A low profile microstrip antenna with adjustable bandwidth around 3 GHz is proposed. The compact antenna consists of a square patch with a square aperture to tune the resonance center frequency. The input impedance ba...
A low profile microstrip antenna with adjustable bandwidth around 3 GHz is proposed. The compact antenna consists of a square patch with a square aperture to tune the resonance center frequency. The input impedance bandwidth is about 2.67% with stable gain around 3.2 dBi. Besides, the 3-dB beam width is about 100°. Both the side-fed and bottom-fed modes are analyzed. According to the simulation, good broadside radiation patterns with low cross polarizations are observed in the two principal planes. The detailed design considerations are described and discussed while the surface current distribution and radiation characteristics are analyzed. This design is suitable for mobile wireless communication.
Thick SU8 microstructures with high aspect ratio and good side wall quality were fabricated by ultraviolet (UV) lithography, and the processing parameters were comprehensively studied. It proves that the adhesion of...
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Thick SU8 microstructures with high aspect ratio and good side wall quality were fabricated by ultraviolet (UV) lithography, and the processing parameters were comprehensively studied. It proves that the adhesion of SU8 on silicon (Si) substrates is influenced by Si-OH on the surface, and can be improved by the HF treatment. Cracks and de- lamination are caused by large internal stress during fabrication process, and are significantly influenced by soft bake and post-exposure bake processes. The internal stress is reduced by a low post-exposure bake exposure tem- perature of 85 ℃ for 40 rain. A three-step soft bake enhances the reflowing ofSU8 photoresist, and results in uni- form surface and less air bubbles. The vertical side wall is obtained with the optimized exposure dose of 800 mJ/cm2 for the thickness of 160 μm. Using the optimized fabrication process combined with a proper structure design, dense SU8 micro pillars are achieved with the aspect ratio of 10 and the taper angle of 89.86°. Finally, some possible ap- plications of SU8 in micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) device are developed and demonstrated.
Metal matrix microencapsulated (M3) fuel is one of the research directions on Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF). In this article, it provides one of ATF design which consists of BISO (Bistructural ISOtropic) particles embe...
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The fully ceramic microencapsulated (FCM) fuel is based on tristructural isotropic (TRISO) coated particles embedded in silicon carbide (SiC) matrix, which is among the accident tolerant fuel concept options. With the...
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The fully ceramic microencapsulated (FCM) fuel is based on tristructural isotropic (TRISO) coated particles embedded in silicon carbide (SiC) matrix, which is among the accident tolerant fuel concept options. With the strength of high fission product retention, the FCM fuel provides potential superior safety performance. Compared to the conventional standard UO2 fuel, the deficiency of FCM fuel is its considerable lower fissile inventory, which results in a reduced reactor power or/and life. Supposing the FCM fuel is used as direct replacement of the fuel in commercial PWRs, the spectrum is softened due to the usage of SiC as matrix, and the moderator temperature coefficient is possible to be positive at the beginning of life, leading to high risk during operation. A neutronic feasibility study of FCM fuel utilized in commercial PWRs is performed in the paper. The fuel enrichment and undermoderated lattice are evaluated by analyzing the typical TRISO particle with UO2 kernels which is widely used in high temperature gas reactors and that with enlarged UN fuel kernels. It was found that under the mandatory constraint of low enriched uranium, the FCM fuel with UO2 kernels, although relatively mature, is only capable of small reactordesigns, and the assembly lattice needs to be modified. The FCM fuel with UN kernels, when directly loading in the commercial PWRs, can yield comparable reactor power and life;however, a higher fuel enrichment and the fuel design and fabrication need to be optimized.
As an important structure parameter, contact angle is also a judgement factor for the working performance of ball bearings. However, under some conditions, the ball may roll over the raceway shoulder, and contact angl...
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We experimentally demonstrate the formation of salt aggregations with unexpectedly high concentration inside multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) soaked only in dilute salt solutions and even in solutions containing o...
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Experiments were carried out to study the thermal hydraulic behaviors in a narrow rectangular channel under bottom reflooding conditions. The channel is formed between a stainless steel heating plate and a transparent...
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Experiments were carried out to study the thermal hydraulic behaviors in a narrow rectangular channel under bottom reflooding conditions. The channel is formed between a stainless steel heating plate and a transparent heatproof glass and dimensions of the channel are 600 mm in height, 60 mm in width and 4 mm of gap thickness. All the parameters (such as initial wall temperature, inlet velocity and systematic pressure) affect the heat transfer features during quenching process. The experimental results illustrate that for a given initial surface temperature, rewetting velocity increases with the increasing flow rate and increasing systematic pressure, while it decreases with the increasing initial surface temperature. With different flow rate and system pressure, the rewetting temperature is almost the same, but it varies when initial surface temperature is different.
Motivated by the rapid development of energy harvesting technology and content-aware communication in access networks, this paper considers the push mechanism design in small-cell base stations (SBSs) powered by renew...
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Power electronic devices are the core components of modern power converters,not only for normal applications,but also for extreme *** design of power electronic devices require large redundancies for *** results in hu...
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Power electronic devices are the core components of modern power converters,not only for normal applications,but also for extreme *** design of power electronic devices require large redundancies for *** results in huge volume and weight for a large-capacity power converter,especially for some extreme ***,to optimize the power density,the reliability of power devices needs to be investigated first in order to obtain the accurate operational margin of a power *** much research on device failure analysis has been reported,there still lacks efficient failure evaluation *** paper first summarizes the current failure ***,a three-step failure analysis method of power electronic devices is proposed as:failure information collection,failure identification and mechanism,and failure *** physics-based modeling method is emphasized since it has a strong relationship with the device *** that,power electronic device applications under extreme conditions are introduced and a design method of device under extreme conditions is proposed based on the thermal equilibrium ***,the challenges and prospects to improve the power device reliability under extreme conditions are concluded.
As a new kind of Zr-Sn-Nb series alloy, N36 has not been explored in irradiation growth behavior before. In this paper, four empirical correlations including power, logarithmic, exponential and hyperbolic tangent law ...
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As a new kind of Zr-Sn-Nb series alloy, N36 has not been explored in irradiation growth behavior before. In this paper, four empirical correlations including power, logarithmic, exponential and hyperbolic tangent law were used to build irradiation growth model of N36 zirconium alloy preliminarily. Before that, lengths of the fuel rods with N36 claddings from poolside measurement were analyzed to get irradiation growth strains, which were then used to fit the four empirical correlations mentioned above. Distribution of fast fluence along axial direction of tubes was considered in all irradiation growth models. The fitting results showed that the hyperbolic tangent law fit irradiation growth strains the best, while power law did the worst. In order to improve the precision of the hyperbolic tangent model, several improvements were done. Verification and validation of the improved hyperbolic tangent irradiation growth model suggested that the size of second phase may have an influence on irradiation growth behavior of N36 tubes.
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