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Yellow luminescence in n-type GaN epitaxial films
(1997-09-15)
Chen, HM
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Chen, YF
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Lee, MC
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Feng, MS
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材料科學與工程學系
Photoluminescence, resonant Raman scattering, and photoconductivity measurements have been employed to study the yellow; emission in undoped n-type and a set of Se-doped GaN epitaxial films. It is best described by a transition from the conduction-band edge to a deep acceptor. Unlike the donors and accepters used in most previous studies that substitute Ga sires, Se atoms can replace N sites. With this unique fact, we identify that the origin of the yellow emission involves the nitrogen antisite. In addition, it is found that persistent photoconductivity can be observed after the yellow; band excitation, We further suggest that the nitrogen antisite exhibits a metastable behavior similar to the arsenic antisite in GaAs.
Precision side-polished fibers with a long interaction length
(1997-09-15)
Liaw, SK
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Chiu, JY
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Tseng, SM
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光電工程學系
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Department of Photonics
We succeeded in fabricating precision side-polished fibers embedded in silicon V-grooves and then polished six fibers using a home-made polisher. The control of the polishing depth of the side-polished fibers was as accurate as +/-0.25 mu m. Another merit of our polished samples was their negligible losses even though the effective interaction lengths were long. Experimental calibrations of our samples agreed with theoretical results.
Precision side-polished fibers with a long interaction length
(1997-09-15)
Liaw, SK
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Chiu, JY
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Tseng, SM
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光電工程研究所
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Institute of EO Enginerring
We succeeded in fabricating precision side-polished fibers embedded in silicon V-grooves and then polished six fibers using a home-made polisher. The control of the polishing depth of the side-polished fibers was as accurate as +/-0.25 mu m. Another merit of our polished samples was their negligible losses even though the effective interaction lengths were long. Experimental calibrations of our samples agreed with theoretical results.
Electroreflectance of surface-intrinsic- n(+)-type doped GaAs
(1997-09-15)
Wang, DP
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Huang, KM
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Shen, TL
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Huang, KF
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Huang, TC
The electroreflectance spectra of surface-intrinsic-n(+)-type-doped GaAs were measured at various bias voltages (V-bias). Results revealed many Franz-Keldysh oscillations (FKOs) above the band-gap energy, which have been attributed to a uniform electric field (F) in the undoped layer below the surface. However, there has been no other evidence for the uniformity of F in the undoped layer. Since it is known that F can be deduced from the periods of the FKOs, the relations between F and V-bias can, thereby, be obtained. The nearly linear relation, thus found, confirms the existence of a nearly uniform field in the undoped layer. From the plot of F against V-bias,the Values of the thickness of the undoped layer and the barrier height can also be evaluated. (C) 1997 American Institute of Physics.
Electroreflectance of surface-intrinsic- n(+)-type doped GaAs
(1997-09-15)
Wang, DP
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Huang, KM
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Shen, TL
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Huang, KF
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Huang, TC
The electroreflectance spectra of surface-intrinsic-n(+)-type-doped GaAs were measured at various bias voltages (V-bias). Results revealed many Franz-Keldysh oscillations (FKOs) above the band-gap energy, which have been attributed to a uniform electric field (F) in the undoped layer below the surface. However, there has been no other evidence for the uniformity of F in the undoped layer. Since it is known that F can be deduced from the periods of the FKOs, the relations between F and V-bias can, thereby, be obtained. The nearly linear relation, thus found, confirms the existence of a nearly uniform field in the undoped layer. From the plot of F against V-bias,the Values of the thickness of the undoped layer and the barrier height can also be evaluated. (C) 1997 American Institute of Physics.
Probing flavor changing neutral Higgs couplings at LHC
(1997-09-18)
Hou, WS
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Lin, GL
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Ma, CY
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Yuan, CP
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電子物理學系
Uniquely heavy with mass at the weak scale, the top quark may have large flavor changing couplings to Higgs bosons that are as yet unexplored. We show that such couplings could be directly probed at the LHC through the parton subprocess c((c) over bar)g --> t((t) over bar)A(0), where the pseudoscalar A(0) subsequently decays into t (c) over bar or (t) over bar c, giving rise to the intriguing final state of like sign top quark pairs. After demanding l(+/-)l(+/-), missing energy and two b-jets, the major background turns out to be q (q) over bar' --> Wt (t) over bar, which can be partially suppressed by jet counting. The signal can then manifest itself in the asymmetry of numbers of l(+)l(+) and l(-)l(-) events. To further improve the signal over background, efficient t vs. (t) over bar tagging methods should be developed. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.
Probing flavor changing neutral Higgs couplings at LHC
(1997-09-18)
Hou, WS
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Lin, GL
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Ma, CY
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Yuan, CP
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電子物理學系
Uniquely heavy with mass at the weak scale, the top quark may have large flavor changing couplings to Higgs bosons that are as yet unexplored. We show that such couplings could be directly probed at the LHC through the parton subprocess c((c) over bar)g --> t((t) over bar)A(0), where the pseudoscalar A(0) subsequently decays into t (c) over bar or (t) over bar c, giving rise to the intriguing final state of like sign top quark pairs. After demanding l(+/-)l(+/-), missing energy and two b-jets, the major background turns out to be q (q) over bar' --> Wt (t) over bar, which can be partially suppressed by jet counting. The signal can then manifest itself in the asymmetry of numbers of l(+)l(+) and l(-)l(-) events. To further improve the signal over background, efficient t vs. (t) over bar tagging methods should be developed. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.
Charge transfer process in Tl2Ba2Ca2Cu3O10 and Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8 thin films probed by polarized X-ray absorption spectroscopy
(1997-09-26)
Chen, JM
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Liu, RG
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Liu, RS
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Lin, HC
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Uen, TM
We report high-resolution polarized O 1s X-ray absorption spectra of highly c-axis-oriented Tl2Ba2Ca2Cu3O10 (Tl-2223) and Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8 (Tl-2212) superconducting thin films. Near the O Is edge, the low-energy pre-edge peak at 528.3 eV has mainly O 2p(xy) symmetry, while the pre-edge peak at 529.4 eV has predominantly O 2p, character. The spectral weight of the pre-edge peak at 528.3 eV, originating from the CuO2 planes, increases similar to 60% from the Tl-2212 to Tl-2223 thin films. Conversely, the high-energy pre-edge peak at 530.3 eV, originating from the TlO planes, is lower in spectral intensity by similar to 30% in Tl-2223 as compared to the Tl-2212 thin film. The experimental results clearly demonstrate the pictures of the self doping due to the charge transfer from the CuO2 layers to the TlO layers. (C) 1997 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
Effect of lateral substituents on the mesomorphic properties of side-chain liquid crystalline polysiloxanes containing 4-[(S)-2-methyl-1-butoxy]phenyl 4-(alkenyloxy)benzoate side groups
(1997-09-30)
Hsu, CS
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Chu, PH
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Chang, HL
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Hsieh, TH
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交大名義發表
The synthesis of side-chain liquid crystalline polysiloxanes containing either 4-[(S)-2-methyl-1-butoxy] phenyl 4-(alkenyloxy)benzoate or laterally fluoro-, chloro-, bromo-, and methoxy-substituted 4-[(S)-2-methyl-1-butoxy] phenyl 4-(alkenyl oxy)benzoate mesogenic side groups is presented. The mesomorphic properties of the synthesized polymers have been characterized by optical polarizing microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, and X-ray diffraction measurements. The effects of spacer length and lateral substituent on the mesomorphic properties of the obtained polymers are examined. The five polymers which contain three methylene units in the spacers show no mesophase, while the five polymers which contain eleven methylene units in the spacer display smectic mesomorphism. Among the other fifteen polymers which contain respectively four, five, or six methylene units in the spacers, those with small fluoro and chloro substituents reveal respectively an Sd phase, while those with bulky bromo and methoxy substituents show no liquid crystalline behavior. The experimental results demonstrate that introducing a bulky lateral substituent into the mesogenic core of a polymer depresses the tendency to form a mesophase. Furthermore, the technique of thermally stimulated current has been used to study the dipolar relaxation mechanisms in a side-chain liquid crystalline polysiloxane. (C) 1997 John Wiley & Sons Inc.
The epoxy-polycarbonate blends cured with aliphatic amine .2. Thermal and mechanical properties mechanisms
(1997-09-30)
Lin, ML
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Chang, KH
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Chang, FC
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Li, MS
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Ma, CCM
The transamidation reaction converts the carbonate and amine into N-aliphatic aromatic carbamate and urea, causing the equivalent of oxirane and amine nonstoichiometric in the primary cure stage. After postcure, the substitution reaction takes place and results in a more tightly crosslinked structure. Such a higher crosslinking density is responsible for higher T-g, tensile strength, and tensile modulus in the postcure stage than that in the primary and secondary cure stages. This trend is more pronounced in those PC-epoxy blends containing higher molecular weight aliphatic amine or a higher content of PC. This phenomenon is due to the difference in the fraction of amino group of aliphatic amine consumed in the transamidation. PC-epoxy/aliphatic amine blends show minor improvement in the high strain rate Izod impact tests, while toughness improvement for some blends is substantial at low strain rate tensile tests. (C) 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
The epoxy-polycarbonate blends cured with aliphatic amine .1. Mechanism and kinetics
(1997-09-30)
Lin, ML
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Chang, KH
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Chang, FC
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Li, MS
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Ma, CCM
Reaction mechanism of the PC-epoxy blends cured by aliphatic amine has been investigated by varying PC contents in the blends. The transamidation reaction tends to convert nearly all the carbonates into N-aliphatic aromatic carbamates even at ambient temperature before normal curing. The remaining amine proceeds the normal curing with epoxy at a higher temperature (80 degrees C). For the PC-epoxy/aliphatic amine blend containing 6 wt % PC, the yielded N-aliphatic aromatic carbamate further reacts with amine to produce the urea structure. The urea undergoes substitution reaction with the hydroxyl formed from the normal curing to give the N-aliphatic aliphatic carbamate. For the blend containing 12 wt % PC, the N-aliphatic aromatic carbamate converts into the N-aliphatic aliphatic carbamate via two different routes. For the blend containing lower molecular weight of the aliphatic amine, the N-aliphatic aromatic carbamate reacts with hydroxyl to form the N-aliphatic aliphatic carbamate directly. For the blend containing higher molecular weight of aliphatic amine, the N-aliphatic aromatic carbamate decomposes into the aliphatic isocyanate accelerated by the presence of the residual oxirane. The isocyanate formed then reacts with hydroxyl to yield the N-aliphatic aliphatic carbamate. The activation energy (E-alpha) and preexponential factor (A) of the PC-epoxy/POPDA blends decrease with the increase of the PC content. Kinetic study by thermal analysis by the method of autocatalyzed model is able to correctly predict oxirane conversion vs. time relationship for the neat epoxy/aliphatic amine and the PC-epoxy/aromatic amine systems because the dominant reaction is the normal curing reaction between amine and oxirane. The model fails to predict the PC-epoxy/aliphatic amine system because the system is complicated by several other reactions besides the normal curing reaction. (C) 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
The epoxy-polycarbonate blends cured with aliphatic amine .2. Thermal and mechanical properties mechanisms
(1997-09-30)
Lin, ML
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Chang, KH
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Chang, FC
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Li, MS
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Ma, CCM
The transamidation reaction converts the carbonate and amine into N-aliphatic aromatic carbamate and urea, causing the equivalent of oxirane and amine nonstoichiometric in the primary cure stage. After postcure, the substitution reaction takes place and results in a more tightly crosslinked structure. Such a higher crosslinking density is responsible for higher T-g, tensile strength, and tensile modulus in the postcure stage than that in the primary and secondary cure stages. This trend is more pronounced in those PC-epoxy blends containing higher molecular weight aliphatic amine or a higher content of PC. This phenomenon is due to the difference in the fraction of amino group of aliphatic amine consumed in the transamidation. PC-epoxy/aliphatic amine blends show minor improvement in the high strain rate Izod impact tests, while toughness improvement for some blends is substantial at low strain rate tensile tests. (C) 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
The epoxy-polycarbonate blends cured with aliphatic amine .1. Mechanism and kinetics
(1997-09-30)
Lin, ML
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Chang, KH
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Chang, FC
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Li, MS
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Ma, CCM
Reaction mechanism of the PC-epoxy blends cured by aliphatic amine has been investigated by varying PC contents in the blends. The transamidation reaction tends to convert nearly all the carbonates into N-aliphatic aromatic carbamates even at ambient temperature before normal curing. The remaining amine proceeds the normal curing with epoxy at a higher temperature (80 degrees C). For the PC-epoxy/aliphatic amine blend containing 6 wt % PC, the yielded N-aliphatic aromatic carbamate further reacts with amine to produce the urea structure. The urea undergoes substitution reaction with the hydroxyl formed from the normal curing to give the N-aliphatic aliphatic carbamate. For the blend containing 12 wt % PC, the N-aliphatic aromatic carbamate converts into the N-aliphatic aliphatic carbamate via two different routes. For the blend containing lower molecular weight of the aliphatic amine, the N-aliphatic aromatic carbamate reacts with hydroxyl to form the N-aliphatic aliphatic carbamate directly. For the blend containing higher molecular weight of aliphatic amine, the N-aliphatic aromatic carbamate decomposes into the aliphatic isocyanate accelerated by the presence of the residual oxirane. The isocyanate formed then reacts with hydroxyl to yield the N-aliphatic aliphatic carbamate. The activation energy (E-alpha) and preexponential factor (A) of the PC-epoxy/POPDA blends decrease with the increase of the PC content. Kinetic study by thermal analysis by the method of autocatalyzed model is able to correctly predict oxirane conversion vs. time relationship for the neat epoxy/aliphatic amine and the PC-epoxy/aromatic amine systems because the dominant reaction is the normal curing reaction between amine and oxirane. The model fails to predict the PC-epoxy/aliphatic amine system because the system is complicated by several other reactions besides the normal curing reaction. (C) 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Effect of lateral substituents on the mesomorphic properties of side-chain liquid crystalline polysiloxanes containing 4-[(S)-2-methyl-1-butoxy]phenyl 4-(alkenyloxy)benzoate side groups
(1997-09-30)
Hsu, CS
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Chu, PH
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Chang, HL
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Hsieh, TH
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應用化學系
The synthesis of side-chain liquid crystalline polysiloxanes containing either 4-[(S)-2-methyl-1-butoxy] phenyl 4-(alkenyloxy)benzoate or laterally fluoro-, chloro-, bromo-, and methoxy-substituted 4-[(S)-2-methyl-1-butoxy] phenyl 4-(alkenyl oxy)benzoate mesogenic side groups is presented. The mesomorphic properties of the synthesized polymers have been characterized by optical polarizing microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, and X-ray diffraction measurements. The effects of spacer length and lateral substituent on the mesomorphic properties of the obtained polymers are examined. The five polymers which contain three methylene units in the spacers show no mesophase, while the five polymers which contain eleven methylene units in the spacer display smectic mesomorphism. Among the other fifteen polymers which contain respectively four, five, or six methylene units in the spacers, those with small fluoro and chloro substituents reveal respectively an Sd phase, while those with bulky bromo and methoxy substituents show no liquid crystalline behavior. The experimental results demonstrate that introducing a bulky lateral substituent into the mesogenic core of a polymer depresses the tendency to form a mesophase. Furthermore, the technique of thermally stimulated current has been used to study the dipolar relaxation mechanisms in a side-chain liquid crystalline polysiloxane. (C) 1997 John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Determination of puerarin, daidzein, paeoniflorin, cinnamic acid, glycyrrhizin, ephedrine, and [6]-gingerol in Ge-gen-tang by micellar electrokinetic chromatography
(1997-09-30)
Huang, HY
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Hsieh, YZ
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應用化學系
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Department of Applied Chemistry
This paper presents a micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC) method with diode-array detection to analyze for seven major components in the traditional Chinese medicinal preparation of Ge-gen-tang. Those analytes were successfully separated within 9 min using a pH 9.0 berate buffer containing 20 mM Sodium dodecyl sulfate at 30 degrees C. Experimental results indicated that the relative standard deviations of the analytes' migration times were <0.43% and the correlation coefficients of the analytes' linear calibration graphs exceeded 0.996. The quantities of the seven components in four different Ge-gen-tang samples were determined by the MEKC method coupled with a relatively simple extraction method. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.
Lifetime and compactness of range for super-Brownian motion with a general branching mechanism
(1997-10-01)
Sheu, YC
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交大名義發表
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應用數學系
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National Chiao Tung University
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Department of Applied Mathematics
Let X be a super-Brownian motion with a general (time-space) homogeneous branching mechanism. We study a relation between lifetime and compactness of range for X. Under a restricted condition on the branching mechanism, we show that the set X survives is the same as that the range of X is unbounded. (For alpha-branching super-Brownian motion, 1 < alpha less than or equal to 2, similar results were obtained earlier by Iscoe (1988) and Dynkin (1991).) We also give an interesting example in that case X dies out in finite time, but it has an unbounded range. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.
Plasma transferred are repair welding of the nickel-base superalloy IN-738LC
(1997-10-01)
Su, CY
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Chou, CP
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Wu, BC
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Lih, WC
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機械工程學系
Plasma transferred are welding (PTA) has been considered a promising process tea restore worn areas of land-based gas turbine blades and vanes. The objective of this investigation was to study the effect of PTA welding on the repairing of IN-738LC superalloy components, Tensile tests were conducted on specimens welded with various combinations of parameters, Room temperature, 760 degrees C, and 980 degrees C were selected Its tensile test temperatures, High-temperature phase transformed, during solidification, were identified by differential thermal analysis (DTA), The weld-pool shapes and microstructures of welded specimens prepared by various welding parameters were evaluated by optical metallography (OM), a scanning electron microscope (SEM) equipped with energy dispersive x-ray spectrometer (EDS), and microhardness testing. Results of this study showed that PTA welded specimens exhibited 96% nominal tensile strength of IN-738LC base materials, Specimen failure was observed predominantly in the base materials instead of in the heat-affected zone (HAZ) for gas tungsten are weld (GTAW) repair weldments, IN-738LC is considered susceptible to weld cracking during fusion welding; however, using a low-input heat repair welding process (PTA), cracking susceptibility could be minimized by the optimized welding parameters.
Transformation models for interval scale grouped data with applications
(1997-10-01)
Lu, HHS
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Hsieh, FS
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統計學研究所
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Institute of Statistics
Interval scale grouped data have peculiar structures of their own rights among various archetypes of polytomous data that deserve special statistical treatments. Maximum likelihood type approaches along with heteroscedastic and transformation models are adapted to take into account this kind of architecture with current state-of-art computation capabilities. Meanwhile, misclassification rates instead of sum of squared residuals are suggested for model fitting and selection in light of the data formation. Successful applications of these methods are demonstrated by a set of empirical data regarding the endotracheal tube size selection for small children in the emergency room of a hospital.
A new power collection architecture for future spacecraft
(1997-10-01)
Kuo, MY
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Kuo, MS
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Kuo, CC
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電子工程學系及電子研究所
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Department of Electronics Engineering and Institute of Electronics
The generalized tree-like transmission line network system having n layers in total with m-to-1 branch connection at each joint (T-TLNS-n-m) is proposed to replace the traditional series-parallel combined dc networks to automatically accumulate identically distributed power cells into the large amount of useful power for the spacecrafts, The proposed system has the attractive features of simple structure, easy construction and maintenance, and low cost, because two kinds of parts, ac current sources and m-to-1 transmission line (TL) branch connection parts, are used in the whole system. A method of implementing ac current cells having high output impedance is proposed to improve the power collection efficiency of the whole network system. Simulated results show that that low-pass nominal pi- or T-circuit with high characteristic impedance, which is used for the voltage source to current source converter in the current cell, improves the efficiency of the voltage inverter, filters out the harmonics, and increases the output impedance of the whole current cell.
Design of a rule-based flexible manufacturing system controller using modified IDEF0 methodology
(1997-10-01)
Chen, SG
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Wu, MZ
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Li, RK
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工業工程與管理學系
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Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
This article proposes a new method to design a rule-based FMS controller. This approach adopts modified IDEFO (MI) diagrams as a graphical representation of the production rules. Initially, the material flows or functional requirements for the FMS are specified by synthesizing the MI diagram primitives. The control flows for the FMS are then created by a number of transformation rules. The manufacturing policy, e.g. deadlock avoidance policy, is also specified and attached. The MI diagrams are therefore transformed to the final MI (FMI) diagrams which can be directly transformed to the production rules. Thus, a concise rule-based FMS controller is developed. The fact that the production rules are created by systematic transformation eliminates any redundant, contradictory, or unnecessary rules. Two approaches can verify the consistency of the designed FMS controller. The controlled Petri net approach can be adopted for verifying a small system, while a simulation approach is preferable for verifying a large system. By iterating the process, a feasible rule-based FMS controller can be systematically developed. This method not only provides graphical representations to construct well-organized production rules, but also includes a systematic transformation of the control flows for an FMS controller.