Preparation of patterned SiC and SiCN microstructures

With the development of modern science and technology, the importance of small structures or microstructures (such as the fluidic nanostructure or microreactor[1], the in- tegrate circuit in microelectronics[2], the factory in a chip[3,4], etc.) has been incarnated day by day in the fields of microelectronics, micro-optical systems, microanalytical sys- tems, microelectromechanical systems and cytobiology. And the fabrication technique (microfabrication) of the small structures has become the h…     

水热法制备PEMFC用Pt/CNT电催化剂

首次使用水热法制备用于质子交换膜燃料电池(PEMFC)的Pt/CNT。首先使用HNO3-H2O2体系对纳米碳管(CNT)进行预处理并用红外线(IR)光谱进行表征,结果表明,预处理过程打开了CNT端口并去除了大量杂质。在水热法实验中,反应温度和时间是决定铂颗粒大小的重要因素。样品的X射线衍射仪(XRD)和透射电子显微镜法(TEM)分析表明:最优的反应条件是在140℃反应1.5h,此时铂颗粒的平均尺寸小于1.94nm,并且有着狭窄的粒径分布;催化剂中Pt的质量百分含量为40%。该水热法使用常规试剂H2PtCl6·2H2O和HCHO溶液,操作简单,是一个制备Pt/CNT催化剂较好的方法。     

大型汽轮发电机主绝缘耐压和电老化试验中定子线棒端部防晕技术的研究

大型汽轮发电机在主绝缘耐压和电老化试验中,可能出现定子线棒端部闪络和防晕层过热的情况,从而损伤主绝缘,影响试验顺利进行。本文通过建立真机线棒端部的Pspice仿真模型,模拟了线棒端部绝缘表面电场分布,分析了端部闪络的原因。通过进一步的仿真研究,提出了线棒端部防晕的技术方案,并试制了线棒端部防晕装置。试验结果表明,该防晕装置可有效防止线棒端部闪络和防晕层过热。     

Performance improvement using time delays in multivariable controller design

A new controller for linear multivariable ordinary systems is suggested in which distributed delays are included in the feedback loop. A general design approach to obtain this type of controller is suggested. It is shown that the resulting closed-loop system is asymptotically stable under some sufficient conditions. Sufficient conditions are derived under which the disturbance attenuation, the robustness against parameter variations, and the time-delay stability margins are improved by the proposed controller. The state feedback tracking controller and the dual-state observer are obtained by modification of the proposed controller.     

Modified analogue forecasting in the hidden Markov frameworkfor meteorological droughts

An analogue method(AM) is a nonparametric approach that has been applied to predict the future states of a dynamic system by following the evolution of the analogues in the historical archive. In this study, we proposed a hidden Markov model(HMM)framework for a modified analogue forecasting(MAF) approach for meteorological droughts in Korea. The unobservable(hidden) state process in the framework aims to model the underlying drought state, while the observation process was formed from the time series of the standardized precipitation index(SPI) as a drought index. Within the framework, the likelihood estimator was used as the measure of similarity between past SPI analogues and current data. The MAF approach was conducted on the selected analogues to make forecasts at lead times of one and three months. The proposed model was applied to five selected stations in Korea using the SPI data from 1973 to 2016. The forecasting performance of the proposed model was tested during the validation period(2003–2016) using several statistical criteria and it was compared to a persistence-based benchmark model. The results showed significant improvement in the forecasting capacity, and satisfactory performance for numerical SPI forecasting and categorical drought forecasting. The results also suggested that the proposed model was able to provide useful information for determining future drought categories for early drought warning with a lead time of up to three months.     

Effect of pulse time on surface characteristics and corrosion resistance during pulse electrochemical polishing

Pulse electrochemical polishing (PECP) was used to improve the mechanical properties,such as surface roughness and corrosion resistance,of conductive metallic materials.PECP can provide a smooth,bright,reflective,and deburred surface that exhibits superior corrosion resistance.In this work,stainless steel was used as the anode,and copper was used as the cathode due to their low electrical resistances.The surface roughness of the PECP sample was measured by atomic force microscopy (AFM).A scanning electron microscope (SEM) was used to observe surface characteristics,and an Auger electron spectroscope (AES) was used to analyze the metallurgical composition and thickness of the passive film.The aim of this research was to compare the corrosion resistance rates of the unprocessed and PECP-processed stainless steel.     

High-performance and current crowding-free InGaN-GaNbased LEDs integrated by an electrically-reverse-connected Schottky diode and a Mg-delta doped p-GaN

This work demonstrates high-performance and current crowding-free InGaN/GaN light-emitting diodes (LEDs) using an electrically-reverse-connected Schottky diode (SD) and an Mg-delta (δ) doped layer.Poss...     

Wear of diamond particles for grinding ceramics

The relative wear of a single point diamond, defined in terms of the grinding force, was determined for a group of A1₂O₃ and Si₃N₄. It was found that the wear rate is directly related to the mechanical properties of the workpiece and the grinding environment.