氢键发生了对称化转变,导致轴比率b/c对压力的斜率由负值变为正值;压缩弹性常数、非对角弹性常数、体积模量和纵波波速出现异常增加,如体积模量增加了20%—40%.高压下InOOH弹性性质呈现出更加明显的各向异性.常压下InOOH呈现韧性,且伴随着氢键对称化韧性异常增加.对畸变金红石型MOOH(M=Al,In,Ga,Fe,Cr)化合物在高压下的弹性性质转变与氢键性质转变的耦合规律进行了初探.