Spatial and frequency domain effects of defects in 1D photonic crystal

The aim of this paper is to present the analysis of influence of defects in 1D photonic crystal (PC) on the density of states and simultaneously spontaneous emission, in both spatial and frequency domains. In our investigations we use an analytic model of 1D PC with defects. Our analysis reveals how presence of a defect causes a defect mode to appear. We show that a defect in 1D PC has local character, being negligible in regions of PC situated far from the defected elementary cell. We also analyze the effect of multiple defects, which lead to photonic band gap splitting.     

New type of biosensor based on magnetic nanoparticle detection

A new type of biosensor has been developed based on detection of nanosized superparamagnetic particles that serve as labels in bioreactions. The method is based on non-linear magnetic material detection by a magnetic field having components at two frequencies f₁ and f₂. The response is measured at the combinatorial frequencies f_i=mf₁+nf₂, where m and n are integers, e.g., f_i=f₁±2f₂. Several highly sensitive readers of superparamagnetic particles have been designed and used for development of various formats of immunoassays, including those compatible with immunoconcentration and magnetic enrichment of antigens.     

X-ray Peltier cooled detectors for X-ray fluorescence analysis

The recent results on development of X-ray Si(Li), Si-planar and CdTe p-i-n detectors cooled by Peltier coolers for fabrication of laboratory and portable XRF analysers for different applications are discussed.

Low detection limits of XRF analysers are provided by increasing of detectors sensitive surface; improvement of their spectrometrical characteristics; decreasing of front-end-electronics noise level; Peltier coolers and vacuum chambers cooling modes optimization.

Solution of all mentioned tasks allowed to develop Peltier cooled detectors with the following performances:

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Advantages and disadvantages of all types of detectors for X-ray fluorescence analysis are compared. Spectra are presented. Application of different XRF analysers based on developed detectors in medicine, environmental science, industry, cryminalistics and history of art are demonstrated.     

Combined neural network and reduced FRF techniques for slight damage detection using measured response data

Summary  This paper deals with structural damage detection using measured frequency response functions (FRF) as input data to artificial neural networks (ANN). A major obstacle, the impracticality of using full-size FRF data with ANNs, was circumvented by applying a data-reduction technique based on principal component analysis (PCA). The compressed FRFs, represented by their projection onto the most significant principal components, were used as the ANN input variables instead of the raw FRF data. The output is a prediction of the actual state of the specimen, i.e. healthy or damaged. A further advantage of this particular approach is its ability to deal with relatively high measurement noise, which is a common occurrence when dealing with industrial structures. The methodology was applied to detect three different states of a space antenna: reference, slight mass damage and slight stiffness damage. About 600 FRF measurements, each with 1024 spectral points, were included in the analysis. Six 2-hidden layer networks, each with an individually-optimised architecture for a specific FRF reduction level, were used for damage detection. The results showed that it was possible to distinguish between the three states of the antenna with good accuracy, subject to using an adequate number of principal components together with a suitable neural network configuration. It was also found that the quality of the raw FRF data remained a major consideration, though the method was able to filter out some of the measurement noise. The convergence and detection properties of the networks were improved significantly by removing those FRFs associated with measurement errors. Received 9 March 2000; accepted for publication 12 December 2000     

Trace mercury (II) detection and separation in serum and water samples using a reusable bifunctional fluorescent sensor

In this work, a reusable bifunctional fluorescent sensor for simultaneous detection and separation of trace Hg²⁺ in water and serum, which contains a naphthalimide derivative of 2,6-bis(aminomethyl)pyridine covalently grafted to the surface of silica particles, was developed. Meanwhile, the fluorescence characteristics and the adsorbent properties of the sensor were investigated in detail. This sensor showed a very good linearity (correlation coefficient of R² = 0.9991) in the range 0.1-1 μM of Hg²⁺ with detection limits lower than 6.8 × 10⁻⁹ M. It can also be used as an adsorbent for the removal of mercuric ions from the contaminated aqueous solution. The regeneration of this sensor is very simple, only by modulating the pH value of the aqueous solution. It can be reused at least four cycles. In addition, the present approach has the advantages of rapidity, simplicity, and low cost. We believe that this approach may serve as a foundation for the preparation of practical fluorescent sensor for the rapid detection of Hg²⁺ in aqueous biological and environmental samples.     

Mapping problems, fundamental groups and defect measures

We study all the possible weak limits of a minimizing sequence, for p-energy functionals, consisting of continuous maps between Riemannian manifolds subject to a Dirichlet boundary condition or a homotopy condition. We show that if p is not an integer, then any such weak limit is a strong limit and, in particular, a stationary p-harmonic map which is C ^1,α continuous away from a closed subset of the Hausdorff dimension ≤ n − [p] − 1. If p is an integer, then any such weak limit is a weakly p-harmonic map along with a (n − p)-rectifiable Radon measure μ. Moreover, the limiting map is C ^1,α continuous away from a closed subset Σ=spt μ ∪ S with H ^{n − p} (S)=0. Finally, we discuss the possible varifolds type theory for Sobolev mappings. Partially supported by NSF Grant DMS 9626166     

Simple Method in Diagnosing Cancer Cells by a Novel Fluorescence Probe BMVC

Different cellular accumulations with distinct fluorescence properties of BMVC in cancer cells from normal cells allow us to establish a simple and economic method for the diagnosis of cancer cells. With using a light emitting diode to excite the BMVC molecule, microarray fluorescence analysis of a cell‐based glass chip provides an easy method towards the detection of a limited number of cancer cells.     

GLOBAL SUPERCONVERGENCES OF THE DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS WITH NONMATCHING GRIDS

1. IlltroductionA nonconforming domain decomposition method with Lagrangian multipliers was proposedin [13]. The basic idea of this method is to deal with the nonconforming of nonmatching gridsby illtroducing the Lagrangian multipliers on interfaces of subdomains and its advalltages arethat it allows not only the incompatibility of the internal variables on the interface betweensubdomains, but also the discolltinuity of the boundary variables on the common venices ofsubdomains. Thus one can c…     

基于表面重建螺旋型铂铱电极的葡萄糖生物传感器

通过对螺旋型铂铱电极表面进行化学腐蚀和电化学沉积铂纳米粒子实现电极表面的重建和优化,研究了螺旋型铂铱电极在不同腐蚀时间和电沉积时间下的形貌及对过氧化氢(H2O2)的催化活性.对表面重建的工作电极涂覆氧化酶和半透膜,制备出了铂纳米粒子/葡萄糖氧化酶/环氧聚氨酯酶电极,并将其用作葡萄糖传感器的工作电极.传感器计时电流检测结果表明,表面重建后的酶电极传感器对葡萄糖的检测范围扩大为2~45 mmol/L,优于裸铂铱酶电极传感器,电流响应值和灵敏度得到明显提升,同时传感器还具有良好的稳定性和选择性.     

高灵敏比色检测Cu~(2+)的反蛋白石结构光子晶体水凝胶膜

以丙烯酰胺(AM)和N-乙烯基咪唑(NVI)为双功能单体,借助"三明治"结构有效控制前驱液的填充,制备了可特异性识别Cu~(2+)的反蛋白石结构光子晶体水凝胶膜(PCHs).该PCHs具有相互贯通的三维有序大孔结构,可在Cu~(2+)缓冲溶液中快速响应,产生特征的布拉格(Bragg)衍射峰.随着Cu~(2+)浓度的增大(0~10-4mol/L),PCHs的Bragg衍射峰位移66 nm,并伴随着明显的颜色变化(由棕红色逐渐变为黄绿色).此外,PCHs在混合金属盐溶液中仍能实现对Cu~(2+)的特异性识别.PCHs对Cu~(2+)的特异识别性、快速响应及自表达的特点为Cu~(2+)现场快速检测提供了可能.