Laser printing of multi-layered polymer/metal heterostructures for electronic and MEMS devices

A laser forward transfer technique for the simultaneous printing of polymer/metal stacked micro-laminates is introduced. Several different material combinations as well as stacking architectures are presented including single laser pulse deposited dual layer capacitors, three-layer stacks for potentially printing organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs), and photo-definable polymer/metal laminates and free-standing membranes for MEMS based sensors.     

Sub-diffraction-limited far-field imaging in infrared

We investigated a far-field superlens operating at mid-infrared wavelength that allows resolving subwavelength features in the far-field. By utilizing evanescent enhancement provided by surface plasmon excitation of silver nanorods and Moiré effect, we numerically demonstrated that subwavelength information of an object can be converted to propagating information. This information can then be captured by conventional optical components. A simple image reconstruction algorithm can restore the subwavelength object. A sub-diffraction-limited resolution of 2.5 μm at 6-μm wavelength is demonstrated.     

The real geometry of complex space-times

This paper describes the geometry of complex space-times from the real point of view and presents some miscellane ous results on the existence and nature of real slices.     

Evidence for Anderson localisation in Landau level tails from the analysis of two-dimensional Shubnikov—de Haas conductivity minima

The amplitudes of the Shubnikov—de Haas conductivity minima are analysed for n-type inversion layers in Si 〈100〉 MOS devices. Thermal excitation between adjacent Landau levels, conduction through extended tail states and activated conduction from localised tail states are all detected in different magnetic field and temperature ranges. The minimum metallic conductivity found for the lowest spin extremum agrees well with theory but the values for higher Landau levels are lower than expected.     

Peptide structural analysis using continuous Ar cluster and C60 ion beams

A novel application of time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) with continuous Ar cluster beams to peptide analysis was investigated. In order to evaluate peptide structures, it is necessary to detect fragment ions related to multiple neighbouring amino acid residues. It is, however, difficult to detect these using conventional ToF-SIMS primary ion beams such as Bi cluster beams. Recently, C₆₀ and Ar cluster ion beams have been introduced to ToF-SIMS as primary ion beams and are expected to generate larger secondary ions than conventional ones. In this study, two sets of model peptides have been studied: (des-Tyr)-Leu-enkephalin and (des-Tyr)-Met-enkephalin (molecular weights are approximately 400 Da), and [Asn¹ Val⁵]-angiotensin II and [Val⁵]-angiotensin I (molecular weights are approximately 1,000 Da) in order to evaluate the usefulness of the large cluster ion beams for peptide structural analysis. As a result, by using the Ar cluster beams, peptide molecular ions and large fragment ions, which are not easily detected using conventional ToF-SIMS primary ion beams such as Bi₃ ⁺, are clearly detected. Since the large fragment ions indicating amino acid sequences of the peptides are detected by the large cluster beams, it is suggested that the Ar cluster and C₆₀ ion beams are useful for peptide structural analysis.     

Catalytic Cleavage of Ether CO Bonds by Pincer Iridium Complexes

The development of efficient catalytic methods to cleave the relatively unreactive C? O bonds of ethers remains an important challenge in catalysis. Building on our group’s recent work, we report the dehydroaryloxylation of aryl alkyl ethers using pincer iridium catalysts. This method represents a rare fully atom‐economical method for ether C? O bond cleavage.     

捕获离子测试基本粒子物理学

科学无法解释,宇宙大爆炸后物质是如何产生的。所有已知的物理过程都留给我们一个物质和反物质基本等量的宇宙,那么为什么现实中一切都是由物质构成的呢？这个宇宙重子不对称(BAU)是现代物理学所面对的最大谜团,也是粒子物理前沿全方位攻坚之驱动力。最近,美国实验室天体物理联合研究所(JILA)由Eric Cornell 领导的研究组,利用桌面实验系统探索了这一前沿(采用捕获的分子离子探寻基本对称性的破坏)。研究人员特别寻找“电子电偶极矩”(eEDM)的迹象：他们没有发现痕迹,从而证实了以前实验的正确结论。