Solid State Physics Laboratory

About: Solid State Physics Laboratory is a facility organization based out in Delhi, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Quantum dot & Dielectric. The organization has 1754 authors who have published 2597 publications receiving 50601 citations.

Nonequilibrium Fluctuation Relations in a Quantum Coherent Conductor

Abstract: We experimentally demonstrate the validity of nonequilibrium fluctuation relations by using a quantum coherent conductor. In equilibrium the fluctuation-dissipation relation leads to the correlation between current and current noise at the conductor, namely, the Johnson-Nyquist relation. When the conductor is voltage biased so that the nonlinear regime is entered, the fluctuation theorem has predicted similar nonequilibrium fluctuation relations, which hold true even when the Onsager-Casmir relations are broken in magnetic fields. Our experiments qualitatively validate the predictions as the first evidence of this theorem in the nonequilibrium quantum regime.

Correction: One step in situ synthesis of CeO2 nanoparticles grown on reduced graphene oxide as an excellent fluorescent and photocatalyst material under sunlight irradiation.

Abstract: CeO2 nanoparticles (NPs) with average particle size of ∼17 nm were grown on graphene sheets by simply mixing cerium chloride as the Ce precursor with graphene oxide (GO) in distilled water and the simultaneous reduction of GO to reduced graphene oxide (rGO), followed by a one-step hydrothermal treatment at 150 °C. A unique blue to green tuneable luminescence was observed as a function of the excitation wavelength. With this method, significant applications of rGO-CeO2 nanocomposites in many optical devices could be realized. The photocatalytic activity of the as-synthesized CeO2 and rGO-CeO2 nanocomposite was investigated by monitoring the degradation of methylene blue (MB) dye under direct sunlight irradiation. The rGO-CeO2 nanocomposite exhibited excellent photocatalytic activity compared to CeO2 NPs by degrading 90% of the MB dye in 10 min irradiation under sunlight. This property of rGO-CeO2 nanocomposites was ascribed to the significant suppression of the recombination rate of photo-generated electron-hole pairs due to charge transfer between rGO sheets and CeO2 NPs and the smaller optical band-gap in the rGO-CeO2 nanocomposite.