氧化物薄膜研制中的电子能谱技术

随着科学技术的不断发展，人们正在寻求更新的实用材料．金属氧化物，包括金属氧化物薄膜的各种实用材料，在工业界、信息产业界和能源开发等方面的应用前景，早已引起国内外学者的极大关注．例如，由于氧化物具有各种特殊的介电和光学性质，研究和开发基于氧化物薄膜的气敏材料非常热门．如何制备出有实用价值的各种薄膜材料，是科学家们一直关心和深入研究的课题．电子能谱技术在各种材料的基础研究和实际应用中起着重要的作用．本文以有序金属氧化物薄膜研制为例，简要评述了电子能谱技术（包括X射线光电子能谱（XPS），紫外光电子能谱（UPS），俄歇电子能谱（AES）和高分辨电子能量损失谱（HREELS）），以及低能电子衍射（LEED）等技术在氧化物薄膜材料制备和表征中的应用．     

Modeling of filtration efficiency of nanoparticles in standard filter media

The goal of this study is to model the data from the experiments of nanoparticle filtration performed at the Particle Technology Lab, University of Minnesota and at the 3M Company. Comparison shows that the experimental data for filter efficiency are bounded by the values computed from theoretical expressions which do not consider thermal rebound. Therefore thermal rebound in the tested filter media is not detected down to 3 nm particles in the present analysis. The efficiency measured experimentally is in good agreement with the theoretical expression by Stechkina (1966, Dokl. Acad. Nauk SSSR 167, 1327) when the Pectlet number Pe is larger than 100; it agrees well with the theoretical expression by Kirsch and Stechkina (1978, Fundamentals of Aerosol Science. Wiley, New York) when Pe is of the order of unit. We develop an empirical power law model for the efficiency depending on the Peclet number, which leads to satisfactory agreement with experimental results.     

高阶色散导致的交叉相位调制不稳定性

在考虑光纤损耗及高阶色散的情况下,以三、四阶色散项的耦合非线性薛定谔方程为基础,研究高阶色散对交叉相位调制不稳定性的影响.研究表明:三阶色散对调制不稳定性不起作用;由于四阶色散的影响,在光纤的正常、反常色散区,交叉相位调制不稳定性均发生在两个频谱区.且反常色散区两频谱区都比正常色散区的宽,反常色散区第二频谱区比正常色散区的更靠近零点.光纤损耗对增益谱的谱宽有较大影响,它使增益的谱宽变窄,且随传输距离的增大谱宽变得更窄.     

A model to characterize the effect of cross phase modulation on polarization in an optical fiber transmission system

This paper presents a model that described the process of inter-influence between cross phase modulation (XPM) and polarization effects such as polarization mode dispersion (PMD) and polarization dependant loss (PDL) in an optical fiber communication system. Previous papers have discussed PMD-PDL and PMD-XPM effects in separate models, but in this work we developed a model that is capable of characterizing and evaluating PMD, PDL and XPM simultaneously. From the model, we found that PMD and PDL can be affected by XPM. The presence of XPM changed the vector directions of PMD and PDL in Stokes space.     

Electronic properties of self-assembled quantum dots of sodium on Cu(1 1 1) and their interaction with water

The electronic properties of thin films of Na on Cu(1 1 1) and their interaction with water have been investigated at room temperature by high resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy. The first Na layer is characterized by two features tentatively assigned to charge density waves. The second Na layer grows as small islands. The loss spectrum of this layer shows a feature at 3.0 eV identified as a Mie resonance. Increasing alkali coverage, Na islands form a continuous film, as indicated by the appearance of a Na surface plasmon and by the disappearance of the Mie resonance. Water vapour strongly interacts with Na layers as shown by the OH-Na vibration whose frequency shifts from 36 meV to 53 meV as a function of alkali coverage.     

Visible and near ultraviolet photocurrent generation in carbon nanotubes

Multiwall carbon nanotubes are found to generate photocurrent in the visible and near ultra violet spectral range using a photoelectrochemical technique. Peaks in the photocurrent are observed at excitation energies in the visible region. Their electron energy loss spectra exhibit the π plasmon feature, typical of graphite layers, and a peak at lower energy. Features at energies between 0 and 4 eV have been already observed for single wall carbon nanotubes and ascribed to interband electronic transitions due to the reduced dimensionality of these systems. The present measurements suggest that the usual identification of multiwall carbon nanotubes electronic density of states with that of graphite layers is not sufficient and more theoretical investigations are necessary to shed light on this point.     

Influence of temperature and environment humidity on the transmission spectrum of sol-gel hybrid channel waveguides

Hybrid materials produced by the hydrolytic sol-gel process reveal strong absorption in the spectral region of 1550 nm, mainly due to the high concentration of OH groups. This characteristic constitutes an obstacle to the application of these materials, in particular to telecom integrated optical devices. A simple thermal treatment applied to the device does not contribute to increase the transparency. The real-time influence of temperature and environment humidity on the optical transmission properties of sol-gel organic-inorganic raised channel waveguides is analyzed in order to achieve an understanding of the OH group’s behaviour in the materials. We demonstrate that the level of the optical losses at 1550 nm can significantly be decreased at high temperature. Cooling the sample in dry atmosphere makes it possible to reach a better transparency, which can be useful to improve the performance of hybrid sol-gel optical devices.     

Study of bending loss and mode field diameter in depressed inner core triple-clad single-mode optical fibers

In this paper, the bending loss and the mode field diameter (MFD) of the R-type depressed inner core triple clad single-mode optical fibers are investigated. The effects of the optical and geometrical parameters on the bending loss and the MFD are examined in these fibers. The simulation results indicate that with increasing of the core radius (a), which is desired from manufacturing point of view, the bending loss and MFD coefficients are decreased. Consequently, the large core radius can be used to optimize the bending loss in the foregoing fibers. In the meantime, simulation outcomes show that the Δ and Q have considerable impact on the bending loss in the RI and RII fibers, respectively. The MFD and bending loss is decreased with increasing of Δ, but the case is inversed for Q. Based on the presented simulations, it is found out that the bending loss strongly depends on the distribution profile of the electric field in the cladding region for a given MFD. In other words, the field amplitude and damping rate in the cladding region determine the fiber bending loss.     

The combined effect of nonlinear filtration and window size on the accuracy of tissue displacement estimation using detected echo signals

In cardiac elastography, the regional strain and strain rate imaging is based on displacement estimation of tissue sections within the heart muscle carried out with various block-matching techniques (cross-correlation, sum of absolute differences, sum of squared differences, etc.). The accuracy of these techniques depends on a combination of ultrasonic imaging parameters such as ultrasonic frequency of interrogation, signal-to-noise ratio, size of a kernel used in a block-matching algorithm, type of data and speckle decorrelation. In this paper, we discuss the possibility to enhance the accuracy of the displacement estimation via nonlinear filtering of B-mode images before block-matching operation. The combined effect of a filter algorithm and a kernel size on the accuracy of the displacement estimation is analyzed using a 36-frame sequence of grayscale B-mode images of a human heart acquired by an ultrasound system operating at 1.77 MHz. It is shown that the nonlinear filtering of images enables to obtain the desired accuracy (less than one pixel) of the displacement estimation with smaller kernels than without filtering. These results are obtained for two filters--an adaptive anisotropic diffusion filter and a nonlinear Gaussian filter chain.     

The structure of a metallic glass system using EXELFS and EXAFS as complementary probes

The short-range atomic order around all three constituent atoms in a prototypical bulk metallic glass (BMG) system was probed in a complementary way, using extended X-ray absorption fine structure for neighborhood of the higher atomic number elements, and extended energy loss fine structure (EXELFS) for the lower atomic number ones. The Pd_xNi_(80−x)P₍₂₀₎ system is a prototype for a whole class of BMG formers which are 80% transition metal and 20% metalloid. We find that the structure of these BMGs could be explained in terms of those of glasses at the end of the BMG range, namely, Pd₆₀Ni₂₀P₂₀ and Pd₃₀Ni₅₀P₂₀. The binary phosphide crystals near x=0 and 80 are found to be simulate very well the local atomic structure of Pd₃₀Ni₅₀P₂₀ and Pd₆₀Ni₂₀P₂₀ glasses, respectively. The best glass former in this series, Pd₄₀Ni₄₀P₂₀, is best described by a weighted average of Pd₃₀Ni₅₀P₂₀ and Pd₆₀Ni₂₀P₂₀ structures.