With the help of scattering-matrix method, the acoustic phonon ballistic transmission and the thermal conductivity are studied detailedly in a four-terminal structure. We find that the transmission coefficients and th...With the help of scattering-matrix method, the acoustic phonon ballistic transmission and the thermal conductivity are studied detailedly in a four-terminal structure. We find that the transmission coefficients and the reduced thermal conductance for each region sensitively depend on geometric parameters, and are of quantum character, but the reduced total thermal conductance for all regions seems independent of structure parameters when the temperature is not very low. Our results show that one can control the thermal conductivity for each region to match practical requirements in devices by adjusting the geometric parameters.展开更多
Electron transport properties of a triple-terminal Aharonov-Bohm interferometer are theoretically studied.By applying a Rashba spin-orbit coupling to a quantum dot locally, we find that remarkable spin polarization co...Electron transport properties of a triple-terminal Aharonov-Bohm interferometer are theoretically studied.By applying a Rashba spin-orbit coupling to a quantum dot locally, we find that remarkable spin polarization comesabout in the electron transport process with tuning the structure parameters, i.e., the magnetic flux or quantum dotlevels. When the quantum dot levels are aligned with the Fermi level, there only appear spin polarization in thisstructure by the presence of an appropriate magnetic flux. However, in absence of magnetic flux spin polarization andspin separation can be simultaneously realized with the adjustment of quantum dot levels, namely, an incident electronfrom one terminal can select a specific terminal to depart from the quantum dots according to its spin state.展开更多
We report a theoretic study on the inverse spin-Hall effect (ISHE) in a two-terminal nano-device that consists of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) and two ideal leads....We report a theoretic study on the inverse spin-Hall effect (ISHE) in a two-terminal nano-device that consists of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) and two ideal leads. Based on a two-site toy model and Keldysh Green's function method, we derive an analytic result of ISHE, which shows clearly that a nonzero transverse charge current stems from the combined effect of the RSOC, the spin bias, and its spin polarization direction in spin space. Our further numerical calculations in a larger system other than two-site lattice model demonstrate that the transverse charge current, dependent on the strength of the RSOC, the Fermi energy of the system, as well as the system size, can exhibit oscillating behavior and even reverse its sign due to Rashba spin precession. These properties may be helpful for eficient detection of the spin current (spin bias) by measuring the transverse charge current in a spin-orbital coupling system.展开更多
This article aims at characterization and assessment of the financial behaviors of rural dwellers on non-cash payment markets and identification of factors determining the intensity of using individual methods of paym...This article aims at characterization and assessment of the financial behaviors of rural dwellers on non-cash payment markets and identification of factors determining the intensity of using individual methods of payment by the inhabitants of rural areas. The main source of data used for analysis and inference was information originating from the authors' own investigations conducted in 2013 on a group of 500 rural households and on a group of 150 trade and service points operating in non-urbanized areas. This work made use of statistical summary measures and Z2 independence test. According to the results of the conducted studies, forms of payment used by rural dwellers depend on many variables, of demographic, economic, and psychological character. Cash payments are more frequently used by persons possessing vocational or secondary education, elderly people, old-age pensioners, annuitants, or households with lower incomes. Also, persons who do not trust financial institutions or do not perceive benefits resulting from the use of non-cash instruments prefer cash. It is a group of households which require urgent educational activities in the area of non-cash payment instruments. A significant barrier to using non-cash payment instruments by rural dwellers was a limited access to non-cash channels. It is connected in the first place with a poorer development of financial infrastructure in rural areas (banks or cash points), insufficient Internet access conditioning a possibility to use electronic banking points, and also a worse development of credit card acceptance network. As has been demonstrated by the results of conducted studies, the main reason for a lack of point of sale (POS) terminals in retail and service-providing points operating in rural areas, in the opinion of their owners, is the very high interchange fee (50% indications), which under Polish conditions is one of the highest in the European Union (EU).展开更多
An adaptive object tracking algorithm based on particle filtering and a modified Gradient Vector Flow (GVF) Snake is proposed for tracking moving and deforming objects. The original contours of objects are obtained by...An adaptive object tracking algorithm based on particle filtering and a modified Gradient Vector Flow (GVF) Snake is proposed for tracking moving and deforming objects. The original contours of objects are obtained by using the background differencing method,and the true contours of objects can be converged by means of the powerful searching ability of a modified GVF-Snake. Finally,an Energetic Particle Filtering (EPF) algorithm is obtained by combining particle filtering and a modified GVF-Snake,and by using K-means and the EPF algorithm,multiple objects can be tracked. The proposed tracking tactic for partially occluded objects can effectively improve its anti-occlusion ability. Experiments show that this algorithm can obtain better tracking effect even though the tracked object is occluded.展开更多
The scandium terminal imido complex supported by a monoanionic tetradentate NNNN ligand, [LSc=N(DIPP)](L = [MeC(N(DIPP))CHC(Me)(NCH2CH2N(Me)CH2CH2NMe2]-, DIPP = 2,6-(iPr)2C6H3)(1), undergoes a C–N bond cleavage at el...The scandium terminal imido complex supported by a monoanionic tetradentate NNNN ligand, [LSc=N(DIPP)](L = [MeC(N(DIPP))CHC(Me)(NCH2CH2N(Me)CH2CH2NMe2]-, DIPP = 2,6-(iPr)2C6H3)(1), undergoes a C–N bond cleavage at elevated temperature to give a mononuclear scandium anilido intermediate 2a, which subsequently aggregates into a binuclear scandium anilido complex 2. The mononuclear intermediate 2a reacts with alkyne or imine to provide two scandium anilido complexes 3 and 4, which contain a dianionic tetradentate NNNC ligand or a dianionic tetradentate NNNN ligand. DFT calculations on the reaction mechanism of C–N bond cleavage in 1 were also performed.展开更多
The effect of terminal groups on the electron transport through metal-molecule-metal system has been investigated using nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism combined with extended Huckel theory (EHT). ...The effect of terminal groups on the electron transport through metal-molecule-metal system has been investigated using nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism combined with extended Huckel theory (EHT). Au-molecule-Au junctions are constructed with borazine and BCN unit structure as core molecule and sulphur (S), oxygen (O), selenium (Se) and cyano-group (CN) as terminal groups. The electron transport characteristics of the borazine and BCN molecular systems are analyzed through the transmission spectra and the current-voltage curve. The results demonstrate that the terminal groups modifying the transport behaviors of these systems in a controlled way. Our result shows that, selenium is the best linker to couple borazine to Au electrode and oxygen is the best one to couple BCN to Au electrode. Furthermore, the results of borazine systems are compared with that of BCN molecular systems and are discussed. Simulation results show that the conductance through BCN molecular systems is four times larger than the borazine molecular systems. Negative differential resistance behavior is observed with borazine-CN system and the saturation feature appears in BCN systems.展开更多
The detection of protein/small molecule interactions plays important roles in drug discovery and protein/metabolite interactions in biology. In this work, by coupling the terminal protection of small molecule-linked s...The detection of protein/small molecule interactions plays important roles in drug discovery and protein/metabolite interactions in biology. In this work, by coupling the terminal protection of small molecule-linked ss DNA strategy with the unmodified and positively charged gold nanoparticle((+)Au NP) nanoprobes, we have developed a sensitive and simple colorimetric sensor for the detection of folate receptor, a highly expressed protein in many kinds of malignant tumors. The target folate receptor binds the folate moieties of the folate-linked ss DNA through high affinity interactions and protects the protein-bound ss DNA from digestion by exonuclease I. The protected ss DNA thus adsorbs the((+)Au NP) through electrostatic interactions, leading to a red-to-blue color change of the sensing solution for sensitive colorimetric detection of folate receptor at the sub-nanomolar level. Besides, this colorimetric sensor shows high selectivity toward folate receptor against other control proteins. The developed sensor avoids the modification/conjugation of the Au NP nanoprobes and the involvement of any expensive instruments for signal transduction in protein detection. Featured with these obvious advantages, the colorimetric sensor strategy demonstrated herein can be easily expanded for sensitive and convenient detection of various protein/small molecule interactions.展开更多
Despite its four valence electrons,carbon can at most form triple bond in ordinary organic complexes.Quadruple bonds for carbon had been considered as impossible for a long time.Recently we showed that quadruple bondi...Despite its four valence electrons,carbon can at most form triple bond in ordinary organic complexes.Quadruple bonds for carbon had been considered as impossible for a long time.Recently we showed that quadruple bonding is viable in a triatomic uranium carbide oxide molecule CUO,where the terminal C is quadruply bonded with U via its nearly unhybridized 2s-and2p-orbitals.Here we extend this new concept to a series of diatomic molecules consisting of tetravalent p-,d-,and f-elements and terminal carbide.Investigation has been focused on a series of CM-type molecules with possible quadruply-bonded carbon(QBC),CB?,CTi,CZr,CHf,CV+,CNb+,CTa+,and isoelectronic species of CUO.We have performed natural bond orbital(NBO),natural resonance theory(NRT),and atom-in-molecule(AIM)analyses at both density functional theory(DFT)and ab initio CASSCF levels to provide evidence for the feasibility of carbon quadruple bond in these systems.Our calculation results show that the C?M bond orders in these QBC species are comparable to that in CUO,indicating terminal carbides can have novel quadruple bonding when appropriate orbitals are available in the adjacent atoms.展开更多
基金The project supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province of China under Grant No. 2003ABA004
文摘With the help of scattering-matrix method, the acoustic phonon ballistic transmission and the thermal conductivity are studied detailedly in a four-terminal structure. We find that the transmission coefficients and the reduced thermal conductance for each region sensitively depend on geometric parameters, and are of quantum character, but the reduced total thermal conductance for all regions seems independent of structure parameters when the temperature is not very low. Our results show that one can control the thermal conductivity for each region to match practical requirements in devices by adjusting the geometric parameters.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.10847109the Education Department of Liaoning Province under Grant No.2009A309
文摘Electron transport properties of a triple-terminal Aharonov-Bohm interferometer are theoretically studied.By applying a Rashba spin-orbit coupling to a quantum dot locally, we find that remarkable spin polarization comesabout in the electron transport process with tuning the structure parameters, i.e., the magnetic flux or quantum dotlevels. When the quantum dot levels are aligned with the Fermi level, there only appear spin polarization in thisstructure by the presence of an appropriate magnetic flux. However, in absence of magnetic flux spin polarization andspin separation can be simultaneously realized with the adjustment of quantum dot levels, namely, an incident electronfrom one terminal can select a specific terminal to depart from the quantum dots according to its spin state.
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.10704016National Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under Grant No.BK2007100New Teacher Fund of Ministry of Education of China under Grant No.20070286036
文摘We report a theoretic study on the inverse spin-Hall effect (ISHE) in a two-terminal nano-device that consists of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) and two ideal leads. Based on a two-site toy model and Keldysh Green's function method, we derive an analytic result of ISHE, which shows clearly that a nonzero transverse charge current stems from the combined effect of the RSOC, the spin bias, and its spin polarization direction in spin space. Our further numerical calculations in a larger system other than two-site lattice model demonstrate that the transverse charge current, dependent on the strength of the RSOC, the Fermi energy of the system, as well as the system size, can exhibit oscillating behavior and even reverse its sign due to Rashba spin precession. These properties may be helpful for eficient detection of the spin current (spin bias) by measuring the transverse charge current in a spin-orbital coupling system.
文摘This article aims at characterization and assessment of the financial behaviors of rural dwellers on non-cash payment markets and identification of factors determining the intensity of using individual methods of payment by the inhabitants of rural areas. The main source of data used for analysis and inference was information originating from the authors' own investigations conducted in 2013 on a group of 500 rural households and on a group of 150 trade and service points operating in non-urbanized areas. This work made use of statistical summary measures and Z2 independence test. According to the results of the conducted studies, forms of payment used by rural dwellers depend on many variables, of demographic, economic, and psychological character. Cash payments are more frequently used by persons possessing vocational or secondary education, elderly people, old-age pensioners, annuitants, or households with lower incomes. Also, persons who do not trust financial institutions or do not perceive benefits resulting from the use of non-cash instruments prefer cash. It is a group of households which require urgent educational activities in the area of non-cash payment instruments. A significant barrier to using non-cash payment instruments by rural dwellers was a limited access to non-cash channels. It is connected in the first place with a poorer development of financial infrastructure in rural areas (banks or cash points), insufficient Internet access conditioning a possibility to use electronic banking points, and also a worse development of credit card acceptance network. As has been demonstrated by the results of conducted studies, the main reason for a lack of point of sale (POS) terminals in retail and service-providing points operating in rural areas, in the opinion of their owners, is the very high interchange fee (50% indications), which under Polish conditions is one of the highest in the European Union (EU).
基金Supported by the Significant Term of Science and Technology Research in Ministry of Education (No. 205060)Open Research Fund of National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory,Southeast University (N200911)+2 种基金Significant Basic Research of Jiangsu Province Colleges and Universities Natural Science Projects (07 KJA51006)Research Fund of Nanjing College of Traffic Vocational Technology (JY0903)Huawei Science and Technology Fund
文摘An adaptive object tracking algorithm based on particle filtering and a modified Gradient Vector Flow (GVF) Snake is proposed for tracking moving and deforming objects. The original contours of objects are obtained by using the background differencing method,and the true contours of objects can be converged by means of the powerful searching ability of a modified GVF-Snake. Finally,an Energetic Particle Filtering (EPF) algorithm is obtained by combining particle filtering and a modified GVF-Snake,and by using K-means and the EPF algorithm,multiple objects can be tracked. The proposed tracking tactic for partially occluded objects can effectively improve its anti-occlusion ability. Experiments show that this algorithm can obtain better tracking effect even though the tracked object is occluded.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21325210,21132002,21121062)the State Key Basic Research&Development Program(2012CB821600)the CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams.
文摘The scandium terminal imido complex supported by a monoanionic tetradentate NNNN ligand, [LSc=N(DIPP)](L = [MeC(N(DIPP))CHC(Me)(NCH2CH2N(Me)CH2CH2NMe2]-, DIPP = 2,6-(iPr)2C6H3)(1), undergoes a C–N bond cleavage at elevated temperature to give a mononuclear scandium anilido intermediate 2a, which subsequently aggregates into a binuclear scandium anilido complex 2. The mononuclear intermediate 2a reacts with alkyne or imine to provide two scandium anilido complexes 3 and 4, which contain a dianionic tetradentate NNNC ligand or a dianionic tetradentate NNNN ligand. DFT calculations on the reaction mechanism of C–N bond cleavage in 1 were also performed.
基金Supported by DST-FIST Project.financial support from DST-FIST, Government of India
文摘The effect of terminal groups on the electron transport through metal-molecule-metal system has been investigated using nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism combined with extended Huckel theory (EHT). Au-molecule-Au junctions are constructed with borazine and BCN unit structure as core molecule and sulphur (S), oxygen (O), selenium (Se) and cyano-group (CN) as terminal groups. The electron transport characteristics of the borazine and BCN molecular systems are analyzed through the transmission spectra and the current-voltage curve. The results demonstrate that the terminal groups modifying the transport behaviors of these systems in a controlled way. Our result shows that, selenium is the best linker to couple borazine to Au electrode and oxygen is the best one to couple BCN to Au electrode. Furthermore, the results of borazine systems are compared with that of BCN molecular systems and are discussed. Simulation results show that the conductance through BCN molecular systems is four times larger than the borazine molecular systems. Negative differential resistance behavior is observed with borazine-CN system and the saturation feature appears in BCN systems.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21505010, 21173274)Chongqing Research Program of Basic Research and Frontier Technology (cstc2015jcyj A1357)Scientific Research Innovation Team of Chongqing University of Technology (2015TD22)
文摘The detection of protein/small molecule interactions plays important roles in drug discovery and protein/metabolite interactions in biology. In this work, by coupling the terminal protection of small molecule-linked ss DNA strategy with the unmodified and positively charged gold nanoparticle((+)Au NP) nanoprobes, we have developed a sensitive and simple colorimetric sensor for the detection of folate receptor, a highly expressed protein in many kinds of malignant tumors. The target folate receptor binds the folate moieties of the folate-linked ss DNA through high affinity interactions and protects the protein-bound ss DNA from digestion by exonuclease I. The protected ss DNA thus adsorbs the((+)Au NP) through electrostatic interactions, leading to a red-to-blue color change of the sensing solution for sensitive colorimetric detection of folate receptor at the sub-nanomolar level. Besides, this colorimetric sensor shows high selectivity toward folate receptor against other control proteins. The developed sensor avoids the modification/conjugation of the Au NP nanoprobes and the involvement of any expensive instruments for signal transduction in protein detection. Featured with these obvious advantages, the colorimetric sensor strategy demonstrated herein can be easily expanded for sensitive and convenient detection of various protein/small molecule interactions.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(20933003,11079006,91026003)
文摘Despite its four valence electrons,carbon can at most form triple bond in ordinary organic complexes.Quadruple bonds for carbon had been considered as impossible for a long time.Recently we showed that quadruple bonding is viable in a triatomic uranium carbide oxide molecule CUO,where the terminal C is quadruply bonded with U via its nearly unhybridized 2s-and2p-orbitals.Here we extend this new concept to a series of diatomic molecules consisting of tetravalent p-,d-,and f-elements and terminal carbide.Investigation has been focused on a series of CM-type molecules with possible quadruply-bonded carbon(QBC),CB?,CTi,CZr,CHf,CV+,CNb+,CTa+,and isoelectronic species of CUO.We have performed natural bond orbital(NBO),natural resonance theory(NRT),and atom-in-molecule(AIM)analyses at both density functional theory(DFT)and ab initio CASSCF levels to provide evidence for the feasibility of carbon quadruple bond in these systems.Our calculation results show that the C?M bond orders in these QBC species are comparable to that in CUO,indicating terminal carbides can have novel quadruple bonding when appropriate orbitals are available in the adjacent atoms.