A compact packaging module for direct liquid cooling of roomtemperature quantum cascade lasers is implemented. The light was coupled out of the hermetically sealed package through a mid-infrared fibre epoxy-bonded to the laser. The threshold current reduces by 10%, compared to convectional substrate-side cooled lasers when using low boiling temperature (boiling point (b.p.)1⁄4 34 C) 3M HFE7000 ...

The structural and enzymatic aspects of renin are of great interest in hypertension research. In this paper, we examine the solution accessibility of the three tryptophan (Trp) residues of mouse submaxillary gland renin by solute collisional fluorescence quenching. Our studies indicate that there are two "classes" of Trp residues in renin: class I, a class of Trp residues which are at or near t...