Flexible antenna design on PDMS substrate for implantable bioelectronics applications

In the current field of biomedical engineering, the research on implanted antennas has attracted more and more attention. This paper presents a flexible terrestrial radiating antenna with circular polarization characteristics that satisfy various requirements for biomedical implantable antennas. The new type of flexible material is adopted and a novel model is proposed. The square ground with small gap is implemented in the proposed antenna. The passive components can match the impedance and meet the requirements of the circular polarization wave. Simulation is carried out in a single layer tissue model to estimate the performance of the antenna and compared with multilayer tissue model. In addition, the flexible circularly polarized antenna has low profile characteristics and a wide axial ratio bandwidth of 250 MHz, ranging from 2.28 to 2.53 GHz. This paper uses pork to simulate single‐layer and multi‐layer tissue model. The flexible circular polarized antenna prototype is placed in the organization model for performance simulation test, and the measurement impedance bandwidth of 500 MHz is realized in the industrial scientific medical frequency band of 2.4–2.48 GHz.     

Broadband acoustic cloaks based on the homogenization of layered materials

We present an analysis of acoustic cloaks based on the homogenization of two fluidlike materials, with an emphasis on periodically layered imperfect cloaks, by removing the singularities of the acoustic parameters required for ideal cloaks. The conditions that material layers should satisfy are systematically analyzed and critically discussed according to their feasibility.     

Broadband high-efficiency controllable asymmetric propagation by pentamode acoustic metasurface

We utilise the pentamode metasurface to realise broadband high-efficiency and controllable asymmetric transmission. The designed metasurface can manipulate the acoustic waves, as expected from the generalised Snell's law, and exhibits unique characteristics such as extraordinary broadband acoustic control, apparent negative refraction, and conversion from the propagating wave to surface mode. The asymmetric transmission features of positive refraction for the forward incidence (FI) and negative refraction for the reverse incidence (RI) can be realised within the range of 2600 Hz to 5600 Hz by controlling the incident angle from 0° to 35° with the transmission efficiency higher than 85.4% for the FI and RI. In addition, by further adjusting the angle of incidence in the range of 25° to 90°, asymmetric transmission characteristics can be expressed as surface wave transmission for the FI and transmitted wave transmission for the RI within the same frequency ranges.     

3D syndiotactic elastic metastructure with single-phase material

The artificially periodic structures with the bandgap (BG) features provide a fantastic way for elastic wave manipulation. However, omnidirectional control of elastic waves at low-frequency remains a challenge, especially in the engineering application, due to the great different material parameters of the structure's components. In this work, we present the design of a three-dimensional syndiotactic metastructure (STM) and isotactic metastructure (ITM) composed of a single material with the same density and stiffness. A low-frequency broad bandgap occurs in the global band structure of STM. Meanwhile, it also retains the same high-frequency ultra-wide BG as that of ITM. The formation of the low-frequency BG of STM is attributed to the simultaneous activation of rotation and translation modes. The static deformation analysis indicates that STM has a unique translational and rotational coupling mechanism. The frequency response results reveal that the coupling mechanism can also enhance the attenuation of high-frequency BG.     

盐诱导金纳米粒子自组装和沉降制备具有宽波段吸收特性的黑金

通过向金溶胶中加入无机盐诱导金纳米粒子自组装,并自然沉降金纳米粒子组装体得到黑金薄膜.研究结果表明,该黑金薄膜在400~1600 nm的宽带范围内表现出很强的吸收能力（>80%）,在400~800 nm的可见范围内能达到94%,表现出高光热转换能力和宽波段的高表面增强拉曼散射（SERS）活性.     

Molecular Dynamics in 1- and 2-D Confinement as Studied for the Case of Poly(Cis-1,4-Isoprene)

Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy (BDS) is used to probe the molecular dynamics of Type A polymer, poly(cis-1,4-isoprene), when confined in the 1-dimensional (1D) exploring space of thin layers and the 2-dimensional (2D) constraining geometry of unidirectional anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) nanopores. For both cases, it was observed that the structural relaxation remains bulk-like in its mean relaxation rate, although the distribution of its relaxation times is broadened in 2D confinement. Furthermore, the fluctuation of the end-to-end vector is interrupted, with the 1D case being relatively less pronounced. By this clear-cut comparison, it is demonstrated that the effects of confinement on molecular dynamics depend, inter alia, on the dimensionality of the restricting space.     

Fabrication of PbS nanocrystal-sensitized ultrafine TiO2 nanotubes for efficient and unusual broadband-light-driven hydrogen production

It is highly desired to maximize the use of solar light by developing broadband-light-responsive H₂ production system in the field of photocatalysis. Herein, a novel PbS/(Pt–TiO₂) nanocomposite with efficient and unusual broadband-light-driven H₂ production feature is constructed by using infrared-bandgap PbS nanocrystals as sensitizer of Pt-loaded ultrafine anatase TiO₂ nanotubes (Pt–TiO₂). After optimizing the component ratio, the resultant PbS/(Pt–TiO₂) nanocomposite delivers a H₂ production activity of 813 and 186 μmol h^?1 under ultraviolet (UV)-visible (Vis)-near-infrared (NIR) and Vis-NIR light irradiation, respectively. Moreover, an apparent quantum yield of 38.6%, 26.2%, 2.43%, 3.21%, 2.17%, 0.36%, 0.11% and 0.01% can be attained from the PbS/(Pt–TiO₂) nanocomposite illuminated at 350, 420, 550, 700, 760, 850, 950 and 1064 nm monochromatic light, respectively. The intimate interfacial contacts in the PbS nanocrystals decorated ultrafine TiO₂ nanotubes, which serve as the support and electron acceptor of PbS nanocrystals, can effectively promote the photoexcited hot electrons transferring from PbS nanocrystals to TiO₂ nanotubes before the thermalization losses, and thus causing the efficient Vis-NIR-light-responsive H₂ production activity of the PbS/(Pt–TiO₂) nanocomposite. These results provide an intriguing application of infrared-bandgap materials to exploit the low-energy photons of the solar light for constructing efficient and unusual broadband-responsive H₂ production system.     

舰船辐射噪声模拟发射系统的设计研究

本文依据典型舰船噪声的频谱特性规律,设计研制了一套舰船辐射噪声发射系统实验样机,包括信号结构设计、换能器选择配置、系统构成设计等,本噪声模拟发射系统具有100Hz～16kHz频带噪声的模拟发射功能,包括线谱、连续谱成分,频谱分配和谱线形式可调可控,信号总声源级动态范围达60dB。     

A novel method for measuring optical fiber delay lines based on the optical fiber low-coherence Young's interferometer

According to the principle of double-beam interference imaging using an infrared broadband light source, a novel method based on the optical fiber low-coherence Young's interferometer for the measurement of programmable optical fiber delay line is proposed. By measuring the small length increments of delay fiber through the evaluation of the central positions of zero-order interference fringes, we successfully construct a system with a variety of important functions, such as real-time controlling, measurement and displaying. This system offers the benefit that it can be regulated precisely to generate interference stripes once again after the length of fiber segment changes. When the locations of central stripes are moved to coincide with the original markers, the determination of the corresponding fiber optical delay time becomes really simplified, as just by reading out the tinny displacement of the reference arm. Multiple groups of experimental results demonstrate the outstanding performance of the proposed system since it bears a measuring accuracy of μm and a measuring range from 1 mm to 20 cm.     

Sol-gel preparation and characterization of nanoporous ZnO/SiO2 coatings with broadband antireflection properties

Nanoporous ZnO/SiO₂ bilayer coatings were prepared on the surface of glass substrates via sol-gel dip-coating process. The structural, morphological and optical properties of the coatings were characterized. The refractive indices of ZnO layer and SiO₂ layer are 1.34 and 1.21 at 550 nm, respectively. The transmittance and reflectance spectra of the coatings were investigated and the broadband antireflection performance of the bilayer structure was determined over the solar spectrum. The solar transmittances in the range of 300-1200 nm and 1200-2500 nm are increased by 6.5% and 6.2%, respectively. The improvement of transmittance is attributed to the destructive interference of light reflected from interfaces between the different refractive-index layers with an optimized thickness. Such antireflection coatings of ZnO/SiO₂ provide a promising route for solar energy applications.