四川唐、五代观无量寿经变光明转与宝船因素分析

本文着眼于四川唐、五代观无量寿经变中光明转与宝船两种特殊因素,就其图像类型、地域特征及思想意涵进行了系统阐述。光明转图像可分为转中空白与具有佛或佛国两类表现,表述了阿弥陀佛光明最尊最胜、遍照十方佛国的意涵,以及救济众生、劝导信众念佛的功能。宝船图像分为大型龙头式楼船与小型龙舟两类,与净土法门的易行道思想密切关联。光明转与宝船均呈现由川中向川东发展的趋势,唐两京地区可能为四川观无量寿经变的粉本来源地。

Shared Ideas,Divergent Approaches:The Hydromethods of the Great West(Taixi shuifa泰西水法)and the Question on Tides

One of the questions about natural phenomena asked in the Hydromethods of the Great West(Taixi shuifa泰西水法;1612)(hereafter TXSF),composed by the Italian Jesuit Sabatino de Ursis with the support of the Chinese official Xu Guangqi徐光啟,concerns the causes of sea tides.The idiosyncratic answer given in the TXSF serves as an example for the Jesuit missionaries,strategically motivated approach to the transfer of knowledge through the translation of Western scientific thought into Chinese.From a chronological overview of the attempts made both in the East and in the West to theoretically conceptualize the causes of the cyclical occurrence of ebb and flow,the comparison reveals that despite being based on totally different cosmologies,the related insights were virtually on a par.The aim to nevertheless convince the audience of the TXSF of the superiority of Western sciences resulted in a particular rhetoric and a division of tasks in the composition of the tides paragraph.In order to verify the success of this joint effort of de Ursis and Xu Guangqi,a change of perspective from the transmitter to the receiver side is necessary.Thus,the paper also explores the work's reception in later Chinese works dealing with this topic.

Organic indoor light harvesters achieving recorded output power over 500%enhancement under thermal radiated illuminances

Organic photovoltaic(OPV)cells have found their potential applications in the harvest of indoor light photons.However,the output power of such indoor devices is usually far from the demand of the internet of things.Therefore,it is essential to boost the output power of indoor organic photovoltaics to a much higher level.As wildly deployed among industrial and civil luminous environments,thermal radiation-based indoor light sources are alternative candidates to supply the essential power of the off-grid electronics with a broad consecutive emission spectrum.In this work,we evaluated the photovoltaic performance of organic solar cells under indoor incandescent and halogen illuminations.Impressively,under such thermal radiations,an improvement over 500%of the output power density can be achieved in comparison with that under light-emitting diodes and fluorescent lamps,reaching a record high value of 279.1 lWcm^(-2) by the PM6:Y6-based device.The remarkable power output is originated from the extra near-infrared spectrum of indoor thermal lights,which restricts the effective area under 10 cm^(2) in achieving 1 mW output power.This work clarifies the feasibility of collecting photons radiated from indoor thermal light sources through OPV cells,and enlightens the further applications of indoor OPV cells under multiple illumination environments.

High Efficiency Four-Wave Mixing with Relaxation Coupling of Longitude-Optical Phonons in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

The time-dependent analysis of four-wave mixing(FWM) has been performed in four-level double semiconductor quantum wells(SQWs) considering the cross-coupling of the longitude-optical phonons(LOP) relaxation. It is shown that both the amplitude and the conversion efficiency of the FWM field enhance greatly with the increasing strength of cross-coupling of LOP relaxation. Interestingly, a double peak value of the conversion efficiency is obtained under a relatively weak single-photon detuning considering the LOP coupling. When the detuning becomes stronger,the double peaks turn into one peak appearing at the line respect to the about equality two control fields. The results can be interpreted by the effect of electromagnetically induced transparency and the indirect transition. Such controlled high efficiency FWM based on the cross-coupling LOP may have potential applications in quantum control and communications.

Carbon dots embedded in lead-free luminescent metal halide crystals toward single-component white emitters

The development of single-component white emitters for white light-emitting diodes(WLEDs)remains challenging.Herein,a rare earth-free white light-emitting composite is developed by assembling blue-emitting carbon dots(CDs)and yellow-emitting Cs_(2)InCl_(5)·H_(2)O:Sb^(3+)metal halide crystals via a facile liquid-liquid diffusion-assisted crystallization approach.The encapsulation mechanism is then analyzed.Depending on the ratios of blue/yellow emitters,these luminescent composites exhibit white light emission with tunable cold and warm hues.The composites also possess prominent ultraviolet resistance,thermal tolerance,and good stability at about 200°C.By employing such“CDs in metal halide”composites as a converter,a WLED is successfully fabricated with a high color rendering index of 93.6,benefiting from the assembled blue and yellow broadband emission.With this strategy,the developed composites show great promise in next-generation WLED lighting.