Highly enhanced luminescence of ZnO green phosphors by calcining ZnS with NH4Br as additive

Zinc oxide (ZnO) phosphors with highly efficient green emission have been prepared by calcining ZnS with NH₄Br as additive in air atmosphere. The luminescent properties of as-prepared ZnO phosphors were characterized by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and photoluminescence. Our results reveal that the green emission is ascribed to a transition of a photo-generated electron from the localized defect centers (V_o⁺) to a deeply trapped hole (V_Zn⁻) within the band gap. The addition of NH₄Br enhances the luminescent emission of ZnO by promoting the formation of vacancies of both oxygen and zinc.     

Generation of 287 W, 5.5 ps pulses at 78 MHz repetition rate from a cryogenically cooled Yb:YAG amplifier seeded by a fiber chirped-pulse amplification system

We generate linearly polarized, 287 W average-power, 5.5 ps pulses using a cryogenically cooled Yb:YAG amplifier at a repetition rate of 78 MHz. An optical-to-optical efficiency of 41% is obtained at 700 W pump power. A 6 W, 0.4 nm bandwidth picosecond seed source at 1029 nm wavelength is constructed using a chirped-pulse fiber amplification chain based on chirped volume Bragg gratings. The combination of a fiber amplifier system and a cryogenically cooled Yb:YAG amplifier results in good spatial beam quality at large average power. Low nonlinear phase accumulation as small as 5.1 x 10(-3) rad in the bulk Yb:YAG amplifier supports power scalability to a > 10 kW level without being affected by self-phase modulation. This amplification system is well suited for pumping high-power high-repetition-rate optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifiers.     

Eigenvalues of Random Power law Graphs

Many graphs arising in various information networks exhibit the "power law" behavior -the number of vertices of degree k is proportional to k^-# for some positive #. We show that if # > 2.5, the largest eigenvalue of a random power law graph is almost surely(1+ o(1))?m (1+ o(1))\sqrt{m} where m is the maximum degree. Moreover, the klargest eigenvalues of a random power law graph with exponent # have power law distribution with exponent 2# if the maximum degree is sufficiently large, where k is a function depending on #, mand d, the average degree. When 2<#< 2.5, the largest eigenvalue is heavily concentrated at cm^3-# for some constant c depending on # and the average degree. This result follows from a more general theorem which shows that the largest eigenvalue of a random graph with a given expected degree sequence is determined by m, the maximum degree, and [(d)\tilde] \tilde{d} , the weighted average of the squares of the expected degrees. We show that the k-th largest eigenvalue is almost surely (1+ o(1))?{m_k} (1+ o(1))\sqrt{m_k} where m_k is the k-th largest expected degree provided m_k is large enough. These results have implications on the usage of spectral techniques in many areas related to pattern detection and information retrieval.     

Fast and precise algorithm based on maximum radial symmetry for single molecule localization

We present an algorithm to estimate the location of single fluorescent molecule with both high speed and high precision. This algorithm is based on finding the subpixel position with maximum radial symmetry in a pixelated single molecule fluorescence image. Compared with conventional algorithms, this algorithm does not rely on point-spread-function or noise model. Through numerical simulation and experimental analysis, we found that this algorithm exhibits localization precision very close to the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE), while executes ～1000 times faster than the MLE and ～6 times faster than the fluoroBancroft algorithm.     

气体扩散方程解析解及在测定分子间势能的应用

设计了一新颖的分子动理论实验装置,根据求解在约束条件下的气体扩散方程的解析解和气体分子在升华时会对容器底部产生作用力的特点,设计了一种新颖简单的实验器材来测量分子间相互作用的势能,其实验曲线符合理论数据,误差分析后的补偿曲线所得结果可较为精确地与理论结果吻合。本实验常温下即可进行,且精度较高,适合快速材料性质测定及大学物理教学,以解决大学物理演示实验课关于学气体动理论的实验数量较少,且往往只涉及对热学微观过程的宏观模拟,而很少涉及气体动理论的实验,导致学生学习不够深入的问题。有利于学生对分子运动学问题的深入探索。     

Comparison of effects of relative carry-envelope phase on two-color few cycle pulses propagating in dense and dilute lambda-type mediums

In this paper we compared effects of relative carry-envelope phase (RCEP) of two-color few cycle pulses on propagation behavior and spectral property under the single-photon resonant condition in the dense and dilute lambda-type three-level atomic mediums. It is found that, in the dense medium, with propagation distance increasing, the compound pulse of the two-color few cycle pulses will split into two or three sub-pulses with different amplitudes and shapes, or does not split, and this is completely determined by value size of RCEP; with value of RCEP decreasing, range and strength of the spectrum (particularly the higher spectral components) increase obviously, the highest frequency is about eight times of the resonance frequency. In the corresponding dilute medium, effect of RCEP on propagating behavior and spectral property is much different from that in the dense medium; specially with value of RCEP decreasing, spectral strength increasing is evident but spectral range not, the highest frequency of the spectrum is only about two times of the resonance frequency.     

Study on the Interaction Between Water-Soluble CdTe Quantum Dots and Ovalbumin by Optical Spectroscopy

ABSTRACT

CdTe quantum dots (QDs) modified by 2-mercaptoethylamine hydrochloride (CA) and thioglycolic acid (TGA), respectively, were synthesized in aqueous medium. The interaction of CdTe QDs with ovalbumin has been investigated in depth by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), UV-Vis absorption, fluorescence-quenching spectrometry, and resonance Rayleigh scattering spectroscopy (RRS). Fluorescence data show that the quenching type of ovalbumin by CA-CdTe QDs is static quenching with the binding constant being 10^?4 M^?1, and the number of binding sites being one. The calculated thermodynamic parameters demonstrate that the main binding forces are hydrophobic interaction and electrostatic attraction. In contrast, the quenching style of ovalbumin by TGA-CdTe QDs is verified to be dynamic quenching. Under suitable acidity conditions, the interaction of CA-CdTe QDs or TGA-CdTe QDs with ovalbumin leads to the remarkable enhancement of RRS, and the increments are found to be proportional to the concentration of ovalbumin in a certain range. A simple and highly sensitive RRS approach for determining ovalbumin is developed. In addition, the causes for the enhancement of RRS and the quenching of fluorescence are investigated to shed light on the quenching mechanism.