Spontaneous decay of an excited atom placed near a rectangular plate

Using the Born expansion of the Green tensor, we consider the spontaneous decay rate of an excited atom placed in the vicinity of a rectangular plate. We discuss the limitations of the commonly used simplifying assumption that the plate extends to infinity in the lateral directions and examine the effects of the atomic dipole moment orientation, atomic position, and plate boundary and thickness on the atomic decay rate. In particular, it is shown that due to the plate finite size, the spontaneous decay may be inhibited even when the atom is situated very close to the surface, and that in the boundary region, the spontaneous decay rate can be strongly modified.     

Group Representation of Relativistic Quantum Crystal Optics

A group representation of radiation propagation in an anisotropic medium is developed. The system of wave equations for electromagnetic potentials, obtained from the Maxwell equations with account for the constitutive equations, has been factorized. It is shown that the linear differential operator of the factorized system is orthogonal in transparent crystals and unitary in gyrotropic ones and is represented through the momentum operator. On the basis of the commutation relations for the components of this operator, the eigenvalue problem has been solved and the expression for the change in the radiant energy in the crystal in the form of spherical waves has been obtained. The dependences of the ray and phase velocities and the polarization vectors of waves on the birefringence anisotropy and gyrotropy as well as on the angular momentum, displacement current, and bound charge determining them have been analyzed. It has been established that in the general case of gyrotropic crystals where the nonreciprocity phenomenon takes place and in magnetoelectrics Maxwell equations are represented in a form similar to the Dirac equations and the electromagnetic radiation is correctly described by means of bispinors and is quantized as fermions.     

Janossy Densities. I. Determinantal Ensembles

We derive an elementary formula for Janossy densities for determinantal point processes with a finite rank projection-type kernel. In particular, for =2 polynomial ensembles of random matrices we show that the Janossy densities on an interval I can be expressed in terms of the Christoffel–Darboux kernel for the orthogonal polynomials on the complement of I.     

640 × 512 pixel narrow-band, four-band, and broad-band quantum well infrared photodetector focal plane arrays

A 9 μm cutoff 640 × 512 pixel hand-held quantum well infrared photodetector (QWIP) camera has been demonstrated with excellent imagery. A noise equivalent differential temperature (NEDT) of 10.6 mK is expected at a 65 K operating temperature with f/2 optics at a 300 K background. This focal plane array has shown background limited performance at a 72 K operating temperature with the same optics and background conditions. In this paper, we discuss the development of this very sensitive long-wavelength infrared camera based on a GaAs/AlGaAs QWIP focal plane array and its performance in quantum efficiency, NEDT, uniformity, and operability. In the second section of this paper, we discuss the first demonstration of a monolithic spatially separated four-band 640 × 512 pixel QWIP focal plane array and its performance. The four spectral bands cover 4–5.5, 8.5–10, 10–12, and 13.5–15 μm spectral regions with 640 × 128 pixels in each band. In the last section, we discuss the array performance of a 640 × 512 pixel broad-band (10–16 μm full-width at half-maximum) QWIP focal plane.     

基于反中值滤波的红外焦平面自适应非均匀性校正方法

分析了红外焦平面阵列非均匀性的噪声特性，提出了一种用反中值滤波为核心的红外焦平面自适应校正的方法。针对实际的图像进行了实验，实验证明该方法在校正效果、收敛速度、对静止目标保持能力及可硬件化等方面都有较好的表现。     

二维全同Nb4团簇在Cu(100)表面的结构稳定性和电子性质

使用基于密度泛函理论的第一性原理赝势法和超原胞模型，研究了吸附在Cu(100)表面上的二维有序排列的幻数团簇Nb₄的结构稳定性及其电子结构性质.计算表明，四面体结构和平面的菱形结构的Nb₄团簇都可以稳定地吸附在Cu(100)表面上，这个体系很可能有重要的应用前景.在Cu(100)表面上，菱形结构的Nb₄比四面体结构的Nb₄更稳定，从Nb₄团簇的四面体结构到菱形结构，需经过的势垒高度约为0.94eV/团蔟.电子结构的计算表明，在Nb₄吸附后，Cu(100)表面与Nb₄团簇间有明显的电荷重新分布，表面Cu原子的电子态密度也明显改变. 关键词： 4团簇')" href="#">Nb₄团簇 有序排列 结构稳定性 从头计算     

基于RBF神经网络的磨矿粒度软测量模型及实现

磨矿分级作业是选矿生产中的重要环节,磨矿粒度的好坏直接影响浮选的精矿品位和尾矿回收率;在实际生产中粒度的测量有在线粒度分析仪,但存在成本高、维修率高,离线实验室化验又有时间延迟大的问题;对实际磨矿分级作业过程进行了分析,提出用径向基函数(RBF)神经网络建立磨矿粒度软测量模型,采用正交最小二乘法(OLS)算法对网络进行训练学习,泛化校验;仿真结果表明,在较少训练数据下该网络非线性处理能力和逼近能力依然很强,学习时间短,模型基本符合要求;通过OPC技术将Matlab与PKS控制系统相结合,实现实时软测量磨矿粒度。     

装有电路板孔阵矩形腔对快上升前沿电磁脉冲的屏蔽效能

 介绍了快上升前沿电磁脉冲的特性,用传输线法分析了孔阵矩形腔屏蔽效能的基本原理。将基本公式作进一步修正,使其能计算矩形腔内装有印刷电路板（PCB）的情形。对修正的传输线模型计算公式进行了扩展,使之能计算任意极化方向时的情况。计算和仿真结果表明: 当频率低于主谐振频率时,测量点离孔阵越近,屏蔽效能越差,同时低频段的屏蔽效能比高频段的要好;孔阵的屏蔽效能比相同面积单孔的要好;装有PCB腔体的屏蔽效能比空腔的要好,这在谐振区域内尤为突出;PCB板尺寸越大,屏蔽效能越好;屏蔽效能随极化角度的递增而增加;屏蔽体越小,屏蔽效果越好。     

Transparent titania nanotubes of micrometer length prepared by anodization of titanium thin film deposited on ITO

Transparent TiO₂ nanotube arrays of micrometer lengths were prepared by anodization of titanium thin film RF sputtered on indium tin oxide (ITO) which was coated on glass substrate. The sputtering process took place at elevated temperature of 500 °C. The structures of the films were studied using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) while the optical properties of the films were investigated using UV-visible spectroscopy. Two types of electrolytes were used in this work: an aqueous mixture of acetic acid and HF solution and a mixture of NH₄F and water dissolved in ethylene glycol. The concentration of NH₄F, voltage and the thickness of the sputtered titanium film were varied to study their effect on the formation of TiO₂ nanotube arrays. It is demonstrated in this work that the nanoporous layer is formed on top of the ordered array of TiO₂ nanotubes. Furthermore, the optical transmittance of TiO₂ nanotubes annealed at 450 °C is much lower than the non annealed TiO₂ nanotubes in the visible wavelength region.