135 research outputs found
Particle Jetting Induced by the Impulsive Loadings
Particle rings/shells/cylinders dispersed by the radial impulsive loadings ranging from strong blast waves to moderate shock waves form a dual coherent jetting structure consisting of particle jets which have different dimensions. In both circumstances, the primary jets are found to initiate from the inner surface of particle layers and propagate through the thickness of particle layers, which are superimposed by a large number of much smaller secondary jets initiating from the outer surface of particle layers upon the reflection of the shock wave. This chapter first presents a summary of the experimental observations of the hierarchical particle jetting mainly via the cinematographic techniques, focusing on the characteristics of the primary particle jet structure. Due to the distinct behaviors of particles subjected to the strong blast and moderate shock waves, specifically solid-like and fluid-like responses, respectively, the explosive and shock-induced particle jetting should be attributed to distinct mechanisms. A dual particle jetting model from the perspective of continuum is proposed to account for the explosive-induced particle jetting. By contrast the shock-induced particle jetting arises from the localized particle shear flows around the inner surface of particle layers which result from the heterogeneous network of force chains
SmartCiteCon: Implicit Citation Context Extraction from Academic Literature Using Unsupervised Learning
We introduce SmartCiteCon (SCC), a Java API for extracting both explicit and implicit citation context from academic literature in English. The tool is built on a Support Vector Machine (SVM) model trained on a set of 7,058 manually annotated citation context sentences, curated from 34,000 papers in the ACL Anthology. The model with 19 features achieves F1=85.6%. SCC supports PDF, XML, and JSON files out-of-box, provided that they are conformed to certain schemas. The API supports single document processing and batch processing in parallel. It takes about 12–45 seconds on average depending on the format to process a document on a dedicated server with 6 multithreaded cores. Using SCC, we extracted 11.8 million citation context sentences from ∼33.3k PMC papers in the CORD19 dataset, released on June 13, 2020. The source code is released at https://gitee.com/irlab/SmartCiteCon
Chiral symmetry breaking for deterministic switching of perpendicular magnetization by spin-orbit torque
Symmetry breaking is a characteristic to determine which branch of a
bifurcation system follows upon crossing a critical point. Specifically, in
spin-orbit torque (SOT) devices, a fundamental question arises: how to break
the symmetry of the perpendicular magnetic moment by the in-plane spin
polarization? Here, we show that the chiral symmetry breaking by the DMI can
induce the deterministic SOT switching of the perpendicular magnetization. By
introducing a gradient of saturation magnetization or magnetic anisotropy,
non-collinear spin textures are formed by the gradient of effective SOT
strength, and thus the chiral symmetry of the SOT-induced spin textures is
broken by the DMI, resulting in the deterministic magnetization switching. We
introduce a strategy to induce an out-of-plane (z) gradient of magnetic
properties, as a practical solution for the wafer-scale manufacture of SOT
devices.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figure
Nonrelativistic and nonmagnetic control of terahertz charge currents via electrical anisotropy in RuO2 and IrO2
Precise and ultrafast control over photo-induced charge currents across
nanoscale interfaces could lead to important applications in energy harvesting,
ultrafast electronics, and coherent terahertz sources. Recent studies have
shown that several relativistic mechanisms, including inverse spin-Hall effect,
inverse Rashba-Edelstein effect and inverse spin-orbit-torque effect, can
convert longitudinally injected spin-polarized currents from magnetic materials
to transverse charge currents, thereby harnessing these currents for terahertz
generation. However, these mechanisms typically require external magnetic
fields and suffer from low spin-polarization rates and low efficiencies of
relativistic spin-to-charge conversion. In this work, we present a novel
nonrelativistic and nonmagnetic mechanism that directly utilizes the
photo-excited high-density charge currents across the interface. We demonstrate
that the electrical anisotropy of conductive oxides RuO2 and IrO2 can
effectively deflect injected charge currents to the transverse direction,
resulting in efficient and broadband terahertz radiation. Importantly, this new
mechanism has the potential to offer much higher conversion efficiency compared
to previous methods, as conductive materials with large electrical anisotropy
are readily available, whereas further increasing the spin-Hall angle of
heavy-metal materials would be challenging. Our new findings offer exciting
possibilities for directly utilizing these photo-excited high-density currents
across metallic interfaces for ultrafast electronics and terahertz
spectroscopy
Quest for Lead-Free Perovskite-Based Solar Cells
Today, the perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are showing excellent potentials in terms of simple processing, abundance of materials, and architectural integration, as well as very promising device’s power conversion efficiencies (PCEs), rocketed from 3.8% in 2009 to 23.3% in 2018. However, the toxic lead (Pb) element containing the chemical composition of typically used organic-inorganic halide perovskites hinders the practical applications of PSCs. This chapter starts with a general discussion on the perovskite crystal structure along with the serious efforts focused on Pb replacement in these devices. Section 2 will elaborate the fundamental features of tin (Sn)-based perovskites together with their performance in the PSCs. Other alternative elements, such as copper (Cu), germanium (Ge), bismuth (Bi), and antimony (Sb), will be discussed in Section 3. The end will summarize the challenges and opportunities based on the chapter contents
In-plane Hall effect in rutile oxide films induced by the Lorentz force
The conventional Hall effect is linearly proportional to the field component
or magnetization component perpendicular to a film. Despite the increasing
theoretical proposals on the Hall effect to the in-plane field or magnetization
in various special systems induced by the Berry curvature, such an
unconventional Hall effect has only been experimentally reported in Weyl
semimetals and in a heterodimensional superlattice. Here, we report an
unambiguous experimental observation of the in-plane Hall effect (IPHE) in
centrosymmetric rutile RuO2 and IrO2 single-crystal films under an in-plane
magnetic field. The measured Hall resistivity is found to be proportional to
the component of the applied in-plane magnetic field along a particular crystal
axis and to be independent of the current direction or temperature. Both the
experimental observations and theoretical calculations confirm that the IPHE in
rutile oxide films is induced by the Lorentz force. Our findings can be
generalized to ferromagnetic materials for the discovery of in-plane anomalous
Hall effects and quantum anomalous Hall effects. In addition to significantly
expanding knowledge of the Hall effect, this work opens the door to explore new
members in the Hall effect family
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