The Future of Mixing Research

This paper is the result of a plenary discussion session held at the 11^th European Conference on Mixing. Three perspectives on mixing research are explored: that of the industrialist, the equipment manufacturer, and the academic researcher. There was strong agreement that, while the one dimensional problems are reasonably well understood and many engineers thus perceive that mixing is simple, current practice actually requires us to address complex, multi‐dimensional problems with interactions between mixing, reaction, multi‐phase physics, surface phenomena, and transport phenomena. Understanding these multi‐scale, multi‐mechanism problems requires models which include interactions between the phenomena, and allow the effects of these interactions to emerge. Developing these models will require us to shift our perspective on mixing from one of equipment design to one of the mixing field as a fundamental physical mechanism.     

Synchronization properties of two coupled multisection semiconductor lasers emitting chaotic light

We present numerical simulations describing the dynamics of two multisection semiconductor lasers emitting in a chaotic regime coupled in a master-slave configuration. By changing the current of the passive section of the master laser, we observe a change in the maximum correlation between the outputs of the two systems. These devices are promising candidates for on-off phase-shift keying encryption.     

A new general equivalence transformation for mixed lumped and nonuniform distributed networks with synthesis applications

Contents A new general equivalence transformation for cascades of lossless nonuniform transmission lines (NTL's) and lumped reactance two-ports (LRT's) is presented. Based on this transformation a new synthesis method for NTL's and NTL-LRT cascades is established, by means of which microwave filters and matching sections can be constructed on the basis of a rational function of the complex frequency. Thus, given specifications can practically be met arbitrarily well. In contrast to others the new method is at the same time exact and easy to handle. A synthesis example is given at the end.

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Eine neue allgemeine Äquivalenztransformation für gemischt-kon-zentriert-ungleichförmig-verteilte Netzwerke mit Syntheseanwendungen

Übersicht Es wird eine neue allgemeine Äquivalenztrans-formation für Kettenschaltungen aus (verlustlosen inhomogenen) Leitungen und (konzentrierten) Reaktanzzweitoren vorgestellt. Auf der Grundlage dieser Transformation wird ein neues Syntheseverfahren für Leitungen und Leitungs-Reaktanzzweitor-Kettenschaltungen begründet, mit Hilfe dessen Mikrowellenfilter und-anpassungsglieder auf der Grundlage einer rationalen Funktion der komplexen Frequenz konstruiert werden können. Somit können vorgegebene Spezifikationen praktisch beliebig genau realisiert werden. Im Gegensatz zu anderen ist das neue Verfahren gleichzeitig exakt und leicht zu handhaben. Am Schluß ist ein Synthesebeispiel angegeben.

     

Lyapunov-based control for switched power converters

Beginning with fundamental properties such as passivity or incremental passivity of the network elements comprised by a switched power converter, the nominal open-loop operation of a broad class of such converters is shown to be stable in the large via a Lyapunov argument. The obtained Lyapunov function is then shown to be useful for designing globally stabilizing controls that include adaptive schemes for handling uncertain nominal parameters. Numerical simulations illustrate the application of this control approach in DC-DC converters     

A vertically integrated GaAs bipolar dynamic RAM cell with storagetimes of 4.5 h at room temperature

The storage times of FET-accessed GaAs dynamic RAM cells are limited to less than 1 min at room temperature by gate leakage in the access transistor. These transistor leakage mechanisms have been eliminated by designing a vertically integrated DRAM cell in which an n-p-n bipolar access transistor is merged with a p-n-p storage capacitor. Storage times of 4.5 h are obtained at room temperature, a 1000-fold increase over the best FET-accessed cells     

Use of a doubly polarized laser for remote powering of anintegrated optical modulator

Stable operation of an integrated optic modulator is demonstrated using a 1.3 μm doubly polarized laser as a depolarized source in conjunction with a long run of ordinary fiber. The laser is found to be unusually susceptible to feedback due to gain competition between the polarization modes. The resulting low-frequency polarization noise is significantly reduced by the addition of fiber isolators to the system     

Algorithms and software tools for ordering clone libraries: application to the mapping of the genome of Schizosaccharomyces pombe

A complete set of software tools to aid the physical mapping of a genome has been developed and successfully applied to the genomic mapping of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Two approaches were used for ordering single-copy hybridisation probes: one was based on the simulated annealing algorithm to order all probes, and another on inferring the minimum-spanning subset of the probes using a heuristic filtering procedure. Both algorithms produced almost identical maps, with minor differences in the order of repetitive probes and those having identical hybridisation patterns. A separate algorithm fitted the clones to the established probe order. Approaches for handling experimental noise and repetitive elements are discussed. In addition to these programs and the database management software, tools for visualizing and editing the data are described. The issues of combining the information from different libraries are addressed. Also, ways of handling multiple-copy probes and non-hybridisation data are discussed.