With the increase in the use of electronic devices in many different environments,a need has arisen for an easily implemented method for the rapid,sensitive detection of liquids in the vicinity of electronic component...With the increase in the use of electronic devices in many different environments,a need has arisen for an easily implemented method for the rapid,sensitive detection of liquids in the vicinity of electronic components.In this work,a high-performance power generator that combines carbon nanoparticles and TiO2 nanowires has been fabricated by sequential electrophoretic deposition(EPD).The opencircuit voltage and short-circuit current of a single generator are found to exceed 0.7 V and 100μA when 6μL of water was applied.The generator is also found to have a stable and reproducible response to other liquids.An output voltage of 0.3 V was obtained after 244,876,931,and 184μs,on exposure of the generator to 6μL of water,ethanol,acetone,and methanol,respectively.The fast response time and high sensitivity to liquids show that the device has great potential for the detection of small quantities of liquid.In addition,the simple easily implemented sequential EPD method ensures the high mechanical strength of the device.This compact,reliable device provides a new method for the sensitive,rapid detection of extraneous liquids before they can impact the performance of electronic circuits,particularly those on printed circuit board.展开更多
We show that a doped spin-1/2 ladder with antiferromagnetic intra-chain and ferromagnetic inter-chain coupling is a symmetry protected topologically non-trivial Luttinger liquid.Turning on a large easy-plane spin anis...We show that a doped spin-1/2 ladder with antiferromagnetic intra-chain and ferromagnetic inter-chain coupling is a symmetry protected topologically non-trivial Luttinger liquid.Turning on a large easy-plane spin anisotropy drives the system to a topologically-trivial Luttinger liquid.Both phases have full spin gaps and exhibit power-law superconducting pair correlation.The Cooper pair symmetry is singlet dxy in the non-trivial phase and triplet Sz? 0 in the trivial phase.The topologically non-trivial Luttinger liquid exhibits gapless spin excitations in the presence of a boundary,and it has no non-interacting or mean-field theory analog even when the fluctuating phase in the charge sector is pinned.As a function of the strength of spin anisotropy there is a topological phase transition upon which the spin gap closes.We speculate these Luttinger liquids are relevant to the superconductivity in metalized integer spin ladders or chains.展开更多
基金supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)Canada Research Chairs (CRC) Programs+2 种基金the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51975033)the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (3192020)the China Scholarship Council (CSC) for the graduate fellowship
文摘With the increase in the use of electronic devices in many different environments,a need has arisen for an easily implemented method for the rapid,sensitive detection of liquids in the vicinity of electronic components.In this work,a high-performance power generator that combines carbon nanoparticles and TiO2 nanowires has been fabricated by sequential electrophoretic deposition(EPD).The opencircuit voltage and short-circuit current of a single generator are found to exceed 0.7 V and 100μA when 6μL of water was applied.The generator is also found to have a stable and reproducible response to other liquids.An output voltage of 0.3 V was obtained after 244,876,931,and 184μs,on exposure of the generator to 6μL of water,ethanol,acetone,and methanol,respectively.The fast response time and high sensitivity to liquids show that the device has great potential for the detection of small quantities of liquid.In addition,the simple easily implemented sequential EPD method ensures the high mechanical strength of the device.This compact,reliable device provides a new method for the sensitive,rapid detection of extraneous liquids before they can impact the performance of electronic circuits,particularly those on printed circuit board.
基金supported by the U.S.Department of Energy,Office of Science,Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research,Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing(SciDAC)program
文摘We show that a doped spin-1/2 ladder with antiferromagnetic intra-chain and ferromagnetic inter-chain coupling is a symmetry protected topologically non-trivial Luttinger liquid.Turning on a large easy-plane spin anisotropy drives the system to a topologically-trivial Luttinger liquid.Both phases have full spin gaps and exhibit power-law superconducting pair correlation.The Cooper pair symmetry is singlet dxy in the non-trivial phase and triplet Sz? 0 in the trivial phase.The topologically non-trivial Luttinger liquid exhibits gapless spin excitations in the presence of a boundary,and it has no non-interacting or mean-field theory analog even when the fluctuating phase in the charge sector is pinned.As a function of the strength of spin anisotropy there is a topological phase transition upon which the spin gap closes.We speculate these Luttinger liquids are relevant to the superconductivity in metalized integer spin ladders or chains.
