Decay of the remanent magnetization in the asymmetric spin chain

The dynamics of the one-dimensional spin glass with asymmetric interactions between neighboring spins is considered. We confine ourselves to discrete couplings with values ±J. We show that the algebraic decay of the remanent magnetization of the infinite ±J-spin chain at zero temperature is only valid for symmetric couplings. Our analytical investigations as well as computer simulations show stretched exponential decay for any finite concentration of antisymmetric bonds. Thus, the asymmetric ±J-spin chain shows an asymmetry-induced phase transition at zero temperature.     

微通道板增益疲劳机理研究

微通道板的增益疲劳是微通道板的主要问题之一，本文分析了微通道板的表面结构模型，同通道板活性表面上碱金属的逸出和碳的增加是导致微通道板的增益疲劳的主要原因，另外，探讨碱金属逸出的机理和碳污染的来源，介绍延长微通道板工作寿命的有效方法。     

Image segmentation towards new image representation methods

Very low bit-rate video coding has recently become one of the most important areas of image communication and a large variety of applications have already been identified. Since conventional approaches are reaching a saturation point, in terms of coding efficiency, a new generation of video coding techniques, aiming at a deeper “understanding” of the image, is being studied. In this context, image analysis, particularly the identification of objects or regions in images (segmentation), is a very important step. This paper describes a segmentation algorithm based on split and merge. Images are first simplified using mathematical morphology operators, which eliminate perceptually less relevant details. The simplified image is then split according to a quad tree structure and the resulting regions are finally merged in three steps: merge, elimination of small regions and control of the number of regions.     

一种43 GHz超高带宽线性驱动电路设计

基于0.13μm SiGe BiCMOS工艺,设计了一种线性驱动电路。该电路具有高速和大摆幅的优势,能线性驱动行波马赫-曾德尔调制器(TW-MZM),可满足光通信系统100 Gbit/s单通道的应用需求。驱动电路包括连续时间线性均衡(CTLE)电路、可变增益放大(VGA)电路和基于Cascode结构改进优化的输出级电路,实现了增益可调,且避免发生由较大输出摆幅导致的晶体管击穿。仿真结果表明,电路的-3 dB带宽为43 GHz,其增益在15～25 dB内可调。在56 Gbaud NRZ/PAM4的输入信号下,测得的眼图形状良好,差分输出摆幅峰-峰值达4 V,电路整体功耗为1.02 W,面积为0.33 mm²。     

Vapor Phase Growth of Centimeter-Sized Band Gap Engineered Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Single-Crystal Thin Films with Color-tunable Stimulated Emission

Single crystal metal halide perovskites thin films are considered to be a promising optical, optoelectronic materials with extraordinary performance due to their low defect densities. However, it is still difficult to achieve large-scale perovskite single-crystal thin films (SCTFs) with tunable bandgap by vapor-phase deposition method. Herein, the synthesis of CsPbCl_3(1–x)Br_3x SCTFs with centimeter size (1 cm × 1 cm) via vapor-phase deposition is reported. The Br composition of CsPbCl_3(1–x)Br_3x SCTFs can be gradually tuned from x = 0 to x = 1, leading the corresponding bandgap to change from 2.29 to 2.91 eV. Additionally, an low-threshold (≈23.9 µJ cm⁻²) amplified spontaneous emission is achieved based on CsPbCl_3(1–x)Br_3x SCTFs at room temperature, and the wavelength is tuned from 432 to 547 nm by varying the Cl/Br ratio. Importantly, the high-quality CsPbCl_3(1–x)Br_3x SCTFs are ideal optical gain medium with high gain up to 1369.8 ± 101.2 cm⁻¹. This study not only provides a versatile method to fabricate high quality CsPbCl_3(1–x)Br_3x SCTFs with different Cl/Br ratio, but also paves the way for further research of color-tunable perovskite lasing.     

Low complexity inter coding scheme for Versatile Video Coding (VVC)

The latest coding standard Versatile Video Coding (VVC) developed by the Joint Video Experts Team (JVET) and Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) was finalized in 2020. By introducing several new coding techniques, VVC improves the compression efficiency by 50% compared with H.265/HEVC. However, the coding complexity increases dramatically, which obstructs it from real-time application. To tackle this issue, a fast inter coding algorithm utilizing coding information is proposed to speed up the coding process. First, by analyzing the coding areas of the neighboring CUs, we predict the coding area of the current CU to terminate unnecessary splitting modes. Then, the temporally optimal coding mode generated during the prediction process is further utilized to shrink the candidate modes to speed up the coding process. Finally, the distribution of neighboring prediction modes are exploited to measure the motion complexity of the current CU, based on which the unnecessary prediction modes can be skipped earlier. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can reduce the coding complexity by 40.08% on average with 0.07 dB BDPSNR decrease and 1.56% BDBR increase, which outperforms the state-of-the-art approach.     

Visual video evaluation association modeling based on chaotic pseudo-random multi-layer compressed sensing for visual privacy-protected keyframe extraction

In current society, artificial intelligence processing technology offers convenient video monitoring, but also raises the risk of privacy leakage. Theoretically, the data used in intelligent video processing methods may directly convey visual information containing private content. For the above problem, this paper uses a multi-layer visual privacy-protected (VPP) coding method to blur private content in the video at the visual level, while avoiding the loss of important visual features contained in the video as much as possible. And this provides a guarantee of the quality of the subsequent keyframe extraction step. Then a visual evaluation algorithm is proposed for assessing the quality of VPP-encoded video privacy protection. And the experiment shows that the results are consistent with those of subjective evaluation. In addition, for VPP-encoded video, we propose an unsupervised two-layer clustering keyframe extraction method with corresponding performance evaluation index. Finally, an association model is established to balance the privacy protection quality and the keyframe extraction performance.     

基于40 nm CMOS工艺的高效率功率放大器设计

针对硅基毫米波功率放大器存在的饱和输出功率较低、增益不足和效率不高的问题,基于TSMC 40nm CMOS工艺,设计了一款工作在28GHz的高效率和高增益连续F类功率放大器。提出的功率放大器由驱动级和功率级组成。针对功率级设计了一款基于变压器的谐波控制网络来实现功率合成和谐波控制,有效地提高了功率放大器的饱和输出功率和功率附加效率。采用PMOS管电容抵消功率级的栅源电容,进一步提高线性度和增益。电路后仿真结果表明,设计的功率放大器在饱和输出功率为20.5dBm处的峰值功率附加效率54%,1dB压缩点为19dBm,功率增益为27dB,在24GHz~32GHz频率处的功率附加效率大于40%。     

基于压缩感知的BOTDA性能增强方法

为了提高布里渊光时域分析系统(BOTDA)在长距离监测应用中的实时性,提出了一种基于压缩感知的布里渊光时域系统实时性增强方法。该方法包含稀疏表示、随机采样和信号重构三个部分。首先采用K-均值奇异值分解算法获得布里渊增益谱的稀疏表示,然后通过高斯随机采样和正交匹配追踪算法进行布里渊增益谱重构。为了验证所提方法的性能,仿真生成了不同信噪比水平的布里渊增益谱,搭建了45 km的布里渊光时域系统进行温度传感实验。仿真和实验结果表明:在累加平均次数为100时,所提算法将信噪比提升了6.37 dB,优于累加平均次数3000时的10.13 dB,对应测量时间减少了1/30;采用8 MHz步长数据重构布里渊增益谱,该方法的重构结果与4 MHz步长数据的相关系数为0.9992,对应扫频时间减少了一半。所提算法在保证测量精度的同时提升了测量实时性。