Microstructural and piezoelectric properties of low temperature sintering PMN-PZT ceramics with the amount of Li2CO3 addition

PMN-PZT ceramics doped with Li₂CO₃ and Bi₂O₃ as sintering aids were manufactured in order to develop the low temperature sintering ceramics for multilayer piezoelectric transformer, and their micro structural, dielectric and piezoelectric properties were investigated. The sintering aids were proved to lower the sintering temperature of doped PMN-PZT ceramics due to the effect of LiBiO₂ liquid phase. Optimal values for multilayer piezoelectric transformer application, such as electromechanical coupling factor (k_p) of 0.50, mechanical quality factor (Q_m) of 2264, and dielectric constant (K) of 1216, and curie temperature (T_c) of 317 °C were found at 0.1 wt.% Li₂CO₃ added ceramics sintered at 940 °C.     

Automatic control of workflow processes using ECA rules

Changes in recent business environments have created the necessity for a more efficient and effective business process management. The workflow management system is software that assists in defining business processes as well as automatically controlling the execution of the processes. We propose a new approach to the automatic execution of business processes using event-condition-action (ECA) rules that can be automatically triggered by an active database. First of all, we propose the concept of blocks that can classify process flows into several patterns. A block is a minimal unit that can specify the behaviors represented in a process model. An algorithm is developed to detect blocks from a process definition network and transform it into a hierarchical tree model. The behaviors in each block type are modeled using ACTA formalism. This provides a theoretical basis from which ECA rules are identified. The proposed ECA rule-based approach shows that it is possible to execute the workflow using the active capability of database without users' intervention. The operation of the proposed methods is illustrated through an example process.     

Efficiency enhancement of dye-sensitized solar cells with addition of additives (single/binary) to ionic liquid electrolyte

The effect of addition of single and binary additives on the performance of dye-sensitized TiO₂ solar cells based on electrolytes containing an ionic liquid (IL), 1,2-dimethyl-3-propylimidazolium iodide (DMPII) has been studied. Among the seven additives used, the addition of 2-(dimethylamino)-pyridine (DMAP) to IL resulted in best cell efficiency, which showed further enhancement with the addition of 5-chloro-1-ethyl-2-methylimidazole (CEMI) as second additive. The efficiency of the dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) based on an electrolyte containing binary additives (DMAP and CEMI in equal molar ratios) has been found to increase by 62·5% from 4·35 to 7·07%. The dependence of different photovoltaic performance parameters (V _oc, J _sc, ff, η) of DSC upon temperature has been studied over a 30–120°C range and only a small decrease in conversion efficiency has been observed. The electrolyte containing binary additives (DMAP and CEMI) shows best cell performance up to 120°C.     

STRESS CONTROLLED FERROELECTRIC (BA0.5Sr0.5)TiO3 THIN FILMS PREPARED ON GD2O3/SRTiO3(001) BY A PULSED LASER DEPOSITION

ABSTRACT

Stress controlled epitaxial ferroelectric Ba_0.5Sr_0.5TiO₃ (BST) films have been deposited on Gd₂O₃/SrTiO₃ by pulsed laser deposition with oxygen background pressure of 200 mTorr at the deposition temperature of 750°C. In order to control the stress in BST films, oxygen pressures for Gd₂O₃ buffer layers have been varied from 0.1 to 100 mTorr, while that of BST films have been fixed at 200 mTorr. It has been found that the lattice parameters of the BST films deposited on Gd₂O₃ were changed. Furthermore, microwave properties of co-planar waveguide (CPW) fabricated on BST films were investigated by a HP 8510C vector network analyzer from 1–20 GHz. Large dielectric tunabilities were observed from the CPW's fabricated on BST films deposited on Gd₂O₃ layers deposited at low and high oxygen pressures, 0.1 and 100 mTorr, respectively.     

Adaptive Step Size Control of LMS-based Interference Cancellationfor ICS Repeater in Wibro Environment

The use of repeater for the support of high rate data transmission and the extension of cell coverage is imperative for the Wibrc system,which based on the IEEE 8M.16e standardization.Generally,if the separation between transmitting and receiving antennas isnot sufficient,the oscillation of repeater and the interference due to the feedback signals from original transmitted signal may be ocerur.Hence,the Interference Cancellation System(ICS)should be implemented as the important part of the repeater system far the mobile cellular systems in order to eliminate unwanted signals from the corruptW signals in the receiver.In this paper,we propose an adaptive technique for the Least Mean Square(LMS)-based interference cancellation methods by changing the step size according to the variation of channel environment in order to improve the performance degradation which oceuurs by using the fixed step size approach.Simrlatim results show that the proposed sclxme attains a little lower Berafor Rate(BER)performance and much faster convergence speed compared to the conventional LMS-based interference cancellation techniques.The proposed scheme can be applied to other Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple(OFDM)-based cellular systems and also be expected to achieve a similar performance improvement to W17-advanced system,which is called as the next generation mobile communication standards.     

柔性船板折弯模具有限元仿真分析及实验研究

根据船板厚度及宽度的不同,设计了一可调式柔性船板折弯模具,并建立了模具的有限元模型;采用接触法对折弯模具的可靠性以及船板弯曲力和模具的受力、应力应变情况进行了仿真分析.仿真及实验结果表明,所建立的有限元模型是正确的,所设计的模具能够满足使用要求.     

An Endosymbiotic Evolutionary Algorithm for Optimization

This paper proposes a new symbiotic evolutionary algorithm to solve complex optimization problems. This algorithm imitates the natural evolution process of endosymbionts, which is called endosymbiotic evolutionary algorithm. Existing symbiotic algorithms take the strategy that the evolution of symbionts is separated from the host. In the natural world, prokaryotic cells that are originally independent organisms are combined into an eukaryotic cell. The basic idea of the proposed algorithm is the incorporation of the evolution of the eukaryotic cells into the existing symbiotic algorithms. In the proposed algorithm, the formation and evolution of the endosymbionts is based on fitness, as it can increase the adaptability of the individuals and the search efficiency. In addition, a localized coevolutionary strategy is employed to maintain the population diversity. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is a promising approach to solving complex problems that are composed of multiple sub- problems interrelated with each other.     

位置服务中对移动物体的时空索引

在TPR*-tree的基础上提出了DTPR*-tree索引结构, 引进了事务时间和有效时间.它能索引移动物体过去、当前和未来的位置信息,支持基本位置查询和空间约束查询,有很好的空间、查询和更新效率.