Fabrication and characterization of TiO2/short MWNTs with enhanced photocatalytic activity

TiO₂/short MWNTs nanocomposites were prepared by the sol–gel method using butyl titanate and short MWNTs as starting materials in the solvent of isopropyl alcohol. Their photocatalytic activity in the degradation of X-3B was studied. The effects of mass ratio of short MWNTs to butyl titanate, and heat-treatment temperature on the photoactivity of TiO₂/short MWNTs nanocomposites were discussed. For comparison purpose, other photocatalysts were also employed in the photodegradation experiment. Thermogravimetric–differential thermal analysis (TG–DTA), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and UV–Vis absorption spectra were utilized to characterize the prepared photocatalysts. The results showed that the TiO₂/short MWNTs nanocomposites synthesized with 1% mass ratio of short MWNTs to butyl titanate had the best photoactivity.     

容忍单粒子多节点翻转的三模互锁加固锁存器

为了能够容忍单粒子多节点翻转,提出了一种新颖的三模互锁加固锁存器。该锁存器使用具有过滤功能的代码字状态保存单元（CWSP）构成三模互锁结构,并在锁存器末端使用CWSP单元实现对单粒子多节点翻转的容错。HSPICE仿真结果表明,相比于三模冗余（TMR）锁存器,该锁存器功耗延迟积（PDP）下降了58.93%;相比于容忍多节点翻转的DNCS-SEU锁存器,该锁存器的功耗延迟积下降了41.56%。同时该锁存器具有较低的工艺偏差敏感性。     

一种基于环形振荡器的轻量级高效率的真随机数发生器

真随机数发生器(TRNG)作为芯片中重要的安全组件,在现代加密系统中扮演着越来越重要的角色。对于TRNG的设计,关键是需要熵提取器可以在恶劣的环境变化(如工艺波动、电压和温度(PVT))下稳定地生成熵值。基于Xilinx FPGA平台提出了一种基于环形振荡器的低成本,高效率真随机数发生器。TRNG一方面通过快速进位逻辑来提高熵提取的效率,另一方面通过优化电路结构和延迟,在以相对较低的资源开销情况下实现可观的吞吐量和随机性。TRNG分别在多块Xilinx Virtex6 FPGAs和Xilinx Spartan6 FPGAs上进行验证,实验数据测试结果表明,所提出的TRNG能够在广泛的PVT范围内表现出良好的鲁棒性,且生成的随机比特流不仅以相当高P值通过NIST SP800-22统计测试套件,而且可以通过最新的NIST SP800-90B测试。     

WiNoC中协同拥塞控制的高性能路由器设计

无线路由器作为无线片上网络中无线通信的关键部件,若出现拥塞将会严重影响网络性能。基于此,提出一种协同拥塞控制的路由器(C~3WR)设计方案。该设计针对无线接口接收端缓冲区拥塞,首先通过无线输入端口与本地其他输入端口缓冲区级联的方式,为拥塞的数据提供多路径传输,其次提出WCC算法分流数据包缓解无线接收端拥塞。针对无线接口发送端缓冲区拥塞,采用动态路由策略,降低对拥塞无线路由器的流量注入率。实验结果表明,相较于对比对象,C~3WR路由器吞吐率最多增加33.80%,网络延时最多降低33.17%,面积功耗开销可接受。该方案以协同拥塞控制的方式均衡网络流量分布,保证了系统的性能又充分利用了可用资源。     

The effects of PVP surfactant in the direct and indirect hydrothermal synthesis processes of ceria nanostructures

CeO₂ nanostructures with completely different morphologies were successfully prepared using the same cerium source and mineralizer through the direct and indirect hydrothermal methods with different introducing strategies of PVP surfactant. The CeO₂ nanostructures tend to form the morphologies of nano-flowers and nano-cubes through the indirect and direct hydrothermal methods, respectively. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analyses revealed that both as-prepared nanostructures are composed of CeO₂ with a standard fluorite structure. The different synthesis mechanisms and corresponding chemical evolutions of the as-prepared CeO₂ nanostructures are discussed based on the different introducing strategies of PVP surfactant in the direct and indirect hydrothermal processes. Investigation of the UV-shielding ability of both CeO₂ nanostructures suggested that the UV absorbance of the nano-flowers is much higher than that of the nano-cubes.     

Tunable permittivity in polymer composites filled with Si-based semiconductors by regulating induced polarization

Induced polarization shows a significant influence on dielectric permittivity of 0–3 polymer composites containing Si-based semi-conductive fillers. The nature of induced polarization is the increased electric conductivity or decreased band gap in Si-based semi-conductive fillers. In this work, the dependence of induced polarization onto particle size of α-SiC filler together with polarity of polymer matrix and Si-based semi-conductive filler has been elaborately investigated by detecting the permittivity of composites. It was found that increasing the grain size of SiC filler, improving the polarity of polymer matrix and reducing the band-gap of Si-based semi-conductive filler could favor the enhancement of the overall induced polarity in the composites. As a result, the significantly improved dielectric permittivity of composites higher than both of the neat polymer and filler was observed depending on the constituents of the composites. The highest dielectric permittivity of ~215@1 kHz was achieved in poly(vinyl alcohol) based composite filled with 60 vol% of 12 µm SiC particles. The dielectric permittivity of these 0–3 composites could be well tuned in a wide range through altering their constituents. This work might open a facile route to obtain the promising high-performance dielectric composite materials by regulating the degree of induced polarization.     

Special Z-scheme CdS@WO3 hetero-junction modified with CoP for efficient hydrogen evolution

In order to explore new materials capable of producing the new energy hydrogen, co-catalyst CoP was successfully modified Z-scheme hetero-junction CdS@WO₃ to achieve efficient splitting of water under visible light. With the lactic acid solution as sacrificial agent, the H₂ production was 736.89 μmol corresponding the apparent quantum yield of 1.72%, which was 20.2 and 24.5 times than pure CdS and WO₃, respectively. The results of XRD, TEM and FESEM characterization showed that the catalyst has obvious micro-morphology and high crystallinity. The valence distribution and composition of elements in the catalyst were measured by XPS. UV-vis, PL and electrochemical detection showed that the catalyst has excellent optical and electrical properties such as rapidly photo-generated charge transfer efficiency. Not only the energy band structure of the catalyst was calculated and analyzed, simultaneously the charge transfer mechanism and HER mechanism were explored and proposed.     

Evolution of deformation microstructures of cold-rolled Ta–2.5W alloy with coarse grains at low to medium strains

Ta–2.5W alloy with coarse grains was cold-rolled to reductions ranging from 5 to 40%. The evolution of the microstructure was investigated by optical microstructure, electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD). A few microbands appear when the reduction reaches 20%. The density of microbands increases with increasing reduction. When the reduction reaches 40%, grains are composed of one or two groups of microbands except the {001}<110 > orientations. Most of the inclination angle between microbands and RD in this condition is 20–35°. As the strain increases, the inclination angle between microbands and RD gets smaller. The habit plane of microbands can be {110} plane. The microbands and matrix usually share a common < 110 > or < 111 >. The mature body-centered cubic rolling texture, including α and γ fibers, is not developed until the reduction reaches 40%. Meanwhile, shear bands appear. New grains can be seen in shear bands and a model is proposed to explain this process.     

An SEU resilient,SET filterable and cost effective latch in presence of PVT variations

This paper presents a single event upset (SEU) resilient, single event transient (SET) filterable and cost effective latch (referred to as RFEL) using 45 nm CMOS commercial technology. By means of triple mutual feedback CMOS structures, one of which is an input-split Schmitt trigger, and two of which are Muller C-elements, the internal nodes and output node of the latch are self-recoverable from single event upset regardless of the energy of a striking particle. The latch filters a much wider spectrum of single event transient on account of hysteresis property of the embedded input-split Schmitt trigger, and temporal redundancy in the grouped inputs of the Muller C-element at output stage. The latch performs with lower overheads regarding area, power, and delay than most of the single event upset and single event transient simultaneously tolerated latches as well. Simulation results show that the area-power-delay-pulse product of the latch is 65.58% saving on average, and Monte Carlo simulation results demonstrate the equivalent or even less sensitivity of the latch to process, and temperature variations, compared with the previous radiation hardened latches.     

Exploration of CoSi-based alloys promising for thermoelectricity

The cobalt silicide CoSi seems a suitable material for thermoelectricity: it is inexpensive and non-toxic, but its thermal conductivity is large. Forming CoSi-based alloys by replacing part of Co or Si with a heteroatom M can change electronic properties and improve thermoelectric performances. The insertion energy of different CoSi-based alloys containing abundant, inexpensive and non-toxic elements was estimated by using DFT calculations. Several alloys were synthesized using arc-melting or powder reaction and then characterized using X-Rays powder Diffraction (XRD) and Electron Micro Probe Analysis (EMPA) to determine the limit of solubility of these heteroatoms within CoSi. DFT predictions of solubility limit were in qualitative agreement with experimental results. Vibrational and thermoelectric properties were measured for alloys containing highly soluble elements (Mn and Cr) but also poorly soluble ones (Ti and V). These new CoSi-based alloys, studied for the first time for thermoelectric applications, do not exhibit a notable improvement of the performances.