纳米铝杆拉伸过程的分子动力学模拟

应用嵌入原子势(EAM)和分子动力学方法对纳米单晶铝杆在外载荷作用下的原子滑移、位错等形变行为做了一些现象分析和研究.研究发现在势能曲线有明显抖动的地方对应的时间步刚好有滑移产生,说明滑移机制在纳米铝杆塑性变形过程中起着非常重要的作用.     

球形压头与单晶铝材料纳米接触过程的多尺度分析

采用准连续介质多尺度理论及排斥力场函数, 建立了刚性球形压头与单晶铝材料表面纳米接触与脱离过程的跨尺度分析模型, 得到载荷-位移响应曲线、原子变化状态图及位移云纹图. 研究了接触与脱离过程中单晶铝材料微观变形时原子的排列情况以及压 头形状对位错的形核和发射产生的影响. 从微观角度分析了接触变形机理. 结果表明, 随着接触深度的增加, 球形压头下部两侧的原子受力方向不断变化, 使得载荷-位移响应曲线出现不同于方形压头的阶梯状. 由于压头形状的影响, 压头两侧的密排原子面实现部分滑移形成了肖克利不完全位错. 脱离过程中, 原子紧贴压头向上移动, 实现部分弹性恢复, 残余位移为0.3 nm, 非常接近单晶铝单位位错的伯格斯矢量的 模0.285 nm. 关键词： 准连续介质法 球形压头 单晶铝材料 位错     

铝纳米颗粒的热物性及相变行为的分子动力学模拟

采用分子动力学方法模拟了纳米金属铝在粒径为0.8-3.2 nm 时的熔点、密度和声子热导率的变化, 研究了粒径为1.6 nm的铝纳米颗粒的密度、比热和声子热导率随温度的变化. 采用原子嵌入势较好地模拟了纳米金属铝的热物性及相变行为, 根据能量-温度曲线和比热容-温度曲线对铝纳米颗粒的相变温度进行了研究, 并利用表面能理论、尺寸效应理论对铝纳米颗粒熔点的变化进行了分析. 随着纳米粒径的不断增大, 铝纳米颗粒的熔点呈递增状态, 当粒径在2.2-3.2 nm时, 熔点的增幅减缓, 但仍处于递增趋势. 随着纳米粒径的增大, 铝纳米颗粒的密度呈单调递减, 热导率则呈线性单调递增, 且热导率的变化情况符合声子理论. 随着温度的升高, 粒径为1.6 nm的铝纳米颗粒的密度、热导率均减小. 该模拟从微观原子角度对纳米材料的热物性进行了研究, 对设计基于铝纳米颗粒的相变材料具有指导意义.     

elting Behaviour of Shell-symmetric Aluminum Nanoparticles: Molecular Dynamics Simulation

用基于镶嵌原子方法势能的分子动力学模拟研究了含有561个原子的铝纳米粒子. 利用总势能和比热来计算铝纳米粒子的熔点：二十面体、十面体、切去顶端的八面体铝纳米粒子的熔点分别是540±10、500±10和520±10 K. 均方位移、键参数和回转半径的变化趋势与势能和比热的变化一致. 通过拟合均方位移得到了Kohlraush-William-Watts弛豫法则中的弛豫时间和伸缩参数，计算表明在高温区域弛豫时间和温度之间遵循标准阿伦尼乌斯关系.     

碳纳米管增强铝基复合材料电子理论研究

采用自行开发计算机软件，建立了铝晶粒大角度重位点阵晶界模型及碳纳米管与铝金属的界面结构，利用递归法计算了纳米碳管增强铝基复合材料的电子结构参数(铝晶界、铝与纳米管界面及纳米管的结构能，体系费米能级等). 计算结果表明：Σ为5的晶界结构能最低，比较稳定；纳米碳管在铝晶粒的晶界处与铝形成的界面结构能较低，复合材料中纳米碳管主要分布在铝晶粒的晶界处；铝提高纳米碳管的结构能，降低纳米碳管的稳定性，增强碳管的物理化学活性，且管口处的碳原子稳定性较差，易与周围环境中的原子结合生成稳定结构. 关键词： 电子结构 晶界 铝复合材料 纳米管     

纳米通道内液体流动的滑移现象

采用分子动力学模拟方法研究了液态氩在铂纳米通道内的流动，通过改变流体和壁面之间的势能作用获得了流体和通道表面之间浸润性质不同时的滑移现象. 研究发现：液体分子在亲水性通道表面附近呈类固体性质，数密度和有序性较大，而在疏水性表面附近的平均数密度降低，形成一个低密度层；液体流动在固体表面的速度滑移随着液体与表面势能作用的增强而减小，当液体和表面的浸润性不同时可以发生滑移、表观无滑移和负滑移现象；液体在固体表面的表观滑移是液体在固体表面的速度滑移、粘附和流体内部滑移的综合作用的结果. 关键词： 纳米尺度流动 速度滑移 浸润性 分子动力学模拟     

Al原子在Ni基衬底表面的扩散及团簇的形成

Ni Al纳米颗粒具有较高的能量密度和良好的高温力学性能,铝吸附原子在不同镍基表面上的扩散行为与不同扩散机制对铝在镍基表面沉积生长的影响有待进一步阐明.本文通过采用肘弹性带和分子动力学结合嵌入原子势的方法,系统地研究了单个铝吸附原子在镍基表面的扩散行为和纳米颗粒团簇在十面体(DEC)、立方八面体(CUB)和二十面体(ICO)结构上的生长.研究结果表明:Al吸附原子在三种Ni基底上表面扩散的交换与跳跃两种机制,最低的Ehrlich-Schwoebel(ES)势垒为0.38 e V (交换CUB{111}→100})、0.52 e V (交换DEC{111}→100})和0.52 e V (跳跃ICO{111}→111}),从{111}面扩散到{100}面主要以交换机制为主,而相邻两个{111}面之间的扩散则以跳跃机制为主.沉积的铝原子首先倾向于扩散到台阶边缘和顶点附近.随着Al原子数量的增加,沉积的Al原子开始聚集.对于Ni团簇上的Al原子,在较低温度下在镍基底表面沉积Al原子,可以获得良好的Ni核/Al壳结构.对于二十面体结构基底,其对应的核壳团簇的缺陷数最小,随后为十面体结构和八面体结构.随着生长温度的增加Ni Al纳米粒子的表面逐渐开始合金化.     

冲击波压缩下含纳米孔洞单晶铁的结构相变研究

利用分子动力学模拟方法对含纳米孔洞的单晶铁在冲击波压缩下的结构相变(由体心立方结构α到六角密排结构ε)进行了研究,单晶铁样品的尺寸为17.2nm×17.2nm×17.2nm，总原子数428341个，在样品的中央预置一个直径为1.12nm的孔洞，利用一活塞分别以350，500，1087m/s的速度撞击样品产生冲击波，对应的冲击波压缩应力分别为12，17，35GPa.撞击方向沿单晶铁的［100］晶向.计算结果表明，在冲击波压缩下，孔洞对铁中的相变起了诱导作用，伴随着孔洞的塌陷，相变首先出现在孔洞周围的(011)面和(011)面上，然后扩展到整个样品.通过分析冲击压缩下原子的位移历史，解释了相变的微观机制，发现孔洞周围的原子在{011}面上沿〈011〉晶向滑移，离孔洞中心距离越近的{011}面上的原子容易滑移，间隔一层的{011}面与相邻层原子的移动位移幅度不同，这种相对滑移导致出现了新的结构(hcp结构). 关键词： 相变 分子动力学 冲击波 纳米孔洞     

铝单晶体滑移的电子显微镜观察(三)

在前文中曾提及,在铝单晶的滑移带之外发现到处有平行于滑移带的类似滑移的直线痕迹,在本文图1中的纯铝单晶体的滑移电子显微镜照相中更为明显。图中除若干极为明显的滑移带之外,晶体上满布着这类平行于滑移带的极为细微的直线痕迹。不难证明,这些细微的直线痕迹也是滑移的类型。这些细滑移线的主要特点是:     

SiC纳米杆的弛豫性能研究

采用Tersoff势对SiC驰豫性能进行了分子动力学模拟.模拟了SiC在驰豫过程中的动态平衡变化过程，研究了表面效应和小尺寸效应对原子位置，原子能量分布的影响.模拟结果表明，SiC纳米杆受表面效应和小尺寸效应的影响很大，在不加外载和约束的情况下，出现了不同于宏观SiC杆的弯扭屈伸现象，最终形成了带有一定扭转弯曲量、总能量达到最低的稳定状态. 关键词： SiC纳米杆 分子动力学 表面效应 小尺寸效应     

Self-organization of five species in a cyclic competition game

Cyclic competition game models, particularly the “rock–paper–scissors” model, play important roles in exploring the problem of multi-species coexistence in spatially ecological systems. We propose an extended “rock–paper–scissors” game to model cyclic interactions among five species, and find that two of the five can coexistent when biodiversity disappears, which is different from the “rock–paper–scissors” game. As the number of fingers is five, we named the new model the “fingers” game, where the thumb, forefinger, middle finger, ring finger, and little finger cyclically dominate their subsequent species and are dominated by their former species. We investigate the “fingers” model in two ways: direct simulations and nonlinear partial differential equations. An important finding is that the number of species in a cyclic competition game has an influence on the emergence of biodiversity. To be specific, the “rock–paper–scissors” model is in favor of maintaining biodiversity in comparison with the “fingers” model when the variables (population size, reproduction rate, selection rate, and migration rate) are the same. It is also shown that the mobility and reproduction rate can promote or jeopardize biodiversity.     

Experimental study on downstep in Chinese intonation

Downstep in pitch contour of Chinese Putonghua is examined using subtly designed sentences by controlling tone combinations. The results show both automatic and nonautomatic downstep phenomena exist in Chinese. In non-automatic downstep, low tones compress downwards the pitch range of the following syllables. and the main influence of downstep is on topline. Low tone not only lower the topline behind it, but also raise the high tones before it, the effects are compatible with each other. In automatic downstep, the topline of pitch contour in intonational phrase is presented as a linear downtrend, but it differs among speakers due to the effect of personal stress practice. In comparison with downstep phenomenon in other tone or non-tone languages, the downstep ratio in Chinese is not constant, and the domain of downstep is not limited within the adjacent tones.     

Contrastive analysis on tone between Putonghua and Taiwan Mandarin

The differences of the pitch and duration of Chinese syllables between Putonghua （PTH） and Taiwan Mandarin （TM） were studied. The speech materials to be used are not only isolated syllables, but also sentences. The results reveal that： For the isolated syllables, T1 and T2 in TM are influenced by Minnan dialect, therefore their pitch are lower than those in PTH. T3 is fall-rise in PTH, while it is fall in TM. Moreover, the syllable duration sequence for different tone is T3〉T2〉T1〉T4 in PTH, while it is T1〉T2〉T3〉T4 in TM. For the syllables in sentences, T2 is mid-rise in PTH, while it is mid-level in TM. And the T3 is longer than T4 but shorter than T1 or T2 in PTH, while it is the shortest in TM. Furthermore the effects of prosodic phrase boundary on duration for different tones are almost the same in PTH, but the lengthening part of T1 or T2 is longer than that of T3 or T4 in TM.     

Abelian-Higgs phase of SU(2) QCD and glueball energy

It is shown that SU(2) QCD admits an dual Abelian-Higgs phase, with a Higgs vacuum of a type-Ⅱ superconductor. This is done by using a connection decomposition for the gluon field and the random-direction approximation. Using a bag picture with soft wall, we presented a calculational procedure for the glueball energy based on the recent proof for wall-vortices [Nucl. Phys. B 741(2006)1].     

Signal generation in an isotropic medium in scanning electron acoustic microscope

Based on the research in Ref. [5][Materials Science and Engineering, 1989; A122： 57 63], an improved model of heat source is set up, the different modes of Lamb wave in an isotropic sample generated by a chopped electron beam at frequency f are obtained with integral transform and normal function expansion method, and the output signal of PZT coupled at the back surface of the sample is found out. The generation mechanism of SEAM （Scanning Electron Acoustic Microscopy） signal is discussed. It shows that the SEAM is a near field imaging technique with high spatial resolution and its best lateral spatial resolution is about 2√2α （α is the radius of the focused electron beam）. Some of experimental results of SEAM images are presented in the paper and it shows that the spatial resolution of SEAM is better than 0.5 μm and smaller than the thermal diffusion length of the sample. Therefore the character of near field imaging in SEAM is also proved experimentally.     

High efficiency filtering using two-dimensional photonic crystal coupled cavity structures

Transmission spectra of coupled cavity structures (CCSs) in two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystals (PCs) are investigated using a coupled mode theory, and an optical filter based on CCS is proposed. The performance of the filter is investigated using finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, and the results show that within a very short coupling distance of about 3λ, where λ is the wavelength of signal in vacuum, the incident signals with different frequencies are separated into different channels with a contrast ratio of 20 dB. The advantages of this kind of filter are small size and easily tunable operation frequencies.     

Real-time restoration of rotational blurred image using gradient-loading

The key to the restoration of rotational motion blurred image is how to restore the image under a low cost and to correct the irreversibility of the degradation function matrix.Based on the special qualities of degradation function matrix and precise deduction in space-domain, we present a new approach using gradient-loading for restoration of rotational blurred image.By easily adding a gradient operator, the irreversibility of the original matrix is corrected and can be applied for inverse filtering then.Gradientloading is the optimized approach which combines the advantages of both the approaches using constrained least square filtering and traditional diagonal-loading.Compared with the approach using least square filtering, its peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) is improved from 3.18 to 6.46dB, while the computing time is reduced to 1/2-1/3.Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness, noise-resistibility, robustness, and low complexity of this approach, which make it more suitable for real-time environment.     

All-Optical Logic Device Using Bent Nonlinear Tapered Y-Junction Waveguide Structure

We propose an all-optical logic device made of a bent tapered Y-junction waveguide with a Kerr-type nonlinear interface. It could provide an AND gate, OR gate, and exclusive-OR (XOR) gate. We could obtain different transmission results by adjusting the bending angle. The numerical simulation results show that the device functions as AND, OR, and XOR gates.     

Real-time, continuous-wave terahertz imaging by a pyroelectric camera

Real-time, continuous-wave terahertz (THz) imaging is demonstrated. A 1.89-THz optically-pumped farinfrared laser is used as the illumination source, and a 124 × 124 element room-temperature pyroelectric camera is adopted as the detector. With this setup, THz images through various wrapping materials are shown. The results show that this imaging system has the potential applications in real-time mail and security inspection.