Fast Full-Band Device Simulator for Wurtzite and Zincblende GaN MESFET Using a Cellular Monte Carlo Method

A fast full-band device simulator for wurtzite and zincblende GaN using a Cellular Monte Carlo (CMC) approach is reported for wurtzite and zincblende GaN. The full-phonon dispersion relationship including anisotropic polar-optical phonon scattering is taken into account for the wurtzite GaN calculation. In the bulk simulation, the CMC model is about 30–100 times faster than the conventional Ensemble Monte Carlo model at high electric field region. This CMC model is applied to the simulator of MESFET devices, and the calculation speed is significantly improved.     

Performance prediction of a hybrid‐excitation synchronous machine with axially arranged excitation poles and permanent‐magnet poles

This paper presents a method of predicting the steady‐state performance of a new hybrid‐excitation synchronous machine (HESM) theoretically. The field pole of this HESM is axially divided into two parts; one is an excitation part and the other a permanent‐magnet (PM) part. A nonlinear equivalent circuit, which can include the saliency of the rotor and the magnetic saturation due to the iron core, is derived. Based on this equivalent circuit, the steady‐state performance of the HESM is calculated, and the results are confirmed through experiments. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 150(2): 43–49, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/eej.20033     

Morphological study by TEM on uniaxially oriented thin films of PET, PEN and their blends

Uniaxially oriented thin films of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET), poly(ethylene 2,6-naphthalene dicarboxylate) (PEN) and their blends were prepared by applying shear strain to their respective melts, and the resulting morphologies were studied by transmission electron microscopy. Selected-area electron diffraction of each film revealed well-defined uniaxial orientation of polymer chains in the shearing direction. In the uniaxially oriented thin film of PEN, stacked-lamellar structure with the average long period of 27 nm consisting of a crystalline region about 15 nm thick and an amorphous one about 12 nm thick was found here and there in the dark-field image: PEN-type. On the other hand, stacked-lamellar structure was rarely observed in the case of PET: PET-type. In PET/PEN blends, the morphologies changed from the PET-type to the PEN-type with increasing content of PEN.     

具有硬核—软壳结构的丙烯酸聚合物乳液的研究

利用种子乳液聚合法合成了具有硬核—软壳结构的丙烯酸聚合物微粒子,通过对种子粒子数和最终粒子数的理论计算,并结合最低成膜温度(MFT)的测试结果,描述了聚合物微粒子的聚合过程,同时,还对聚合物乳液的各项性能进行了研究。     

Development of an epileptic seizure prediction algorithm using R–R intervals with self-attentive autoencoder

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that may affect the autonomic nervous system (ANS) from 15 to 20 min before seizure onset, and disturbances of ANS affect R–R intervals (RRI) on an electrocardiogram (ECG). This study aims to develop a machine learning algorithm for predicting focal epileptic seizures by monitoring R–R interval (RRI) data in real time. The developed algorithm adopts a self-attentive autoencoder (SA-AE), which is a neural network for time-series data. The results of applying the developed seizure prediction algorithm to clinical data demonstrated that it functioned well in most patients; however, false positives (FPs) occurred in specific participants. In a future work, we will investigate the causes of FPs and optimize the developing seizure prediction algorithm to further improve performance using newly added clinical data.

     

Dietary eritadenine-induced alteration of molecular species composition of phospholipids in rats

The effect of dietary eritadenine, a hypocholesterolemic compound found in the mushroomLentinus edodes, on the fatty acid and molecular species profiles of phosphatidylcholine (PC) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) in the plasma and liver microsomes was investigated in relation to the hypocholesterolemic action of the compound in rats. Animals were fed the control or eritadenine-supplemented (50 mg/kg diet) diet for 14 d. Eritadenine supplementation significantly decreased the plasma concentrations of cholesterol and phospholipids, but not triglycerides. The PC/PE ratio of liver microsomes, but not plasma, was also markedly decreased by eritadenine. Eritadenine supplementation was found to increase the proportion of 18:2n-6 and, inversely, to decrease the proportion of 20:4n-6 and 22:5n-6 in plasma PC and liver microsomal PC and PE, indicating that eritadenine depressed the metabolism of linoleic acid. The effect of eritadenine on the profile of n-3 fatty acids was dissimilar in PC and PE. These changes in fatty acid composition were selectively reflected in the molecular species composition of both PC and PE; the extent of increase in 16:0–18:2 molecular species or decrease in 18:0–20:4 molecular species was apparently greater than that of other molecular species containing 18:2 or 20:4 in the sn-2 position. These results suggest that, in addition to the decrease in liver microsomal PC/PE ratio, the alteration of plasma PC molecular species composition might also participate in the hypocholesterolemic action of eritadenine.     

Novel Components of the Sex Pheromones Produced by Emerald Moths: Identification,Synthesis, and Field Evaluation

The subfamily Geometrinae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) includes many species called emerald moths. Based on our recent finding of novel polyenyl compounds, including a double bond at the 12-position from two geometrine species, Hemithea tritonaria and Thalassodes immissaria intaminata, (6Z,9Z,12Z)-6,9,12-trienes and (3Z,6Z,9Z,12Z)-3,6,9,12-tetraenes with a C₁₇–C₂₀ straight chain were synthesized and analyzed by GC-MS. The 6,9,12-trienes, which were prepared by a double Wittig reaction between two alkanals and an ylide derived from (Z)-1,6-diiodo-3-hexene, characteristically produced fragment ions at m/z 79, 150, and M–98. The 3,6,9,12-tetraenes, which were prepared by a coupling between (Z)-3-alkenal and an ylide derived from (3Z,6Z)-1-iodo-3,6-nonadiene, showed fragment ions at m/z 79, 148, and M–96. These diagnostic ions were useful to distinguish these compounds from other known polyenyl pheromones, such as 4,6,9- and 6,9,11-trienes and 1,3,6,9-tetraenes. With reference to the GC-MS data, pheromone extracts of other species in Geometrinae inhabiting the Iriomote Islands were analyzed, and the 6,9,12-trienes were identified in the pheromone gland extracts of Pamphlebia rubrolimbraria rubrolimbraria and Maxates versicauda microptera. Furthermore, a field evaluation of the synthetic polyenes in a mixed forest of Tokyo revealed the following new male attractants for emerald moths: Idiochlora ussuriaria by a C₁₇ 6,9,12-triene and Jodis lactearia by a C₂₀ 3,6,9,12-tetraene, indicating the characteristic chemical structures of Geometrinae pheromones. On the other hand, through reexamination of the pheromone extract of H. tritonaria, (3E,6E)-α-farnesene was identified as an electrophysiologically active component in addition to the C₁₇ 6,9,12-triene. The binary mixture attracted more males than the single component lure baited with the triene in the Iriomote Islands.     

Numerical simulation on void bubble dynamics using moving particle semi-implicit method

In present study, the collapse of void bubble in liquid has been simulated using moving particle semi-implicit (MPS) code. The liquid is described using moving particles and the bubble–liquid interface was set to be vacuum pressure boundary without interfacial heat mass transfer. The topological shape of bubble can be traced according to the motion and location of interfacial particles. The time dependent bubble diameter, interfacial velocity and bubble collapse time were obtained under wide parametric range. The comparison with Rayleigh and Zababakhin's prediction showed a good agreement which validates the applicability and accuracy on MPS method in solving present momentum problems. The potential void induced water hammer pressure pulse was also evaluated which is instructive for further material erosion study. The bubble collapse with non-condensable gas has been further simulated and the rebound phenomenon was successfully captured which is similar with vapor-filled cavitation phenomenon. The present study exhibits some fundamental characteristics of void bubble hydrodynamics and it is also expected to be instructive for further applications of MPS method to complicated bubble dynamics problems.