Flexible Liquid Crystal Polymer Technologies from Microwave to Terahertz Frequencies

With the emergence of fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks, millimeter-wave (mmW) and terahertz (THz) frequencies have attracted ever-growing interest for advanced wireless applications. The traditional printed circuit board materials have become uncompetitive at such high frequencies due to their high dielectric loss and large water absorption rates. As a promising high-frequency alternative, liquid crystal polymers (LCPs) have been widely investigated for use in circuit devices, chip integration, and module packaging over the last decade due to their low loss tangent up to 1.8 THz and good hermeticity. The previous review articles have summarized the chemical properties of LCP films, flexible LCP antennas, and LCP-based antenna-in-package and system-in-package technologies for 5G applications, although these articles did not discuss synthetic LCP technologies. In addition to wireless applications, the attractive mechanical, chemical, and thermal properties of LCP films enable interesting applications in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), biomedical electronics, and microfluidics, which have not been summarized to date. Here, a comprehensive review of flexible LCP technologies covering electric circuits, antennas, integration and packaging technologies, front-end modules, MEMS, biomedical devices, and microfluidics from microwave to THz frequencies is presented for the first time, which gives a broad introduction for those outside or just entering the field and provides perspective and breadth for those who are well established in the field.     

Cole-Cole方程参数对细胞介电频谱的影响

为探讨Cole-Cole方程8个参数(Δε1,Δε2,εh,κl,f1,f2,β1,β2)对细胞介电频谱的影响,采用改变单个参数,固定其他参数的方法,观察介电频谱的变化.结果显示:Δε1影响低频介电频谱和Cole-Cole(ε′)图;Δε2影响高频介电频谱、Cole-Cole(ε′)图和Cole-Cole(κ′)图;εh影响ε′(f)、Cole-Cole(ε′)图和tgδ(f);κl对κ′(f)和Cole-Cole(κ′)图有影响;f1影响低频介电频谱;f2影响高频介电频谱;β1影响Cole-Cole(ε′)和tgδ(f);β2对高频介电频谱有影响.可见Cole-Cole方程作为细胞介电频谱的数学模型,其参数变化有规律可循.     

A Characterization of Maximally Entangled Two-Qubit States

As already known by Rana’s result, all eigenvalues of any partial-transposed bipartite state fall within the closed interval [−12,1]. In this note, we study a family of bipartite quantum states where the minimal eigenvalues of partial-transposed states are −12. For a two-qubit system, we find that the minimal eigenvalue of its partial-transposed state is −12 if and only if such a two-qubit state is maximally entangled. However this result does not hold in general for a two-qudit system when the dimensions of the underlying space are larger than two.     

广义次指数密度的两个新的等价条件

得到了广义次指数密度的两个新的等价条件,刻划了它们的卷积封闭性和卷积根封闭性.     

Experimental Study of Hygrothermal and Ultraviolet Aging on the Flexural Performance of Epoxy Polymer Mortar

This paper studies the effects of hygrothermal environment at different tempera-tures and ultraviolet(UV)radiation on the bending properties of epoxy polymer mo...     

Nanobridged rhombic antennas supporting both dipolar and high-order plasmonic modes with spatially superimposed hotspots in the mid-infrared

Mid-infrared antennas (MIRAs) support highly-efficient optical resonance in the infrared, enabling multiple applications, such as surface-enhanced infrared abso...     

Molecular Forcefield Methods for Describing Energetic Molecular Crystals: A Review

Energetic molecular crystals are widely applied for military and civilian purposes, and molecular forcefields (FF) are indispensable for treating the microscopic issues therein. This article reviews the three types of molecular FFs that are applied widely for describing energetic crystals—classic FFs, consistent FFs, and reactive FFs (ReaxFF). The basic principle of each type of FF is briefed and compared, with the application introduced, predicting polymorph, morphology, thermodynamics, vibration spectra, thermal property, mechanics, and reactivity. Finally, the advantages and disadvantages of these FFs are summarized, and some directions of future development are suggested.     

YAM机、T特性设备视放板回路的调整和对彩管色平衡的影响

本文主要讲述了视放回路的原理、调整及其对彩管会聚、色平衡的影响.为解决视放回路过长而引起的视频延迟现象,专门设计了一套视频放大板,其中包括了预视放回路、视频延迟回路、视频放大输出部分及EK恒压源回路等.     

An Efficient Trajectory Planning for Cellular-Connected UAV under the Connectivity Constraint

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs)acting as aerial users to access the cellular network form a promising solution to guarantee its safe and efficient operations via the high-quality communication.Due to the flexible mobility of UAVs and the coverage range limits of ground base station(GBS),the signalto-noise ratio(SNR)of the communication link between UAVs and GBS will fluctuate.It is an important requirement to maintain the UAV’s cellular connection to meet a certain SNR requirement during the mission for UAV flying from take off to landing.In this paper,we study an efficient trajectory planning method that can minimize a cellular-connected UAV’s mission completion time under the connectivity requirement.The conventional method to tackle this problem adopts graph theory or a dynamic programming method to optimize the trajectory,which generally incurs high computational complexities.Moreover,there is a nonnegligible performance gap compared to the optimal solution.To this end,we propose an iterative trajectory optimizing algorithm based on geometric planning.Firstly,we apply graph theory to obtain all the possible UAV-GBS association sequences and select the candidate association sequences based on the topological relationship among UAV and GBSs.Next,adopting the triangle inequality property,an iterative handover location design is proposed to determine the shortest flight trajectory with fast convergence and low computation complexity.Then,the best flight trajectory can be obtained by comparing all the candidate trajectories.Lastly,we revealed the tradeoff between mission completion time and flight energy consumption.Numerical results validate that our proposed solution can obtain the effectiveness with set accuracy and outperform against the benchmark schemes with affordable computation time.