Antenna Performance of a Directly Dug Corrugated Feedhorn for the 150-GHz Band

We have developed a 150 GHz band corrugated feed horn. These corrugated feed horns have been established by a new machining method, which involves digging corrugations through a metal material. We were able to realize E plane and H plane symmetry, low side lobe level, and low cross-polarization level. Measured co-polarization beam patterns above − 35 dB were consistent with the simulated patterns within a designed frequency range. The peak levels of cross-polarization beam patterns were less than − 30 dB. And, the performances were uniform in several horns. In the present paper, we describe the corrugated horn produced by this methods.     

基于互耦补偿策略的IFFT算法及其应用

介绍了一种基于互耦补偿矩阵(MCCM)的迭代快速傅里叶变换(IFFT)技术,并将其应用于宽角度扫描相控阵的低旁瓣综合中。首先,在所提出的综合方法中,将互耦补偿矩阵引入到IFFT技术中以考虑阵元间的互耦效应,使考虑互耦的阵列远场重新满足方向图乘积原理。然后,提出了一款基片集成波导背腔结构的宽波束天线单元,该天线能够同时激励起TE110与TE210两种模式从而展宽其工作频带且具有宽波束性能,并且基于此单元分别建立了阵元数为35,75,100的宽角度扫描相控阵天线。最后,利用所提出的IFFT技术对这三个相控阵进行低旁瓣综合。与基于有源单元方向图遗传算法的对比结果表明,在-60°到60°的扫描范围内均能实现低旁瓣电平,并且IFFT优化算法具有更快的速度。     

Influence of corrugation on light-scattering properties of capsule and finite-cylinder particles: Analytic solution using Sh-matrices

We use the Sh-matrices to derive an analytic T-matrix solution for the light scattering from capsule and finite-cylinder particles with corrugated surfaces. The solution is tested by comparison with discrete-dipole-approximation (DDA) calculations. We present results from finite circular cylinders and capsules whose diameter/length ratio is 1/2. Such particles have interest as simulants of aerosolized spores. We analyze and compare their two-dimensional scattering patterns. The effect of corrugated surfaces of relatively small amplitude is quite significant on the resulting scattering patterns.     

Surface wave generation by comb transducers

Low-frequency surface waves for non-destructive testing of surfaces can be excited by a so-called comb transducer consisting of a periodically corrugated plate bonded to a pie-zoelectric crystal. Typically, 25 dB insertion loss was measured at 3 MHz on an iron surface with a unidirectional set of transducers employing passive reflectors.     

Optimization of transmitting beam patterns of a conformal transducer array

A method is presented to calculate the driving-voltage weighting vector of a conformal array of underwater acoustic transmitting transducers to obtain a low-sidelobe beam pattern based on the measured receiving array manifold. The relationship among three quantities is given, which are, respectively, the radiated acoustic field, the measured receiving array manifold matrix and the driving-voltage weighting vector of the transducer array. Then, the driving-voltage weighting vector of the array is calculated using the optimization method to obtain a low-sidelobe transmitting beam pattern. At the frequency of 12.5 kHz, the receiving array manifold matrix of a 27-element conformal array is measured in an anechoic water tank. The driving-voltage weighting vector of the array is calculated using the proposed method. In addition, the computer simulation and experiments are carried out. The results agree well and show that the proposed method can obtain a low-sidelobe transmitting beam pattern and at the same time provide the largest amplitude of pressure in the axial direction when the maximum amplitude of the driving voltages of the array elements keeps unchanged.     

Structural and Morphological Changes of Carbon Fiber Surfaces,Produced via Sputtering by Noble Gas Ions

SEM, laser goniophotometry, and Raman spectroscopy are used to analyze a modification of the carbon PAN fiber shell of KUP-VM composite upon irradiation with 30 keV Ne⁺ and Ar⁺ ions at normal incidence and temperatures of RT to 600°C. It is found that the formation of corrugated submicron structures in the composite upon irradiation at elevated temperatures (≥125°C for neon and ≥250°C for argon) displays certain features at temperatures of 400–500°C. The corrugated faces’ angles of inclination and the fraction of the corrugated structure on the fiber surface at these temperatures are minimal. Together with regularities established earlier, the observed patterns allow us to relate ion-induced corrugation to anisotropic radiation- induced plastic processes of dimensional changes in carbon materials affected by ion sputtering of their surfaces.     

Measurement of properties of a smooth-walled spline-profile feed horn around 840 GHz

For astrophysical applications at submillimeter wavelengths, efficient coupling of the feed horn pattern in the focal plane to the radiation pattern of the telescope is paramount. To date, at 840 GHz with high band width, corrugated feed horns have been used with very good results. The goal of developing instruments for KOSMA above 1 THz where state-of-the-art heterodyne systems are still governed by receiver noise rather than by radiative background, requires fabrication of corrugated structures of the order of λ/3 or less. This is non-trivial, and here we present the performance of a smooth-walled spline-profile feed horn, which is considerably easier to manufacture compared to a corrugated feed horn. The performance is assessed via radiation patterns in H, E and 45° D-Plane in co- and cross-polarization.     

Turbulent propagation of premixed flames in the presence of Darrieus–Landau instability

We investigate the role played by hydrodynamic instability in the wrinkled flamelet regime of turbulent combustion, where the intensity of turbulence is small compared to the laminar flame speed and the scale large compared to the flame thickness. To this end the Michelson–Sivashinsky (MS) equation for flame front propagation in one and two spatial dimensions is studied in the presence of uncorrelated and correlated noise representing a turbulent flow field. The combined effect of turbulence intensity, integral scale, and an instability parameter related to the Markstein length are examined and turbulent propagation speed monitored for both stable planar flames and corrugated flames for which the planar conformation is unstable. For planar flames a particularly simple scaling law emerges, involving quadratic dependence on intensity and a linear dependence on the degree of instability. For corrugated flames we find the dependence on intensity to be substantially weaker than quadratic, revealing that corrugated flames are more resilient to turbulence than planar flames. The existence of a threshold turbulence intensity is also observed, below which the corrugated flame in the presence of turbulence behaves like a laminar flame. We also analyze the conformation of the flame surface in the presence of turbulence, revealing primary, large-scale wrinkles of a size comparable to the main corrugation. When the integral scale is much smaller than the characteristic corrugation length we observe, in addition to primary wrinkles, secondary small-scale wrinkles contaminating the surface. The flame then acquires a multi-scale, self-similar conformation, with a fractal dimension, for one-dimensional flames, plateauing at 1.23 for large intensities. The existence of an intermediate integral scale is also found at which the turbulent speed is maximized. When two-dimensional flames are subject to turbulence, the primary wrinkling patterns give rise to polyhedral-cellular structures which bear a very close resemblance to those observed in experiments on hydrodynamically unstable expanding spherical flames.     

Measurement of properties of a smooth-walled spline-profile feed horn around 840 GHz

For astrophysical applications at submillimeter wavelengths, efficient coupling of the feed horn pattern in the focal plane to the radiation pattern of the telescope is paramount. To date, at 840 GHz with high band width, corrugated feed horns have been used with very good results. The goal of developing instruments for KOSMA above 1 THz where state-of-the-art heterodyne systems are still governed by receiver noise rather than by radiative background, requires fabrication of corrugated structures of the order of λ/3 or less. This is non-trivial, and here we present the performance of a smooth-walled spline-profile feed horn, which is considerably easier to manufacture compared to a corrugated feed horn. The performance is assessed via radiation patterns in H, E and 45° D-Plane in co- and cross-polarization.     

人工局域表面等离激元诱导的超透射

利用有限元方法研究了理想导体薄膜中齿状孔阵列在微波频段的超透射现象.齿状结构的引入使得孔阵列的透射谱发生红移,在更深的亚波长区实现全透射.近场分析表明分布在齿状孔上的局域态对红移起了关键作用.研究发现单个齿孔支持人工局域表面等离激元多极子模式,与超透射相关的是偶极子模式.该研究方案可以推广到红外与太赫兹频段.     

Far-Field Pattern of a Focal-Plane Array-Lens Antenna at Millimeter Wavelengths

In this paper an analysis of the far-field pattern of a focal-plane array in the case of two different lenses, a coma-free lens and a hyperbolic lens, and their comparison, are presented. Ray tracing and aperture integration are used. The calculated field pattern at W band is presented. The focal-plane elements are assumed to be corrugated horn. The f / D of the lens is 1.3. The coma-free lens is designed by step integration. The calculation results show that the coma-free lens is superior to the hyperbolic lens in the imaging performance. The coma-free lens can contain more pixels under the condition that the beam size and beam quality are almost constant over the range of angles scanned and the differences among beams gain less 1.8 dB. The aperture efficiency and directivity are also presented.     

94 GHz回旋管过模波导模式转换与传输

 在耦合波理论的基础上,研究了94 GHz回旋管内置TE₀₃-TE₀₂-TE₀₁模式转换器和外接的TE₀₁-TE₁₁模式转换器。采用半径渐变微扰和轴线微扰几何结构以及不同的相位重匹配技术进行优化分析,得到了可靠的最优几何参量,设计出了紧凑、高效的94 GHz波纹波导模式转换器和蛇形线模式转换器。回旋管的热测实验中测出的模式样图表明,所设计的内置模式变换器有效地实现了TE₀₃-TE₀₂-TE₀₁的模式转换。     

Internal structure of C60 fullerence molecules as revealed by low-temperature STM

We have performed Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) in ultra-high vacuum at low temperatures (5 and 50K) of unordered and ordered C₆₀ layers adsorbed on a Au(110) surface. STM topographs of the frozen C₆₀ molecules reveal four symmetric patterns within single molecules, which may be associated with different orientations of the fullerenes on a highly corrugated gold substrate.     

Low-Power Testing of Losses in Millimeter-Wave Transmission Lines for High-Power Applications

We report the measurement of small losses in transmission line (TL) components intended for high-power millimeter-wave applications. Measurements were made using two different low-power techniques: a coherent technique using a vector network analyzer (VNA) and an incoherent technique using a radiometer. The measured loss in a 140 GHz 12.7 mm diameter TL system, consisting of 1.7 m of circular corrugated waveguide and three miter bends, is dominated by the miter bend loss. The measured loss was 0.3 ± 0.1 dB per miter bend using a VNA; and 0.22 ± 0.1 dB per miter bend using a radiometer. Good agreement between the two measurement techniques implies that both are useful for measuring small losses. To verify the methodology, the VNA technique was employed to measure the extremely small transmission loss in a 170 GHz ITER prototype TL system consisting of three lengths of 1 m, 63.5 mm diameter, circular corrugated waveguide and two miter bends. The measured loss of 0.05 ± 0.02 dB per miter bend may be compared with the theoretical loss of 0.027 dB per miter bend. These results suggest that low-power testing of TL losses, utilizing a small, simple TL system and a VNA, is a reliable method for evaluating performance of low-loss millimeter-wave TL components intended for use in high-power applications.     

Millimeter-Wave Profiled Corrugated Horns for the Quad Cosmic Background Polarization Experiment

In this paper we report on the design and validation process for the profiled corrugated horn antennas, which feed the bolometer array of a cosmology experiment known as QUaD located at the South Pole. This is a cosmic background radiation polarization project, which demands precise knowledge and control of the optical coupling to the signal in order to map the feeble E- and B-polarization mode structure. The system will operate in two millimeter wavelength bands at 100 and 150 GHz. The imaging horn array collects the incoming signal via on-axis front-end optics and a Cassegrain telescope, with a cold stop in front of the array to terminate side-lobe structure at an edge taper of –20dB. The corrugated horn design process was undertaken using in-house analytical software tools, based on modal scattering, specially developed for millimeter -wave profiled horn antennas. An important part of the instrument development was the validation of the horn design, in particular to verify low edge taper levels and the required well-defined band edges. Suitable feed horn designs were measured and were found to be in excellent agreement with theoretical predictions.     

The mechanisms of plastic strain accommodation during the high strain rate collapse of corrugated Ni–Al laminate cylinders

The Thick-Walled Cylinder method was used on corrugated Ni–Al reactive laminates to examine how their mesostructures accommodate large strain, high strain rate plastic deformation and to examine the potential for intermetallic reaction initiation due to mechanical stimuli. Three main mesoscale mechanisms of large plastic strain accommodation were observed in addition to the bulk distributed uniform plastic flow: (a) the extrusion of wedge-shaped regions into the interior of the cylinder along planes of easy slip provided by angled layers, (b) the development of trans-layer shear bands in the layers with orientation close to radial and (c) the cooperative buckling of neighbouring layers perpendicular to the radius. These mesoscale mechanisms acted to block the development of periodic patterns of multiple, uniformly distributed, shear bands that have been observed in all previously examined solid homogeneous materials and granular materials. The high-strain plastic flow within the shear bands resulted in the dramatic elongation and fragmentation of Ni and Al layers. The quenched reaction between Al and Ni was observed inside these trans-layer shear bands and in a number of the interfacial extruded wedge-shaped regions. The reaction initiated in these spots did not ignite the bulk of the material, demonstrating that these mesostructured Ni-Al laminates are able to withstand high-strain, high-strain rate deformation without reaction. Numerical simulations of the explosively collapsed samples were performed using the digitized geometry of corrugated laminates and predictions of the final, deformed mesostructures agree with the observed deformation patterns.     

Application of the differential method to uniaxial gratings with an infinite number of refraction channels: Scalar case

The differential method (also called the C method) is applied to the diffraction of linearly polarized plane waves at a periodically corrugated boundary between vacuum and a linear, homogeneous, uniaxial, dielectric-magnetic medium characterized by hyperbolic dispersion equations. Numerical results for sinusoidal gratings are presented and compared with those obtained by means of the Rayleigh method, showing that both the differential method and the Rayleigh method can fail to give adequate results for gratings supporting an infinite number of refracted Floquet harmonics.     

Hearing loss from interrupted, intermittent, and time varying Gaussian noise exposures: the applicability of the equal energy hypothesis

Eight groups of chinchillas (N=74) were exposed to various equivalent energy [100 or 106 dB(A) sound pressure level (SPL)] noise exposure paradigms. Six groups received an interrupted, intermittent, time varying (IITV) Gaussian noise exposure that lasted 8 h/d, 5 d/week for 3 weeks. The exposures modeled an idealized workweek. At each level, three different temporal patterns of Gaussian IITV noise were used. The 100 dB(A) IITV exposure had a dB range of 90-108 dB SPL while the range of the 106 dB(A) IITV exposure was 80-115 dB SPL. Two reference groups were exposed to a uniform 100 or 106 dB(A) SPL noise, 24 h/d for 5 days. Each reference group and the three corresponding IITV groups comprised a set of equivalent energy exposures. Evoked potentials were used to estimate hearing thresholds and surface preparation histology quantified sensory cell populations. All six groups exposed to the IITV noise showed threshold toughening effects of up to 40 dB. All IITV exposures produced hearing and sensory cell loss that was similar to their respective equivalent energy reference group. These results indicate that for Gaussian noise the equal energy hypothesis for noise-induced hearing loss is an acceptable unifying principle.     

SOI大截面单模脊形X型分支波导的研制

报道了硅片直接键合（ＳＤＢ）ＳＯＩ大截面单模脊形互型分支波导的研制．对于波长为１．３μｍ的光，在θ＝２°小分支角时，这种分支波导的通道串音小于－２０ｄＢ，辐射损耗小于０．３ｄＢ．直通传输损耗小于０．８５ｄＢ／ｃｍ．     

Evidence for the distortion product frequency place as a source of distortion product otoacoustic emission (DPOAE) fine structure in humans. I. Fine structure and higher-order DPOAE as a function of the frequency ratio f2/f1

Critical experiments were performed in order to validate the two-source hypothesis of distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAE) generation. Measurements of the spectral fine structure of DPOAE in response to stimulation with two sinusoids have been performed with normal-hearing subjects. The dependence of fine-structure patterns on the frequency ratio f2/f1 was investigated by changing f1 or f2 only (fixed f2 or fixed f1 paradigm, respectively), and by changing both primaries at a fixed ratio and looking at different order DPOAE. When f2/f1 is varied in the fixed ratio paradigm, the patterns of 2 f1-f2 fine structure vary considerably more if plotted as a function of f2 than as a function of fDP. Different order distortion products located at the same characteristic place on the basilar membrane (BM) show similar patterns for both, the fixed-f2 and fDP paradigms. Fluctuations in DPOAE level up to 20 dB can be observed. In contrast, the results from a fixed-fDP paradigm do not show any fine structure but only an overall dependence of DP level on the frequency ratio, with a maximum for 2f1-f2 at f2/f1 close to 1.2. Similar stimulus configurations used in the experiments have also been used for computer simulations of DPOAE in a nonlinear and active model of the cochlea. Experimental results and model simulations give strong evidence for a two-source model of DPOAE generation: The first source is the initial nonlinear interaction of the primaries close to the f2 place. The second source is caused by coherent reflection from a re-emission site at the characteristic place of the distortion product frequency. The spectral fine structure of DPOAE observed in the ear canal reflects the interaction of both these sources.