The impedance matching is crucial for continuous wave operation of ion cyclotron resonance heating(ICRH) antennae with high power injection into plasmas.A sudden increase in the reflected radio frequency power due t...The impedance matching is crucial for continuous wave operation of ion cyclotron resonance heating(ICRH) antennae with high power injection into plasmas.A sudden increase in the reflected radio frequency power due to an impedance mismatch of the ICRH system is an issue which must be solved for present-day and future fusion reactors.This paper presents a method for theoretical analysis of ICRH system impedance matching for a triple liquid stub tuner under plasma operational conditions.The relationship of the antenna input impedance with the plasma parameters and operating frequency is first obtained using a global solution.Then,the relations of the plasma parameters and operating frequency with the matching liquid heights are indirectly obtained through numerical simulation according to transmission line theory and matching conditions.The method provides an alternative theoretical method,rather than measurements,to study triple liquid stub tuner impedance matching for ICRH,which may be beneficial for the design of ICRH systems on tokamaks.展开更多
We have studied spin-dependent thermoelectric transport through parallel triple quantum dots with Rashba spinorbital interaction(RSOI) embedded in an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer connected symmetrically to leads usi...We have studied spin-dependent thermoelectric transport through parallel triple quantum dots with Rashba spinorbital interaction(RSOI) embedded in an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer connected symmetrically to leads using nonequilibrium Green's function method in the linear response regime.Under the appropriate configuration of magnetic flux phase and RSOI phase,the spin figure of merit can be enhanced and is even larger than the charge figure of merit.In particular,the charge and spin thermopowers as functions of both the magnetic flux phase and the RSOI phase present quadruple-peak structures in the contour graphs.For some specific configuration of the two phases,the device can provide a mechanism that converts heat into a spin voltage when the charge thermopower vanishes while the spin thermopower is not zero,which is useful in realizing the thermal spin battery and inducing a pure spin current in the device.展开更多
基金supported by the National Magnetic Confinement Fusion Science Program of China(Nos.2014GB108002,2013GB107001)National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11205086,11205053,11375085,and 11405082)+1 种基金the Construct Program of Fusion and Plasma Physics Innovation Team in Hunan Province,China(No.NHXTD03)the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province,China(No.2015JJ4044)
文摘The impedance matching is crucial for continuous wave operation of ion cyclotron resonance heating(ICRH) antennae with high power injection into plasmas.A sudden increase in the reflected radio frequency power due to an impedance mismatch of the ICRH system is an issue which must be solved for present-day and future fusion reactors.This paper presents a method for theoretical analysis of ICRH system impedance matching for a triple liquid stub tuner under plasma operational conditions.The relationship of the antenna input impedance with the plasma parameters and operating frequency is first obtained using a global solution.Then,the relations of the plasma parameters and operating frequency with the matching liquid heights are indirectly obtained through numerical simulation according to transmission line theory and matching conditions.The method provides an alternative theoretical method,rather than measurements,to study triple liquid stub tuner impedance matching for ICRH,which may be beneficial for the design of ICRH systems on tokamaks.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11274208 and 11447170)
文摘We have studied spin-dependent thermoelectric transport through parallel triple quantum dots with Rashba spinorbital interaction(RSOI) embedded in an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer connected symmetrically to leads using nonequilibrium Green's function method in the linear response regime.Under the appropriate configuration of magnetic flux phase and RSOI phase,the spin figure of merit can be enhanced and is even larger than the charge figure of merit.In particular,the charge and spin thermopowers as functions of both the magnetic flux phase and the RSOI phase present quadruple-peak structures in the contour graphs.For some specific configuration of the two phases,the device can provide a mechanism that converts heat into a spin voltage when the charge thermopower vanishes while the spin thermopower is not zero,which is useful in realizing the thermal spin battery and inducing a pure spin current in the device.