Chemistry behind optoelectronics
By using this blog you will be able to understand the way of synthesizing the emissive materials and their characterization techniques that can be used to fabricate optoelectronic devices.
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
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Friday, December 3, 2021
Omicron Variant (NEW COVID Variant)
Omicron is the name of the new covid 19 variant that just might be the scariest version of COVID-19. Omicron variance is spreading and started from the South Africans being spreading in different parts of the world. Omicron variant is a newly found variant, and it is found at least 100 individuals affected in South Africa, apart from South Africa, there are different places of the world that Hong Kong UK Belgium, is, well Denmark.
World Health Organization did just announce that this Omicron coronavirus B.1.1.529 has been elevated to a variance of concern. It was found this variant has over 30 mutations in the spike protein and that's raising concerns. The number of mutations is much greater in the omicron than in the delta. But there's a high level of concern, especially because of how fast this virus is Spreading there.
The question is, will our vaccines still be effective against the Omicron variant? That was a concern when Delta came out and our vaccines are the main effective against Delta but Delta doesn't have the same number of mutations as Omicron.
Is it possible that the new variant is in the US as of right
now, there are no confirmed cases here but it's only a matter of time?
| The image was taken from www.usatoday.com |
References:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/03/who-says-omicron-covid-variant-has-spread-to-38-countries.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/12/01/covid-omicron-vaccines-testing-requirements/8814830002/
Thursday, November 18, 2021
What is exciton?
There are valence and conduction bands in materials, are atoms, the valence bands are filled. While the conduction band is empty at ground state energy between the valence and conduction, the band is a forbidden band, which is also known as the band. When we provide sufficient energy to the electrons, this energy excites the electron, and the electron jumps from the valence band to the conduction band. It leaves a hole in the valence band. Now, this hole in the valence band and the electron in the conduction band are attracted to each other by the electrostatic force of attraction and make an electron-hole pair. This bound state of the electron-hole pair is known as an exciton.
There are two main types of excitons. Wannier-Mott excitons, which is also known as free, excitons and Frankel excitons, also known as bound excitons. Wannier-Mott excitons are mainly observed in semiconductors, They have a sufficiently large radius that encompasses, many atoms and can move freely throughout the crystal. Franklin are bound excitons are mainly observed in insulators. Bound excitons by contrast have a much smaller radius and are comparable to the size of the unit cell. This makes them localized states which are tightly bound to specific atoms or molecules. That is why they are known as Bound excitons.
| This image was taken from Kéna-Cohen, S., Strong exciton-photon coupling in organic semiconductor microcavities. Princeton University: 2010. |
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This paper is published by Loredana Protesescu & V. Kovalenko et al in Nano letters in 2015 ( Nano Lett. 2015 , 15 , 6 , 3692–3696) . ...
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There are valence and conduction bands in materials, are atoms, the valence bands are filled. While the conduction band is empty at grou...
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https://www.seedr.cc/ Seedr is a versatile and innovative cloud-based platform that revolutionizes the way users manage and ac...