Direct Growth of Germanene at Interfaces between Van der Waals Materials and Ag(111)

Germanene, a 2D honeycomb germanium crystal, is grown at graphene/Ag(111) and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN)/Ag(111) interfaces by segregating germanium atoms. A simple annealing process in N₂ or H₂/Ar at ambient pressure leads to the formation of germanene, indicating that an ultrahigh-vacuum condition is not necessary. The grown germanene is stable in air and uniform over the entire area covered with a van der Waals (vdW) material. As an important finding, it is necessary to use a vdW material as a cap layer for the present germanene growth method since the use of an Al₂O₃ cap layer results in no germanene formation. The present study also proves that Raman spectroscopy in air is a powerful tool for characterizing germanene at the interfaces, which is concluded by multiple analyses including first-principles density functional theory calculations. The direct growth of h-BN-capped germanene on Ag(111), which is demonstrated in the present study, is considered to be a promising technique for the fabrication of future germanene-based electronic devices.     

Ab initio calculations of the NO2 fission for CL-20 conformers

NO₂ fission is regarded to be the most important initial decomposition process of 2,4,6,8,10,12-hexanitro-2,4,6,8,10,12-hexaazaisowurtzitane (CL-20). In this study, four CL-20 conformers based on the ε-CL-20 were obtained after the optimization at m062x/cc-pvtz level, and the bond length, bond order and bond dissociation energy of the N-N bonds were examined to investigate the stability of these bonds. In addition, the rate constants and activation energy of the NO₂ fission were evaluated using the microcanonical variational transition state theory (μVT). The calculation results have shown that N-N bonds in the case of pseudo-equatorial and axial of nitro groups are the most stable and the least stable, respectively, by evaluating the bond length, bond order and minimum energy path (MEP). The NO₂ fission rate constants are affected by not only the stability of N-N bonds but also the repulsion forces from the other nitro groups, and the fission process for pseudo-equatorial positioning of nitro groups is easier to be accelerated due to the increase of the repulsion forces. The decomposition of CL-20 conformer may mainly originate from the fission of the pseudo-equatorial positioning of nitro groups, especially for CL-20 III conformer because of the significant low activation energy.     

Relaxation dynamics of excited states of Tm3+ ions in TeO2-ZnO-Na2O-Y2O3 glasses

Tellurite glasses with the composition of xTm_2O_3-(6-x)Y_2O_3-3Na_2O-25ZnO-66TeO_2(where 0≤x≤6)were obtained by the melt-quenching technique.Absorption(300 K),excitation(300 K) and fluorescence spectra(300 K) as well as fluorescence decay curves of Tm~(3+)-doped title glasses are presented and discussed in details.The Judd-Ofelt analysis based on the room temperature absorption spectrum was applied for determination of fundamental fluorescence properties such as radiative transition probabilities(A_T),branching ratios(β_R),radiative lifetimes(τ_R) of the emitting levels of the Tm~(3+) ion and stimulated emission cross-sections(σ_(em)).Fluorescence spectra were recorded and analysed in the visible and near-infrared spectral range.The emission and effective cross-section were calculated for the ~3F_4→~3H_6 transition,showing that the investigated glasses are promising laser host materials,operating at 1.8 μm.The observed concentration quenching and non-exponential decay curves from the ~1 G_4 and ~3H_4 states indicate nonradiative energy transfer between Tm~(3+) ions.The analysis of non-exponential fluorescence decay curves from the ~1 G_4 and ~3H_4 levels was carried out in framework of the InokutiHirayama and Yokota-Tanimoto models and energy transfer microparameters were determined.The self-quenching model was proposed for describing relaxation of the first excited state of the Tm~(3+) ion.     

Road Extraction from High Resolution Remote Sensing Image based on Shape Analysis with Gestalt Theory

Simulating the psychological experience of human vision，a road extraction model based on the format tower is proposed to extract the road in the high resolution remote sensing image from the perspective of morphology.Firstly，based on the spectral and texture information，the suspected road targets are extracted by using segmentation technology.Then these targets are classified according to their reliability and extract the road targets for each category.Finally，three types of identified road information are verified and merged，and the continuous smooth road extraction results are obtained.Experiments on real high resolution images show that the results are consistent with the visual perception of the human eye，and the overall classification accuracy is higher，indicating that the algorithm is effective and feasible and has good use value.     

基于改进的RS-TOPSIS模型的岩爆倾向性预测

针对目前岩爆倾向性中预测模型权重确定存在不足导致模型精度不高的现状，为更准确地预测岩爆倾向性，提出综合运用粗糙集理论中的代数观和信息观，确定属性最优权重，并修正岩爆倾向性与评价指标之间的关系，建立岩爆等级理想点矩阵。根据岩爆发生条件，选取岩石脆性指数、切应力指标和弹性应变能指数3项指标作为岩爆判别指标，以国内外20组典型岩爆数据为样本，建立改进的粗糙集—理想点法（RS-TOPSIS）岩爆倾向性预测模型，并应用该模型对玲珑金矿等工程实际进行了岩爆倾向性预测。结果表明：改进后样本预测精度相比于改进前有了显著提高，所建立的模型对实际工程的岩爆倾向性预测效果良好，预测结果更准确。     

一种灰度化混合法在集装箱箱号识别中的运用

研究一种基于机器视觉的集装箱箱号识别方法。对于集装箱彩色图像预处理过程中的灰度化方法，传统的灰度化算法不能有效弥补图像中污损或其他信息缺失的部分，因此，本文提出使用主成分分析法（PCA）结合贝叶斯阈值估计灰度变化率的混合法对图像的灰度化进行优化，可以在判断图像中某一点灰度值与周围相邻像素点的灰度值的变化率后，弥补缺失信息，有效确定边缘特征，从而使后续的字符识别准确率大大提高。最后使用该算法模型设计实现一套用于港口集装箱的智能检测系统。经过Matlab实验验证，在对50幅港口集装箱箱号图像的识别中，通过使用本文提出的混合灰度化方法，与普通的均值法和加权平均法的灰度化方法相比，准确率更高，其中单一字符准确率可达96%，箱号准确率可达92%。     

基于双应力加速寿命试验的关节轴承寿命预测与可靠性分析

自润滑关节轴承寿命主要是由衬垫的磨损性能决定的,但衬垫的磨损一般是非线性的,使得寿命难以预测。采用同时改变载荷和摆频2种应力的方法进行加速寿命试验,建立以pv值、磨损量退化数据为输入参数,寿命值为输出参数的灰色神经网络预测模型。经验证该预测模型对关节轴承寿命预测的最大误差仅为7.33%,平均误差仅为3.892%。对不同加速应力下自润滑关节轴承可靠性进行评估,结果表明,关节轴承的可靠性在L_(10)(可靠度为90%时的寿命)之前下降趋势缓慢,然后迅速下降,pv值越大可靠性下降越迅速;随着pv值的增大,关节轴承寿命近似呈指数下降,经验证可用逆幂率加速模型反映二者关系。     

Light scattering and extinction in polydisperse systems

A simple approach to predict transmittance spectra of polydisperse systems is recalled and applied to various model systems (spinel-like particles in water, pores in a spinel-like matrix) and real systems (spinel in water, diamond in water, amorphous carbon soot in isopropanol) in order to investigate principal effects of size distributions (normal/lognormal, narrow/wide, monomodal/bimodal, shift of mode positions, shift of mode heights) and optical properties (refractive index contrast, with or without absorption) on the in-line transmittance. A comparison of predicted and measured spectra showed that size distributions with more small particles cause a more significant decrease in transmittance (at least for sufficiently short wavelengths) and that laser diffraction may seriously underestimate the amount of small particles (for absorbing particles, for which the influence on transmittance is enormous, a difference of up to 30% in absolute transmittance measured via spectrophotometry has been found against predictions based on laser diffraction results).     

Distributed ledger technology in supply chains: a transaction cost perspective

With the emergence of distributed ledger technology (DLT), numerous practitioners and researchers have proclaimed its beneficial impact on supply chain transactions in the future. However, the vast majority of DLT initiatives are discontinued after a short period. With the full potential of DLT laying far down the road, especially managers in supply chain management (SCM) seek for short-term cost-saving effects of DLT in order to achieve long-term benefits of DLT in the future. However, the extant research has bypassed grounding long-term as well as short-term effects of DLT on supply chain transaction with empirical data. We address this shortcoming, following an abductive research approach and combining empirical data from a multiple case study design with the corresponding literature. Our study reveals that the effects of DLT on supply chain transactions are two-sided. We found six effects of DLT solutions that have a cost-reducing or cost avoidance impact on supply chain transactions. In addition, we found two effects that change the power distribution between buyers and suppliers in transactions and a single effect that reduces the dependency of supply chain transactions on third parties. While cost-reducing and avoidance as well as dependency-reducing effects are positive effects, the change in power distribution might come with disadvantages. With these findings, the paper provides the first empirical evidence of the impact of DLT on supply chain transactions, which will enable managers to improve their assessment of DLT usage in supply chains.