Measurement of gain spectrum for semiconductor lasers utilizing integrations of product of emission spectrum and a phase function over one mode interval

A technique based on the integrations of the product of amplified spontaneous emission spectrum and a phase function over one mode interval is proposed for measuring gain spectrum for Fabry-Perot semiconductor lasers, and a gain correction factor related to the response function of the optical spectrum analyzer (OSA) is obtained for improving the accuracy of measured gain spectrum. The gain spectra with a difference less than 1.3 cm(-1) from 1500 to 1600 nm are obtained for a 250-mum-long semiconductor laser at the OSA resolution of 0.06, 0.1, 0.2, and 0.5 nm. The corresponding gain correction factor is about 9 cm(-1) at the resolution of 0.5 nm. The gain spectrum measured at the resolution of 0.5 nm has the same accuracy as that obtained by the Hakki-Paoli method at the resolution of 0.06 nm for the laser with the mode interval of 1.3 nm.

Computer-aided design of PV/wind hybrid system

A complete set of match calculation methods for optimum sizing of PV/wind hybrid system is presented. In this method, the more accurate and practical mathematic models for characterizing PV module, wind generator and battery are adopted; combining with hourly measured meteorologic data and load data, the performance of a PV/wind hybrid system is determined on a hourly basis; by fixing the capacity of wind generators, the whole year's LPSP (loss of power supply probability) values of PV/wind hybrid systems with different capacity of PV array and battery bank are calculated, then the trade-off curve between battery bank and PV array capacity is drawn for the given LPSP value; the optimum configuration which can meet the energy demand with the minimum cost can be found by drawing a tangent to the trade-off curve with the slope representing the relationship between cost of PV module and that of the battery. According to this match calculation method, a set of match calculation programs for optimum sizing of PV/wind hybrid systems have been developed. Applying these match calculation programs to an assumed PV/wind hybrid system to be installed at Waglan island of Hong Kong, the optimum configuration and its hourly, daily, monthly and yearly performances are given. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Occupation modulation of higher subbands in a three-barrier tunnelling structure with a magnetic field

We verify that the magnetic suppression of intersubband LO or LA phonon scattering can give rise to a noticeable nonthermal occupation in higher-lying subbands. This is clearly determined by the relative intensity ratio of the interband photoluminescence spectra for the E-2 - HH1 and E-1 - HH1 transitions. The observed phenomenon may provide an effective method to control the intersubband scattering rate, which is a key factor of the so-called quantum cascade lasers. This is helpful for the population inversion between both the subbands in quantum wells.

Nitrogen vacancy scattering in n-GaN grown by metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy

Electron mobility limited by nitrogen vacancy scattering was taken into account to evaluate the quality of n-type GaN grown by metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy. The nitrogen vacancy scattering potential used for our mobility calculation has to satisfy two requirements: such potential is (1) spatially short range, and (2) finite and not divergent at the vacancy core. A square-well potential was adopted to calculate the mobility, because it satisfies not only these two requirements, but also simplifies the calculation. As a result, the estimated mobility shows a T-1/2 temperature dependence, and is very sensitive to the potential well width. After introducing the nitrogen vacancy scattering, we obtained the best fitting between the calculated and experimental results for our high quality sample, and it was found that the measured mobility is dominated by ion impurity and dislocation scatterings at the low temperatures, but dominated by optical phonon and nitrogen vacancy scatterings at the high temperatures. (C) 2000 American Institute of Physics. [S0003-6951(00)04112-7].

用纳米棒ZnO作模板生长无支撑的AlN纳米晶

用金属有机物气相外延在纳米棒ZnO模板上沉积AlN薄膜.SEM测试表明该薄膜形成了一种倾倒纳米棒的表面.而GIXRD测试进一步证实它是纤锌矿结构的AlN,晶粒尺度约为12nm,接近于ZnO纳米棒的直径(30nm).这意味着纳米棒结构的ZnO能限制AlN的横向生长.此外,高温下用H_2刻蚀ZnO直接在生长中实现了外延层的剥离.最终得到了无支撑的AlN纳米晶,完整无破损的区域约为1cm×1cm.定义这个生长机制为"生长-刻蚀-合并"过程.

长白山地区散射辐射与云的关系

根据中国科学院长白山森林生态系统定位站1982—2001年太阳辐射和云的观测资料对散射辐射及散射比进行了分析,探讨了散射辐射及散射比的日、季节、年际变化特征以及云量、云状、太阳高度角与散射辐射及散射比的关系。结果表明:1)散射辐射日变化特点是,中午最大,早晚较小;季节变化特点是,7月最大,年初和年末较小;年际变化特点是从1982—2001年呈减少趋势;散射比1d中中午最小,7月达到最大值,年际变化为0.38～0.55;2)散射辐射及散射比均随高云量或低云量增加而呈增加趋势;散射辐射日平均量及散射比与总云量和低云量的日平均值均呈线性正相关关系,且与总云量的关系比与低云量的关系更密切;3)不同云相比较,散射辐射和散射比最大的是高积云(Ac),卷云(Ci)次之,较小为对流性积云(积雨云Cb、积云Cu),碧空时散射辐射及散射比最小;4)散射辐射随太阳高度角增加而增大,呈二次函数关系;散射比随太阳高度角增加而减小且呈二次函数关系。

稠油污染土壤的生物修复应用研究

目的研究微生物-植物联合对稠油污染土壤的修复效果,为石油污染土壤生物修复技术的应用提供依据.方法将高效降解菌B2020以及B22发酵产生的生物表面活性剂加入稠油污染土壤,再施用复合肥和柴油补充土壤中的营养物质和代谢底物,分析微生物-植物联合修复的效果.结果试验结果表明,降解效果最好的组合为,处理时间为120 d,菌剂(每kg土中)投加量为50 g,生物表面活性剂(每kg土中)投加量为100 g,复合肥(每kg土中)投加量为0.1 g.结论在植物生长初期(40 d),影响石油污染土壤总石油烃(TPH)降解的显著因子为投加菌剂量;植物生长中期和后期(80 d,120 d),影响TPH降解率的因子为生物表面活性剂和施肥水平.