Key Engineering Materials Vols. 562-565

Abstract: Semi-circle long-range dielectric-loaded surface plasmon-polariton waveguide (LR-DLSPPW) is proposed, in which a thin and narrow metal stripe (15-nm-thick and 500-nm-wide) is sandwiched between a semi-circle dielectric ridge(with the refractive index of 1.535 ,the radius of 777 nm) and a dielectric film (with the refractive index of 1.493) supported by low-index substrate (with the refractive index of 1.34). The mode effective index, propagation length, mode width and figures of merit of the fundamental mode supported using the finite-element method are calculated at the telecom wavelength λ =1.55μm for different dimensions (t) of the dielectric film. It was calculated that the optimized structure have the maximized parameters with figures of merit 3.75×10¬6and propagation length 3.7mm at t=570 nm. The semi-circle LR-DLSPPW structure is found to exhibit about 20% increase of the propagation length as compared to the conventional rectangular LR-DLSPPW while ridge thickness t≤600 nm. The proposed configuration allows for easy connection to electrodes enabling, and is technologically simple being compatible with planar fabrication using UV-lithography.

Abstract: This paper built the customer requirement processing flow for mass customization, and analyzes the customer group’s and discrete customer’s requirement processing flow. On this basis, the acquisition and criterion of customer requirement, the customer requirement information analysis, the evaluation of customer satisfaction(EOCS) has been studied and discussed.

Abstract: Multiwall carbon nanotubes (CNT) were added into ZnO matrix to develop a CNTs/ZnO composite gas sensor. The hybrid sensor is used to detect CO in air by measuring resistance changes of thin CNTs/ZnO films at different working temperature. For comparison, pure ZnO and CNT/ZnO sensors are also examined. The gas sensing results reveal that CNTs/ZnO with the weight ratio (9:100) hybrid sensors exhibit much higher sensitivity and fast response-recovery properties towards CO, at 240°C than the blank ZnO nanowires. Hybrid material of ZnO nanowires and CNT composites could potentially display not only the unique properties of nanowires and those of CNTs, but also an additional novel property.

Abstract: This paper analyses the active vibration control technology on the piezoelectric ceramics car-body pieces in fuzzy control Strategy. Adaptive controllers, based on fuzzy logics, are synthesized for the control of vibration of body structure. Piezoelectric element, control system and body structure have been combined to be a intelligent response system to external drive and it’s own vibration. This system can effect reducing body structure’s reaction from environmental load with external energy. The availability of the control strategy has been confirmed by experiments.

Abstract: The technology of image matching is very important in the field of image analysis. Studying on image correlation is the key to improve the accuracy of image matching, while the fractal self-similarity has the unique potential in making full use of image correlation. This paper put forwards a matching algorithm of the sub-pixel image matching based on fractal dimension. Firstly, by searching template subarea based on traverse in being matched image, and the sub-subareas are classified. Then, the fractal dimension of subareas and sub-subareas is calculated by using the optimal box counting method. The similarity maximum position can be found according to the statistical correlation. Finally, fractal interpolation method is used to improve the precision of image matching. Both theoretical analysis and experimental results show that this approach has good matching effect.

Abstract: This paper presents the simulation and experiment about the attenuation characteristics of ultrasound in micron particle clouds. Firstly, several models that have been used in the suspension concentration measurement are analyzed. Then the numerical simulations are conducted to try to establish the relationship between the consciousness, particle size and the frequency. Finally, an experiment is conducted to verify whether the attenuation of ultrasound in micron particle clouds follows the simulations' relusts. The results of numerical simulations and the experiment both show that the intensity of ultrasound has a positive correlation with the consciousness, but the relationship between the attenuation and particle size is still uncertain for lack of experimental data. At present, research is still in ongoing.

Abstract: The oxidation of cyclohexane in the microchannels not only improves the safety of the reaction, but also the performance of the oxidation reaction. Different gas-liquid micro mixers were used for the mixing of gas and liquid before entering into microchannels, and SIMM-V2 performed best of all. Excellent slug/plug flow can be formed in the microchannels after mixing in the gas-liquid micro mixer when the molar ratio of oxygen to cyclohexane is less than 0.5:1. The conversion of cyclohexane increased as the residence time increased, but the selectivity of cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone increased first and then decreased. At the reaction temperature of 200 °C, with the flow rate of the solvent isopropanol being 1 mL/min and the molar ratio of oxygen to cyclohexane being 0.15:1, both the conversion of cyclohexane and selectivity of cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone increased with the increase of pressure. The conversion of cyclohexane and selectivity of cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone reached 10.10% and 66.93% respectively at the pressure of 8 MPa. It is indicated that the new process by use of uncatalyzed cyclohexane oxidation in the microchannels will have very attractive prospects in the improvement of the safety, intensification of the gas-liquid mass transfer and obtaining good reactive performance. Therefore, the technology shows good potential in industrial applications.