Cylindrical invisibility cloak with simplified material parameters is inherently visible

It was proposed that perfect invisibility cloaks can be constructed for hiding objects from electromagnetic illumination [J. B. Pendry, D. Schurig, and D. R. Smith, Science 312, 1780 (2006)10.1126/science.1125907]. The cylindrical cloaks experimentally demonstrated [D. Schurig, Science 314, 977 (2006)10.1126/science.1133628] and theoretically proposed [W. Cai, Nat. Photon. 1, 224 (2007)10.1038/nphoton.2007.28] have however simplified material parameters in order to facilitate easier realization as well as to avoid infinities in optical constants. Here we show that the cylindrical cloaks with simplified material parameters inherently allow the zeroth-order cylindrical wave to pass through the cloak as if the cloak is made of a homogeneous isotropic medium, and thus visible. To all high-order cylindrical waves, our numerical simulation suggests that the simplified cloak inherits some properties of the ideal cloak, but finite scatterings exist.     

Ideal cylindrical cloak: perfect but sensitive to tiny perturbations

A cylindrical wave expansion method is developed to obtain the scattering field for an ideal two-dimensional cylindrical invisibility cloak. A near-ideal model of the invisibility cloak is set up to solve the boundary problem at the inner boundary of the cloak shell. We confirm that a cloak with the ideal material parameters is a perfect invisibility cloak by systematically studying the change of the scattering coefficients from the near-ideal case to the ideal one. However, because of the slow convergence of the zeroth-order scattering coefficients, a tiny perturbation on the cloak would induce a noticeable field scattering and penetration.     

ReSi1.75电子结构的第一性原理研究

基于第一性原理全势线性缀加平面波方法和局域密度近似(LDA),对ReSi1.75的基态晶格属性进行了研究.结构优化的结果表明,ReSi1.75的基态平衡晶格常数比实验值小约0.6%.在LDA计算基础上,考虑局域的Re的d电子库仑作用,用LDA+U方法计算了ReSi1.75的电子结构,发现当Ueff=U-J=4.4 eV时,能带结构呈半导体性质.具有0.12 ev的间接能隙和0.36 ev的直接能隙.有效质量计算结果表明,ReSi1.75晶体具有强烈的各向异性.Resi1.75的态密度在费米能级附近变化剧烈,通过掺杂改变材料的费米能级位置,有望提高材料的热电性能.     

Contra-directional coupling between two-dimensional photonic crystal waveguides

The contra-directional coupling between two photonic crystal (PC) waveguides is studied, using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. A design of contra-directional coupler is presented and its transmission properties are investigated. The device can be used as an add/drop filter. It is also shown that the coupled mode theory is suitable to study the photonic crystal waveguide coupler.     

Dual-axes differential confocal microscopy with high axial resolution and long working distance

We discover that the slight transverse offset of a point detector results in a shift of the axial intensity response curve in a dual-axes confocal microscopy (DCM). Based on this, we propose a new dual-axes differential confocal microscopy (DDCM) with high axial resolution and long working distance, in which two point detectors are placed symmetrically about the collection axis. And a signal is obtained through the differential subtraction of two signals received simultaneously by the two point detectors. Theoretical analyses and preliminary experiments indicate that DDCM is feasible and suitable for the high precision tracing measurement of microstructures and surface contours.     

Generation of bubbles in glass by a femtosecond laser

Permanent microscale bubbles with varied size and number density are induced in borosilicate glasses by adjusting the focusing depth (FD) of a tightly focused femtosecond laser. With continuously increasing of the focusing depth, the average size of generated bubbles experiences an increase-decrease process. However, the number density of generated bubbles experiences an opposite changing process compared to the change of the size. The possible mechanism for the bubble generation and changing with the focusing depth has been discussed.     

Hydrocarbon film growth by energetic CH3 molecule impact on SiC (0 0 1) surface

Classic molecular dynamics (MD) calculations were performed to investigate the deposition of thin hydrocarbon film. SiC (1 0 0) surfaces were bombarded with energetic CH₃ molecules at impact energies ranging from 50 to 150 eV. The simulated results show that the deposition yield of H atoms decreases with increasing incident energy, which is in good agreement with experiments. During the initial stages, with breaking Si-C bonds in SiC by CH₃ impacting, H atoms preferentially reacts with resulting Si to form Si-H bond. The C/H ratio in the grown films increases with increasing incident energy. In the grown films, CH species are dominant. For 50 eV, H-Csp3 bond is dominant. With increasing energy to 200 eV, the atomic density of H-Csp2 bond increases.     

A study of sound intensity control for active noise barriers

Active noise control systems have been applied to increase the insertion loss of noise barriers where the squared sound pressure or the total acoustic energy density is used as the cost function in previous works. The absolute value of the mean active sound intensity is chosen as the cost function to obtain extra sound insertion loss in the dark area of a hybrid active noise barrier system in this note. The strategy of minimizing the near-field sound intensity at discrete locations along the edge of the passive barrier is shown to be able to provide better far-field noise reduction than that of minimizing the squared sound pressure control. Both numerical simulations and off-line experiments are carried out with a three-channel demonstration system, where the locations of the secondary sources and the error sensors are optimized and comparisons are made between the extra sound pressure attenuation of the sound intensity control and that of the squared sound pressure control.     

20K-40K温区大功率单级脉管制冷机研究

脉管制冷机没有低温下的运动部件,具有运行可靠、低振动、低磁噪声以及长寿命等显著优点,可望在空间技术、超导、低温电子等领域获得广泛应用.文中介绍自行研制的一台20K-40K温区大功率单级脉管制冷机.初步实验结果表明,该制冷机的最低制冷温度为15.4K,在20K、30K和40K的制冷量分别达到6.1W,21.3W和37.3W.该制冷机为进一步的超导应用奠定了良好基础.     

反射型磁光多层膜隔离器工作稳定性的研究

与单纯的磁光晶体相比,由磁光介质与电介质周期性或准周期性排列构成的一维磁光光子晶 体能够显著增强磁光效应,可以用于实现小尺度的磁光隔离器,从而大大减小器件的尺寸. 给出更为一般的可用于求解斜入射情况下偏振光在各向异性介质中传播时的传输矩阵方法, 并用这种方法在波长为1053μm处,针对两种“三明治”型的反射磁光多层膜隔离器的 结构,具体讨论了器件应用时入射角度及工艺制作时膜层制备厚度对它们工作稳定性的影响 .发现中心磁光介质夹层较厚的结构具有膜层数目少、工作稳定性好的优点. 关键词： 光隔离器 磁光效应 一维光子晶体