Ionic Seebeck effect of electrolytes has shown promising applications in harvesting energy from low-grade waste-heat sources with small temperature difference the environment, which can power sensors and Internet-of-Things devices. Recent experiments have demonstrated giant thermopower (~ 10 mV/K) under confinement due to overlapping electric double layer (EDL). Nonetheless, there been no conse...

We have observed spatial confinement of laser light in micrometer-sized random media. The optical confinement is attributed to the disorder-induced scattering and interference. Our experimental data suggest that coherent amplification of the scattered light enhances the interference effect and helps the spatial confinement. Using the finite-difference time-domain method, we simulate lasing with...

Throughout this brief note all groups are assumed to be abelian p-primary, written additively as is customary when regarding the group structure. Since we shall deal exclusively only with p-torsion abelian groups, for some arbitrary but a fixed prime p, there should be no confusion in future removing the phrase ”is an abelian p-group”. Concerning the terminology, under the term a separable grou...

We study the color confinement, the q-¯ q pair creation and the dynamical chiral-symmetry breaking of nonperturbative QCD by using the dual Ginzburg-Landau theory, where QCD-monopole condensation plays an essential role on the nonper-turbative dynamics in the infrared region. As a result of the dual Meissner effect, the linear static quark potential, which characterizes the quark confinement, i...

The influence of the spatial confinement on the electronic and vibrational contributions to longitudinal electric-dipole properties of model linear molecules including HCN, HCCH and CO2 is discussed. The effect of confinement is represented by two-dimensional harmonic oscillator potential of cylindrical symmetry, which mimics the key features of various types of trapping environments like, for ...

We investigate the surface depletion induced quantum confinement in CdS nanobelts beyond the quantum confinement regime, where the thickness is much larger than the bulk exciton Bohr radius. From room temperature to 77 K, the emission energy of free exciton A scales linearly versus 1/L(2) when the thickness L is less than 100 nm, while a deviation occurs for those belts thicker than 100 nm due ...