Wen-jing Liu, Jianrong Deng, Dan Zhang, Lijuan Huang, Zhengrui Hu, Shuren Zhou, Hong Zhang, Lijuan Ye, Yuanqiang Xiong, C. Kong, Honglin Li, Wanjun Li
{"title":"Construction of α-Ga2O3-ZnO heterojunction for a promoted performance applied in self-powered solar blind photodetector","authors":"Wen-jing Liu, Jianrong Deng, Dan Zhang, Lijuan Huang, Zhengrui Hu, Shuren Zhou, Hong Zhang, Lijuan Ye, Yuanqiang Xiong, C. Kong, Honglin Li, Wanjun Li","doi":"10.1051/epjap/2022220183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap/2022220183","url":null,"abstract":"Gallium oxide-based photoelectrochemical photodetectors (PEC-PDs) have received extensive attention due to their natural self-powered characteristic and detection capability in solar-blind region. In this work, α-Ga2O3 nanorods-ZnO nanoparticles heterojunction (α-Ga2O3-ZnO) are constructed on FTO conductive glass substrates as photoanodes for PEC-PDs. The efficient regulation of performance for α-Ga2O3-ZnO heterojunction PEC-PDs is achieved by varying the ZnO nanoparticles concentration. Experimental results show that all devices exhibit self-powered solar blind detection characteristics and the performance of devices prepared by α-Ga2O3-ZnO heterojunction is better than that of pristine α-Ga2O3. When the concentration of ZnO nanoparticles reaches to a certain value, the responsivity shows the maximum value as high as 32 mA/W, and the response time is as low as 0.25/0.18 s. Combined with first-principles calculations, the mechanism of the improved performance is discuss in detail. The results reveal that that the contact between α-Ga2O3 and ZnO can induce charges transfer, which constitutes a built-in electric field that acts as a driving force to separate the photogenerated carriers into different sections. This process can effectively prevent the recombination of photogenerated carriers, and prolong the lifetime of e--h+, thus improve the overall detection performance finally. This work will provide meaningful guidance for the development of novel high-performance self-powered solar-blind deep-UV photodetectors.","PeriodicalId":301303,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Applied Physics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129944948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling of nonlinear and hysteretic behaviors in the ferroelectric materials under strong electrical and mechanical driving levels","authors":"A. Rjafallah, Y. Tabbai, A. Hajjaji, C. Ennawaoui","doi":"10.1051/epjap/2022220091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap/2022220091","url":null,"abstract":"The piezo-ceramics have been using in many piezoelectric applications such as transducers, sensors and actuators. Under high mechanical and electrical strengths, the nonlinear behavior observed on these devices can describe by the second order piezoelectric constitutive equations. However, their hysteretic behavior cannot be described by these equations. In this paper, a more general theoretical model was developed to describe the nonlinear and hysteretic behaviors of the piezo-ceramics under high electrical and mechanical strengths. The model, based on the theory of Landau-Devonshire, can simulate the hysteresis cycles under the combined cyclic electric and static mechanical strengths. It can describe the evolution of the relative dielectric permittivity ε33 as a function of the applied electric field. Using the scaling law, it can also describe the evolution of the piezoelectric coefficient d33 as a function of the applied electric field.","PeriodicalId":301303,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Applied Physics","volume":"110 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124118316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis and Experiment of an Airflow Energy Harvester based on Diamagnetic Levitation","authors":"Jingyun Zhang, Yufeng Su","doi":"10.1051/epjap/2022220055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap/2022220055","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a set of energy harvesting structure that can effectively generate electrical power. Diamagnetic levitation structure is reported, with a floating magnet rotor levitated between two pyrolytic graphite plates just using a lifting magnet and airflow. The magnet rotor could be stably suspended under joint action of magnetic forces and diamagnetic forces, being driven to rotate by airflow. Three magnet rotors, with 1.5 mm, 3 mm and 4.5 mm thickness respectively, were adopted in the study so as to investigate the influence of structural parameters of the magnet rotor on the performance of the harvester. Simulation and experiment were carried out for the three magnet rotors. Among the tree magnet rotros, the 1.5mm-thick one has the best output performance , with the lowest dynamic stability. Therefore, the energy harvester is to find tradeoff between output characteristics and dynamics. In this work, it was discovered that the peak output voltage of the energy harvester increased with the square of flowrate. As the flowrate increased to 3000 sccm, the 1.5mm-thick rotor was rotating at a speed of 19729 rpm under standard temperature and pressure, with 1.255V output voltage and 98mW power. The diamagnetic levitation structure is expected to be applied to sensing, energy harvesting and air bearing under actuation of airflow due to its advantages of low friction, high rotation speed and large levitation space.","PeriodicalId":301303,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Applied Physics","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126199006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effective optical path length measurement of integrating cavity using time-resolved spectroscopy and tunable diode laser absorption \u0000spectroscopy","authors":"Xue Zhou, Haiwei Li, Peng Hu","doi":"10.1051/epjap/2022220076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap/2022220076","url":null,"abstract":"Integrating cavities are commonly used in trace gas detection and weak absorption measurement. Effective optical path length (EOPL) is an important index to evaluate the ability of increasing optical path length for an integrating cavity. The EOPL has been studied to be related to inner surface reflectivity, cavity shape and dimension, port fraction. For different spectroscopic techniques, whether the EOPL variation tendency is universally valid is investigated in this work. The EOPLs of a cubic integrating cavity in different port fractions have been measured using time-resolved spectroscopy and tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) respectively. With the increasing of the port fraction, the EOPL reduces gradually. However, measured EOPL results shows a deviation between the two technique methods. By analyzing, the deviation is caused by a reflectivity difference of the inner coating at different laser wavelength for the two spectral methods. By introduction of the reflectivity correction, the deviation could be eliminated. This demonstrates that EOPL extending law of integrating cavity was universally valid in different spectroscopy application.","PeriodicalId":301303,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Applied Physics","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114819464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}