A high-pressure Raman and X-ray diffraction study of the perovskite SrCeO3

A high-pressure structural study of SrCeO₃ has been performed at room temperature by Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction up to 32 and 45 GPa, respectively. A first-order reversible phase transition is observed at about 12 GPa in both techniques. A second weak structural change, taking place between 18 and 25 GPa, can be suspected from Raman data. The increase in the number of Raman bands and diffraction lines is an indication that the symmetry is lowered and the compound does not evolve towards the ideal cubic perovskite structure. A Rietveld analysis of X-ray data was performed for the low-pressure phase and the atomic positions and the cell lattice parameters variations are reported in this paper. The volume compressibility derived from Raman modes (5.6×10⁻¹² Pa⁻¹), involving mainly bond-stretching for each type of polyhedron, is found to be close to the one obtained from volume cell variations measured by X-ray diffraction (7.9×10⁻¹² Pa⁻¹).     

Correction of self-absorption spectral line and ratios of transition probabilities for homogeneous and LTE plasma

Expressions for fundamental spectral line parameters are reported for Gaussian and Lorentzian shape profiles for homogeneous plasma at equilibrium in presence of the self-absorption. These expressions for Lorentzian profiles are applied to the determination of the ratios of transition probabilities and the ratios of optical thicknesses by a new method that we propose in this article. The self-absorption is computed by spectral line profiles with a Simplex algorithm program fitting. Applications to some experimental lines illustrate the appropriate corrections.     

CO-laser photoacoustic detection of phosgene (COCl2)

Detection of COCl₂, a highly toxic gas in chemical industry, using laser photoacoustic spectroscopy is presented. The spectrophone system used has a broad band LN₂ cooled CW CO laser as a source of radiation, which operates from 4.8–8.4 um in the mid-infrared. Using an extracavity open longitudinal resonant cell, absorption signals to about 30 CO laser lines in the 5.45 um region could be observed. detection sensitivity has been estimated to be ppb order.This work has been supported by the NSFC     

125m Te (109.3 keV) stimulated emission and gamma lasers

Summary Proceeding from the drastic discrepancy between experimental data and theory, we show (contrary to other authors) that the relations between the Einstein's coefficients are true for transitions from any of the excited levels and theground state of the quantum system only. The relations connecting those coefficients are derived for transitions betweenany two states; the corresponding cross-sections are calculated and it is shown (contrary to other authors) that the stimulated emission cross-section may be large enough for the creation of gamma lasers. The new relation for Einstein's coefficients (and the corresponding cross-sections) are fundamentally different from those known so far (74 years after Einstein). The results are compared with experiment and the coincidence is very good. These investigations can lead to progress in the study of physical processes in star atmospheres. The author of this paper has agreed to not receive the proofs for correction.     

伴随着分子内电荷分离的分子内转动模型的时间分辨荧光光谱研究

本文采用时间分辨荧光光谱方法,考查了两种7-胺基香豆类素衍生物分子在不同溶剂中的荧光辐射弛豫过程,研究了环境因素对伴随着分子内电荷转移的分子内转动激发态(TICT)弛豫过程的影响。结果说明TICT态是非刚性香豆素分子激发态无辐射弛豫路径之一,这一过程受到环境介质的极性、粘度和温度的影响。并指出了在考虑粘度影响时,须对DSE理论进行修正,同时提出了TICT态存在位垒的观点。     

Structural,magnetic and optical properties of diluted magnetic semiconductor (DMS) phase of Ni modified CuO nanoparticles

Control on the size of copper oxide (CuO) in the nano range is a highly motivating approach to study its multifunctional nature. The present investigation reports a sol-gel derived Ni doped CuO nanoparticles (Cu_1-xNi_xO). Rietveld refinement of the XRD spectra confirms the formation of single monoclinic phase of Cu_1-xNi_xO nanoparticles having crystallite size within the range of 19–21 nm. Raman spectra show the presence of characteristics Raman active modes and vibrational bands in the Cu_1-xNi_xO samples that corroborate the monoclinic phase of the samples as revealed by refinement of XRD data. The estimated band gap of pure CuO is found to be ∼1.43 eV, which decreases with the increase of dopant concentration into CuO matrix. This result is in line with estimated crystallite size. Magnetization curves confirm the weak ferromagnetic nature of Cu_1-xNi_xO nanoparticles which reveal the DMS phase. This weak magnetic nature may be induced in the samples due to the exchange interaction between the localized magnetic d-spins of Ni ions and carriers (holes or electrons) from the valence band of pristine CuO lattice. Replacement of Cu⁺² by Ni⁺² ions into the host CuO lattice induces the magnetization. The quantified value of squareness ratio (S < 0.5) confirms the inter-grain magnetic interactions in the Cu_1-xNi_xO nanoparticles which is also the reason of weak induced magnetization.     

Associations between Neurocardiovascular Signal Entropy and Physical Frailty

In this cross-sectional study, the relationship between noninvasively measured neurocardiovascular signal entropy and physical frailty was explored in a sample of community-dwelling older adults from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). The hypothesis under investigation was that dysfunction in the neurovascular and cardiovascular systems, as quantified by short-length signal complexity during a lying-to-stand test (active stand), could provide a marker for frailty. Frailty status (i.e., “non-frail”, “pre-frail”, and “frail”) was based on Fried’s criteria (i.e., exhaustion, unexplained weight loss, weakness, slowness, and low physical activity). Approximate entropy (ApEn) and sample entropy (SampEn) were calculated during resting (lying down), active standing, and recovery phases. There was continuously measured blood pressure/heart rate data from 2645 individuals (53.0% female) and frontal lobe tissue oxygenation data from 2225 participants (52.3% female); both samples had a mean (SD) age of 64.3 (7.7) years. Results revealed statistically significant associations between neurocardiovascular signal entropy and frailty status. Entropy differences between non-frail and pre-frail/frail were greater during resting state compared with standing and recovery phases. Compared with ApEn, SampEn seemed to have better discriminating power between non-frail and pre-frail/frail individuals. The quantification of entropy in short length neurocardiovascular signals could provide a clinically useful marker of the multiple physiological dysregulations that underlie physical frailty.     

Review of Raman spectroscopy of two-dimensional magnetic van der Waals materials

Ultrathin van der Waals (vdW) magnets provide a possibility to access magnetic ordering in the two-dimensional (2D) limit, which are expected to be applied in the spintronic devices. Raman spectroscopy is a powerful characterization method to investigate the spin-related properties in 2D vdW magnets, including magnon and spin-lattice interaction, which are hardly accessible by other optical methods. In this paper, the recent progress of various magnetic properties in 2D vdW magnets studied by Raman spectroscopy is reviewed, including the magnetic transition, spin-wave, spin-lattice interaction, symmetry tuning induced by spin ordering, and nonreciprocal magneto-phonon Raman scattering.     

基于红外光谱对野生冬虫夏草不同部位的识别

冬虫夏草作为著名的传统中药材,由于其良好的药用价值而备受青睐。目前多数工作集中研究其活性成分含量以及药理药效。而对其不同部位的识别研究较为匮乏。基于红外光谱数据,结合化学计量学对多维度复杂体系的解析优势对冬虫夏草不同部位进行分类识别。首先对野生冬虫夏草五个不同部位包括子座头、子座中、头部、虫体中段、虫体尾段总共808个光谱数据使用标准正态变换(SNV)、多元散射矫正(MSC)进行数据预处理。而后用竞争自适应再权重取样(CARS)、变量组合种群分析(VCPA)挑选具有代表意义的特征变量。最后使用偏最小二乘判别分析(PLS-DA)、线性判别分析(LDA)进行建模预测分析。模型对训练集使用十倍交叉验证,以准确率(Acc)作为评价指标。结果表明,在该数据上PLS-DA模型在10倍交叉验证和独立测试集上的预测准确率分别是90.1%和92.0%,而使用LDA模型时,预测准确率分别降低到86.7%和85.8%。采用CARS和VCPA特征挑选方法可有效将特征从3 601维分别降到699和420维,同时保持预测准确率与全部特征的预测准确率相当。而挑选的特征波数630,625,1 024,1 028,1 084和1 089 cm-1与虫草的甘露醇相关,879和874 cm-1与虫草的多糖相关。通过对挑选的波数进行Wilcoxon rank-sum检验进一步表明虫草五个部位之间存在显著差异。研究表明化学计量学方法结合红外光谱能够有效识别冬虫夏草不同部位,有助于在分子层面上加深对冬虫夏草形成的认识,为针对虫草不同部位高效利用提供参考。