Estimation of surface desorption times in hydrophobically coated nanochannels and their effect on shear-driven and pressure-driven chromatography

The present paper provides a detailed analysis of the analyte-wall adsorption effects in nanochannels, including a random walk study of the analyte-wall collision frequency, and uses these insights to estimate wall desorption times from chromatographic experiments in nanochannels. Using coumarin dye analytes and using a methanol/water mixture buffered at pH 3 in 120-nm deep channels, the surface desorption times on naked fused-silica glass were found to be maximally of the order of 60 to 150 μs, while they were found to be on the order of 100 to 500 μs on a hydrophobically coated wall. These nonzero adsorption and desorption times lead to an additional band broadening when conducting chromatographic separations. Shear-driven flows, requiring a noncoated moving wall and a stationary coated wall, intrinsically turn out to be more prone to this effect than pressure-driven or electro-driven flows for example. The present study also shows that, interestingly, the number of analyte-wall collisions increases with the inverse of the channel depth and not with its second power, as would be expected from the Einstein–Smoluchowski relationship for molecular diffusion.     

Effects of Debye shielding in the electron broadening calculations

The impact broadening by charged electron gas is calculated. A proper account of the Debye screening has been taken as also the curvilinearity of the perturber’s trajectories. The results have been given in the form of graphs for a ready comparison with earlier results.     

Helical-edge transport near ν = 0 of monolayer graphene

The complex nature of filling factor ν = 0 of monolayer graphene is studied in magnetotransport experiments. As a function of perpendicular magnetic field a metal-insulator transition is observed, which is attributed to disorder-induced Landau level broadening in the canted antiferromagnetic phase. In the metallic regime a separation of the zeroth Landau level appears and signs of the quantum spin Hall effect are seen near ν = 0. In addition to local transport, nonlocal transport experiments show results being consistent with helical edge transport.     

Spectroscopic diagnostics of laser-induced plasmas

An overview of spectroscopic diagnostics techniques for low temperature plasmas is presented with an emphasis to electron number density — N_e measurement. Stark broadening of non-hydrogenic atom and positive ion spectral lines is given. The attention is drawn to experimental techniques used for line intensity and line profile measurement. Self-absorption test, importance of Abel inversion, deconvolution of experimental line profiles and measurement of line asymmetry are treated in some detail in order to improve N_e measurements. Finally the sources of theoretical and experimental Stark broadening data are reviewed and some details discussed.     

Experimental study of the depth influence on the band broadening effect in a cyclo-olefin polymer column containing an array of ordered pillars

An experimental study of a micromachined non-porous pillar array column performance under non-retentive conditions is presented. The same pillar structure has been fabricated in cyclo-olefin polymer (COP) chips with three different depths via hot embossing and pressure-assisted thermal bonding. The influence of the depth on the band broadening along with the already known contribution arising from the top and bottom cover plates has been studied. The experimental results exhibit reduced plate heights as low as 0.2, which are in agreement with the previous experimental work. Moreover, the constant values of the reduced Van Deemter expression are also in accordance with the previous studies. A more exhaustive study of the C-term band broadening is also presented, showing that comparing the space between the pillars with different open tubular rectangular channels offers a good estimation of the C-term band broadening that is obtained experimentally. These experimental results, hence, confirm that micromachined pillar array columns fabricated in COP can achieve the same performance as the ones fabricated in silicon for the presently studied pillar channel design.     

Collisional broadening and shifting of the 211-202 transition of H2O, H2O, H2O by atmosphere gases

Broadening and shifting of the 2₁₁-2₀₂ transition of H₂¹⁶O, H₂¹⁷O, H₂¹⁸O by pressure of water, nitrogen and oxygen were precisely measured at room temperature using spectrometer with radio-acoustic detection of absorption. Shift parameters for all studied lines as well as broadening parameters of H₂¹⁷O, H₂¹⁸O lines were measured for the first time. Comparison of obtained results with previously known experimental and theoretical data is presented.     

Measurements of self-broadening and self-pressure-induced shift parameters of the methane spectral lines in the 5556-6166 cm range

The absorption spectra of methane at different path lengths and different pressures for three temperatures 180, 240 and 296 K have been recorded in the 5556-6166 cm⁻¹ region using the Bruker IFS 120 HR and 125 HR high-resolution Fourier transform spectrometers. The multispectrum fitting procedure has been applied to these spectra to recover the spectral line parameters. The main goal of this procedure was the determination of self-broadening and self-pressure-induced shift coefficients and the exponents of their temperature dependences. These parameters have been derived for 406 assigned lines with good values of the signal to noise ratio. The rotational dependence of these parameters is discussed.     

纳米Fe3 O4 颗粒的正电子湮没谱学研究

测量了磁性纳米Fe₃O₄颗粒的X射线衍射谱(XRD)、正电子湮没寿命谱(PALS)和符合多普勒展宽谱(CDBS),研究了不同压力和退火温度对磁性纳米Fe₃O₄颗粒物相、电子结构、缺陷及电子动量分布等的影响. XRD,PALS,CDBS测量结果表明:纳米Fe₃O₄颗粒的缺陷浓度随压力的增加而增大,但物相和缺陷类型并未发生变化;磁性纳米Fe₃O_{4< 关键词： 正电子 3}O₄')" href="#">Fe₃O₄ 寿命谱 多普勒展宽谱     

高密度平面靶等离子体中激光驱动冲击波加速离子的能谱展宽

本文对超短超强激光脉冲辐照高密度等离子体产生的静电冲击波加速离子的能谱展宽机理进行了数值研究.着重讨论了三种冲击波加速离子的能谱展宽机理:能量沉积到离子中使得冲击波前沿不断减速,被加速离子与背景粒子的碰撞,以及高能离子到达靶背面时受到鞘层场进一步加速.还研究了驱动激光脉冲宽度对冲击波加速离子能谱宽度的影响. 关键词： 激光等离子体 冲击波加速 能谱展宽     

掺Er光纤飞秒激光器载波包络位相偏移的探测

本文介绍了基于掺Er光纤飞秒激光器光学频率梳中光学部分的研制. 实验上采用重复频率为230 MHz的掺Er光纤飞秒激光器,通过放大、光谱展宽以及单臂f—2f系统,在优化及分析相关参数影响的基础上,获得了~30 dB信噪比f₀的输出,为光纤光学频率梳的建立奠定了基础. 关键词： 掺Er光纤激光器 光学频率计量 光纤光学频率梳 光谱展宽