Production of iron-enriched yeast and it's application in the treatment of iron-deficiency anemia.

Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is one of the most serious forms of malnutrition. Wild type strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae have higher tolerance to inorganic iron and higher iron conversion and accumulation capacity. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of S.

Generating ultraviolet perfect vortex beams using a high-efficiency broadband dielectric metasurface.

Due to the topological charge-independent doughnut spatial structure as well as the association of orbital angular momentums, perfect vortex beams promise significant advances in fiber communication, optical manipulation and quantum optics. Inspired by the development of planar photonics, several plasmonic and dielectric metasurfaces have been constructed to generate perfect vortex beams, instead of conventional bulky configuration. However, owing to the intrinsic Ohmic losses and interband electron transitions in materials, these metasurface-based vortex beam generators only work at optical frequencies up to the visible range.

Excitation of ultraviolet range Dirac-type plasmon resonance with an ultra-high Q-factor in the topological insulator BiSbTeSe nanoshell.

Excitation of ultraviolet (UV) range plasmon resonance with high quality (Q)-factor has been significantly challenging in plasmonics because of inherent limitations in metals like Au and Ag. Herein, we theoretically investigated UV-visible range plasmons in the topological insulator BiSbTeSe (BSTS) nanosphere and nanoshell. In contrast to broad linewidth plasmon absorptions in the BSTS nanospheres, an ultra-sharp absorption peak with the Q-factor as high as 52 is excited at UV frequencies in the BSTS nanoshells.

Broadband plasmon-induced transparency in terahertz metamaterials via constructive interference of electric and magnetic couplings.

Plasmon-induced transparency (PIT) is a result of destructive interference of different plasmonic resonators. Due to the extreme dispersion within the narrow transparency window, PIT metamaterials are utilized to realize slow light and nonlinear effect. However, other applications such as broadband filtering more desire a broad transmission frequency band at the PIT resonance.