带有锥形孔的复合变幅杆设计及动态分析

在超声振动拉丝加工过程中,为了实现线材的顺利拉拔,需要应用带有锥形孔的复合变幅杆。为此,本文基于等效四端网络与传输矩阵法,建立了带锥形孔圆锥变幅杆的传输矩阵,推导出带锥形孔圆锥过渡复合变幅杆的频率方程的一般公式。根据推导出的频率方程,应用区间搜索法和牛顿迭代法获取了准确的数值解,实现了该复合变幅杆的纵向振动。之后,应用有限元软件Ansys对设计出的复合变幅杆分别进行模态分析和动力学特性分析,获得了各段不同长度下复合变幅杆谐振频率、放大系数以及最大应力值的变化规律。最后,对制造出的复合变幅杆进行阻抗与振动性能测试,结果表明其频率准确,且振幅比较稳定。     

Progress of nanoscience in China

Fast evolving nanoseienees and nanotechnology in China has made it one of the front countries of nanotechnology development. Ill this review, we summarize some most recent progresses in nanoseienee research and nanotechnology development in China. The topics we selected in this article include llano-fabrication, nanocatalysis, bioinspired nanoteehnology, green printing nanotechnology, nanoplasmonics, nanomedicine, nanomaterials and their applications, energy and environmental nanoteehnology, nano EHS （nanosafety）, etc. Most of them have great potentials in applications or application-related key issues in future.     

Influence of laser power density on damage of comb by photodynamic therapy—simulation and validation of mathematical models

Photodynamic therapy （PDT） has poor therapeutic outcomes for the treatment of port-wine stain （PWS） lesions with long drug-light intervals （DLIs）. This letter investigates the possibility of improving the treatment efficacy through increasing the laser power density using a computer simulation and a cock comb model. The computational model includes a Monte Carlo simulation for the laser distribution and a calculation of the singlet oxygen concentrations （102）. Both simulation and experimental results show that increasing the power density from i00 to 140 mW/cm^2 not only improves the PDT efficacy, but also results in the unwanted skin damage.     

前端接触势垒高度对非晶硅和微晶硅异质结太阳电池的影响

运用AMPS-1D（Analysis of Microelectronic and Photonic Structures） 程序系统分析了前端接触（铟锡氧化物）的势垒分别对非晶硅和微晶硅太阳电池性能的影响,比较了两种影响的差异并分析了具体原因. 研究表明：与微晶硅相比,非晶硅受铟锡氧化物功函数Φ_ITO的影响更加显著. 随着Φ_ITO的增加非晶硅的各项物理性能（如太阳电池效率、填充因子等）得到明显改善,而微晶硅的各项参数虽然也随Φ_ITO增加而改变,但更容易趋于饱和. 模拟结果显示,在实际的太阳电池装备过程中可根据前端电极的性能来选择合适的p型硅材料. 关键词： 铟锡氧化物 非晶硅 微晶硅 计算机模拟     

Metal/semiconductor hybrids consisting of self-assembled CdS nanoparticles on Cd nanowires

We report on the synthesis and the characterisation of metal/semiconductor hybrids consisting of self-assembled CdS nanoparticles on Cd nanowires, which are grown by thermal evaporation of the mixture of CdS and Cr. The growth of the hybrids is attributed to the decomposition of CdS at high temperature and the strain relieving that arises mainly from the lattice mismatch between Cd and CdS. Temperature dependence of zero-field resistance of single nanohybrid indicates that the as-produced Cd/CdS nanohybrid undergoes a metal--semiconductor transition as a natural consequence of hybrid from metallic Cd and semiconducting CdS. The metal/semiconductor hybrid property provides a promising basis for the development of novel nanoelectronic devices.     

Solution-combustion synthesis of Tb-doped Y3Al5O12 nanoparticles

Nano-sized YAG:Tb powder phosphors were prepared by a solution-combustion method, using the general inorganic salts as starting materials. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements showed that the precursor can be well-crystallized at 900 °C. As-prepared particles have sizes mostly in the range between 30 and 100 nm as obtained by scanning electron microscope (SEM) and transition electron microscope (TEM). Selected area electron diffraction (SAED) patterns proved that the larger particles are monocrystalline. The effects of annealing temperature and Tb-doping concentration on the luminescence intensity were studied.     

Influence of the illumination on the subband structure and?occupation in AlxGa1?xN/GaN heterostructures

The subband structure and occupation in the triangular quantum well at Al _x Ga_1−x N/GaN heterointerfaces have been investigated by means of temperature dependent Shubnikov–de Haas (SdH) measurements at low temperatures and high magnetic fields under illumination. After the illumination of the heterostructures, the total two-dimensional electron gas concentration increases, and the SdH oscillation amplitudes are enhanced when there is no additional subband occupation. It is also found that the energy separation between the subbands decreases after the illumination. We suggest that the illumination decreases the electric field and thus weakens the quantum confinement of the triangular quantum well at Al _x Ga_1−x N/GaN heterointerfaces. The GaN layer is thought to be the primary contributor of the excited electrons by the illumination.     

Scattering of time-harmonic elastic waves by an elastic inclusion with quadratic nonlinearity

This paper considers the scattering of a plane, time-harmonic wave by an inclusion with heterogeneous nonlinear elastic properties embedded in an otherwise homogeneous linear elastic solid. When the inclusion and the surrounding matrix are both isotropic, the scattered second harmonic fields are obtained in terms of the Green's function of the surrounding medium. It is found that the second harmonic fields depend on two independent acoustic nonlinearity parameters related to the third order elastic constants. Solutions are also obtained when these two acoustic nonlinearity parameters are given as spatially random functions. An inverse procedure is developed to obtain the statistics of these two random functions from the measured forward and backscattered second harmonic fields.     

Ex vivo study of carotid endarterectomy specimens: quantitative relaxation times within atherosclerotic plaque tissues

Purpose

Previous studies reporting relaxation times within atherosclerotic plaque have typically used dedicated small-bore high-field systems and small sample sizes. This study reports quantitative T₁, T₂ and T₂^? relaxation times within plaque tissue at 1.5 T using spatially co-matched histology to determine tissue constituents.

Methods

Ten carotid endarterectomy specimens were removed from patients with advanced atherosclerosis. Imaging was performed on a 1.5-T whole-body scanner using a custom built 10-mm diameter receive-only solenoid coil. A protocol was defined to allow subsequent computation of T₁, T₂ and T₂^? relaxation times using multi-flip angle spoiled gradient echo, multi-echo fast spin echo and multi-echo gradient echo sequences, respectively. The specimens were subsequently processed for histology and individually sectioned into 2-mm blocks to allow subsequent co-registration. Each imaging sequence was imported into in-house software and displayed alongside the digitized histology sections. Regions of interest were defined to demarcate fibrous cap, connective tissue and lipid/necrotic core at matched slice-locations. Relaxation times were calculated using Levenberg-Marquardt's least squares curve fitting algorithm. A linear-mixed effect model was applied to account for multiple measurements from the same patient and establish if there was a statistically significant difference between the plaque tissue constituents.

Results

T₂ and T₂^? relaxation times were statistically different between all plaque tissues (P=.026 and P=.002 respectively) [T₂: lipid/necrotic core was lower 47±13.7 ms than connective tissue (67±22.5 ms) and fibrous cap (60±13.2 ms); T₂^?: fibrous cap was higher (48±15.5ms) than connective tissue (19±10.6 ms) and lipid/necrotic core (24±8.2 ms)]. T₁ relaxation times were not significantly different (P=.287) [T₁: Fibrous cap: 933±271.9 ms; connective tissue (1002±272.9 ms) and lipid/necrotic core (1044±304.0 ms)]. We were unable to demarcate hemorrhage and calcium following histology processing.

Conclusions

This study demonstrates that there is a significant difference between qT₂ and qT₂^? in plaque tissues types. Derivation of quantitative relaxation times shows promise for determining plaque tissue constituents.