A Low-Power Wide-Dynamic-Range Analog VLSI Cochlea

Low-power wide-dynamic-range systems are extremely hard to build. The biological cochlea is one of the most awesome examples of such a system: It can sense sounds over 12 orders of magnitude in intensity, with an estimated power dissipation of only a few tens of microwatts. In this paper, we describe an analog electronic cochlea that processes sounds over 6 orders of magnitude in intensity, and that dissipates 0.5 mW. This 117-stage, 100 Hz to 10 KHz cochlea has the widest dynamic range of any artificial cochlea built to date. The wide dynamic range is attained through the use of a wide-linear-range transconductance amplifier, of a low-noise filter topology, of dynamic gain control (AGC) at each cochlear stage, and of an architecture that we refer to as overlapping cochlear cascades. The operation of the cochlea is made robust through the use of automatic offset-compensation circuitry. A BiCMOS circuit approach helps us to attain nearly scale-invariant behavior and good matching at all frequencies. The synthesis and analysis of our artificial cochlea yields insight into why the human cochlea uses an active traveling-wave mechanism to sense sounds, instead of using bandpass filters. The low power, wide dynamic range, and biological realism make our cochlea well suited as a front end for cochlear implants.     

声波时差测井在鄂尔多斯天然气勘探中的地质应用

本文应用声波时差测井资料判别划分地层压实异常段,并结合其它测井资料对盖层进行质量评估,寻找油气有利聚集带(段),为勘探提供有利区域和评价依据。     

f—x域内提高地震资料的信噪比

在 f-x 域,地震记录可以表示成有限个调频调幅正弦波的叠合,叠合的结果是一个连续且光滑的函数。我们可以用一个简单的 n 次多项式去逼近这个函数。本文提出了一种在 f-x 域用最小平方拟合原理消除随机噪声的新方法,并证明了在噪声为自噪以及空间采样足够密的条件下,拟合结果与噪声无关,即 f-x 域最小平方拟合处理可以有效地消除记录上的随机白噪,而对有效信号的破坏甚微。由于理论上允许振幅值及同相轴形态在空间上发生变化,因而该方法不具有混波作用,是高分辨率处理的理想工具。     

Features of ultrasonic wave propagation to identify defects in composite materials modelled by finite element method

A two-dimensional plane strain finite element model with absorbing boundary condition has been developed to investigate the ultrasonic wave propagation in isotropic and orthotropic media. It is capable of simulating the experimental pulse echo technique to obtain A-scan data, when a short duration pulse is transmitted into a domain with or without a flaw. The flaw can either be a crack or an inclusion of different material such as a Teflon insert or a resin rich zone. After performing FFT on the A-scan data, frequency domain feature analysis is done. The study provides a guideline regarding the suitability of certain harmonics sensitive to certain types of flaw. The simulation shows other important artifacts of wave propagation such as mode conversion and scattering due to the presence of flaws.     

耦合腔行波管慢波结构的工作模式及其特性

耦合腔行波管慢波结构可工作于三种不同模式：正常模、简并模和反向模。应用改进的等效电路法计算了正常模腔通带和槽通带。求得的简并模耦合槽张角与实验值相符。最后讨论了反向模耦合腔行波管诱人的特点。     

激光在材料中感生的瞬态光声波和光热波

研究了锁模激光在材料中产生频率达GHz的光声波和相应探测技术,用回波分析法无损坏测量了薄材料的厚度。研究了激光在材料中感生的光热波,热沉测量可用于解释材料的破坏机理。     

In the theory of blast waves

The behavior of the blast wave from an exploding spherical volume is investigated mathematically over the entire range of blast-wave propagation. The computational method uses analytical results for a similar problem for a point explosion with counter pressure and the theory of an asymptotically equivalent point explosion. The asymptotic solution of the gas-dynamic equations away from the explosion site is matched to the initial conditions of blast-wave formation due to the disintegration of the detonation shock upon its arrival at the boundary of the exploding volume. The spatial distribution of the blast-front pressure is found for combustible gaseous systems and solid explosives. The theoretical results obtained agree quantitatively with available experimental measurements. __________ Translated from Fizika Goreniya i Vzryva, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 93–99, July–August, 2006.     

束流测量中的工频陷波器

提出了一种应用于电子束曝光机束流测量中的自动跟踪工频陷波器，给出电路结构，基于对其工作原理的分析，介绍了提高陷波器跟踪精度的设计要点及调试方法。     

复射线展开法分析圆柱面对平面波散射的精度问题

讨论了用复射线展开法计算圆柱面对入射平面波散射时的计算误差特性，提出了控制其计算精度的复射线展开参数选择方法，证实了通过恰当选择展开参数可以有效地提升计算精度、实现误差控制。