Non-uniform array pattern synthesis using reweighted ℓ1-norm minimization

This paper presents a new array pattern synthesis algorithm by reweighted ?₁-norm minimization and convex optimization. A virtual uniform array with much smaller element spacing and a weight matrix are created first; then, we obtain a weight vector by solving a weighted ?₁-norm minimization convex problem, and update the weight matrix by the weight vector. Some entries of the weight vector are so small and thus negligible without significantly changing the array pattern performance. Based on this notion, the pruned weight vector becomes a sparse weight vector, and a non-uniform array is formed according to the nonzero valued positions of the sparse weight vector. Determining the weight vector, updating the weight matrix and creating a non-uniform array are repeated until the final array synthesis performance is satisfactory. After optimizing the array geometric construction, we obtain the optimal weight vector of the non-uniform array by using convex optimization. One numerical example is presented to show the high efficiency of achieving the desired radiation pattern with the minimum number of antenna elements.     

Novel organic dye employing dithiafulvenyl-substituted arylamine hybrid donor unit for dye-sensitized solar cells

In order to increase electron-donating ability of the donor part of the organic dye, two dithiafulvenyl (DTF) units were introduced into a triphenylamine unit to form dithiafulvenyl-substituted triphenylamine hybrid donor for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) for the first time. Novel donor–acceptor organic dye WD-10 containing this hybrid donor and 2-cyanoacetic acid acceptor has been designed, synthesized and applied in DSSCs. The influence of the substituent unit DTF in the dye on the device performance has been investigated. It was found that the dye with dithiafulvenyl-substituted triphenylamine hybrid donor gave higher photocurrent, open-circuit voltage, and efficiency value. The DSSC based on organic dye WD-10 displayed a short-circuit current (J_sc) of 9.58 mA cm^?2, an open-circuit voltage (V_oc) of 648 mV, and a fill factor (ff) of 0.71, corresponding to an overall conversion efficiency of 4.41%. An increase in η of about 79% was obtained from simple triphenylamine dye L0 to WD-10. The different photovoltaic behaviors of the solar cells based on the organic dyes were further elucidated by the electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. This work identifies that the introduction of DTF unit into the simple triphenylamine dye could significant improve the photovoltaic performance.     

Opportunistic Space-Division Multiple Access With Beam Selection

In this paper, a novel transmission technique for the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) broadcast channel is proposed that allows simultaneous transmission to multiple users with limited feedback from each user. During a training phase, the base station modulates a training sequence on multiple sets of randomly chosen orthogonal beamforming vectors. Each user sends the index of the best beamforming vector and the corresponding signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio for that set of orthogonal vectors back to the base station. The base station opportunistically determines the users and corresponding orthogonal vectors that maximize the sum capacity. Based on the capacity expressions, the optimal amount of training to maximize the sum capacity is derived as a function of the system parameters. The main advantage of the proposed system is that it provides throughput gains for the MIMO broadcast channel with a small feedback overhead, and provides these gains even with a small number of active users. Numerical simulations show that a 20% gain in sum capacity is achieved (for a small number of users) over conventional opportunistic space division multiple access, and a 100% gain (for a large number of users) over conventional opportunistic beamforming when the number of transmit antennas is four.     

Highly Ordered Mesoporous Silicon Carbide Ceramics with Large Surface Areas and High Stability

Highly ordered mesoporous silicon carbide ceramics have been successfully synthesized with yields higher than 75 % via a one‐step nanocasting process using commercial polycarbosilane (PCS) as a precursor and mesoporous silica as hard templates. Mesoporous SiC nanowires in two‐dimensional (2D) hexagonal arrays (p6m) can be easily replicated from a mesoporous silica SBA‐15 template. Small‐angle X‐ray diffraction (XRD) patterns and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images show that the SiC nanowires have long‐range regularity over large areas because of the interwire pillar connections. A three‐dimensional (3D) bicontinuous cubic mesoporous SiC structure (Ia3d) can be fabricated using mesoporous silica KIT‐6 as the mother template. The structure shows higher thermal stability than the 2D hexagonal mesoporous SiC, mostly because of the 3D network connections. The major constituent of the products is SiC, with 12 % excess carbon and 14 % oxygen measured by elemental analysis. The obtained mesoporous SiC ceramics are amorphous below 1200 °C and are mainly composed of randomly oriented β‐SiC crystallites after treatment at 1400 °C. N₂‐sorption isotherms reveal that these ordered mesoporous SiC ceramics have high Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) specific surface areas (up to 720 m² g^–1), large pore volumes (～ 0.8 cm³ g^–1), and narrow pore‐size distributions (mean values of 2.0–3.7 nm), even upon calcination at temperatures as high as 1400 °C. The rough surface and high order of the nanowire arrays result from the strong interconnections of the SiC products and are the main reasons for such high surface areas. XRD, N₂‐sorption, and TEM measurements show that the mesoporous SiC ceramics have ultrahigh stability even after re‐treatment at 1400 °C under a N₂ atmosphere. Compared with 2D hexagonal SiC nanowire arrays, 3D cubic mesoporous SiC shows superior thermal stability, as well as higher surface areas (590 m² g^–1) and larger pore volumes (～ 0.71 cm³ g^–1).     

A Novel Metal-Rich Anneal for In Vacuo Passivation of High-Aspect-Ratio Mercury Cadmium Telluride Surfaces

A new method for Cd-rich annealing of mercury cadmium telluride (MCT) was developed based on the observation that the deposition of Cd onto MCT by vacuum evaporation became self-limiting whenever the substrate temperature was above 70°C regardless of the Cd evaporation rate. Preliminary results indicated that this new method may be suitable for passivation of high-aspect-ratio MCT surfaces, for passivation at low temperatures, for in vacuo operation, and/or for vacancy annihilation in MCT. Furthermore, the process can be carried out in the conventional open-tube reactors used for molecular beam epitaxy, metalorganic chemical vapor deposition, and physical vapor deposition.     

LTE TDD系统中下行HARQ机制的研究

在对长期演进(long term evolution,LTE)下行数据发送机制详细分析的基础上,针对下行数据发送过程的实现,提出一种混合自动重传请求(hybrid automatic repeat request,HARQ)选择方案,遵照协议给出的反馈时延的时隙关系,在设计中采用反馈判断和优先重传的方案,实现了HARQ反馈和重传时刻的正确映射,并研究了同步HARQ和异步HARQ的往返时间(round trip time,RTT),仿真分析了不同上下行配置对HARQRTT的影响,提出了一种最小化RTT的方法,从而为网络侧提供业务不同时的配置选择提供了参考.     

WiFi外辐射源雷达参考信号重构及其对探测性能影响研究

利用WiFi (Wireless Fidelity)信号作为外辐射源进行探测可获得较好的性能,然而WiFi信号本身及其应用环境的复杂性又决定了其参考信号获取的难度。该文分析了利用WiFi信号进行探测的特点,探讨了参考信号获取的不同方式,针对典型WiFi信号结构,提出了与WiFi无源探测相适应的参考信号重构方法,并结合接收信号的信噪比分析了参考信号重构质量对探测性能的影响。研究表明,参考信道所接收信号的信噪比越高,其解调误比特率越低,重构后的参考信号对于杂波抑制性能越好,其模糊函数噪声基底也越低,越有利于目标探测。同时,针对接收信号中的非监测信号成分所产生的虚假目标重影,提出了基于重构的参考信号修正方法进行消除。仿真分析表明了以上处理方法对参考信号获取的有效性。      

水冷式微波偶极子辐射器在生物介质中的SAR分布计算

本文从电磁场理论模型出发，分析地腔内水冷式微波偶极子辐射器在生物介质中的近场辐射特性，计算得到有水冷时的比吸收率（ＳＡＲ）分布形态。与无水冷时的ＳＡＲ分布比较表明，水冷可改善热区分布，增加治疗深度。该结果与工程经验和临床实际基本相符。     

Distributed sample acquisition-based fast cell search in inter-cellasynchronous DS/CDMA systems

We introduce a fast fell-search scheme based on the distributed sample acquisition (DSA) technique for inter-cell asynchronous DS/CDMA systems. The proposed DSA scheme enables the long-code acquisition extremely fast even without employing any passive matched filter which used to dominate synchronization circuit complexity in asynchronous DS/CDMA systems. In the DSA-based asynchronous DS/CDMA system, each base station spreads its DQPSK-modulated long-code generator information with an assigned short-period igniter sequence, and broadcasts it as a common pilot signal. A mobile station first identifies and acquires the igniter sequence of the cell group currently located, then detects the conveyed long-code generator information by despreading the acquired igniter sequence, thereby identifying and synchronizing the long-code of the current cell. The mean acquisition time of this proposed DSA-based inter-cell asynchronous DS/CDMA system, evaluated under the assumption that each of 512 cell-specific long-codes is a 10-ms segment (38400-chips for the chip rates of 3.84 Mchips/s) of complex Gold codes of period 2¹⁸-1 and the igniter sequence (or, group code) set is composed of 7 complex orthogonal Gold codes of period 256, turned out even shorter than that of the inter-cell synchronous DS/CDMA systems employing the conventional serial search method. Furthermore, simulation results showed that the DSA scheme employing a passive matched filter is much superior in terms of acquisition time and robustness, to the 3GPP W-CDMA synchronization scheme having comparable complexity     

Base station location in a cellular CDMA system

We consider a cellular CDMA system in which blocking is enforced when the relative interference exceeds a certain threshold level. This paper addresses a radio network design problem in such a CDMA system. Given the data of call‐traffic distributed over the service area and potential sites of base stations, the objective of the problem is to locate base stations so as to minimize the associated cost for establishing base stations while keeping the probability of blocking under control. We develop an efficient algorithm for solving the design problem. Computational experiments with real‐world data are conducted to show both the efficiency and the practicality of the proposed design method. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.