Near-field study of optical modes in randomly textured ZnO thin films

We report on near-field scanning optical microscopy measurements on randomly textured ZnO thin films. These films are commonly used as transparent conducting oxide in thin-film solar cells. Textured interfaces are used to increase the scattering of light, which leads to a better light trapping in the solar cell. Here, both the topography and the local transmission are measured with a tapered fiber tip with very high spatial resolution. By varying the distance of the tip and the wavelength of the incident light, the optical profile is visualized and reveals a strong confinement of light on a subwavelength scale which corresponds to ridges in the surface structure. The confinement of light results from guided optical modes in the ZnO which are accompanied by a modulated evanescent field in air. No corresponding structure to this modulation is found in the topography. These results give new insight for further improvement of light trapping in solar cells.     

Amphoteric refraction exhibited by anisotropic crystals

Amphoteric refraction of light ray at the interface between isotropic materials and anisotropic materials is analyzed. Depending on the incident angle, the refractive light ray can either refract positively or negatively. This amphoteric refraction phenomenon can be quite prevalent when the difference of the two principal refractive indices is large. The reflectance under various incident angles has also been calculated, and an experimental demonstration with a calcite crystal in air is presented.     

Adaptive extremal optimization by detrended fluctuation analysis

Global optimization is one of the key challenges in computational physics as several problems, e.g. protein structure prediction, the low-energy landscape of atomic clusters, detection of community structures in networks, or model-parameter fitting can be formulated as global optimization problems. Extremal optimization (EO) has become in recent years one particular, successful approach to the global optimization problem. As with almost all other global optimization approaches, EO is driven by an internal dynamics that depends crucially on one or more parameters. Recently, the existence of an optimal scheme for this internal parameter of EO was proven, so as to maximize the performance of the algorithm. However, this proof was not constructive, that is, one cannot use it to deduce the optimal parameter itself a priori. In this study we analyze the dynamics of EO for a test problem (spin glasses). Based on the results we propose an online measure of the performance of EO and a way to use this insight to reformulate the EO algorithm in order to construct optimal values of the internal parameter online without any input by the user. This approach will ultimately allow us to make EO parameter free and thus its application in general global optimization problems much more efficient.     

液滴平壁铺展过程中的滞后效应及力学机制研究

研究了液滴平壁铺展过程中的接触角滞后效应,从接触线附近流体的压力、速度以及能量分布等角度考虑滞后效应的成因和变化规律.在此基础之上分析了固体表面粗糙度对滞后效应的影响,并借助部分三维形貌参数(ISO 25178)建立了固体表面形貌与接触角滞后效应之间的量化关系.为了研究以上内容,应用数值仿真软件建立了液滴铺展动力学模型,并结合固体表面上的滞后性实验进行了相关验证.研究结果表明:由于表面粗糙度的存在,液滴铺展至平衡位置时,位于铺展前沿的液体分子被钉扎在固体表面的凹坑或低谷中,使得前沿接触角逐渐增大,后沿接触角逐渐减小,接触角发生滞后;驱动液滴铺展的Laplace压力和自身重力与阻碍液滴铺展的黏性阻力之间的平衡关系,是接触角发生滞后的主要力学机制.另外,实验结果表明接触角滞后效应与固体表面形貌密切相关,具有相同表面粗糙度(Sa)的固体表面,由于表面形貌不同接触角滞后效应可能存在明显的差异.     

利用慢度曲面研究三方晶系晶体的纯模轴

本文介绍了一种利用慢度曲面判断三方晶系晶体纯模轴的方法.通过研究弹性波在垂直于Z轴的平面内及在YZ和ZX平面内传播时的慢度曲线,不难发现弹性波的能量速度和相速度一致的方向,该方向即为晶体的纯模轴.     

月球表面遥感图像阴影消除及其信息恢复研究

由于月球表面的地形起伏引起月面遥感图像像素与太阳相对位置和几何取向不一致,导致月面遥感数字图像上阴影像素的产生。为了解决这一问题,利用与遥感图像匹配的DEM和光照方位参数进行遥感图像的阴影判断,基于DEM数据,利用邻坡反射辐射,进行自然地形条件下的月表遥感图像阴影像素的阴影消除,恢复成太阳光谱照度相等（入射角,反射角和距离相同）时的像素遥感值。仿真实验结果表明：该方法较好地消除了月表影像的阴影,充分恢复了月表影像的反射/光谱特征。     

X射线散射法测量超光滑平面

介绍了掠入射X射线散射法(GXRS法)测量超光滑表面的原理及基于商业用X射线衍射仪改造而成的实验装置。以3片不同粗糙度的硅片作为实验样品,分别应用一级矢量微扰理论和改进的Harvey-Shack理论对其散射分布进行处理,所得结果与原子力显微镜测量结果基本相符。分析了探测器接收狭缝的宽度和入射光发散度对实验结果的影响,随着探测器接收狭缝宽度和入射光发散度的减小,测量误差呈指数迅速减小。在所测量的空间频率范围内,功率谱密度（PSD）函数的误差随频率的增加而减小。     

Surface solitons supported by one-dimensional composite Bessel optical lattices

We address the existence of surface solitons at an interface in a defocusing cubic medium with an imprinted one-dimensional （1D） composite Bessel optical lattice. This setting is composed of two Bessel lattices with different orders and different modulation depths, separated beside both sides of an interface. Stability analysis and numerical propagation simulations prove that solitons supported by the model are dynamically stable in the entire domain of their existence. The order of lattice determines the shape of soliton, and the amplitude of soliton depends on the lattice modulation depth. The experimental realization of the scheme is also proposed. Our results may provide another effective way of controlling the shapes of surface solitons and thus their evolutions by introducing a new freedom degree.     

功率超声对溶液性质的影响

本文研究了在功率超声作用下，电解质溶液，小分子溶液和大分子溶液的粘度，表面张力和电导率等物理化学性质的变化规律。实验结果表明，在超声波作用下，溶液的粘度和表面张力暂时下降，而电导率长期升高。     

用于中温烟气脱硫的新型钙基脱硫剂

研究了高效钙基脱硫剂的制备原理,在石灰水合反应生成氢氧化钙和提高比表面积两个关键环节上,采用了一系列方法提高钙利用率,获得突破性进展。进一步研究了中温范围内脱硫温度对钙利用率的影响,得到700℃时超过95％的钙利用率,为发展中温干式烟气脱硫工艺开辟了新的道路。