Magnetoelectric (ME) Ni/PZT/TbFe2 and TbFe2/PZT composites with two semiring structures are prepared. The dependence between ME coupling and magnetostrictive property of the composite is discussed. Because Ni possesses negative magnetostrictive property and TbFe2 shows positive magnetostrictive property, the ME voltage coefficient of Ni/PZT/TbFe2 semiring structure is much larger than that of TbFe2/PZT. In these composites, the ME voltage coefficient increases and the resonance frequency gradually decreases with the increase of the semiring radius, showing that structural parameters are key factors to the composite properties. Due to the strong ME coupling effect, a giant ME voltage coefficient αE = 44.8 V cm−1 Oe−1 is obtained. This approach opens a way for the design of ME composites with giant ME voltage coefficient.
Tunable wideband microwave bandstop filters have been investigated by experiments and simulations. The negative permeability is realized around the ferromagnetic resonance frequency which can be influenced by the demagnetization factor of the ferrite rods. For the filter composed of two ferrite rods with different size, it exhibits a -3 db stop bandwidth as large as 500 MHz, peak absorption of -40 db and an out-of-stopband insertion loss of -1.5 db. This work provides a new way to fabricate the microwave bandstop filters.
A ferrite-dielectric metamaterial composed of dielectric and ferrite cuboids has been investigated by experiments and simulations. By interacting with the electromagnetic wave, the Mie resonance can take place in the dielectric cuboids and the ferromagnetic precession will appear in the ferrite cuboids. The magnetic field distributions show the electric Mie resonance of the dielectric cuboids can be influenced by the ferromagnetic precession of ferrite cuboids when a certain magnetic field is applied. The effective permittivity of the metamaterial can be tuned by modifying the applied magnetic field. A good agreement between experimental and simulated results is demonstrated, which confirms that these metamaterials can be used for tunable microwave devices.
Magnetically tunable microwave bandpass filter structure have been designed and prepared by filling the ferrite rods into the metallic slits. The electromagnetic wave cannot propagate through the metallic slits. By filling the ferrite rods into the metallic slits, an enhanced optical transmission is obtained, which can be ascribed to the ferromagnetic resonance of the ferrite rods. Both the experimental and the simulated results show the center frequency and bandwidth of the passband can be tuned by the applied magnetic field, which exhibits a magnetically tunable behavior. This approach opens a way for designing tunable microwave bandpass filters.
Light‐harvesting complexes (LHC) in photosynthetic organisms perform the major function of light absorption and energy transportation. Optical spectrum of LHC provides a detailed understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in the excitation energy transfer (EET) processes, which has been widely studied. Here, we study how the geometric property of LHC in Rhodospirillum (Rs.) molischianum would affect its spectral characteristics and energy transfer process. By adopting the effective Hamiltonian and the dipole–dipole approximation, we calculate the exciton level structures for the LH2 ring and LH1 ring and the energy transfer time between different LHCs under various structural parameters and different rotational symmetries. Our numerical results show that the LHC's absorption peaks and the energy transfer time between different LHCs can be modified by changing the geometric configurations. Our study may be beneficial to the applications in designing highly efficient photovoltaic cell and other artificial photosynthetic systems.
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