Effects of sintering temperature and atmosphere on magnetism in Mn-doped TiO2 bulk samples

Magnetic properties have been investigated on Mn doped TiO₂(Ti_0.98Mn_0.02O₂) bulk samples prepared by solid state reaction, which were sintered at different temperature ranging from 450 ^°C to 900 ^°C in air and argon atmosphere, respectively. The results show that the magnetic properties were strongly dependent on the sintering temperature and atmosphere. For samples sintered in air, the magnetization initially increase with the increase of sintering temperature up to 600 ^°C and thereafter it decrease. While the magnetization of samples sintered in argon atmosphere decreases monotonically with the increase of sintering temperature. Furthermore, for samples sintered at 600 ^°C in air, the magnetic susceptibility exhibits a dominant Curie-Weiss behaviour and no magnetic transition is observed over the temperature range from 10 to 300 K. In contrast, for samples sintered in argon atmosphere, besides the magnetic transition near 45 K perhaps caused by Mn₃O₄, another magnetic transition appears near room temperature.     

Refractive indices of biaxial crystals evaluated from the refractive indices ellipsoid equation

The expressions of the refractive indices corresponding wave vector k(θ,) are given by using coordinate transformations for the refractive indices ellipsoid equation of biaxial crystals. The refractive index expression of the wave, whose velocity is slower, is given by

and that of the wave, whose velocity is faster, is given by

     

Membrane tube pearling induced by a coupling of osmotic pressure and nanoparticle adhesion

ABSTRACT

In this work, a coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation method that belongs to the class of dissipative particle dynamics scheme with implicit solvent was used to indicate that adsorption of nanoparticles (NPs) inside a lipid membrane tube and pressure difference across the membrane, e.g. osmotic pressure, cooperatively induce membrane tube pearling. We demonstrate that NP adsorption and aggregation initiate the shape transformation of the lipid tube, and pressure difference provides a driving force for pearling transition. Depending on the dynamic coupling of tube shape transition and NP aggregation in the interior of the tube, different shape transitions via four kinds of pearling pathways are recognised, including pearls on a string (i.e. vesicles are interconnected via either a chain or double-chain of NPs) and tube-to-vesicle transition that is dominated kinetically either by NP-membrane attraction or by pressure difference. Considering the fact that biological membranes are semipermeable and many proteins interact with the membranes, these findings not only provide a mechanism of membrane tube pearling but also demonstrate the importance of osmotic pressure and protein–membrane interaction for many cell activities related to shape transitions of biomembrane.     

脉冲功率晶闸管反向恢复特性

为建立有效的晶闸管模型来仿真晶闸管关断时过电压,减小晶闸管过压损坏的概率,以最大通流150 kA、耐压5.2 kV的脉冲晶闸管为研究对象,将其前置于脉冲形成单元回路中作为大功率开关使用,记录放电过程中晶闸管两端电压及电流。实验数据表明：恢复过程中的电流下降率、反向恢复电荷、反向恢复电流峰值随通态电流峰值的增大而增大,晶闸管关断时间随通态电流峰值的增大而减小。此外,在关断过程中,当电流下降率在-50~1000 A/s时,电流下降率与电流峰值为线性关系。因此,在大脉冲电流条件下,推导反向恢复过程参数与通态电流参数的关系时电流下降率可用与电流峰值的线性关系代替。基于Matlab仿真平台,建立了具有反向恢复过程的脉冲晶闸管模型。该模型仿真得到的晶闸管反向恢复电流峰值与实测结果较为吻合,反向恢复电压尚待进一步修正。     

图像处理技术在低逸出功印刷型FED中的应用

采用低成本、大面积、低逸出功FED阴极材料及其阴极浆料,研制了大面积印刷式FED(样机),具有自主知识产权,在国内外属首创。介绍了低逸出功可印刷型场致发射显示系统的工作原理、数字视频图像的转换和处理、视频数据的传输、列灰度驱动和行驱动集成电路以及FPGA控制技术等。为了改善场致发射显示器的显示效果,通过理论分析和实际验证提出了亮度非均匀性校正、γ校正、自动功率控制等相应的解决方案。将图像处理技术应用到驱动电路中,改善了图像的亮度均匀性和灰度再现质量,降低了整机的功耗。首次将本技术应用于大屏幕低逸出功印刷型63.5cm(25英寸)VGA级彩色FED驱动系统中,研制出了能显示彩色视频图像的彩色FED显示器样机。亮度达400cd/m2、对比度为1000∶1,电路灰度等级为256级。     

Restoration of solar and star images with phase diversity-based blind deconvolution

The images recorded by a ground-based telescope are often degraded by atmospheric turbulence and the aberration of the optical system. Phase diversity-based blind deconvolution is an effective post-processing method that can be used to overcome the turbulence-induced degradation. The method uses an ensemble of short-exposure images obtained imultaneously from multiple cameras to jointly estimate the object and the wavefront distribution on pupil. Based on signal estimation theory and optimization theory, we derive the cost function and solve the large-scale optimization problem using a limited memory Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (L-BFGS) method. We apply the method to the urbulence degraded images generated with computer, the solar images acquired with the swedish vacuum solar telescope (SVST, 0.475m) in La Paima and the star images collected with 1.2-m telescope in Yunnan Observatory. In order to avoid edge effect in the restoration of the solar images, a modified Hanning apodized window is adopted.The star image till can be estored when the defocus distance is measured inaccurately. The restored results demonstrate that the method is efficient for removing the effect of turbulence and reconstructing the point-like or extended objects.     

Control and image processing for streak tube imaging lidar based on VB and MATLAB

In this letter, we develope a control and image processing system for Streak Tube Imaging Lidar （STIL）. In the system, the data acquisition card control and the software interface are programmed in Visual Basic （VB） while the image processing is finished by MATLAB. A STIL imaging experiment is carried out in the laboratory. We obtained the intensity and range images of targets with pseudo color by image processing and reconstruction for a set of raw streak images of targets at different distances acquired by STIL. The range resolution is better than 2 centimeters.     

荧光显微镜研究极端pH值诱导磷脂支撑膜的侧向再组织

利用荧光显微镜研究了极端pH值诱导支撑磷脂双层膜的侧向再组织.结果表明,在强酸/强碱性溶液中,流动性较好的二油酰磷脂酰胆碱支撑膜出现破裂、分离、出芽或生出微管等与细胞内吞和外排相似的现象.基于极性分子与H+/H3O+或OH-的相互作用,以电中性的磷脂首基为核吸附溶液中的H+/H3O+或OH-.当磷脂膜上下叶吸附的电荷量不同时,引起两叶有效面积差,即磷脂膜曲率不对称,从而诱发磷脂膜出现各种结构和动力学的响应.本研究有助于理解极端环境对生物膜的影响,为研究生物膜的形变过程提供了参考.     

大功率高温超导滤波器的设计与功率测试

本文在双面YBCO高温超导薄膜上设计并制备了两节大功率超导滤波器,根据滤波器功率承载能力与最大电流密度之间的关系,减小电流密度和分散电流密度的分布是提高功率承载能力的关键.本文采用增加超导谐振器尺寸、优化几何结构及改进馈线耦合方式的方法,设计了两节2 GHz频段梭型谐振器结构的滤波器.设计及测量结果显示了馈线结构及谐振器几何尺寸优化程度对超导滤波器功率承载能力有不同程度的影响,说明了在大功率超导滤波器设计中应选用无结点间隙耦合式馈线以抑制电流密度的聚集.采用优化后的谐振器结构制备的梭型两节超导滤波器经测试功率承载能力为2 W.超导滤波器的尺寸为25×12 mm LaAlO3基片,中心频率2.022 GHz,相对带宽为2.4%.同时给出了超导滤波器功率测试的结构和方法.