High photon detection efficiency InGaAs/InP single photon avalanche diode at 250 K

Planar semiconductor InGaAs/InP single photon avalanche diodes with high responsivity and low dark count rate are preferred single photon detectors in near-infrared communication.However,even with well-designed structures and well-con-trolled operational conditions,the performance of InGaAs/InP SPADs is limited by the inherent characteristics of avalanche pro-cess and the growth quality of InGaAs/InP materials.It is difficult to ensure high detection efficiency while the dark count rate is controlled within a certain range at present.In this paper,we fabricated a device with a thick InGaAs absorption region and an anti-reflection layer.The quantum efficiency of this device reaches 83.2%.We characterized the single-photon performance of the device by a quenching circuit consisting of parallel-balanced InGaAs/InP single photon detectors and single-period sinus-oidal pulse gating.The spike pulse caused by the capacitance effect of the device is eliminated by using the characteristics of parallel balanced common mode signal elimination,and the detection of small avalanche pulse amplitude signal is realized.The maximum detection efficiency is 55.4%with a dark count rate of 43.8 kHz and a noise equivalent power of 6.96×10^(−17 )W/Hz^(1/2) at 247 K.Compared with other reported detectors,this SPAD exhibits higher SPDE and lower noise-equivalent power at a higher cooling temperature.

Experimental and simulation optimization analysis of the Whipple shields against shaped charge

Occasionally, the Whipple shields are used for the protection of a space station and a satellite against the meteoroids and orbital debris. In the Whipple shields each layer of the shield depletes part of high speed projectile en- ergy either by breaking the projectile or absorbing its energy. Similarly, this investigation uses the Whipple shields against the shaped charge to protect the light armour such as infantry fighting vehicles with a little modification in their design. The unsteady multiple interactions of shaped charge jet with the Whipple shield package against the steady homogeneous target is scrutinized to optimize the shield thickness. Sim- ulations indicate that the shield thickness of 0.75 mm offers an optimum configuration against the shaped charge. Exper- iments also support this evidence.

Self-Interference Elimination by Physical Feedback Channel in CCFD for 3-D Beamforming Communication

The 3-D beamforming scheme has elite as evolving interest because of its efficiency to empower assorted techniques such as vertical and horizontal domains and emanation beamforming according to subscriber's provisions. Usually, 3-D beamforming communication is set up on FDD/TDD approach those effects on the performance of spectrum and energy efficiency. Co-frequency and CoTime Full Duplex(CCFD) is an effective solution to improve the spectrum and energy efficiency by transmitting and receiving simultaneously in frequency and time domain. While, CCFD communication often face the self-interference issue when communication occurs, simultaneously. Consequently, in this paper a self-interference elimination by physical feedback channel in CCFD for 3-D Beamforming communication scheme is proposed to improve the over-all system performance in terms of energy and spectrum efficiency. The simulation and analytical outcomes demonstrated that the proposed system is superior than the traditional one.

Secure Spectral-Energy Efficiency Tradeoff in RandomCognitive Relay Networks

Spectral efficiency(SE) and energy efficiency(EE) in secure communications is of primary importance due to the fact that 5 G wireless networks aim to achieve high throughput,low power consumption and high level of security.Nevertheless,maximizing SE and EE are not achievable simultaneously.In this paper,we investigate the SE and EE tradeoff for secure transmission in cognitive relay networks where all nodes are randomly distributed.We first introduce the opportunistic relay selection policy,where each primary transmitter communicates with the primary receiver with the help of a secondary user as a relay.Then,we evaluate the secure SE and secure EE of the primary network based on the outage probabilities analysis.Thirdly,by applying a unified SE-EE tradeoff metric,the secure SE and EE tradeoff problem is formulated as the joint secure SE and EE maximization problem.Considering the non-concave feature of the objective function,an iterative algorithm is proposed to improve secure SE and EE tradeoff.Numerical results show that the opportunistic relay selection policy is always superior to random relay selection policy.Furthermore,the opportunistic relay selection policy outperforms conventional direct transmission policy when faced with small security threat(i.e.,for smaller eavesdropper density).

An Experimental Study of Structured Packing in High Pressure Services

Both distillation performance and hydrodynamic study for backmixing by tracer technique were carried out in a high-pressure packed column with 0.15 m inner diameter over a wide range of operating conditions. Isobutane and n-pentane are employed as test mixture in the distillation experiment and air/water is used for the hydrodynamic study. The column is installed with Mellapak 350Y structured packing and the total packing height is 2.0 m. With the increasing operating pressure, the separation efficiency increases slightly while the F-factor corresponding to the maximum efficiency at each pressure is descending. It is noted that, at all operating pressures, with the increase of F-factor, the packing efficiency is slightly higher up to the flooding point. The application of SRP model to high-pressure distillation gives much lower values of HTUOG than those obtained experimentally. An additional term, the height of mixing unit, is introduced to correct the SRP model and improve its accuracy at high pressure. From the tracer experiments, the height of mixing unit for gas phase was found to be larger than that for the liquid phase. From this viewpoint, it is believed that the gas phase backmixing gives more unfavorable influence on the separation efficiency in comparison with liquid phase.

Research on Refractories Technology to Meet the Demands of Steel-making Process

Based on the refractories research of Baosteel, the demands for refractories from the developing steel-making technology as high security, high efficiency, energy saving and environment .friendly are introduced.

A deformation criterion of pressurized non-circular cross-section cabin and its effects on cruise performance of BWB civil aircraft

Blended-Wing-Body(BWB)aircraft is promoted as one of the most possible layouts to achieve more sustainable civil aviation.Due to the non-circular cross-section of the center-body,a bulge deformation forms over the upper surface of the body under the coupled loads of the internal pressurization of the cabin and the aerodynamic bending moments of the wing,which reduces the lift-to-drag ratio of BWB aircraft.Under a limited deformation,the relationship between the aerodynamic performance and the structural weight needs to be studied.In this work,the effects of stiffness constraints on the center-body deformation,structural weight of the airframe and aerodynamic performance were investigated by using an analytical model of the Pultruded Rod Stitched Efficient Unitized Structure(PRSEUS)for the airframe and the computational fluid dynamics method,respectively.The results show that as the stiffness constraint increases,the spacings between the rod stringers and the frame stiffeners decrease,and the structural weight increases inversely.A 5.2% reduction of the lift-to-drag ratio is encountered at cruise for a medium deformation design of 42.8 mm/m.A higher aerodynamic penalty is suffered when the stiffness constraint is further released.The final deformation criterion is different when the weight vector of the aerodynamic performance and structural weight is different.

Bleaching effect and nonvolatile holographic storage in doubly doped LiNbO_3:Fe:Cu crystals

The bleaching effect, i.e. the crystal shows that decoloration after it is illuminated by ultraviolet light, has been observed in congruent LiNbO3:Fe:Cu crystals. Based on this bleaching effect, a new technique including the recording phase by two interfering red beams and fixing phase by both UV light and a coherent red beam has been experimentally investigated to realize nonvolatile holographic storage in LiNbO3:Fe:Cu. The results of proof-of-concept experiments confirm that bleaching effect becomes an alternative physical mechanism for nonvolatile holographic storage with high recording sensitivity and weak light-induced scattering noise.

Economic structure and environmental quality and their impact on changing land use efficiency in China

Extensive urban land expansion and heavy industrialization have increased energy consumption and caused environmental problems, both of which present serious threats to humans. Consequently, improved land use efficiency and realization of green development are imperative. Based on a detailed analysis of spatial- temporal evolution of urban land use efficiency, this paper analyzes the synergistic effect of industrial structure and city size, as well as the effect of environmental quality, by using panel data from 283 cities at or above prefecture- level in China from 2003 to 2012. It was concluded that 1） environmental quality has an obvious ＂crowding out effect＂ on urban land use efficiency and 2） urban land use efficiency shows a significant spatial auto-correlation. The effect of industrial structure is dependent on popula- tion size of the city. It has been found that a threshold population size of more than 108.45 （10,000 persons） is needed for an optimized benefit from industrial linkages. The urban population size presents an inverted-U shape against the urban land use efficiency, and the marginal benefit of urban size increases when the industrial structure shifts from secondary industry to tertiary industry. Additionally we found that the actual urban size of 98.2% is less than the cities＇ optimal sizes.

High Hardware Utilization and Low Memory Block Requirement Decoding of QC-LDPC Codes

This paper presents a simple yet effective decoding for general quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check （QC-LDPC） codes, which not only achieves high hardware utility efficiency （HUE）, but also brings about great memory block reduction without any performance degradation. The main idea is to split the check matrix into several row blocks, then to perform the improved mes- sage passing computations sequentially block by block. As the decoding algorithm improves, the sequential tie between the two-phase computations is broken, so that the two-phase computations can be overlapped which bring in high HUE. Two over- lapping schemes are also presented, each of which suits a different situation. In addition, an efficient memory arrangement scheme is proposed to reduce the great memory block requirement of the LDPC decoder. As an example, for the 0.4 rate LDPC code selected from Chinese Digital TV Terrestrial Broadcasting （DTTB）, our decoding saves over 80% memory blocks com- pared with the conventional decoding, and the decoder achieves 0.97 HUE. Finally, the 0.4 rate LDPC decoder is implemented on an FPGA device EP2S30 （speed grade -5）. Using 8 row processing units, the decoder can achieve a maximum net throughput of 28.5 Mbps at 20 iterations.

Continuation Finite Element Simulation of Second Harmonic Generation in Photonic Crystals

A computational study on the enhancement of the second harmonic generation(SHG)in one-dimensional(1D)photonic crystals is presented.The mathematical model is derived from a nonlinear system of Maxwell’s equations,which partly overcomes the shortcoming of some existing models based on the undepleted pump approximation.We designed an iterative scheme coupled with the finite element method which can be applied to simulate the SHG in one dimensional nonlinear photonic band gap structures in our previous work.For the case that the nonlinearity is strong which is desirable to enhance the conversion efficiency,a continuation method is introduced to ensure the convergence of the iterative procedure.The convergence of our method is fast.Numerical experiments also indicate the conversion efficiency of SHG can be significantly enhanced when the frequencies of the fundamental and the second harmonic wave are tuned at the photonic band edges.The maximum total conversion efficiency available reaches more than 50%in all the cases studied.