Design of sextuple-mode triple-ring HTS UWB filter using two-round interpolation

A single-stage ring resonator capable of introducing six modes within the ultra-wideband (UWB) passband is presented. The sextuple-mode resonator consists of three rings and three sets of stepped-impedance open stubs. Based on this sextuple-mode resonator, a UWB filter fed by the interdigital-coupling line (ICL) is designed. And we propose a two-round interpolation method to obtain the filter's initial dimensions. The designed filter is fabricated on a double-sided YBCO/MgO/YBCO high-temperature superconducting (HTS) thin film for demonstration. The experimental results show that this UWB filter produces eight resonances in the passband eventually, which effectively improves the in-band reflection and the band-edge steepness. Moreover, the upper stopband performance is enhanced due to the transmission zeros (TZs) generated by the stepped-impedance open stubs and the ICL structure. The measured good performance verifies the practicability of the two-round interpolation approach, which can also be extended to other odd-even-mode filter designs.     

Compact circular-patch-based bandpass filter for ultra-wideband wireless communication systems

Ultra-wideband (UWB) is a radio technology that enables low-power-level, short-range, and wide-bandwidth communication, and it has been widely applied in personal area networks, precision geolocation, medical, surveillance, and vehicular radar systems. Since Federal Communications Commission released the unlicensed use of the UWB range (3.1–10.6 GHz), a significant attention has been paid to the development of UWB devices, particularly UWB bandpass filters. In this paper, we propose a novel UWB bandpass filter based on circular patch resonator that is grounded by via and perturbed by slits and defected ground structures. The resonator’s behaviour is analysed in detail and it is shown that its specific configuration allows a flexible control of the three lowest resonant modes, which are used to form UWB passband. To demonstrate the potential of the resonator, a UWB filter has been designed, fabricated, and measured. The filter is characterized by the insertion loss lower than 1 dB and return loss higher than 17 dB within the passband, as well as by very small group delay variation of only 0.07 ns. Also, the filter exhibits suppression higher than 19 dB up to 30 GHz, and very small overall dimensions of only 0.31λ_g × 0.31λ_g, and thus it outperforms other published UWB filters.     

Wave body interaction in 2D using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) with variable particle mass

Wave interaction with bodies is an important practical application for smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) which in principle applies to steep and breaking waves without special treatment. However, few detailed tests have been undertaken even with small amplitude waves. In order to reduce computer time a variable particle mass distribution is tested here with fine resolution near the body and coarse resolution further away, while maintaining a uniform kernel size. We consider two well‐defined test cases, in two dimensions, of waves generated by a heaving semi‐immersed cylinder and progressive waves interacting with a fixed cylinder. But first, still water with hydrostatic pressure is tested. The open‐source code SPHysics ( http://www.sphysics.org )^{§Update made here after initial online publication.} is used with a Riemann solver in an Arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian formulation. For the heaving cylinder, SPH results for far field wave amplitude and cylinder force show good agreement with the data of Yu and Ursell (J. Fluid Mech. 1961; 11 :529–551). For wave loading on a half‐submerged cylinder the agreement with the experimental data of Dixon et al. (J. Waterway Port Coastal Ocean Div. 1979; 105 :421–438) for the root mean square force is within 2%. For more submerged cases, the results show some discrepancy, but this was also found with other modelling approaches. The sensitivity of results to the value of the slope limiter used in the MUSCL‐based Riemann solver is demonstrated. The variable mass distribution leads to a computer run speedup of nearly 200% in these cases. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Free convection of a dusty‐gas flow along a semi‐infinite vertical cylinder

An analysis is performed to study the free convection of a dusty‐gas flow along a semi‐infinite isothermal vertical cylinder. The governing equations of the flow problem are transformed into non‐dimensional form and the resulting nonlinear, coupled parabolic partial differential equations have been solved numerically using an implicit finite difference scheme of Crank–Nicholson type. The flow variables such as gas–velocity, dust‐particle velocity and temperature, shearing stress and heat transfer coefficients are calculated numerically for various parameters occurring in the problem. It is observed that due to the presence of dust particles, the gas velocity is found to decrease. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于折叠枝节加载多模谐振器的超宽带滤波器

针对超宽带滤波器的插入损耗和选择性问题,提出一种基于折叠枝节加载多模谐振器结构的超宽带滤波器。通过调节谐振器的阻抗比及电长度比,可以控制谐振频率。仿真与实验结果吻合良好,表明采用折叠枝节加载形式,可以使滤波器具有低插入损耗和良好的选择性。通带范围在2.9~10.7 GHz,带内插入损耗优于1 d B,实现相对带宽114%。     

基于负温度系数的多晶硅电阻电热激励/压阻检测微桥谐振器的新型红外探测器

报道了一种基于负电阻温度系数的多晶硅电阻电热激励/压阻检测SiO 2/Si3N4/SixNy微桥谐振器的新型红外探测器.微桥谐振器吸收的红外辐射引起微桥温度升高,激励电阻和检测电桥的阻值减小,使得恒定激励电压作用下激励电阻的静态功率和惠斯登电桥的焦耳热增加,等效于增加了辐射在微桥谐振器上的红外辐射.初步的实验证实了该方案的可行性.     

电极对薄膜体声波谐振器性能的影响

采用有限元分析软件COMSOL Multiphysics仿真了三维结构的谐振器,探讨了不同的顶电极形状对谐振器性能的影响。有效机电耦合系数(k2teff)随电极-压电层厚度比增大而减小,其中电极形状为三角形的谐振器在厚度比为0.05时获得最大k2teff(5.73%)。品质因数Q值变化趋势与k2teff相反,由三角形电极在厚度比为0.25时,获得最大Q值为1 314。不同电极形状的谐振器的优值随电极-压电厚度比先增大后减小,最大值为65.4,由正方形电极在比值为0.15时获得。     

ZnO单晶声表面波谐振器传播特性的研究

基于有限元压电材料中表面波传播的有限元分析原理,利用有限元分析软件COMSOL对基于ZnO单晶材料的声表面波器件进行多物理域耦合建模与仿真,提取出了符合声表面波振型的对称模态变形图和反对称模态变形图。通过谐振频率分析,计算出了ZnO单晶的相速度和机电耦合系数;通过频率响应分析,得出谐振器输入导纳、阻抗与频率之间的关系图;最后讨论了叉指换能器的结构对谐振频率、反谐振频率的影响,得出输入、输出叉指换能器(IDT)的叉指电极对数越大,插入损耗值越大,信号衰减越小。     

GSP 插入LCOS 的可行性探讨

硅基液晶(LCOS)是最适合用于全息视频显示的空间光调制器之一,但是受限于小衍射角和低分辨率的特性,当前市场上的LCOS并不完全适用。近年来出现的超常表面(例如,间隙表面等离子体激元)具有独特的特性,提供了一种新的对光传播进行控制的方法。文中采用数值方法研究了在LCOS中插入超常表面结构,旨在解决小衍射角和低分辨率的问题。为了实用化,使用铝作为金属层、三氧化二铝层作为电介质层,生成GSP结构。首先,研究了铝在可见光频率的光学特性以及相应的法布里珀罗共振子模型。然后将初始GSP结构插入到LCOS中,得到液晶中的电场分布,进一步观察液晶中指向矢分布的变化。数值模拟的结果表明,所提出的结构对远场衍射光具有一定的影响,并且全息显示的视场角也发生一些改变。因此,这里提出的在LCOS装置中插入GSP的方案在技术上是可行的。     

基于遗传算法的微波均衡器仿真和工程设计

研究了用于均衡行波管增益的微波均衡器的计算机仿真和工程设计问题。理论分析并建立了均衡 器的一般微波网络模型,该网络模型具有数十个优化变量,能够使均衡器实现任意有理函数类的均衡曲线。利用遗 传优化算法完成多变量的单目标或多目标优化,最终根据优化结果来具体实现均衡器的工程设计并为后期调试提 供指导。设计了一种C 波段10 阶同轴均衡器,实物调节和测试表明该设计对该波段的各种均衡曲线均有很好的适 应性,均衡误差1dB 以内,其中均衡枝节还具有温度补偿特性,高低温温飘小于5MHz。