Investigation of crystallographic sites of Eu in La2BaZnO5 by site-selective laser-excitation spectroscopy

La₂BaZnO₅:Eu³⁺ (0.05 mol%) was prepared by a solid-state reaction at high temperature. X-ray powder diffraction analysis confirmed the formation of single phase La₂BaZnO₅. Luminescence properties of La₂BaZnO₅:Eu³⁺ are investigated by site-selective laser-excitation and emission spectroscopy at 18 K. Two different crystallographic sites for Eu³⁺ corresponding to the La³⁺ and Ba²⁺ sites are identified from the ⁷F₀→⁵D₀ excitation spectra obtained by monitoring the ⁵D₀→⁷F_J (J=1, 2, …, 6) emissions. It is found that Eu³⁺ substituted for the Ba²⁺ ion experiences stronger crystal-field strength than Eu³⁺ substituted for the La³⁺ ion. Energy transfer between the two crystallographic Eu³⁺ centers is investigated by luminescence decay curves at 18 K.     

Morphology and elemental behaviour in the alteration layer of borosilicate glass in simulated groundwater

To understand the behaviour of nuclear waste glass in groundwater, borosilicate glasses were placed in simulated groundwater for more than 200 days. The composition of the simulated groundwater was similar to that of the groundwater in Beishan (a potential nuclear waste site). The pH value of groundwater was adjusted to 7.5, and the ratio of the surface area of glass to the volume of the solution (SA/V) was set to 10?m^?1. Solutions and bulk glasses were characterised to obtain the elemental behaviour and surface morphology of the glass/solution interface, which was named the alteration layer. The mean thicknesses of the alteration layer were 5.16?±?0.11?µm and 11.67?±?0.28?µm at 70°C and 90°C, respectively. A thicker alteration layer was attributed to the lower surface activation energy of the glass and a high ion exchange between K⁺ and Na⁺ in the interface between the glass surface and the solution. For the elemental behaviour, mobile species B and Na were depleted, while K and Ca from the solution were enriched in the alteration layer due to ion exchange. Network species Si decreased in the layer, leading to the corrosion of the backbone of the glass; however, species Al increased, which implied that some [SiO₄] units were partially replaced by [AlO₄] units. In this work, glass in groundwater suffered much more intense corrosion than that in de-ionised water.     

Improvement of intelligibility of ideal binary-masked noisy speech by adding background noise

When a target-speech/masker mixture is processed with the signal-separation technique, ideal binary mask (IBM), intelligibility of target speech is remarkably improved in both normal-hearing listeners and hearing-impaired listeners. Intelligibility of speech can also be improved by filling in speech gaps with un-modulated broadband noise. This study investigated whether intelligibility of target speech in the IBM-treated target-speech/masker mixture can be further improved by adding a broadband-noise background. The results of this study show that following the IBM manipulation, which remarkably released target speech from speech-spectrum noise, foreign-speech, or native-speech masking (experiment 1), adding a broadband-noise background with the signal-to-noise ratio no less than 4 dB significantly improved intelligibility of target speech when the masker was either noise (experiment 2) or speech (experiment 3). The results suggest that since adding the noise background shallows the areas of silence in the time-frequency domain of the IBM-treated target-speech/masker mixture, the abruption of transient changes in the mixture is smoothed and the perceived continuity of target-speech components becomes enhanced, leading to improved target-speech intelligibility. The findings are useful for advancing computational auditory scene analysis, hearing-aid/cochlear-implant designs, and understanding of speech perception under "cocktail-party" conditions.     

Calculations of Rydberg energy levels for Ni ⅩⅧ using the weakest bound electron potential model theory

Martin expression about the quantum defect of single-valence atoms is extended to many-valence atoms by identifying the weakest bound electron (WBE) under the weakest bound electron potential model(WBEPM) theory. Six Rydberg series energy levels of 2p6np2P°1/2 (n ≥ 3), 2p6np2P°3/2 (n ≥ 3), 2p6nd2D3/2(n ≥ 3), 2p6nd2D5/2 (n ≥ 3), 2p6nf2F°5/2 (n≥4), and 2p6nf2F°7/2 (n ≥ 4) for Ni ⅩⅧ are calculated by this method. The calculated results are in good agreement with the experimental results.     

STABILITY OF BRIGHT SCREENING-PHOTOVOLTAIC SPATIAL SOLITONS

We present a theoretical analysis of the stability of screening-photovoltaic (SP) spatial solitons in biased photovoltaic-photorefractive materials in the case of neglecting the loss of the material and the effect of diffusion. When an incident optical beam is a SP soliton, this beam propagates along a linear path with its shape kept unchanged. When the maximum amplitude, width and functional form of an incident optical beam are slightly different from those of a SP soliton, the beam reshapes itself and tries to evolve into a solitary wave after a short distance. That is, these SP solitons are stable against small perturbations. However, optical beams that significantly differ from SP soliton solutions tend to experience larger cycles of compression and expansion, and their maximum amplitudes oscillate with propagation distances. The larger the perturbations, the stronger the oscillation.     

比较与研究金属离子与三种蛋白的配位机理

本文通过测定牛血红蛋白、人血清蛋白、伴刀豆球蛋白Ａ与过渡态金属离子Ｃｒ（Ⅲ）、Ｆｅ（Ⅲ）在不同条件下的荧光强度变化来揭示蛋白质与金属离子形成络合物的配位点，从而确定所形成配合物的结构，并讨论了溶液ＰＨ值对蛋白质荧光强度的影响。另外，对金属离子与蛋白质体系进行了荧光偏振的研究。     

Box dimensions of Riemann-Liouville fractional integrals of continuous functions of bounded variation

If a continuous function f(x) has bounded variation on the unit interval [0,1], the box dimension of f(x) is 1. Furthermore, the box dimension of a Riemann-Liouville fractional integral of f(x) is still 1.     

QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS IN MESOSCOPIC RESISTANCE-INDUCTANCE-CAPACITANCE ELECTRIC CIRCUITS AT FINITE TEMPERATURE

By using the charge and current in a quantization resistance-inductance-capacitance (RLC) electric circuit, we construct a pair of canonical variables. Using this pair of variables and the thermal field dynamics, we obtain the fluctuations of charge and current in the RLC electric circuit at finite temperatures. It is shown that the fluctuations increase with increasing temperature and decrease with prolonging of time.     

Virtual Source of a Swallowtail Beam

By applying a virtual source method, the exact and the paraxial solutions of the Swallowtail beams (SBs) that are governed by the inhomogeneous Helmholtz equation are introduced. The paraxial SBs generated experimentally possess both self-accelerating and self-focusing features. The parameters controlling the field distributions are discussed in theory. From the spectral representation of the Swallowtail wave, in the appropriate limit, the first four terms of the nonparaxial correction series for the (1+2)-dimensional Swallowtail waves that simplify to the SBs are obtained.     

抗菌素阿莫西林荧光分析法的研究

本文提出了阿莫西林［（2S,5R,6R）-3,3-二甲基-6-［(R)-(-)-2-氨基-2-(4-羟基苯基)乙酰氨基］-7-氧化-4-硫杂-1-氮杂双环［3,2,0］庚烷-2-甲酸三水化合物］荧光分析的方法。并对影响阿莫西林荧光性质(光谱和光谱强度)的各种因素,包括pH值、表面活性剂的增效作用、无机离子的配合作用以及其他介质条件等进行了较为详细的研究。实验结果表明,阿莫西林具有良好的荧光性质,在微碱性条件下荧光发射最强,CTAB对其有增效作用,与无机离子(Mg