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A lithium aluminium borate composite microwave dielectric ceramic with low permittivity, near-zero shrinkage, and low sintering temperature
摘要: A low temperature co-fired dielectric material with low shrinkage during the sintering process can enhance the circuit design of electronic devices. Lithium aluminium borate composite ceramic with a composition of Li2O:Al2O3:B2O3=1:1:2 (abbreviated: LAB) was prepared by a traditional solid-state reaction method. These ceramics have a low sintering temperature (675–750 °C), low permittivity, and near-zero shrinkage. When the sintering temperature was 725 °C, the LAB ceramics exhibited a small shrinkage of ~2.4% and the best microwave dielectric properties with εr = 3.9, Q × f = 35?500 GHz, and τ? = -64 ppm/°C. The LAB ceramics sintered at 700 °C have near-zero shrinkage of ~ 0.4% and good microwave dielectric properties. The ceramics transformed from (Li2B4O7 and Al2O3) to (Li2Al2B4O10 and Li4Al4B6O17) phases with increasing the sintering temperature, which may be the reason why they show marginal shrinkage. In addition, the ceramics could be co-fired with Ag, indicating that this material is a good candidate for low-temperature co-fired ceramic devices.
关键词: Low temperature co-fired ceramic,Lithium aluminium borate composite,Near-zero shrinkage
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Sub-micron features from polymer-derived SiOC via imprint lithography
摘要: Silicon oxycarbide (SiOC) is a unique class of materials with great potential for facile manufacturing of complex shaped high temperature parts and devices. In this study, we examine the characteristics of micron-sized ridge and rod patterns of SiOC created by imprint lithography. Feature fidelity, shape change, and shrinkage are studied as a function of pyrolysis condition and feature size. All the features have acceptable surface fidelity under the pyrolysis conditions studied. However, pronounced rounding and flattening of patterned features are observed as the pyrolysis temperature increases or the feature size decreases. Based on the Kelvin and Gibbs-Thomson equations, we can predict the feature evolution and show that the feature rounding and flattening are due to surface diffusion and evaporation-condensation. As a result, the features also have more linear shrinkage than the bulk.
关键词: Shrinkage,Feature fidelity,Silicon oxycarbide,Rounding,Pyrolysis
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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[IEEE ICASSP 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) - Calgary, AB (2018.4.15-2018.4.20)] 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) - Group Sparsity Residual with Non-Local Samples for Image Denoising
摘要: Inspired by group-based sparse coding, recently proposed group sparsity residual (GSR) scheme has demonstrated superior performance in image processing. However, one challenge in GSR is to estimate the residual by using a proper reference of the group-based sparse coding (GSC), which is desired to be as close to the truth as possible. Previous researches utilized the estimations from other algorithms (i.e., GMM or BM3D), which are either not accurate or too slow. In this paper, we propose to use the Non-Local Samples (NLS) as reference in the GSR regime for image denoising, thus termed GSR-NLS. More specifically, we first obtain a good estimation of the group sparse coefficients by the image non-local self-similarity, and then solve the GSR model by an effective iterative shrinkage algorithm. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed GSR-NLS not only outperforms many state-of-the-art methods, but also delivers the competitive advantage of speed.
关键词: Image denoising,group sparsity residual,iterative shrinkage algorithm,group-based sparse coding,non-local self-similarity
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Highly Stable and Ultrafast Hydrogen Gas Sensor Based on 15 nm Nanogaps Switching in a Palladium-Gold Nanoribbons Array
摘要: Palladium (Pd) nanogap hydrogen gas (H2) sensors based on the large volume expansion of β phase palladium hydride (β-PdH) are highly promising, owing to their fast and accurate sensing capability at room temperature in air. However, such sensors do not work well at H2 concentrations below 1%. At such low H2 concentrations, Pd exists as α-PdH, which has a slow and insufficient volume expansion and cannot completely close nanogaps. Furthermore, the lattice strains induced from the phase transition (α-PdH → β-PdH) behavior degrade the stable and repeatable long-term sensing capability. Here, these issues are resolved by fabricating an array of periodically aligned alloyed palladium–gold nanoribbons (PdAu NRB) with uniform 15 nm nanogaps. The PdAu NRB sensor enables highly stable and ultrafast H2 sensing at the full detection range of H2 concentrations from 0.005% to 10% along with the excellent limit of detection (≈0.0027%), which is sufficiently maintained even after seven months of storage in ambient atmosphere. These breakthrough results will pave the way for developing a practical high-performance H2 sensor chip in the future hydrogen era.
关键词: palladium nanogap,nanoribbon,hydrogen gas sensors,polystyrene thermal shrinkage
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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Dual tree complex wavelet transform incorporating SVD and bilateral filter for image denoising
摘要: In recent years massive production of digital images increased the need for image denoising. The effect of noise can be removed by using spatial and frequency domain approaches. Discrete Wavelet Transforms (DWT) is a frequency domain approach, which removes the noise by shrinking the wavelet coefficients using simple threshold value. Even though wavelet transform is popularly used in image processing applications, shift variance and poor directional selectivity are the two noteworthy limitations. In order to overcome these limitations, Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (DTCWT) is used for perfect reconstruction of noisy image. A DTCWT incorporating Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) with Frobenius energy correcting factor and bilateral filter for image denoising using bivariate shrinkage function for thresholding the image is proposed in this paper. The denoising performance of the proposed method in terms of PSNR and it indicates that the proposed method outperforms over other existing techniques.
关键词: bilateral filter,SVD,bivariate shrinkage,thresholding technique,wavelet transform,DTCWT,image denoising
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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Drying-induced soil shrinkage and desiccation cracking monitoring with distributed optical fiber sensing technique
摘要: Monitoring of drying-induced volume shrinkage and desiccation cracking in clayey soils is of great importance in geological and geotechnical engineering. Compared with conventional strain monitoring methods providing discrete measurements, the Brilliouin optical time domain reflectometer (BOTDR) technique enables continuous measurement of the distributed strain generated along optical fibers. In this study, a physical model test is conducted to investigate the feasibility of monitoring drying-induced soil shrinkage and desiccation cracking using BOTDR. Three optical fibers with different surface protections (thermoplastic polyester elastomer (TPEE) jacket, nylon jacket, and acrylate coating) are tested and compared. Experimental results validate that BOTDR is applicable for the direct strain monitoring of desiccation cracking soils. Monitored strain values are strongly influenced by water content, soil cracking, and fiber types. The strain measured by the optical fiber reaches only several micro strains when the soil is over-saturated, gradually increases with the decreasing water content and the increasing soil-fiber interfacial shear stresses, and drops rapidly after the occurrence of decoupling between fiber and soil resulting from the mature development of desiccation cracks. The optical fiber with acrylate coating is not suitable because of its fragility and the poor interfacial coupling with the soil. Optical fibers covered with TPEE jacket or nylon jacket are both applicable for soil strain monitoring, with the former one more sensitive to water content variations. The study is the first attempt to apply the BOTDR technique for the direct and continuous monitoring of drying-induced soil shrinkage and desiccation cracking process. It is expected bring new insights into the fundamental understanding of volumetric shrinkage and desiccation cracking in clayey soils.
关键词: Brilliouin optical time domain reflectometer (BOTDR),Desiccation crack,Volumetric shrinkage,Strain monitoring,Optical fiber sensing
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Numerical simulation of selective laser melting with local powder shrinkage using FEM with the refined mesh
摘要: A mathematical model of selective laser melting (SLM) of fine-grained metallic powders under the pulse laser annealing conditions has been developed. The processed powder bed is considered in the approximation of continuous medium where its effective thermophysical properties depend on local porosity. The model allows simulation of unsteady distributions of temperature, specific enthalpy, local porosity, morphology and thickness of the processed track. In the paper, all stages of problem analysis are described including its mathematical formulation and numerical implementation. To take into account shrinkage of the powder layer during sintering and remelting, the numerical model utilizes the arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian (ALE) method. Thus the finite element mesh provides robust control of quality and dynamic remeshing through adaptive mesh refinement. Using the proposed numerical model the unsteady thermal fields and local porosity of a Fe-based powder layer processed with a pulsed laser has been investigated.
关键词: numerical simulation,adaptive mesh refinement,finite element method,selective laser melting,powder shrinkage
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Gas-vapor Interplay in Plasmonic Bubble Shrinkage
摘要: The understanding of the shrinkage dynamics of plasmonic bubbles formed around metallic nanoparticles immersed in liquid and irradiated by a resonant light source is crucial for the usage of these bubbles in numerous applications. In this paper we experimentally show and theoretically explain that a plasmonic bubble during its shrinkage undergoes two different phases: first, a rapid partial bubble shrinkage governed by vapor condensation and, second, a slow diffusion-controlled bubble dissolution. The history of the bubble formation plays an important role in the shrinkage dynamics during the first phase, as it determines the gas-vapor ratio in the bubble composition. Higher laser powers lead to more vaporous bubbles, while longer pulses and higher dissolved air concentrations lead to more gaseous bubbles. The dynamics of the second phase barely depends on the history of bubble formation, i.e. laser power and pulse duration, but strongly on the dissolved air concentration, which defines the concentration gradient at the bubble interface. Finally, for the bubble dissolution in the second phase, with decreasing dissolved air concentration, we observe a gradual transition from a R(t) ∝ (t0 ? t)1/3 scaling law to a R(t) ∝ (t0 ? t)1/2 scaling law, where t0 is the lifetime of the bubble and theoretically explain this transition.
关键词: dissolved air concentration,laser power,pulse duration,plasmonic bubbles,vapor condensation,shrinkage dynamics,diffusion-controlled dissolution
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Sparse Representation for Color Image Super-Resolution with Image Quality Difference Evaluation
摘要: The sparse representation models have been widely applied in image super-resolution. The certain optimization problem is supposed and can be solved by the iterative shrinkage algorithm. During iteration, the update of dictionaries and similar patches is necessary to obtain prior knowledge to better solve such ill-conditioned problem as image super-resolution. However, both the processes of iteration and update often spend a lot of time, which will be a bottleneck in practice. To solve it, in this paper, we present the concept of image quality difference based on generalized Gaussian distribution feature which has the same trend with the variation of Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), and we update dictionaries or similar patches from the termination strategy according to the adaptive threshold of the image quality difference. Based on this point, we present two sparse representation algorithms for image super-resolution, one achieves the further improvement in image quality and the other decreases running time on the basis of image quality assurance. Experimental results also show that our quantitative results on several test datasets are in line with exceptions.
关键词: generalized Gaussian distribution feature,image super-resolution,fast iterative shrinkage algorithm,sparse representation,image quality difference
更新于2025-09-19 17:15:36
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Optimization of Laser Sintering for Demineralized Bone/Polycaprolactone Composite Powder for Bone Tissue Scaffold
摘要: Demineralized bone matrix (DBM) is an excellent bone scaffold material, but is available in only limited sizes. An additive manufacturing (AM) method that retains these properties while enabling customized geometry fabrication would provide bone scaffolds for a larger range of geometries while maintaining the benefits of DBM. This work examines laser sintering (LS) of a blend of demineralized bone matrix (DBM) and polycaprolactone (PCL) using a CO2 laser beam. A comprehensive experimental study was carried out to find the conditions that form defect-free layers while still retaining the favorable biological features of DBM. The results identify a process setting window over which LS can be utilized to constructing complex patient-specific scaffolds. With the identified setting, first, the DBM/PCL blend was fused in the LS machine. Parts were then were further strengthened through a post-processing heat treatment. The shrinkage level, skeletal density, mechanical testing, and porosimetry of the resultant samples were compared to traditional machined DBM blocks. The maximum tensile strength of the samples and post-processing shrinkage depends on heat treatment duration. The tensile strength measurements demonstrate that the post-processing conditions can be tuned to achieve the tensile strength of the demineralized bone strips. Evaluation of the dimensional change suggests that the shrinkage along the laser paths is ~0.3% while thickness shrinks the most (up to ~20%). The porosimetry and density studies showed that the final part achieved over 40% porosity with a density comparable to blocks of DBM.
关键词: laser sintering,porosity,tensile strength,optimization,demineralized bone matrix,shrinkage,additive manufacturing,polycaprolactone
更新于2025-09-19 17:13:59