Single nanoparticle(NP)collisions technique has been widely employed in electrocatalysis.However,the short collision duration of single NPs hinders the further improvement in their electrocatalytic performance.Here,to...Single nanoparticle(NP)collisions technique has been widely employed in electrocatalysis.However,the short collision duration of single NPs hinders the further improvement in their electrocatalytic performance.Here,to increase the dynamic collision duration of single NPs in the electron tunneling region,enhanced near-wall hindered diffusion is introduced in the stochastic collision process by coupling a Au ultramicroelectrode(UME)with a confined microchannel.In the case of single palladium nanoparticle(Pd NP)collisions for the hydrogen evolution reaction(HER),the hydrodynamic trapping confined in the microchannel effectively permits the activation of the HER on the single Pd NPs.The microchannel-based Au UME is promising in the application of single-NP collisions to energy conversion.展开更多
We design a channel-drop filter(CDF)with a linear gradient microcavity in a two-dimensional(2D)photonic crystal(PC).The model of three-port CDF with reflector is used to achieve high quality factor(Q-factor)and 100%ch...We design a channel-drop filter(CDF)with a linear gradient microcavity in a two-dimensional(2D)photonic crystal(PC).The model of three-port CDF with reflector is used to achieve high quality factor(Q-factor)and 100%channel-drop efficiency.The research indicates that adjusting the distance between reference plane and reflector can simultaneously influence the Q-factor due to coupling to a bus waveguide and the phase retardation occurring in the round trip between a microcavity and a reflector.The calculation results of 2D finite-difference time-domain(FDTD)method show that the designed filter can achieve the drop efficiency of 96.7%and ultra-high Q-factor with an ultra-small modal volume.展开更多
文摘Single nanoparticle(NP)collisions technique has been widely employed in electrocatalysis.However,the short collision duration of single NPs hinders the further improvement in their electrocatalytic performance.Here,to increase the dynamic collision duration of single NPs in the electron tunneling region,enhanced near-wall hindered diffusion is introduced in the stochastic collision process by coupling a Au ultramicroelectrode(UME)with a confined microchannel.In the case of single palladium nanoparticle(Pd NP)collisions for the hydrogen evolution reaction(HER),the hydrodynamic trapping confined in the microchannel effectively permits the activation of the HER on the single Pd NPs.The microchannel-based Au UME is promising in the application of single-NP collisions to energy conversion.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of the Higher Education Institutions of Guangxi Province in China(No.201202ZD010)
文摘We design a channel-drop filter(CDF)with a linear gradient microcavity in a two-dimensional(2D)photonic crystal(PC).The model of three-port CDF with reflector is used to achieve high quality factor(Q-factor)and 100%channel-drop efficiency.The research indicates that adjusting the distance between reference plane and reflector can simultaneously influence the Q-factor due to coupling to a bus waveguide and the phase retardation occurring in the round trip between a microcavity and a reflector.The calculation results of 2D finite-difference time-domain(FDTD)method show that the designed filter can achieve the drop efficiency of 96.7%and ultra-high Q-factor with an ultra-small modal volume.
