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Structural Properties of (Sn1?xMgxO) Thin Films and Optical Parameter Dependence with Gamma Ray Irradiation
摘要： Tin-Magnesium oxide (Sn1?xMgxO) thin films were prepared on glass substrates using the chemical spray pyrolysis technique, whereupon the samples were irradiated by gamma rays using a Co-60 radioactive source. X-ray diffraction showed that all prepared films were polycrystalline in nature with a tetragonal structure and a preferential growth of crystallites in the (110) plane. In general, the average crystallite size, lattice constants, dislocation density and crystallite density decreased with increasing Mg doping from 0% to 8%. Further, atomic force microscopy showed that the thin films were smooth and homogenous. The optical properties were obtained by ultraviolet–visible spectrophotometry, and the transmittance and absorbance spectra before and after gamma ray irradiation were compared for all samples, whereby the absorption and extinction coefficients and real and imaginary parts of the dielectric were studied before and after irradiation. It was found that the energy band gap values decreased from 3.94 eV to 3.72 eV with increasing Mg doping from 0% to 8% before irradiation, and from 3.92 eV to 3.59 eV after irradiation. All optical constants increased with doping percentage before and after irradiation. Energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy showed that all structures contained Sn and O elements in the undoped state, and contained SnO2 and Mg in the doped state.
关键词： doping,SnO2 thin films,gamma ray,energy-dispersive x-ray technology,chemical spray pyrolysis,structural properties
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
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Ultrafast X-ray Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of Gas-Phase Photochemical Reactions: A New Universal Probe of Photoinduced Molecular Dynamics
摘要： Time-resolved spectroscopic investigations of light-induced chemical reactions with universal detection capitalize recently on single-photon molecular probing using laser pulses in the extreme ultraviolet or X-ray regimes. Direct and simultaneous mappings of the time-evolving populations of ground-state reactants, Franck?Condon (FC) and transition state regions, excited-state intermediates and conical intersections (CI), and photoproducts in photochemical reactions utilize probe pulses that are broadband and energy-tunable. The limits on temporal resolution are set by the transit- or dwell-time of the photoexcited molecules at specific locations on the potential energy surface, typically ranging from a few femtoseconds to several hundred picoseconds. Femtosecond high-harmonic generation (HHG) meets the stringent demands for a universal spectroscopic probe of large regions of the intramolecular phase-space in unimolecular photochemical reactions. Extreme-ultraviolet and soft X-ray pulses generated in this manner with few-femtosecond or sub-femtosecond durations have enormous bandwidths, allowing the probing of many elements simultaneously through excitation or ionization of core?electrons, creating molecular movies that shed light on entire photochemical pathways. At free electron lasers (FELs), powerful investigations are also possible, recognizing their higher flux and tunability but more limited bandwidths. Femtosecond time-resolved X-ray transient absorption spectroscopy, in particular, is a valuable universal probe of reaction pathways that maps changes via the fingerprint core-to-valence resonances. The particular power of this method over valence-ionization probes lies in its unmatched element and chemical-site specificities. The elements carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen constitute the fundamental building blocks of life; photochemical reactions involving these elements are ubiquitous, diverse, and manifold. However, table-top HHG sources in the “water-window” region (280?550 eV), which encompasses the 1s-absorption edges of carbon (284 eV), nitrogen (410 eV), and oxygen (543 eV), are far from abundant or trivial. Recent breakthroughs in the laboratory have embraced this region by using long driving-wavelength optical parametric amplifiers coupled with differentially pumped high-pressure gas source cells. This has opened avenues to study a host of photochemical reactions in organic molecules using femtosecond time-resolved transient absorption at the carbon K-edge. In this Account, we summarize recent efforts to deploy a table-top carbon K-edge source to obtain crucial chemical insights into ultrafast, ultraviolet-induced chemical reactions involving ring-opening, nonadiabatic excited-state relaxation, bond dissociation and radical formation. The X-ray probe provides a direct spectroscopic viewport into the electronic characters and configurations of the valence electronic states through spectroscopic core-level transitions into the frontier molecular orbitals of the photoexcited molecules, laying fertile ground for the real-time mapping of the evolving valence electronic structure. The profound detail and mechanistic insights emerging from the pioneering experiments at the carbon K-edge are outlined here. Comparisons of the experimental methodology with other techniques employed to study similar reactions are drawn, where applicable and relevant. We show that femtosecond time-resolved X-ray transient absorption spectroscopy blazes a new trail in the study of nonadiabatic molecular dynamics. Despite table-top implementations being largely in their infancy, future chemical applications of the technique will set the stage for widely applicable, universal probes of photoinduced molecular dynamics with unprecedented temporal resolution.
关键词： time-resolved spectroscopy,photochemical reactions,high-harmonic generation,X-ray transient absorption spectroscopy,nonadiabatic molecular dynamics
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
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Dielectric and piezoelectric properties of Sm3+ doped lead barium niobate (PBN) ceramics
摘要： Rhombohedral samarium doped Lead based ceramic materials were fabricated by a high temperature conventional solid state mixed oxide ceramic process. The ceramic composition Pb1-x-3y/2Bax Re3+ y Nb2O6 (x = 0.35 and y=0.00, 0.02, 0.04 and 0.06, Re3+ = Sm3+). The pure and Sm3+ doped lead barium niobate ceramic materials are single phase with rhombohedral(hexagonal) symmetry obtained from powder x-ray diffraction (XRD). The grain size has been measured for all the compositions and lying between 1.60-2.90μm. Broad dielectric peak phase transitions observed with temperature in pure and Sm3+ ion modified lead barium niobate ceramic materials. It is observed that the high values of piezoelectric charge coefficients in d31 and d33 in Sm3+ doped lead barium niobate ceramics. The mechanical quality factor Qm and d33 increases with increase of Sm3+ ion concentration and indicating a highly polarisable lead ion contributing to high Curie temperature dielectric constant.
关键词： SEM,Piezoelectric properties,Rhombohedral,Synthesis of ceramic compositions,dielectric,X-Ray diffraction
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
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Characterization and on-line adjustment of the sagittal-bent Laue crystal profile
摘要： The sagittal-bent Laue monochromator can provide an ideal way to focus high-energy X-ray beams. However, the anticlastic curvature induced by sagittal bending has a great influence on the crystal performance. Thus, characterizing the bent-crystal shape is very important for predicting the performance of the bent-crystal monochromator. In this paper the crystal profile is measured by off-line optical metrology and on-line X-ray experiments. The off-line results showed that the bent-crystal surface could be well fitted to a saddle surface apart from a redundant cubic term which was related to the different couples applied on the crystal. On-line characterization of the meridional and the sagittal radius of the bent crystal includes double-crystal topography and ray-tracing measurement. In addition, the double-crystal topography experiment could be used as a quick diagnostic method for the bending condition adjustment. The sagittal radius of the bent crystal was characterized through a ray-tracing experiment by using a particularly designed tungsten mask. Moreover, rocking curves under different bending conditions were measured as well. The results were highly consistent with analytical results derived from the elastic theory. Furthermore, radii along different vertical positions under various bending conditions were measured and showed a quadratic relationship between the vertical positions and the meridional radii.
关键词： ray-tracing measurement,double-crystal topography,sagittal-bent Laue crystal,optical metrology,anticlastic curvature
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
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Digital pulse timing with semiconductor gamma-ray detectors using a wavelet transform technique
摘要： Obtaining precise timing information from semiconductor gamma-ray detectors is of great interest for a variety of applications such as high-resolution positron emission tomography. However, pulse timing with these detectors through the common constant-fraction discrimination (CFD) method is strongly affected by the time-walk error that results from the inherent variations in the shape of the detectors’ pulses. This paper reports on the use of the wavelet transform for minimizing the time-walk error in digital CFD pulse timing with semiconductor gamma-ray detectors. The details of the method are described, and the experimental results with a 1 mm thick CdTe detector are shown. It is demonstrated that, by using the Haar wavelet transform of the digitized preampli?er pulses, the original tailed time spectrum of the detector with a time resolution of 8.22 ± 0.12 ns at full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) in the energy range of 300-550 keV improves to a symmetric time spectrum with a time resolution of 3.39 ± 0.02 ns (FWHM).
关键词： wavelet transform,time-walk error,CdTe detector,digital pulse timing,semiconductor gamma-ray detectors
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
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[IEEE 2018 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA) - Cartagena des Indias, Colombia (2018.9.10-2018.9.14)] 2018 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA) - EM Wave Scattering by a Window on a Wall
摘要： Electromagnetic wave scattering by a window on a building wall has been analyzed here as plane wave scattering by a dielectric slab in a thick conducting screen. High frequency asymptotic ray method is utilized for this analysis. Geometrical Theory of Diffraction has been used to obtain the diffracted fields by the edges of the aperture, then ray-mode conversion technique has been applied to get the modal field inside the slit region in order to consider the modal coupling and the re-radiation field. The validity of our formulation has been first tested by comparing the results with those obtained by the Kobayashi Potential method for the relatively narrow slit aperture cases. Then the various numerical calculation results have been made to show the effects of the wall and window thickness, and window’s glasses for practical wireless mobile communication frequencies.
关键词： ray-mode conversion,GTD,EM scattering,thick slit,window
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
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Anisotropic nano-scale resolution in 3D Bragg coherent diffraction imaging
摘要： We demonstrate that the resolution of three-dimensional (3D) real-space images obtained from Bragg coherent x-ray diffraction measurements is direction dependent. We propose and demonstrate the effectiveness of a metric to determine the spatial resolution of images that accounts for the directional dependence. The measured direction dependent resolution of (cid:2)4–9 nm is higher than the best previously obtained 3D measurements. Finally, we quantify the relationship between the resolution of recovered real-space images and dosage and discuss its implications in the light of next generation synchrotrons.
关键词： synchrotrons,resolution,Bragg coherent x-ray diffraction imaging,dosage,direction dependent
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
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Ultrathin Y <sub/>2</sub> O <sub/>3</sub> :Eu <sup>3+</sup> nanodiscs: spectroscopic investigations and evidence for reduced concentration quenching
摘要： Here, we report the synthesis and spectral properties of ultrathin nanodiscs (NDs) of Y2O3:Eu3+. It was found that the NDs of Y2O3:Eu3+ with a thickness of about 1 nm can be fabricated in a reproducible, facile and self-assembling process, which does not depend on the Eu3+ concentration. The thickness and morphology of these NDs were determined with small angle x-ray scattering and transmission electron microscopy. We found that the crystal field in these nanoparticles deviates from both the cubic and monoclinic characteristics, albeit the shape of the 5D0 → 7FJ (J = 0, 1, 2) transitions shows some similarity with the transitions in the monoclinic material. The Raman spectra of the non-annealed NDs manifest various vibration modes of the oleic acid molecules, which are used to stabilise the NDs. The annealed NDs show two very weak Raman lines, which may be assigned to vibrational modes of Y2O3 NDs. The concentration quenching of the Eu3+ luminescence of the NDs before annealing is largely suppressed and might be explained in terms of a reduction of the phonon density of states.
关键词： nanodiscs,small angle x-ray scattering,europium-doped yttrium oxide,Raman spectroscopy,concentration quenching,transmission electron microscopy,luminescence
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
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Li-Tect: 3D Monitoring and Shape Detection using Visible Light Sensors
摘要： In this paper, we propose Li-Tect, an algorithm to detect the shape of an object located in an indoor environment using low cost optical elements through sensing the environment's light. The algorithm analyzes, relying on the predictability of optical propagation paths, how much light is expected to propagate in the absence of obstructions caused by the presence of an object. Then, based on the received light when the object is in the room, the algorithm infers the shape of the object. In addition, the algorithm considers the reflected paths from surfaces in order to determine the object's estimated shape. We study five different scenarios characterized by different levels of complexity, room sizes and a range of reflection nodes. The algorithm is also tested in a real prototype where several experiments are carried out in two scenarios to demonstrate the capabilities of Li-Tect in two and three dimensional monitoring and shape detection cases. Finally, the results show that the shape and the detection of objects in the scenarios can be easily acquired with high accuracy, even if the number of transceivers is reduced.
关键词： Visible Light Sensors,Ray Tracing,Monitoring,Visible Light Communications,Shape Detection
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
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Coherent Tabletop EUV Ptychography of Nanopatterns
摘要： Coherent diffraction imaging (CDI) or lensless X-ray microscopy has become of great interest for high spatial resolution imaging of, e.g., nanostructures and biological specimens. There is no optics required in between an object and a detector, because the object can be fully recovered from its far-field diffraction pattern with an iterative phase retrieval algorithm. Hence, in principle, a sub-wavelength spatial resolution could be achieved in a high-numerical aperture configuration. With the advances of ultrafast laser technology, high photon flux tabletop Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) sources based on the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) have become available to small-scale laboratories. In this study, we report on a newly established high photon flux and highly monochromatic 30 nm HHG beamline. Furthermore, we applied ptychography, a scanning CDI version, to probe a nearly periodic nanopattern with the tabletop EUV source. A wide-field view of about 15 × 15 μm was probed with a 2.5 μm?diameter illumination beam at 30 nm. From a set of hundreds of far-field diffraction patterns recorded for different adjacent positions of the object, both the object and the illumination beams were successfully reconstructed with the extended ptychographical iterative engine. By investigating the phase retrieval transfer function, a diffraction-limited resolution of reconstruction of about 32 nm is obtained.
关键词： high-order harmonic generation,ptychography,lensless X-ray microscopy,Extreme Ultraviolet,Coherent diffraction imaging
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21