Hefei University of Technology

About: Hefei University of Technology is a education organization based out in Hefei, China. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Computer science & Microstructure. The organization has 28093 authors who have published 24935 publications receiving 324989 citations.

Estimating surface water area changes using time-series Landsat data in the Qingjiang River Basin, China

Abstract: The Qingjiang River Basin, which is 423 km long in the Hubei province, China, is the first large tributary of the Yangtze River below the Three Gorges. The Qingjiang River Basin surface water area monitoring plays an important role in the water resource management strategy and regular monitoring management of the Yangtze River watershed. Hydropower cascade exploitation, which started in 1987, has formed three reservoirs including the Geheyan reservoir, the Gaobazhou reservoir, and the Shuibuya reservoir in the midstream and downstream of the Qingjiang River Basin. They have made a great impact on surface water area changes of the Qingjiang River Basin and need to be taken into account. We monitor the Qingjiang River Basin surface water area changes from 1973 to 2010. Ten scenes from the Multispectral Scanner System (MSS), seven scenes from the Thematic Mapper (TM), and two scenes from the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETMþ) remote sensing data of Landsat satellites, the normal- ized different water index (NDWI), the modified NDWI (MNDWI), and Otsu image segmenta- tion method were employed to quantitatively estimate the Qingjiang River Basin surface water area in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, respectively. The results indicate that the surface water area of the Qingjiang River Basin shows a growing trend with the hydropower cascade development from the 1980s to the first decade of the 21st century. The study concluded the significance of human activities impact on surface water spatiotemporal distribution. Surface water accretion is significant in most parts of the Qingjiang River Basin and might be related to the constructed cascade hydropower dams. © 2012 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). (DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.6.063609)

Total absorption of light in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides by critical coupling

Abstract: Transition-metal dichalcogenides with exceptional electrical and optical properties have emerged as a new platform for atomic-scale optoelectronic devices. However, the poor optical absorption resists their potential applications. The novel method of critical coupling with guided resonances is proposed to realize total absorption of light in monolayer MoS2 both theoretically and numerically. Simulated results illustrate that the perfect absorption with critical coupling is achieved by choosing suitably the ration of the hole radius to the period of the photonic crystal slab, and that the tunability of absorption peaks is obtained by a small change in the period and the thickness of the slab. Intriguingly, such device manifests the unusual polarization-insensitive feature and the good absorption stability over a wide angle range of incidence. The total absorption in monolayer MoSe2, WS2, and WSe2 is realized handily by the same principle. Hence, our results may open up new possibilities for improving the light-matter interaction in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides and find utility in wavelength-selective photoluminescence and photodetection.