Flux Partitioning of Species Approach in Binary Interdiffusion Process

Validation of the flux partitioning of species model has been illustrated. Various combinations of inequality expression for the fluxes of species A and B in two successively grown hypothetical intermetallic phases in the interdiffusion zone have been considered within the constraints of this concept. Furthermore, ratio of intrinsic diffusivities of the species A and B in those two phases has been correlated in four different cases. Moreover, complete and or partial validation or invalidation of this model with respect to both the species, has been proven theoretically and also discussed with the Co-Si system as an example.     

Modeling blast furnace productivity using support vector machines

Productivity of a modern generation blast furnace was modeled with the help of a leading supervised learning tool viz. Support Vector Machines in the form of (1) minimum error, maximum margin classification function in binary setting of productivity classes (low/high) and (2) the class-specific regression functions for real values of productivity based on epsilon sensitive loss function and minimum regulated risk. The SVMs were trained with large number data-points each of which consisted of a setting of 21 critical input parameters of blast furnace, corresponding productivity value observed, and the productivity class (low/high) attributed. During the training session of the SVMs, the vectors of critical input parameters were required to be mapped into high-dimensional feature space via Radial basis kernel as function and the optimum SVM-RBF classifying function with chosen setting of its hyperparameters that had good generalization property was found using quadratic optimization. The SVM-RBF classifying function could be used to predict the class of productivity (low/high) for any given setting of the critical input parameters. Class-specific SVM-RBF regression models were also developed for both low as well as high-productivity classes and these models could be used to predict real value of productivity for any given setting of the critical input parameters. The SVM-RBF regression model fitted to the high-productivity class was subjected to constrained nonlinear optimization treatment to find the optimum setting of the critical input parameters that gave maximum productivity. The optimum setting of the critical parameters could be used as the target setting obtaining high productivity in the blast furnace.     

A photoluminiscent Ge-containing conjugated macrocycle

The selective synthesis of a photoluminiscent macrocycle containing germanium atoms in conjugation with two aromatic segments has been accomplished by ruthenium-based olefin metathesis. The macrocycle shows blue emission with 40% quantum efficiency. The optical properties are interpreted with the help of theoretical DFT calculations using B3LYP/6-31G** and B3LYP/Lanl2dz with a remarkable match between the measured and the calculated absorption characteristics.     

Improved quality a-SiC:H films prepared by photo chemical vapour decomposition of silane and acetylene

Hydrogenated amorphous and microcrystalline silicon carbon alloy films have been grown by photo-CVD using C₂H₂ as a source gas of carbon. The hydrogenated amorphous silicon carbon (a-SiC:H) film with a band gap of ~2.0 eV prepared at a very low hydrogen (LD) concentration exhibits better photo-electronic properties compared to that at high hydrogen dilution (HD) having a similar optical gap. Notwithstanding a high deposition rate, the high photosensitivity ( 10⁶), the low density of the defect states ( 6 × 10¹⁶cm⁻³) and the Urbach energy parameter (72 meV) for the a-SiC:H film prepared at low hydrogen dilution and pressure are impressive. On the other hand, low pressure along with high hydrogen dilution have been found to be conducive to microcrystalline silicon carbon alloy (μc-Si:H) formation. Interestingly, crystallites are of silicon while carbon remains in the amorphous and grain boundary regions.     

Trinary magnitude comparator using SLM based Savart plate

The demand of present technology inviting the popularity of multivalued optical computation system to coup up with the latest scenario of ultrahigh processing speed and handling large amount of data The magnitude comparator is the heart of the arithmetic and logic unit (ALU) in any logical processing and computing system. In this paper, a trinary magnitude comparator circuit has been proposed and implemented with modified trinary number (MTN) system. Optical tree architecture (OTA) of the proposed circuit has been realized reasonably using Savart plate and spatial light modulators (SLM). A simulation algorithm has also been developed and implemented to prove the authenticity of the proposed circuit through the simulation.     

Quench performance and mechanical behavior of the first Fermilab-built prototype high gradient quadrupole for the LHC interaction regions

As part of the US LHC program to provide high gradient superconducting quadrupoles for the LHC interaction regions, a 5.5 meter long prototype magnet has been built and tested horizontally in a production type cryostat at Fermilab. This prototype magnet was used to validate the mechanical and magnetic design, production fabrication and assembly tooling. The first prototype magnet has met the LHC requirements of operating at 215 T/m with excellent magnetic field harmonics. This paper summarizes the test results of this magnet, including quench tests and mechanical behavior over several thermal cycles.     

Phase detector for data-clock recovery circuit

A new type of phase detector which can be used in data-clock recovery circuits is reported. The main feature of the proposed phase detector is that it is free front data dependent jitter, which is the main problem with the Hogge phase detector     

Adaptive radio resource assignment for simultaneous services

An adaptive algorithm for selecting rate matching parameters has been developed to satisfy the operating frame error rate requirements for simultaneous services in 3G Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) under Rayleigh fading channels. The results show that the adaptive algorithm can achieve the target error rates for multiplexed services of varying data rates and types, and only requires a few adjustments for convergence.