The mechanisms of acupuncture remain poorly understood, but it is generally assumed that measuring the electrical conductivity at various meridians provides data representing various meridian energies. In the past, noninvasive methods have been used to stimulate the acupuncture points at meridians, such as heat, electricity, magnets, and lasers. Photoluminescent bioceramic (PLB) material has be...

We describe waveguides of photoluminescent silicon-rich silicon dioxide, which have been patterned by triangular two-dimensional ~2D! photonic crystals to give higher-order photonic bandgaps occurring within the luminescence band of the core material. Photonic crystal modification of the photoluminescence spectrum allows identification of angle-tuned photonic bandgaps, in close agreement with 2...

We investigate the effect of synthesized time on the structure, as well as optical properties in ZnWO4 nano rod prepared by hydrothermal method. The prepared rods were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Raman scattering, absorption and photoluminescent (PL) spectra techniques. The size and morphology of ZnWO4 nano-rod can be controlled by adjusting the...

Excimer laser pulsed deposition was applied to the deposition of organic thin ®lms on sapphire and on glass. The thin ®lms were analyzed by X-ray diffraction (XRD), micro-Raman spectroscopy and ESCA. It was found that the properties of the ®lms were very close to that of the target materials. Strong photoluminescence was observed for both Alq3 and N,N 0-diphenyl-N,N 0-bis(3-methylphenyl)-(1,1 0...

A novel terbium-containing fluorescent material, [Tb(CH3COO)2(H2O)3]Cl (1), has been prepared by a facile approach, i.e. an ultrasonic synthesis. Compound 1 has been structurally characterized via single-crystal X-ray diffraction and it crystallizes in the space group P21/n of the monoclinic system with four formula units in a cell. Compound 1 features a novel one-dimensional (1-D) chain-like s...

The addition of 4-trifluoromethyl-1-ethynylbenzene, phenylacetylene, or 4-ethynylanisole to P-mesityldiphenylmethylenephosphine, 1, produced photoluminescent 1,2-dihydrophosphinines 4a-c, respectively, in quantitative yield via a [4 + 2] cycloaddition. Limited reactivity was observed between 1 and non-aromatic alkynes. P-[Bis(trimethylsilyl)amino][(trimethylsilyl)methylene]phosphine, 2, and P-m...

A novel approach has been developed for the preparation of strongly green-photoluminescent graphene quantum dots (GQDs-PEG) which have been surface-passivated by polyethylene glycol. The photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield of the GQDs-PEG with 400 nm excitation was about 18.8%, which was higher than other GQDs reported in the literature. More importantly, the surface-passivated PEG on GQDs can...

Ce doped Sr2Y8(SiO4)6O2 translucent ceramics were successfully fabricated by spark plasma sintering and their photoluminescent properties were studied in correlation with the crystal structure. There are two crystallographic sites A and A for Ce in the Sr2Y8(SiO4)6O2 host and according to the analysis of the photoluminescence spectra, the energy levels of Ce at A and A sites were demonstrated b...