High Gain Modified Dual-Band and Dual-Circularly Polarized Array Antenna

Wireless Personal Communications - A novel design of double-layer dual-band circularly polarized array antennas (DDCPAAs) is presented in this paper. First, a DDCP single antenna is introduced as...     

Determination of phenobarbital in real sample using carbon quantum dots modified with tungsten as a fluorescent nanoprobe

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics - In this study, a sensitive and selective fluorescence nanoprobe has been designed based on carbon quantum dots modified by tungsten (WCQDs)...     

Trust establishment in cooperative wireless relaying networks

In cooperative wireless networks, relay nodes are employed to improve the performance of the network in terms of throughput and reliability. However, the presence of malicious relay nodes in the network may severely degrade the performance of the system. When a relay node behaves maliciously, there exists a possibility that such a node refuses to cooperate when it is selected for cooperation or deliberately drops the received packets. Trust establishment is a mechanism to detect misbehaving nodes in a network. In this paper, we propose a trust establishment method for cooperative wireless networks by using Bayesian framework. In contrast with the previous schemes proposed in wireless networks, this approach takes the channel state information and the relay selection decisions into account to derive a pure trust value for each relay node. The proposed method can be applied to any cooperative system with a general relay selection policy whose decisions in each cooperative transmission are independent of the previous ones. Moreover, it does not impose additional communication overhead on the system as it uses the available information in relay selection procedure. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Deposition and characterization of nanocrystalline and amorphous Ni–W coatings with embedded alumina nanoparticles

Nanocrystalline and amorphous Ni–W coatings containing Al₂O₃ nanoparticles were electrodeposited from three different ammoniacal citrate baths by direct current (DC) method. The effects of nanoparticles on compositional, structural and morphological features of Ni–W coatings were investigated. The effects of bath chemical composition and current density on codeposition behavior of nanoparticles were also studied. Guglielmi model for particle deposition was applied to identify the kinetics of particle deposition. The presence of nanoparticles may affect on coating grain size, tungsten content and the rate of metal deposition. In addition, nanoparticles can result in more compact coatings with fewer defects. The extent of these effects depends on bath chemical composition and may be influenced by the synergistic effect of Ni on deposition of W. It was also found that the kinetics of particle deposition and the effect of current density on codeposition behavior of nanoparticles are highly dependent on bath chemical composition.     

Design of Novel Ultra-Wideband Bandpass Filter with High Selectivity and Wide Stop Band and Optimizing it with Neuro-Genetic Method

This paper develops a novel ultra-wideband bandpass filter with high selectivity, deep stop band and compact size. By linking a broadband bandstop filter at two sides with two feed lines via interdigital coupled lines with enhanced coupling degree, an initial ultra-wideband bandpass filter is created. In this filter, all undesired pass bands are rejected by broadband bandstop filter embedded in middle of ultra-wideband filter. Then, stepped impedance open stubs are used for realizing transmission zeros in pass band edges to increase selectivity. Finally, a neuro-genetic method is applied for optimizing of proposed ultra-wideband bandpass filter. For this task, first a nonlinear relation is established between the input (layout parameters) and output (electrical responses) data by using neural network. Then, genetic algorithm is used in conjunction with neural network model for optimizing the ultra-wideband bandpass filter parameters. The designed filter was fabricated and measured that showed good characteristics including deep stop band and very high pass band selectivity.     

Systematic and deterministic graph minor embedding for Cartesian products of graphs

The limited connectivity of current and next-generation quantum annealers motivates the need for efficient graph minor embedding methods. These methods allow non-native problems to be adapted to the target annealer’s architecture. The overhead of the widely used heuristic techniques is quickly proving to be a significant bottleneck for solving real-world applications. To alleviate this difficulty, we propose a systematic and deterministic embedding method, exploiting the structures of both the specific problem and the quantum annealer. We focus on the specific case of the Cartesian product of two complete graphs, a regular structure that occurs in many problems. We decompose the embedding problem by first embedding one of the factors of the Cartesian product in a repeatable pattern. The resulting simplified problem comprises the placement and connecting together of these copies to reach a valid solution. Aside from the obvious advantage of a systematic and deterministic approach with respect to speed and efficiency, the embeddings produced are easily scaled for larger processors and show desirable properties for the number of qubits used and the chain length distribution. We conclude by briefly addressing the problem of circumventing inoperable qubits by presenting possible extensions of our method.     

The influence of nanocrystalline state of iron on the corrosion inhibitor behavior in aqueous solution

Effect of grain size reduction on the electrochemical and corrosion behavior of iron of different grain sizes (32–320 nm) produced by direct and pulsed current electrodeposition was characterized using Tafel polarization curves and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The grain size of deposits was determined by X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The most intensive first-order peak (110) of the XRD patterns was taken for detailed analysis using a Gaussian fitting curve. The electrochemical tests were carried out in electrolyte 30 mg L⁻¹ NaCl + 70 mg L⁻¹ Na₂SO₄ + 250 mg L⁻¹ NaNO₂ aqueous solution. It was found that the corrosion potential and corrosion current density significantly changed as the microstructure morphology was changed. Results obtained from electrochemical tests suggested that the inhibition effect and corrosion protection of sodium nitrite inhibitor in near-neutral aqueous solutions increased as the grain size decreased from submicrocrystalline to nanocrystalline. This was attributed to the excess free energy, and concomitantly the increased number of the active sites caused by higher grain boundary and triple junction content in the nanocrystalline surface, which provides sites for electrochemical activity, and effect of sodium nitrite, was more pronounced.     

粉末冶金法制备的Mg-5Zn-0.3Ca/nHA生物复合材料的体外降解和细胞毒性（英文）

采用纯Mg、Zn、Ca粉末和纳米羟基磷灰石(nH A)粉末,通过粉末冶金方法制备Mg-5Zn-0.3Ca/nHA生物复合材料,研究不同nHA增强相含量(1%、2.5%和5%,质量分数)对Mg-5Zn-0.3Ca合金腐蚀性能的影响。通过模拟体液浸泡试验和电化学技术测试其耐腐蚀性。结果显示,添加1%和2.5%的nH A提高镁合金的耐腐蚀性,这是因为生物活性nH A促进稳定的磷酸盐和碳酸盐表面沉积层的形成,从而提高纳米复合材料的耐蚀性。然而,在镁合金中添加更高含量的nH A作为增强相时,表面沉积层的密度增加,导致局部腐蚀产生的气体无法及时排出而聚集在沉积层下,减小层与基体的粘着力,导致耐腐蚀性能下降。对镁合金及其纳米复合材料的间接细胞毒性评价表明其浸提液无细胞毒性,添加1%nHA的纳米复合材料的测试结果与阴性对照组几乎相似。     

Influence of heat treatment temperature on the electrochemical properties and corrosion behavior of RuO2-TiO2 coating in acidic chloride solution

MMO (mixed metal oxide) anodes were prepared by depositing 60RuO₂-40TiO₂ coating on titanium substrate by the thermal decomposition of Ru and Ti chloride solution. The thin oxide films were prepared at different calcination temperatures. The effect of heat treatment temperature on electrochemically active surface area was investigated by cyclic voltammetry. Stability of the mixed oxide coating during electrolysis was evaluated in 0.5 M NaCl solution using cyclic voltammetry (CV), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX) and potentiodynamic polarization. The changes in voltammetric charge, current density and Tafel slope of cholrine evolution reaction with time were monitored during the electrolysis. The morphology and surface composition of the oxide coated anodes before and after accelerated life test (ALT) were analyzed. Deactivation process of the oxide coated anodes was also studied. High temperature preparation of the coatings can change the deactivation mechanism and improve the anodes stability through the changes in electrochemical porosity. Based on the obtained results, different mechanisms for degradation in electro catalytic activity were discussed.