In this work, a mechanical vibrational analysis of an ultrasonic atomizer is carried out to control its atomization mass transfer rate. An ultrasonic atomizer is a device constructed with a piezoelectric ring coupled to a metallic circular thin plate...
Because little is known about the atomization theory of a micro-tapered aperture atomizer, we investigated the vibration characteristics of this type of atomizer. The atomization mechanism of a micro-tapered aperture atomizer was described, and the a...
On the basis of previous study in our research group, the phenomenon of the dynamic tapered angle was founded, the occurrence of atomization is regarded to derive from the combined effects of the dynamic variation of the micro-tapered aperture, and t...
Dynamic mesh atomizers have been widely used in various fields because of their compact structure, low energy consumption, and low production costs. The finite element method is an important technique to analyze the factors affecting the atomization...
Centrifugal atomization is a rapid solidification technique involving fast cooling rates to produce high-quality powders. The final microstructure of the atomized particles is closely linked with the thermal history and cooling rates experienced duri...
This study conducted cold flow experimental research on the influence of mass flow rate on the atomization characteristics of screw conveyer swirl injectors in an opening environment. The Phase Doppler Particle Analyzer (PDPA) and high-speed photogra...
Reaction F + H2S→SH + HF (1) is an effective source of SH radicals and an important intermediate in atmospheric and combustion chemistry. We employed a discharge-flow, modulated molecular beam mass spectrometry technique to determine the rate co...
The improvement in ALD growth rate has always been challenging due to its slow atomic-scale depositions. Although Al2O3 ALD is one of the most widely used ALD processes, the effects of its process parameters on growth rate have not been systematicall...
During variable-rate spraying in orchards, the atomization characteristics and distribution of droplets in and out of the target area can be affected by the sprayer pressure. In this study, a variable-rate spraying control system test bench was desig...
In this paper, we find that the dynamic cone angle of a piezoceramic atomizer is linked to periodic changes in the volume of the micro-cone hole of the atomizer, and such changes affect atomization performance. Firstly, we explained the theory of the...
Recent advances in non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE) plasma simulations, for example in modeling kilonova ejecta, have emphasized the need for consistent and reliable atomic data. Unlike LTE modeling, non-LTE calculations must include a c...
The conventional liquid acid has several shortcomings in the acidizing process of fractured-vuggy carbonate reservoirs, including high filtration loss, fast reaction rate, high friction resistance, and difficult flowback. To address these issues, a n...
Flow field, atomization field characteristics, and liquid film breakup behaviors of a pre-filming air-blast atomizer are investigated using PIV (Particle Imaging Velocimetry), PLIF (Fuel Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence), and high-speed shadowgraph...
In this study, we examined the use of a dynamic micro-tapered hole as a micro-scale tapered flow tube valveless piezoelectric pump. Firstly, we obtained photographs of a micro-tapered hole by using an environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM)...
The coupling of three-level giant atoms with one-dimensional waveguides can show interesting phenomena of transmission and reflection. Since the non-waveguide mode can cause the dissipation of external atoms, we consider the effect of the dissipation...
By considering the interaction between a two-atom system and the vacuum massless scalar field in the viewpoint of an instantaneously inertial observer, we study the rates of transition of a uniformly accelerated two-atom system in the symmetric/antis...
Centrifugal atomization is a rapid solidification technique for producing metal powders. However, its wide application has been limited to the production of common metal powders and their corresponding alloys. Therefore, there is a lack of research o...
The OH-initiated reaction rate constants (kOH) are of great importance to measure atmospheric behaviors of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) in the environment. The rate constants of 75 PCDDs with the OH radical at 298.15 K have been calculat...
The online atomic database of NORAD-Atomic-Data, where NORAD stands for Nahar OSU Radiative, is part of the data sources of the two international collaborations of the Opacity Project (OP) and the Iron Project (IP). It contains large sets of paramete...
A discharge-flow reactor combined with modulated molecular beam mass spectrometry technique was employed to determine the rate constants of H-atom reactions with hydrogen sulfide and thiirane. The rate constants for both reactions were determined at...
Satellite atomic clocks are the key elements for position, navigation, and timing services of the Global navigation satellite system (GNSS); it is necessary to research the characteristics of BDS-3 on-orbit satellite atomic clocks for their further o...
Dielectronic recombination (DR) is widely recognized as a fundamental atomic process in many astrophysical and laboratory plasmas, where it plays a crucial role in determining ionization balance and level populations over a broad temperature range. R...
We demonstrate efficient loading of an Yb three-dimensional magneto-optical trap (3D MOT) on the 1S0 → 1P1 transition. The experiment employs a two-dimensional magneto-optical trap (2D MOT) as an efficient cold atom source. Through optimization...
The behavior of multilevel atomic ensembles (e.g., alkali-metal atoms) can be influenced significantly by the intensity of a driving field (or controlling/coupling field). The phase coherence between two transition pathways driven by a probe light an...
The kinetics of Br-atom reactions with C2H4S and ClNO were studied as a function of temperature at a total pressure of 2 Torr of helium using a discharge–flow system combined with mass spectrometry: Br + C2H4S → SBr + C2H4 (1) and Br + ClN...
Radiative recombination (RR) plasma rate coefficients are often applied to estimate electron densities and temperatures under quite different plasma conditions. Despite their frequent use, however, these rate coefficients are available only for selec...
We report recent enhancements to the online atomic database at the Ohio State University, NORAD-Atomic-Data, that provide various parameters for radiative and collisional atomic processes dominant in astrophysical plasma. NORAD stands for Nahar Osu R...
Multiply charged ions of iron dominate the EUV spectrum of the solar corona. For the interpretation of such spectra, data on both the atomic structure and the transition rate are essential, most of which are provided by theory and computation. The wa...
The gas phase reaction of fluorine atoms with carbonyl sulfide, F + OCS → SF + CO (1), has been investigated over a wide temperature range, T = 220–960 K, in a discharge-flow system combined with mass spectrometry for the analysis of the r...
The 1-methylallyl (C4H71-3) allylic radical is an important intermediate species in oxidation of linear C4 unsaturated hydrocarbons (1-butene, 2-butene, and 1,3-butadiene). This study reports the first high-level quantum chemical calculations for an...
Inelastic processes rate coefficients for low-energy Sr + H, Sr
The rate constants of elementary processes in the atom–diatom system
The Atomic and Molecular Data Unit of the International Atomic Energy Agency has developed a new database, CollisionDB, to provide an open, free, robust and long-term repository of data on plasma collisional processes. The database contains data on c...
An effective methodology for the detailed analysis of thermal desorption spectra (TDS) of hydrogen in carbon structures at micro- and nanoscale was further developed and applied for a number of TDS data of one heating rate, in particular, for graphit...
Casein phosphopeptide (CPP) has been widely used as micronutrient supplementation for certain populations. However, its solubility performance is far from satisfying. In this work, instant CPP powders with micropore structures were fabricated by supe...
Axions can be considered as good dark matter candidates. The detection of such light particles can be achieved by observing axion-induced atomic excitations. The target is in a magnetic field so that the m-degeneracy is removed, and the energy levels...
The development of experimental ion-trap techniques provides the opportunity to compare directly theoretical rate coefficients to experimental data in the low-temperature regime. In the present work, we consider the ion-atom collisional systems, N2+,...
Chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) is frequently used in semiconductor manufacturing to polish the surfaces of multiple layers in a wafer. The CMP uses a slurry that aids in fabricating a smooth surface by removing the excess materials. However,...
This study deals with the impact of the heating rate (HR), temperature (T), and the number of atoms (N) on the structural features of amorphous nanoparticles (ANPs) of Ni by molecular dynamics simulation (MDS) with the Pak–Doyama pair interacti...
The centrifugal atomization process is a rapid solidification method that achieves high cooling rates. Although this technique is typically used to produce common metal powders, it has not been extensively explored for amorphous powder production, de...
The aim of this work is to improve the understanding of the effect of the cooling rate on the microstructure of high-entropy alloys, with a focus on high-entropy alloy coatings, by using a combined computational and experimental validation approach....
Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is playing a pivotal role in 5G technology and has the potential to be useful in future developments beyond 5G. Although the effectiveness of NOMA has largely been explored in the sum throughput maximization, the...
When the size of a polymerization locus is smaller than a few hundred nanometers, such as in miniemulsion polymerization, each locus may contain no more than one key-component molecule, and the concentration may become much larger than the correspond...
Single electron hydrogen or hydrogenic ions have analytical forms to evaluate the atomic parameters for the inverse processes of photoionization and electron-ion recombination (H I + h
The scanning speed of atomic force microscopes continues to advance with some current commercial microscopes achieving on the order of one frame per second and at least one reaching 10 frames per second. Despite the success of these instruments, even...
Industrial application of high carbon low alloy steel with the dual-phase structure of martensite and austenite has increased drastically in recent years. Due to its excellent compression strength and its high abrasion resistance, this grade of steel...
Vascular endothelial cells form a barrier that blocks the delivery of drugs entering into brain tissue for central nervous system disease treatment. The mechanical responses of vascular endothelial cells play a key role in the progress of drugs passi...
Thin film thermoelectric generators are expected to be applied as power supplies for various Internet of Thing devices owing to their small size and flexible structure. However, the primary challenges of thin film thermoelectric generators are to imp...
This paper investigates the validity of the long wavelength approximation in the calculation of two-photon decay of
In this article, we report the in-situ nanoscale experimental measurement of sublimation rates, activation energy of sublimation, and diffusion coefficients of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) single crystals in air using atomic force microscopy (AFM). Th...
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