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We design and numerically investigate a perfect narrow band absorber based on a metal-metal-dielectric-metal structure which consists of periodic metallic nanoribbon arrays. The absorber presents an ultra narrow absorption band of 1.11 nm with a nearly perfect absorption of over 99.9% in the infrared region. For oblique incidence, the absorber shows an absorption more than 95% for a wide range of incident angles from 0 to 50°. Structure parameters to the influence of the performance are investigated. The structure shows high sensing performance with a high sensitivity of 1170 nm/RIU and a large figure of merit of 1054. The proposed structure has great potential as a biosensor.

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The effects of an external magnetic field on Nd:YAG laser-produced Sn plasma have been investigated. The characteristics of ion debris from Sn plasma, emission spectra, and EUV radiation have been studied by the time-of-flight method and the optical emission spectroscopy. Our results show that the ion kinetic energies of the plume species can be effectively reduced with a modest magnetic field of 0.6 T. With the presence of a magnetic field, the spectral intensities of Sn I and Sn II show significant enhancement and the electron density of plasma is about 2 times higher. We have not found any influence of magnetic field on the characteristics of EUV emissions.

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Results of polarized neutron diffraction on the compound CeB 6 are used to obtain its magnetization density distribution. The measurements are performed at two different points of the magnetic phase diagram (phase I and II). The data are analysed in direct space using the maximum entropy method, as well as in reciprocal space using the cerium form factor expansion and anisotropy. The conclusion is that, in both phases, the magnetization is localized on the cerium sites only. This result is in contradiction to a recent paper by Saitoh et al (2002 J. Phys. Soc. Japan 71 2369), claiming that, in phase II, a localized spin moment was observed at non-atomic sites.

Angular-resolved ion time-of-flight spectra as well as extreme ultraviolet radiation in laser-produced tin droplet plasma are investigated experimentally and theoretically. Tin droplets with a diameter of 150 μm are irradiated by a pulsed Nd:YAG laser. The ion time-of-flight spectra measured from the plasma formed by laser irradiation of the tin droplets are interpreted in terms of a theoretical elliptical Druyvesteyn distribution to deduce ion density distributions including kinetic temperatures of the plasma. The opacity of the plasma for extreme ultraviolet radiation is calculated based on the deduced ion densities and temperatures, and the angular distribution of extreme ultraviolet radiation is expressed as a function of the opacity using the Beer–Lambert law. Our results show that the calculated angular distribution of extreme ultraviolet radiation is in satisfactory agreement with the experimental data.