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Performance of a 1.15-pressure-ratio axial-flow fan stage with a blade tip solidity of 0.5
The overall and blade-element performance of a low-solidity, low-pressure-ratio, low-tip-speed fan stage is presented over the stable operating range at rotative speeds from 90 to 120 percent of design speed. At design speed a stage peak efficiency of 0.836 was obtained at a weight flow of 30.27 kilograms per second and a pressure ratio of 1.111. The pressure ratio was less than design pressure ratio, and the design energy input into the rotor was not achieved. A mismatch of the rotor and stator blade elements resulted due to the lower than design pressure ratio of the rotor
Aerodynamic performance of a 1.35-pressure-ratio axial-flow fan stage
The overall blade element performances and the aerodynamic design parameters are presented for a 1.35-pressure-ratio fan stage. The fan stage was designed for a weight flow of 32.7 kilograms per second and a tip speed of 302.8 meters per second. At design speed the stage peak efficiency of 0.879 occurred at a pressure ratio of 1.329 and design flow. Stage stall margin was approximately 14 percent. At design flow rotor efficiency was 0.94 and the pressure ratio was 1.360
Developing compact tuning fork thermometers for sub-mK temperatures and high magnetic fields
The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) High B/T facility at the
University of Florida in Gainesville provides a unique combination of ultra-low
temperatures below 1 mK and high magnetic fields up to 16 T for user
experiments. To meet the growing user demand for calorimetric and thermal
transport measurements, particularly on milligram-sized solid samples, we are
developing scaleable thermometers based on quartz tuning fork resonators
immersed in liquid He. We demonstrate successful thermometer operation at
the combined extreme conditions available at our user facility, and discuss the
feasibility of fast and compact thermal probes
Novel metallic and insulating states at a bent quantum Hall junction
A non-planar geometry for the quantum Hall (QH) effect is studied, whereby
two quantum Hall (QH) systems are joined at a sharp right angle. When both
facets are at equal filling factor nu the junction hosts a channel with
non-quantized conductance, dependent on nu. The state is metallic at nu = 1/3,
with conductance along the junction increasing as the temperature T drops. At
nu = 1, 2 it is strongly insulating, and at nu = 3, 4 shows only weak T
dependence. Upon applying a dc voltage bias along the junction, the
differential conductance again shows three different behaviors. Hartree
calculations of the dispersion at the junction illustrate possible
explanations, and differences from planar QH structures are highlighted.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, text + figs revised for clarit
Nanometer-scale sharpness in corner-overgrown heterostructures
A corner-overgrown GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure is investigated with
transmission and scanning transmission electron microscopy, demonstrating
self-limiting growth of an extremely sharp corner profile of 3.5 nm width. In
the AlGaAs layers we observe self-ordered diagonal stripes, precipitating
exactly at the corner, which are regions of increased Al content measured by an
XEDS analysis. A quantitative model for self-limited growth is adapted to the
present case of faceted MBE growth, and the corner sharpness is discussed in
relation to quantum confined structures. We note that MBE corner overgrowth
maintains nm-sharpness even after microns of growth, allowing the realization
of corner-shaped nanostructures.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Rotated stripe order and its competition with superconductivity in LaSrCuO
We report the observation of a bulk charge modulation in
LaSrCuO (LSCO) with a characteristic in-plane wave-vector
of (0.236, ), with =0.011 r.l.u. The transverse shift of
the ordering wave-vector indicates the presence of rotated charge-stripe
ordering, demonstrating that the charge ordering is not pinned to the Cu-O bond
direction. On cooling through the superconducting transition, we find an abrupt
change in the growth of the charge correlations and a suppression of the charge
order parameter indicating competition between the two orderings. Orthorhombic
LSCO thus helps bridge the apparent disparities between the behavior previously
observed in the tetragonal "214" cuprates and the orthorhombic yttrium and
bismuth-based cuprates and thus lends strong support to the idea that there is
a common motif to charge order in all cuprate families.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figue
Biocatalytic quantification of alpha-glucan in marine particulate organic matter
Marine algae drive the marine carbon cycle, converting carbon dioxide into organic material. A major component of this produced biomass is a variety of glycans. Marine alpha-glucans include a range of storage glycans from red and green algae, bacteria, fungi, and animals. Although these compounds are likely to account for a high amount of the carbon stored in the oceans they have not been quantified in marine samples so far. Here we present a method to extract and quantify alpha-glucans (and compare it with the beta-glucan laminarin) in particulate organic matter from algal cultures and environmental samples using sequential physicochemical extraction and enzymes as alpha-glucan-specific probes. This enzymatic assay is more specific and less susceptible to side reactions than chemical hydrolysis. Using HPAEC-PAD to detect the hydrolysis products allows for a glycan quantification in particulate marine samples down to a concentration of approximate to 2 mu g/L. We measured glucans in three cultured microalgae as well as in marine particulate organic matter from the North Sea and western North Atlantic Ocean. While the beta-glucan laminarin from diatoms and brown algae is an essential component of marine carbon turnover, our results further indicate the significant contribution of starch-like alpha-glucans to marine particulate organic matter. Henceforth, the combination of glycan-linkage-specific enzymes and chromatographic hydrolysis product detection can provide a powerful tool in the exploration of marine glycans and their role in the global carbon cycle
The elevated Curie temperature and half-metallicity in the ferromagnetic semiconductor LaEuO
Here we study the effect of La doping in EuO thin films using SQUID
magnetometry, muon spin rotation (SR), polarized neutron reflectivity
(PNR), and density functional theory (DFT). The SR data shows that the
LaEuO is homogeneously magnetically ordered up to its
elevated . It is concluded that bound magnetic polaron behavior does
not explain the increase in and an RKKY-like interaction is
consistent with the SR data. The estimation of the magnetic moment by DFT
simulations concurs with the results obtained by PNR, showing a reduction of
the magnetic moment per LaEuO for increasing lanthanum doping.
This reduction of the magnetic moment is explained by the reduction of the
number of Eu-4 electrons present in all the magnetic interactions in EuO
films. Finally, we show that an upwards shift of the Fermi energy with La or Gd
doping gives rise to half-metallicity for doping levels as high as 3.2 %.Comment: 7 pages, 11 figure
Dynamics of Nanometer-Scale Foil Targets Irradiated with Relativistically Intense Laser Pulses
In this letter we report on an experimental study of high harmonic radiation
generated in nanometer-scale foil targets irradiated under normal incidence.
The experiments constitute the first unambiguous observation of odd-numbered
relativistic harmonics generated by the component of the
Lorentz force verifying a long predicted property of solid target harmonics.
Simultaneously the observed harmonic spectra allow in-situ extraction of the
target density in an experimental scenario which is of utmost interest for
applications such as ion acceleration by the radiation pressure of an
ultraintense laser.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
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