Published 16 January 2012 Stroke and heart attack, which could be led by a kind of cerebrovascular and cardiovascular disease named as atherosclerosis, would seriously cause human morbidity and mortality. It is important for the early stage diagnosis and
We report a photoluminescence observation of the coupling of donor-bound excitons and longitudinal optical phonons in high-quality ZnO crystals at 5 K. The first-order phonon Stockes line of donor-bound excitons exhibits a distinct asymmetric line shape w
Contrast agents are attracting a great deal of attention in photoacoustic imaging. Here we introduce an exogenous contrast agent that provides high photoacoustic signal amplitude at the near-infrared wavelength. Our agents consist of Indocyanine green (IC
Laser pulses with energy of ~10 μJ are generated at 46.9 nm on the 3p-3s transition of the Ne-like Ar by a fast capillary discharge setup in both 3- and 4-mm channels. The dependence of the laser output pulse energy on the pressure of Ar gas is measured f