Measurements of the optical absorption coefficient of Ar8+ ion implanted silicon layers using the photothermal radiometry and the modulated free carrier absorption methods

This paper presents a method of the measurement of the optical absorption coefficient of the Ar⁸⁺ ions implanted layers in the p-type silicon substrate. The absorption coefficient is calculated using a value of the attenuation of amplitudes of a photothermal radiometry (PTR) and/or a modulation free carrier absorption (MFCA) signals and the implanted layer thickness calculated by means of the TRIM program. The proposed method can be used to indicate the amorphization of the ions implanted layers.     

Thermoacoustic Emission from Carbon Nanotubes Imaged by Atomic Force Microscopy

The thermoacoustic effect of isolated single‐wall carbon nanotubes aligned between electrodes is experimentally observed for the first time by imaging the emitted acoustic wave using an atomic force microscopy‐based technique specifically developed for the task. The capability of such a technique for single‐point thermoacoustic measurements is first verified on carbon nanotubes layers with two electrodes for injecting alternate electric current. The technique is then demonstrated to allow the acquisition, simultaneously with the topography, of images reflecting the pressure of the acoustic wave at fixed distance from the sample. Such a capability is used to collect images reflecting the amplitude of acoustic waves generated by isolated nanotubes and nanotube bundles by the thermoacoustic effect.     

Optimal boundary discretization by variational data assimilation

A variational data assimilation technique applied to the identification of the optimal discretization of interpolation operators and derivatives in the nodes adjacent to the boundary of the domain is discussed in frames of the linear shallow water model. The advantage of controlling the discretization of operators near the boundary rather than boundary conditions is shown. Assimilating data that have been produced by the same model on a finer grid, in a model on a coarse grid, we have shown that optimal discretization allows us to correct such errors of the numerical scheme as under‐resolved boundary layer and wrong wave velocity. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Tenth Peregrine breather solution to the NLS equation

In this paper we construct a particularly important solution to the focusing NLS equation, namely a Peregrine breather of the rank 10 which we call, P₁₀$P_{10}$ breather. The related explicit formula is given by the ratio of two polynomials of degree 110 with integer coefficients times trivial exponential factor. This formula drastically simplifies for the “initial values” namely for t=0$t=0$ or x=0$x=0$. This formula confirms a general conjecture saying that between all quasi-rational solutions of the rank N$N$ fixed by the condition that its absolute value tends to 1 at infinity and its highest maximum is located at the point (x=0,t=0)$(x=0,t=0)$, the P_N$P_N$ breather is distinguished by the fact that P_N(0,0)=2N+1$P_N(0,0)=2N+1$ and, in the aforementioned class of quasi-rational solutions, it is an absolute maximum. At the end we also make a few remarks concerning the rational deformations of P₁₀$P_{10}$ breather involving 2N−2$2N-2$ free real parameters chosen in a way that P_N$P_N$ breather itself corresponds to the zero values of these parameters although we have no intention to discuss the properties of these deformations here.     

基于超声导波的水下管道缺陷检测

文中介绍一套可拆式传感器系统设计与制作,利用超声导波原理对水下管道的腐蚀进行检测,基于厚度剪切模式的压电陶瓷和可拆式固定装置组成,可拆式传感器系统包括传感器PZT特别设计,并且可以把传感器装置夹在要检测的管道上。当对水下设备的管道进行了一系列的测试,结果表明传感器系统能够有效地激发和接收T（0,1）模式的超声导波,由于T（0,1）模式超声导波能够在水下管道上长距离传播,因此适用于缺陷检测。人为缺口的回波信号与缺口的尺寸以及位置具有良好的相关性。研究表明这一可拆式传感器系统能够利用导波有效地对水下管道进行检测。     

基于PZT传感器的管道扭转模态激励效果研究

导波激励模态单一性与衰减特性是导波激励效果的重要指标。采用PZT传感器,在建立基于PZT-5材料传感器并置于管道一端均匀对称分布的导波激励系统的基础上,以模态单一性与降低衰减特性为目标,研究了在低频段内模态特性以及传感器对T(0,1)模态的影响,得出了激励T(0,1)模态的最优激励方案。     

某型火箭炮捷联惯导在线标定方案研究

针对火箭炮在射前准备阶段里只能进行两自由度的角运动,造成部分参数不可观的缺陷,在基于对火箭炮进行制导化改造的背景下,提出了在射前准备阶段加入横滚运动的标定方案以及相应的可观测度分析方法。首先建立了21 维误差模型;而后运用可观测度分析方法对误差参数的可观测度进行了分析,对三个阶段进行了比较,表明横滚运动可使多个参数变得可观,并且其他参数可观测度也大幅提升;最后,采用奇异值分解的方法对所提出的标定方案和可观测度分析方法进行仿真验证,结果表明:除x 轴陀螺刻度系数误差外,其余参数奇异值基本都大于1,与可观测度分析方法的结论一致,充分体现了横滚运动对误差参数估计的有效性以及可观测度分析方法的可行性。     

Mass spectrometry imaging as a tool for surgical decision‐making

Despite significant advances in image‐guided therapy, surgeons are still too often left with uncertainty when deciding to remove tissue. This binary decision between removing and leaving tissue during surgery implies that the surgeon should be able to distinguish tumor from healthy tissue. In neurosurgery, current image‐guidance approaches such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) combined with neuronavigation offer a map as to where the tumor should be, but the only definitive method to characterize the tissue at stake is histopathology. Although extremely valuable information is derived from this gold standard approach, it is limited to very few samples during surgery and is not practically used for the delineation of tumor margins. The development and implementation of faster, comprehensive, and complementary approaches for tissue characterization are required to support surgical decision‐making – an incremental and iterative process with tumor removed in multiple and often minute biopsies. The development of atmospheric pressure ionization sources makes it possible to analyze tissue specimens with little to no sample preparation. Here, we highlight the value of desorption electrospray ionization as one of many available approaches for the analysis of surgical tissue. Twelve surgical samples resected from a patient during surgery were analyzed and diagnosed as glioblastoma tumor or necrotic tissue by standard histopathology, and mass spectrometry results were further correlated to histopathology for critical validation of the approach. The use of a robust statistical approach reiterated results from the qualitative detection of potential biomarkers of these tissue types. The correlation of the mass spectrometry and histopathology results to MRI brings significant insight into tumor presentation that could not only serve to guide tumor resection, but that is also worthy of more detailed studies on our understanding of tumor presentation on MRI. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Interactions of delta shock waves for the relativistic Chaplygin Euler equations with split delta functions

In this article, we are concerned with the interactions of delta shock waves with contact discontinuities for the relativistic Euler equations for Chaplygin gas by using split delta functions method. The solutions are obtained constructively and globally when the initial data consists of three piecewise constant states. The global structure and large time‐asymptotic behaviors of the solutions are analyzed case by case. During the process of the interaction, the strengths of delta shock waves are computed completely. Moreover, it can be found that the Riemann solutions are stable for such small perturbations with special initial data by letting perturbed parameter ε tends to zero. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.