Two-level injection in fiber-delay line based oscillator

Two-level injection-locked opto-electronic oscillator is proposed for low phase noise. Dielectric resonator oscillator (DRO) is used as the first injection source, injection locking a long-fiber loop based opto-electronic oscillator, then its output is injection locking another long-fiber opto-electronic oscillator for getting a lower-phase noise output carrier. After the first injection, the single side band (SSB) phase noise at 10 kHz offset frequency decreases from −123 dBc/Hz to −135 dBc/Hz, then through the second injection the SSB phase noise drops down to −146 dBc/Hz.     

The p-Harmonic Heat Flow with Potential into Homogeneous Spaces

In this paper we prove the existence of global weak solutions of the p-harmonic flow with potential between Riemannian manifolds M and N for arbitrary initial data having finite p-energy in the case when the target N is a homogeneous space with a left invariant metric. Received March 17, 1999, Revised September 22, 1999, Accepted October 15, 1999     

Study on LiFe<Subscript>1 − <Emphasis Type="Italic">x</Emphasis></Subscript>Sm<Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">x</Emphasis></Subscript>PO<Subscript>4</Subscript>/C used as cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries with low Sm component

LiFe_1???x Sm _x PO₄/C cathode materials were synthesized though a facile hydrothermal method. Compared with high-temperature solid-phase sintering, the method can allow for the fabrication of low Sm content (2 %), a scarce and expensive rare earth element, while the presence of an optimized carbon coating with large amount of sp²-type carbon sharply increases the material’s electrochemical performance. The high-rate dischargeability at 5 C, as well as the exchange current density, can be increased by 21 and 86 %, respectively, which were attributed to the fine size and the large cell parameter a/c as much. It should be pointed out that the a/c value will be increased for the LiFePO₄ Sm-doped papered by both of the two methods, while the mechanism is different: The value c is increased for the front and the value a is decreased for the latter, respectively.     

Carbon Dioxide Measurement Based on Multimode Diode Laser Correlation Spectroscopy Employing Wavelength Modulation Techniques

The use of a tunable multimode diode laser system based on correlation spectroscopy and wavelength modulation spectroscopy to measure the concentration of the carbon dioxide in ambient air through the 2 υ₁ + 2υ₂ + υ₃ absorption lines around 1570 nm is reported. The carbon dioxide concentrations are derived from the relationship between the normalized second-harmonic signal peak heights of the measurement and reference signals. The validation of the system is conducted by a set of experiments with controlled carbon dioxide and nitrogen mixtures. The correlation and standard deviation between the measured and actual carbon dioxide concentrations are 0.9973 and 4.03%, respectively, over the tested range. A detection limit of 340 ppm m was achieved using 30 successive measurements during 30 min. All these results demonstrated potential utility of the system for carbon dioxide sensing.     

单开关调制的PFN型层叠Blumlein线发生器

采用平板线加载的陶瓷电容型脉冲形成网络（PFN）构成了单开关调制的层叠Blumlein线发生器。采用传输线理论对短路寄生传输线的短路特性进行了理论分析,结果表明,短路寄生传输线的阻抗可以等效为耦合电感在主传输线的放电频率下产生的感抗。Pspice软件模拟表明,层叠线Blumlein线的电压叠加效率随耦合电感增加而增加。提出了一种磁环增感方法,在4级层叠Blumlein线上实现了3.1倍的脉冲电压叠加。     

Iterative temporal clustering analysis for the detection of multiple response peaks in fMRI

The temporal clustering analysis (TCA) is a novel and effective technique for obtaining brain activation maps when the timing and location of the activation are completely unknown. Performing the TCA method once can only detect the largest peak of the activation time windows well, if multiple response peaks at the same location of the brain occur. However, this limitation can be removed by using a TCA method in an iterative way in order for the smaller peaks to be detected. Our in vivo fMRI experiments with event-related visual tasks have demonstrated this ability.     

The negative electromagnetic attractive forces arising from kinetic energy of conduction electrons in double-layer metallic nanowire arrays

The coupled-nanowire plasmatic resonances and very strong negative electromagnetic force between the double-layer metallic nanowire arrays is investigated theoretically. The negative electromagnetic force indicates attractive interaction between the metallic nanowires with the air-gap cavity local resonance effect. Plasmon resonances lead to extremely large localized ?eld, thereby resulting in large mutual coupling forces between the double-layer metallic nanowire arrays. The light coupling into metallic microcavity can stimulate collective electron oscillations of plasmatic resonance, and cause the contraction of the negative pressure in metallic cavity wall. The electromagnetic field of the plasmatic resonance mode is mainly localized inside the air-gap region between the two wires.     

Results of Diophantine approximation by unlike powers of primes

Let k be an integer with k ≥ 6: Suppose that λ₁, λ₂,..., λ₅ be nonzero real numbers not all of the same sign, satisfying that λ₁/λ₂ is irrational, and suppose that η is a real number. In this paper, for any ε > 0; we consider the inequality |λ₁p₁ + λ₂p ₂ ² + λ₃p ₃ ³ + λ₄p ₄ ⁴ + λ₅p ₅ ^k + η | < (max p_j)^-σ(k)+ε has infinitely many solutions in prime variables p₁, p₂,...,p₅, where σ(k) depends on k. Our result gives an improvement of the recent result. Furthermore, using the similar method in this paper, we can refine some results on Diophantine approximation by unlike powers of primes, and get the related problem.     

Current-induced colossal electroresistance in La0.8Ba0.2MnO3 films fabricated by sol–gel method

Transport properties of La_0.8Ba_0.2MnO₃ thin films deposited by the sol–gel method were investigated. It has been found that resistivity plateaus occurred in the ρ–T curves after application of a dc bias current over a critical value. A current of 200 μA could induce a huge resistance variation ∼1200% in these La_0.8Ba_0.2MnO₃ films near room temperature, demonstrating a colossal electroresistance effect. Such strange transport behavior suggests the formation of conductive filaments and that the multi-phase coexistence is sensitive to external stimuli. This phenomenon may find applications in sensing and logic devices.