Full utilization of a mass spectrometer using on-demand sharing with multiple LC units

The applicability of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC/MS) is often limited by throughput. The sharing of a mass spectrometer with multiple LCs significantly improves throughput; however, the reported systems have not been designed to fully utilize the MS duty cycle, and as a result to achieve maximum throughput. To fully utilize the mass spectrometer, the number of LC units that a MS will need to recruit is application dependent and could be significantly larger than the current commercial or published implementations. For the example of a single analyte, the number may approach the peak capacity to a first degree approximation. Here, the construction of a MS system that flexibly recruits any number of LC units demanded by the application is discussed, followed by the method to port a previously developed LC/MS method to the system to fully utilize a mass spectrometer. To demonstrate the performance and operation, a prototypical MS system of eight LC units was constructed. When 1-min chromatographic separations were performed in parallel on the eight LCs of the system, the average LC/MS analysis time per sample was 10.5 s when applied to the analysis of samples in 384-well plate format. This system has been successfully used to conduct large-volume biochemical assays with the analysis of a variety of molecular entities in support of drug discovery efforts. Allowing the recruitment of the number of LC units appropriate for a given application, this system has the potential to be a plug-and-play system to fully utilize a mass spectrometer. Copyright ? 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Parasitic bipolar amplification in a single event transient and its temperature dependence

Using three-dimensional technology computer-aided design (TCAD) simulation, parasitic bipolar amplification in a single event transient (SET) current of a single transistor and its temperature dependence are studied. We quantify the contributions of different current components in a SET current pulse, and it is found that the proportion of parasitic bipolar amplification in total collected charge is about 30% in both 130-nm and 90-nm technologies. The temperature dependence of parasitic bipolar amplification and the mechanism of the SET pulse are also investigated and quantified. The results show that the proportion of charge induced by parasitic bipolar increases with rising temperature, which illustrates that the parasitic bipolar amplification plays an important role in the charge collection of a single transistor.     

Efficiency enhancement of InGaN based blue light emitting diodes with InGaN/GaN multilayer barriers

The advantages of InGaN based light-emitting diodes with InGaN/GaN multilayer barriers are studied.It is found that the structure with InGaN/GaN multilayer barriers shows improved light output power,lower current leakage,and less efficiency droop over its conventional InGaN/GaN counterparts.Based on the numerical simulation and analysis,these improvements on the electrical and the optical characteristics are mainly attributed to the alleviation of the electrostatic field in the quantum wells(QWs) when the InGaN/GaN multilayer barriers are used.     

不同氮源制备CNx纳米管薄膜及其低场致电子发射性能

采用高温热解法,分别以氯化铵(NH4Cl)和乙二胺(C2H8N2)为氮源在洁净的硅片上沉积生长CNx纳米管薄膜.利用扫描电子显微镜、高分辨率透射电子显微镜和拉曼光谱对CNx纳米管进行形貌观察和表征.结果显示不同氮源制备出的CNx纳米管薄膜的洁净度、有序度以及纳米管的结构明显不同.热解乙二胺(C2H8N2)/二茂铁(C10H10Fe)制备出的结晶度较低的"竹节状"结构CNx纳米管平行基底表面有序生长,而且低场致电子发射性能优越,开启电场1.0V/μm,外加电场达到2.89V/μm时发射电流密度为860μA/cm2.     

光腔模式及光束传输的特征向量算法

发展了一种新颖的适用于光腔模式及光束传输模拟计算的特征向量法.该方法的核心是基于菲涅耳-基尔霍夫衍射积分理论构造了一种新的光腔传输矩阵,通过求解激光谐振腔的本征积分方程,即可一次求解得到表征腔镜上多个光场模式振幅及相位分布的特征向量组;而谐振腔内或腔外任意地方的光场分布,也可采用该方法进行光束传输模拟而求得.对与该方法有关的单元划分、形函数选取、误差及稳定性分析等问题进行了论述,分析表明:合适的单元划分和形函数选取有利于提高计算速度、精度和稳定性.     

光学渡越辐射测量中能量分辨精度分析

 基于光学渡越辐射原理的用于高能强流电子束束流参数在线测量及诊断系统,具有时间响应快、分辨率高等特点,可以测量电子束的束剖面、发散角、能量等多个参数。分析了测量系统的结构参数（包括了透镜的焦距、成像面位置、CCD像元尺寸）对电子束能量测量精度的影响,并在理论上模拟了电子束的发散角的影响。还根据系统数据的特点,阐述了数据噪声对能量测量结果精度的影响,指出了光学渡越辐射测量中电子束能量分辨精度受到多种因素的影响,需要在数据处理时考虑修正。     

具有时间分辨能力的强流电子束束剖面测量系统

 高能强流电子束的束参数测量是加速器研制过程中重要的一项测量工作,由于光学渡越辐射具有时间响应快、分辨率高等特点而被用于测量电子束的具有时间分辨能力的束剖面、发散角、能量等多个参数;通过电子束束参数的时间分辨测量则能够了解电子束产生、输运中的问题,非常有利于加速器的研究与调试。一种具有时间分辨能力的、利用光学渡越辐射进行高能强流电子束束斑测量的系统在中国工程物理研究院被建立起来,并在12 MeV LIA的电子束束斑的测量中用于电子束传输研究,该系统拍摄图像的间隔时间最小为10 ns,最小的曝光时间为3 ns,具有一次可以拍摄8幅图像的能力,并获得了12 MeV LIA约100 ns内相应的时间分辨的束斑变化情况,观察到了一些过去未观察到的现象,为加速器的研究提供了又一个新测试方法。     

Neutron halos in the excited states for N=127 isotones

Properties of the ground states and the excited states of N=127 isotones are investigated by using the nonlinear relativistic mean field theory with the interactions PK1. By analyzing the rms of proton and neutron, the single particle energies of valence nucleon and the density distributions of neutron, proton and the last neutron, it can be found that there exists a neutron halo in the excited states of 3d5/2, 4s1/2 and 3d3/2 in 209Pb. It is also predicted that there exists a neutron halo in the excited states of 3d5/2, 4s1/2 and 3d3/2 in 207Hg, 208Tl, 210Bi and 211Po.     

Eu3+-site occupation in CaTiO3 perovskite material at low temperature

In order to clarify the site occupancy of rare-earth ions in rare-earth doped perovskite materials, the un-doped pure CaTiO₃ and Eu³⁺-doped CaTiO₃ samples with a series of Ca/Ti ratio were synthesized via high-temperature solid-state reaction method. X-ray diffraction (XRD) powder patterns confirm that the crystal structure keeps invariant at various Ca/Ti ratios. Measurement results of unit-cell parameters and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) indicate that Eu³⁺ ions enter into the Ca²⁺ site. The high-resolution photoluminescence spectra of Eu³⁺ ions at 20 K in all samples did not witness a significant change under the excitation at different wavelength, implying that Eu³⁺ ions occupy only one type of site. Considering the small spectral splitting range of ⁵D₀ → ⁷F₂ transition and the large intensity ratio of ⁵D₀ → ⁷F₂/⁵D₀ → ⁷F₁, it can be concluded that Eu³⁺ occupies Ca²⁺ site with larger coordinate numbers rather than Ti⁴⁺ site.