人类对超声的听觉感知及应用前景

本文对人类通过骨传导所产生的超声听觉感知，就以下四方面进行介绍：１．感知的方法、频率和强度范围；２．感知机理；３．可能的应用；４．值得研究的问题。     

水下噪声及其控制技术进展和展望

本文主要介绍近年来船舶行业水下噪声研究进展情况，包括水下噪声形成机理和预报；水下噪声控制技术；水下噪声近代测量分析技术，并提出对水下噪声研究工作的展望。     

Li掺杂ZnO纳米棒的导电和发光特性(英文)

利用气相输运方法,在(111)面硅衬底上制备了名义上原子数分数为2%的Li掺杂的ZnO纳米棒(样品A)。作为比较,我们在相同的生长条件下制备了没有任何掺杂的ZnO纳米棒(样品B)。XRD分析测试表明:样品A和样品B中的ZnO纳米棒具有纤锌矿六边形结构,没有其他氧化物,例如Li2O。Hall效应测量表明:样品A导电类型为p型,空穴载流子浓度为6.72×1016cm-3,空穴载流子迁移率为2.46 cm2.V-1.s-1。样品B为n型,电子载流子浓度为7.16×1018cm-3,电子载流子迁移率为4.73 cm2.V-1.s-1。低温光致发光光谱测试表明,样品A和样品B发光峰明显的区别是位于3.351 eV(样品B)和3.364 eV(样品A)处。根据文献报道,在没有掺杂的ZnO中,3.364 eV发光峰源于施主束缚激子发光。通过变温光致发光光谱的测试,证明了在样品A中,位于3.351 eV的发光峰源于受主束缚激子发光,其光学受主能级位于价带顶142meV处。     

Analytical derivation of a formula for the reduction of computation time by the voxel crossing technique used in room acoustical simulation

Computation times of room acoustical simulation algorithms still suffer from the time consuming search for ray-wall-intersections. Spatial subdivision may speed up ray tracing considerably. For room acoustics, where the number of surface polygons (walls) is not so high, the voxel technique appears suitable. The voxel crossing algorithm is very fast. However, its performance was not yet investigated up to now. Voxels are small cubes by which the space is subdivided periodically. The advantage: Only in the rare case a voxel intersects a wall the intersection point needs to be computed. In this paper, by estimating the probabilities of such intersections, an analytical formula is derived, by which the optimum degree of spatial subdivision and the factor of acceleration of the algorithm can be forecasted. It turns out that the computation time increases only with instead of with K₀ (the number of polygons of the room). Thus, on a modern PC, computation time for a full room acoustical simulation even for highly complicated rooms may be reduced by a factor in the order of 100, i.e. to a few seconds.     

The unknown object problem in a sea with sloping bottom

This article considers the acoustic unknown object problem for a shallow ocean with a sloping seabed. The incident waves are sent from point sources along a s raight line parallel to the sea surface, and the corresponding scattered fields are measured from a line above the unknown object. We prove a uniqueness theorem for the inverse problem,and describe a generalizeddual space indicator method for numerical solution.Numerical results are given in Section 4.     

An electromagnetic parameters extraction method for metamaterials based on phase unwrapping technique

Abstract

A new method of extracting effective permittivity and permeability of metamaterials has been developed in this paper. Scattering parameters are used to represent effective wave impedance and refractive index of the metamaterials. Considering analytical continuation of effective refractive index of the metamaterials in the upper half of a complex angular frequency plane, a phase unwrapping technique has been implemented to solve branch ambiguity of the refractive index caused by complex inverse cosine function. An empirical formula to estimate the starting frequency in the phase unwrapping technique has been developed to improve the efficiency of the parameter retrieval procedure. Numerical results including five slabs of rods and split-ring resonators (SRRs) and a structure composed of two SRRs and four capacitively loaded strips are given to demonstrate good accuracy, high efficiency, and noise insensitivity of the proposed retrieval method.     

Theoretical investigation of an acoustic wave in molecular magnets via electromagnetically induced transparency

Using the Schrödinger-Maxwell equations, we theoretically investigate the propagation properties of a transverse acoustic wave in a crystal of molecular magnets in the presence of two strong ac resonant magnetic fields and a weak acoustic wave. The acoustic wave can freely propagate in the magnetic molecule medium (under appropriate conditions) due to quantum interference. Furthermore, using the slowly varying envelope approximation, we discuss the propagation equation of the acoustic wave, which includes the high order nonlinear term. The results show that a crystal of molecular magnets can support the propagation of acoustic wave solitons via electromagnetically induced transparency. We also obtain the analytical expressions for the phase shift and absorption coefficient of the acoustic wave within certain parameters.     

Acoustic radiation force on a sphere in standing and quasi-standing zero-order Bessel beam tweezers

Starting from the exact acoustic scattering from a sphere immersed in an ideal fluid and centered along the propagation axis of a standing or quasi-standing zero-order Bessel beam, explicit partial-wave representations for the radiation force are derived. A standing or a quasi-standing acoustic field is the result of propagating two equal or unequal amplitude zero-order Bessel beams, respectively, along the same axis but in opposite sense. The Bessel beam is characterized by the half-cone angle β of its plane wave components, such that β = 0 represents a plane wave. It is assumed here that the half-cone angle β for each of the counter-propagating acoustic Bessel beams is equal. Fluid, elastic and viscoelastic spheres immersed in water are treated as examples. Results indicate the capability of manipulating spherical targets based on their mechanical and acoustical properties. This condition provides an impetus for further designing acoustic tweezers operating with standing or quasi-standing Bessel acoustic waves. Potential applications include particle manipulation in micro-fluidic lab-on-chips as well as in reduced gravity environments.     

Design optimization of a Class VII Flextensional Transducer

Class VII Flextensional Transducers (FTs) have been proposed as a means of overcoming the limitation of very high prestress in Class IV FTs. These transducers are made from shells shaped like dog bone and hence are also known as dog-bone shell transducers. In this work, we report design optimization of a low frequency aluminum shell Class VII FT, resonating at 2.5 kHz, using piezoelectric drive. Two and three dimensional Finite Element Modeling (FEM), with the help of a commercially available package ATILA have been used for the design optimization. Dimensional details of the base model have been adapted from previous literature. Parametric analyses have been done with respect to various aspects like type of rubber, shell height, shell material, etc. in order to optimize the design. Experimental results obtained from an initial prototype are also presented. The results match fairly well with the predicted values.