A 2*4 all optical decoder switch based on photonic crystal ring resonators

Based on photonic crystal ring resonators and nonlinear Kerr effect in this paper, we proposed a 2*4 all optical decoder switch. Our proposed structure has two logic input ports and one bias input port. This decoder switch has four output ports. Via these two logic input ports, we control the bias signal to transfer toward which output port. We employed numerical methods such as plane wave expansion and finite difference time domain methods for analyzing the proposed structure.     

约束膜式空气弹簧的刚度建模与分析

针对空气弹簧实际刚度与理论值相差较大的问题,建立了约束膜式空气弹簧的改进刚度模型。改进模型兼顾弹性膜弧长变化及其变形引起的腔室体积变化,理论与实验刚度的偏差为9.67%,相比传统模型计算精度提高7.63%。基于改进刚度模型的分析结果表明:大腔室体积、小有效面积、大弹性膜圆弧半径的结构设计,高弧长变化率的材料及高充气压强的工作方式有利于实现低刚度隔振特性。该研究为大承载、低频/超低频约束膜式空气弹簧的结构优化设计与精密加工提供了有效的理论依据。     

基于CRLH-TL零阶谐振特性的新型串联功分器

 结构紧凑的功分器是微波信号分离、阵列天线馈电等应用场合的重要器件．利用混合右/左手传输线（CRLH-TL）来设计小尺寸的串联功分器,并对混合右/左手传输线的色散特性进行理论分析．利用贴片电容和微带线电感设计了一种新的混合右/左手传输线,处于零阶谐振状态的混合右/左手不引入相位偏移且波长为无穷大．基于CRLH-TL的零阶谐振特性设计制作了一个工作在2.45 GHz的4路微波功分器．此功分器等幅同相地将输入功率分配到各个输出端口,输出端口位置对功率分配没有影响．使用矢量网络分析仪对该功分器进行了实验测量,结果表明：在2.20~2.65 GHz的频率范围内,功分器各输出端口功率相差在1 dB内;在2.22~2.56 GHz的频率范围内,输出端口的相位差在15°以内．测量结果与仿真结果吻合良好．该微波功分器结构紧凑,可扩展到任意多个输出端口．     

Topology optimization of resonating structures using SIMP method

The present paper is concerned with the layout optimization of resonating actuators using topology optimization techniques. The goal of the optimization is a maximization of the magnitude of steady‐state vibrations for a given excitation frequency. The problem formulation includes an external viscous damper at the output port which models a working load on the structure. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于DEA视窗分析的渤海湾地区港口内部运营效率

既往对港口效率的研究大多仅考虑空间维度,忽略时间的作用。为了弥补这一不足,运用DEA视窗分析模型,从空间和时间两个维度出发,利用面板数据,对渤海湾地区三大主要港口的内部运营效率进行研究,并利用在DEA相对有效面上的投影分析,明确港口偏离有效的原因。此外,运用灰色关联模型对影响港口效率的因素进行了测算。研究发现,青岛港内部运营效率较高,其次为天津港,而大连港则一直处于非DEA有效状态;投入拥挤、产出不足以及资源配置不合理是造成非DEA有效的主要成因;各投入要素对三大港口内部运营效率的影响程度存在较大差异。     

压电陶瓷驱动的精密微操作平台特性与优化

设计一种结构紧凑、具有大运动空间和响应快的微操作平台,并对其静态和动态特性进行分析和优化.利用杠杆机构和连杆机构设计一种能实现两级放大的微操作平台,结构对称地设计在同一平面,并采用导向机构实现精确的导向运动.利用功能原理,采用伪刚体方法建立反映平台的静态和动态特性封闭形式的理论模型.由理论模型与有限元分析的结果比较分析可知,两者所得的结果误差范围为6.0%~7.2%,说明所推导模型的正确性.基于理论模型分析构型参数和柔性铰链尺寸参数对放大倍数、输出刚度、应力和固有频率的影响.结果表明,结构参数变化对输出刚度与固有频率的影响是矛盾的,对放大倍数和应力的影响也相互矛盾,需要通过优化结构参数以综合平衡其性能指标.提出一种以综合平衡平台的静态和动态特性为目标,并考虑应力、放大倍数和几何尺寸为约束的优化模型.结果表明优化后的固有频率和放大倍数比优化前均提高,而输出刚度降低,说明优化后的平台性能更好.     

A novel proposal for all-optical compact and fast XOR/XNOR gate based on photonic crystal

In this paper, we aim to design an all-optical device, which can perform XOR and XNOR functions in a single structure. The proposed structure will be realized by cascading two nonlinear resonant rings. The functionality of the proposed structure is based on controlling the optical behaviour of optical rings via optical intensity. The final structure has one bias and two input control ports, along with two output ports. One port acts as an XOR and the other acts as an XNOR gate. The maximum delay times for the XOR and XNOR gates are 1.5 and 2.5?ps, respectively. Therefore, the working bit rates for the XOR and XNOR gates are 666 and 400?Gbit/s, respectively.     

Study the role of non-linear resonant cavities in photonic crystal-based decoder switches

In this paper, we are going to design and propose a novel structure for all optical decoder. The proposed structure is composed of optical power splitters and a four-port optical switch. The four-port optical switch simply is a non-linear optical demulitiplexer. For achieving non-linear behaviour for the demultiplexer, we will employ defect rods made of doped glass which has high Kerr coefficient. The final structure has three input ports and four output ports. Port E acts as enable port, which will be used activating or deactivating the total structure. A and B are the control ports, by which one can control when the structure is active, which port of the structure to be active. The optical intensity of the input ports required appropriate operation of the structure is about 20 W/μm². The maximum switching frequency of the proposed structure is 2 GHz. Reduced input optical intensity is the main characteristics of the present work. Numerical methods such as plane wave expansion and finite difference time domain were used for performing the required calculations.     

Nonreciprocal optical divider based on two-dimensional photonic crystal and magneto-optical cavity

We suggest and analyze a new nonreciprocal optical device based on two-dimensional photonic crystal and a magneto-optical cavity that simultaneously fulfills two functions: division of the input signal and isolation of the input port from two output ones. At the central frequency, the division of the signal between the output ports is -3 dB and the isolation of the input port from the output ones is about -25 dB. For the level -20 dB of this isolation, the calculated bandwidth is around 100?GHz at the wavelength 1.5?μm.     

Die shape design optimization of sheet metal stamping process using meshfree method

A die shape design sensitivity analysis (DSA) and optimization for a sheet metal stamping process is proposed based on a Lagrangian formulation. A hyperelasticity‐based elastoplastic material model is used for the constitutive relation that includes a large deformation effect. The contact condition between a workpiece and a rigid die is imposed through the penalty method with a modified Coulomb friction model. The domain of the workpiece is discretized by a meshfree method. A continuum‐based DSA with respect to the rigid die shape parameter is formulated using a design velocity concept. The die shape perturbation has an effect on structural performance through the contact variational form. The effect of the deformation‐dependent pressure load to the design sensitivity is discussed. It is shown that the design sensitivity equation uses the same tangent stiffness matrix as the response analysis. The linear design sensitivity equation is solved at each converged load step without the need of iteration, which is quite efficient in computation. The accuracy of sensitivity information is compared to that of the finite difference method with an excellent agreement. A die shape design optimization problem is solved to obtain the desired shape of the workpiece to minimize spring‐back effect and to show the feasibility of the proposed method. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Double Glow Plasma Surface Alloying Process Modeling Using Artificial Neural Networks

A model is developed for predicting the correlation between processing parameters and the technical target of double glow by applying artificial neural network (ANN). The input parameters of the neural network (NN) are source voltage, workpiece voltage, working pressure and distance between source electrode and workpiece. The output of the NN model is three important technical targets, namely the gross element content, the thickness of surface alloying layer and the absorpticm rate (the ratio of the mass loss of source materials to the increasing mass of workpiece) in the processing of double glow plasma surface alloying. The processing parameters and technical target are then used as a training set for an artificial neural network. The model is based on multiplayer feedforward neural network. A very good performance of the neural network is achieved and the calculated results are in good agreement with the experimental ones.     

Second-order cone programming formulation of discontinuous deformation analysis

In classic discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA), artificial springs must be employed to enforce the contact condition through the open-close iteration. However, improper stiffness parameters might cause numerical problems. The main goal of this paper is to propose a new framework of DDA using second-order cone programming. The complementarity relationship at contacts can be formulated directly; thus, artificial springs are avoided. Stemming from the equations of momentum conservation of each block, the governing equations of DDA can be cast as convex optimization problems. The basic variables in the formulations can be either block displacements or contact forces. The derived optimization problems can be reformulated into a standard second-order cone programming program, which can be solved using standard efficient optimization solvers. The proposed approach is validated by a series of numerical examples.     

24 GHz miniaturised phase-selectable balun

The design, fabrication and test of a uniform microstrip and a slow-wave microstrip version of a two phase state balun based on an ultra compact 90deg quasi-lumped hybrid coupler design are presented for use in the 24 GHz Industrial, Scientific and Medical frequency band. The balun, realised using Gallium Arsenide integrated circuit technology, has the property that when fed from one of its input ports it provides a differential phase of 180deg at its output ports and when fed at its second input port it provides 0deg phase shift between output ports. The lambda/8 quasi- lumped coupler core reported occupies 0.15 of the area of a conventional quarter-wavelength coupler and has 0.5 dB insertion loss. The slow-wave version of the coupler is 40% shorter than the lambda/8 quasi-lumped coupler and exhibits 0.9 dB insertion loss.     

Integrated optical polarization filtration via sculptured-thin-film technology

Abstract

The viability of combining chiral sculptured thin films with a standard Mach-Zehnder fibre interferometer to produce a passive, lossless, inline, polarization router and combiner is demonstrated. The spectral response of the device is calculated with respect to the input of orthogonal polarizations which are shown to be either efficiently routed to different output ports or combined at one port.     

Topology optimization of planar linkage mechanisms

In spite of increasing interest in gradient‐based topology optimization of linkage mechanisms, it is still difficult to solve practical, realistic problems. Besides the apparent difficulty resulting from high nonlinearity, the optimization problem faces other major difficulties: difficulty to satisfy the discrete DOF condition with continuous design variables and lack of intrinsic mechanisms to generate distinct black‐and‐white layouts. To deal with the DOF issue, we propose a new formulation, which maximizes a single objective function, the energy transmittance efficiency. It is shown that the efficiency function maximization handles DOF redundancy and deficiency simultaneously. To obtain distinct linkage layouts, a common practice is to introduce an artificial mass constraint and/or to remove unnecessary links during optimization. However, we do not use any artificial mass constraint but post‐process the optimized result to obtain the final layout by a special post‐processing algorithm. In this study, the linkage design model consists of nonlinear ground bars and zero‐length springs. The springs are used to fix bar‐connecting nodes to the ground, generating pinned joints. After verifying the effectiveness of the proposed approach for four‐bar linkage synthesis, we synthesize an automobile steering mechanism satisfying the Ackermann condition. The steering mechanism problem is solved here for the first time. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A novel proposal for all optical 3 to 8 decoder based on nonlinear ring resonators

In this paper, a 3 to 8 optical decoder was proposed using nonlinear photonic crystal ring resonators. For realizing the 3 to 8 decoder, we combined seven 1 to 2 optical decoders. In the proposed structure, X, Y and Z serve as input ports. By combination of these ports, one can control which output port to be ON. The maximum time delay of the proposed structure is about 6?ps.     

基于技术差距的长江水系主要内河港口效率

长江水系港口效率评价对科学反映港口效率现状,实现港口有效运营,建设长江经济带具有重要意义。为了弥补现有关于港口效率研究中忽略港口之间存在技术水平异质性的不足,从技术差异影响港口效率这一视角出发,在DEA分析的基础上结合共同边界技术（Meta Frontier production function）,对长江水系主干线21家主要内河港口2010～2012年的共同效率、组群效率以及共同技术比率进行分析。结果显示,长江水系三大群组共同效率均值最大仅为027,总体上效率偏低,存在很大提升空间;群组效率均值分别为058、067和027,不同群组之间技术水平存在差异,技术水平受经济发展程度和地理位置的影响;群组三的共同技术比率为1,虽然达到了潜在最佳共同边界技术水平,但普遍存在管理组织上的无效率,群组一和群组二不论是技术水平还是管理效率都有待进一步提升;长江水系主要内河港口普遍存在严重的投入拥挤、产出不足现象。最后,就如何提升长江水系内河港口效率提出了建议。     

Design and multi-objective optimization for a broad self-amplified 2-DOF monolithic mechanism

This paper proposes a structural design and multi-objective optimization of a two-degree-of-freedom (DOF) monolithic mechanism. The mechanism is designed based on compliant mechanism with flexure hinge and is compact in size (126 mm by 107 mm). Unlike traditional one-lever mechanisms, a new double-lever mechanism is developed to increase the working travel amplification ratio of the monolithic mechanism. The ideal amplification ratio, the working travel, the statics and the dynamics of the mechanism are taken into consideration. The effects of design variables on the output responses such as the displacement and first natural frequency are investigated via finite-element analysis based on response surface methodology. The fuzzy-logic-based Taguchi method is then used to simultaneously optimize the displacement and the first natural frequency. Experimental validations are conducted to verify the optimal results, which are compared to those of the original design. On using a finite-element method, the validation results indicated that the displacement and frequency are enhanced by up to 12.47% and 33.27%, respectively, over those of the original design. The experiment results are in a good agreement with the simulations. It also revealed that the developed fuzzy-logic-based Taguchi method is an effectively systematic reasoning approach for optimizing the multiple quality characteristics of compliant mechanisms. It was noted that the working travel/displacement of the double-lever mechanism is much larger than that of the traditional one-lever mechanism. It leads to the conclusion that the proposed mechanism has good performances for manipulations and positioning systems.     

一维大行程高分辨率纳米定位平台的设计与性能测试

设计了一种大行程、高分辨率的一维纳米定位平台,并进行了性能测试．该平台采用差动杠杆原理和柔性铰链,运用两个压电陶瓷叠堆致动器驱动．对柔性铰链平台建模,通过材料力学及结构振动微分方程等相关知识,对柔性铰链微动平台的刚度、输入反作用力、放大倍数等参数进行了分析,得到平台结构参数对平台性能的影响,并结合有限元分析软件,确定了微动工作台参数;最后建立了实验系统,对微驱动定位系统的输出行程、分辨率性能进行了测试．实验结果表明,所设计的微驱动定位系统的行程达到240μm,分辨率达到10nm,外形尺寸80mm×60mm×20mm．可用于大行程高分辨率微动定位．     

Entry port selection for detecting particle size differences in metered dose inhaler formulations using cascade impaction

Different sized glass entry ports were evaluated for their drug collection efficiency during aerodynamic particle sizing of metered dose inhalers (MDIs) using cascade impaction. A comparison was made between collection efficiency in the entry port, impactor plates, and filter using the 1 L, 2 L, and 20 L glass entry ports and the USP and twin impinger entry ports. Entry port losses were dependent on the size of entry port selected, with 1-2 L ports showing optimal recovery on impactor plates, compared to the USP entry port. The 1 L entry port was further compared with the USP entry port in its ability to discriminate between subtle changes in particle size distribution (PSD) in an investigational hydrofluoroalkane (HFA)-based MDI formulation. Deliberately induced differences during product manufacture were easily detected using the 1 L entry port with the Andersen cascade impactor. The USP port was unable to distinguish among products with small particle size differences. An alternative entry port such as the 1 L glass entry port used in this study may provide better means of characterizing the PSD during formulation development and stability testing of MDIs.