人造复眼成像系统研究的新进展

人造复眼成像系统具有体积小、功耗低、视角范围广等优点，是一种应用前景非常广阔的光成像系统。综述了人造复眼成像系统的研究背景及最新的研究进展，其中包宿基于不同仿生设计理念的各种新型人造复眼结构以及能够实现诸如彩色成像、指纹识别、全视角成像等新功能的实验系统；展望了人造复眼成像系统今后的研究方向。     

Hydrolysis of a sulfonamide by a novel elimination mechanism generated by carbanion formation in the leaving group

The alkaline hydrolysis of N-alpha-methoxycarbonyl benzyl-beta-sultam occurs 10(3) times faster than the corresponding carboxylate and with rapid D-exchange at the alpha-carbon: the pH rate profile indicates pre-equilibirum CH ionisation and together with formation of benzoyl formate as a product this suggests a novel mechanism for hydrolysis.     

Room-temperature laser action at 4.34.4 mum in CaGa(2)S(4):Dy(3+)

We report room-temperature mid-IR laser operation in a new low-phonon-frequency nonhygroscopic host crystal, calcium thiogallate (CaGa(2)S(4)) . Laser action at 4.314.38 mum on the Dy(3+)H(11/2)(6)?H(13/2)(6) transition occurred with a maximum slope efficiency of 1.6%.     

A compact rotating gravitational instanton

A compact rotating gravitational instanton (a positive-definite metric solution of the Einstein equations with Λ term) is presented. The manifold is the nontrivial S² fibre bundle over S² and has χ = 4, τ = 0, but no spinor structure. The metric can be obtained from a special limit of the positive-definite analytic extension of the Kerr-de Sitter metric or alternatively from the Taub-NUT metric with Λ term. The action is about $\text{4}\text{1}\text{2}\text{\%}$ less negative than that of the Einstein metric on the trivial bundle S² × S².     

The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen physical reality is completely described by quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics can completely describe what may actually be predicted about any system, contrary to the argument of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen. One does not however need to restric predictions to specified experimental arrangements as Bohr did.     

Asymmetric epoxidation of cis-alkenes mediated by iminium salts: highly enantioselective synthesis of levcromakalim

[reaction: see text] A range of cis-substituted olefins has been epoxidized with a new dihydroisoquinolinium salt catalyst, using tetraphenylphosphonium monoperoxysulfate as the stoichiometric oxidant, giving ee's of up to 97%. The reaction has been used as the key step in an enantioselective synthesis of the antihypertensive agent levcromakalim.     

\alpha-decay spectroscopy of light odd-odd Bi isotopes - II: 186Bi and the new nuclide 184Bi

Alpha-decay of the new nuclide ¹⁸⁴Bi has been studied in the complete-fusion reaction ⁹³Nb(⁹⁴Mo, 3n)¹⁸⁴Bi at the velocity filter SHIP. The evaporation residues were separated in-flight and subsequently identified on the basis of recoil- , recoil- - analysis and excitation functions measurements. Two -decaying isomeric states in ¹⁸⁴Bi with half-life values of 13(2) ms and 6.6(1.5) ms were identified. The -branching ratio of ¹⁸⁰Tl was deduced for the first time as . Improved data on the fine-structure -decay of ¹⁸⁶Bi were obtained in the ⁹³Nb(⁹⁵Mo, 2n)¹⁸⁶Bi reaction. A similarity of the decay energies and half-life values of ^184,186Bi is pointed out and a possible explanation for this effect is suggested.Received: 14 March 2003, Revised: 29 April 2003, Published online: 2 September 2003PACS: 23.60.+e decay - 27.70.+q - 27.80.+w K. Heyde: Present address: EP-ISOLDE, CERN, CH-1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland.     

Characterizing the peak in the cosmic microwave background angular power spectrum

A peak has been unambiguously detected in the cosmic microwave background angular spectrum. Here we characterize its properties with fits to phenomenological models. We find that the TOCO and BOOM/NA data determine the peak location to be in the range 175-243 and 151-259, respectively (at 95% confidence) and determine the peak amplitude to be between approximately 70 and 90 &mgr;K. The peak shape is consistent with inflation-inspired flat, cold dark matter plus cosmological constant models of structure formation with adiabatic, nearly scale invariant initial conditions. It is inconsistent with open models and presents a great challenge to defect models.     

Prospects of detecting baryon and quark superfluidity from cooling neutron stars

Baryon and quark superfluidity in the cooling of neutron stars are investigated. Future observations will allow us to constrain combinations of the neutron or Lambda-hyperon pairing gaps and the star's mass. However, in a hybrid star with a mixed phase of hadrons and quarks, quark gaps larger than a few tenths of an MeV render quark matter virtually invisible for cooling. If the quark gap is smaller, quark superfluidity could be important, but its effects will be nearly impossible to distinguish from those of other baryonic constituents.     

Spatial Carrier Bi-frequency Fourier Transform Profilometry for the 3-D Shape Measurement of Object with Discontinuous Height Steps

1 IntroductionProjecting a single frequency lfringe pattern upon an Object and observing itsdeformation from a different view angle has been a common method for various threedimensional shape measurement techniques. An autpmatic analysis of the fringepatterns is normally carried out either by the FOurier transform method[IJ or by phasestepping['] of the fringe patterns. HOWever, these techniques have a disadvantage ofprincipal importance, the so-called indetedrinaCy tO a factor Of Zap, or …