Effect of curing accelerators on thermal imidization of polyamic acids at low temperature

The effect of new additives on the thermal conversion of a range of polyamic acids to polyimides at temperatures lower than 100°C was investigated using infrared spectroscopy. Additives such as m-hydroxybenzoic acid, p-hydroxyphenylacetic acid, and p-hydroxybenzenesulfonic acid were found to be highly effective as curing catalysts or accelerators. The degree of imidization of polyamic acids in the presence of additives increased with an increase in the reaction temperature, and complete imidization was achieved at 140–200°C. The reaction was characterized by a rapid rate that slowed with time. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Three dimensional gain analysis of free electron laser with focusing permanent magnet wiggler

A three dimensional simulation software system developed to estimate a free electron laser (FEL) gain has been applied to FEL using a standard plane polarized wiggler and an alternately shifted magnet wiggler. It is seen for the latter wiggler that a large filling factor could be selected and each maximum gain corresponding to each orbit of electron beam concentrates at a certain frequency region of FEL radiation. It is, therefore, implied that a proper shift between the adjacent magnets in the wiggler produces the improvement of the FEL gain.     

Global aspect of steady-states for competitive-diffusive systems with homogeneous Dirichlet conditions

This paper is concerned with the competitive-diffusive systems

$\text{u}{}_{\mathrm{t}}\text{=d}{}_{\mathrm{l}}\text{u}{}_{\mathrm{xx}}\text{+(a}{}_{\mathrm{l}}\text{?b}{}_{\mathrm{l}}\text{u?c}{}_{\mathrm{l}}\text{v)u}\text{v}{}_{\mathrm{t}}\text{=d}{}_2\text{v}{}_{\mathrm{xx}}\text{+(a}{}_2\text{?b}{}_2\text{u?c}{}_2\text{u)v}\text{(x, t) ? (0, 1) × (0, ∞)}$

, with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. From a global bifurcation view point, the dependency of steady-states on the parameters a_i, b_i, c_i and d_i (i = 1, 2) is investigated. In particular, bifurcation of coexist ence solutions amd their stabilities are our main interests.     

Effect of wind-generated waves on the transfer of solar radiation in the atmosphere-ocean system

Transfer of solar radiation in the combined atmosphere and ocean system is evaluated by the matrix operator method. Derivation of the reflection and transmission matrices required for applying the matrix method is discussed introducing the shadowing effect of light by the ocean waves. Spectral and total radiation fields just above and below the ocean surface, as well as the top of the atmosphere, are numerically calculated using several optical models of the atmosphere, ocean, and wind roughened ocean surface. Dependencies of radiance and flux reflectivity on the wind velocity and optical property of the ocean body are discussed in detail.     

The effect of oxygen vacancy on the oxide ion mobility in LaAlO3-based oxides

The electrical property of (La_1−xSr_x)_1−z(Al_1−yMg_y)O_3−δ (LSAM; x≤0.3, y≤0.15 and z≤0.1) was measured using the DC four-probe method as a function of temperature (500–1000°C) and oxygen partial pressure (1–10⁻²² atm). Among LSAMs, (La_0.9Sr_0.1)AlO_3−δ showed the highest ionic conductivity, σ_i=1.3×10⁻² S cm⁻¹ at 900°C. A simultaneous substitution at A and B sites or A site deficiency is expected to create larger oxygen vacancy and higher ionic conductivity. However, it showed a negative effect. The effect of the vacancy increase did not effect monotonously the ionic conductivity. It was found that the concentration of oxygen vacancy, [V_O], influences not only the oxide ion conductivity, σ_i, but also the mobility, μ_v, of [V_O]. These properties exhibit a maximum at around [V_O]=0.05. With the increase in [V_O], the activation energy, E_a, of the ionic conduction dropped from 1.8 to ca. 1.0 eV at [V_O]=0.05 and became almost constant at [V_O]>0.05. The dependency of the pre-exponential term, μ⁰_v, and E_a on [V_O] was analyzed and their effect on μ_v and σ_i was discussed with respect to crystal structure and defect association. It was estimated that the crystal structure mainly governs these properties. The effect of defect association could not be ignored but is considered to be a complicated correlation.     

Identification of non-minimum phase transfer function using higher-order spectrum

The present paper treats the identification of parametric nonminimum phase transfer function. We propose a method of identification based on the inner outer factorization of stable transfer function. It consists of identifying the outer and inner parts of a transfer function separately. The outer part is identified by the use of the second-order spectral estimate from the observed linear process, while the inner part is identified by the use of a higher-order cumulant spectral estimate from the observed process. Respective parameter estimators are determined in the light of asymptotic efficiency. In order to estimate the order of the inner part of a transfer function, a criterion is proposed. It is introduced based on the same principle as in the case of Akaike's AIC.     

Coupled mode analysis of light modulation in dielectric waveguides

A detailed analysis of electrooptic light modulation in optical waveguides is presented. Several important problems of a waveguide modulator, such as the difference of waveguide axes from crystalline electrooptic ones, the distribution of transverse and longitudinal field components of light modes, and the traveling-wave property of the modulating field, are discussed. The analysis is based on the coupled mode theory, regarding the modulation as the coupling among sidebands of unperturbed waveguide modes. The coupled mode equation is derived for the modulation in optical waveguides. It can be solved if the normal modes of the waveguide are given. Actually the equation is solved for the modulation in dielectric slab waveguides and the mechanism of modulation is discussed. The results of the analysis are applied to designing two types of waveguide modulators. In an example (10.6 μm modulator with a GaAs slab waveguide) a new efficient crystal orientation is found. The calculated phase retardation with this orientation is 0.13 rad/(V·cm) with a 1 μm thick slab. Another example of a 0.633 μm modulator using a LiTaO₃ crystal as a substrate is also described.     

Quasi likelihood analysis of volatility and nondegeneracy of statistical random field

We construct a quasi likelihood analysis for diffusions under the high-frequency sampling over a finite time interval. For this, we prove a polynomial type large deviation inequality for the quasi likelihood random field. Then it becomes crucial to prove nondegeneracy of a key index _χ0${\chi }_0$. By nature of the sampling setting, _χ0${\chi }_0$ is random. This makes it difficult to apply a naïve sufficient condition, and requires a new machinery. In order to establish a quasi likelihood analysis, we need quantitative estimate of the nondegeneracy of _χ0${\chi }_0$. The existence of a nondegenerate local section of a certain tensor bundle associated with the statistical random field solves this problem.     

Compact directed acyclic word graphs for a sliding window

Suffix trees are a well-known and widely-studied data structure highly useful for string matching. The suffix tree of a string w can be constructed in O(n) time and space, where n denotes the length of w. Larsson achieved an efficient algorithm to maintain suffix trees for a sliding window. It contributes to prediction by partial matching (PPM) style statistical data compression scheme. Compact directed acyclic word graphs (CDAWGs) are a more space-economical data structure for indexing strings. In this paper we propose a linear-time algorithm to maintain CDAWGs for a sliding window.