Efficient wireless non-radiative mid-range energy transfer

We investigate whether, and to what extent, the physical phenomenon of long-lifetime resonant electromagnetic states with localized slowly-evanescent field patterns can be used to transfer energy efficiently over non-negligible distances, even in the presence of extraneous environmental objects. Via detailed theoretical and numerical analyses of typical real-world model-situations and realistic material parameters, we establish that such a non-radiative scheme can lead to “strong coupling” between two medium-range distant such states and thus could indeed be practical for efficient medium-range wireless energy transfer.     

Synthesis of terpyridine ligands and their complexation with Zn2+ and Ru2+ for optoelectronic applications

A series of soluble conjugated ligands TT , FT , PT , and NT that contained terpyridyl terminal units were synthesized by Heck coupling. These ligands absorbed at 341–434 nm and emitted blue–green light, with maximum at 440–522 nm and photoluminescence quantum yields of 0.15–0.71 in solution. The double‐layer electroluminescent devices with the configuration of ITO/PEDOT/ligand FT , PT , or NT /Ca/Al exhibited a brightness of 43–63 cd/m². These ligands were further reacted with zinc(II) and ruthenium(II) ions and subsequent anion exchange to afford linear and supramolecular complexes. The photophysics of these complexes were investigated. A significant redshift of the emission maximum of the Zn complexes relative to the corresponding ligands was observed. The Ru complexes were used to fabricate photovoltaic devices with the structure ITO/PEDOT/Ru complex/P3HT:PCBM (1:1 wt/wt)/Ca/Al. The power conversion efficiency of these polymer–fullerene bulk heterojunction photovoltaic devices was up to 0.71%. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 46: 7702–7712, 2008     

On Linearized Poisson Structures

It is shown that, up to a diffeomorphism, the linearized Poisson structure does not depend on the choice of the transversal near the zero section.     

Extraordinarily high drive currents in asymmetrical double-gate MOSFETs

Numerical simulation results derived from a Schrödinger–Poisson tool applied to scaled double-gate (DG) MOSFETs, supplemented by analytical characterizations of the pertinent physics, are presented to give insight concerning the near-ideal features of DG devices and to explain how the low-voltage drive current of the asymmetrical DG MOSFET, having only one predominant channel, can be comparable to, and even higher than, that of the symmetrical-gate counterpart designed to have the same off-state current.     

Complete basis set prediction of methanol isotropic nuclear magnetic shieldings and indirect nuclear spin–spin coupling constants (SSCC) using polarization‐consistent and XZP basis sets and B3LYP and BHandH density functionals

Efficient B3LYP and BHandH density functionals were used to estimate methanol's nuclear magnetic isotropic shieldings and spin–spin coupling constants in the basis set limit. Polarization‐consistent pcS‐n and pcJ‐n (n = 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4), and segmented contracted XZP, where X = D, T, Q and 5, basis sets were used and the results fitted with simple mathematical formulas. The performance of the methods was assessed from comparison with experiment and higher level calculations. ¹J(CH) and ³J(HH) values were determined from very diluted solutions in deuterochloroform and compared with theoretical predictions. The agreement between complete basis set (CBS) density functional theory (DFT) predicted isotropic shieldings and spin–spin values and experiment was good. The BHandH/pcS‐n methanol shieldings obtained using structures optimized at the same level of theory are approaching the accuracy of the advanced coupled‐cluster‐singles‐doubles‐approximate triples (CCSD(T)) calculations. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Non-minimal pp-wave Einstein–Yang–Mills–Higgs model: color cross-effects induced by curvature

Non-minimal interactions in the pp-wave Einstein–Yang–Mills–Higgs (EYMH) model are shown to give rise to color cross-effects analogous to the magneto-electricity in the Maxwell theory. In order to illustrate the significance of these color cross-effects, we reconstruct the effective (associated, color, and color-acoustic) metrics for the pp-wave non-minimal seven-parameter EYMH model with parallel gauge and scalar background fields. Then these metrics are used as hints for obtaining explicit exact solutions of the non-minimally extended Yang–Mills and Higgs equations for the test fields propagating in the vacuum interacting with curvature. The influence of the non-minimal coupling on the test particle motion is interpreted in terms of the so-called trapped surfaces, introduced in the Analog Gravity theory.     

光纤—自聚焦棒—反射器耦合系统的后向耦合系数

用光线矩阵方法推导了光纤-自聚焦棒-反射器在共轴耦合情况下的后向耦合系数;分析了它与耦合系统结构参数之间的关系.用计算机模拟画出了反射器为平面镜的系统的后向耦合系数和后向耦合损耗的曲线分布,计算曲线与实验结果大致符合.