- 标题
- 摘要
- 关键词
- 实验方案
- 产品
-
Quasi-1D TiS <sub/>3</sub> Nanoribbons: Mechanical Exfoliation and Thickness-Dependent Raman Spectroscopy
摘要： Quasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) materials enjoy growing interest due to their unusual physical properties and promise for miniature electronic devices. However, the mechanical exfoliation of quasi-1D materials into thin flakes and nanoribbons received considerably less attention from researchers than the exfoliation of conventional layered crystals. In this study, we investigated the micromechanical exfoliation of representative quasi-1D crystals, TiS3 whiskers, and demonstrate that they typically split into narrow nanoribbons with very smooth, straight edges and clear signatures of 1D TiS3 chains. Theoretical calculations show that the energies required for breaking weak interactions between the two-dimensional (2D) layers and between 1D chains within the layers are comparable and, in turn, are considerably lower than those required for breaking the covalent bonds within the chains. We also emulated macroscopic exfoliation experiments on the nanoscale by applying a local shear force to TiS3 crystals in different crystallographic directions using a tip of an atomic force microscopy (AFM) probe. In the AFM experiments, it was possible to slide the 2D TiS3 layers relative to each other as well as to remove selected 1D chains from the layers. We systematically studied the exfoliated TiS3 crystals by Raman spectroscopy and identified the Raman peaks whose spectral positions were most dependent on the crystals’ thickness. These results could be used to distinguish between TiS3 crystals with thickness ranging from one to about seven monolayers. The conclusions established in this study for the exfoliated TiS3 crystals can be extended to a variety of transition metal trichalcogenide materials as well as other quasi-1D crystals. The possibility of exfoliation of TiS3 into narrow (few-nm wide) crystals with smooth edges could be important for the future realization of miniature device channels with reduced edge scattering of charge carriers.
关键词： transition metal trichalcogenides,quasi-one-dimensional materials,scanning near-field optical microscopy,Raman spectroscopy,mechanical exfoliation
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
-
Corneal Confocal Microscopy detects a Reduction in Corneal Endothelial Cells and Nerve Fibres in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke
摘要： Endothelial dysfunction and damage underlie cerebrovascular disease and ischemic stroke. We undertook corneal confocal microscopy (CCM) to quantify corneal endothelial cell and nerve morphology in 146 patients with an acute ischemic stroke and 18 age-matched healthy control participants. Corneal endothelial cell density was lower (P < 0.001) and endothelial cell area (P < 0.001) and perimeter (P < 0.001) were higher, whilst corneal nerve fibre density (P < 0.001), corneal nerve branch density (P < 0.001) and corneal nerve fibre length (P = 0.001) were lower in patients with acute ischemic stroke compared to controls. Corneal endothelial cell density, cell area and cell perimeter correlated with corneal nerve fiber density (P = 0.033, P = 0.014, P = 0.011) and length (P = 0.017, P = 0.013, P = 0.008), respectively. Multiple linear regression analysis showed a significant independent association between corneal endothelial cell density, area and perimeter with acute ischemic stroke and triglycerides. CCM is a rapid non-invasive ophthalmic imaging technique, which could be used to identify patients at risk of acute ischemic stroke.
关键词： Corneal Confocal Microscopy,corneal endothelial cells,acute ischemic stroke,corneal nerve fibres
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
-
[Methods in Molecular Biology] Barley Volume 1900 (Methods and Protocols) || Preparation of Barley Pollen Mother Cells for Confocal and Super Resolution Microscopy
摘要： Recombination (crossover) drives the release of genetic diversity in plant breeding programs. However, in barley, recombination is skewed toward the telomeric ends of its seven chromosomes, restricting the re-assortment of about 30% of the genes located in the centromeric regions of its large 5.1 Gb genome. A better understanding of meiosis and recombination could provide ways of modulating crossover distribution and frequency in barley as well as in other grasses, including wheat. While most research on recombination has been carried out in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, recent studies in barley (Hordeum Vulgare) have provided new insights into the control of crossing over in large genome species. A major achievement in these studies has been the use of cytological procedures to follow meiotic events. This protocol provides detailed practical steps required to perform immunostaining of barley meiocytes (pollen mother cells) for confocal or structured illumination microscopy.
关键词： Antibodies,Barley,3D-SIM,Immuno-cytochemistry,Confocal Microscopy,Meiosis
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
-
Flexibly adjustable depth-of-focus photoacoustic microscopy with spatial light modulation
摘要： Through focusing the excitation laser, optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy (OR-PAM) is capable of measuring optical absorption properties down to micrometer-scale lateral resolution within biological tissues. The focused Gaussian beam routinely employed in the OR-PAM setups is inadequate for acquiring the volumetric images of biological specimens with thickness from tens micrometers to millimeter without scanning in depth because of the inconsistent lateral resolution along the depth direction due to its short depth of focus (DoF). Here, we integrate a spatial light modulator (SLM) into the optical path of an OR-PAM for realizing the flexibly adjustable DoF. By simply switching the phase patterns assigned onto the SLM interface, three representative illumination beams are produced, including conventional short-DoF Gaussian beam (GB), needle-like Bessel beam (BB), and extended depth-of-focus beam (EDFB). These modulations can be well realized based on the extended Nijboer-Zernike theory. The photoacoustic excitations show variable DoFs ranging from hundreds of micrometers (GB and BB) up to 1.38 mm (EDFB) but a consistent lateral resolution of (cid:2)3.5 lm. The proposed method is confirmed by volumetric imaging of multiple tungsten fibers positioned at different depths.
关键词： spatial light modulation,photoacoustic microscopy,depth-of-focus,extended depth-of-focus beam,Bessel beam,optical-resolution
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
-
Highly longitudinally polarized coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy with improved spatial resolution
摘要： We proposed a method to enhance the longitudinally polarized component and improve the spatial resolution of radially polarized coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy by phase modulation. A specially designed phase pattern is applied onto the pump beam to suppress the radially polarized ?eld component at the focal region. With this modulation, the calculated intensity ratio between the longitudinally and radially polarized CARS ?eld is increased from 2.57 to 14.7, and the simulation of CARS imaging on a 120 nm polystyrene bead shows more than 3-fold spatial resolution improvement for both forward and backward detection. It is expected that this method could also be applied to other nonlinear optical imaging modalities for enhancing the longitudinally polarized component.
关键词： spatial resolution,microscopy,phase modulation,longitudinally polarized,coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
-
Synthetic Bessel light needle for extended depth-of-field microscopy
摘要： An ultra-long light needle is highly desired in optical microscopy for its ability to improve the lateral resolution over a large depth of field (DOF). However, its use in image acquisition usually relies on mechanical raster scanning, which compromises between imaging speed and stability and thereby restricts imaging performance. Here, we propose a synthetic Bessel light needle (SBLN) that can be generated and scanned digitally by complex field modulation using a digital micromirror device. In particular, the SBLN achieves a 45-fold improvement in DOF over its counterpart Gaussian focus. Further, we apply the SBLN to perform motionless two-dimensional and three-dimensional microscopic imaging, achieving both improved resolution and extended DOF. Our work is expected to open up opportunities for potential biomedical applications.
关键词： depth-of-field microscopy,motionless imaging,Bessel light needle,digital micromirror device
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
-
[IEEE 2018 IEEE International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits (IPFA) - Singapore (2018.7.16-2018.7.19)] 2018 IEEE International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits (IPFA) - Nano C-V imaging of Semiconductor Devices with Scanning Microwave Impedance Microscopy
摘要： Two doped semiconductor samples are measured using probe-based Scanning Microwave Impedance Microscopy (sMIM). One is a plan-view polished CMOS image sensor and the other is a cross-section polished power device. Both samples are imaged with sMIM using two different approaches: the first using a dual pass method with dC/dV images acquired simultaneously with sMIM during the first pass in contact mode, and the second pass at a fixed offset from the surface. The second method uses a non-resonant mode where C-V are acquired at specific lateral locations. The C-V curves are used to determine polarity compared to dC/dV and also to distinguish p-n junctions, characterize doping concentration, and build images at constant DC values to discern subtle changes not evident in traditional SCM imaging.
关键词： Nano-C-V,SCM,Scanning Probe Microscopy,doping characterization,Scanning Microwave Impedance Microscopy,Scanning Capacitance Microscopy,sMIM
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
-
Imaging Supramolecular Morphogenesis with Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy at Elevated Temperatures
摘要： The morphogenesis of supramolecular assemblies is a highly dynamic process that has only recently been recognized, and our understanding of this phenomenon will require imaging techniques capable of crossing scales. Shape transformations depend both on the complex energy landscapes of supramolecular systems and the kinetically controlled pathways that define their structures and functions. We report here the use of confocal laser scanning microscopy coupled with a custom-designed variable-temperature sample stage that enables in situ observation of such shape changes. The submicrometer resolution of this technique allows for real-time observation of the nanostructures in the native liquid environments in which they transform with thermal energy. We use this technique to study the temperature-dependent morphogenic behavior of peptide amphiphile nanofibers and photocatalytic chromophore amphiphile nanoribbons. The variable-temperature confocal microscopy technique demonstrated in this work can sample a large volume and provides real-time information on thermally induced morphological changes in the solution.
关键词： in situ microscopy,confocal microscopy,nanofibers,nanoribbons,supramolecular assembly
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
-
Reference Module in Materials Science and Materials Engineering || Super Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy
摘要： Superresolution in microscopy has intrigued researchers for many years. There is always a challenge in overcoming what seems to be a fundamental limit. Even since the award of the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 2014 for stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy and localization microscopy, there has been continuing activity to improve these techniques, by reducing specimen radiation exposure for example. The term superresolution refers to overcoming the classical limit to resolution, usually defined in terms of either the Abbe resolution limit, or the Rayleigh two-point resolution criterion. These two measures are robust, the Abbe limit in particular providing a hard limit that can only be beaten by a fundamentally new approach, almost like a ‘trick’. Rayleigh recognized that his criterion was arbitrary, but considered it robust enough. Originally defined for incoherent imaging of self-luminous objects, its applicability has been extended to coherent and partially coherent systems, and later to confocal microscopy and other developments. This is usually achieved by the so-called ‘generalized Rayleigh resolution criterion’, according to which two points are taken as being just resolved when the intensity of the image midway between the points is 0.735 times that at the points themselves. It is found that around this value the image contrast changes quickly for a small change in the separation of the points.
关键词： Abbe resolution limit,Rayleigh criterion,Localization microscopy,STED,Superresolution,Microscopy
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
-
Role of microstructure and structural disorder on tribological properties of polycrystalline diamond films
摘要： Polycrystalline diamond films with systematic change in microstructure that varies from microcrystalline to nanocrystalline structure are synthesized on Si by hot filament chemical vapor deposition. The morphology and structural properties of the grown diamond films are analyzed using field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM), atomic force microscope (AFM), X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy. The average roughness and grain size of the diamond films decrease with increase in CH4 to H2 ratio from 0.5 to 3%. Also, structural disorder in these diamond films increases with decrease in grain size as evidenced from Raman spectroscopy. The coefficient of friction (CoF) is found to be very low for all the films. However, the average CoF is found to increase from 0.011 ± 0.005 to 0.03 ± 0.015 as the grain size decrease from ～1 μm down to ～20 nm. Post analysis of wear track by FESEM, AFM based nanoscale friction and Raman spectroscopy reveal that microcrystalline diamond undergoes shear induced amorphization with negligible wear rate while nanocrystalline diamond films undergo shear induced plastic deformation without amorphization. A comprehensive mechanism for the observed CoF is discussed in the framework of microstructure, structural disorder and shear induced tribo-chemical reactions at the sliding interface.
关键词： Raman spectroscopy,Tribology,Diamond,Scanning electron microscopy,Hot filament CVD,Atomic force microscopy
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01