Facile method for CLSM imaging unfunctionalized Au nanoparticles through fluorescent channels

The microscopic visualization of metal nanoparticles has become a useful tool for the investigation of their applications in cell labeling and the study of their bio-effects. In the current study, we have developed a facile method with confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM) to observe unfunctionalized Au nanoparticles through fluorescent channels. The sharp reflected signal and photostable property of the metal nanoparticles makes the present method very ideal for fluorescent co-localization, real-time imaging, and further quantitative analysis. Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Lan Yuan and Wei Wei contributed equally to this study.     

Performance of dispersed Rayleigh interferometer on the active cophasing and alignment testbed

We report the laboratory experiment on a segmented mirror testbed that shows the use of a dispersed Rayleigh interferometer to phase segmented mirrors.Segment alignment of tip-tilt is fulfilled by overlapping diffraction pattern centroids of the three individual segments on the focal plane.A spherical interferometer is introduced to evaluate the performance of piston, tip-tilt sensing, and control closed-loop, and finally a total residual root-mean-square (RMS) surface error of about 45 nm is achieved, in which a typical error of about 20 nm is contributed by piston.These results demonstrate that the dispersed Rayleigh interferometer can successfully sense the piston of segmented mirrors and be used in phasing segmented telescopes under extensive studies.     

Thermal entanglement in a mixed-spin Heisenberg XXZ model under a nonuniform external magnetic field

The thermal entanglement in (1/2,1) mixed-spin Heisenberg XXZ model is investigated under an external nonuniform magnetic field. In the uniform magnetic field system, the critical magnetic field B _c and critical temperature T _c are increased by increasing the anisotropic parameter k. The degree of magnetic field b plays an important role in improving the critical temperature and enlarging the region of entanglement in the nonuniform magnetic field system.     

A stable BaCeO3-based proton conductor for solid oxide fuel cells

In order to improve the chemical stability of BaCeO₃, Ti⁴⁺ was introduced into B site of BaCeO₃ to modify the chemical stability. XRD test demonstrates that \textBaC\texte_0.6\textT\texti_0.2\textY_0.2\textO_{3 - d} {\text{BaC}}{{\text{e}}_{0.6}}{\text{T}}{{\text{i}}_{0.2}}{{\text{Y}}_{0.2}}{{\text{O}}_{3 - \delta }} (BCTY) keeps its original pervoskite-type structure at a high doping level of 20%. After exposure in 94% N₂ + 3% CO₂ + 3% H₂O at 700 °C for 10 h, BCTY exhibited adequate chemical stability while decomposition was found in \textBaC\texte_0.8\textY_0.2\textO_{3 - d} {\text{BaC}}{{\text{e}}_{0.8}}{{\text{Y}}_{0.2}}{{\text{O}}_{3 - \delta }} (BCY). Accordingly, the conductivity of BCTY reaches 0.0072 S/cm at 700 °C in humidified hydrogen which is a little lower than BCY (0.0085). Besides, BCTY displayed better sintering characteristics than BCY at high temperatures and the relative density reaches 96.4% and 94.8%, respectively. The two samples also exhibited similar thermal expansion behavior from 30 to 1,000 °C. A fuel cell with BCTY as electrolyte exhibited 244 mW/cm² at 700 °C and the stable short-term performance further proved the stability of BCTY.     

He-BH碰撞体系微分截面的理论计算

用公认精确的密耦近似方法计算了入射能量从25至150 meV时,He原子与基态BH分子碰撞的弹性微分截面、非弹性微分截面和总微分截面,进一步讨论了微分截面的变化趋势及特征.计算结果表明：He-BH碰撞体系的总微分截面具有原子与双原子分子散射的一般规律和特征;随着入射能量的增加,低转动激发态-态微分截面在大角区的散射振荡现象会更加明显. 关键词： He-BH复合物 相互作用势 密耦近似 微分截面     

多光束激光外差高精度测量玻璃厚度的方法

利用基于激光外差测量技术和激光多普勒技术的非接触式多光束激光外差测量方法,得到了光电探测器输出电流的谐波表达式.讨论了该测量方法用于玻璃厚度超精密测量的可行性及理论依据,并利用Matlab软件对不同情况进行了仿真实验.结果表明：该方法在不同入射角时测量平板玻璃厚度最大的误差为0.3%,明显比其他测量方法精度高. 关键词： 外差探测 多光束激光外差 激光多普勒技术 非接触式测量     

非晶/结晶共混对聚合物光伏电池性能的影响

以局域规整聚（3-己基噻吩） （P3HT）制备了TiO₂/聚合物型双层结构光伏电池.利用稳态电流-电压测试和动态强度调制光电压谱,结合差热分析、吸收光谱和荧光光谱, 研究了非晶支化聚亚乙基亚胺（BPEI）作为P3HT膜层的添加成分对TiO₂/P3HT双层电池性能的影响.由于P3HT链的高结晶性,使得TiO₂/P3HT界面接触不好,导致电池性能差.当在P3HT中共混重量比W_BPEI/P3HT=1％—5％的BPEI时,电池性能得到显著改善;尤其是当W_BPEI/P3HT= 1％时,电池表现出近0.8V的开路电压和20μA/cm²的短路电流.结果表明BPEI对电池性能的影响不是源于P3HT-BPEI共混体系光学性能的变化,而主要是由于其改变了TiO₂/P3HT界面接触性能.BPEI对TiO₂/P3HT界面接触有两个相互竞争的影响,这取决于P3HT-BPEI共混体系的组成.一方面,通过降低P3HT的结晶度和增强与TiO₂表面的相互作用,改善P3HT链在TiO₂ 表面的附着;另一方面,当BPEI含量过高时,BPEI在TiO₂表面的附着量将增加,反而会阻碍P3HT与TiO₂表面的接触.良好的TiO₂/P3HT界面接触有利于提高激子的界面分离效率、光生电子的寿命和电池效率.本文结果有望为聚合物光伏电池性能的改善提供新的认识和方法. 关键词： 聚（3-己基噻吩） 二氧化钛 共轭聚合物 光伏电池     

O2分子激发态a1Δg和b1Σ+g态的分析势能函数

以aug-cc-pVQZ,cc-pV5Z,6-311++g（d,p）和6-311++g（3df,3pd）等为基函数,采用多组态相互作用（MRCI）方法对O₂分子最低的两个激发态¹Δ_g和¹Σ⁺_g的平衡结构、谐振频率和势能曲线进行了计算.并选用Murrell-Sorbie势能函数对曲线进行拟合,利用拟合的参数值计算出了力常数和光谱数据.结果表明计算值与实验值符合较好. 关键词： MRCI 势能函数 力常数 光谱数据     

Structural and physical properties of ZnO:Al films grown on glass by direct current magnetron sputtering with the oblique target

ZnO:Al films were deposited on glass substrates at 300 K and 673 K by direct current magnetron sputtering with the oblique target. The Ar pressure was adjusted to 0.4 Pa and 1.2 Pa, respectively. All the films have a wurtzite structure and grow with a c-axis orientation in the film growth direction. The films grow mainly with columnar grains perpendicular to the substrate and some granular grains also exist in the films. The film deposited at 673 K and 0.4 Pa has the largest grains whereas that prepared at 300 K and 0.4 Pa consists of the smallest grains and is porous. The films exhibit an n-type semiconducting behavior at room temperature. The ZnO:Al film deposited at 673 K and 0.4 Pa has the lowest resistivity (3.40 × 10⁻³ Ω cm), the highest free electron concentration (4.63 × 10²⁰ cm⁻³) and a moderate Hall mobility (4.0 cm² V⁻¹ s⁻¹). The film deposited at 300 K and 0.4 Pa has the highest resistivity and the lowest free electron concentration and Hall mobility. A temperature dependence of the resistivity reveals that the carrier transport mechanism is Mott’s variable range hopping in the temperature region below 100 K and thermally activated band conduction above 215 K. The activation energy for the film deposited at 300 K and 0.4 Pa is 41 meV and that for the other films is about 35 meV. All the films have an average optical transmittance of over 85% in the visible wavelength range. The absorption edge of the film deposited at 300 K and 0.4 Pa shifts to the longer wavelength (redshift) relative to the films prepared under the other conditions.     

Spectrally selective splitters with metal-dielectric-metal surface plasmon waveguides

Spectrally selective splitters with metal-dielectric-metal (MDM) subwavelength waveguides are proposed in this paper. The method is based on the Bragg grating structure with periodically modulated MDM waveguide width, which delivers a stop band effect for the surface plasmon propagating in the waveguide. By adding appropriate Bragg grating structure in one or more arms of the waveguide splitters, light in a certain frequency range can be readily guided into the desired directions, as demonstrated numerically by the finite-difference time-domain method. Dependence and optimization of the geometrical parameters are also considered in this paper.