A novel circularly polarized filtering antenna with high out‐of‐band radiation rejection level

In this paper, a circularly polarized filtering antenna with high out‐of‐band radiation rejection level is proposed. The entire design consists of a patch and a filtering feeding network, which are connected by metallic pins. First, a high‐selectivity filtering power divider is constructed utilizing two shunted bandpass filter. Next, a 90° phase difference could be realized by adjusting the length of the two outputs of the power divider. The measured transmission coefficient of the feeding network is 6.3 dB at 2 GHz. The measured axial ratio is below 3 dB within the operating band of the proposed antenna, which represents the effectiveness of the proposed feeding network. In addition, the obvious radiation nulls can be found from the antenna measurement because of the transmission zeros introducing by the filtering power divider. The measured gain is 5.73 dB at 2 GHz and decreases dramatically in stopband. Specially, the measured gain is −30 and −41 dB at 1.95 and 2.06 GHz. The proposed antenna has an excellent filtering characteristic compared with those without the filtering feeding network. To sum up, the proposed antenna and filtering power divider are promising in the modern wireless communication systems.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/140028/1/mop30929.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/140028/2/mop30929_am.pd

Effect of Nitric Oxide Treatment on Storage Quality of Glorious Oranges

AbstractEffect of nitric oxide (NO) treatment on storage quality and disease resistance of Glorious oranges was investigated in the experiment. The results showed that NO treatment could effectively reduce disease incidence inoculated with Collletotichum goeosporioides Penz and inhibit the increase of lesion diameter of Glorious oranges during storage. Compared with the control, NO treatment kept higher level of titritable acidity (TA), soluble protein, ascorbic acid (ASA) and reducing sugar, and lower level of weight lose rate and soluble solid concentration (SSC), retarding ripening of fruits

Detection of hepatitis A virus in shellfish and berries by digital polymerase chain reaction

Objective To establish a digital polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method for hepatitis A virus (HAV) in shellfish and berry foods. Methods After sample enrichment by proteinase K digestion polyethylene glycol method, RNA was extracted by high purity virus nucleic acid kit, and then digital PCR was used to detect HAV. Results This method had typical amplification, good repeatability and stability for HAV. The sensitivity of HAV in strawberry, raspberry and shellfish samples was 25.30 CCID50/20 g, 6.32 CCID50/20 g and 12.54 CCID50/2 g respectively, which means that the detection sensitivity of HAV was high. Conclusion This method is rapid, accurate, sensitive, and is suitable for the determination of HAV in shellfish and berry foods