With the rapid improvement of equipment integration technology, multi-spectrum detectors are integrated into compact volumes and widely used for object detection. Confront with this challenge, it is essential to propose a strategy to design a single-layer metasurface with multi-spectrum responses in microwave and infrared ranges. In this work, we proposed a method of designing meta-atoms, which is capable of achieving functional electromagnetic response at microwave and infrared individually.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHalf-wave wall is the most common method of achieving electromagnetic (EM) transparency. Transmission windows can be formed when reflected waves are out of phase. Due to the interference mechanism, these windows are dependent on the frequency and incident angle of EM waves, leading to limited bandwidth, especially under extreme angles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStem cell-based therapies have been proposed as a potential treatment for neural regeneration following closed head injury. We previously reported that induced neural stem cells exert beneficial effects on neural regeneration via cell replacement. However, the neural regeneration efficiency of induced neural stem cells remains limited.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFACS Appl Mater Interfaces
August 2023
Achieving the conversion from surface waves (SWs) to propagating waves has captivated long-standing interest, and various ingenious metasurfaces benefiting from the powerful control capability for electromagnetic waves are able to realize efficient SWs directional radiation. Nevertheless, most existing schemes still suffer from the bottlenecks of single radiation channel, uncontrollable radiation intensity, and immutable radiation pattern, which immensely hinder their practical application in high-integration intelligent devices. Herein, a series of appealing strategies are proposed to achieve the dual-channel SWs directional radiation with customizable radiation intensity and switchable radiation pattern.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMetasurfaces have exhibited versatile capacities of controlling electromagnetic (EM) waves due to the high degree of freedom of designing artificially engineered meta-atoms. For circular polarization (CP), broadband phase gradient metasurfaces (PGMs) can be realized based on P-B geometric phase by rotating meta-atoms; while for linear polarization (LP), realization of broadband phase gradients has to resort to P-B geometric phase during polarization conversion and polarization purity has to be sacrificed for broadband properties. It is still challenging to obtain broadband PGMs for LP waves without polarization conversion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe continuous increase in communication capacity is accompanied by an increase in transmission frequency, which creates new demands on the transmission efficiency in modern. Signal relay transmission can increase the transmission distance, however, conventional repeaters relay the signal in a specified direction, which is difficult to accommodate communication when a receiving device suddenly appears around the repeater. In this work, we propose a new signal transmission repeater, which is implemented by an adaptively reconfigurable multi-beam reflective metasurface based on multispectral detection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFACS Appl Mater Interfaces
October 2022
Metasurfaces with simultaneously and independently controllable amplitude and phase have provided a higher degree of freedom in manipulating electromagnetic (EM) waves. Compared with phase- or amplitude-only modulation, the capability of simultaneously controlling the phase and amplitude of EM waves can enable holography with a higher resolution. However, this drastically increases the design complexity of holographic metasurfaces, and the design process is usually quite time-consuming.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMetasurfaces have provided unprecedented degrees of freedom in manipulating electromagnetic (EM) waves and also granted high possibility of integrating multiple functions into one single meta-device. In this paper, we propose to incorporate the retroreflection function with transmission function by means of metasurface design and then demonstrate a dual-polarization multi-angle retroreflective metasurface (DMRM) with bilateral transmission bands. To achieve high-efficiency retroreflections, the compact bend structures (CBSs), which exhibit high reflections around 10.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFactors influencing atmospheric visibility (VIS) in coastal areas are more complex than those for inland and far oceans owing to the complex circulation and aerosol sources. This study analyzed the factors influencing VIS under sea-land breeze circulation (SLBC) for different external aerosol sources based on field survey data in southern Chinese coastal areas. First, SLBC characteristics observed during the experiment period showed that on SLBC days, sea breeze occurs more frequently (∼50%) than land breeze (∼27%), and the wind speed (WS) is generally small, with a mean sea and land breeze WSs of ∼2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStructuring elements of gratings brings more freedom in manipulating diffraction waves, e.g., retroreflection using diffraction orders other than the 0 order.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGraves' disease (GD) is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism in the clinic, accounting for about 85% of all hyperthyroidisms. However, hyperthyroidism combined with OH has been rarely reported in the international community. We analyzed the clinical characteristics and pathogenesis of GD combined with orthostatic hypotension.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA model for estimating astronomical seeing at Kunlun Station (Dome A, Antarctica) is proposed. This model is based on the Tatarskii equation, using the wind shear and temperature gradient as inputs, and a seeing model depending directly on the weather data is provided. The seeing and near-ground weather data to build and validate the proposed seeing model were measured at Dome A during the summer of 2019.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis
October 2021
A simple physics-based method for estimating optical turbulence (2) within the surface layer over snow and ice is proposed, using the Tatarski equation with an improved outer scale model. This improved outer scale model mainly requires the calculation of the wind shear and temperature gradients. Based on the measurements from a mobile polar atmospheric parameter measurement system at the Antarctic Taishan Station in 2014, 2 was estimated using two methods: the Tatarski equation and the Monin-Obukhov similarity (MOS) theory.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The aim of this study was to present the clinical characteristics and dynamic changes in laboratory parameters of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Guangzhou, and explore the probable early warning indicators of disease progression.
Method: We enrolled all the patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in the Guangzhou No. 8 People's Hospital.
An optical turbulence ($C_n^2$) was found to be concentrated predominantly in the thin surface layer (SL) above the Antarctic Plateau. We present an estimation of the behavior of the SL $C_n^2$ during the summer time over the entire Antarctic Plateau, using the polar-optimized version of the Weather Research and Forecast model (Polar WRF) coupled with the Monin-Obukhov similarity theory. The results show that the $C_n^2$ is affected by the sunlight direction and terrain height.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChromatism generally exists in most metasurfaces. Because of this, the deflected angle of metasurface reflectors usually varies with frequency. This inevitably hinders wide applications of metasurfaces to broadband signal scenarios.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpoof surface plasmon polariton (SSPP) is kind of sub-wavelength electromagnetic (EM) mode, which is favorable for miniaturization and thinning of EM devices. In this paper, we propose a method of designing thin planar retro-reflector that can operate under multiple incidence angles at the same frequency. The retro-reflector is composed of a transmissive phase gradient metasurface (TPGM) placed above a metallic patch array (MPA), where the former couples and decouples SSPPs while the latter supports eigen-mode propagation of SSPPs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOnco Targets Ther
November 2020
Purpose: Previous studies have shown that non-SMC condensin I complex subunit G () overexpression is correlated to poor prognosis of multiple cancer types. Herein, we explored the underlying mechanism of -mediated cardia adenocarcinoma (CA) proliferation and cell cycle regulation.
Methods: The protein profiling technology was used to analyze the gene expression in 20 CA and adjacent tissue samples.
Background: Cardia adenocarcinoma (CA) is a distinct form of gastric cancer, and the optimal means of treating it remains controversial. At present, the role of the condensation complex gene non-SMC condensin I complex subunit G (NCAPG) in CA is uncertain, and as such the present study was designed to elucidate its importance in this oncogenic context.
Methods: We first used bioinformatics approaches to assess NCAPG expression profiles in CA using public databases.
J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis
June 2020
It is worth highlighting that, for the first time to the best of our knowledge, vertical profiles of atmospheric parameters and $C_n^2$ were measured at Lhasa, south of the Tibetan Plateau, using balloon-borne radiosondes. Based on the measurements, two new statistical models (Lhasa HMN and Lhasa Dewan) for estimating turbulence strength are proposed. Attention has been paid to evaluate the reliability of the two models to reconstruct vertical profiles of $C_n^2$ from a statistical perspective.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Clin Exp Pathol
May 2020
Background: Nanog and CD133 are biomarkers of cancer stem cells (CSCs) that regulate cancer progression. The WW domain-containing oxidoreductase (WWOX) is a tumor suppressor protein that can inhibit tumor cell proliferation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the expression and clinical significance of Nanog, CD133, and WWOX in infiltrating breast cancer (IBC).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn anisotropic coding metasurface (CM) is proposed for achieving circular-to-linear polarization conversion and beam deflection. Different phase coding consequences were independently achieved for two orthogonal linear polarized (LP) waves. Thus by elaborately designing coding sequences of the metasurfaces, different functions can be achieved, respectively for waves polarized along two orthogonal directions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAtmospheric aerosols have a tremendous influence on visibility, climate, and human health. New particle formation (NPF) is a crucial source of atmospheric aerosols. At present, certain field observations and experiments have discovered the presence of 3-hydroxy-4,4-dimethylglutaric acid (HDMGA), which may participate in NPF events.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAmmonia and amines are important common trace atmospheric species that can enhance new particle formation (NPF) in the Earth's atmosphere. However, the synergistic effect of these two bases involving nucleation is still lacking. We studied the most stable geometric structures and thermodynamics of quaternary (NH)(CHNH)(HSO) (HO) ( m = 1-3, n = 0-4) clusters at the PW91PW91/6-311++G(3df,3pd) level of theory for the first time.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA high-efficiency tri-band quasi-continuous phase gradient metamaterial is designed and demonstrated based on spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SSPPs). High-efficiency polarizaiton conversion transmission is firstly achieved via tailoring phase differece between the transmisive SSPP and the space wave in orthogonal directions. As an example, a tri-band circular-to-circular (CTC) polarization conversion metamateiral (PCM) was designed by a nonlinearly dispersive phase difference.
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