Orientation dependence of structural transition in fcc Al driven under uniaxial compression by atomistic simulations

By molecular dynamics simulations employing an embedded atom method potential,we have investigated structural transformations in single crystal Al caused by uniaxial strain loading along the [001],[011] and [111] directions. We find that the structural transition is strongly dependent on the crystal orientations. The entire structure phase transition only occurs when loading along the [001] direction,and the increased amplitude of temperature for [001] loading is evidently lower than that for other orientations. The morphology evolutions of the structural transition for [011] and [111] loadings are analysed in detail. The results indicate that only 20% of atoms transit to the hcp phase for [011] and [111] loadings,and the appearance of the hcp phase is due to the partial dislocation moving forward on {111} fcc family. For [011] loading,the hcp phase grows to form laminar morphology in four planes,which belong to the {111} fcc family; while for [111] loading,the hcp phase grows into a laminar structure in three planes,which belong to the {111} fcc family except for the (111) plane. In addition,the phase transition is evaluated by using the radial distribution functions.     

纳构件加工后的力学特性

"采用分子动力学模拟的方法,运用镶嵌原子模型,研究了经过刻划后的单晶铜纳构件在不同拉伸速度条件下的力学行为. 通过原子位图、缺陷原子透视图、径向分布函数及应力-应变关系研究加工后纳构件在拉伸负载作用下的变化特性,并与理想单晶铜纳构件进行对比分析．模拟结果表明,加工后的纳构件的屈服强度较理想纳构件的屈服强度有明显下降,屈服强度随着刻槽深度的增加而下降,而且屈服强度对刻槽方向和拉伸速度敏感;纳结构在拉伸负载作用下,其应力应变关系出现了双峰形式,即工作硬化现象,二次屈服后表现为Z字形逐波下降形式．刻划深度、刻划     

大气到海洋激光通信信道仿真

详细分析了蓝绿激光穿过大气海洋信道的信道效应和物理特性,利用理论分析和蒙特卡罗模拟方法完成对光信道仿真。介绍了大气海洋激光通信蒙特卡罗模拟方法及计算步骤。研究了不同厚度云层对光束投影面积的展宽,和光脉冲穿过不同深度海水后的空间分布和时域信号波形,讨论了其不同的展宽机理,并对信道的噪声分布进行了分析。发现云层对光脉冲展宽作用在云层厚度500 m时达到饱和,信号能量的随机起伏随海水深度的增加而增大,但能量分布的半峰全宽并不增加,大气海洋的综合信道效应可以用时延滤波器进行建模。     

过渡金属化合物OsB2与OsO2低压缩性的第一性原理计算研究

利用基于密度泛函理论平面波赝势法的第一性原理计算,研究了过渡金属化合物OsB2和OsO2的金红石相、黄铁矿相与萤石相三种结构在高压下的状态方程和结构特性以及OsO2可能的高压相变.理论计算结果支持OsB2与OsO2的萤石相是潜在超低可压缩性的硬性材料.同时,也分析了它们的电子结构,力求理解大体变模量和高硬度的微观机制.结果表明,可以利用过渡金属高的价电子浓度,掺入硼、氧、碳、氮等轻的元素形成强的方向键,这可能提供了一种合成超硬材料的新途径.     

散射对煤粉太赫兹光谱定量分析的应用研究

在利用太赫兹光谱系统对煤质进行定量分析的过程中,样品压片内部煤粉颗粒和高密度聚乙烯颗粒之间的空气孔隙使太赫兹波产生散射进而导致所测煤样本征吸收光谱产生误差。针对样品压片中煤粉颗粒和空气孔隙存在形式的不同建立了压片等效结构,采用Foldy-Twersky EFA理论和迭代Waterman-Truell EFA理论在2~3.5 THz频率区间内对压片内部的散射情况进行了数值研究,建立了煤样本征吸收谱提取模型,并利用该模型分别对六种不同粒径范围的煤粉-高密度聚乙烯颗粒混合物压片样品进行了太赫兹域消光光谱的散射校正处理。实验结果表明当煤粉颗粒直径小于38.5 μm时,高密度聚乙烯颗粒间空气孔隙对所测样品消光光谱的影响处于主导地位,当煤粉颗粒粒径处于38.5~55 μm时,煤粉颗粒散射与空气孔隙散射导致的消光在数值上较为接近,随着颗粒直径进一步增加,煤粉自身散射对吸收光谱的影响也逐步增强并处于主导地位。散射校正前后煤样吸收谱的相关系数和均方根误差表明文中所述模型能够有效减小105 μm以下粒径范围内散射对煤粉-高密度聚乙烯混合物压片样品太赫兹吸收光谱的影响,为太赫兹域煤质吸收光谱的定量分析提供了理论基础。     

Yolk–Shell‐Structured Cu/Fe@γ‐Fe2O3 Nanoparticles Loaded Graphitic Porous Carbon for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Core–shell Cu/γ‐Fe₂O₃@C and yolk–shell‐structured Cu/Fe@γ‐Fe₂O₃@C particles are prepared by a facile synthesis method using copper oxide as template particles, resorcinol‐formaldehyde as the carbon precursor, and iron nitrate solution as the iron source via pyrolysis. With increasing carbonization temperature and time, solid γ‐Fe₂O₃ cores are formed and then transformed into Fe@γ‐Fe₂O₃ yolk–shell‐structured particles via Ostwald ripening under nitrogen gas flow. The composition variations are studied, and the formation mechanism is proposed for the generation of the hollow and yolk–shell‐structured metal and metal oxides. Moreover, highly graphitic carbons can be obtained by etching the metal and metal oxide nanoparticles through an acid treatment. The electrocatalytic activity for oxygen reduction reaction is investigated on Cu/γ‐Fe₂O₃@C, Cu/Fe@γ‐Fe₂O₃@C, and graphitic carbons, indicating comparable or even superior performance to other Fe‐based nanocatalysts.     

Improvement of intelligibility of ideal binary-masked noisy speech by adding background noise

When a target-speech/masker mixture is processed with the signal-separation technique, ideal binary mask (IBM), intelligibility of target speech is remarkably improved in both normal-hearing listeners and hearing-impaired listeners. Intelligibility of speech can also be improved by filling in speech gaps with un-modulated broadband noise. This study investigated whether intelligibility of target speech in the IBM-treated target-speech/masker mixture can be further improved by adding a broadband-noise background. The results of this study show that following the IBM manipulation, which remarkably released target speech from speech-spectrum noise, foreign-speech, or native-speech masking (experiment 1), adding a broadband-noise background with the signal-to-noise ratio no less than 4 dB significantly improved intelligibility of target speech when the masker was either noise (experiment 2) or speech (experiment 3). The results suggest that since adding the noise background shallows the areas of silence in the time-frequency domain of the IBM-treated target-speech/masker mixture, the abruption of transient changes in the mixture is smoothed and the perceived continuity of target-speech components becomes enhanced, leading to improved target-speech intelligibility. The findings are useful for advancing computational auditory scene analysis, hearing-aid/cochlear-implant designs, and understanding of speech perception under "cocktail-party" conditions.     

Micromegas prototypes with thermo-bond film separators

In this paper we report the results of Micromegas prototypes constructed by attaching micromesh to an anode using thermo-bond films. The excellent metal attaching ability and good dielectical property of this kind of film make it a promising material to be used as avalanche gap spacers. Several prototypes are successfully made. The electron transmission properties are first studied and then the gas gain is measured in argon-isobutane mixtures. The maximum gain of more than 104 is easily obtained. The energy resolutions for 55Fe 5.9 keV Kα ray can be better than 20% over one magnitude in gain for different operational gas mixtures and the best energy resolution of 13.7% (FWHM) can be achieved with the gas mixture of 94% argon concentration. The preliminary test results of the prototypes with sensitive area of 45 mm×45 mm without internal support show good uniformity across the sensitive area.     

Coherent Scattering of Light by Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Tight Confinement

We have observed strong scattering of a probe light by dilute Bose-Einstein condensate （BEC） ^87Rb gas in a tight magnetic trap. The scattering light forms fringes at the image plane. It is found that we can infer the real size of the condensation and the number of the atoms by modelling the imaging system. We present a quantitative calculation of light scattering by the condensed atoms. The calculation shows that the experimental results agree well with the prediction of the generalized diffraction theory, and thus we can directly observe the phase transition of BEC in a tight trap.