Resilient metal spring network silicone-matrix composite for separable interconnections

Resilient metal spring silicone-matrix conducting composites for separable interconnections in electronics were fabricated by the impregnation of silicone into a preform comprising randomly oriented C-shaped Cu-Be springs and a small proportion of Sn-Pb solder, which served to connect the springs at some of their intersections. Composites containing 6.1-9.8 vol.% total filler exhibited volume electrical resistivity 0.5-1.0 mΩ.cm and contact resistivity (with copper) 11-17 mΩ.cm². A compressive stress of about 30 kPa was needed for the low contact resistivity to be reached. The volume 17-26% and the contact resistivity increased by 5% after heating in air at 130-150°C for seven days. Composites containing <9 vol.% total filler showed no stress relaxation for seven days at 6.0% strain.     

An experimental and computational investigation of crack initiation and stable crack growth of ductile materials

Crack initiation and stable crack growth under monotonic loading in steels has been studied using an elastic-plastic finite element analysis. The fracture criterion used for crack initiation and stable crack growth was the critical strain energy density. In addition the shift core method for the analysis of crack extension was used. In the shift core modelling method, crack advance is simulated by moving the coordinates of the core region which surrounds the crack tip, to obtain the stiffness reduction. Simultaneously the core itself geometrically undergoes a simple rigid-body motion or translation during the crack extension. The analytically calculated and experimentally measured load for crack initiation and the subsequent stable crack growth agreed well.     

Patterned uniformly orientated silicon nanocrystallite films and efficient field emission characteristics

Patterned uniformly (100)-orientated silicon nanocrystallite (SiNC) films were fabricated based on hydrogen ion implantation technique and typical electrochemical anodic etching method. The surface morphology and microstructure characteristics of the films were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and atomic force microscopy. The efficient field emission with low turn-on field of about 3.2 V/μm at current density of 0.1 μA/cm² was obtained. The emission current density from the SiNC films reached 1 mA/cm² under a bias field of about 11 V/μm. The experimental results demonstrate that the SiNC films have great potential applications for flat panel displays.     

Single-carrier frequency-domain equalization with decision-feedback processing for time-reversal space-time block-coded systems

In this letter, we propose to introduce frequency-domain equalization with decision-feedback processing (FD-DFE) for time-reversal space-time block-coded (TR-STBC) systems with multiple transmit antennas to effectively achieve both spatial diversity and multipath diversity over frequency-selective channels. This letter will also present a theoretical performance analysis result that relates the minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) to a new tight upper bound for the probability of error. It is shown that the new bound is not only valid for the TR-STBC systems, but also valid for single-input single-output, single-input multiple-output, and multiple-input multiple-output systems with MMSE equalization.     

Profile empirical likelihood for parametric and semiparametric models

This paper introduces a profile empirical likelihood and a profile conditionally empirical likelihood to estimate the parameter of interest in the presence of nuisance parameters respectively for the parametric and semiparametric models. It is proven that these methods propose some efficient estimators of parameters of interest in the sense of least-favorable efficiency. Particularly, for the decomposable semiparametric models, an explicit representation for the estimator of parameter of interest is derived from the proposed nonparametric method. These new estimations are different from and more efficient than the existing estimations. Some examples and simulation studies are given to illustrate the theoretical results. The first author is supported by NNSF projects (10371059 and 10171051) of China. The second author is supported by a grant from The Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (#HKU7060/04P). The third author is supported by the University Research Committee of the University of Hong Kong and a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. HKU7323/01M).     

YAG：Nd激光照射犬气管粘膜的实验研究

An experimental study for the pathologic changes of the canine tracheal mucosa under YAG:Nd laser ablation was performed in order to master the appropriate parameters for the clinical treatment of YAG:Nd laser. 6 male and female Mongolia dogs weighing 13-18 kg were received 20W YAG:Nd laser treatment and their pathologic changes were examined instantly and 3, 7, 14 and 28 days after ablation.     

A novel fermentation process for calcium magnesium acetate (CMA) production from cheese whey

Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology - A novel, anaerobic fermentation process is developed to produce calcium magnesium acetate (CMA) from cheese whey. CMA can be used as a noncorrosive road...     

Parity violation at neutron p-wave resonances of238U and232Th and related questions

Parity violation effects have been studied at 40 neutron p-wave resonances of the even-even nuclei²³⁸U and²³²Th. Of these 11 show parity violation effects larger than 2 standard deviations, making parity violation a rather common phenomenon. Parity mixing up to 10% has been found. The root-mean squared matrix elements for parity violation derived from these resonances are M=0.58 (+0.50/-0.25) meV for²³⁸U, respectively 1.39 (+0.35/-0.38) meV for²³²Th.     

Con-A诱发的淋巴细胞化学发光

本文以刀豆素 A(ConA)为诱发剂,研究了绵羊肺淋巴液中的淋巴细胞鲁米诺依赖的化学发光现象.结果表明,ConA诱发的淋巴细胞化学发光测定具有迅速、简便和敏感等优点,可作为淋巴细胞活化的检测方法.淋巴细胞悬液(106～107个细胞/ml)1ml、ConA溶液(2mg/ml)0.1ml、鲁米诺溶液(10-3M)50μl为最佳测定体系.多形核白细胞(PMN)混杂可明显增强发光体系的发光强度.因此,测定外周血中的淋巴细胞化学发光,细胞的纯化是一个不可忽视的问题.消炎痛可抑制其发光,说明发光可能与花生四烯酸代谢有关.     

红外半导体激光光镊的实验研究

激光光镊技术是一项在许多科学领域有广阔应用前景的技术。本文详细给出构建一台红外半导体激光光镊的设计思想及实例。由于采用了独特的对大功率多模红外激光选模整形和双透镜陷阱操纵技术等性能价格最优化选择 ,该系统易于构建 ,陷阱操作方便 ,其构建价格仅一般光镊的几十分之一 ,非常适合光镊技术的推广和一般实验室构建