Electron diffraction and microscopy of single-wall carbon nanotube bundles produced by different methods

The atomic structure of single-wall carbon nanotube bundles produced by three different techniques (laser ablation, electric arc discharge and catalytic chemical vapor deposition (CCVD)) has been characterized by electron diffraction and microscopy. Information on the helicity and the lattice packing has been obtained. Concerning the helicity, small bundles produced by CCVD exhibit only one or two tube helicities within a single bundle. The diffraction patterns of laser-ablation produced bundles also present well-defined but more diversified chiralities within a single bundle. By contrast the data acquired on bundles formed by arc discharge show a more diffuse pattern, characteristic of a random chirality dispersion within a single bundle. Concerning the lattice packing, informations are obtained via a detailed study of the equatorial line of the diffraction pattern for bundles produced by the three techniques. This electron diffraction study is completed by high-resolution electron microscopy. Received 8 August 2001 and Received in final form 14 March 2002     

Thermal monitoring of morphology in triblock terpolymers with crystallizable blocks

The bulk morphology of poly(1,4‐butadiene)–block–polystyrene–block–poly (ethylene oxide) (PB‐b‐PS‐b‐PEO) and polyethylene–block–polystyrene–block–poly (ethylene oxide) (PE‐b‐PS‐b‐PEO) triblock terpolymers is analyzed under a thermal protocol. This allows the investigation of the morphology during the occurrence of thermal transitions, such as crystallization and melting, which is a neat way of studying the competition between microphase separation and crystallization for the morphology formation. Only one of the studied systems presented a morphological transition upon melting of the PEO and the PE blocks, attributed to the crystallization of the PE block in finite interconnected domains. All the other systems presented no morphological transitions during the thermal scan. The results prove that the crystallization only disrupt the microphases generated in the molten state under very specific circumstances for these block copolymers. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 45: 3197–3206, 2007     

A High Gain and Broadband C-Band Aperture-Coupled Patch Antenna

A aperture-coupled patch antenna is designed with parasitic elements connecting to the rectangle ring on the bottom of antenna substrate through metal vias, which lead the current induced by patch radiator to the top surface of antenna substrate. Therefore, the effective radiation is enhanced and higher gain is achieved. The bandwidth is broadened simultaneously due to the structure of aperture-coupled patch antenna with parasitic elements. Compared to the conventional aperture-coupled patch antenna, the antenna gain increases averagely 2 dB due to the novel structure. Compared to patch antenna of electromagnetic band-gap, the dimensions of novel patch antenna greatly decreases, which can be used as element in the array antenna. Two kinds manufactured antenna are both measured in an anechoic chamber. The good agreements between numerical simulation and experimental prototype have been obtained.     

二维圆柱坐标系中五角形共形网格算法

 时域有限差分（FDTD）算法求解电磁问题时，如果目标结构不能和传统网格体系共形，往往采用局部共形网格或非正交网格算法。详细讨论了二维圆柱坐标系中五角形共形网格算法，该算法能方便地对倾斜薄层媒质或电导率不均匀的倾斜媒质等复杂结构建模,并以锥形电磁脉冲天线为例，验证了该算法的有效性。     

A Novel Feeding Scheme for Bandwidth Enhancement of Suspended Planar Antenna

A suspended planar antenna with a novel feeding structure is proposed for bandwidth enhancement. This feeding structure can provide extra degrees of freedom to tune the antenna for compensating for the large inductance induced by the long feeding probe. An impedance bandwidth of 56% for VSWR<2 is obtained. Simulated and measured results are compared and good agreements are observed.     

Aqueous self-aggregates of amphiphilic zinc 3-hydroxy- and 3-methoxy-chlorins for supramolecular light-harvesting systems

Aqueous aggregates of zinc 3¹-hydroxy- and 3¹-methoxy-13¹-oxo-chlorins possessing a hydrophilic tetraoxyethylene chain were prepared. Zinc 3¹-methoxy-chlorin formed a well-ordered aggregate without intermolecular hydrogen bonding which has been widely accepted in most structural models for BChl-c, d, e aggregates in a major light-harvesting antenna of green photosynthetic bacteria, chlorosome.     

Structural and optical properties of In0.5Ga0.5As/GaAs quantum dots in an In0.1Ga0.9As well using repeated depositions of InAs/GaAs short-period superlattices for the application of optical communication

We report structural and optical properties of In_0.5Ga_0.5As/GaAs quantum dots (QDs) in a 100 Å-thick In_0.1Ga_0.9As well grown by repeated depositions of InAs/GaAs short-period superlattices with atomic force microscope, transmission electron microscope (TEM) and photoluminescence (PL) measurement. The QDs in an InGaAs well grown at 510 °C were studied as a function of n repeated deposition of 1 monolayer thick InAs and 1 monolayer thick GaAs for n=5–10. The heights, widths and densities of dots are in the range of 6–22.0 nm, 40–85 nm, and 1.6–1.1×10¹⁰/cm², respectively, as n changes from 5 to 10 with strong alignment along [1 −1 0] direction. Flat and pan-cake-like shape of the QDs in a well is found in TEM images. The bottoms of the QDs are located lower than the center of the InGaAs well. This reveals that there was intermixing—interdiffusion—of group III materials between the InGaAs QD and the InGaAs well during growth. All reported dots show strong 300 K-PL spectrum, and 1.276 μm (FWHM: 32.3 meV) of 300 K-PL peak was obtained in case of 7 periods of the QDs in a well, which is useful for the application to optical communications.     

Thermally tuned optical fiber for true time delay generation

A new technique for generating a continuous range of true time delay values is introduced. Heating optical fiber in order to change the effective index of the guided mode produces time delays. A 45-m section of single-mode silica fiber is demonstrated to produce a continuous range of time delay values from 0 to 211 ps over a temperature tuning range of 50°C (30–80°C). A thermal time delay factor is introduced and found to be 0.096 ps/m°C for Corning LEAF fiber. A 7.66-m section of multimode Lucina polymer fiber is demonstrated to produce a range of time delay values from 0 to 32 ps over a temperature tuning range of 30°C (30–60°C). The thermal time delay factor for this fiber is −0.1427 ps/m°C.     

BSA-SDS-Ag聚合物纳米微粒的制备及水凝胶性质的研究(Ⅱ)

本文报道用X－射线衍射（XRD），TEM和FTIR光谱考察了在不同的制备条件下BSA－SDS－Ag的SDS－Ag聚合物纳米微粒的结构，形貌以及表面性质，随制备条件的不同，微粒的表面形貌有很大的差异。体系在微也液状态下，用甲醛作还原剂，可把银离子还原为单质，进而聚集成包裹型的团状微粒，微粒粒径32－60nm；微粒表面结构复杂，表明Ag^＋先后与蛋白质中的某些氨基酸残基产生化学键合，再还原为Ag粒，进而聚合成网状结构的聚合物。     

光子晶体Vlasov天线辐射特性研究

 通过在Vlasov天线口径上加装金属面，再在金属面上环绕天线口径排布金属圆柱构成光子晶体，设计出一种新型的光子晶体Vlasov天线。数值仿真及实验结果均表明，光子晶体的带隙特性改善了天线的辐射特性，使得E面上的最大增益在工作频段内平均提高了2.43 dB。