Phase-change material (PCM) is widely used in thermal management due to their unique thermal behavior. However, related research in thermal rectifier is mainly focused on exploring the principles at the fundamental device level, which results in a gap to real applications. Here, we propose a controllable thermal rectification design towards building applications through the direct adhesion of composite thermal rectification material (TRM) based on PCM and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) aerogel to ordinary concrete walls (CWs). The design is evaluated in detail by combining experiments and finite element analysis. It is found that, TRM can regulate the temperature difference on both sides of the TRM/CWs system by thermal rectification. The difference in two directions reaches to 13.8 K at the heat flow of 80 W/m². In addition, the larger the change of thermal conductivity before and after phase change of TRM is, the more effective it is for regulating temperature difference in two directions. The stated technology has a wide range of applications for the thermal energy control in buildings with specific temperature requirements.

Two-dimensional (2D) WSe₂ has received increasing attention due to its unique optical properties and bipolar behavior. Several WSe₂-based heterojunctions exhibit bidirectional rectification characteristics, but most devices have a lower rectification ratio. In this work, the Bi₂O₂Se/WSe₂ heterojunction prepared by us has a type Ⅱ band alignment, which can vastly suppress the channel current through the interface barrier so that the Bi₂O₂Se/WSe₂ heterojunction device has a large rectification ratio of about 10⁵. Meanwhile, under different gate voltage modulation, the current on/off ratio of the device changes by nearly five orders of magnitude, and the maximum current on/off ratio is expected to be achieved 10⁶. The photocurrent measurement reveals the behavior of recombination and space charge confinement, further verifying the bidirectional rectification behavior of heterojunctions, and it also exhibits excellent performance in light response. In the future, Bi₂O₂Se/WSe₂ heterojunction field-effect transistors have great potential to reduce the volume of integrated circuits as a bidirectional controlled switching device.

The 4H-SiC crystal is found to have great potential in terahertz generation via nonlinear optical frequency conversion due to its extremely high optical damage threshold, wide transparent range, etc. In this paper, optical rectification (OR) with tilted-pulse-front (TPF) setting based on the 4H-SiC crystal is proposed. The theory accounts for the optimization of incident pulse pre-chirping in the TPF OR process under high-intensity femtosecond laser pumping. Compared with the currently recognized LiNbO₃-based TPF OR, which generates a single-cycle terahertz pulse within 3 THz, 4H-SiC demonstrates a significant advantage in producing ultra-widely tunable (up to over 14 THz, TPF angle 31°–38°) terahertz waves with high efficiency (~10^–2) and strong field (~MV/cm). Besides, the spectrum characteristics, as well as the evolution from single- to multi-cycle terahertz pulses can be modulated flexibly by pre-chirping. The simulation results show that 4H-SiC enables terahertz frequency extending to an unprecedent range by OR, which has extremely important potential in strong-field terahertz applications.

传统的霍夫变换、Cannylines直线检测算法、霍夫概率变换方法在图像上的直线检测效果不佳，存在检测线段不连续不正确的问题，因而，利用Sobel滤波对红外图像横轴和纵轴两个方向分别进行锐化，通过线段检测（LSD）算法实现线段特征检测，进而经线段聚类拟合获得图像中完整的直线，通过对直线交点计算获得消失点，最后依据透视关系计算得到校正图像。实验结果表明，该方法可以实现对中性束红外图像的自动有效校正。