Cryopreservation of in vitro grown shoot tips of Diospyros kaki thunb. using different methods

The objective of this study was to compare the potential of different cryopreservation strategies for in vitro shoot tips of Diospyros kaki Thunb. The treatments consisted of three different cryopreservation methods: vitrification, droplet-vitrification and modified droplet-vitrification. The following variables were assessed: cold acclimation, sucrose concentration in the preculture medium and PVS2 treatment time. A higher average survival level was obtained using the modified droplet-vitrification method compared to the other two methods.     

Embedding color watermarks in color images based on Schur decomposition

In this paper, a blind dual color image watermarking scheme based on Schur decomposition is introduced. This is the first time to use Schur decomposition to embed color image watermark in color host image, which is different from using the binary image as watermark. By analyzing the 4 × 4 unitary matrix U via Schur decomposition, we can find that there is a strong correlation between the second row first column element and the third row first column element. This property can be explored for embedding watermark and extracting watermark in the blind manner. Since Schur decomposition is an intermediate step in SVD decomposition, the proposed method requires less number of computations. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme is robust against most common attacks including JPEG lossy compression, JPEG 2000 compression, low-pass filtering, cropping, noise addition, blurring, rotation, scaling and sharpening et al. Moreover, the proposed algorithm outperforms the closely related SVD-based algorithm and the spatial-domain algorithm.     

Photonic crystal fiber with high birefringence and low confinement loss

In this paper, a highly birefringent index-guiding photonic crystal fiber with low confinement loss is proposed by enlarging the central row of air holes in the structure. By employing the multipole method, properties of this structure, including the effective index, birefringence and confinement loss, are investigated. Simulation results indicate that high birefringence of 1.65 × 10⁻³ can be reached at the wavelength of 1.55 μm, and a low confinement loss on the order of 10⁻⁶ dB/km can be achieved at the same wavelength. Moreover, the impacts of air hole sizes on birefringence and confinement loss are also analyzed in detail.     

A blind color image watermarking based on DC component in the spatial domain

Color image watermarking has become essential and important copyright protection or authentication scheme. It is noted that most of the existing color image watermarking algorithms are performed only in the single domain (spatial domain or frequency domain), and not to integrate these merits of the different domains. By utilizing the generating principle and distribution feature of the direct current (DC) coefficient, a novel blind watermarking algorithm is proposed for color host images in this paper. Firstly, the Y luminance of host image is divided into 8 × 8 sub-blocks and the DC coefficients of each block are directly calculated in the spatial domain without DCT transform. Secondly, according to the watermark information and the quantization step, the DC coefficients are calculated and their increments are further utilized to modify directly the values of all pixels in the spatial domain instead of the DCT domain to embed watermark. When watermark extraction, only the watermarked image and the quantization step are needed in the spatial domain. Experimental results show that the proposed method not only can resist both traditional signal processing attacks and geometric attacks, but also has more efficient in computational complexity. Comparisons also demonstrate the advantages of the method.     

Titanium carbonitride films on cemented carbide cutting tool prepared by pulsed high energy density plasma

Hard films prepared by pulsed high energy density plasma (PHEDP) are characterized by high film/substrate adhesive strength, and high wear resistance. Titanium carbonitride (TiCN) films were deposited onto YG11C (ISO G20) cemented carbide cutting tool substrates by PHEDP at room temperature. XRD, XPS, SEM, AES, etc. were adopted to analyze the phases (elements) composition, microstructure and the interface of the films, respectively. The results show that, the uniform dense films are composed of grains ranging from 70 to 90 nm. According to the AES result, there is a broad transition layer between the film and the substrate, due to the ion implantation effect of the PHEDP. The transition layer is favorable for the film/substrate adhesion.     

Li2O-2B2O3熔体的物性研究

系统测量了四硼酸锂(Li2O-2B2O3)熔体的密度ρ、表面张力γ随着温度的变化规律,实验结果表明在1100K到1500K范围内Li2O-2B2O3高温熔体的密度和表面张力随着温度的升高均线性减小.通过实验数据拟合得出熔体密度与温度关系为ρ(T)=2.574-4.89×10-4T,熔点处LiO-2B2O3熔体的密度为1.992g/cm3;熔体表面张力与温度关系的拟合公式为γ=262.8-4.59×10-2T.     

Room temperature continuous wave operation of 1.33-μm InAs/GaAs quantum dot laser with high output power

Continuous wave operation of a semiconductor laser diode based on five stacks of InAs quantum dots (QDs) embedded within strained InGaAs quantum wells as an active region is demonstrated. At room temperature, 355-Mw output power at ground state of 1.33-1.35μm for a 20-μm ridge-waveguide laser without facet coating is achieved. By optimizing the molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth conditions,the QD density per layer is raised to 4 × 1010 cm-2. The laser keeps lasing at ground state until the temperature reaches 65 ℃.     

水杨醛类希夫碱在LB膜上的光谱性能的研究

合成了两种末端碳锭长度不同的水杨醛类希夫碱N-十二烷基（2-羟基-5-硝基苯甲亚胺）和N-十六烷基（2-羟基-5-硝基苯甲亚胺），研究了它们在气-液界面上的成膜性能，并通过紫外、荧光、红外显微镜等光谱手段对它们在LB膜上的性能进行了表征。实验结果表明两种希夫碱分子在LB膜中都形成了J-聚体，末端碳链较长的希夫碱 成膜性能相对较好，并且在膜上也能光致发光，但希夫碱分子的LB膜存在一定的缺陷。     

避雷器电阻片测试系统设计

采用工业PC机与可编程控制器、示波器、直流仪等设备设计了避雷器电阻片测试系统,阐述了本系统的控制流程及逻辑关系,用图形化编程语言编写了上位机软件,完成了避雷器电阻片在 U_1mA及0.75U_1mA下的漏电流等参数的测试,并对电阻片测试过程中的电压峰值、电流峰值进行采集存储,还存储了电阻片在整个测试过程中的能量,方便以后对测试过程中损坏的阀片进行能量、电流峰值、电压峰值方面的分析,对系统进行了初步的试验,结果表明该系统运行效果良好,实现了避雷器电阻片出厂前的测试,提高了测试效率。     

Electrochemical polymerization of alizarin and the electrochemical properties of poly(alizarin)

Electrochemical polymerization of alizarin on glassy carbon electrode (GCE) was carried out in acidic solution by cyclic voltammetry (CV), and the polymerization process was monitored by electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (EQCM). A possible mechanism concerning the polymerization of alizarin was also proposed in this work. The as-synthesized poly(alizarin) was characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The study on electrode reaction process shows that the electrode reaction of poly(alizarin) is controlled by diffusion. Finally, the activation energy (E _a) of the electrode reactions of poly(alizarin) was obtained according to the temperature dependence of the redox peak currents.