空间微小碎片累积撞击损伤效应加速模拟研究

利用等离子体驱动微小碎片加速器对太阳同步轨道上太阳电池在轨10年遭遇微小碎片超高速撞击的累积损伤效应进行了加速模拟, 获得了电池性能参数的损伤结果, 并与所建立的损伤评估模型的预测结果进行了分析比较, 二者基本一致.     

超高速空间微小碎片撞击充电材料诱发的放电

空间微小碎片与航天器表面超高速撞击, 能够抛射出等离子体, 在高充电的航天器表面诱发静电放电, 是可能引发航天器异常的一个重要因素. 本文利用等离子体驱动微小碎片加速器对充电材料进行超高速(3 km/s)撞击模拟实验, 通过观测放电脉冲信号来研究因撞击产生的等离子体诱发的放电, 得到较好的实验现象, 初步确认了超高速碎片撞击充电材料诱发放电的机理.     

微小空间碎片撞击诱发放电效应研究

微小空间碎片超高速撞击航天器表面, 能够抛射出高密度的等离子体云团, 如果撞击发生在航天器的高充电表面或带电部件等敏感区域, 撞击等离子体将会诱发放电, 该机制已经引起了广泛的关注, 但是相关研究还十分欠缺. 本文利用等离子体驱动微小碎片加速器加速200 μm的微粒, 通过模拟实验开展微小空间碎片撞击诱发放电的研究, 获得了典型的实验结果, 对撞击诱发放电信号的特征进行了分析. 关键词： 微小空间碎片 撞击诱发放电     

空间微小碎片超高速撞击诱发的等离子体特性研究

空间微小碎片超高速撞击航天器表面可产生稠密的等离子体,随着等离子体的扩散可导致静电放电及电磁干扰脉冲的发生,近而威胁航天器在轨安全.本文利用等离子体驱动微小碎片加速器研究了质量为10 5g的空间碎片撞击产生的等离子体基本特性,给出了等离子体总电荷与微小碎片速度之间的关系,获得了等离子体扩散速度参数及等离子体电子密度随时间和空间的演化关系,研究结果对于揭示空间微小碎片撞击诱发放电和电磁干扰脉冲形成的机理具有重要意义.     

超高速撞击下47Zr45Ti5Al3V合金的宏观与微观响应行为

为了研究新型锆钛合金47Zr45Ti5Al3V在空间微小碎片环境中的适用性,采用激光驱动微小飞片超高速撞击方式,开展了微小飞片单次和累积多次超高速撞击实验。采用表面轮廓仪测量了撞击坑深度,由此获得了在撞击速度范围内撞击坑深度与飞片速度、累积撞击次数的关系。通过扫描电镜和透射电镜研究了撞击坑周围的微观组织结构和形貌,发现在撞击坑周围没有形成微空洞、微裂纹、绝热剪切带等缺陷,也没有观测到明显的细化晶粒。此外,X射线衍射谱显示撞击坑周围仍然保持α和β两相结构,但是α→β相变使β相的含量增加。可以认为,新型合金47Zr45Ti5Al3V在超高速撞击后仍具有稳定的组织结构和机械性能,在空间微小碎片环境中具有较好的应用前景。     

微小空间碎片撞击发光信号监测及应用研究

超高速撞击实验中,通过对撞击发光信号的监测,利用光谱分析法测量超高速微粒撞击形成等离子体的温度和密度是最有效的方法,也是深入研究微小空间碎片撞击诱发放电效应的基础.国内外相关机构已利用该方法对毫米以上微粒撞击等离子体的参数进行了监测,但是毫米以下微粒撞击发光信号的监测难度更大,相关研究还未见报道.本文在等离子体驱动微小碎片加速器上对百微米级微粒超高速撞击的发光信号进行了监测,对该撞击发光信号以及撞击诱发放电过程中发光的基本特征进行了分析,并提出了利用撞击发光信号对微粒速度进行测量的方法.     

弹丸超高速撞击防护屏碎片云数值模拟

 低地球轨道的各类航天器易受到微流星体及空间碎片的超高速撞击。这些撞击损伤航天器飞行的关键系统,进而导致航天器发生灾难性失效。为了保证航天员的安全及航天器的正常运行,微流星体及空间碎片防护结构设计是航天器设计的一个重要问题。采用AUTODYN软件进行了弹丸超高速正撞击及斜撞击防护屏所产生碎片云的SPH法数值模拟,给出了二维及三维模拟结果;研究了防护屏厚度、弹丸形状、撞击速度以及材料模型等对碎片云的影响。模拟结果同高质量实验研究的结果进行了比较,模拟的碎片云形状和碎片云特征点的速度同实验相吻合。验证了数值模拟方法的有效性。     

铝合金弹丸超高速撞击玄武岩纤维布剩余速度分析

 采用高强纤维作为防护材料,是航天器空间碎片超高速撞击防护结构发展的趋势之一。超高速撞击损伤分析是空间碎片防护结构研究开发设计的重要环节,也是高压极端加载条件下材料动态响应分析的重要内容。玄武岩纤维是近年来受到人们关注的一种高强度、高模量陶瓷纤维。利用二级轻气炮进行了铝合金弹丸超高速撞击玄武岩纤维编织布时的超高速撞击实验,根据弹丸碎片的闪光X射线阴影照片,分析了铝合金弹丸超高速撞击玄武岩纤维编织布的撞击速度损失规律,根据实验结果拟合得到了铝合金弹丸的剩余速度方程,为分析玄武岩纤维材料对弹丸的撞击能量消耗提供了参考依据。     

地球同步轨道碎片观测图像分级检测方法

为了快速检测出地球同步轨道带光学观测图像中的空间碎片,提出了一种基于信噪比的分级检测方法.首先分析实测数据,得出观测图像中不同信噪比碎片运动相似的特性.对于高信噪比碎片,采取帧差法快速检测,并利用多帧图像计算速度信息;对于低信噪比碎片,根据高信噪比碎片检测结果得到的速度信息,采用改进的动态规划检测方法.实际图像检测结果表明:当递归方程的搜索窗口为5pixel×5pixel时,分级检测方法检测性能最好;当累积帧数大于5帧时,检测时间比传统动态规划方法减少了87%以上.分级检测方法具有检测率高、虚警率低、计算量小的优势,适合地球同步轨道带光学观测图像中空间碎片的检测.     

铝球弹丸高速正撞击薄铝板穿孔研究

 低地球轨道上的航天器易受到微流星体及空间碎片的超高速撞击，导致其严重的损伤甚至灾难性的失效。撞击损伤特性研究是航天器防护设计的一个重要问题。通过铝球弹丸超高速正撞击薄铝板的实验研究和数值模拟，证明了AUTODYN-2D软件数值模拟预测薄铝板超高速撞击穿孔直径的有效性。通过对弹丸直径、弹丸撞击速度和薄铝板厚度影响薄铝板超高速撞击穿孔直径的数值模拟，以及利用实验结果和数值模拟结果拟合的曲线，得到了铝球弹丸超高速撞击薄铝板的穿孔规律以及影响薄铝板超高速撞击穿孔直径的主要因素。     

Enhanced optical absorption by Ag nanoparticles in a thin film Si solar cell

Thin film solar cells have the potential to significantly reduce the cost of photovoltaics. Light trapping is crucial to such a thin film silicon solar cell because of a low absorption coefficient due to its indirect band gap. In this paper, we investigate the suitability of surface plasmon resonance Ag nanoparticles for enhancing optical absorption in the thin film solar cell. For evaluating the transmittance capability of Ag nanoparticles and the conventional antireflection film, an enhanced transmittance factor is introduced. We find that under the solar spectrum AM1.5, the transmittance of Ag nanoparticles with radius over 160 nm is equivalent to that of conventional textured antireflection film, and its effect is better than that of the planar antireflection film. The influence of the surrounding medium is also discussed.     

Improvement of organic solar cells by flexible substrate and ITO surface treatments

In this paper, surface treatments on polyethylene terephthalate with polymeric hard coating (PET-HC) substrates are described. The effect of the contact angle on the treatment is first investigated. It has been observed that detergent is quite effective in removing organic contamination on the flexible PET-HC substrates. Next, using a DC-reactive magnetron sputter, indium tin oxide (ITO) thin films of 90 nm are grown on a substrate treated by detergent. Then, various ITO surface treatments are made for improving the performance of the finally developed organic solar cells with structure Al/P3HT:PCBM/PEDOT:PSS/ITO/PET. It is found that the parameters of the ITO including resistivity, carrier concentration, transmittance, surface morphology, and work function depended on the surface treatments and significantly influence the solar cell performance. With the optimal conditions for detergent treatment on flexible PET substrates, the ITO film with a resistivity of 5.6 × 10⁻⁴ Ω cm and average optical transmittance of 84.1% in the visible region are obtained. The optimal ITO surface treated by detergent for 5 min and then by UV ozone for 20 min exhibits the best WF value of 5.22 eV. This improves about 8.30% in the WF compared with that of the untreated ITO film. In the case of optimal treatment with the organic photovoltaic device, meanwhile, 36.6% enhancement in short circuit current density (J_sc) and 92.7% enhancement in conversion efficiency (η) over the untreated solar cell are obtained.     

Light trapping by chemically micro-textured glass for crystalline silicon solar cells

Results of the studies of optical properties of anti-reflective glasses with various texturization patterns, which were used as a coating for crystalline silicon solar cells, are presented. It was found that glass samples sorted by their optical transmittance demonstrated the same order as when sorted by their solar-cell short-circuit current enhancement parameter. The value of the latter depended on the parameters of texturization, such as the surface density of inclusions and their profile, and the depth of etching pits. A 2% relative increase of the solar cell efficiency was obtained for the best glass sample for null degree angle of incidence, proving enhanced light trapping properties of the studied glass.     

Fabrication and characterization of zinc oxide anti-reflective coating on flexible thin film microcrystalline silicon solar cell

This paper studies the fabrication and characterization of 80 nm zinc oxide anti-reflective coating (ARC) on flexible 1.3 μm thin film microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si) solar cell. High resolution X-ray diffraction (HR-XRD) shows a c-axis oriented ZnO (0 0 2) peak (hexagonal crystal structure) at 34.3° with full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 0.3936°. Atomic force microscope (AFM) measures high surface roughness root-mean-square (RMS) of the layer (50.76 nm) which suggests scattering of the incident light at the front surface of the solar cell. UV–vis spectrophotometer illustrates that ZnO ARC has optical transmittance of more than 80% in the visible and infra-red (IR) regions and corresponds to band gap (E_g) of 3.3 eV as derived from Tauc equation. Inclusion of ZnO ARC successfully suppresses surface reflectance from the cell to 2% (at 600 nm) due to refractive index grading between the Si and the ZnO besides quarter-wavelength (λ/4) destructive interference effect. The reduced reflectance and effective scattering effect of the incident light at the front side of the cell are believed to be the reasons why short-circuit current (I_sc) and efficiency (η) of the cell improve.     

Absorption enhancement of ultrathin crystalline silicon solar cells with frequency upconversion nanosphere arrays

A design of ultrathin crystalline silicon solar cells patterned with α-NaEr_(0.2)Y_(0.8)F_4 upconversion nanosphere(NSs) arrays on the surface was proposed. The light trapping performance ofα-NaEr_(0.2)Y_(0.8)F_4 NSs with different ratios of sphere diameter to sphere pitch was systematically studied by COMSOL Multiphysics. The influence of different NS diameters and ratio to the average optical absorption of ultrathin crystalline silicon solar cell was calculated, as well as the short circuit current densities. The results show that the average optical absorption of solar cells with 2.33 μm silicon covered by α-NaEr_(0.2)Y_(0.8)F_4 NSs of 100 nm in diameter and 5.2 in ratio has improved by 8.5% compared to planar silicon solar cells with the same thickness of silicon. The light trapping performance of different thicknesses of silicon solar cells with the optimized configuration of NSs was also discussed. The results indicate that our structure enhances the light absorption. The presented model will be the basis for further simulations concerning frequency upconversion of α-NaEr_(0.2)Y_(0.8)F_4 materials.     

非共轴椭球面聚光阵列式高焦比太阳模拟器

为使太阳模拟器的接收靶得到高能流高均匀度光斑,需要对聚光系统进行优化设计。提出利用非共轴椭球面聚光镜优化光斑质量的方法,使光斑的能流分布均匀度有明显改善。利用蒙特-卡罗光线追迹方法,设计了聚集型高焦比太阳模拟器。在第二焦面处,80mm直径的接收靶面上可接收10kW的辐射光能,光斑对称性和均匀性好,系统的传递效率为23.81%,80mm直径靶面内的平均能流密度为2MW/m2,50mm直径靶面内平均能流密度达到3.64MW/m2,对应的理论色温超过2800K。采用非共轴椭球面聚光镜,成功研制了由电源控制系统、冷却系统、氙灯光源和聚光系统构成的太阳能模拟器。经实验测试,太阳模拟器的聚光光斑与光学仿真软件TracePro模拟光斑符合得很好。     

Antireflection subwavelength structures analyzed by using the finite difference time domain method

Antireflection subwavelength structures (ASSs) are analyzed by using the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method in the visible light spectrum. Low reflectance can be obtained by both the conical and pyramidal shapes over a broadband range. Comparing the reflectance of different structure shapes and aspect ratios by the FDTD method, it shows that the antireflection efficiencies of the pyramidal structures are better than that of the conical structures when the aspect ratio is up to 0.8. It is found that, for the conical structure surface, the average transmittance increases gradually with the aspect ratio and the average transmittance is about 99.6% with the aspect ratio of 2.0. However, for the pyramidal structure with the aspect ratio ranging from 1.0 to 2.0, the average transmittance is up to 99.7%.     

Impact of an ion-flux non-uniformity on the sputtering of a target with a surface relief in a glow discharge plasma

The distribution of the sputtering yield averaged over the ion energy and flux density of sputtered atoms in a glow discharge plasma on a surface with a small-amplitude periodic relief has been calculated. The average sputtering yield of the target has a minimum at tops of the relief due to the energy separation of ions within the near-electrode discharge layer, while the flux density of sputtered atoms in this case is maximized due to the higher density of the ion flux on these areas.     

功能光学纳米Ag薄膜的制备及其光学特性研究

对以热蒸发法制备的超薄Ag薄膜,扫描电子显微镜结果显示其呈纳米尺度的颗粒状,由透射谱测量发现其具有表面等离子体激元特征.检测到不同条件制备纳米Ag薄膜的表面等离子体共振吸收峰的位移规律,且纳米Ag材料具有选择性的透过、反射特性.通过不同的制备条件,得到了在长波范围内透过率超过90％、在表面等离子体共振峰值位置处反射率接近50％且峰位可调的光学薄膜材料.这种薄膜材料有望成为应用在薄膜太阳电池中间层中具有潜在性光管理功能的光学薄膜材料. 关键词： 热蒸发 纳米Ag薄膜 表面等离子体激元 光管理     

Second- and third-order optical studies of 4-Bromoanilinium hydrogen phthalate single crystal for nonlinear optical device applications

A new organic NLO material 4-Bromoanilinium hydrogen phthalate was grown by slow evaporation technique. The solubility and metastable zone width were determined. The crystal belongs to monoclinic system with space group C2. Optical transmittance spectrum confirms the wide optical window. Absorption coefficient and band gap were calculated from transmittance. The thermal stability, laser-induced surface damage threshold and mechanical behaviour were analysed. The particle size-dependent second harmonic generation efficiency was evaluated by Kurtz–Perry powder method and existence of phase matching. The third-order optical study was measured by Z-scan studies. The dispersion of birefringence behaviour was studied.