This study reports the enhanced ferromagnetic ordering in ZnO:Mn nanoparticle thin films, grown at different substrate temperatures using pulsed laser deposition. The optimum growth conditions were deduced from X-ray,...
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This study reports the enhanced ferromagnetic ordering in ZnO:Mn nanoparticle thin films, grown at different substrate temperatures using pulsed laser deposition. The optimum growth conditions were deduced from X-ray, photoemission and magnetic measurements. The X-ray measurements reveal that there was an optimum substrate temperature where the thin films showed relatively stronger texture, better crystallinity and lower strain. Substrate temperature tuned the deep level recombination centers in ZnO:Mn , which changed the optical quality by altering the electronic structure. The M-H curves, in the present study, revealed superior ferromagnetic response of 20-nm sized particles in ZnO:Mn thin film grown at a substrate temperature of 450 °C. Ferromagnetic ordering becomes weaker at higher/lower substrate temperatures due to the activation of native defects in ZnO host matrix.
Falling parallelograms exhibit coupled motion of autogyration and tumbling, similar to the motion of falling tulip seeds, unlike maple seeds which autogyrate but do not tumble, or rectangular cards which tumble but do...
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Falling parallelograms exhibit coupled motion of autogyration and tumbling, similar to the motion of falling tulip seeds, unlike maple seeds which autogyrate but do not tumble, or rectangular cards which tumble but do not gyrate. This coupled tumbling and autogyrating motion are robust, when card parameters, such as aspect ratio, internal angle, and mass density, are varied. We measure the three-dimensional (3D) falling kinematics of the parallelograms and quantify their descending speed, azimuthal rotation, tumbling rotation, and cone angle in each falling. The cone angle is insensitive to the variation of the card parameters, and the card tumbling axis does not overlap with but is close to the diagonal axis. In addition to this connection to the dynamics of falling seeds, these trajectories provide an ideal set of data to analyze 3D aerodynamic force and torque at an intermediate range of Reynolds numbers, and the results will be useful for constructing 3D aerodynamic force and torque models. Tracking these free falling trajectories gives us a nonintrusive method for deducing instantaneous aerodynamic forces. We determine the 3D aerodynamic forces and torques based on Newton-Euler equations. The dynamical analysis reveals that, although the angle of attack changes dramatically during tumbling, the aerodynamic forces have a weak dependence on the angle of attack. The aerodynamic lift is dominated by the coupling of translational and rotational velocities. The aerodynamic torque has an unexpectedly large component perpendicular to the card. The analysis of the Euler equation suggests that this large torque is related to the deviation of the tumbling axis from the principle axis of the card.
Osteolysis is a debilitating condition that can occur behind the acetabular component of total hip replacements due to wear of the polyethylene liner. Conventional treatment techniques suggest replacing the component,...
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(纸本)9781467356404
Osteolysis is a debilitating condition that can occur behind the acetabular component of total hip replacements due to wear of the polyethylene liner. Conventional treatment techniques suggest replacing the component, while less-invasive approaches attempt to access and clean the lesion through the screw holes in the component. However, current rigid tools have been shown to access at most 50% of the lesion. Using a recently developed dexterous manipulator, we have adapted a group-theoretic convolution framework to define the manipulator's workspace and its ability to fully explore a lesion. We compared this with the experimental exploration of a printed model of the lesion. This convolution approach successfully contains the experimental results and shows over 98.8% volumetric coverage of a complex lesion. The results suggest this manipulator as a possible solution to accessing much of the area unreachable to the conventional less-invasive technique.
Ab initio calculations have been performed on all solid phases of U metal and U-Zr alloy, the basis of a promising metallic fuel for fast nuclear reactors. Based on generalized gradient approximation, both density fun...
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Ab initio calculations have been performed on all solid phases of U metal and U-Zr alloy, the basis of a promising metallic fuel for fast nuclear reactors. Based on generalized gradient approximation, both density functional theory (DFT) in its standard form and the so-called DFT plus Hubbard U (DFT+U) modification are evaluated. The evolution of calculated energetics, volume, magnetic moments, electronic structure, and f-orbital occupation as functions of the effective Hubbard U parameter, Ueff, is carefully examined at Ueff from 0 to 4 eV. DFT is found to overestimate energetics, underestimate volume, downward shift some f bands near Fermi level and overestimate f-orbital occupation against existing experimental and/or computational data. The error is ∼0.07 eV/atom in terms of enthalpy, which affects phase stability modeling for δ(U,Zr) and γ(U,Zr). DFT+U at Ueff=1−1.5 eV offers clear improvement on these calculated properties (∼0.05 eV/atom in terms of enthalpy) and in general still neither promotes ordered magnetic moments nor opens unphysical band gaps, which occur at higher Ueff values. The empirical Ueff values of 1–1.5 eV are close to but smaller than the theoretical estimations of 1.9–2.3 eV that we obtain from the linear response approach. Ueff is found to vary only slightly (≤0.24 eV) between different phases and at different compositions of U and U-Zr; thus, a single Ueff=1.24 eV, which is the statistical optimal from energetic fitting, is suggested for both U and U-Zr. Besides correlation, the relativistic effect of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is also systematically explored. SOC is found to lower energy, increase volume, and split the 5f shell above Fermi level and reduce f-orbital occupation. The effect predominates in the unoccupied states and is very small on all these calculated ground state properties (∼0.02 eV/atom in terms of enthalpy).
A microfabricated optofluidic ring resonator (μOFRR) sensor for volatile organic compounds (VOC) is described. SiOx optical resonators integrated into a microfluidic pathway were defined lithographically and fabricat...
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Nanomechanical properties were investigated for the reactive pulsed laser deposited (PLD) superconducting NbNx thin films grown on Si(100) at constant substrate temperature of 800°C using three different backgrou...
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(纸本)9781118605813
Nanomechanical properties were investigated for the reactive pulsed laser deposited (PLD) superconducting NbNx thin films grown on Si(100) at constant substrate temperature of 800°C using three different background nitrogen gas pressures (200, 400 and 500 mTorr). The Cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and atomic force microscopy (AFM) were employed to characterize the films' surface structure and morphology. Superconductivity was determined by performing resistance measurements. Nanoindentation technique was used to evaluate the hardness and modulus of the films. The results indicate that the background pressure impacted the crystalline quality, morphology, superconductivity and the hardness of the films. As the background pressure increases to 500 mTorr, improved superconducting properties and higher hardness (17.5±1.5 GPa at 20 nm depth) values were reported as compared to the other two samples.
The concept of carbon nanotube interlayer was successfully introduced to carbon fiber/epoxy composites. This new hybrid laminated composites was characterized by Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, scanning electro...
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It is presently believed that flows of viscoelastic polymer solutions in geometries such as a straight pipe or channel are linearly stable. Here we present experimental evidence that such flows can be nonlinearly unst...
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It is presently believed that flows of viscoelastic polymer solutions in geometries such as a straight pipe or channel are linearly stable. Here we present experimental evidence that such flows can be nonlinearly unstable and can exhibit a subcritical bifurcation. Velocimetry measurements are performed in a long, straight microchannel; flow disturbances are introduced at the entrance of the channel system by placing a variable number of obstacles. Above a critical flow rate and a critical size of the perturbation, a sudden onset of large velocity fluctuations indicates the presence of a nonlinear subcritical instability. Together with the previous observations of hydrodynamic instabilities in curved geometries, our results suggest that any flow of polymer solutions becomes unstable at sufficiently high flow rates.
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