探针尖带金属微粒的光子扫描隧道显微镜成像数值模拟

引入了色散介质的时域有限差分法散射场方程,并针对光子扫描隧道显微镜的带金属尖光纤扫描成像问题进行三维的数值模拟。在考虑了光纤和样品相互作用的情况下,采用等效入射波法设置入射波,探针扫描模式为等高扫描模式,从成像分辨力和灵敏度的角度,比较了不同入射角、不同的光纤一样品间距,不同金属类型,及不同金属尖大小的成像情况。数值模拟结果显示,带金属颗粒光纤探针尖的光子扫描隧道显微镜在成像分辨力和灵敏度上有显著的改进,而带不同类型金属颗粒情况下对分辨力影响不大,灵敏度是银最好。     

地球大气系统对红外目标探测影响的分析

利用SBDART软件包计算了不同地球大气系统下2．5～5μm波段范围内的大气透过率和地球大气背景红外辐射光谱。计算目标与地球大气背景之间的信噪比,并据此分析了地球大气系统对红外目标探测的影响。结果表明：当目标位于卷云之上时,在2．5～3μm波段与4～4．5μm波段信噪比较大,信噪比随着目标高度的升高而增大,易于探测;当目标处于卷云以下时,卷云对红外信号有较强的吸收作用,光学厚度对信噪比影响较大,粒子尺度对信噪比影响不大,卷云厚度越大,信噪比越小。     

Metallic nanowires for subwavelength waveguiding and nanophotonic devices

Plasmonics is a rapidly developing field concerning light manipulation at the nanoscale with many potential applications, of which plasmonic circuits are promising for future information technology. Plasmonic waveguides are fundamental elements for constructing plasmonic integrated circuits. Among the proposed different plasmonic waveguides, metallic nanowires have drawn much attention due to the highly confined electromagnetic waves and relatively low propagation loss. Here we review the recent research progress in the waveguiding characteristics of metallic nanowires and nanowire-based nanophotonic devices. Plasmon modes of both cylindrical and pentagonal metallic nanowires with and without substrate are discussed. Typical methods for exciting and detecting the plasmons in metallic nanowires are briefly summarized. Because of the multimode characteristic, the plasmon propagation and emission in the nanowire have many unique properties, benefiting the design of plasmonic devices. A few nanowire-based devices are highlighted, including quarter-wave plate, Fabry-Prot resonator, router and logic gates.     

Interaction and local magnetic moments of metal phthalocyanine and tetraphenylporphyrin molecules on noble metal surfaces

In order to understand the Kondo effect observed in molecular systems, first-principles calculations have been widely used to predict the ground state properties of molecules on metal substrates. In this work, the interaction and the local magnetic moments of magnetic molecules （3d-metal phthalocyanine and tetraphenylporphyrin molecules） on noble metal surfaces are investigated based on the density functional theory. The calculation results show that the dz2 orbital of the transition metal atom of the molecule plays a dominant role in the molecule-surface interaction and the adsorption energy exhibits a simple declining trend as the adsorption distance increases. In addition, the Au（111） surface generally has a weak interaction with the adsorbed molecule compared with the Cu（ll 1） surface and thus serves as a better candidate substrate for studying the Kondo effect. The relation between the local magnetic moment and the Coulomb interaction U is examined by carrying out the GGA＋U calculation according to Dudarev＇s scheme. We find that the Coulomb interaction is essential for estimating the local magnetic moment in molecule-surface systems, and we suggest that the reference values of parameter U are 2 eV for Fe and 2-3 eV for Co.     

HTS双饼线圈的加工工艺及实验研究

详细介绍了高温超导双饼线圈的加工工艺和流程,针对绕制时带材弯曲形变使临界电流退化的技术难点,重点阐述了其解决方法。在液氮温度、自场环境下对采用该加工工艺制作的YBCO双饼线圈及Bi2223/Ag双饼线圈进行低温实验,测试其V-I特性曲线。实验结果表明:该工艺制作的双饼线圈性能良好,工艺安全可靠,是合适的。同时,实验测量数据也为线圈在磁体中的进一步应用提供了可靠依据。     

Effect of emitter layer doping concentration on the performance of silicon thin film heterojunction solar cell

A novel type of n/i/i/p heterojunction solar cell with a-Si:H(15 nm)/a-Si:H(10 nm)/ epitaxial c-Si(47 μm)/epitaxial c-Si(3 μm) structure is fabricated by using the layer transfer technique, and the emitter layer is deposited by hot-wire chemical vapour deposition. The effect of the doping concentration of emitter layer S_d (S_d=PH₃/(PH₃+SiH₄+H₂)) on the performance of the solar cell is studied by means of current density-voltage and external quantum efficiency. The results show that the conversion efficiency of the solar cell first increases to a maximum value and then decreases with S_d increasing from 0.1% to 0.4%. The best performance of the solar cell is obtained at S_d = 0.2% with an open circuit voltage of 534 mV, a short circuit current density of 23.35 mA/cm², a fill factor of 63.3%, and a conversion efficiency of 7.9%.     

Laser ranging based on electro-optic switch

Based on electro-optic switch effect in crystal, a novel laser ranging method is proposed. CW-laser emitted by laser transmitter propagates forward to the measured target, after being reflected by the target, and then goes back to the transmitter. Close to the transmitter, a special mono-block LiNbO₃ crystal is added into the round-trip light beams. High-voltage pulses with the sharp enough changes in rising edges are loaded on the crystal. Based on electro-optic effect, double refraction and internal double reflection effect in crystal, the crystal cuts off the round-trip light beams, and reflects a light pulse cut out by the crystal to a detector aside from the original beam path. The pulse width T is the period that laser propagates forward and back between the crystal and the target. The feasibility of the new idea is proved by our experiments and a brand-new way for the laser ranging is provided.     

Low temperature electronic transports in the presence of a density gradient

In this paper, we review low temperature electronic transport results in high quality two-dimensional electron systems. We discuss the quantization of the diagonal resistance, R_xx, at the edges of several quantum Hall states. Each quantized R_xx value turns out to be close to the difference between the two adjacent Hall plateaus in the off-diagonal resistance, R_xy. Moreover, peaks in R_xx occur at different positions in positive and negative magnetic fields. All three R_xx features can be explained quantitatively by a ∼1% cm electron density gradient. Furthermore, based on this observation, the well known but still enigmatic resistivity rule, relating R_xx to , finds a simple interpretation in terms of this gradient. In another sample, at 1.2 K, R_xx we observe a strongly linear magnetic field dependence. Surprisingly, this linear magnetoresistance also originates from the density gradient. Our findings throw an unexpected light on the relationship between the experimentally measured R_xx and the diagonal resistivity ρ_xx.     

Ar-buffer-assisted deposition of Cu13 on Cu(1 1 1) surfaces

In this paper, the deposition of Cu₁₃ onto Cu(1 1 1) surface through argon buffer layers was investigated by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The interactions between Cu-Cu, Cu-Ar, and Ar-Ar were described by Finnis-Sinclair (FS) tight-binding potential and L-J potential, respectively. The impact energy was chosen to be 2-6 eV/atom in order to compare with experimental results. It was observed that with Ar-buffer layers, the Cu cluster deposited on the surface may retain its free cluster symmetry (I_h). Whereas, on originally bare Cu surface, the deposited Cu cluster lost its original symmetry completely and was recrystalized to have the same fcc structure as the substrate. The Ar-buffer dissipates most of the translational energy of the incident cluster. Therefore, it prevents the cluster from being overheated upon impinging. Furthermore, the interaction between Ar and Cu benefits the confinement of the cluster structure. Our study shows that with Ar-buffer layers, the lateral spread of deposited clusters is 20% smaller than that on the bare Cu surface. This is consistent with the experimental findings.     

Structural characterization and ferromagnetic behavior of Fe-doped TiO2 powder by high-energy ball milling

Fe-doped TiO₂ powder was prepared by high-energy ball milling, using TiO₂ Degussa P-25 and α-Fe powders as the starting materials. The structure and magnetic properties of the Fe-doped TiO₂ powder were studied by X-ray diffraction, ⁵⁷Fe Mossbauer spectroscopy and vibrating sample magnetometer. The Reitveld refinement of XRD revealed that ball milling not only triggered incorporation of Fe in TiO₂ lattice but also induced the phase transformation from anatase to rutile in TiO₂ and consequently the milled Fe-doped TiO₂ powder contained only rutile.⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer effect measure showed that Fe atoms existed in Fe²⁺ and Fe³⁺ state, which were assigned to the solid solution Fe_xTi_1−xO₂. The magnetization measurements indicated that the milled Fe-doped TiO₂ powder was ferromagnetic above room temperature. The ferromagnetism in our milled Fe-doped TiO₂ powder seemingly does not come from Fe and iron oxides particles/clusters but from the Fe-doped TiO₂ powder matrices.