Effects of morphologies of (Cd+Te) powders on the properties of sintered CdS/CdTe solar cells

Polycrystalline CdS/CdTe solar cells have been prepared by coating and sintering a CdS slurry and a (Cd+Te) slurry. CdS layers were first formed on borosilicate glass substrates at 600°C in nitrogen and then CdTe layers were formed on the sintered CdS layers at 625°C in nitrogen. The (Cd+Te) slurry contained (Cd+Te) powders mixed in a ball mill for 12–220 h instead of more expensive CdTe powders. The shape of cadmium particles changed from spherical to plate-like and the diameter of the plate-shaped particles became smaller as the ball-milling time increased. In addition, a compound CdTe started to form during a long milling time. The sintered CdTe layers were more compact as the diameter of plate-shaped cadmium particles decreased. However, cracks developed in the sintered CdTe layer when the diameter was small ( 2 m). The efficiency of sintered CdS/CdTe solar cells increased with decreasing particle diameter and then decreased with further decrease in particle diameter. The highest efficiency of 12.1% was achieved using a mixture of (Cd+Te) powders which had plate-shaped cadmium particles with a diameter of 5 m. The results suggest that high-efficiency sintered CdS/CdTe solar cells can be fabricated by using CdTe slurry from the mixture of (Cd+Te) powders with an inexpensive ball-milling process.     

聚砜类原位复合材料加工流变性

合成了含4,4'-二羟基联苯和4,4'-二羟基二苯基甲烷结构的两种液晶共聚酯BP-LCP和BPM-LCP,将其与聚砜共混制备原位复合材料。探讨了共混物在Haake转矩流变仪中密炼时转矩的变化;通过毛细管挤出考察了液晶共聚酯分子结构、分子量及含量变化对原位复合材料流变性能的影响,由流动曲线获得这一类原位复合材料熔体大部分表现为假塑料性非牛顿型流体,但含低分子量BP-LCP20%和BPM-LCP30%的两种原位复合熔体均表现出特殊的流变性:较低剪切速率时为胀塑性流体,较高剪切速率时为假塑性流体。分析了这种现象与液晶共聚酯结构形态的关系。并讨论了增强组份和基体的相容性对原位复合材料流变性的影响。     

压缩应力下（Tb,Dy）Fe2磁致伸缩的研究

本文利用自制的磁致伸缩测量仪和“ｊｕｍｐ”效应测量仪研究了在一定压强了多晶（Ｔｂ、Ｄｙ）Ｆｅ２棒的磁致伸缩,发现加压时,在一定工艺条件下制作的（Ｔｂ、Ｄｙ）Ｆｅ２棒会有磁致伸缩的变化。卸载后经过热处理,磁致伸缩值在不加压时也会维持一个高值。     

抓料自动秤的进展

抓料自动秤的进展施昌彦（中国计量科学研究院）一、定量自动秤和抓料自动秤众所周知,国际法制计量组织（ＯＩＭＬ）制定的第６１号国际建议,对重力式自动装料秤的计量要求、技术要求和测试方法作出了规定［１］。重力式装料秤是根据预定的称量程序,把一批散料按预定的...     

Determination of the average orientation of DNA in the octopus sperm Eledone cirrhossa through polarized light scattering

The coupled-dipole approximation has been used to model polarized light-scattering data obtained from the sperm of the octopus Eledone cirrhosa. Mueller scattering-matrix elements (which describe how a sample alters the intensity and degree of polarization of scattered light) were measured as a function of angle. The sample was modeled as a helical fiber believed to correspond to a DNA protein complex. It was necessary to propose an inherent anisotropy in the polarizability of the fiber in order to fit the data. The direction of the principle axes of the polarizability were determined by comparing the model with experimental data. The results suggest that the 2-nm DNA fibers are perpendicular to the thick fiber that defines the helical geometry of the octopus sperm head.     

Fabry-Perot resonator composed of a photoinduced birefringent fiber grating

The periodic mode coupling between the x- and y-polarization modes that is induced by a photoinduced birefringent fiber grating is analyzed through the use of the coupled-mode theory. A novel Fabry-Perot resonator composed of a photoinduced birefringent fiber grating is proposed and theoretically investigated. In the ideal case, the x- and y-polarization resonances of the resonator coincide with each other because of the polarization power exchange by the photoinduced birefringent grating, which results in the total resonator output's being polarization independent. However, if there are some external perturbations (e.g., temperature change or strain), the phase matching is detuned, which could destroy the coincidence between the two polarization resonances, which can further result in the total output resonance's having two peaks. The separation between these two resonant peaks depends on perturbations of the environment (temperature changes or strain).     

Low-cycle fatigue of polycrystalline α-iron modified by mutually immiscible silver-ion implantation

Cyclic deformations of annealed pure polycrystalline -iron with and without further mutually immiscible silver-ion implantation (90 keV, 6×10¹⁶ ions cm^–2) were studied in a plastic strain-controlled tension-compression fatigue test (triangular loading waveform, frequency 0.02–0.3 Hz, and plastic strain range 3×10^–3–1.2×10^–2). The obtained plastic strain-life (_p-N _f) curves showed that the iron specimens could survive for a greater number of cycles before failure when implanted. Comparison of the cyclic stress-strain curves suggested that the implanted specimens had maintained a relatively more stable microstructural change than those unimplanted ones which had undergone a violent cyclic hardening during cyclic deformation. This is proposed to be a strong indication that the fatigue ductility has been improved and the cross slip of screw dislocations, which leads to the evolution of the persistent slip bands for fatigue damage, was hindered to some extent after ion implantation.     

Flux pinning in high-Tc superconductive films

Magnetization measurements have been performed onc-axis oriented Y- and Gd-based superconductive films in a wide range of the temperaturesT (4.2–85 K) and magnetic fieldsH (0–8 T) withH c-axis. The influence of flux creep on both the temperature dependence of critical current densityJ _cm and the scaling behavior of flux pinning forceF _p has been discussed in detail. The experimental results show that Y and Gd films have different pinning mechanism. Flux pinning-force peaks in high fields are observed in Gd film at high temperatures and can be considered as evidence for collective pinning.     

The Heterointerface between Fe1/NC and Selenides Boosts Reversible Oxygen Electrocatalysis

The rational design and construction of efficient and inexpensive bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts are highly desirable for the development of rechargeable Zn–air batteries (ZABs). Although single-atom Fe sites anchored on N-doped carbon catalysts (Fe₁/NC) ensure high oxygen reduction reaction activity, their unitary atomically dispersed active center faces difficult condition in catalyzing oxygen evolution reaction simultaneously. Herein, a composite catalyst containing heterointerface between Fe₁/NC and selenides ((Fe,Co)Se₂) is constructed. The obtained (Fe,Co)Se₂@Fe₁/NC exhibits extremely narrow potential gap of 0.616 V and remarkable stability in alkaline media, outperforming the benchmark catalysts (Pt/C+RuO₂: 0.720 V). Experimental results and density functional theory calculations reveal that heterointerface between Fe₁/NC and (Fe,Co)Se₂ accelerates the electron transfer and provides more moderate adsorption sites, which endow (Fe,Co)Se₂@Fe₁/NC with extremely high bifunctional oxygen catalytic activity. This study not only provides a superior bifunctional catalyst for ZABs, but also enriches the application of single-atom catalysts in multifunctional energy storage and conversion devices.     

Solution-Mediated Hybrid FAPbI3 Perovskite Quantum Dots for Over 15% Efficient Solar Cell

Organic–inorganic formamidinium lead triiodide (FAPbI₃) hybrid perovskite quantum dot (QD) is of great interest to photovoltaic (PV) community due to its narrow band gap, higher ambient stability, and long carrier lifetime. However, the surface ligand management of FAPbI₃ QD is still a key hurdle that impedes the design of high-efficiency solar cells. Herein, this study first develops a solution-mediated ligand exchange (SMLE) for preparing FAPbI₃ QD film with enhanced electronic coupling. By dissolving optimal methylammonium iodide (MAI) into antisolvent to treat the FAPbI₃ QD solution, the SMLE can not only effectively replace the long-chain ligands, but also passivate the A- and X-site vacancies. By combining experimental and theoretical results, this study demonstrates that the SMLE engineered FAPbI₃ QD exhibits lower defect density, which is beneficial for fabricating high-quality QD arrays with desired morphology and carrier transport. Consequently, the SMLE FAPbI₃ QD based solar cell outputs a champion efficiency of 15.10% together with improved long-term ambient storage stability, which is currently the highest reported value for hybrid perovskite QD solar cells. These results would provide new design principle of hybrid perovskite QDs toward high-performance optoelectronic application.