Electronic transport properties of carbon chains between Au and Ag electrodes: A first-principles study

We report first-principles calculations of the current-voltage characteristic and the conductance of carbon-based molecular wires with different length capped with sulfur ends between two metallic electrodes made of different metals. The optimized molecular structure of carbon chain in the junction is presented on the structure of polyyne. The conductance of the polyyne wires shows oscillatory behavior depending on the number of carbon atoms (triple bonds). Current rectification is found and rectification direction presents inversion with the odd and even number of carbon atoms.     

Electrochemical characterization of LiCoO2 as rechargeable electrode in aqueous LiNO3 electrolyte

The development of lithium ion aqueous batteries is getting renewed interest due to their safety and low cost. We have demonstrated that the layer-structure LiCoO₂ phase, the most commonly used electrode material in organic systems, can be successful delithiated and lithiated again in a water-based electrolyte at currents up to 2.70 A/g. The capacity is about 100 mAh/g at 0.135 A/g and can be tuned by cycling the electrode in different potential ranges. In fact, increasing the high cut-off voltage leads to higher specific capacity (up to 135 mAh/g) but the Coulomb efficiency is reduced (from 99.9% to 98.5%). The very good electrode kinetic is probably due to the high conductivity of the electrolyte solution (0.17 Scm^− 1 at 25 °C) but this behavior is affected by the electrode load.     

Intracavity frequency doubling of an active Q-switched Nd:YAG laser with 2.25 W output power at 473 nm

An active Q-switched diode-end-pumped Nd:YAG laser is reported with 2.9 W output power on the ⁴F_3/2 → ⁴I_9/2 transitions at a pump power of 24 W. With intracavity frequency doubling using a 20-mm-long LBO, a maximum blue output power of 2.25 W is achieved at a repetition rate of 23 kHz. The conversion efficiency from the corresponding Q-switched fundamental output to blue output is 96%. The peak power of the Q-switched blue pulse is up to 610 W with 160 ns pulse width. The fluctuation of the blue output power is less than 4.0% at the maximum output power.     

应力导致InAs/In0.15Ga0.85As量子点结构中 In0.15Ga0.85As阱层的合金分解效应研究

利用固源分子束外延技术,在In0.15Ga0.85As/GaAs量子阱生长了两个InAs/In0.15Ga0.85As量子点(DWELL)样品.通过改变其中一个InAs DWELL样品中的In0.15Ga0.85As阱层的厚度和生长温度,获得了量子点尺寸增大而且尺寸分布更均匀的结果.结合光致发光光谱(PL)和压电调制光谱(PzR)实验结果,发现该样品量子点的光学性质也同时得到了极大的优化.基于有效质量近似的数值计算结果表明:量子点后生长过程中应力导致In0.15Ga0.85As阱层合金分解机理是导致量子点尺寸和光学性质得到优化的主要原因.     

Study of the behaviour of the fibre Bragg grating fabricated with cladding mode suppression fibre

One effective method for suppression of coupling from guided optical modes into cladding modes in an optical fibre Bragg grating is to use cladding mode suppression fibre. In this specially engineered fibre, the grating is written into the core and the inner cladding, both of which are photosensitive. A theory is presented in this paper to analyse the spectral characteristics of this kind of gratings. A fibre Bragg grating was experimentally fabricated with this kind of photosensitive fibre (PS-RMS-50 from StockerYale). It is shown both theoretically and experimentally that such gratings exhibit strong suppression of the coupling between core mode and cladding mode. The experimental result is in good agreement with the theoretical analysis.     

Dependence of the laser-induced voltages on the oxygen content in normal state YBa2Cu3O7−δ films

Our investigation on the relation between oxygen content and the laser-induced voltages of the YBa₂Cu₃O_7−δ films in normal-state shows that deoxygenation of the superconducting films reduces the laser-induced voltages greatly, even reverses the sign of the signals at large oxygen deficiency. The absolute value of the negative signal at large oxygen deficiency can be greater than that of the positive signal.     

辐射加热金X光再发射时间测量

利用星光Ⅱ三倍频激光打双盘靶，研究了辐射加热材料的Ｘ光发射时间。激光脉冲能量４０～６０Ｊ、脉冲宽度６００～７００ｐｓ。通过两台时间关联的亚千Ｘ光能谱仪分别监测双盘靶初、次级发射Ｘ光谱，给出了辐射加热次级Ｘ光再发射时间。     

用乒乓球化解浮力教学中的两个难点

1 实验:浮力方向总是竖直向上的 在初中物理浮力的教学中,浮力的方向总是竖直向上的,教材中没有专门的实验直观显示,学生虽能理解浮力的方向是向上的.但理解浮力方向总是竖直向上的就有一定困难.     

Clustering diagnosis of rolling element bearing fault based on integrated Autoregressive/Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity model

Feature extraction plays an important role in the clustering analysis. In this paper an integrated Autoregressive (AR)/Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (ARCH) model is proposed to characterize the vibration signal and the model coefficients are adopted as feature vectors to realize clustering diagnosis of rolling element bearings. The main characteristic is that the AR item and ARCH item are interrelated with each other so that it can depict the excess kurtosis and volatility clustering information in the vibration signal more accurately in comparison with two-stage AR/ARCH model. To testify the correctness, four kinds of bearing signals are adopted for parametric modeling by using the integrated and two-stage AR/ARCH model. The variance analysis of the model coefficients shows that the integrated AR/ARCH model can get more concentrated distribution. Taking these coefficients as feature vectors, K means based clustering is utilized to realize the automatic classification of bearing fault status. The results show that the proposed method can get more accurate results in comparison with two-stage model and discrete wavelet decomposition.     

2277-W continuous-wave diode-pumped heat capacity laser

A high power continuous-wave (CW) diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser operated in heat capacity mode is demonstrated by use of two identical highly efficient diode-pumped laser heads placed in a plane-plane resonator. The laser heads are uniformly pumped with a five-fold symmetrical side-pumping configuration,and each head is able to output maximum output power of 2200 W at 808 nm. Under a total pump power of 4290 W, the output power of the laser at 1064 nm is up to 2277 W, corresponding to an optical-to-optical efficiency of 53.1%.