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Strong vertical light output from thin silicon rich oxide/SiOâ‚‚ multilayers via in-plane modulation of photonic crystal patterns
Three-dimensional-confined structures with triangular-lattice air-hole photonic crystal patterns were fabricated to enhance the light output from silicon rich oxide/SiO₂multilayer stack. The intensity and profile of spontaneous emission were found to be efficiently modulated by controlling the optical modes of the periodic arrays via varying their structural parameters. With lattice constant/radius of 700nm∕280nm, the photoluminescence intensity was found to be enhanced by nearly nine times in the vertical direction. The mechanisms for different enhancement features have been theoretically analyzed based on coherent scattering and quantum electrodynamic effects, well supporting the experimental observation
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Progressive Collapse Resistance of Precast Concrete Beam-Column Sub-assemblages with High-Performance Dry Connections
Due to its relatively lower integrity, precast concrete structures are considered to be more vulnerable to progressive collapse than cast-in-place concrete structures. However, to date, majority of existing studies on progressive collapse focused on cast-in-place concrete structures, little attentions were paid to precast concrete structures. Among existing precast concrete structures, unbonded post-tensioning precast concrete structure is one of innovation dry connection structural systems, which no casting at the connections on site. Its excellent seismic performance was recognized by many studies, while studies on its progressive collapse resistance were very few. To fill this knowledge gaps, in this paper, eight half-scaled unbonded post-tensioning precast concrete beam-column sub-assemblages with different connection configurations were tested through pushdown tests to investigate their capacities and resistance mechanisms to prevent progressive collapse. The test results demonstrated various behaviors of beam-column sub-assemblages with different connection types. It was found that, as the longitudinal reinforcements were discontinuous across the beam-column joint region in the beams, flexural action observed in the cast-in-place concrete frames was not mobilized for the specimens with purely unbonded post-tensioning connections. When the specimens installed top-seat angles at the beam-column interfaces, considerable flexural action capacity could be mobilized for load resistance. Moreover, it was found that the failure modes of the specimens are distinctly different to that of conventional reinforced concrete frames or precast concrete frames with cast-in-place joints. The characteristic of compressive arch action and tensile catenary action in tested specimens is quite different to that of conventional reinforced concrete frames
A Comparison of Quintessence and Nonlinear Born-Infeld Scalar Field Using Gold Supernova data
We study the Non-Linear Born-Infeld(NLBI) scalar field model and quintessence
model with two different potentials( and ). We
investigate the differences between those two models. We explore the equation
of state parameter w and the evolution of scale factor in both NLBI
scalar field and quintessence model. The present age of universe and the
transition redshift are also obtained. We use the Gold dataset of 157 SN-Ia to
constrain the parameters of the two models. All the results show that NLBI
model is slightly superior to quintessence model.Comment: 17 pages, 10 figures, some references adde
A New Method to Calculate Electromagnetic Impedance Matching Degree in One-Layer Microwave Absorbers
A delta-function method was proposed to quantitatively evaluate the
electromagnetic impedance matching degree. Measured electromagnetic parameters
of {\alpha}-Fe/Fe3B/Y2O3 nanocomposites are applied to calculate the matching
degree by the method. Compared with reflection loss and quarter-wave principle
theory, the method accurately reveals the intrinsic mechanism of microwave
transmission and reflection properties. A possible honeycomb structure with
promising high-performance microwave absorption according to the method is also
proposed.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figure
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