Synthesis of carbon nanotubes directly over TEM grids aiming the study of nucleation and growth mechanisms

A novel approach to produce electron-transparent multi-layer membranes over TEM grids for transmission electron microscopy analysis is presented. The membranes have been used to grow and analyze carbon nanostructured materials in a thermal-chemical vapor deposition process using Ni and Cu as catalysts and silicon oxide thin films as support layers, at temperatures as high as 900 °C. It is important that conditions of the synthesis using the electron-transparent multi-layer membrane system are similar to those for a conventional chemical vapor deposition process, where oxidized silicon wafers are employed. In particular, the thickness of the silicon oxide and the catalyst layers are the same, and similar carbon tubular structures were grown using both substrates. The use of membranes was crucial especially for the study of the nucleation mechanism for carbon nanotubes. These electron-transparent multi-layer membranes are relatively easy to obtain and they can be used for transmission electron microscopy studies of high-temperature synthesis of different nanostructured materials.     

Backfitting neural networks

Summary  Regression and classification problems can be viewed as special cases of the problem of function estimation. It is rather well known that a two-layer perceptron with sigmoidal transformation functions can approximate any continuous function on the compact subsets ofRP if there are sufficient number of hidden nodes. In this paper, we present an algorithm for fitting perceptron models, which is quite different from the usual backpropagation or Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. This new algorithm based on backfitting ensures a better convergence than backpropagation. We have also used resampling techniques to select an ideal number of hidden nodes automatically using the training data itself. This resampling technique helps to avoid the problem of overfitting that one faces for the usual perceptron learning algorithms without any model selection scheme. Case studies and simulation results are presented to illustrate the performance of this proposed algorithm.     

激光入射角度对薄膜热场分布影响的数值分析

在多层介质薄膜中，激光的入射方式是影响薄膜抗损伤能力的关键因素之一.提出了一种模拟锥角高斯光入射多层介质薄膜后电场和热场分布的方法.该方法能够分析薄膜中高斯光各个角谱分量叠加形成的电场分布，进而得到由于薄膜本征吸收产生的热量沉积以及薄膜内部的温度场分布.针对中心波长为4.3 μm的中红外高反膜进行了分析，给出了高反膜系的温升峰值随激光入射角度和偏振态的变化.结果表明：对于s偏振光，斜入射时膜系的最高温升峰值高于垂直入射峰值，而p光的结果则相反.此种模拟方法克服了原有方法对激光入射角度的限制，较好地反映出斜入射情况下激光偏振态对薄膜损伤的影响. 关键词： 多层介质薄膜 高斯光 热过程 数值分析     

复杂微力－电系统的细微尺度力学

现代高新技术的崛起，提出了大量新的经典力学所不能完全包容的力学问题。这将是现代应用力学发展的巨大动力。微电子技术中微电子材料、器件、系统和微电子－机械系统（ｍｉｃｒｏｅｌｅｃｔｒｏ－ｍｅｃｈａｎｉｃａｌｓｙｓｔｅｍ，ＭＥＭＳ）所组成的复杂微力－电系统，是跨世纪发展的新科技方向，本文简要介绍了复杂微力，电系统的工业技术背景和发展；综述了这一领域存在的力学问题，主要讨论细微尺度下的结构力学与破坏力学。并评介与展望了这一新的力学领域的研究状况和发展趋势。     

Analysis on diffusion-induced stress for multi-layer spherical core–shell electrodes in Li-ion batteries

Silicon-based carbon composites are believed as promising anodes in the near future due to their outstanding specific capacity and relatively lower volume effect compared to pure silicon anodes. Herein, a multilayer spherical core–shell(MSCS) electrode with a graphite framework prepared with Si@O-MCMB/C nanoparticles is developed, which aims to realize chemically/mechanically stability during the lithiation/delithiation process with high specific capacity. An electrochemical-/mechanical-coupling model for the M-SCS structure is established with various chemical/mechanical boundary conditions.The simulation of finite difference method(FDM) has been conducted based on the proposed coupling model, by which the diffusion-induced stress along both the radial and the circumferential directions is determined. Moreover, factors that influence the diffusion-induced stress of the M-SCS structure have been discussed and analyzed in detail.     

复杂微力－电系统的细微尺度力学

现代高新技术的崛起,提出了大量新的经典力学所不能完全包容的力学问题。这将是现代应用力学发展的巨大动力。微电子技术中微电子材料、器件、系统和微电子－机械系统（ｍｉｃｒｏｅｌｅｃｔｒｏ－ｍｅｃｈａｎｉｃａｌｓｙｓｔｅｍ,ＭＥＭＳ）所组成的复杂微力－电系统,是跨世纪发展的新科技方向,本文简要介绍了复杂微力,电系统的工业技术背景和发展;综述了这一领域存在的力学问题,主要讨论细微尺度下的结构力学与破坏力学。并评介与展望了这一新的力学领域的研究状况和发展趋势。      

Entangling Lattice-Trapped Bosons with a Free Impurity: Impact on Stationary and Dynamical Properties

We address the interplay of few lattice trapped bosons interacting with an impurity atom in a box potential. For the ground state, a classification is performed based on the fidelity allowing to quantify the susceptibility of the composite system to structural changes due to the intercomponent coupling. We analyze the overall response at the many-body level and contrast it to the single-particle level. By inspecting different entropy measures we capture the degree of entanglement and intraspecies correlations for a wide range of intra- and intercomponent interactions and lattice depths. We also spatially resolve the imprint of the entanglement on the one- and two-body density distributions showcasing that it accelerates the phase separation process or acts against spatial localization for repulsive and attractive intercomponent interactions, respectively. The many-body effects on the tunneling dynamics of the individual components, resulting from their counterflow, are also discussed. The tunneling period of the impurity is very sensitive to the value of the impurity-medium coupling due to its effective dressing by the few-body medium. Our work provides implications for engineering localized structures in correlated impurity settings using species selective optical potentials.     

Reflection coefficient of ultrasonic waves as a measure of interface stresses in high pressure multi-layer cylinders

Abstract

Contact stresses in high pressure multi-layer cylinders are sometimes measured using ultrasonic technique. As a measure of the contact stresses the coefficient of reflection of ultrasonic waves from the contact interface between two adjacent outer layers is applied. The coefficient of reflection is an involved function of several parameters. Experimental and theoretical investigations show that this function may change non-monotonously with frequency of ultrasonic waves which may lead to an ambiguity of the assumed criterion. In order to check this function for higher frequencies, measurements of the reflection coefficient from a contact interface between plane steel samples were made for the frequencies up to 190 MHz.     

Experimental and theoretical analyses of package-on-package structure under three-point bending loading

<正>High density packaging is developing toward miniaturization and integration,which causes many difficulties in designing,manufacturing,and reliability testing.Package-on-Package(PoP) is a promising three-dimensional highdensity packaging method that integrates a chip scale package(CSP) in the top package and a fine-pitch ball grid array (FBGA) in the bottom package.In this paper,in-situ scanning electron microscopy(SEM) observation is carried out to detect the deformation and damage of the PoP structure under three-point bending loading.The results indicate that the cracks occur in the die of the top package,then cause the crack deflection and bridging in the die attaching layer.Furthermore,the mechanical principles are used to analyse the cracking process of the PoP structure based on the multi-layer laminating hypothesis and the theoretical analysis results are found to be in good agreement with the experimental results.