Au/MgO/ZnO/MgO/Au structures have been designed and constructed in this study. Under a bias voltage, a carrier avalanche multiplication will occur via an impact ionization process in the MgO layer. The generated holes will be drifted into the ZnO layer, and recombine radiatively with the electrons in the ZnO layer. Thus obvious emissions at around 387 nm coming from the near-band-edge emission of ZnO will be observed. The reported results demonstrate the ultraviolet （UV） emission realized via a carrier multiplication process, and so may provide an alternative route to efficient UV emissions by bypassing the challenging p-type doping issue of ZnO.
The influences of different buffer gas, neon and helium, on 199^Hg^＋ clock transition are compared in trapped 199^Hg^＋ linear trap. By the technique of time domain＇s Ramsey separated oscillatory fields, the buffer gas pressure frequency shifts of 199^Hg^＋ clock transition are measured to be （df/dPNe）（1/f） = 1.8 × 10^-8 Torr^-1 for neon and （df/dPHe） （1/f） = 9.1 × 10^-8 Torr^-1 for helium. Meanwhile, the line-width of 199^Hg^＋ clock transition spectrum with the buffer gas neon is narrower than that with helium at the same pressure. These experimental results show that neon is a more suitable buffer gas than helium in 199^Hg^＋ ions microwave frequency standards because of the 199^Hg^＋ clock transition is less sensitive to neon variations and the better cooling effect of neon. The optimum operating pressure for neon is found to be about 1.0 × 10^-5 Torr in our linear ion trap system.
