Molecular structure and theoretical studies of new stable phosphorus ylides derived from trialkyl phosphites

The reaction between dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates and NH heterocyclic compounds in the presence of trialkyl phosphite leads to stable phosphorus ylide derivatives in good yields. The x‐ray crystallographic data and theoretical study show that there is a resonance between two bonds of C₉P₁ and C₉₁O₉₁ in phosphorous ylide 4c . This compound crystallizes in the triclinic system, space group ( ), with the following unit cell parameters: a = 8.7522(3)Å, b = 8.8513(5)Å, c = 18.3469(5)Å, α = 99.1220(10)°, β = 90.954(2)°, γ = 118.792(2)°, Z = 2, and V = 1222.72(9)ų. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Heteroatom Chem 22:36–43, 2011; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com . DOI 10.1002/hc.20653     

Performance Improvement in Fiber-Optic Spectrometers Using Photonic Crystal Fibers

Abstract

Resolution enhancement of a high-speed fiber-optic spectrometer is investigated in this article. The operation of these types spectrometers is based on conversion of the spectral-domain signal into the time domain by a dispersive element. A photonic crystal fiber is used as a dispersive fiber in this spectrometer. Resolution enhancement of considered spectrometer with photonic crystal fibers is studied. The fiber loss and length minimization in this spectrometer are obtained. Simulation results show that an increase in resolution will cause a decrease in the speed of the spectrometer. Trade offs between resolution and speed are studied.     

Novel Design Method for Single-Mode Bend-Insensitive Fiber Appropriate for Fiber-to-the-Home Application

Abstract

A proposal for a new single-mode optical fiber design technique with ultra-low bending loss applicable in fiber-to-the-home operation is presented. The suggested design method is based on reverse problem engineering, which evaluates the refractive index profile. The most remarkable feature of this methodology is designing a bend-insensitive fiber without core radius and mode field diameter reductions. The designed structures exhibit ultra-low bending loss and high effective area simultaneously. Meanwhile, the residual stress of the designed structures is small due to gradual variation of the refractive index in the core region. Simulation results show a bending loss of 4.3 × 10^?4 dB/turn at 1.55 μm for a single turn of 5-mm radius.     

Light extraction efficiency enhancement in organic light emitting diodes based on optimized multilayer structures

The main focus of this study is to improve the light extraction efficiency, as well as directionality of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) using multi-layer structures between Indium tin Oxide (ITO) and glass layers in a typical OLED. In conventional OLEDs, only about half of the light generated in the emission zone can reach to the glass substrate due to refractive index mismatch in ITO (n = 1.8?i0.01)/glass (n = 1.51) interface. The main attempt is to reduce the share of total internal reflection (TIR) and hence, the effect of different structures such as Thue-Morse and Fibonacci have been investigated and optimized with suitable layer thickness and materials based on Transfer Matrix Method (TMM). The most effective Multi-layer structures have been added to conventional OLED and have been analyzed the extraction efficiency using Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method. Results show large enhancement of extraction efficiency (about 40%) in ITO/glass interface. Using this idea and applying micro-lenses array to glass substrate at the same time, one can get even higher extraction efficiency in OLED. The interesting aspect of this project is its easy fabrication process in order to commercialize the product with highest extraction efficiency and low fabrication cost.     

M-type atomic basic cell as a low intensity long wavelength infrared photodetector

A five-level atomic system in M-type configuration has been proposed in this article as a long-wavelength infrared photodetector cell. Coherent population trapping and electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is appeared in this kind of atomic structure. In order to overcome the dark current noise problem in the long-wavelength infrared photodetectors, we utilize quantum interference phenomena between the electromagnetic fields and interpret the incoming long-wavelength to short-wavelength detection range, where the dark current noise is not critical. The proposed M-type-arranged atomic system, have high performance in lower intensities of long-wavelength IR which is more interesting from high-sensitive photodetector point of view.     

Linear frequency-doubling in dual Mid-IR-wavelength quantum cascade laser active region

In this paper we have proposed a novel quantum cascade laser active region design to obtain a dual-mid-IR-wavelength laser which is capable of frequency-doubling (13.77–6.88 μm) without utilizing nonlinear processes in two coupled shallow and deep quantum well structures. Optimized design of the active region leads to higher dipole matrix elements and thus higher laser performances. This method can be used to design laser structures with different frequency ratios.     

Novel and Highly Effective Method for the Trimethylsilylation of Alcohols and Phenols with Hexamethyldisilazane (HMDS), Catalyzed by I2 Generated in situ Using Fe(NO3)3⋅9 H2O/NaI under Heterogeneous and Neutral Conditions

Structurally diverse alcohols and phenols were trimethylsilylated in a clean and efficient reaction with hexamethyldisilazane (HMDS) based on the use of I₂ generated in situ from Fe(NO₃)₃?9 H₂O/NaI. The reaction occurs very rapid in good‐to‐high yield in CH₂Cl₂ at room temperature, and the use of toxic and corrosive molecular I₂ is avoided.     

High efficiency solar cells using quantum interferences

In this paper, we propose a solar cell model that absorbs specific band of sunlight and investigate the effect of noise–induced quantum coherence in enhancing the output power of this cell. We numerically demonstrate that such induced coherence can increase the maximum output power from a nano structured solar cell by more than 25% as compared to the same system with no coherence. We also study the influence of increasing the bandwidth of absorption on the solar cell power and numerically show that in spite of decrease in output power due to enhancement of thermalisation loss, presence of quantum coherence effect still increases the output power of solar cell compared to non-coherence case.     

Demagnetizing fields of crystallites and a method for measuring the thermodynamic fields of quasi-single-crystal and polycrystalline thin YBa2Cu3O7 − x disks

The role of the demagnetizing fields of crystallites in HTSC samples is studied. An increase in the crystallite size is shown to suppress the intra-and intercrystalline critical currents of the sample in lower fields. The demagnetizing fields of crystallites are shown to be one of the main causes of the fact that the Bean model is invalid for HTSC samples. A method is proposed to measure the thermodynamic field of a superconductor; this method allows the first thermodynamic critical magnetic fields of the sample and its crystallites and “subcrystallites” to be measured with a high accuracy. The first thermodynamic critical magnetic fields are used to estimate the critical current density J _c of the sample, crystallites, and subcrystallites.     

Highly enhanced second-order nonlinear susceptibilities in tailored GaN-AlGaN-AlN quantum well structures

A tailoring proposal for design of the strained quantum well structures, optimized with respect to the intersubband resonant second-order nonlinear properties, is presented in this article. A genetic-algorithm-based method is used in order to obtain the optimal potential shape, doping concentration and location in strained GaN-AlGaN-AlN quantum wells, and the structures are analyzed by a numerical solution of the Schrödinger-Poisson self-consistent method. In general form two types of asymmetric structures with remarkable results are obtained with different resonant frequencies, and in both cases results show a considerably high enhancement in the magnitude of the second-order nonlinear susceptibilities in higher resonant frequencies in comparison with a single quantum well structure with the same well width (5.02×10⁻⁸ m/V at to 2.9×10⁻⁵ m/V at and 2.43×10⁻⁵ m/V at ). The optimized structures exhibit considerable absorption coefficient and electroabsorption properties due to high dipole transition matrix element, high dopant concentration and reasonable Fermi level.