Optical intensity-driven reversible photonic bandgaps in self-organized helical superstructures with handedness inversion

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (15) ◽  
pp. 3678-3683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Sun ◽  
Li Yu ◽  
Ling Wang ◽  
Chenyue Li ◽  
Zhou Yang ◽  
...  

Optical intensity-driven self-organized helical superstructures were found to exhibit reversibly photodynamical photonic bandgaps in wavelength shifting, bandwidth broadening and reflectance enhancing in single-layer system.

TAPPI Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-108
Author(s):  
Daniel Varney ◽  
Douglas Bousfield

Cracking at the fold is a serious issue for many grades of coated paper and coated board. Some recent work has suggested methods to minimize this problem by using two or more coating layers of different properties. A discrete element method (DEM) has been used to model deformation events for single layer coating systems such as in-plain and out-of-plain tension, three-point bending, and a novel moving force picking simulation, but nothing has been reported related to multiple coating layers. In this paper, a DEM model has been expanded to predict the three-point bending response of a two-layer system. The main factors evaluated include the use of different binder systems in each layer and the ratio of the bottom and top layer weights. As in the past, the properties of the binder and the binder concentration are input parameters. The model can predict crack formation that is a function of these two sets of factors. In addition, the model can predict the flexural modulus, the maximum flexural stress, and the strain-at-failure. The predictions are qualitatively compared with experimental results reported in the literature.


Atmosphere ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuhao Ding ◽  
Qi Liu ◽  
Ping Lao

Low-level warm clouds are a major component in multilayered cloud systems and they are generally hidden from the top-down view of satellites with passive measurements. This study conducts an investigation on oceanic warm clouds embedded in multilayered structures by using spaceborne radar data with fine vertical resolution. The occurrences of warm cloud overlapping and the geometric features of several kinds of warm cloud layers are examined. It is found that there are three main types of cloud systems that involve warm cloud layers, including warm single layer clouds, cold-warm double layer clouds, and warm-warm double layer clouds. The two types of double layer clouds account for 23% and in the double layer occurrences warm-warm double layer subsets contribute about 13%. The global distribution patterns of these three types differ from each other. Single-layer warm clouds and the lower warm clouds in the cold-warm double layer system they have nearly identical geometric parameters, while the upper and lower layer warm clouds in the warm-warm double layer system are distinct from the previous two forms of warm cloud layers. In contrast to the independence of the two cloud layers in cold-warm double layer system, the two kinds of warm cloud layers in the warm-warm double layer system may be coupled. The distance between the two layers in the warm-warm double layer system is weakly dependent on cloud thickness. Given the upper and lower cloud layer with moderate thickness of around 1 km, the cloudless gap reaches its maximum when exceeding 600 m. The cloudless gap decreases in thickness as the two cloud layers become even thinner or thicker.


1968 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. R. Wood

In this paper a reservoir connected through a horizontal contraction to a channel is considered. Both the reservoir and the channel are considered to contain a stable multi-layered system of fluids. The conditions under which there is a flow in only one layer, and the depth in this flowing layer decreases continuously from its depth in the reservoir to its depth in the channel, give the maximum discharge that can be obtained with a flow only from this single layer. For this case the volume discharge calculations are carried out at a single section (the section of minimum width). Where there are velocities in only two layers and the depth in each of these layers decreases continuously from their depths in the reservoir to their depths in the channel, the theory involves computations at two sections in the flow. These are the section of minimum width and a section upstream of the position of minimum width (the virtual point of control). For this flow it is shown that the solution is the one in which the velocity and density distributions are self similar and that the depths of the layers at the point of maximum contraction are two-thirds of those far upstream. It is then shown that for any stable continuous or discrete density stratification in the reservoir a self similar solution will satisfy the conditions for the depths of the flowing layers to decrease smoothly from the reservoir to downstream of the contraction. Again the ratio of the depth at the contraction to that far upstream is two-thirds.When there is a very large density difference between the fluid in the lower dead water and that in the lowest flowing streamline then this streamline becomes horizontal and may be considered as a frictionless bed. The flow when the bed is not horizontal but where there is a small rise in the channel at the position of maximum contraction is considered for the case where two discrete layers flow under a volume of dead water. In this case the velocity and density profiles are not self similar.Experiments have been carried out with a contraction in a flume for the withdrawal of two discrete layers from a three layer system and the withdrawal from a fluid with a linear density gradient. In both cases the reservoir and channel bed and hence the lowest streamline was effectively horizontal. These experiments confirmed the theoretical predictions.


RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (48) ◽  
pp. 42517-42521 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Ciprian ◽  
C. Baratto ◽  
A. Giglia ◽  
K. Koshmak ◽  
G. Vinai ◽  
...  

A new system based on a Co film covered by ZnO nanorods has been fabricated with sputtering technique. It represents a promising candidate for future generation of magnetic gas sensing devices.


2007 ◽  
Vol 573 ◽  
pp. 105-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHIU-ON NG ◽  
XUEYAN ZHANG

A theory is presented for the mass transport induced by a small-amplitude progressive wave propagating in water over a thin layer of viscoelastic mud modelled as a Voigt medium. Based on a sharp contrast in length scales near the bed, the boundary-layer approximation is applied to the Navier–Stokes equations in Lagrangian form, which are then solved for the first-order oscillatory motions in the mud and the near-bed water layers. On extending the analysis to second order for the mass transport, it is pointed out that it is inappropriate, as was done in previous studies, to apply the complex viscoelastic parameter to a higher-order analysis, and also to suppose that a Voigt body can undergo continuous steady motion. In fact, the time-mean motion of a Voigt body is only transient, and will stop after a time scale given by the ratio of the viscosity to the shear modulus. Once the mud has attained its steady deformation, the mass transport in the overlying water column can be found as if it were a single-layer system. It is found that the near-bed mass transport has non-trivial dependence on the mud depth and elasticity, which control the occurrence of resonance. Even when the resonance is considerably damped by viscosity, the mass transport in water over a viscoelastic layer can be dramatically different, in terms of magnitude and direction, from that over a rigid bed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 250 ◽  
pp. 04001
Author(s):  
Yohan Cosquer ◽  
Patrice Longère ◽  
Olivier Pantalé ◽  
Claude Gailhac

The complexity of ballistic protections increases with their efficiency. On this basis, an exclusively empirical approach is not adapted to optimise complex protection systems and the resort to numerical simulations is preferred if not mandatory. The present study proposes a methodology aiming at optimising complex multi-layer ballistic armours based on an experimental-numerical correlation. A multi-layer system is taken as example. A numerical model is first calibrated according to impact-on-monolithic-target test results. Once the model is validated, an optimisation process considering multi-layer configurations involving a sharp-nosed threat modifies the plates’ thicknesses in order to minimise the total mass while ensuring the system’s protective capacity in terms of residual velocity. The optimisation process shows that a single layer system is more efficient than a multi-layer one in the studied case.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Liu ◽  
Yuhao Ding ◽  
Ping Lao

<p>Low-level warm clouds are a major component in multilayered cloud systems and are generally hidden from the top-down view of satellites with passive measurements. By using spaceborne radar data with fine vertical resolution, this study conducts an investigation on oceanic warm clouds embedded in multilayered structures. The occurrences of warm cloud overlapping and the geometric features of several kinds of warm cloud layers are examined. It is found that there are three main types of cloud systems that involve warm cloud layers, including warm single layer clouds, cold-warm double layer clouds and warm-warm double layer clouds. The two types of double layer clouds account for 23% and in the double layer occurrences warm-warm double layer subsets contribute about 13%. The global distribution patterns of these three types differ from each other. Single-layer warm clouds and the lower warm clouds in the cold-warm double layer system have nearly identical geometric parameters, while the upper and lower layer warm clouds in the warm-warm double layer system are distinct from the previous two forms of warm cloud layers. In contrast to the independence of the two cloud layers in cold-warm double layer system, the two kinds of warm cloud layers in the warm-warm double layer system may be coupled. The distance between the two layers in the warm-warm double layer system is weakly dependent on cloud thickness. Given the upper and lower cloud layer with moderate thickness around 1 km, the cloudless gap reaches its maximum exceeding 600 m. As the two cloud layers become even thinner or thicker, the cloudless gap decreases in thickness. It is believed that such knowledge on cloud overlapping is critical for fully understanding the distribution of warm clouds in three-dimensional space. The results derived in this study could help validating cloud results of numerical models, which are indeed three-dimensional in nature. They could also be used to improve the estimation of cloud radiative forcing, since it is affected by cloud occurrences and especially their vertical structures. It should be pointed out that solid explanations for the above cloud features cannot be presented by only using these satellite data themselves. </p>


1991 ◽  
Vol 182 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 89-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Nakajima ◽  
M. Kikuchi ◽  
Y. Syono ◽  
T. Oku ◽  
K. Nagase ◽  
...  
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1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. W. King ◽  
C. J. Aloisio

Sometimes the polymer coating on an optical fiber is observed to have separated from the fiber over a small portion of the interface. Irregularities on the capstans and sheaves of draw, rewind, coloring, and cabling machines can initiate such delaminations. Subsequent growth would not be anticipated under the condition of radial compressive stress that might be expected for a coating shrinking over a relatively rigid fiber as the composite cools during manufacture. Compressive stress is indeed found at the interface when a single-layer coating is used. However, for a two-layer system, having a high-modulus secondary over a low-modulus primary (for improved protection against microbending), the different rates of thermal expansion can lead to radial tension at the silica/primary interface, and this tension can “drive” the growth of delaminations. A principal result of this study is that the analysis predicts the primary coating, although rubbery, to be approximately in a state of uniform hydrostatic tension. This tensile stress is of substantial magnitude because of constraints imposed by the relatively stiff secondary coating and by the fiber. The existence of significant radial tension at the fiber surface is consistent with experimental observations of induced delaminations, which are seen to grow long after cessation of external disturbances.


2020 ◽  
Vol 984 ◽  
pp. 82-87
Author(s):  
Bao Zhu Wang ◽  
Sheng Tang ◽  
Tong Wei ◽  
Jie Ren ◽  
Min Wang

The electronic structure and magnetic properties of C atoms in Co, Ni-substituted graphene single-layers were studied by first-principles calculation method based on density functional theory. The study found that the pure graphene single-layer is an insulator, does not have magnetism, and we found that the doping of Co and Ni atoms alone does not make the system magnetic. Both Co and Ni atoms are capable of generating impurity levels in the graphene single-layer system. The impurity level of Co atom doping is 0.75 eV below the Fermi level, and the impurity level of Ni atom doping is 0.4 eV above the Fermi level. Studies on the coupling doping of Co and Ni atoms show that two different distance Co atoms or Ni atoms in the graphene single-layer are not always ferromagnetically coupled, and a stable magnetic ground state cannot be obtained. It can produce different magnetic ground states by controlling different doping distances, thus we provide one new way to control the spin properties.


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