... DESIGN ANDAPPLICATIONSOF PHOSPHINE LIGANDS TO TRANSITION METAL-CATALYZED REACTIONS JIANG CHUNHUI (M.Sc., Nanjing Univ.) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY ... indebted to Prof Tamio Hayashi for his sharing of knowledge and intellectual discussions Every member of Prof Lu’s group has been extremely supportive and I really appreciate their support and encouragement ... endless love and support ii Table of Contents Thesis Declaration i Acknowledgements ii Table of Contents iii Summary vi List of Tables viii List of Figures ix List of Schemes x List of Abbreviations...
... fabrication and characterization of colloidal crystals as three-dimensional photoniccrystals The effects of surfactants on the structure of polystyrene colloidal crystalsand the effects of pre-heating ... Three-dimensional colloidal crystals formed from monodisperse particles possess photonic stop bandgaps One of the promising methods of fabricating photoniccrystals with complete photonic bandgaps is to fill ... disorders and cracks formed invariably in the crystals Investigations related to the array fashion of the particles and studies on the control of the photonic properties of colloidal crystals...
... Theory and Design, Michel Nevière and Evgeny Popov 82 Handbook of Nonlinear Optics, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, Richard L Sutherland 83 Polarized Light: Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, ... LLC 43 Visual Science and Engineering: Models and Applications, edited by D H Kelly 44 Handbook of Lens Design, Daniel Malacara and Zacarias Malacara 45 Photonic Devices and Systems, edited by ... Optoelectronics: Devices and Applications, William Nunley and J Scott Bechtel Integrated Optical Circuits and Components: Designand Applications, edited by Lynn D Hutcheson Handbook of Molecular Lasers,...
... MOFs utilizing this family of ligands failed to yield any MOF We have successfully synthesized new MOFs utilizing 4-(imidazolyl) benzoic acid ligands: Cu MOF-3N, Cu MOF-4, Cu MOF-5 and Cd MOF-3 ... MOFs—namely synthesis of new ligands to expand the library of molecular building blocks for constructing MOFs as well as synthesis of MOFs from those ligands, investigation of several MOF systems to ... metal ions and organic ligands, it is possible to tailor the structures and sizes of pores within MOFs by design Because of the wide variety of coordination geometries offered by transition and lanthanide...
... ABSTRACT IDENTIFICATION, DESIGNAND SYNTHESIS OF OXYGENATED HYDROCARBON-BASED CO2-SOLUBLE POLYMERS FOR CHEMICAL AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS Lei Hong, Ph.D University of Pittsburgh, 2006 ... self-interactions, and multidentate interaction between CO2 and solute functional groups v TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS VI LIST OF TABLES X LIST OF FIGURES ... Experimental data of β-D-galactose pentaacetate at 313K and 17.24 MPa with a fixed falling distance of 0.05 m 159 xi LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1.1 Phase behavior of supercritical CO2 and H2O...
... ring and spiral resonators, also operating at MICS and ISM bands [74] The designand realization of a 3D-spiral small antenna was also proposed at MICS band [33] Most recently, a triple-band implantable ... locations for Pex, Pin and Din (a) Both the ports of Pex and Pin are away from port of Din (b) The port of Pex is away from Din while Pin is near the port of Din (c) The port of Pex is further located ... Publications [1] Z Duan, Y.X Guo, M Je, and D.L Kwong, Designand in vitro test of differentially fed dual-band implantable antenna operating at MICS and ISM bands”, IEEE Trans Antennas Propag.,...
... of PNP+GO-, GO and PNPB solutions at laser pulses of 532(c and e) and 1064 nm (d and f), where c) and d) show intensity-dependent scattering signals at 532 and 1064 nm, respectively, and e) and ... DESIGNAND SYNTHESIS OF FUNCTIONAL GRAPHENE COMPOSITES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS JANARDHAN BALAPANURU M.Sc., University of Pune, India A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY ... Separation of CoCl2.6 H2O solution on the top of PDI solution (color changed due to diffusion of CoCl2) and (c) After h of heating, formation of “PDI-Co” polymer precipitate (In set- SEM image of final...
... presents a summary of the results and highlights areas for future work XII List of Tables Table 1.1 A summary of the applicationsof PB Table 5.1 A comparison of the dependence of the response ... dependences of Epc towards (a) the logarithm of K+ concentration in (i) absence of Na+ with slope of ca 60 mV (ii) presence of 50 mM Na+ with slope of ca 120 mV; and (b) the logarithm of Na+ concentration ... crosssectional views of (a) a PB-PGE based on the designof encasing the pencil lead with an insulating layer and (b) a PB-PGE based on the designof direct immersion of a fixed length of the pencil...
... to the its efficiency and robustness of handling this type of spectral objective and constraints The optimal design problems for both band gap and band width in the respective photonic crystal devices ... Extensive optimal designs of the two-dimensional photoniccrystals are presented with optimal band gaps of various configurations, e.g., absolute band gaps, complete band gaps, and multiple band gap In ... optimal designofphotoniccrystals Convex optimization will be formally used for the purpose of designing photonic crystal devices with desired eigenband structures In particular, two types of devices...
... optimization to designphotoniccrystals with multiple and complete band gaps in two types of lattices These photonic crystal patterns are different from existing photonic crystal designs [33, 50, ... gap-midgap ratios of 5.76% and 6.94% are quite sizable – and are the first multiple and complete band gaps ever reported for photoniccrystals in the hexagonal lattice This photonic crystal structure ... work on the optimal designofphotoniccrystals with single band gap [44].) Figure 4.15 shows solutions for optimizing the first and fourth TE band gaps for both the square and hexagonal lattices...
... cases of the optimal designofphotonic crystals, the following directions are of great interest for the further development of this field Band gap optimization of three-dimensional photoniccrystals ... results and extensive optimal designs of the two-dimensional photoniccrystals are presented with optimal band gaps of various configurations, e.g., absolute band gaps, complete band gaps, and multiple ... The optimal designofphotoniccrystals has been the central theme of this work The aim is to develop convex optimization formulations that are reliable and efficient to design various photonic crystal...
... constant β Figure 5.1: Example of dispersion relation of a three-dimensional photonic crystal fiber The inset illustrates an example of the cross section of the waveguide βL and βR are the propagation ... G and ACL are affine h h −1 i ,i with respect to the reciprocal of the dielectric variables: = 1, , nε ,(see (3.2.19)) We introduce a change of variables and define γ as the design variables of ... uniform grid of the same mesh size, but of more elements The cladding consists of two rings of Ω surrounding the core, hence, the total number of elements in Ω is 40 × 60 = 2, 400, and in Ωs is...
... with band width Jh = 0.014 (β1 = 0.79); (middle) optimal configuration when only cladding is optimized, with band width ˆ Jh = 0.074 (β1 = 0.74); (right) optimal configuration when both cladding and ... 0.074 (β1 = 0.74); (right) optimal configuration when both cladding and ˆ core are optimized, with band width Jh = 0.1 (β1 = 0.72) The first row illustrates the PCF cross-sections The second row shows ... corresponding disperˆ sion relations between [β1 , β ] From the third row to the last, the magnetic field ˆ1 and β are shown in 3D surf plots intensities at both β 131 ...
... based on the bandgap size and relative position of the valence band and conduction band energy levels of the core and shell components Figure 1.5 Schematic diagram of the different type of core-shell ... PbS and nm PbS/CdS, (c-d) 6nm PbS and nm PbS/CdS, and (e-f) nm PbS and nm PbS/CdS 111 4.2 XRD patterns of (a) nm PbS and nm PbS/CdS; (b) nm PbS and nm PbS/CdS; (c) nm PbS and nm PbS/CdS Standard ... conduction-band offset results in efficient confinement of the electrons in the NC core while the valence band offset is relatively smaller Lead based NCs have small bandgap and high QY up to 90% and...
... dimensions scale down and fT and fmax scale up, a Designand Development of a CMOS Power Amplifier for Digital Applications CHAPTER 1: Introduction great deal of interest and research has been ... nonlinear effects of the drain to bulk capacitance have been studied and a set of modified design equations has been given [20] Designand Development of a CMOS Power Amplifier for Digital Applications ... includes studying of the basics of power amplifiers and designing a fully integrated power amplifier The power amplifier designed would aim to satisfy the specifications of the Bluetooth Standard 1.3...
... source of image contrast, and offers the opportunity for an improved understanding of integrative biology, earlier detection and characterization of diseases, and facilitates a better evaluation of ... 1.5.2 Reduction of Disulfides and Disulfide Site-specific Intercalation 14 1.6 Designof biocompatible metal-complex protein conjugate Chapter Project Aim andDesign 16 18 ii Table of Contents Chapter ... department of NUS for giving me the opportunity to undertake this project i Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements i Table of Contents ii List of Figures v List of Schemes vi Index of Abbreviations...
... affected, and monitors the effect Within the passive methods is detection of: under- and over- voltage and frequency; voltage phase jump; voltage harmonics; and Rate -Of- Change-OfFrequency (ROCOF) Within ... reliability and mass-production The project contains an analysis of the PV module, a specification based on the analysis and national & international standards, and a state -of- the-art analysis of different ... is a member of the Society of Danish Engineers (IDA), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Preface This thesis is submitted to the Faculty of Engineering and Science...
... affected, and monitors the effect Within the passive methods is detection of: under- and over- voltage and frequency; voltage phase jump; voltage harmonics; and Rate -Of- Change-OfFrequency (ROCOF) Within ... reliability and mass-production The project contains an analysis of the PV module, a specification based on the analysis and national & international standards, and a state -of- the-art analysis of different ... is a member of the Society of Danish Engineers (IDA), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Preface This thesis is submitted to the Faculty of Engineering and Science...
... common in computer applications One of the most difficult workloads for file system designs to handle efficiently is found in of ce and engineering environments Of ce and engineering applications tend ... areas of cost and capacity rather than performance There are two components of disk performance: transfer bandwidth and access time Although both of these factors are improving, the rate of improvement ... us to understand the effects of random access patterns and locality, both of which can be exploited to reduce the cost of cleaning The simulator models a file system as a fixed number of 4-kbyte...
... then may be set to For the simple case ofandandand are set to to the output of the IFFT is: where Of course the scaling by a factor of two is immaterial and can be dropped This real orthogonal ... concise summary of the present state of the art of the theory and practice of OFDM technology The authors believe that the time is ripe for such a treatment Particularly based on one of the author's ... effects of clipping presents results of the authors that have not yet been published elsewhere The book concludes with descriptions of three very important and diverse applicationsof OFDM that...