Biodiversity of the ectomycorrhiza on the rare and endangered tree species Tuga chinensis tchekiangensis(Flous) Cheng in Wuyishan Nature Reserve

对武夷山国家级自然保护区残遗与濒危树种南方铁杉植物群落历经了6年的调查,共采集了123种外生菌根,经显微与超显微技术鉴定了84种,这一结果是迄今为止已发表的,在同一树种中菌根类型最多的记录.它不仅证明了武夷山地区的菌物区系由于处于东西相连,南北贯通的位置上,而且从区系成分上据有温热两带俱全的特点,因而形成生物多样性,并从共生菌的角度再度揭示了物种协同进化的规律.Systematic investigation was made on ectomycorrhizae in the woods of a variety of Tsuga chinensis,tchekiangensis(Flous) Cheng,in Wuyishan Nature Reserve in the past six years.During that period,120 ectomycorrhiza samples were collected and 84 types identified by analysing their macro-micro-and ultrastructure.This is the first time that so many types of mycorrhiza in the forests of the species are reported on.This result has proved Wuyishan's geographical position at the cross where a fungi growing area links the east and west,south and north.Thus the region owns the characteristics of both the temperate and the subtropical zone and it is thus such peculiarity whereby its biodiversity is created.Moreover,considering the results of this investigation in the regard of symbiosis between plants and fungi,their co-evolution is ascertained once more.国家自然科学基金资助项目(39770004);; 福建省自然科学基金资助项目(C97003,D0410002

Direct observation of sub-threshold field emission from silicon nanomembranes

<p>Excited by an energetic electron beam, field enhanced electron emission from a silicon nanomembrane is examined by using a local current probe. The experiments reveal clear transitions from conventional secondary electron emission (SEE) to sub-threshold field electron emission (SFE) and then to conventional field electron emission (FEE). An electron yield of more than 10 4 is obtained and a model of sub-threshold emission is verified. Ultra sensitive charge/particle detectors could be realized by implementing sub-threshold field emission in nano scale structures, where electron excitations occur within the screen depth of surface electric field.</p

Terahertz filters based on frequency selective surfaces for high-speed terahertz switch

Localized plasmon modes are excited and probed in a large-area grating-gate GaN/AlGaN high-electron-mobility transistor structure embedded in a Fabry-Perot cavity using a terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) at cryogenic temperature. Determined by the length of grating finger and the electron concentration, the frequency of localized plasmon modes can be continuously tuned by the gate voltage in the spectral range from 0.1 THz to 1.5 THz. When the plasmon frequency is tuned to be in resonance with the terahertz Fabry-Perot cavity mode, a strong coupling between the plasmon mode and the cavity mode is observed and the terahertz plasmon-polaritons are formed in such a cavity-coupled two-dimensional electron system. The electromagnetic simulations have confirmed the strong coupling between them