Exciton emission dynamics in single InAs/GaAs quantum dots due to the existence of plasmon-field-induced metastable states in the wetting layer

A very long lifetime exciton emission with non-single exponential decay characteristics has been reported for single InA-s/GaAs quantum dot(QD)samples,in which there exists a long-lived metastable state in the wetting layer(WL)through radiative field coupling between the exciton emissions in the WL and the dipole field of metal islands.In this article we have proposed a new three-level model to simulate the exciton emission decay curve.In this model,assuming that the excitons in a metastable state will diffuse and be trapped by QDs,and then emit fluorescence in QDs,a stretchedlike exponential decay formula is derived as I(t)=At^(β−1)e^(−(rt)^(β)),which can describe well the long lifetime decay curve with an analytical expression of average lifetime(τ)=1/rГ(1/β+1),where G is the Gamma function.Furthermore,based on the proposed three-level model,an expression of the second-order auto-correlation function g^(2)(t)which can fit the measured g^(2)(t)curve well,is also obtained.

Kinetics Study on Reaction of Atenolol with Singlet Oxygen by Directly Monitoring the^(1)O_(2)Phosphorescence

The pharmaceuti-cally active com-pound atenolol,a kind of β-blockers,may result in ad-verse effects both for human health and ecosystems if it is excreted to the surface water resources.To e ectively remove atenolol in the environ-ment,both direct and indirect photodegradation,driven by sunlight play an important role.Among indirect photodegradation,singlet oxygen(^(1)O_(2)),as a pivotal reactive species,is likely to determine the fates of atenolol.Nevertheless,the kinetic information on the re-action of atenolol with singlet oxygen has not been well investigated and the reaction rate constant is still ambiguous.Herein,the reaction rate constant of atenolol with singlet oxy-gen is investigated directly through observing the decay of the^(1)O_(2)phosphorescence at 1270 nm.It is determined that the reaction rate constant between atenolol and^(1)O_(2)is 7.0×10^(5)(mol/L)^(-1)·s^(-1)in D2O,8.0×10^(6)(mol/L)^(-1)·s^(-1)in acetonitrile,and 8.4×10^(5)(mol/L)^(-1)·s^(-1)in EtOH,respectively.Furthermore,the solvent effects on the title reaction were also inves-tigated.It is revealed that the solvents with strong polarity and weak hydrogen donating ability are suitable to achieve high rate constant values.These kinetics information on the reaction of atenolol with singlet oxygen may provide fundamental knowledge to the indirect photodegradation of β-blockers.

Temperature dependent terahertz giant anisotropy and cycloidal spin wave modes in BiFeO3 single crystal

THz time-domain spectroscopy(THz-TDS)is used to study the THz-optical properties of a single crystal bismuth ferrite BiFeO3(BFO).It can be found that the anisotropy of BiFeO3 is strongly dependent on the temperature.A giant birefringence up to around 3.6 is observed at 1 THz.The presence of a spatially modulated cycloidal antiferromagnetic structure leads to spin cycloid resonances(SCR)ψandΦ,corresponding to the out-of-plane and in-plane modes of the spin cycloid,respectively.We distinguish the SCR with respect to their response to orthogonal polarizations of the electric fields of the incident THz beam.In addition,we observe a resonance appearing below 140 K,which might be interpreted as an electromagnon mode and related to a spin reorientation transition.Our present observations present that the temperature and polarization,as the external control parameters,can be used to modulate the THz optical properties of BFO single crystal.