Determination of the magnetic anisotropy constant of Cu/Fe/SiO2/Si by a magneto-optical Kerr effect susceptometer

The magneto-optical Kerr effect susceptometry technique is proposed to determine the uniaxial magnetic anisotropy(UMA) constant Ku. The magnetic properties of Cu/Fe/SiO2/Si grown by dc magnetron sputtering were investigated. The in-plane uniaxial magnetic anisotropy was probed by the magneto-optical Kerr effect(MOKE). The value of UMA, Ku= 2.5×103J/m3, was simulated from the field dependence of ac susceptibility along the hard axis according to the Stoner–Wohlfarth(S–W) model, which is consistent with Ku= 2.7×103J/m3 calculated from the magnetic hysteresis loops. Our results show that the magneto-optical Kerr effect susceptometry can be employed to determine the magnetic anisotropy constant owing to its high sensitivity.     

La-doped BiFe03： Synthesis and multiferroic property study

A new sol-foam-gel method was developed to fabricate La-doped BiFeO3 muttiferroic materials. It was demonstrated that a gradual increase in the content of La-doped into BiFeO3 results in its structure changing from rhombohedral to orthorhombic. A study of other property changes indicates that La-doping in BiFeO3 enhances its ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity. A temperature-dependent magnetization study suggests that the magnetic property of La-doped BiFeO3 samples varied from antiferromagnetic to ferromagnetic as the content of La-doped into BiFeO3 increased from 0 to 20%. Unique temperature-dependent zero field cooling （ZFC） and field cooling （FC） magnetization behaviors were observed in 15% La-doped BiFeO3 -- its ZFC temperature-dependent magnetization being ferromagnetic and its FC temperature- dependent magnetization being antiferromagnetic. A possible mechanism of such an interesting M-T behavior is discussed.     

Investigating the possibility of a turning point in the dark energy equation of state

We investigate a second order parabolic parametrization,w(a)=wt+wa(at-a)2,which is a direct characterization of a possible turning in w.The cosmological consequence of this parametrization is explored by using the observational data of the SNLS3 type Ia supernovae sample,the CMB measurements from WMAP9 and Planck,the Hubble parameter measurement from HST,and the baryon acoustic oscillation(BAO)measurements from 6dFGS,BOSS DR11 and improved WiggleZ.We found the existence of a turning point in w at a～0.7 is favored at 1σCL.In the epoch 0.55a0.9,w-1 is favored at 1σCL,and this significance increases near a=0.8,reaching a 2σCL.The parabolic parametrization achieve equivalent performance to theΛCDM and Chevallier-Polarski-Linder(CPL)models when the Akaike information criterion was used to assess them.Our analysis shows the value of considering high order parametrizations when studying the cosmological constraints on w.     

A continuum thermal stress theory for crystals based on interatomic potentials

This paper presents a new continuum thermal stress theory for crystals based on interatomic potentials.The effect of finite temperature is taken into account via a harmonic model.An EAM potential for copper is adopted in this paper and verified by computing the effect of the temperature on the specific heat,coefficient of thermal expansion and lattice constant.Then we calculate the elastic constants of copper at finite temperature.The calculation results are in good agreement with experimental data.The thermal stress theory is applied to an anisotropic crystal graphite,in which the Brenner potential is employed.Temperature dependence of the thermodynamic properties,lattice constants and thermal strains for graphite is calculated.The calculation results are also in good agreement with experimental data.     

Search for carbon stars and DZ white dwarfs in SDSS spectra survey through machine learning

Carbon stars and DZ white dwarfs are two types of rare objects in the Galaxy.In this paper,we have applied the label propagation algorithm to search for these two types of stars from Data Release Eight(DR8)of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey(SDSS),which is verified to be efcient by calculating precision and recall.From nearly two million spectra including stars,galaxies and QSOs,we have found 260 new carbon stars in which 96 stars have been identified as dwarfs and 7 identified as giants,and 11 composition spectrum systems(each of them consists of a white dwarf and a carbon star).Similarly,using the label propagation method,we have obtained 29 new DZ white dwarfs from SDSS DR8.Compared with PCA reconstructed spectra,the 29 findings are typical DZ white dwarfs.We have also investigated their proper motions by comparing them with proper motion distribution of 9,374 white dwarfs,and found that they satisfy the current observed white dwarfs by SDSS generally have large proper motions.In addition,we have estimated their efective temperatures by fitting the polynomial relationship between efective temperature and g-r color of known DZ white dwarfs,and found 12 of the 29 new DZ white dwarfs are cool,in which nine are between 6,000 K and 6,600 K,and three are below 6,000 K.     

Screening possible solid electrolytes by calculating the conduction pathways using Bond Valence method

Inorganic solid electrolytes have distinguished advantages in terms of safety and stability, and are promising to substitute for conventional organic liquid electrolytes. However, low ionic conductivity of typical candidates is the key problem. As connective diffusion path is the prerequisite for high performance, we screen for possible solid electrolytes from the 2004 International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD) database by calculating conduction pathways using Bond Valence (BV) method. There are 109846 inorganic crystals in the 2004 ICDD database, and 5295 of them contain lithium. Except for those with toxic, radioactive, rare, or variable valence elements, 1380 materials are candidates for solid electrolytes. The rationality of the BV method is approved by comparing the existing solid electrolytes’ conduction pathways we had calculated with those from experiments or first principle calculations. The implication for doping and substitution, two important ways to improve the conductivity, is also discussed. Among them Li₂CO₃ is selected for a detailed comparison, and the pathway is reproduced well with that based on the density functional studies. To reveal the correlation between connectivity of pathways and conductivity, α/γ-LiAlO₂ and Li₂CO₃ are investigated by the impedance spectrum as an example, and many experimental and theoretical studies are in process to indicate the relationship between property and structure. The BV method can calculate one material within a few minutes, providing an efficient way to lock onto targets from abundant data, and to investigate the structure-property relationship systematically.     

Flow characteristics of hypersonic inlets with different cowl-lip blunting methods

Under hypersonic flight conditions,the sharp cowl-lip leading edges have to be blunted because of the severe aerodynamic heating.This paper proposes four cowl-lip blunting methods and studies the corresponding flow characteristics and performances of the generic hypersonic inlets by numerical simulation under the design conditions of a flight Mach number of 6 and an altitude of 26 km.The results show that the local shock interference patterns in the vicinity of the blunted cowl-lips have a substantial influence on the flow characteristics of the hypersonic inlets even though the blunting radius is very small,which contribute to a pronounced degradation of the inlet performance.The Equal Length blunting Manner(ELM)is the most optimal in that a nearly even reflection of the ramp shock produces an approximately straight and weak cowl reflection shock.The minimal total pressure loss,the lowest cowl drag,maximum mass-capture and the minimal aeroheating are achieved for the hypersonic inlet.For the other blunting manners,the ramp shock cannot reflect evenly and produces more curved cowl reflection shock.The Type V shock interference pattern occurs for the Cross Section Cutting blunting Manner(CSCM)and the strongest cowl reflection shock gives rise to the largest flow loss and drag.The cowl-lip blunted by the other two blunting manners is subjected to the shock interference pattern that transits with an increase in the blunting radius.Accordingly,the peak heat flux does not fall monotonously with the blunting radius increasing.Moreover,the cowl-lip surface suffers from severe aerothermal load when the shear layer or the supersonic jet impinges on the wall.     

Label-free high-throughput and real-time detections of protein interactions by oblique-incidence reflectivity difference method

Selected Mouse IgG of 1 mg/mL as target was fabricated on microarray for 500 sample dots.Label-free and real-time reaction dynamic processes were detected between the microarrays with Goat Anti-mouse IgG of 0.02 mg/mL using the obliqueincidence reflectivity difference(OIRD)method.We obtained the reaction results and the reaction dynamic curves of 500 protein dots.In addition,we also used label-free detection of protein microarrays of 10080 sample dots,including BSA and different concentrations of Mouse IgG and Rabbit IgG,by OIRD.The obtained reaction results between the protein microarray with 1 mg/mL Goat Anti-mouse IgG and 1 mg/mL Goat Anti-rabbit IgG are reported herein.Experimental results show that OIRD can be not only label-free high-throughput detection method for biological microarrays but also label-free real-time detection in the interaction processes of biomolecules.     

Constraints on the extensions to the base ΛCDM model from BICEP2, Planck and WMAP

Recently Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization(B2)discovered the relic gravitational waves at 7.0σconfidence level.However,the other cosmic microwave background(CMB)data,for example Planck data released in 2013(P13),prefer a much smaller amplitude of the primordial gravitational waves spectrum if a power-law spectrum of adiabatic scalar perturbations is assumed in the six-parameterΛCDM cosmology.In this paper,we explore whether the wCDM model and the running spectral index can relax the tension between B2 and other CMB data.Specifically we found that a positive running of running of spectral index is preferred at 1.7σlevel from the combination of B2,P13 and WMAP Polarization data.     

Fluctuation with dust of de Sitter ground state of scalar-tensor gravity

An exact de Sitter solution of scalar-tensor gravity is found in our recent work, in which the non-minimal coupling scalar is rolling along a non-constant potential. Based on this solution, a dust-filled FRW universe is explored in frame of scalar-tensor gravity in this article. The effective dark energy induced by the sole non-minimal scalar can be quintessence-like, phantom-like, and more significantly, can cross the phantom divide. The rich and varied properties of scalar-tensor gravity even with only one scalar is shown.