Ultra-dense planar metallic nanowire arrays with extremely large anisotropic optical and magnetic properties

A nanofabrication method for the production of ultra-dense planar metallic nanowire arrays scalable to wafer-size is presented. The method is based on an efficient template deposition process to grow diverse metallic nanowire arrays with extreme regularity in only two steps. First, III–V semiconductor substrates are irradiated by a low-energy ion beam at an elevated temperature, forming a highly ordered nanogroove pattern by a “reverse epitaxy” process due to self-assembly of surface vacancies. Second, diverse metallic nanowire arrays (Au, Fe, Ni, Co, FeAl alloy) are fabricated on these III–V templates by deposition at a glancing incidence angle. This method allows for the fabrication of metallic nanowire arrays with periodicities down to 45 nm scaled up to wafer-size fabrication. As typical noble and magnetic metals, the Au and Fe nanowire arrays produced here exhibited large anisotropic optical and magnetic properties, respectively. The excitation of localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs) of the Au nanowire arrays resulted in a high electric field enhancement, which was used to detect phthalocyanine (CoPc) in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). Furthermore, the Fe nanowire arrays showed a very high in-plane magnetic anisotropy of approximately 412 mT, which may be the largest in-plane magnetic anisotropy field yet reported that is solely induced via shape anisotropy within the plane of a thin film.

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Electrosprayed porous Fe3O4/carbon microspheres as anode materials for high-performance lithium-ion batteries

Nano Research - Porous Fe3O4/carbon microspheres (PFCMs) were successfully fabricated via a facile electrospray method and subsequent heat treatment, using ferrous acetylacetonate, carbon nanotubes...     

磁悬浮飞轮储能系统机电耦合非线性动力学研究

针对磁悬浮飞轮储能系统的"磁悬浮飞轮-发电机"机电耦合非线性动力学特性进行研究.通过推导磁悬浮飞轮储能系统在偏心条件下的动能、势能、发电机系统的磁场能以及系统的耗散函数,由Lagrange-Maxwell方程建立磁悬浮飞轮系统和两相四极永磁发电机系统的机电耦合动力学方程.采用数值法对0.6MW磁悬浮飞轮储能系统进行了仿真分析,研究结果表明,系统机电耦合非线性方程存在稳定的与转速同频的基频和三倍频周期运动解,且基频振动幅值比三倍频振动幅值大.对于稳定的磁悬浮储能飞轮机电耦合系统,飞轮转速增大,或磁轴承系统刚度减小或阻尼增大,或磁场能(电枢反应磁场能或永磁励磁磁场能)减小,可使系统的非线性振动幅值减小.而增大磁轴承系统的刚度,或减小磁轴承系统的阻尼,或增大系统的磁场能有可能破坏机电耦合系统的稳定性,使飞轮失稳.     

Fast structural optimization with frequency constraints by genetic algorithm using adaptive eigenvalue reanalysis methods

Structural optimization with frequency constraints is highly nonlinear dynamic optimization problems. Genetic algorithm (GA) has greater advantage in global optimization for nonlinear problem than optimality criteria and mathematical programming methods, but it needs more computational time and numerous eigenvalue reanalysis. To speed up the design process, an adaptive eigenvalue reanalysis method for GA-based structural optimization is presented. This reanalysis technique is derived primarily on the Kirsch’s combined approximations method, which is also highly accurate for case of repeated eigenvalues problem. The required number of basis vectors at every generation is adaptively determined and the rules for selecting initial number of basis vectors are given. Numerical examples of truss design are presented to validate the reanalysis-based frequency optimization. The results demonstrate that the adaptive eigenvalue reanalysis affects very slightly the accuracy of the optimal solutions and significantly reduces the computational time involved in the design process of large-scale structures.     

Fabrication of X-ray imaging zone plates by e-beam and X-ray lithography

X-ray imaging and microscopy techniques have been developed in worldwide due to their capabilities of large penetration power and high spatial resolution. Fresnel zone plates is considered to be one of the most convenient optic devices for X-ray imaging and microscopy system. The zone plates with aspect ratio of 7 and 13 have been fabricated by e-beam lithography combined with X-ray lithography in this paper. Firstly, the X-ray lithography mask of zone plates with outermost zone width of 100 nm was fabricated by e-beam lithography and gold electroplating techniques. Secondly, the zone plates with gold profile thickness of 700 and 1,300 nm were replicated by X-ray lithography and gold electroplating techniques. X-ray imaging and microscopy techniques were introduced to characterize the high-aspect-ratio zone plates’ inner structures. At the X-ray energy of 7.5 keV, the first-order focusing efficiency of zone plates with gold profile thickness of 700 nm is about 8.63%.     

Information Ordering with an Event‐Enriched Vector Space Model for Multi‐Document News Summarization

Information ordering is a nontrivial task in multi‐document summarization (MDS), which typically relies on the traditional vector space model (VSM) notorious for semantic deficiency. In this article, we propose a novel event‐enriched VSM to alleviate the problem by building event semantics into sentence representations. The mediation of event information between sentence and term, especially in the news domain, has an intuitive appeal as well as technical advantage in common sentence‐level operations such as sentence similarity computation. Inspired by the block‐style writing by humans, we base the sentence ordering algorithm on sentence clustering. To accommodate the complexity introduced by event information, we adopt a soft‐to‐hard clustering strategy on the event and sentence levels, using expectation–maximization clustering and K‐means, respectively. For the purpose of cluster‐based sentence ordering, the event‐enriched VSM enables us to design an ordering algorithm to enhance event coherence computed between sentence and sentence–context pairs. Drawing on the findings of earlier research, we also incorporate topic continuity measures and time information into the scheme. We evaluate the performance of the model and its variants automatically and manually, with experimental results showing clear advantage of the event‐based model over baseline and non‐event‐based models in information ordering for multi‐document news summarization. We are confident that the event‐enriched VSM has even greater potential in summarization and beyond, which awaits further research. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

A large-range compliant micropositioning stage with remote-center-of-motion characteristic for parallel alignment

Micro-/nanopositioning stage with remote-center-of-motion (RCM) plays a key role in precision out-of-plane aligning since it can eliminate harmful lateral displacement generated at the output platform. This paper presents the design, modeling and test of a novel large-range flexure-based micropositioning stage with RCM characteristic. The stage is composed of an outer RCM guiding mechanism and a inner output-stiffness enhanced lever amplifier (OELA). The outer RCM guiding mechanism is constructed by a symmetric double parallelogram mechanism which can guide the stage to perform a RCM movement with high rotational precision. The inner OELA is designed to amplify the output displacement of the adopted piezoelectric stack actuator (PSA). Compared with conventional lever amplifier, the proposed OELA possesses twice the output stiffness, which makes it more appropriate for actuating the outer mechanism and therefore, a large rotational range can be obtained. Based on the pseudo-rigid-body-model (PRBM) method, the analytical models predicting kinematics, statics, and dynamics of the RCM stage have been established. Besides, the dimensional optimization is conducted in order to maximize the first resonance frequency of the stage. After that, finite element analysis is carried out to validate the established models and the prototype of the stage is fabricated for performance tests. The experimental results show that the developed RCM stage has a rotational range of 6.96 mrad while the maximum center shift of the RCM point is as low as \(9.2\,{\upmu } \text {m}\), which validate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.     

火焰温度场测试中的传感器动态特性补偿

在进行爆温测试时,爆炸伴随的高温火焰具有变化快、温度高、测试环境恶劣等特点.针对这种特定的测温场合,运用火焰温度源法研究了热电偶传感器在火焰温度场中的动态响应特性.为了减小热电偶的动态测量误差,通过粒子群优化算法(PSO)建立了测试系统的动态补偿滤波器模型.实验表明,这种研究方法有效地改善了热电偶的动态测量误差,对通过爆温测试进行弹丸热毁伤评价有一定的参考价值.     

某型飞机驾驶杆线性位移差分变压器传感器信号调理校正

飞机驾驶杆LVDT(线性位移差分变压器)传感器信号测试校正在航空测控研究领域具有十分重要的意义,提出了一种针对某型飞机驾驶杆LVDT传感器信号精确调理校正方法;介绍了飞机驾驶杆LVDT传感器原理,分析了AD598 LVDT调理芯片的使用局限,利用最小二乘法设计了精确调理校正方法;基于VC++2010开发环境,利用高精度的模拟校正源产生模拟激励校正信号,设计了驾驶杆LVDT多通道软件自校正方法,它可以有效提高解调电路的线性度和对称性,克服了AD598常规调理电路的使用局限,从而实现驾驶杆LVDT信号精确检测;理论分析与数值试验验证了所提方法的正确性和有效性。     

LabVIEW串口通信在数据采集中的应用

研究了LabVIEW串口通信的应用问题,设计了一种应用于数据采集的串口收录系统。该系统只需设置相应串口参数即可动态显示硬件采集的数据,并可实时存储和回放采集到的数据,方便以后对采集数据进行研究。实验证明,该系统的稳定性和可靠性较高。