Lightweight,Superelastic Boron Nitride/Polydimethylsiloxane Foam as Air Dielectric Substitute for Multifunctional Capacitive Sensor Applications

Porous polymeric foams as dielectric layer for highly sensitive capacitive based pressure sensors have been extensively explored owing to their excellent flexibility and elasticity. Despite intensive efforts, most of previously reported porous polymer foams still suffer from difficulty in further lowering the attainable density limit of ≈0.1 g cm^?3 while retaining high sensitivity and compressibility due to the limitations on existing fabrication techniques and materials. Herein, utilizing 3D interconnected networks of few‐layer hexagonal boron nitride foams (h‐BNFs) as supporting frameworks, lightweight and highly porous BN/polydimethylsiloxane composite foams (BNF@PDMS) with densities reaching as low as 15 mg cm^?3 and permittivity close to that of air are fabricated. This is the lightest PDMS‐based foam reported to date. Owing to the synergistic effects between BN and PDMS, these lightweight composite foams possess excellent mechanical resilience, extremely high compressibility (up to 95% strain), good cyclic performance, and superelasticity. Being electrically nonconductive, the potential application of BNF@PDMS as a dielectric layer for capacitive sensors is further demonstrated. Remarkably, the as‐fabricated device can perform multiple sensing functions such as noncontact touch sensor, environmental monitoring sensor, and high sensitivity pressure sensor that can detect extremely low pressures of below 1 Pa.     

A general expression of dyadic Green's functions in radiallymultilayered chiral media

A general expression of spectral-domain dyadic Green's function (DGF) is presented for defining the electromagnetic radiation fields in spherically arbitrary multilayered and chiral media. Without any loss of the generality, each of the radial multilayers could be the chiral layer with different permittivity, permeability, and chirality admittance, while both distribution and location of current sources are assumed to be arbitrary. The DGF is composed of the unbounded DGF and the scattering DGF, based on the method of scattering superposition. The scattering DGF in each layer is constructed in terms of the modified and normalized spherical vector wave functions. The coefficients of the scattering DGFs are derived and expressed in terms of the equivalent reflection and transmission coefficients, by applying boundary conditions satisfied by the coefficient matrices     

Real‐Time Imaging of Nanoscale Redox Reactions over Bimetallic Nanoparticles

The catalytic performance of bimetallic nanoparticles (NPs) strongly depends on their structural and compositional changes under reaction conditions. At the fundamental level, these changes are driven by redox reactions that occur on the surface of the NPs. The degree of complexity in the redox reactions is further amplified in bimetallic NPs because both metals can have their own reactions with the reactant molecules, in addition to any synergistic effects between the metal nanocatalysts and their reducible oxides. Here, the gas phase oxidation and reduction reactions, and the oxidation of carbon monoxide (CO) over Pt–Ni rhombic dodecahedron NPs with segregated Pt frames and Pt–Ni alloy NPs are investigated using in situ gas cell transmission electron microscopy. The real‐time observations show that NiO shell formation and Pt segregation are two important features during the oxidation and reduction of Pt–Ni NPs, respectively. Moreover, the two types of NPs evolved in different ways. By combining high‐resolution imaging, mass spectroscopy, and modeling, it is shown that the evolution of NP morphology and composition during redox reactions plays an important role in controlling the catalytic activity of the NPs.     

航天运载器支架式主结构承载性能的有限元分析

航天运载器主结构的功能是把载荷从一种结构传递到另一种结构上.依据对美国可重复使用运载器X-33和Atlas V型火箭上两种典型支架式CFRP(碳纤维增强树脂基复合材料)主结构的分析,建立了两种支架结构的有限元模型,计算了在支架轴向力、横向力和绕纵轴的扭矩及综合载荷作用下支架结构的形变、压缩比、偏心率和CFRP管件的轴向应力,通过计算结果对两种支架式主结构的承载性能特点进行了分析.     

一种无线充电5号电池的设计与研究

本文将无线充电技术与5号电池相结合,设计了一种无线充电5号电池,并利用太阳能作为充电电力来源.无线充电接收电路与5号电池的整合是本设计的核心部分,而与其配套设计的太阳能无线充电系统提高了本设计的节能环保性.     

Sol-gel ZnO-SiO/sub 2/ composite waveguide ultraviolet lasers

Random laser action with coherent feedback is realized in ZnO-SiO/sub 2/ composite films, which consists of ZnO clusters embedded in SiO/sub 2/ dielectric matrix prepared by sol-gel technique. The films are deposited on silicon substrate with a SiO/sub 2/ buffer layer to form a waveguide structure. Ultraviolet lasing at room temperature is observed from the composite films with ZnO : SiO/sub 2/ molar ratio varying between 1 : 5 and 1 : 30. The corresponding lasing wavelength and linewidth under 355-nm optical excitation are found to be /spl sim/388 nm and less than 0.6 nm, respectively. Our experiment has shown that the proper control of light confinement inside the random cavities leads to coherent random lasing.     

A novel Smith-Purcell free electron laser

An experiment on a novel Smith–Purcell free electron laser (FEL) is described in this paper. The FEL is driven by a relativistic sheet electron beam of middle energy. The high frequency system of the device is a quasi-optical resonator composed of a diffraction grating and a three-mirror reflector. Coherent radiation with a peak power of tens of kW at the 3 mm waveband is sucessfully detected from an experimental facility. The main experimental parameters are: sheet beam energy from 400 kV to 500 kV; pulse length of voltage 70 ns; pulse beam current 0.2 kA; synchronous guide magnetic field up to 1.2 T with 10 ms pulse length; and grating period 2.2 mm.     

The near-zone field characteristics of an E-polarization plane wavepenetrating through cylindrical multiple apertures (non) coated withlossy and lossless media

The direct integral equation is formulated for describing the current on the multiple perfectly conducting strips in cylindrical geometries for an E-polarization plane wave of normal incidence. By using the Galerkin's method, the surface currents on the conducting strips are expanded in the form of a series of Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind, while the unknown expanding coefficients are solved by a set of matrix equations of finite order with a fast convergence rate and a high accuracy. Furthermore, numerical results are presented to demonstrate the variation of the penetrated near-zone field in the presence of one, two, three, four and six cylindrical apertures, and the hybrid effects of both aperture number and aperture angular widths on the penetrated fields are investigated in detail     

Power-amplifier modules covering 70-113 GHz using MMICs

A set of W-band power amplifier (PA) modules using monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) have been developed for the local oscillators of the far-infrared and sub-millimeter telescope (FIRST). The MMIC PA chips include three driver and three PAs, designed using microstrip lines, and another two smaller driver amplifiers using coplanar waveguides, covering the entire W-band. The highest frequency PA, which covers 100-113 GHz, has a peak power of greater than 250 mW (25 dBm) at 105 GHz, which is the best output power performance for a monolithic amplifier above 100 GHz to date. These monolithic PA chips are fabricated using 0.1-μm AlGaAs/InGaAs/GaAs pseudomorphic T-gate power high electron-mobility transistors on a 2-mil GaAs substrate. The module assembly and testing, together with the system applications, is also addressed in this paper     

A Novel Smith-Purcell FEL

A novel Smith-Purcell FEL with a relativistic electron beam of middle energy and a quasi-optical resonator composed of diffraction grating and three mirror reflector is described in this paper. Coherent radiation with peak power of tens of KW at 3 mm waveband is successfully detected from an experimental facility characterized by beam energy of 400-500 KeV, pulse length of 70 ns, pulse beam current of 0.2 KA, and pulse guide magnetic field of up to 1.2 T.