Design procedure for low-drag subsonic airfoils

Airfoil has least amount of drag under given restrictions of boundary layer transition position, lift coefficient, thickness ratio, and Reynolds number based on airfoil chord. It is suitable for use as wing and propeller aircraft sections operating at subsonic speeds and for hydrofoil sections and blades for fans, compressors, turbines, and windmills

Comparison of differential gain in single quantum well and bulk double heterostructure lasers

The differential gain in single quantum well and bulk double heterostructure lasers is compared. In variance with previous predictions, no differential gain enhancement is found in single quantum well structure lasers at room temperature. Only at low temperatures do the quantum well lasers possess higher differential gain than bulk double heterostructure lasers. The results have important implications in the area of high speed phenomena for these devices

Electro-optic scanning of light coupled from a corrugated LiNbO3 waveguide

Light diffracted from a grating output coupler in a Ti-diffused LiNbO3 waveguide is scanned electro-optically. Using a coupling length of 2.5 mm in our arrangement we have demonstrated a scanning capability of one resolved spot per 3 V/µm applied field

Consistency of Markov chain quasi-Monte Carlo on continuous state spaces

The random numbers driving Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation are usually modeled as independent U(0,1) random variables. Tribble [Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms using completely uniformly distributed driving sequences (2007) Stanford Univ.] reports substantial improvements when those random numbers are replaced by carefully balanced inputs from completely uniformly distributed sequences. The previous theoretical justification for using anything other than i.i.d. U(0,1) points shows consistency for estimated means, but only applies for discrete stationary distributions. We extend those results to some MCMC algorithms for continuous stationary distributions. The main motivation is the search for quasi-Monte Carlo versions of MCMC. As a side benefit, the results also establish consistency for the usual method of using pseudo-random numbers in place of random ones.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOS831 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org

A comparison of amplitude-phase coupling and linewidth enhancement in semiconductor quantum-well and bulk lasers

The amplitude-phase coupling factor α (linewidth enhancement factor) is compared for typical semiconductor quantum-well and bulk double heterostructure lasers. As a direct consequence of the reduction of the differential gain, there is no reduction of α in single-quantum-well lasers compared to bulk lasers. The number of quantum wells strongly affects the amplitude-phase coupling in quantum-well lasers. It is shown that the interband transition induced amplitude-phase coupling dominates that induced by the plasma effect of carriers in typical quantum-well lasers. By considering the spontaneous emission factor in the spectral linewidth, the authors show that there is an optimal number of quantum wells for achieving the narrowest spectral linewidth

Nanocrystalline iron at high pressure

X-ray diffraction measurements were performed on nanocrystalline iron up to 46 GPa. For nanocrystalline epsilon-Fe, analysis of lattice parameter data provides a bulk modulus, K, of 179±8 GPa and a pressure derivative of the bulk modulus, K[prime], of 3.6±0.7, similar to the large-grained control sample. The extrapolated zero-pressure unit cell volume of nanocrystalline epsilon-Fe is 22.9±0.2 Å^3, compared to 22.3±0.2 Å^3 for large-grained epsilon-Fe. No significant grain growth was observed to occur under pressure

Two-flux Colliding Plane Waves in String Theory

We construct the two-flux colliding plane wave solutions in higher dimensional gravity theory with dilaton, and two complementary fluxes. Two kinds of solutions has been obtained: Bell-Szekeres(BS) type and homogeneous type. After imposing the junction condition, we find that only Bell-Szekeres type solution is physically well-defined. Furthermore, we show that the future curvature singularity is always developed for our solutions.Comment: 16 pages, Latex; typoes corrected; references added, minor modification

Temperature variation of the resistivity of metallic strain gauge materials Final report

Temperature effects on electrical resistivity of metallic strain gage material

Structural properties of bismuth-bearing semiconductor alloys

The structural properties of bismuth-bearing III-V semiconductor alloys are addressed. Because the Bi compounds are not known to form zincblende structures, only the anion-substituted alloys InPBi, InAsBi, and InSbBi are considered candidates as narrow-gap semiconductors. Miscibility calculations indicate that InSbBi will be the most miscible, and InPBi, with the large lattice mismatch of the constituents, will be the most difficult to mix. Calculations of the hardness of the Bi compounds indicate that, once formed, the InPBi alloy will be harder than the other Bi alloys, and substantially harder than the currently favored narrow-gap semiconductor HgCdTe. Thus, although InSbBi may be an easier material to prepare, InPBi promises to be a harder material. Growth of the Bi compounds will require high effective growth temperatures, probably attainable only through the use of nonequilibrium energy-assisted epitaxial growth techniques