Bending Efficiency of Bent Multiple-Slot Waveguides

The bending efficiency of three-dimensional bent multiple-slot waveguides is studied by applying a combined method of effective-index and modified transfer-matrix methods. The effects of asymmetric structure, asymmetric slots, and asymmetric middle strips on the bending efficiency are investigated. We show that the bending efficiency can be improved by the use of asymmetric structures and asymmetric middle strips. The bending efficiency of different slot waveguides （up to quintuple-slot structure） is compared. It is revealed that although the single-slot waveguide in general provides the lowest bending loss for the same waveguide parameters, it is possible that the multiple-slot waveguide can present a lower bending loss than the single-slot one.     

Propagations of Airy Beams and Nonlinear Accelerating Optical Beams in Photorefractive Crystals with Asymmetric Nonlocality

The impact of the asymmetric nonlocal diffusion nonlinearity of Airy beams and nonlinear accelerating beams supported by photorefractive crystals is addressed. It is revealed how the asymmetric nonlocal response alters the evolution of these optical beams. It is found that the evolution of these beams presents a bending action under the influence of the diffusion nonlinearity. It is also shown that nonlinear accelerating beams can exist in photorefractive crystals with asymmetric nonlocality. These accelerating solutions have the same Airy‐like tail, and accelerate along parabolic trajectories. Soliton states are formed in the interaction of both in‐phase and out‐of‐phase Airy beams and nonlinear accelerating beams and also present a bending action because of the action of diffusion nonlinearity.     

Mechanism for the Self-Assembly of Hollow Micelles from Rod-Coil Block Copolymers

The mechanism for the self-assembly of hollow micelles from rod-coil diblock copolymers is proposed. In a coilselective solvent, the diblock copolymers self-assemble into a layered structure. It is assumed that the rigid rods form an elastic shell whose properties are dictated by a bending energy. For a hollow micelle, the coils outside the micelle form a brush, while the coils inside the micelle can be in two different states, a brush or an adsorption layer, corresponding to symmetric or asymmetric configurations, respectively. The total energy density of a hollow micelle is calculated by combining the interfacial energy, elastic bending energy and the stretching energy of the brushes. For the asymmetric configuration with a polymer brush on one side, the competition between the elastic bending energy and the brush stretching energy leads to a finite spontaneous curvature, stabilizing hollow spherical micelles. Comparison of the free energy density for different geometries demonstrates that transitions for the different geometry micelles are controlled by the degree of polymerization of the coils and the length of the rods. These results are in agreement with the experimental results.     

Optical phase front control in a metallic grating with equally spaced alternately tapered slits

A technique capable of focusing and bending electromagnetic （EM） waves through plasmonic gratings with equally spaced alternately tapered slits has been introduced. Phase resonances are observed in the optical response of transmission gratings, and the EM wave passes through the tuning slits in the form of surface plasmon polaritons （SPPs） and obtains the required phase retardation to focus at the focal plane. The bending effect is achieved by constructing an asymmetric phase front which results from the tapered slits and gradient refractive index （GRIN） distribution of the dielectric material. Rigorous electromagnetic analysis by using the two-dimensional （2D） finite difference time domain （FDTD） method is employed to verify our proposed designs. When the EM waves are incident at an angle on the optical axis, the beam splitting effect can also be achieved. These index-modulated slits are demonstrated to have unique advantages in beam manipulation compared with the width-modulated ones. In combination with previous studies, it is expected that our results could lead to the realization of ootimum designs for plasmonic nanolenses.     

Unidirectional sensitive flexible sensor for bending measurements

The measurement of bending direction and bending angles is essential in the multiaxial servo-controlled system, especially for collaborative robots. However, most flexible sensors developed for bending measurements cannot distinguish bending directions due to their sensitivity to both positive and negative bending. Also, these sensors usually exhibit simultaneous response to normal pressure, which results in additional calibration. Here, a unidirectional-sensitive flexible capacitive sensor is proposed. A simple asymmetric pyramidal microstructure was designed to create uneven responses to positive and negative bending and minimum response to normal pressure based on the fringe effect. The fabricated sensor shows a relative capacitance change of nearly 0.9 in the sensitive direction and only 0.05 in the other direction as the sensor bends from flat to the curvature radius of 10 mm. Also, the sensor shows negligible sensitivity even under a normal pressure force as high as 16 N, either in planar or bending condition.     

NIR‐FT Raman,FT‐IR and surface‐enhanced Raman scattering spectra,with theoretical simulations on chloramphenicol

Chloramphenicol (CLM), originally derived from the bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae, is an inhibitor of bacterial ribosomal peptidyl transferase activity. The near infrared Fourier transform (NIR‐FT) Raman, surface‐enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and Fourier transform infrared (FT‐IR) spectral analyses of CLM, a potential antibacterial drug for the treatment of typhoid fever, were carried out along with density functional computations. The vibrational spectral analysis reveals that the CH₂ asymmetric and symmetric stretching modes are shifted to higher wavenumbers than the computed values, owing to the electronic effects resulting from induction of methylene group with the adjacent electronegative atom. The lowering of CO stretching wavenumber is due to the presence of the strong electronegative atom, nitrogen, attached to the carbonyl carbon, causing large degree of molecular π‐electron delocalization and redistribution of electrons, which weakens the CO bond. The absence of a C H stretching vibration and the observed C H out‐of‐plane bending modes suggest that the CLM molecule may be adsorbed in a flat orientation with respect to the silver surface. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Fermi energy and electron thermopower in quantum films of an asymmetric profile

The behavior of the Fermi energy and the electron thermoelectric power in an asymmetric quantum well of the Morse potential type as a function of electron concentration are studied. It is shown that the Fermi energy is a piecewise-linear function, and the electron thermoelectric power is an oscillating function. The analysis shows that the nature of these oscillations differs significantly from that in films of a parabolic and rectangular profile, namely, the oscillation period is a nonmonotonic function and reaches a maximum at some value of the electron concentration. The possibility of estimating the parameters of the film profile (quantum well) is proposed. A comparison with the experiment shows a qualitative agreement.     

Magnetoelectric effect in an asymmetric layered magnet-piezoelectric structure

The magnetoelectric effect in magnet-piezoelectric layered composite structures is discussed. The magnetoelectric voltage and the magnetoelectric coefficient are calculated taking into account bending deformations that accompany tensile and compressive strains in structures with asymmetric positions of magnetic layers relative to the neutral plane. It is demonstrated that bending deformations lead to a nonuniform distribution of the electric field over the thickness of the piezoelectric layer and to a nonmonotonic dependence of the magnetoelectric coefficient on the thickness ratio of the layers in the structure.     

非对称夹芯板隔声量的解析计算模型及影响因素

提出了一种计算上下面板非对称的三明治夹芯板隔声性能的方法.通过对非对称夹芯梁表观抗弯曲刚度的计算,得到对应夹芯板随频率变化的表观抗弯刚度,代入4阶的控制方程,应用模态展开法可以方便地计算简支非对称夹芯板的隔声量.对4种定制的3层非对称碳纤维夹芯板进行了理论计算和实验测试对比,在频率范围100～3150Hz内,计权隔声量...     

Fracture in sintered Sm−Co permanent magnetic materials

The bending strength and fracture toughness of sintered Sm-Co permanent magnetic materials are measured. A scanning electron microscope equipped with an energy dispersive X-ray analysis system is employed to investigate the bending fractography. The fracture behavior and micromechanism are discussed. The fracture behavior of sintered Sm-Co permanent magnetic materials exhibits cleavage fracture. Some Sm-rich impurities are found in fracture plane, suggesting that the Sm-rich impurities help reduce the cleavage brittleness of sintered Sm-Co permanent magnetic materials. The possible methods for improving the strength and toughness are also proposed.     

Dynamics of plastic bending of whiskers, induced by bombardment by a dense electron beam

We report new results from experimental investigations of the strong plastic bending induced in whiskers by nanosecond pulsed bombardment by a dense electron beam. The bending dynamics has been traced for the first time by means of a VFU-1 high-speed movie camera synchronized with a powerful small GIN-600 electronic accelerator. The measured duration of the plastic bending process for whiskers 40–100 μm in diameter was 1–2 msec. This is of the same order of magnitude as the characteristic relaxation time of the quasistatic mechanical stresses that are formed under uneven bombardment because of temperature gradients and disappear when the temperature is evened out by heat conduction. The measured bending dynamics was found to be nonmonotonic and rather complicated. After a nanosecond pulse of bombardment by a strong electron beam the bending of the whisker at first increases, then decreases, increases once again, and finally is saturated at some final value during flexural damping vibrations. The experimental data are discussed on the basis of the dislocation theory of plastic bending. Tomsk Polytechnic University. Institute of Strong-Current Electronics, Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 11, pp. 93–103, November, 1997.     

A study on asymmetric current in plasma-mediated electrosurgery

Electrosurgery using a radio frequency (RF) plasma knife is a new medical technique that enhances the coagulation effect and reduces skin damage. It uses a high current density and ohmic heat to vaporize tissue at the cutting point. In spite of the installation of a blocking capacitor, asymmetric RF currents are observed. These asymmetric currents induce a direct current (DC) in the tissue, which can cause muscular stimulation during a medical operation; for medical applications of a plasma knife, the unexpected damage that can occur due to these asymmetric currents needs to be prevented. A study is performed to find the origin of the asymmetric current and to reduce the electrical damage to biological tissue during plasma-mediated electrosurgery. One of the main causes of an asymmetric current is differences in the secondary electron emissions from the tissue and metal. The difference in the secondary electron emission from the tissue and metal, and the resulting asymmetric current peaks can be reduced by (1) using argon or helium gas, (2) using a lower voltage range, and (3) decreasing the knife speed. The physics revealed in this article should provide insight for a safety window for plasma-mediated electrosurgery devices during the plasma surgical operations.     

Sorting of bending magnets for the SSRF booster

The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF)booster ring, a full energy injector for the storage ring, is deigned to accelerate the electron beam energy from 150MeV to 3.5GeV that demands high extraction efficiency at the extraction energy with low beam loss rate when electrons are ramping. Closed orbit distortion (COD) caused by bending magnet field uniformity errors which affects the machine performance harmfully could be effectively reduced by bending magnet location sorting. Considering the affections of random errors in measurement, both ideal sorting and realistic sorting are studied based on measured bending magnet field uniformity errors and one reasonable combination of bending magnets which can reduce the horizontal COD by a factor of 5 is given as the final installation sequence of the booster bending magnets in this paper.     

Fluctuating semiflexible polymer ribbon constrained to a ring

Twist stiffness and an asymmetric bending stiffness of a polymer or a polymer bundle is captured by the elastic ribbon model. We investigate the effects a ring geometry induces to a thermally fluctuating ribbon, finding bend-bend coupling in addition to twist-bend coupling. Furthermore, due to the geometric constraint the polymer's effective bending stiffness increases. A new parameter for experimental investigations of polymer bundles is proposed: the mean square diameter of a ribbonlike ring, which is determined analytically in the semiflexible limit. Monte Carlo simulations are performed which affirm the model's prediction up to high flexibility.     

Sorting of bending magnets for the SSRF booster

The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility(SSRF)booster ring,a full energy injector for the storage ring,is deigned to accelerate the electron beam energy from 150MeV to 3.5GeV that demands high extraction efficiency at the extraction energy with low beam loss rate when electrons are ramping.Closed orbit distortion(COD)caused by bending magnet field uniformity errors which affects the machine performance harmfully could be effectively reduced by bending magnet location sorting.Considering the affections of random errors in measurement,both ideal sorting and realistic sorting are studied based on measured bending magnet field uniformity errors and one reasonable combination of bending magnets which can reduce the horizontal COD by a factor of 5is given as the final installation sequence of the booster bending magnets in this paper.     

Regularization of bending and crossing white matter fibers in MRI Q-ball fields

In diffusion magnetic resonance imaging with high-angular-resolution diffusion imaging, a set of techniques has become available that allows better acquisition and representation of multidirectional diffusion profiles, e.g., in voxels with crossing, branching and kissing fibers. The poor spatial resolution and low signal-to-noise ratio of the data, particularly when acquired under clinical conditions, prevent tractography algorithms from reliably reconstructing complex white matter structures. With cone-beam regularization, an intervoxel smoothing approach has been described, which, in this article, is refined and adapted to fibers with subvoxel bending. By introducing the concept of asymmetric orientation distribution functions (aODFs), we are able to sharpen diffusion profiles of bending fibers and estimate subvoxel curvature. We also propose a deterministic fiber-tracking algorithm that exploits the enhanced resolution of aODFs. The approach is evaluated quantitatively and compared with state-of-the-art noise-suppression techniques in a study with a biological diffusion phantom. Moreover, we present results from an in vivo study in which we demonstrate the method's ability to optimize tractography of bending fiber pathways of optic radiation.     

Guided modes in asymmetric graphene waveguides

An asymmetric quantum well in graphene can act as a slab waveguide for electron waves in a manner analogous to the electromagnetic waves in dielectrics. Guided modes and the probability current density are analyzed in the graphene electron waveguide induced by asymmetric electrostatic potential. The modes in an asymmetric graphene waveguide include guided modes, “cover modes”, “substrate modes” and “radiation modes”. The conditions for a guided mode are quantified. It is found that the fundamental mode is absent when both the Klein tunneling and classical motion are present. The confinement of electrons for lower order mode is stronger than for higher order mode. We hope that these characteristics in asymmetric graphene waveguide can provide potential applications in graphene-based waveguide devices.     

Deformation and strength of silica fibers in three-point bending in consideration of nonlinear elasticity of glass

We consider the problem of asymmetric strain and stress distribution in silica fiber under threepoint bending. The parameters of nonlinear elasticity of silica glass under tension and compression are estimated using available data from the literature. It has been found that consideration of the nonlinear elasticity of silica glass leads to a slight increase in the calculated values of strength compared to the data obtained from estimates based on the linear theory of elasticity.     

关于光学速调管长波长辐射的分析

由波荡器渡越辐射公式和电子通过wiggler边界产生的长波长辐射公式, 解析给出了电子通过光学速调管时产生的长波长辐射公式. 根据基本的电动力学公式数值计算出合肥同步辐射装置光学速调管的长波辐射, 并将其结果与解析公式的结果进行比较. 计算合肥同步辐射装置的光学速调管和弯转磁铁在红外波段范围内辐射的强度和通量, 表明光学速调管有很好的性能.本文说明, 光学速调管不但可以用来进行相干谐波的试验研究, 也可以兼用作储存环中的红外辐射光源.     

消色散270°偏转磁铁系统设计及束流动力学研究

对三种常用结构的270°偏转磁铁进行系统的分析研究,采用数值计算和模拟方法对双磁铁不对称偏转结构、三块90°磁铁偏转结构和70°+130°+70°偏转结构这三种不同的270°偏转磁铁系统进行模拟,给出偏转系统的消色散传输条件,并且分析了束流包络在偏转系统和出口管道中的变化情况。经过分析对比,详细列出了三种结构的优势与劣势。双磁铁不对称结构适用于医用加速器,三块90°磁铁偏转结构适用于需要在出口长距离漂移的辐照加速器,而70°+130°+70°偏转结构可以满足出口一定距离的无损漂移,同时实现相对较低的成本,是工业辐照加速器较为经济适宜的选择。