Mechanical Strain‐Tunable Microwave Magnetism in Flexible CuFe2O4 Epitaxial Thin Film for Wearable Sensors

Purely mechanical strain‐tunable microwave magnetism device with lightweight, flexible, and wearable is crucial for passive sensing systems and spintronic devices (noncontact), such as flexible microwave detectors, flexible microwave signal processing devices, and wearable mechanics‐magnetic sensors. Here, a flexible microwave magnetic CuFe₂O₄ (CuFO) epitaxial thin film with tunable ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) spectra is demonstrated by purely mechanical strains, including tensile and compressive strains, on flexible fluorophlogopite (Mica) substrates. Tensile and compressive strains show remarkable tuning effects of up‐regulation and down‐regulation on in‐plane FMR resonance field (H_r), which can be used for flexible tunable resonators and filters. The out‐of‐plane FMR spectra can also be tuned by mechanical bending, including H_r and absorption peak. The change of out‐of‐plane FMR spectra has great potential for flexible mechanics‐magnetic deformation sensors. Furthermore, a superior microwave magnetic stability and mechanical antifatigue character are obtained in the CuFO/Mica thin films. These flexible epitaxial CuFO thin films with tunable microwave magnetism and excellent mechanical durability are promising for the applications in flexible spintronics, microwave detectors, and oscillators.     

透析3G在中国面临的重重困局(1)--牌照与标准选择

探讨了中国3G牌照何时发放、发放数量、牌照与标准是否捆绑、3G产业链如何搭建、频率如何分配、市场容量和终端等问题，并对此提出了建设性的意见。     

Phase Transition VO2 Thin Films for Optical Switches

This paper presents a method to make vanadium dioxide (VO₂) crystallites on silicon substrates by reactive ion beam sputtering. The thickness of the thin film is about 100nm. The phase transition temperature of VO₂ is 65°C. The transmittance of the semiconducting phase VO₂ is about 50% and it is reduced to as low as 3% in metal phase at the infrared wavelenghth spectrum. The extinction ratio of the optical switches is 12dB. and the insertion loss is of 1-2dB. The switching time is about 1ms.     

解读美军标MIL-STD-461F

针对美国现行军用标准MIL-STD-461F的新增内容CS106,以及与MIL-STD-461D/462D、MIL-STD-461E的差异,从测试一般要求和测试详细要求两个方面进行了介绍。提出了实验室的对应措施。     

Regulating Fe Aggregation State via Unique Fe?N?V Pre-Coordination to Optimize the Adsorption-Catalysis Effect in High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

Lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs) suffer from uncontrollable shuttling behavior of lithium polysulfides (LiPSs: Li₂S_x, 4 ≤ x ≤8) and the sluggish reaction kinetics of bidirectional liquid-solid transformations, which are commonly coped through a comprehensive adsorption-catalysis strategy. Herein, a unique Fe N V pre-coordination is introduced to regulate the content of “dissociative Fe³⁺” in liquid phase, realizing the successful construction of N-doped micro-mesoporous “urchin-like” hollow carbon nanospheres decorated with single atom Fe-N₄ sites and VN nanoparticles (denoted as SA-Fe/VN@NMC). The strong chemisorption ability toward LiPSs and catalyzed Li₂S decomposition behavior on VN, along with the boosted reaction kinetics for sulfur reduction on SA-Fe sites are experimentally and theoretically evidenced. Moreover, the nanoscale-neighborhood distribution of VN and SA-Fe active sites presents synergistic effect for the anchoring-reduction-decomposition process of sulfur species. Thus SA-Fe/VN@NMC presents an optimized adsorption-catalysis effect for the whole sulfur conversion. Therefore, the SA-Fe/VN@NMC based Li-S cells exhibit high cyclic stability (a low decay of 0.024% per cycle over 700 cycles at 1 C, sulfur content: 70 wt%) and considerable rate performance (683.2 mAh g⁻¹ at 4 C). Besides, a high areal capacity of 5.06 mAh cm⁻² is retained after 100 cycles under the high sulfur loading of 5.6 mg cm⁻². This work provides a new perspective to design the integrated electrocatalysts comprising hetero-formed bimetals in LSBs.     

An energy‐efficient utility‐based distributed data routing scheme for heterogenous sensor networks

A utility‐based distributed data routing algorithm is proposed and evaluated for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks. It is energy efficient and is based on a game‐theoretic heuristic load‐balancing approach. It runs on a hierarchical graph arranged as a tree with parents and children. Sensor nodes are considered heterogeneous in terms of their generated traffic, residual energy and data transmission rate and the bandwidth they provide to their children for communication. The proposed method generates a data routing tree in which child nodes are joined to parent nodes in an energy‐efficient way. The principles of the Stackelberg game, in which parents as leaders and children as followers, are used to support the distributive nature of sensor networks. In this context, parents behave cooperatively and help other parents to adjust their loads, while children act selfishly. Simulation results indicate the proposed method can produce on average more load‐balanced trees, resulting in over 30% longer network lifetime compared with the cumulative algorithm proposed in the literature. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Harvesting Lost Photons: Plasmon and Upconversion Enhanced Broadband Photocatalytic Activity in Core@Shell Microspheres Based on Lanthanide‐Doped NaYF4, TiO2, and Au

Efficiently harvesting solar energy for photocatalysis remains very challenging. Rational design of architectures by combining nanocomponents of radically different properties, for example, plasmonic, upconversion, and photocatalytic properties, offers a promising route to improve solar energy utilization. Herein, the synthesis of novel, plasmonic Au nanoparticle decorated NaYF₄:Yb³⁺, Er³⁺, Tm³⁺‐core@porous‐TiO₂‐shell microspheres is reported. They exhibit high surface area, good stability, broadband absorption from ultraviolet to near infrared, and excellent photocatalytic activity, significantly better than the benchmark P25 TiO₂. The enhanced activity is attributed to synergistic effects from nanocomponents arranged into the nanostructured architecture in such a way that favors the efficient charge/energy transfer among nanocomponents and largely reduced charge recombination. Optical and energy‐transfer properties are modeled theoretically to support our interpretations of catalytic mechanisms. In addition to yielding novel materials and interesting properties, the current work provides physical insights that can contribute to the future development of plasmon‐enhanced broadband catalysts.     

Improved Reliability‐Based Iterative Decoding of LDPC Codes Based on Dynamic Threshold

A serial concatenated decoding algorithm with dynamic threshold is proposed for low‐density parity‐check codes with short and medium code lengths. The proposed approach uses a dynamic threshold to select a decoding result from belief propagation decoding and order statistic decoding, which improves the performance of the decoder at a negligible cost. Simulation results show that, under a high SNR region, the proposed concatenated decoder performs better than a serial concatenated decoder without threshold with an E_b/N₀ gain of above 0.1 dB.     

发烟技术在水中兵器回收试验中的应用

研究了在水中兵器回收试验中采用发烟技术进行目标指示所需要解决的关键技术。采用材料的耐压技术、活塞的密封技术、火药的气动技术等设计出来的发烟装置,经多型号产品试验证实了该技术可极大地提高水中兵器返回水面时的搜寻效率。     

基于优化灰色模型的捷联惯组历次测试数据建模预测

捷联惯组历次测试数据由于受到多种随机因素的影响,其变化趋势具有非线性,同时测试数据又属于小样本.针对此特点,讨论了基于优化灰色模型的捷联惯组历次测试数据建模预测算法.首先对原始数据序列进行加速平移变换及加权均值生成,得到更适合建立灰色模型的数据序列,再采用优化背景值后的灰色模型对其变化趋势进行建模预测.实例分析证明,该模型能够准确反映捷联惯组历次测试数据的变化规律,比传统灰色模型有更高的精度.