Single‐Crystalline Dodecahedral and Octodecahedralα‐Fe2O3 Particles Synthesized by a Fluoride Anion–Assisted Hydrothermal Method

Despite significant advances in iron oxide nanoparticles, it is still a challenge to synthesize regular polyhedral single‐crystalline α‐Fe₂O₃ particles because the surface energies of several low‐index planes are fairly similar. In the work presented here, well‐dispersed and single‐crystalline dodecahedral and octodecahedral α‐Fe₂O₃ particles are synthesized by a facile hydrothermal method with the aid of F^? anions. The crystalline structure of the polyhedral particles is disclosed by various characterization techniques. The dodecahedral particles are of hexagonal bipyramidal shape and enclosed by twelve equivalent (101) planes. The octodecahedral particles are formed by adding six equivalent (111) planes on the two tips of a dodecahedral particle, that is, they are enclosed by twelve (101) planes and six (111) planes. The existence of F^? anions plays a crucial role in the control of polyhedral particle shape. The function of F^? anions in the shape formation of the polyhedral particles is proposed as follows: 1) A high concentration of exposed Fe³⁺ cations induces preferential adsorption of F^? anions on the (100) plane and leads to the slowest growth along the [100] direction. When the concentration of F^? anions is higher than 24 mM , a stable speed ratio of growth along the [001] and [100] directions results in the exposure of (101) planes. 2) With a lower concentration of F^? anions, six symmetrical (111) planes with low concentration of exposed Fe³⁺ cations are present at the tops of a dodecahedral particle to form an octodecahedron. Furthermore, the dodecahedral and octodecahedral α‐Fe₂O₃ particles show much stronger magnetism than the previously reported α‐Fe₂O₃ nanostructures, having coercivities of 4986 Oe and 6512 Oe, respectively. Such high coercivities are attributed to a large local magnetic anisotropy, which might be induced by the polyhedron with equivalent crystallographic planes and/or the presence of F^? anions.     

Single-Image Super-Resolution Reconstruction via Learned Geometric Dictionaries and Clustered Sparse Coding

Recently, single image super-resolution reconstruction (SISR) via sparse coding has attracted increasing interest. In this paper, we proposed a multiple-geometric-dictionaries-based clustered sparse coding scheme for SISR. Firstly, a large number of high-resolution (HR) image patches are randomly extracted from a set of example training images and clustered into several groups of "geometric patches," from which the corresponding "geometric dictionaries" are learned to further sparsely code each local patch in a low-resolution image. A clustering aggregation is performed on the HR patches recovered by different dictionaries, followed by a subsequent patch aggregation to estimate the HR image. Considering that there are often many repetitive image structures in an image, we add a self-similarity constraint on the recovered image in patch aggregation to reveal new features and details. Finally, the HR residual image is estimated by the proposed recovery method and compensated to better preserve the subtle details of the images. Some experiments test the proposed method on natural images, and the results show that the proposed method outperforms its counterparts in both visual fidelity and numerical measures.     

用于氨氮检测的三维微纳氨气传感芯片及系统研究

该文设计并制备了一种多层微结构的安培型氨气三维微纳传感芯片,并构建了以此微传感芯片为敏感单元的氨氮检测系统,探索了使用安培型氨气微传感器检测氨氮的方法。该微传感芯片采用微纳加工工艺制备,使用聚合物键合工艺在较低温度下实现了微传感器多层结构的封装。使用纳米铱作为传感器的敏感材料,其具有良好的电催化氧化能力,可使传感器具有较高的灵敏度。对Ag/AgCl微参比电极的稳定性进行了考察。使用自行设计的氨氮检测系统对氨氮样品进行检测,对微传感器的时间响应特性、浓度响应特性、重复性及选择性进行了测试和分析。实验结果表明,在0.5~10 mg/L的测试范围内,检测电流与氨氮浓度保持良好的线性,灵敏度为1.62 A/(mg/L),线性相关系数为0.995,重复性偏差为5.73%。同时,传感器显示出良好的选择性。     

MIMO系统中的迭代分组MAP检测算法

该文提出了在分组MAP检测器内部进行干扰信息更新和检测信息迭代反馈的检测算法。在MIMO系统基本的分组MAP检测算法基础上,利用先检测分组产生的后验信息替代先验信息提高干扰信号的估计精确度,进一步可以使用迭代反馈的方法在检测器内部进行反馈检测分组的后验信息,从而提高了检测信号的分集度。仿真结果表明在未编码系统中改进的分组检测方法能够显著地提高系统误码率性能,在编码系统中能够加快整个系统的收敛。     

变频调速在恒水位控制系统的应用

本文以临清市自来水厂为例，设计了一套城市供水控制系统方案。系统集通信、网络、现场总线、PLC、计算机、微波通讯及自动化、远程控制等诸多先进技术于一体，充分体现了现代信息技术和自动化技术在城市供水系统中的应用。尤其详细介绍了变频器在系统中的应用。     

MPC在大功率交流牵引中的应用

目前由交-直-交电压型功率变换器和异步牵引电动机所构成的交流传动系统，已成为世界电力机车、电动车组和城轨车辆电传动技术的主流，而交流传动的核心单元是牵引变换器。本文对原ADtranz公司所设计的模块化功率变换器-MPC的技术特征进行了归纳和分析，最后指出随着电力电子技术和微处理器技术的发展，模块化及分布式控制系统已经成为功率变换器的发展趋势。     

Distributed Active Sensor Scheduling for Target Tracking in Ultrasonic Sensor Networks

Active ultrasonic sensors for target tracking application may suffer from inter-sensor-interference if these highly dense deployed sensors are not scheduled, which can degrade the tracking performance. In this paper, we propose a dynamic distributed sensor scheduling (DSS) scheme, where the tasking sensor is elected spontaneously from the sensors with pending sensing tasks via random competition based on Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA). The channel will be released immediately when sensing task is completed. Both simulation results and testbed experiment demonstrate the effectiveness of DSS scheme for large scale sensor networks in terms of system scalability and high tracking performance.     

Investigation of hot carrier degradation in asymmetric nDeMOS transistors

Hot carrier degradation in asymmetric nDeMOS transistors is investigated in this paper. It is found that the worst case hot carrier stress condition in asymmetric nDeMOS transistors is at I_g,max, and not at I_b,max and hot-electron injection (HE, i.e. V_gs = V_ds). Further, the damage regions in transistors upon various hot carrier stress modes are located by using variable amplitude charge pumping technique. It is found that the interface traps generation in the gate/n-type graded drain (NGRD) overlap and spacer/NGRD regions is the dominant mechanism of hot carrier degradation in transistors upon I_g,max stress mode. Moreover, both the interface trap generation and the electron trapping are two important factors to induce the electrical parameters shifts of asymmetric nDeMOS transistors under I_b,max and HE stress.     

Numerical Studies of Scattering Properties of Leaves and Leaf Moisture Influences on the Scattering at Microwave Wavelengths

This paper uses a 3-D finite-difference time-domain method to accurately calculate the single-scattering properties of randomly oriented leaves and evaluate the influence of vegetation water content (VWC) on these properties at frequencies of 19.35 and 37.0 GHz. The studied leaves are assumed to be thin elliptical disks with two different sizes and have various VWC values. Although leaf moisture causes considerable absorption in the scattering process, the effective efficiencies of extinction and scattering of leaves essentially linearly increase with VWC, which is critical for forest remote sensing. Calculated asymmetry factors and phase functions also indicate that there is a significant amount of scattered energy at large scattering angles at microwave wavelengths. This paper can improve the modeling of the radiative transfer by vegetation canopies at the higher frequencies of the microwave spectrum, which is important for passive microwave remote sensing.     

Asymmetrically-loaded interdigital coupled line for wideband microstrip bandpass filters with good out-of-band performance

An asymmetrically-loaded interdigital coupled line is proposed for design of wideband microstrip bandpass filters with good out-of- band performance. This interdigital coupled line with three fingers is formed by stretching one of two outer arms with one two-stage open-ended stub. Its characteristics are analysed in terms of admittance matrix to exhibit simultaneous emergence of extra transmission zeros in lower and upper stopbands. A wideband filter with two half-wavelength resonators is then designed and fabricated. Measured results show low-loss wide passband in the range 2.95-5.15 GHz and highly attenuated stopbands at DC to 2.2 GHz and 6.6-10.0 GHz, respectively.