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In Situ Measurement of Phase Boundary Kinetics during Initial Lithiation of Crystalline Silicon through Picosecond Ultrasonics
摘要： Studying the kinetics of phase transformation and phase boundary propagation during initial lithiation of silicon electrodes in lithium ion batteries is relevant to understanding their performance. Such studies are usually challenging due to the difficulties in measuring the phase boundary velocity in the interior of the sample. Here we introduce a non-invasive, in situ method to measure the progression of the phase boundary in a planar specimen geometry while maintaining well-controlled lithium flux and potential. We developed an apparatus integrating an electrochemical cell with picosecond ultrasonics to probe the propagating phase boundary in real time. Phase propagation during initial lithiation of crystalline silicon, which is an example of a high capacity anode, is investigated. The primary objective of this manuscript is to report on the experimental technique development and some preliminary results. For lithiation normal to the (100) plane, we observe the phase boundary velocity to be approximately 12 pm/s and x to be 3.73 in LixSi under galvanostatic lithiation with a current density of 40 μA/cm2. The growth rate of the lithiated phase and the reaction rate coefficient are examined using a Deal-Grove type model.
关键词： Lithium ion battery,In situ,Phase boundary propagation,Crystalline silicon,Picosecond ultrasonics
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Rational Electron Transmission Structure in an Ag <sub/>2</sub> O/TiO <sub/>2</sub> (anatase-B) System for Effective Enhancement of Visible Light Photocatalytic Activity
摘要： Efficient optical flow estimation with high accuracy is a challenging problem in computer vision. In this paper, we present a simple but efficient segmentation-based PatchMatch framework to address this issue. Specifically, it firstly generates sparse seeds without losing important motion information by oversegmentation, and then yields sparse matches by adopting a coarse-to-fine PatchMatch with sparse seeds. Such a scheme enhances the robustness of global regularization and yields better matching results compared with the existing NNF techniques while leading to a significant speed-up due to the sparsity of these seeds. Simultaneously, we introduce an extended nonlocal propagation and adaptive random search to address the basic limitation of traditional coarse-to-fine framework in handing motion details that often vanish at coarser levels. Finally, we obtain dense matches at the finest level through an efficient sparse-to-dense matching according to the cues of oversegmentation. While performing an efficient approximation for oversegmentation, the proposed algorithm runs significantly fast and are robust to large displacements while preserving important motion details. It also achieves good performance on the challenging MPI-Sintel and Kitti flow 2015 datasets.
关键词： extended nonlocal propagation,adaptive random search,Optical flow,PatchMatch,oversegmentation
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Study on mechanism of crack propagation of sapphire single crystals of four different orientations under impact load and static load
摘要： Sapphire has a wide range of applications due to its excellent physical properties. Sapphire is a typical anisotropic material, whose parts are usually employed in the complex conditions, including static and dynamic load. The mechanism of crack propagation under different loading conditions has important significance for successful application of sapphire. In this study, impact and static load tests have been performed on the A-plane, C-plane, M-plane and R-plane of sapphire by the high frequency cyclic impact test device, respectively. The force signals applied to sapphire have been obtained under different test conditions. The crack propagation has been analyzed based on the fracture morphology of specimen. It is found that sapphire will quickly crack and break under impact load, and then enter the fatigue stage. In the static load indentation tests, the force applied to sapphire seems to increase linearly with the linear increase of load, but this relationship is not yet linear in the unloading procedure. The crack propagation is affected by the crystal orientation, which leads to different characteristics of the surface morphology of the different crystal orientations sapphire after fracture. So four different models of crack system are proposed for A-plane, C-plane, M-plane and R-plane respectively. In addition, the three-dimensional morphology of sapphire is observed by a white-light interferometer. It seems that the Hertzian cone crack occurs only on the R-plane sapphire after impact load, but it cannot be sure whether the cone crack occurs when impacting A-, C-, and M-planes sapphire.
关键词： Impact load,Static load,Sapphire,Crystal orientations,Crack propagation,Crack system
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Airyprime beam: From the non-truncated case to truncated one
摘要： The present paper investigates the spatial proprieties of a novel beam introduced recently known as Airyprime beam, its on-axis and transverse intensities are studied numerically. It is shown that the focused Airyprime beam exhibits two focuses corresponding to two intensities maxima limiting an Optical Bottle Beam (OBB), the latter is characterized by its length where numerical examples show that we can adjust and change it by changing the scale parameter w x0 which is related directly to the input width of the Airyprime beam. The spatial proprieties of the truncated Airyprime beam are also studied; by acting on the aperture diameter one can modify the on-axis intensity to choose between a mono focus beam and dual focus beam. Depending on the aperture diameter the Airyprime beam is transformed into other interesting laser beam patterns such as, a ?attop beam, Gaussian beam, and tune Optical Bottle Beam. The Airyprime beam could be interesting tool of trapping and guiding microparticles.
关键词： Flat top beam,Airyprime beam,Propagation and focusing,Optical bottle beam
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Numerical simulation on terahertz wave propagation in plasma channels
摘要： Terahertz (THz) wave generated by femtosecond laser ?lamentation can spatially constrained inside the plasma channels. Our simulation results show that this constraint to THz wave will gradually weaken with the increasing THz frequency. At the same time, results also indicate that the higher plasma density possesses the stronger constraint. In addition, the model ?eld radius and width of THz wave will become larger with the increasing plasma channel radius. Based on the simulation results we ?nd the changes of refractive index at THz wave play an important role on THz wave propagation in plasma channels.
关键词： Plasma channel,Waveguiding,Terahertz wave propagation
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Ordered Sequence Detection and Barrier Signal Design for Digital Pulse Interval Modulation in Optical Wireless Communications
摘要： This paper proposes an ordered sequence detection (OSD) for digital pulse interval modulation (DPIM) in optical wireless communications. Leveraging the sparsity of DPIM sequences, OSD shows comparable performance to the optimal maximum likelihood sequence detection (MLSD) with much lower complexity. Compared with the widely adopted sample-by-sample optimal threshold detection (OTD), it considerably improves the bit error rate (BER) performance by mitigating error propagation. Moreover, this paper proposes a barrier signal-aided digital pulse interval modulation (BDPIM), where the last of every K symbols is allocated with more power as an inserted barrier signal. BDPIM with OSD (BDPIM-OSD) can limit the error propagation between two adjacent barriers. To reduce the storing delay when using OSD to detect extremely large packets, we propose BDPIM with a combination of OTD and OSD (BDPIM-OTD-OSD), within which long sequences are cut into pieces and separately detected. Approximate upper bounds of the average BER performance of DPIM-OTD, DPIM-OSD, BDPIM-OSD and BDPIM-OTD-OSD are analyzed. Simulations are conducted to corroborate our analysis. Optimal parameter settings are also investigated in uncoded and coded systems by simulations. Simulation results show that the proposed OSD and BDPIM bring significant improvement in uncoded and coded systems over various channels.
关键词： signal design,error propagation,bit error rate,ordered sequence detection,Digital pulse interval modulation
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Numerical and experimental investigation of damage severity estimation using Lamb wave–based imaging methods
摘要： In this article, estimation of crack size, shape, and orientation was investigated numerically and experimentally using Lamb waves. A hybrid global–local approach was used in conjunction with the imaging methods for the numerical simulation. The hybrid global–local approach allowed fast and efficient prediction of scattering wave signals for Lamb wave interaction with crack from various incident directions. The simulation results showed the directionality effect of the scattering wave signals and suggested an optimum transmitter–sensor configuration. Two imaging methods were used: one involves the synthetic time reversal concept and the other involves Gaussian distribution function. Both imaging methods show very good agreement during simulations. Experiments were designed and conducted based on the simulated results. A network of eight piezoelectric wafer active sensors was used to capture the scattering waves from the crack. Both the pitch-catch and pulse-echo experimental modes were used. The directionality effect of incident Lamb waves on the imaging results was studied. The effect of summation, multiplication, and combined algorithms for each imaging method was studied. It was found that both methods can successfully predict the crack size and orientation. An attempt was made to use these imaging methods for detecting and sizing smaller sized damage (1- to 3-mm-diameter hole). It was found that these methods can successfully localize the hole, but size estimation was a bit challenging because of the smaller dimensions. The scattering waves for various hole sizes were studied.
关键词： synthetic time reversal,crack sizing,Structural health monitoring,wave propagation,scattering waves
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Realization of a three-dimensional photonic topological insulator
摘要： Confining photons in a finite volume is highly desirable in modern photonic devices, such as waveguides, lasers and cavities. Decades ago, this motivated the study and application of photonic crystals, which have a photonic bandgap that forbids light propagation in all directions1–3. Recently, inspired by the discoveries of topological insulators4,5, the confinement of photons with topological protection has been demonstrated in two-dimensional (2D) photonic structures known as photonic topological insulators6–8, with promising applications in topological lasers9,10 and robust optical delay lines11. However, a fully three-dimensional (3D) topological photonic bandgap has not been achieved. Here we experimentally demonstrate a 3D photonic topological insulator with an extremely wide (more than 25 per cent bandwidth) 3D topological bandgap. The composite material (metallic patterns on printed circuit boards) consists of split-ring resonators (classical electromagnetic artificial atoms) with strong magneto-electric coupling and behaves like a ‘weak’ topological insulator (that is, with an even number of surface Dirac cones), or a stack of 2D quantum spin Hall insulators. Using direct field measurements, we map out both the gapped bulk band structure and the Dirac-like dispersion of the photonic surface states, and demonstrate robust photonic propagation along a non-planar surface. Our work extends the family of 3D topological insulators from fermions to bosons and paves the way for applications in topological photonic cavities, circuits and lasers in 3D geometries.
关键词： 3D photonic topological insulator,split-ring resonators,Dirac surface states,robust photonic propagation,topological bandgap
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Electromagnetic waves' self-focusing in metamaterials having both LHM and RHM behavior: an application to filter design
摘要： Self-focusing, also known as Talbot’s effect had been widely studied by the scientific community. In this paper we show self-focusing as a coherence propagation phenomenon, in particular we studied self-focusing for a pulse propagating in a metamaterial with both behaviors: left handed material (LHM) and right handed material (RHM). These dual behaviors allow the construction of frequency filters in the range of frequency in which the metamaterial stops behaving as a LHM (negative refraction index) and begins an RHM behavior (positive refraction index). The coherence length (CL) for pulses propagating in these metamaterials seems to be larger when its frequencies are in the LHM region. Finally, we show that the cell’s size turns out to be critical in designing the filter, and as an example we present here four metamaterial cells.
关键词： metamaterials,filters,self-focusing,Coherence propagation
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Study of In-Plane Wave Propagation in 2-Dimensional Anisotropic Elastic Metamaterials
摘要： Objective Due to its multiple applications, elastic metamaterial is of great interest for researchers today. In this article, in-plane wave propagation in 2-D anisotropic metamateials with anisotropic density and anisotropic Young’s modulus is comprehensively studied. Method Characteristics of wave propagation in 2-D metamaterial with different combinations of negative properties are provided, and the unnatural phenomenon is also explained. Based on Snell’s law and weld boundary condition, analysis of wave propagation from conventional isotropic material into anisotropic metamaterial is performed. Significance This paper can serve as a foundation for future study of massive modeling and simulation of both isotropic and anisotropic metamaterials.
关键词： Anisotropy,Snell’s law,Wave propagation,Christoffel equations,Elastic metamaterials
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52