Through a bioreplication approach, we have fabricated artificial visual decoys for the invasive species Agrilus planipen- nis--commonly known as the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB). The mating behavior of this species invol...
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Through a bioreplication approach, we have fabricated artificial visual decoys for the invasive species Agrilus planipen- nis--commonly known as the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB). The mating behavior of this species involves an overflying EAB male pouncing on an EAB female at rest on an ash leaflet before copulating. The male spots the female on the leaflet by visually detecting the iridescent green color of the female's elytra. As rearing EAB and then deploying dead females as decoys for trapping is both arduous and inconvenient, we decided to fabricate artificial decoys. We used a dead female to make a negative die of nickel and a positive die of epoxy. Decoys were then made by first depositing a quarter-wave-stack Bragg reflector on a polymer sheet and then stamping it with a pair of matched negative and positive dies to take the shape of the upper surface of an EAB female. As nearly 100 artificial decoys were fabricated from just one EAB female, this bioreplication process is industrially scalable. Preliminary results from a field trapping test are indicative of success.
Three types of silica materials with different morphology, specifically SiO2 hollow microspheres, mesoporous silica, and silica aerogel were tested as potential precursors for synthesis of silicon nano- and meso-struc...
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Optimal spatial sampling of light rigorously requires that identical photoreceptors be arranged in perfectly regular arrays in two dimensions. Examples of such perfect arrays in nature include the compound eyes of ins...
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Optimal spatial sampling of light rigorously requires that identical photoreceptors be arranged in perfectly regular arrays in two dimensions. Examples of such perfect arrays in nature include the compound eyes of insects and the nearly crystalline photoreceptor patterns of some fish and reptiles. Birds are highly visual animals with five different cone photoreceptor subtypes, yet their photoreceptor patterns are not perfectly regular. By analyzing the chicken cone photoreceptor system consisting of five different cell types using a variety of sensitive microstructural descriptors, we find that the disordered photoreceptor patterns are “hyperuniform” (exhibiting vanishing infinite-wavelength density fluctuations), a property that had heretofore been identified in a unique subset of physical systems, but had never been observed in any living organism. Remarkably, the patterns of both the total population and the individual cell types are simultaneously hyperuniform. We term such patterns “multihyperuniform” because multiple distinct subsets of the overall point pattern are themselves hyperuniform. We have devised a unique multiscale cell packing model in two dimensions that suggests that photoreceptor types interact with both short- and long-ranged repulsive forces and that the resultant competition between the types gives rise to the aforementioned singular spatial features characterizing the system, including multihyperuniformity. These findings suggest that a disordered hyperuniform pattern may represent the most uniform sampling arrangement attainable in the avian system, given intrinsic packing constraints within the photoreceptor epithelium. In addition, they show how fundamental physical constraints can change the course of a biological optimization process. Our results suggest that multihyperuniform disordered structures have implications for the design of materials with novel physical properties and therefore may represent a fruitful area for future research
ABAQUS FE simulations of hydrogen diffusion in duplex stainless steel have been performed. Hydrogen diffusion has been evaluated as a function of austenite phase size and shape. Hydrogen concentration due to stress an...
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We apply ultrafast x-ray diffraction with femtosecond temporal resolution to monitor the lattice dynamics in a thin film of multiferroic BiFeO3 after above-band-gap photoexcitation. The sound-velocity limited evolutio...
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We apply ultrafast x-ray diffraction with femtosecond temporal resolution to monitor the lattice dynamics in a thin film of multiferroic BiFeO3 after above-band-gap photoexcitation. The sound-velocity limited evolution of the observed lattice strains indicates a quasi-instantaneous photoinduced stress which decays on a nanosecond time scale. This stress exhibits an inhomogeneous spatial profile evidenced by the broadening of the Bragg peak. These new data require substantial modification of existing models of photogenerated stresses in BiFeO3: the relevant excited charge carriers must remain localized to be consistent with the data.
Electroless nickel with immersion gold (ENIG) process has been widely used as a surface finishing for PCB (Printed Circuit Board). The ENIG process provides a uniform coating on Cu layer without any complex patterning...
Electroless nickel with immersion gold (ENIG) process has been widely used as a surface finishing for PCB (Printed Circuit Board). The ENIG process provides a uniform coating on Cu layer without any complex patterning process, and so it has wide and diverse electronic industrial applications; fine pitch surface mount, ball grid array(BGA), flip chip BGA packages and so on. However, there is a reliability issue in the ENIG process. Many researchers have pointed out that severe corrosion of electroless Ni surface is the one of the major factors to reliability failure. In the extreme case, it is known as the black pad which caused a failure of solder joint. A content of phosphorous higher than Ni-P deposits was detected on the failed pad surface, and galvanic cell formation resulted into the corrosion due to the difference of P concentration. The Ni surface has a mud-cracked appearance and the phosphorous content is abnormally higher (exceeding 10 wt%). Another similar issue related to ENIG process is pad discoloration due to Ni oxidation on the top of ENIG pad. Such discoloration pad is regarded as a failure due to cosmetic reason and a lack of clear standards. Sometimes, it actually leads to high contact resistance due to Ni oxides on the top of ENIG layer. Excessive oxidation of Ni layer may result in the non-wetting of solder to the ENIG layer during the reflow process for solder ball attachment because it is difficult for the flux to remove such excessive oxides. The Ni oxidation may be owing to Ni cation diffusion passing through Au immersion during wet process such as rinsing steps in the downstream process after ENIG treatment, which is an electrochemical phenomenon as well. Here, the pad discoloration of Ni corrosion during Electroless nickel with immersion gold (ENIG) treatment was investigated by SEM, XPS and cross-sectional EDS analysis. The Ni corrosion happened at the nodule boundary for relatively thinner layer whereas the corrosion pits were generated i
We demonstrate fast universal electrical spin manipulation with inhomogeneous magnetic fields. With fast Rabi frequency up to 127 MHz, we leave the conventional regime of strong nuclear-spin influence and observe a sp...
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We demonstrate fast universal electrical spin manipulation with inhomogeneous magnetic fields. With fast Rabi frequency up to 127 MHz, we leave the conventional regime of strong nuclear-spin influence and observe a spin-flip fidelity >96%, a distinct chevron Rabi pattern in the spectral-time domain, and a spin resonance linewidth limited by the Rabi frequency, not by the dephasing rate. In addition, we establish fast z rotations up to 54 MHz by directly controlling the spin phase. Our findings will significantly facilitate tomography and error correction with electron spins in quantum dots.
Electroless nickel-phosphorus coatings are important for corrosion and wear protection. The preparation of electroless nickel-phosphorus coating on carbon steel substrate in an ammonia free friendly bath consisting of...
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