Co3O4 Nanoparticles as Robust Water Oxidation Catalysts Towards Remarkably Enhanced Photostability of a Ta3N5 Photoanode

Despite the fact that Ta₃N₅ absorbs a major fraction of the visible spectrum, the rapid decrease of photocurrent encountered in water photoelectrolysis over time remains a serious hurdle for the practical application of Ta₃N₅ photoelectrodes. Here, by employing a Co₃O₄ nanoparticle water oxidation catalyst (WOC) as well as an alkaline electrolyte, the photostability of Ta₃N₅ electrode is significantly improved. Co₃O₄/Ta₃N₅ photoanode exhibits the best durability against photocorrosion to date, when compared with Co(OH)_x/Ta₃N₅ and IrO₂/Ta₃N₅ photoanodes. Specifically, about 75% of the initial stable photocurrent remains after 2 h irradiation at 1.2 V vs. RHE (reversible hydrogen electrode). Meanwhile, a photocurrent density of 3.1 mA cm^?2 has been achieved on Co₃O₄/Ta₃N₅ photoanode at 1.2 V vs. RHE with backside illumination under 1 sun AM 1.5 G simulated sunlight. The reason for the relatively high stability is discussed on the basis of electron microscopic observations and photoelectrochemical measurements, and the surface nitrogen content is monitored by X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis.     

CU encoding depth prediction,early CU splitting termination and fast mode decision for fast HEVC intra-coding

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is a new video coding standard achieving about a 50% bit rate reduction compared to the popular H.264/AVC High Profile with the same subjective reproduced video quality. Better coding efficiency is attained, however, at the cost of significantly increased encoding complexity. Therefore, fast encoding algorithms with little loss in coding efficiency is necessary for HEVC to be successfully adopted for real applications. In this paper we propose a fast encoding technique applicable to HEVC all intra encoding. The proposed fast encoding technique consists of coding unit (CU) search depth prediction, early CU splitting termination, and fast mode decision. In CU search depth prediction, the depth of encoded CU in the current coding tree unit (CTU) is limited to predicted range, which is mostly narrower than the full depth range. Early CU splitting skips mode search of its sub-CUs when rate distortion (RD) cost of current CU is below the estimated RD cost at the current CU depth. RD cost and encoded CU depth distribution of the collocated CTU of the previous frame are utilized both to predict the encoding CU depth search range and to estimate the RD cost for CU splitting termination. Fast mode decision reduces the number of candidate modes for full rate distortion optimized quantization on the basis of the low complexity costs computed in the preceding rough mode decision step. When all these three methods are applied, proposed fast HEVC intra encoding technique reduces the encoding time of the reference encoder by 57% on the average, with only 0.6% of coding efficiency loss in terms of Bjontegaard delta (BD) rate increase under the HEVC common test conditions.     

Low complexity encoder optimization for HEVC

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) improved the coding efficiency significantly. Compared to its predecessor H.264/AVC, it can provide equivalent subjective quality with more than 57% bit rate reduction. However, the improvement on coding efficiency is obtained at the expense of much more intensive computation complexity. In this paper, based on an overall analysis of computation complexity at the HEVC encoder, a low complexity encoder optimization scheme is proposed by reducing the number of available candidates for evaluation in terms of the intra prediction mode decision, early termination of coding unit (CU) splitting and adaptive reference frame selection. With the proposed scheme, the rate distortion optimization (RDO) technique of HEVC can be implemented in a low-complexity way for complexity-constrained encoders. Experimental results demonstrate that, compared with the original HEVC reference encoder implementation, the proposed optimization scheme can achieve more than 40% complexity reduction on average with coding performance degradation as only 0.43% which can be ignorable.     

Fast total variation deconvolution for blurred image contaminated by Poisson noise

In this paper, we present a fast non-blind deconvolution method for restoring blurred images contaminated by Poisson noise. The problem is formulated by finding the minimizer of the negative logarithmic Poisson log-likelihood combined with the total variation (TV). To attack the challenging task, we adopt the well-known variable splitting and penalty technique to convert the problem into two easier sub-problems: one is a modified TV regularized deconvolution and the other is a simple convex optimization problem. Experimental results show that the proposed method runs very fast and the quality of the restored image is comparable with that of some state of the art methods.     

InGaP//GaAs//c‐Si 3‐junction solar cells employing spectrum‐splitting system

In this work, we practically demonstrated spectrum‐splitting approach for advances in efficiency of photovoltaic cells. Firstly, a‐Si:H//c‐Si 2‐junction configuration was designed, which exhibited 24.4% efficiency with the spectrum splitting at 620 nm. Then, we improved the top cell property by employing InGaP cells instead of the a‐Si:H, resulting in an achievement of efficiency about 28.8%. In addition, we constructed 3‐junction spectrum‐splitting system with two optical splitters, and GaAs solar cells as middle cell. This InGaP//GaAs//c‐Si architecture was found to deliver 30.9% conversion efficiency. Our splitting system includes convex lenses for light concentration about 10 suns, which provided concentrated efficiency exceeding 33.0%. These results suggest that our demonstration of 3‐junction spectrum‐splitting approach can be a promising candidate for highly efficient photovoltaic technologies. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

β-Ni3Nb相单个平移畴界的相干电子微衍射研究

本文采用ＨＦ－２０００ＦＥＧ电镜对Ｚｈａｎｇ等＾「７」已经用ＨＲ－ＴＥＭ高分辨技术研究的β－Ｎｉ３Ｎｂ相的几种单个平移畴界进行了相干电子微衍射研究,不但对已发现Ｒ１＝「１／２,０,０」和Ｒ２＝１／４「１０２」型平移畴界进行了微衍射分析,而且发现了Ｒ５＝「１／４,１／２,０．８１」型平移畴界。     

一种支持扇出分割能力的光组播调度算法研究

组播调度是影响光组播分组交换节点吞吐量的重要因素.针对“一次发送”模型下的光组播调度算法对阻塞的源组播实行全部丢弃的缺点,文章基于节点共享有限波长转换器的光分组交换结构,提出了一种支持扇出分割能力的光组播调度算法,该算法采用随机丢弃阻塞的源组播复制的方法,有效地提高了端口资源的利用率.仿真结果表明,该算法与已有算法相比...     

太阳射电Ⅱ型爆发中频率分裂现象的特征自动提取研究

在射电动态频谱图上,太阳射电爆发中的Ⅱ型暴通常具有缓慢漂移的基频和二次谐频辐射带,这些辐射带又具有带分裂结构.Ⅱ型射电暴的频率分裂现象是太阳射电频谱图像研究的重要现象之一.本文首先采用通道归一化方法和大津法对频谱图像进行预处理,然后通过形态学开闭重建定位出爆发区域.确定爆发区域后,采用高斯卷积平滑爆发,并运用边缘指示函...     

三维波动方程P-R分裂偏移

本文提出一种新的有限差分三维波动方程一步偏移方法,称为P-R分裂法。该方法是将三维偏移方程在τ(或ζ)方向分两步分别以二分之一步长进行延拓。在前个步长内将关于x的二阶偏导数取成隐格式而将关于y的二阶偏导数取成显格式;为了保持对称性,在后半个步长内,将关于y的二阶偏导数取成隐格式而将关于x的二阶偏导数取成显格式,经一定的简化后,可以得到一个在形式上非常简单的三维差分方程。该差分方程具有两个重要特点：①比Clearbout分裂方法差分精度高,频散现象小;②该差分方程可以局部地分解成一系列二维求解方程,它比马在田四点平均算法求解方便,计算量小。实际处理结果表明,该方法能使倾斜反射波正确归位,断层和断点显示清晰可靠,从而在很大程度上改善了三维偏移剖面的质量。     

一种预防XML文件过大引起JAVA内存泄露的方案

JAVA内存泄露是对应用系统的稳定性有很大的影响,文件过大使程序运行要用到的内存大于虚拟机能提供的最大内存而导致内存泄露.文中提出了通过对XML文件拆分与拼装来解决由于XML文件过大而导致的内存泄露问题的方法.测试结果表明可以有效预防内存泄露.