Lead-free solder reinforced with multiwalled carbon nanotubes

In this study, varying weight percentages of multiwalled carbon nanotubes were successfully incorporated into 95.8Sn-3.5Ag-0.7Cu solder to synthesize novel lead-free composite solders. The composite solders were synthesized using a powder metallurgy route consisting of blending, compaction, sintering, and extrusion. The extruded materials were then characterized for their physical, thermal, and mechanical properties. With the addition of increasing weight percentage of carbon nanotubes, the composite solders experienced a corresponding decrease in density values and an improvement in wetting properties. The melting temperatures of the composite solders were found to be unchanged with additions of carbon nanotubes. However, improvements in the mechanical properties, in terms of microhardness and tensile properties, were observed with increasing weight percentages of carbon nanotubes.     

IP over terrestrial ATSC DTV channels: performance evaluations on data transmission throughput

The throughput of IP (UDP and TCP) data transmission over terrestrial ATSC DTV channels was evaluated. A testbed was developed for this purpose. Various issues affecting the throughput of IP data transmission over DTV channels were analyzed, such as channel noise, traffic load, IP packet size and return link capacity. Results obtained from these tests offer valuable information for broadcasters who plan to implement datacasting services over ATSC DTV systems.     

Constant-power waterfilling: performance bound and low-complexity implementation

In this letter, we investigate the performance of constant-power waterfilling algorithms for the intersymbol interference channel and for the independent identically distributed fading channel where a constant power level is used across a properly chosen subset of subchannels. A rigorous performance analysis that upper bounds the maximum difference between the achievable rate under constant-power waterfilling and that under true waterfilling is given. In particular, it is shown that for the Rayleigh fading channel, the spectral efficiency loss due to constant-power waterfilling is at most 0.266 b/s/Hz. Furthermore, the performance bound allows a very-low-complexity, logarithm-free, power-adaptation algorithm to be developed. Theoretical worst-case analysis and simulation show that the approximate waterfilling scheme is very close to the optimum.     

激光熔覆镍包纳米氧化铝

进行了2Cr13不锈钢表面激光熔覆镍包纳米氧化铝的实验。使用扫描电子显微镜(SEM)、X射线衍射仪(XRD)、X射线能量色散谱仪(EDAX)、显微硬度仪等设备检测了涂层表面、横截面的显微组织和涂层的硬度、耐磨损等性能,分析了加入纳米氧化铝粒子后对涂层组织和性能的影响。研究结果表明,激光熔覆可获得致密的Fe-Ni(Cr)合金和Al2O3粒子复合涂层。其中,纳米氧化铝粒子弥散分布在微细合金晶粒之间,并与合金晶粒一起形成了胞状树枝晶结构。纳米氧化铝粒子的加入增加了基质金属的成核率,起到了细晶强化以及弥散强化的作用,使得复合涂层的机械性能大幅度提高。复合涂层的平均硬度为700HV0.2,比基体提高了1.5倍,耐磨损性能比淬火态基体提高了1.25倍。     

基于CCCII的电流模式多功能双二次滤波器

该文提出了由电流控制传输器(CCCⅡ)实现的新型电流模式多功能双二次滤波器,该滤波器由CCCⅡ和两个接地电容构成,电路具有以下特点:可实现多种滤波功能;易于集成;能独立地调节0和Q,且灵敏度较低。     

WCDMA与cdma2000的Turbo码交织器性能比较

对一种Turbo码交织器性能分析的方法进行了讨论,用这种方法分析比较了WCDMA和cdma2000中Turbo码交织器的性能,并给出迭代译码的计算机仿真结果,以证实这种方法的正确性.此外,仿真结果还证实文献[3]中的评价交织器的方法不一定适合Turbo码交织器.     

Electromagnetic coupling between wires inside a rectangular cavityusing multiple-mode-analogous-transmission-line circuit theory

This paper examines the coupling between two arbitrarily positioned wire segments inside a rectangular enclosure. The enclosure is treated as a superposition of analogous transmission lines which have been short circuited at two positions on the propagation axis. Each analogous transmission line is associated with a particular waveguide mode in the cavity. Previous work has used this analogy to predict the coupling between two monopoles inside a small box using the dominant TE ₁₀ mode. This paper considers the general case of high-frequency coupling between two wire monopoles in a large rectangular cavity, where several higher order modes are active. By taking into account higher order modes, and the mutual coupling between the modes, a simple equivalent circuit is presented which can give a prediction for the coupling between the monopoles. Experimental results for various monopole pair positions are shown, which indicate the success of the multimode theory. The technique requires far less computer resources than traditional methods for solving such a problem (e.g., MoM, TLM or FDTD), with solution times of less than a second on an average PC. In addition, considerable insight into the coupling process can be gained by including or excluding particular waveguide modes. This is not possible with numerical methods     

Modified quadratic congruence codes for fiber Bragg-grating-basedspectral-amplitude-coding optical CDMA systems

We have constructed a series of new code families for the spectral-amplitude-coding optical code-division multiple-access (CDMA) system, and proposed new transmitter and receiver structures based on tunable chirped fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs). The proposed system has been analyzed by taking into account the effects of phase-induced intensity noise, shot noise, and thermal noise. We have also compared the performance of this system with that of a former system where a Hadamard code is used. It has been shown that the new code families can suppress the intensity noise effectively and improve the system performance significantly. When the effective power is large (i.e., >-10 dBm), the intensity noise is the main factor that limits the system performance. When the effective power is not sufficiently large, thermal and shot noise sources become the main limiting factors and the effect of thermal noise is much larger than that of shot noise     

Co-RAM: combinational logic synthesis applied to softwarepartitions for mapping to a novel memory device

We introduce the application of current techniques for hardware synthesis of combinational logic blocks to large-scale software partitions for eventual implementation of these partitions in a novel memory device called "Co-RAM." The novelty of our approach is based upon the observation that a wide variety of largescale software functionality can be considered "stateless" by conventional hardware synthesis tools and so may be realized as combinational logic. By limiting the functions placed in memory to combinational functions, we eliminate conventional synchronization overhead associated with coprocessors. A significant aspect of Co-RAM is that it is a system design concept that inherently merges hardware and software design styles at the system level, impacting programming styles, system build approaches, and the programmer's view of the underlying machine. A direct consequence of viewing the functionality as combinational is that the system state is not partitioned with the tasks. By Considering Co-RAM functionality to be stateless with respect to system state, Co-RAM functionality is inlined around the advancement of effectively unpartitioned system state. The rules for procedural combinational logic synthesis are shown to apply to a wide variety of software partitions. Results of our investigation project speedups of 8× to 1000× for a range of algorithms of varying problem size and for projected devices ranging from conventional field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to highly specific combinational logic devices     

CW DF/HF化学激光器性能与流场参数的相互关系

从增益系数、输出功率、激光效率的基本公式出发 ,得到了CWDF HF化学激光器性能对光腔中F和D2 H2反应区流场参数的依赖关系。利用数值模拟结果对该关系进行了验证。给出了提高CWDF HF化学激光器性能的F和D2 H2 反应区流场参数要求 ,为CWDF HF化学激光器喷管设计提供了依据