A comparison of lightness contrast effects in CRT and surface colours

The simultaneous contrast effect is investigated in this article. A total of 174 and 154 test/induction combinations were studied for CRT and surface colours respectively. Each combination was assessed by nine observers using a matching technique. The test and induction colours used for CRT colours were similar to surface colours using fabric samples. The results indicated a strong lightness contrast effect for both CRT and surface media; that is, the lightness of a test colour surrounded by a lighter induction colour was reduced for both CRT and surface colours. However, the effect in CRT medium was more pronounced than in the surface medium. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Col Res Appl, 30, 13–20, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/col.20074     

Techniques and Apparatus for Measuring Rotational Core Losses of Soft Magnetic Materials

In many situations such as the cores of a rotating electrical machine and the T joints of a multiphase transformer, the local flux density varies with time in terms of both magnitude and direction, i.e. the flux density vector is rotating. Therefore, the magnetic properties of the core materials under the rotating flux density vector excitation should be properly measured, modeled and applied in the design and analysis of these electromagnetic devices. This paper presents an extensive review on the development of techniques and apparatus for measuring the rotational core losses of soft magnetic materials based on the experiences of various researchers in the last hundred years.     

Fabrication and characterization of Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films deposited by spray pyrolysis technique

We have investigated synthesis conditions and some properties of sprayed Cu₂ZnSnS₄ (CZTS) thin films in order to determine the best preparation conditions for the realization of CZTS based photovoltaic solar cells. The thin films are made by means of spraying of aqueous solutions containing copper chloride, zinc chloride, tin chloride and thiourea on heated glass substrates at various temperatures. In order to optimize the synthesis conditions of the CZTS films, two series of experiments are performed. In the first series the sprayed duration was fixed at 30 min and in the second it is fixed at 60 min. In each series, the substrate temperature was changed from 553°K to 633°K. The X-ray diffraction shows, on one hand, that the best crystallinity was obtained for 613°K as substrate temperature and 60 min as sprayed duration. On the other hand, these CZTS films exhibit the kesterite structure with preferential orientation along the [112] direction. Atomical Force Microscopy was used to determine the grain sizes and the roughness of these CZTS thin film. After the annealing treatment, we estimated the optical band-gap energy of the CZTS thin film exhibiting the best crystallinity as 1.5 eV which is quite close to the optimum value for a solar cell.     

航空放射性遥感技术应用研究

航空放射性遥感系统采用航空γ能谱仪,在空中飞行探测地表放射性,能够快速进行大面积环境放射性调查。结合已经开始进行的首次大面积航空放射性遥感调查工作,简要介绍了航空放射性遥感系统构成、核探测γ能谱测量和数据处理技术。对系统转换因子刻度和剥离系数刻度方法进行了讨论,并对初步应用情况进行了总结。     

培养跨世纪人才,推动煤矿机电一体化发展

煤矿机电一体化技术的发展,对生产技术与管理人员提出愈来愈高的要求,培养跨世纪的机电一体化人才已成现代化煤炭企业的当务之急。神东公司通过公开招聘、现场培训、实施人才工程、联合办学、采用多媒体网络教学等多种形式培养跨世纪机电一体化人才。     

特钢长型材轧制技术新进展

在可持续发展原则指导下，强化控轧控冷、高精度轧制和改进表面与外形质量是当前特钢轧制技术发展的重点。     

多媒体技术在化学教学中应用的探讨

文中介绍了多媒体教学的发展及多媒体课件、文献资料和仿真实验等教学的基本形式;分析了多媒体教学所具有的信息量丰富、表现力多样化、交互性较强和内容更新快的特点;讨论了多媒体教学可提高教学效率、提高学生理解能力、减轻教师负担和因材施教的优越性;提出了在教学中应用多媒体技术时,应以学生为主体,教师为主导,为学习者提供认知帮助是关键而有效策略的教学思想。     

Modelling diffusion-controlled kinetics in equilibrium and driven alloys

Summary We introduce a very simple model for thermally activated atomic migration on a lattice, and several techniques to handle it. For thermodynamical systems, the model can be used for simulating decomposition paths taking into account relevant metallurgical features. Close to equilibrium, the simplest mean-field approximation of the model can be linearized with respect to the departure from equilibrium; one then gets a microscopic interpretation of classical phenomenological coefficients, such as mobility, interfacial transfer coefficient, rate constants for the coupled relaxation of concentration and order fields. Further away from the equilibrium, the nonlinearities can be taken into account in a consistent way. For driven alloys, i.e. alloys submitted to external forcing, forced atomic migration is added to the model and new features emerge: the model is supported by several experimental results some of which confirmed its predictions a posteriori.     

Influence of the surface conditions on permeation in the deuterium–MANET system

The condition of the surfaces is of crucial importance for the deuterium permeation through materials. In this work a study of the surface constants for the adsorption (σk₁) and release (σk₂) of deuterium under different surface conditions on the martensitic steel DIN 1.4914 (MANET) has been carried out. The growth of an oxide surface layer (Cr₂O₃) of about 25–30 nm in a MANET sample, heat treated in an oxidizing environment, compared to the bare MANET that have a ‘natural' oxide of about 5 nm has provoked a reduction of both the permeation rate and the recombination coefficient (about 3 orders of magnitude). In addition, the permeation governing process has changed from diffusion-limited to surface-limited. The measurements of the permeation rate of deuterium were performed by a gas-phase permeation technique over the temperature range 574–746 K and for deuterium driving pressures in the range from 3 to 10⁵ Pa.