Proximity-Induced Fully Ferromagnetic Order with Eightfold Magnetic Anisotropy in Heavy Transition Metal Oxide CaRuO3

Ferromagnetic materials with a strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) have attracted much attention in recent years because of their exotic properties and potential applications in energy-efficient spintronics. However, such materials are scarce in nature. Here, a proximity-induced paramagnetic to ferromagnetic transition for the heavy transition metal oxide CaRuO₃ in (001)-(LaMnO₃/CaRuO₃) superlattices is reported. Anomalous Hall effect is observed in the temperature range up to 180 K. Maximal anomalous Hall conductivity and anomalous Hall angle are as large as ∼15 Ω⁻¹ cm⁻¹ and ∼0.93%, respectively, by one to two orders of magnitude larger than those of the typical 3d ferromagnetic oxides such as La_0.67Sr_0.33MnO₃. Density functional theory calculations indicate the existence of avoid band crossings in the electronic band structure of the ferromagnetic CRO layer, which enhances Berry curvature thus strong anomalous Hall effects. Further evidences from polarized neutron reflectometry show that the CaRuO₃ layers are in a fully ferromagnetic state (∼0.8 μ_B/Ru), in sharp contrast to the proximity-induced canted antiferromagnetic state in 5d oxides SrIrO₃ and CaIrO₃ (∼0.1 μ_B/Ir). More than that, the magnetic anisotropy of the (001)-(LaMnO₃/CaRuO₃) superlattices is eightfold symmetric, showing potential applications in the technology of multistate data storage.     

A Hybrid Strategy-Based Ultra-Narrow Stretchable Microelectrodes with Cell-Level Resolution

Stretchable ultra-narrow (e.g., 10 µm in width) microelectrodes are crucial for the electrophysiological monitoring of single cells providing the fundamental understanding to the working mechanism of neuro network or other electrically functional cells. Current fabrication strategies either focus on the preparation of normal stretchable electrodes with hundreds of micrometers or millimeters in width by using inorganic conductive materials or develop conductive organic polymer gel for ultra-narrow electrodes which suffer from low stretchability and instability for long-term implantation, therefore, it is still highly desirable to explore bio-interfacial ultra-narrow stretchable inorganic electrodes. Herein, a hybrid strategy is reported to prepare ultra-narrow multi-channel stretchable microelectrodes without using photolithography or laser-assisting etching. A 10 µm × 10 µm monitoring window is fabricated with enhanced interfacial impedance by the special rough surface. The stretchability achieves to 120% for this 10 µm-width stretchable electrode. Supported by these superior properties, it is demonstrated that the stretchable microelectrodes can detect electrophysiological signals of single cells in vitro and collect electrophysiological signals more precisely in vivo. The reported strategy will open up the accessible preparation of the fine-size stretchable microelectrode. It will significantly improve the resolution of monitoring and stimulation of inorganic stretchable electrodes.     

Durable Integrated K-Metal Anode with Enhanced Mass Transport through Potassiphilic Porous Interconnected Mediator

K-metal batteries have become one of the promising candidates for the large-scale energy storage owing to the virtually inexhaustible and widely potassium resources. The uneven K⁺ deposition and dendrite growth on the anode causes the batteries prematurely failure to limit the further application. An integrated K-metal anode is constructed by cold-rolling K metal with a potassiphilic porous interconnected mediator. Based on the experimental results and theoretical calculations, it demonstrates that the potassiphilic porous interconnected mediator boosts the mass transportation of K-metal anode by the K affinity enhancement, which decreases the concentration polarization and makes a dendrite-free K-metal anode interface. The interconnected porous structure mitigates the internal stress generated during repetitive deposition/stripping, enabling minimized the generation of electrode collapse. As a result, a durable K-metal anode with excellent cycling ability of exceed 1, 000 h at 1 mA cm⁻²/1 mAh cm⁻² and lower polarization voltage in carbonate electrolyte is obtained. This proposed integrated anode with fast K⁺ kinetics fabricated by a repeated cold rolling and folding process provides a new avenue for constructing a high-performance dendrites-free anode for K-metal batteries.     

Structural and optical properties of AIN sputtering deposited on sapphire substrates with various orientations

AIN thin films were deposited on c-,a-and r-plane sapphire substrates by the magnetron sputtering technique.The in-fluence of high-temperature thermal annealing (HTTA) on the structural,optical properties as well as surface stoichiometry were comprehensively investigated.The significant narrowing of the (0002) diffraction peak to as low as 68 arcsec of AIN after HTTA implies a reduction of tilt component inside the AIN thin films,and consequently much-reduced dislocation densities.This is also supported by the appearance of E2(high) Raman peak and better Al-N stoichiometry after HTTA.Furthermore,the in-creased absorption edge after HTTA suggests a reduction of point defects acting as the absorption centers.It is concluded that HTTA is a universal post-treatment technique in improving the crystalline quality of sputtered AIN regardless of sapphire orienta-tion.     

Research on encoding and decoding of non-binary polar codes over GF(2m)

Binary Polar Codes (BPCs) have advantages of high-efficiency and capacity-achieving but suffer from large latency due to the Successive-Cancellation List (SCL) decoding. Non-Binary Polar Codes (NBPCs) have been investigated to obtain the performance gains and reduce latency under the implementation of parallel architectures for multi-bit decoding. However, most of the existing works only focus on the Reed-Solomon matrix-based NBPCs and the probability domain-based non-binary polar decoding, which lack flexible structure and have a large computation amount in the decoding process, while little attention has been paid to general non-binary kernel-based NBPCs and Log-Likelihood Ratio (LLR) based decoding methods. In this paper, we consider a scheme of NBPCs with a general structure over GF(2^m). Specifically, we pursue a detailed Monte-Carlo simulation implementation to determine the construction for proposed NBPCs. For non-binary polar decoding, an SCL decoding based on LLRs is proposed for NBPCs, which can be implemented with non-binary kernels of arbitrary size. Moreover, we propose a Perfect Polarization-Based SCL (PPB-SCL) algorithm based on LLRs to reduce decoding complexity by deriving a new update function of path metric for NBPCs and eliminating the path splitting process at perfect polarized (i.e., highly reliable) positions. Simulation results show that the bit error rate of the proposed NBPCs significantly outperforms that of BPCs. In addition, the proposed PPB-SCL decoding obtains about a 40% complexity reduction of SCL decoding for NBPCs.     

基于智能手机平台的计算光学显微成像技术研究综述

计算光学显微成像技术将光学编码和计算解码相结合,通过光学操作和图像算法重建来恢复微观物体的多维信息,为显微成像技术突破传统成像能力提供了强大的助力。这项技术的发展得益于现代光学系统、图像传感器以及高性能数据处理设备的优化,同时也被先进的通信技术和设备的发展所赋能。智能手机平台作为高度集成化的电子设备,具有先进的图像传感器和高性能的处理器,可以采集光学系统的图像并运行图像处理算法,为计算光学显微成像技术的实现创造了全新的方式。进一步地,作为可移动通信终端,智能手机平台开放的操作系统和多样的无线网络接入方法,赋予了显微镜灵活智能化操控能力与丰富的显示和处理分析功能,可用于实现各种复杂环境下多样化的生物学检测应用。文中从四个方面综述了基于智能手机平台的计算光学显微成像技术,首先综述了智能手机平台作为光学成像器件的新型显微成像光路设计,接下来介绍了基于智能手机平台先进传感器的计算光学高通量显微成像技术,然后介绍了智能手机平台的数据处理能力和互联能力在计算显微成像中的应用,最后讨论了这项技术现存在的一些问题及解决方向。     

采用自适应模糊优化的目标跟踪加速方案

目标跟踪作为计算机视觉的重要方向之一,在自动驾驶、安防监控等方面有着广泛的应用,但是目标跟踪算法还无法有效地运行在嵌入式设备上。针对目标跟踪算法计算量大、复杂度高,难以部署在资源受限的嵌入式设备的问题,提出了一种基于相关滤波目标跟踪的加速方案。首先采用自适应模糊算法优化了跟踪算法整体运算量,它可以根据目标跟踪框的尺寸判定是否降低图像质量。其次采用了跟踪响应结果的峰值旁瓣比与平均相关能量比判据来评估跟踪结果的可信度,从而实现跟踪模型的自适应更新以及目标位置的重搜索。最后基于FPGA并行实现相关运算和跟踪检测器训练阶段的矩阵相乘运算,以提升算法实时能效性。所提出的加速算法基于PYNQ-Z2进行硬件测试,并在OTB-2015跟踪数据集上进行验证,该算法的跟踪精度与跟踪实时性分别为65.8%,17.28 frame/s,相比于原始算法,跟踪精度、跟踪实时分别提高了9.12%、703.7%。     

Unraveling the Charge Storage and Activity-Enhancing Mechanisms of Zn-Doping Perovskite Fluorides and Engineering the Electrodes and Electrolytes for Wide-Temperature Aqueous Supercabatteries

Herein, a trimetallic Ni–Co–Zn perovskite fluoride (ABF₃) (denoted as KNCZF) electrode material is explored for advanced aqueous supercabatteries (ASCBs), with KNCZF and activated carbon–FeBiCu@reduced graphene oxides (AC–FeBiCu@rGO) as cathode and anode, respectively, which outperform aqueous supercapacitors (ASCs) and batteries (ABs) with AC and FeBiCu@rGO anodes because of the synergistic effect of pseudocapacitive (KNCZF), capacitive (AC), and faradaic (FeBiCu@rGO) responses. One of the important findings is that the KNCZF shows a typical bulk phase conversion mechanism for charge storage in the alkaline media with the transition of ABF₃ perovskite nanocrystals into amorphous metal oxides/(oxy)hydroxides nanosheets, showing the redox-active and redox-inert roles for the Ni/Co and Zn species, respectively, which can be deduced by various ex-situ techniques. Another interesting finding is that the redox-inert Zn species largely enhance the activity of Ni/Co redox-active species in the ABF₃ materials, mainly owing to the promotion of surface electroactive sites, adsorption of OH^?, and charge transfer of surface Ni/Co atoms by Zn-doping, which can be proved by ex-situ characterizations and theoretical calculations. Overall, this study reveals the structure–activity relationship and charge storage mechanisms of Zn-doping ABF₃ materials for advanced ASCBs, showing a great impact on developing advanced electrochemical energy storage.