Monthly maps of daily global incident solar radiation in Italy

Summary Measurements of daily sunshine hours and of global solar radiation for most of the existing stations in Italy, covering a period of (5⋎30)y, were analysed. Linear correlation coefficients were calculated between the above-cited measurement for 36 stations and for every month of the year. Italy has been divided in areas in which such coefficients are not much different among them. The mean values of these coefficients relative to each area were used to estimate the global radiation for the sunshine stations located in the same area. Using so radiation obtained values for about 140 stations, 12 month global radiation maps were realized for the Italian territory. Possible errors and limitations of the maps were discussed.     

A scale mixer model for sis waveguide receivers

We report results from measurements of a scale mixer model, built to investigate the embedding impedance presented to a superconductor-insulator-superconductor (SIS) tunnel junction detector in a full height waveguide with two tuning elements. The embedding impedance is measured as a function of junction position across the waveguide channel. The results are compared to i) computer simulations of the embedding impedance using waveguide theory, ii) a lumped element circuit derived from the theory, iii) an SIS receiver operating between 200 and 280 GHz.     

The LAPEX experiment for observation of the supernova SN 1987A in hard X-rays

Summary The LAPEX payload is described in the configuration that will be launched to observe the supernova SN 1987A. The balloon flight will be performed from Alice Springs (Australia) in April 1989 as a part of a NASA balloon campaign. The experiment will allow simultaneous observations of source and background in order to minimize systematic errors due to background variations. The limiting flux sensitivity of the instrument in the (20÷200) keV energy band is 4·10⁻⁶ ph/(cm²s keV) or ∼2.5 mCrab for a 10⁴ s observation of SN 1987A. The presence of a⁵⁷Co emission line in the SN 1987A photon spectrum could be detected down to an intensity level of ∼8·10⁻⁵ photons/cm²s as at 99.7% confidence level. The high resolution of the event timing (<0.1 ms) will make it possible to detect millisecond pulsations with amplitudes down to ∼4% of the expected average flux from SN 1987A in the (20÷60) keV band. To speed up publication, the proofs were not sent to the authors and were supervised by the Scientific Committee.     

Super S_(25)与New S_(25)光电阴极的光谱响应特性的数值模拟

根据多碱光电阴极的光谱响应理论表达式 ,对荷兰DEP公司和日本Hamamatsu公司美国分公司开发的两种SuperS2 5阴极的光谱响应曲线进行了理论模拟 ,得到了这些阴极的有关特性参量 ,并通过对模拟结果的分析以及与美国夜视实验室研制的NewS2 5光电阴极特性的比较 ,揭示了两种SuperS2 5光电阴极内在机理和可能采用的工艺处理方法 ,对多碱光电阴极的理论研究和实际操作具有指导意义     

Two-step cascades of 117Sn(n, 2γ) reaction and problems of describing main nuclear properties below Bn

Main properties of the excited states of ¹¹⁸Sn manifesting themselves in cascade γ decay of its compound state are studied. As in heavier nuclei studied earlier, qualitative interpretation of the whole set of observed properties of the nucleus appears to be impossible without accounting for coexistence and interaction of quasiparticle and collective nuclear excitations and their considerable influence on the main parameters of the process under study. From Yadernaya Fizika, Vol. 67, No. 10, 2004, pp. 1845–1849. Original English Text Copyright ? 2004 by Khitrov, Panteleev, Sukhovoj, Honzátko, Tomandl. This article was submitted by the authors in English.     

Neural Network Models for Finline Discontinuities

The radial basis network is used as the finline discontinuities electromagnetic artifical neural network(EMANN) models. EM software analysis is employed to characterize finline discontinuities. EMANN models are then trained using physical parameters and frequency as inputs and equivalent electric circuit element parameters of finline discontinuities as outputs. Once trained , the EMANN models can simulate equivalent electric circuit element parameters of finline step, notch and strip very fast and efficiently.     

Three Dimension Simulation of Millimeter Wave Double Staggered Coupled Cavity Structure

After analyzed the cavity field mean method theory resolution, the software simulation method to obtain the resonance frequency, Q value and RF dispersion by MAFIA and ANSYS software is discussed for the double staggered coupled cavity Millitron structure in the millimeter-wave TWT. The resonance frequency and Q value of the single cavity is obtained and is consistent with two kind of the simulation software. Their average error is about 0.6%. The two kind of the simulation result is consistent to the design precise. The simulation method saves on the cost and time in the experiment, improve the data precise and work efficiency. The trend of the dispersion simulation result is consistent with the cavity field mean method theory result. The high end of the theory result is great contrast to that of MAFIA result. It shows that the theory adopt some hypothetical conditions, But the theory result has some instructional signification in initialization design of the novel slow wave structure.     

Suppression of Sea-Ice Clutter Observed by a Millimeter Wave Radar Using a New Log-Weibull/CFAR System

Sea-ice clutter was measured using a millimeter wave radar with frequency of 34.860GHz, beamwidth of 0.25° and pulse length of 30ns. To determine the sea-ice clutter amplitude statistics, we investigated the log-normal, Weibull, log-Weibull and K-distributions using the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC), which is more rigorous fit of the distribution to the data than the least-squares method. It is shown that the amplitude of sea-ice clutter obeys the log-Weibull distribution with shape parameters of 2.36 to 2.93 for both entire data and data within the beam width of an antenna. We propose a new log-Weibull/CFAR system uses a modified cell-averaging LOG/CFAR system. It is found that this log-Weibull/CFAR procedure is effective for suppression of sea-ice clutter and detection of target.     

A Novel UWB Antenna with Small Side-Leakage

A successful design for a UWB (ultra-wideband antennas) antenna based on NRD-guide (nonradiative dielectric waveguide) with small side-leakage is presented. The rule of the theoretical selection of its parameters, if NRD-guide is used as the UWB antennas, is studied firstly, then the temporal propagation characteristics of the NRD-guide and the radiation characteristics for an tapered open-ended NRD-guide are calculated by FDTD (finite-difference time-domain) method.     

Investigation of Infrared Photonic Crystal Slab with Defect Waveguides

This paper deals with the two dimensional (2-D) infrared photonic crystal slab with an air-bridge structure featuring defect waveguides in which the optical propagation properties were obtained by measurements of transmission spectra. 3-D finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations have revealed the appearance of four defect propagation modes for the band structure and transmission spectra in the air-bridge slab. These defect modes were experimentally identified in the measured transmission spectra.