Asymmetric Light Excitation for Photodetectors Based on Nanoscale Semiconductors

ACS Nano ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 549-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuang Liang ◽  
Feifan Wang ◽  
Ze Ma ◽  
Nan Wei ◽  
Gongtao Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Light Excitation ◽  
Nanoscale Semiconductors

scholarly journals Elemental composition control of gold-titania nanocomposites by site-specific mineralization using artificial peptides and DNA

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Makoto Ozaki ◽  
Takahito Imai ◽  
Takaaki Tsuruoka ◽  
Shungo Sakashita ◽  
Kin-ya Tomizaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visible Light ◽  
Elemental Composition ◽  
Inorganic Compounds ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Induction Effect ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Composition Control ◽  
Light Excitation ◽  
Titania Photocatalyst ◽  
Scale Control

AbstractBiomineralization, the precipitation of various inorganic compounds in biological systems, can be regulated in terms of the size, morphology, and crystal structure of these compounds by biomolecules such as proteins and peptides. However, it is difficult to construct complex inorganic nanostructures because they precipitate randomly in solution. Here, we report that the elemental composition of inorganic nanocomposites can be controlled by site-specific mineralization by changing the number of two inorganic-precipitating peptides bound to DNA. With a focus on gold and titania, we constructed a gold-titania photocatalyst that responds to visible light excitation. Both microscale and macroscale observations revealed that the elemental composition of this gold-titania nanocomposite can be controlled in several ten nm by changing the DNA length and the number of peptide binding sites on the DNA. Furthermore, photocatalytic activity and cell death induction effect under visible light (>450 nm) irradiation of the manufactured gold-titania nanocomposite was higher than that of commercial gold-titania and titania. Thus, we have succeeded in forming titania precipitates on a DNA terminus and gold precipitates site-specifically on double-stranded DNA as intended. Such nanometer-scale control of biomineralization represent a powerful and efficient tool for use in nanotechnology, electronics, ecology, medical science, and biotechnology.

scholarly journals A Unified Mathematical Formalism for First to Third Order Dielectric Response of Matter: Application to Surface-Specific Two-Colour Vibrational Optical Spectroscopy

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christophe Humbert ◽  
Thomas Noblet
Keyword(s):  
Dielectric Response ◽  
Structure And Properties ◽  
Linear Optics ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Mathematical Functions ◽  
Sum Frequency ◽  
Non Linear Optics ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Light Excitation

To take advantage of the singular properties of matter, as well as to characterize it, we need to interact with it. The role of optical spectroscopies is to enable us to demonstrate the existence of physical objects by observing their response to light excitation. The ability of spectroscopy to reveal the structure and properties of matter then relies on mathematical functions called optical (or dielectric) response functions. Technically, these are tensor Green’s functions, and not scalar functions. The complexity of this tensor formalism sometimes leads to confusion within some articles and books. Here, we do clarify this formalism by introducing the physical foundations of linear and non-linear spectroscopies as simple and rigorous as possible. We dwell on both the mathematical and experimental aspects, examining extinction, infrared, Raman and sum-frequency generation spectroscopies. In this review, we thus give a personal presentation with the aim of offering the reader a coherent vision of linear and non-linear optics, and to remove the ambiguities that we have encountered in reference books and articles.

Highly efficient green-emitting phosphor Sr4Al14O25:Ce,Tb with low thermal quenching and wide color gamut upon UV-light excitation for backlighting display applications

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haoran Li ◽  
Yujun Liang ◽  
Shiqi Liu ◽  
Weilun Zhang ◽  
Yanying Bi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Uv Light ◽  
Thermal Quenching ◽  
High Response ◽  
Color Gamut ◽  
Ultraviolet Excitation ◽  
Highly Efficient ◽  
Near Ultraviolet ◽  
Wide Color Gamut ◽  
Light Excitation

Highly-efficient and stable inorganic phosphors with high response to near-ultraviolet excitation are essential to the performance enhancement of the phosphor converted backlighting devices. Herein, highly-efficient green-emitting phosphors Sr4Al14O25:Ce,Tb (SAO:Ce3+,Tb3+) with...

Preparation of Visible-Light-Responsive TiO2-xNx Photocatalyst by a Very Simple Method

2011 ◽  
Vol 383-390 ◽  
pp. 3188-3191
Author(s):  
Han Jie Huang ◽  
Wen Long She ◽  
Ling Wen Yang ◽  
Hai Peng Huang
Keyword(s):  
Photocatalytic Activity ◽  
Visible Light ◽  
Photoelectron Spectroscopy ◽  
Diffuse Reflection ◽  
Ammonia Solution ◽  
Reflection Spectra ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Simple Method ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Light Excitation

A visible-light-responsive TiO2-xNx photocatalyst was prepared by a very simple method. Ammonia solution was used as nitrogen resource in this paper. The TiO2-xNx photocatalyst was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET), UV-Vis diffuse reflection spectra (DRS), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The ethylene was selected as a target pollutant under visible light excitation to evaluate the activity of this photocatalyst. The new prepared TiO2-xNx photocatalyst with strong photocatalytic activity under visible light irradiation was demonstrated in the experiment.

ROOM TEMPERATURE PHOTOLUMINESCENCE OF POLYCRYSTALLINE SIC PREPARED FROM CARBON-SATURATED SI MELT

2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (06n07) ◽  
pp. 1047-1051
Author(s):  
JIANPING MA ◽  
ZHIMING CHEN ◽  
GANG LU ◽  
MINGBIN YU ◽  
LIANMAO HANG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Photoelectron Spectroscopy ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Uv Light ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Room Temperature Photoluminescence ◽  
Composition And Structure ◽  
Light Excitation ◽  
Scanning Electron

Intense photoluminescence (PL) has been observed at room temperature from the polycrystalline SiC samples prepared from carbon-saturated Si melt at a temperature ranging from 1500 to 1650°C. Composition and structure of the samples have been confirmed by means of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy. PL measurements with 325 nm UV light excitation revealed that the room temperature PL spectrum of the samples consists of 3 luminescent bands, the peak energies of which are 2.38 eV, 2.77 eV and 3.06 eV, respectively. The 2.38 eV band is much stronger than the others. It is suggested that some extrinsic PL mechanisms associated with defect or interface states would be responsible to the intensive PL observed at room temperature.

Exciton–exciton interaction under elliptically polarized light excitation

1996 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 1000 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Robart ◽  
T. Amand ◽  
X. Marie ◽  
M. Brousseau ◽  
J. Barrau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Polarized Light ◽  
Exciton Interaction ◽  
Light Excitation ◽  
Elliptically Polarized Light ◽  
Elliptically Polarized
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