Effect of aluminium doping on structural and gas sensing properties of zinc oxide thin films deposited by spray pyrolysis

A facile spray pyrolysis route is used to deposit aluminium doped ZnO (AZO) thin films on to the glass substrates. It is observed that on aluminium doping the particle size of ZnO reduces significantly; moreover, uniformity of particle also gets enhanced. Their XRD study reveals that intensity ratio of crystal planes depend on the aluminium doping concentration. The gas response studies of; ∼800 nm thick Al-doped ZnO films at different operating temperatures show that 5 at% Al-doped ZnO thin film exhibits highest response towards H₂S gas at 200 °C. The results suggest that the gas response strongly depends on the particle size and aluminium doping in the ZnO.     

Color discrimination enhancement for dichromats using self-organizing color transformation

Color deficient persons, especially dichromats, have difficulty in discriminating certain kinds of colors. To help dichromats discriminate colors better, a color transformation method is proposed. The method utilizes the redundancy of color information, changing the colors of a scene into discernable ones for dichromats. The self-organizing map (SOM) algorithm is used to build a nonlinear color map, maintaining the neighboring relations between colors. Results of both subjective observation and quantitative evaluation show that the method can effectively enhance the color discrimination for dichromats. This study provides a new approach to rectify color vision deficiency.     

浊点萃取分光光度法测头发中锌的含量

针对传统萃取分光光度法测定头发中的锌含量,需要使用苯、四氯化碳等有机毒性试剂萃取锌-双硫腙疏水配合物,存在污染环境和操作费时之弊端,采用浊点萃取法代替有机毒性试剂萃取锌-双硫腙红色疏水配合物,用分光光度法测定人发中的锌含量.选择湿法消化处理头发试样,选取非离子表面活性剂曲拉通X-114和硫酸铵作为浊点萃取体系,对锌-双硫腙红色疏水配合物进行浊点萃取;实验测定了浊点萃取物的最大吸收波长、萃取剂的浓度、萃取剂的测定、硫酸铵的用量及显色体系的pH和显色剂的用量对吸光度的影响,并进行回收率实验.实验结果表明浊点萃取的配合物最大吸收波长为527 nm、质量分数2％的萃取剂为0.3～1.0 mL、硫酸铵1.2g、pH为4.5、显色剂的用量为0.2～0.8 mL,锌含量的线性范围为0.2～1.2 μg/mL,线性回归方程为A=0.435 9 c（μg/mL） ＋0.014 8,相关系数r=0.997 3,表观摩尔吸光系数为5.894×10 000 L/（mol·cm）,测定结果的相对偏差为2.4％,回收率为98.76％～102.2％.用该法测定头发中的微量锌,结果令人满意,对食品中微量锌的测定具有一定应用价值.     

Comparison of structural and photoluminescence properties of ZnO thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition and ultrasonic spray pyrolysis

ZnO thin films have been deposited by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) and ultrasonic spray pyrolysis (USP) method, respectively. X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy characterizations indicate that ZnO film grown by PLD exhibits better crystallinity than that grown by USP. Photoluminescence spectra show that the near-band edge ultraviolet emission of film grown by PLD is narrower and shifts to higher energy, compared with that of film grown by USP. In the visible range, ZnO film grown by PLD exhibits four local level emission centered at 470 nm, 486 nm, 544 nm, and 613 nm, respectively, while the film grown by USP only presents a weak broad band emission centered at 502 nm. Hall measurement shows higher carrier density and lower hall mobility in ZnO film grown by PLD than that in film grown by USP. The higher density of intrinsic defects as well as higher crystallintiy is considered to account for the difference of photoluminescence in ZnO film grown by PLD with that in film grown by USP.     

锌精矿多种金属分离新工艺研究

以内蒙较大型锌矿选矿精矿为研究对象,最终确立焙烧-硫酸浸锌、铜-氰化浸银工艺。Zn、Cu、Ag浸出率分别为95.01%、94.13%、89.10%,并具有试剂耗量低、技术简单、易实施等优势。     

Inside Front Cover: Self‐Assembled Highly Faceted Wurtzite‐Type ZnS Single‐Crystalline Nanotubes with Hexagonal Cross‐Sections (Adv. Mater. 16/2005)

Highly faceted wurtzite‐type ZnS nanotubes with hexagonal cross‐section morphologies have been self‐assembled via a controllable high‐temperature thermal‐chemical reaction route in work reported by Yin and co‐workers on p. 1972. The self‐assembly growth along c‐axis to highly hexagonal‐faceted ZnS single‐crystalline nanotubes is associated with the crystallographic characteristics, such as the non‐central and polar surfaces of the wurtzite‐type ZnS structure. The faceted ZnS nanotubes grow along the <0001> direction, and are closed by low‐index faces of non‐polar {1000} faces. The inside cover and insets show electron microscopy and scanning electron microscopy images of the faceted ZnS nanotubes.     

Second harmonic generation in self-assembled ZnO microcrystallite thin films

The second-order non-linear susceptibility components were measured using 1.064 μm incident light for ZnO thin films of various thicknesses from 24.4 to 283 nm self-assembled on sapphire substrates by laser molecular beam epitaxy. It was found that the values of the non-linear susceptibility for the films are almost the same as those of bulk material, except the samples with thicknesses ranging from 35 to 64.8 nm, which show a large enhancement effect. For the sample with a thickness of 44.4 nm, the second-order non-linear susceptibility components were found to be approximately 14.7 pm/v for d₃₁, 15.2 pm/v for d₁₅, and −83.7 pm/v, a value approximately 14 times that of the bulk material, for d₃₃. The second-order non-linear coefficient enhancement in the thin films may be resulted from the microcrystallite structures.