A technique is described for fabricating arrays of
uniform CdS nanowires with lengths up to 1 μm and
diameters
as small as 9 nm by electrochemically depositing the semiconductor
directly into the pores of anodic aluminum
oxide films from an electrolyte containing Cd2+ and S in
dimethyl sulfoxide. The nanowire arrays were
characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) and electron
microscopy. The deposited material is found
to be hexagonal CdS with the crystallographic c-axis
preferentially oriented along the length of the pore.
The effects of annealing on the crystallinity of the deposited
semiconductor were investigated by XRD and
resonance Raman spectroscopy. The deposition technique is, in
principle, generalizable as a means of
fabricating nanowires of a wide range of semiconductors.
Highly ordered hexagonal arrays of parallel metallic nanowires (Ni, Bi) with diameters of about 50 nm and lengths up to 50 μm were synthesized by electrodeposition. Hexagonal-close-packed nanochannel anodized aluminum oxide film was used as the deposition template. The deposition was performed in an organic bath of dimethylsulfoxide with metal chloride as the electrolyte. A high degree of ordering and uniformity in these arrays can be obtained with this technique by fine-tuning the electrodeposition parameters. Moreover, an unprecedentedly high level of uniformity and control of the wire length was achieved. The arrays are unique platforms for explorations of collective behavior in coupled mesoscopic systems, and are useful for applications in high-density data storage, field emission displays, and sensors.
A U-shape probe for microwave resonance in plasma was investigated in a range of high pressure (10-760 Torr). The electromagnetic field finite difference time domain-simulation of the probe revealed that, in the resistive resonance at high pressure, the resonant frequency f r approaches the dipole-antenna resonance frequency in vacuum, with almost no dependence on the electron density n e . However, the resonance width f is sensitive to the pressure, showing the maximum value at ∼20 Torr. The normalized resonance width ( f/f r ) corrected by the one of vacuum value (no plasma) is linearly proportional to n e , and inversely proportional to ν m (electron-molecule collision frequency) for high-pressure plasmas. These simulation results are successfully explained in a model of two-conductor transmission line in cold collisional plasma. According to the resonance analysis, the methods for measuring the electron density and the electron collision frequency at high pressures (ν 2 m ω 2 , ω 2 p ) were proposed.
We propose a novel scheme to generate ultrawideband (UWB) monocycle pulses based on cross-phase modulation (XPM) of a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). The proposed system consists of a SOA and an optical bandpass filter (OBF). Due to the XPM, a continuous wave (CW) probe signal is phase modulated by another optical Gauss pulse in the SOA. The OBF will convert the phase modulation to intensity modulation. A pair of polarity-reversed UWB monocycle pulses is achieved by locating the probe carrier at the positive and negative linear slopes of the OBF. Both cases conform to the UWB definition of the Federal Communications Commission.
We demonstrate chip-based Tbaud optical signal processing for all-optical performance monitoring, switching and demultiplexing based on the instantaneous Kerr nonlinearity in a dispersion-engineered As(2)S(3) planar waveguide. At the Tbaud transmitter, we use a THz bandwidth radio-frequency spectrum analyzer to perform all-optical performance monitoring and to optimize the optical time division multiplexing stages as well as mitigate impairments, for example, dispersion. At the Tbaud receiver, we demonstrate error-free demultiplexing of a 1.28 Tbit/s single wavelength, return-to-zero signal to 10 Gbit/s via four-wave mixing with negligible system penalty (< 0.5 dB). Excellent performance, including high four-wave mixing conversion efficiency and no indication of an error-floor, was achieved. Our results establish the feasibility of Tbaud signal processing using compact nonlinear planar waveguides for Tbit/s Ethernet applications.
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