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Sequential Change-point Detection for High-dimensional and non-Euclidean Data
In many modern applications, high-dimensional/non-Euclidean data sequences
are collected to study complicated phenomena over time and it is of scientific
importance to detect anomaly events as the data are being collected. We studied
a nonparametric framework that utilizes nearest neighbor information among the
observations and can be applied to such sequences. We considered new test
statistics under this framework that can make more positive detections and can
detect anomaly events sooner than the existing test under many common scenarios
with the false discovery rate controlled at the same level. Analytic formulas
for approximate the average run lengths of the new approaches are derived to
make them fast applicable to large datasets
Low-Temperature Deposition of Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 Thin Films on Si Substrates Using Ba(Mg1/3Ta2/3)O3 as Buffer Layer
[[abstract]]Utilization of Ba(Mg1/3Ta2/3)O3 materials as buffer layers was found to achieve perovskite Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 (PZT) thin film growth on silicon at very low substrate temperature (∼350 °C) by in situ pulsed laser deposition (PLD). Formation of a continuous layer is of critical importance in order to use the Ba(Mg1/3Ta2/3)O3 materials as diffusion barriers for suppressing the PZT-to-Si interaction and, at the same time, as seeding layers for enhancing the crystallization kinetics of the PZT films. Perovskite and amorphous PZT thin films can be obtained by simply adjusting the ambient oxygen pressure or substrate temperature in the PLD process. The amorphous PZT films possess a markedly smaller optical refractive index than the perovskite ones (namorphous = 2.02 and nperovskite = 2.39), such that the perovskite/amorphous PZT films are a good combination for core/cladding materials for planar optical waveguides.[[fileno]]2020305010029[[department]]材料科學工程學
First-principles study, fabrication and characterization of (Zr0.25Nb0.25Ti0.25V0.25)C high-entropy ceramic
The formation possibility of a new (Zr0.25Nb0.25Ti0.25V0.25)C high-entropy
ceramic (ZHC-1) was first analyzed by the first-principles calculations and
thermodynamical analysis and then it was successfully fabricated by hot
pressing sintering technique. The first-principles calculation results showed
that the mixing enthalpy of ZHC-1 was 5.526 kJ/mol and the mixing entropy of
ZHC-1 was in the range of 0.693R-1.040R. The thermodynamical analysis results
showed that ZHC-1 was thermodynamically stable above 959 K owing to its
negative mixing Gibbs free energy. The experimental results showed that the
as-prepared ZHC-1 (95.1% relative density) possessed a single rock-salt crystal
structure, some interesting nanoplate-like structures and high compositional
uniformity from nanoscale to microscale. By taking advantage of these unique
features, compared with the initial metal carbides (ZrC, NbC, TiC and VC), it
showed a relatively low thermal conductivity of 15.3 + - 0.3 W/(m.K) at room
temperature, which was due to the presence of solid solution effects,
nanoplates and porosity. Meanwhile, it exhibited the relatively high
nanohardness of 30.3 + - 0.7 GPa and elastic modulus of 460.4 + - 19.2 GPa and
the higher fracture toughness of 4.7 + - 0.5 MPa.m1/2, which were attributed to
the solid solution strengthening mechanism and nanoplate pullout and microcrack
deflection toughening mechanism.Comment: 49 pages,6 figures, 4 table
Incompressible Limit of a Compressible Liquid Crystals System
This article is devoted to the study of the so-called incompressible limit
for solutions of the compressible liquid crystals system. We consider the
problem in the whole space and a bounded domain of
with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Here the number
of dimension or 3
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