Detection of incoherent broadband terahertz light using antenna-coupled high-electron-mobility field-effect transistors

The sensitivity of direct terahertz detectors based on self-mixing of terahertz electromagnetic wave in field-effect transistors is being improved with noise-equivalent power close to that of Schottky-barrier-diode detectors. Here we report such detectors based on AlGaN/GaN two-dimensional electron gas at 77~K are able to sense broadband and incoherent terahertz radiation. The measured photocurrent as a function of the gate voltage agrees well with the self-mixing model and the spectral response is mainly determined by the antenna. A Fourier-transform spectrometer equipped with detectors designed for 340, 650 and 900~GHz bands allows for terahertz spectroscopy in a frequency range from 0.1 to 2.0~THz. The 900~GHz detector at 77~K offers an optical sensitivity about $1~\mathrm{pW/\sqrt{Hz}}$ being comparable to a commercial silicon bolometer at 4.2~K. By further improving the sensitivity, room-temperature detectors would find applications in active/passive terahertz imaging and terahertz spectroscopy.Comment: 4.5 pages, 5 figure

Theoretical Studies of Metal-N-C for Oxygen Reduction and Hydrogen Evolution Reactions in Acid and Alkaline Solutions

单原子催化剂（SAC）由于其低成本和在各种电催化反应中潜在的高催化活性而被认为是铂族金属的有前景的替代材料,但仍然缺乏对不同金属氮碳材料催化剂之间活性差异的原子机理的理解。在此,通过实验和理论研究相结合,研究了非贵金属氮碳材料（Me-N-C,Me = Fe和Co）作为模型催化剂,以探索在普遍的pH值下氧还原反应（ORR）和氢析出反应（HER）的催化活性以及相对应的反应机理。原子理论模拟表明,Fe-N-C具有比Co-N-C高的ORR活性,这是因为其速率决定步骤的反应势垒较低,而HER的活性趋势却相反。我们的模拟结果与实验观察结果一致。Single atom catalysts (SAC) have been regarded as the promising alternatives to platinum group metals due to their low costs and potentially high catalytic activities in various electrocatalytic reactions. The atomic mechanism understanding of activity discrepancy among different metal and nitrogen co-doped carbon-based catalysts is still lacking. Here, non-precious metal and nitrogen co-doped carbons (Me-N-C, Me = Fe and Co) as the model catalysts are investigated by combining experimental and theoretical studies to explore the catalytic activities and corresponding reaction mechanisms toward oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) at universal pHs. Atomic theoretical simulations suggest that Fe-N-C has higher ORR activity than Co-N-C due to its lower reaction barrier of the rate-determining step, while the activity trend is reversed for HER. Our simulation results are consistent with experimental observations.通讯作者:秦雪苹,邵敏华E-mail:[email protected];[email protected]:Xue-PingQin,Min-HuaShaoE-mail:[email protected];[email protected].化工与生物工程系,香港科技大学,香港 9990772.能源材料与电信研究中心,魁北克 加拿大1. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong 999077, China2. INRS-énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, 1650 Boulevard Lionel Boulet, Varennes, Québec, Canada J3X 1S

Electrochemiluminescence Imaging Hydrogen Evolution Reaction on Single Platinum Nanoparticles Using a Bipolar Nanoelectrode Array

本文制备了嵌于多孔阳极氧化铝（AAO）膜中直径为200 nm,间距为450 nm的高密度（5.7 × 108 cm-2）的金纳米电极阵列,纳米电极分布规则,尺寸高度均一。我们将该金纳米电极阵列作为双极电极阵列,可将电极一侧的电化学法拉第信号在另一侧电极上转化成电致化学发光（ECL）信号,从而实现对单个铂纳米颗粒上氢气析出反应（HER）进行亚微米空间分辨率的电化学成像。本文介绍的方法为高空间分辨率成像电催化材料、能源材料以及细胞过程的局部电化学活性提供了一个良好的平台。A high-density (5.7 × 108 cm-2) nanoelectrode array with the electrode diameter of 200 nm and the interelectrode distance of 450 nm were fabricated. The nanoelectrode array consisted of gold nanowires embedded in a porous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) matrix, having regular nanoelectrode distribution and highly uniform nanoelectrode size. The gold nanoelectrode array was used as a closed bipolar nanoelectrode array combined with electrochemiluminescence (ECL) method to map the electrocatalytic activity of platinum nanoparticles toward hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) by modifying the catalysts on single nanoelectrodes. Results show that HER on single bipolar nanoelectrodes could be imaged with the sub-micrometer spatial resolution. The present approach offers a platform to image local electrochemical activity of electrocatalytic materials, energy materials and cellular processes with high spatial resolution.通讯作者:夏兴华E-mail:[email protected]:Xing-HuaXiaE-mail:[email protected]生命分析化学国家重点实验室,南京大学化学化工学院,江苏 南京State Key Lab of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu Chin

Experimental observation of spontaneous chaotic current oscillations in GaAs/Al0.45Ga0.55As superlattices at room temperature

Spontaneous self-sustained chaotic current oscillations are observed experimentally in lightly-doped weakly-coupled GaAs/<br />Al0.45Ga0.55As superlattices at room temperature for the first time. The mole fraction of Aluminum in the barrier is chosen to be<br />0.45 to suppress the thermal carrier leakage through the X-band valley. The effective nonlinearity induced by the sequential<br />well-to-well resonant tunneling can still be strong enough to induce spontaneous chaotic current oscillations even at room temperature. The frequency spectrum of the chaotic current oscillations is ranged from DC to 4 GHz, which can be used as ultra-wide-band noise sources with a bandwidth of several Giga Hertz

Electrodeposition of Amorphous Fe Cr Alloy Coating

本实验通过控制镀液组成和操作条件获得了非晶态铁－铬合金镀层．实验分析了ｐＨ值、电流密度以及镀层中铬含量对所形成镀层的非晶态结构的影响．阳极极化曲线测量结果表明，与晶态镀层相比，非晶态镀层具有较高的耐蚀性．The amorphous Fe Cr alloy coatings were obtained by controlling the composition of bath operation conditions. It was found that the pH value, the current density and the content of chromium in Fe Cr alloy coatings effect the amorphous structure of the coatings. The result of anodic polarization shows that the corrosion resistance of the amorphous coatings in acidic media is higher than the corrosion resistance of the crystal ones.作者联系地址：上海大学化工系Author's Address: Chemical Engi. Dept., Shanghai University, Shanghai 20007

Electrocatalysis of Myoglobin-chitosan-Au Colloid Film Modified Glass Carbon Electrode

在pH 5.4的HAc-NaAc缓冲溶液中,肌红蛋白-壳聚糖-金胶薄膜修饰电极(Mb-Ch itosan-Au colloid/GCE)于-0.20 V(vs.Ag/AgC l)处有一对准可逆的氧化还原峰,即Mb血红素辅基Fe(Ⅲ)/Fe(Ⅱ)电对的特征峰.本实验条件下,肌红蛋白与玻碳电极之间的电子传递明显加快,并考察了扫速、溶液pH及支持电解质浓度等因素对肌红蛋白电子传递的影响.紫外光谱图表明:肌红蛋白在壳聚糖-金胶溶液中依然保持其原始构象.该肌红蛋白-壳聚糖-金胶纳米修饰电极还能电催化溶解氧的还原.The cyclic voltammgram of Mb/AAO/Au Colloid/GCE shows a pair of well-defined and nearly reversible peaks at about-0.20 V(vs.Ag/AgCl) in 0.1 mol/L NaAc-HAc buffer(pH = 5.4),being the characteristic peaks of the Mb heme Fe(Ⅲ) / Fe(Ⅱ)redox couples.The electron transfer between Mb and the electrode was greatly enhanced under present testing conditions.The effects of scan rate,pH and buffers concentration on the electrochemical behaviors of Mb were studied in detail.Position of the Soret absorbance band suggested that Mb in chitosan-colloidal gold hept its secondary structure similar to the native states.Oxygen was catalytically reduced by Mb in chitosan-colloidal gold films.作者联系地址：东北电力大学化学工程学院;东北师范大学化学学院;Author's Address: 1.College of Chemical Engineering,Northeast Dianli University,Jilin 132012,Jilin,China;2.Faculty of Chemistry,Nontheast Normal University,Changchun 130024,Chin

Enhancement of terahertz coupling efficiency by improved antenna design in GaN/AlGaN high electron mobility transistor detectors

<div id="articleAbsctract"> <p> An optimized micro-gated terahertz detector with novel triple resonant antenna is presented. The novel resonant antenna operates at room temperature and shows more than a 700% increase in photocurrent response compared to the conventional bowtie antenna. In finite-difference-time-domain simulations, we found the performance of the self-mixing GaN/AlGaN high electron mobility transistor detector is mainly dependent on the parameters <em>L</em>_{<font size="2">gs</font>} (the gap between the gate and the source/drain antenna) and <em>L</em>_{<font size="2">w</font>} (the gap between the source and drain antenna). With the improved triple resonant antenna, an optimized micrometer-sized AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor detector can achieve a high responsivity of 9.45 <strong>&times;</strong> 10^{<font size="2">2</font>} V/W at a frequency of 903 GHz at room temperature.</p> </div

Fabrication of Polyvinyl Alcohol Arrays and the Direct Electrochemistry of Adsorbed Cytochrome c

利用自组装法以聚苯乙烯有序多孔膜为膜板制备聚乙烯醇微透镜阵列膜.在pH6.89的磷酸盐(PBS)缓冲溶液中,固载在聚乙烯醇微透镜阵列膜修饰的玻碳电极上的细胞色素c于0.072V(vs·Ag/AgCl)处显示一对准可逆的氧化还原峰,是细胞色素c血红素辅基Fe(Ⅲ)/Fe(Ⅱ)电对的特征峰.考察了扫速、溶液pH及支持电解质浓度等因素对细胞色素c电子传递的影响,体系的表观异相电子传递速率常数k0为2.98×10-6cm·s-1.Regular polyvinyl alcohol arrays were prepared with porous polystyrene films by a self-assembly method. Cyt c immobilized on PVA microlens arrays modified glassy carbon electrodes gave a pair of stable,well-defined and quasi-reversible cyclic voltammetric peaks at about 0.072 V (vs. Ag/AgCl) in 0.1 mol/L PBS buffer (pH = 6.89) solution. The effects of scan rate,pH and concentration of buffers on the electrochemical behaviors of Cyt c were studied in detail. The apparent heterogeneous electron transfer rate constant (k0) was evaluated to be 2.98×10-6 cm·s-1.作者联系地址：东北电力大学化学工程学院;吉林大学超分子结构与材料重点实验室;Author's Address: 1.College of Chemical Engineering,Northeast Dianli University,Jilin 132012,Jilin,China;2.Key Lab for Supramolecular Structure and Materials,Jilin University,Changchun 130023,Chin