Publications by Xiaohang Zhang

All-fiber hybrid piezoelectric-enhanced triboelectric nanogenerator for wearable gesture monitoring

Jürgen Brugger, Xiaohang Zhang, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Ya Wang, Yinben Guo

With the increasing potential of smart clothing, the demand for generating energy directly in the tissue fibers has prompted for increased research in the field of energy harvesters based on wearable nanogenerators. Current challenges remain in the combina ...

Elsevier2018

Dynamics of photoexcited Ba+ cations in 4He nanodroplets

Marcel Drabbels, Xiaohang Zhang, Alberto Hernando de Castro

We present a joint experimental and theoretical study on the desolvation of Ba+ cations in 4He nanodroplets excited via the 6p 6s transition. The experiments reveal an efficient desolvation process yielding mainly bare Ba+ cations and Ba+Hen exciplexes wit ...

American Institute of Physics2016

Nucleation of quantized vortex rings in 4He nanodroplets

Marcel Drabbels, Xiaohang Zhang

Whereas most of the phenomena associated with superfluidity have been observed in finite-size helium systems, the nucleation of quantized vortices has proven elusive. Here we show that the solvation of a Ba+ ion created by photoionization of neutral Ba at ...

American Institute of Physics2014

Elementary Excitations of Superfluid Helium Droplets Probed by Ion Spectroscopy

Marcel Drabbels, Xiaohang Zhang

Electronic spectra of molecules in helium droplets reveal spectral features that are related to the elementary excitations of the superfluid helium environment. In order to determine to what extend the interaction strength of the molecule with the helium a ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Spectroscopy and Photoexcitation Dynamics of Ions in Helium Nanodroplets

Xiaohang Zhang

EPFL2013

Barium Ions and Helium Nanodroplets: Solvation and Desolvation

Marcel Drabbels, Xiaohang Zhang

The solvation of Ba+ ions created by the photoionization of barium atoms located on the surface of helium nanodroplets has been investigated. The excitation spectra corresponding to the 6p 2P1/2

American Institute of Physics2012

Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Molecular Ions in Helium Nanodroplets

Marcel Drabbels, Nils Benedict Brauer, Xiaohang Zhang

High resolution IR spectra of aniline, styrene and 1,1-diphenylethylene cations embedded in superfluid helium nanodroplets have been recorded in the 300-1700 cm-1 range using the free-electron laser FELIX as radiation source. Comparison of the spectra with ...

American Institute of Physics2012

Electronic Spectroscopy of Aniline Ions Embedded in Helium Nanodroplets

Marcel Drabbels, Nils Benedict Brauer, Xiaohang Zhang

Excitation spectra of the and transitions of aniline cations embedded in helium nanodroplets are reported. The spectra are characterized by broad asymmetric resonances that consist of an intrinsically broadened zero-phonon line which partially overlaps wit ...

2011