1. How does the warning led display warn?
What is a highway warning led display? The highway warning display screen refers to the road maintenance accidents or special emergencies that need to be arranged in front of the vehicle. The warning display screen.
When the road surface needs to be maintained and the speed of the vehicle is fast, arrange the display of the direction of the vehicle to show that the front maintenance is safe, and is equipped with a voice control system. .
2. How big is the horn of the warning led display?
The warning led display must be brought, and the sound is called the warning display, so how loud is his voice? The driver can hear at what distance. First of all, this decibel must be more than 80 decibels. The sound is relatively loud. Then it is best to display it with dual control codes, which means that two speakers are needed to emit sound at the same time. , This effect will be much better.
3. How does the horn of the warning led display screen supply power?
The loudspeaker of the warning display screen consumes a lot of power because the decibel is too large. In this case, a large battery must be used to supply power. This battery is usually placed fully charged, that is to say it does not It can be used for a long time, only under certain circumstances. The battery needs to be equipped with a battery box to prevent the rain from forming a short circuit on the battery and causing damage to the battery’s life.
4. What is the LED display module of the warning display?
Because the early warning system cannot take power, it can only be powered by a battery. In the case of battery power, the current needs to be adjusted to the minimum power, but the current is the smallest, but the brightness must not be very low. Can only choose ultra-high brightness LED, and then coupled with power-saving mode to drive, which requires the manufacturer to have a certain production technology.
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Despite the proliferation of deep learning techniques for accelerated MRI acquisition and enhanced image reconstruction, the construction of large and diverse MRI datasets continues to pose a barrier to effective clinical translation of these technologies. One major challenge is in collecting the MRI raw data (required for image reconstruction) from clinical scanning, as only magnitude images are typically saved and used for clinical assessment and diagnosis. The image phase and multi-channel RF coil information are not retained when magnitude-only images are saved in clinical imaging archives. Additionally, preprocessing used for data in clinical imaging can lead to biased results. While several groups have begun concerted efforts to collect large amounts of MRI raw data, current databases are limited in the diversity of anatomy, pathology, annotations, and acquisition types they contain. To address this, we present a method for synthesizing realistic MR data from magnitude-only data, allowing for the use of diverse data from clinical imaging archives in advanced MRI reconstruction development. Our method uses a conditional GAN-based framework to generate synthetic phase images from input magnitude images. We then applied ESPIRiT to derive RF coil sensitivity maps from fully sampled real data to generate multi-coil data. The synthetic data generation method was evaluated by comparing image reconstruction results from training Variational Networks either with real data or synthetic data. We demonstrate that the Variational Network trained on synthetic MRI data from our method, consisting of GAN-derived synthetic phase and multi-coil information, outperformed Variational Networks trained on data with synthetic phase generated using current state-of-the-art methods. Additionally, we demonstrate that the Variational Networks trained with synthetic k-space data from our method perform comparably to image reconstruction networks trained on undersampled real k-space data.
Keywords: GANs; MRI reconstruction; deep generative models; deep learning; generative adversarial network; synthetic data; synthetic multi-coil data; synthetic phase; unrolled networks.


With the RevPiModIODriver class, the python3-revpimodio module can be used to simply write a driver for the virtual devices on the RevPi.
The actual programming of the controller may be for example logiCAD. If you need other data from other sources, you use “Virtual Devices”. These are treated just like real hardware from logiCAD.
In our example, we collect data from RevolutionPi and write it into virtual devices. This is the system time in UTC, the percentage of disk space, and the CPU temperature.
Of course, it is also possible to write data with logiCAD and then evaluate it with the Python program.
We create a virtual device, which receives position number 64.
In the Python program, the class is instantiated: (For RevPiModIODriver, all functions and classes are available just like RevPiModIO.)
self.rpi = revpimodio.RevPiModIODriver()
Next, only a few bytes have to be connected to data fields. For the timestamp, e.g. 4 bytes in which we store an int () value. (Note: For our Python program, the outputs are the inputs from the point of view of logiCad – and vice versa! We are the driver – and the hardware: D)
self.rpi.devices.reg_out("timestamp", "Input_1_i09", "L")
We use the struct library of Python to determine the data type and the byte length – “L” stands for 4 bytes int () without sign
As a last step, we only need to write a value that we create cyclically with the Python program in to our new output “timestamp”:
self.rpi.devices["timestamp"].value = int(time.time())
When the program is running, the timestamp (in our case) is available as little-endian (Input_1_i09 – Input_4_i09):
Or,with the right datatype in logiCAD:


Just bought a log home built in 1980. Doing some remodeling /updating. Almost all the junction boxes have 3M Scotchlok in them. Sometimes they are referred to as "vampire connectors."
Are these connectors up to code? I'm thinking of taking them all out and using the standard twist wire connectors.
The connectors are sized properly. For example, the kitchen outlets are on a 20 amp circuit with 12 gauge wire. The Scotchlok connector model used is 562. Looking on the connector it says "10-12 GA". Looking online I found the product sheet and it is UL 486C compliant as well (not sure that meets the NEC code for wiring a home).
I'm used to seeing these used in car audio stuff... Not in the home. And they usually end up having problems... Like not making a good connection, or failing altogether.


The measurement of temperature in the middle atmosphere with Rayleigh-scatter lidars is an important technique for assessing atmospheric change. Current retrieval schemes for this temperature have several shortcomings, which can be overcome by using an optimal estimation method (OEM). Forward models are presented that completely characterize the measurement and allow the simultaneous retrieval of temperature, dead time, and background. The method allows a full uncertainty budget to be obtained on a per profile basis that includes, in addition to the statistical uncertainties, the smoothing error and uncertainties due to Rayleigh extinction, ozone absorption, lidar constant, nonlinearity in the counting system, variation of the Rayleigh-scatter cross section with altitude, pressure, acceleration due to gravity, and the variation of mean molecular mass with altitude. The vertical resolution of the temperature profile is found at each height, and a quantitative determination is made of the maximum height to which the retrieval is valid. A single temperature profile can be retrieved from measurements with multiple channels that cover different height ranges, vertical resolutions, and even different detection methods. The OEM employed is shown to give robust estimates of temperature, which are consistent with previous methods, while requiring minimal computational time. This demonstrated success of lidar temperature retrievals using an OEM opens new possibilities in atmospheric science for measurement integration between active and passive remote sensing instruments.
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Accurate determination of temperature change is of great importance in atmospheric science. To assess change requires that measurements be fully characterized for random and systematic uncertainties, as these changes can be less than 0.5% of the mean temperature and occur over decadal periods. One of the most important techniques for obtaining temperature in the middle atmosphere uses backscatter measurements obtained from Rayleigh-scatter lidars. This study introduces a methodology that allows, for the first time, complete characterization of Rayleigh-scatter lidar temperature retrievals to be determined on a profile-by-profile basis.
Temperature retrieval from Rayleigh-scatter lidar measurements is a well-established technique in weather and climate studies of the middle atmosphere, both from the surface [1,2] and from space . To summarize, a Rayleigh-scatter lidar (hence, lidar; other types of lidar will be described if required) is typically monostatic, meaning the laser and telescope are colocated so the lidar measures return photocounts, which are directly backscattered into the telescope. The entire atmosphere can be assumed to obey the ideal gas law, and, above approximately 25 to 30 km altitude, the atmosphere is sufficiently optically thin to visible radiation that its transmission with height is essentially constant. Hence, the return photocounts are directly proportional to the atmospheric density. Hauchecorne and Chanin  recognized that, if one assumes hydrostatic equilibrium (HSEQ), the photocount profile can then be integrated to obtain a temperature profile, provided a pressure is assumed at the top of the atmosphere to “seed” the integration. The method of Hauchecorne and Chanin (hereafter, the HC method) or a variation thereof is used by systems which measure Rayleigh scattering height profiles to retrieve temperatures.
At about the time that the HC method was developed, atmospheric scientists began applying, in particular with space-based passive measurements, inverse methods to retrieve profiles of composition and temperature. With these methods, a forward model has been developed, which captures all relevant physical and instrumental properties of the measurement. The forward model is then inverted to allow certain model parameters, which are unknown to be estimated within a space of states defined based on prior knowledge. One of the most robust and popular of the inversion methods is the optimal estimation method (OEM), which is explained in detail by Rodgers . The OEM appeals to Bayes’ theorem, which yields the most likely state and which, under the assumption of Gaussian errors, is most consistent with the measurement and prior knowledge. A cost function is computed, and the state parameters vary until minimum cost is achieved. While OEM has become a standard tool in atmospheric remote sensing using passive detectors, it has seldom been utilized for lidar measurements.
Khanna et al.  [henceforth, the grid search (GS) method] applied an inversion approach to the retrieval of temperature from lidar measurements. Their method has several advantages over the HC method, including the ability to integrate the temperature profile from the bottom instead of the top and relaxing the assumption of constant temperature between atmospheric layers. However, their method still relies on the assumption of HSEQ, and the only uncertainties considered are statistical and those due to the assumed seed pressure.
Recently, Povey et al.  applied an OEM to lidar retrievals of tropospheric aerosols. Their paper gives an excellent overview of basic formalisms of the OEM technique. They show results consistent with traditional analysis techniques as well as improvements in the determination of uncertainties. In this paper, we apply the OEM to the retrieval of temperatures from lidar measurements, which allows complete inventory of the systematic uncertainties associated with the temperature retrieval to be computed on a profile to profile basis. The temperature can be retrieved with or without requiring the assumption of HSEQ. The method quantitatively determines both the vertical resolution of the retrieval as a function of height and maximum height to which the retrieved profile is independent of the a priori temperature profile, eliminating the need to arbitrarily cut off the top of a temperature profile due to choice of seed pressure.
2. Temperature Retrieval Using Rayleigh-Scatter Lidar Measurements
In this section, the basic assumptions and corrections required to retrieve temperatures from lidar backscatter profiles are discussed.
A. Lidar Equation
All retrieval methods for temperatures from Rayleigh-scatter lidars use the same form of the lidar equation to equate the measured photocount profiles to number density. This method is generally considered to be valid down to altitudes above the stratospheric aerosol layer, nominally 25 km. The top height of the retrieval is principally limited by the power-aperture product of the lidar system. The lidar equation in this region can be written in the following compact form:
- 1. Efficiency of the system, accounting for detector efficiency and nonlinearities as well as losses in the optics.
- 2. Atmospheric transmission, assumed constant in the height range of the retrievals.
- 3. Number of transmitted photons.
- 4. Rayleigh scatter cross section, which becomes height dependent in the upper mesosphere.
- 5. Area of receiving telescope.
B. Using the OEM to Determine the Dead-Time Correction
At high count rates, the lidar detector response becomes nonlinear. The nonlinearity is commonly modelled by the following equation, which relates the observed count rate, , to the true count rate:8,9]. The dead time is determined by comparing two lidar signals in an altitude region, where one signal is linear while the other is not. The two signals can be an analog and a photon count signal or two photon count signals with different attenuations (high and low range). It will be shown that, for a suitable measurement configuration, the OEM method can derive the system dead time using Eq. (2).
C. Equation of State
All three methods use the same equation of state for the atmospheric gas, the ideal gas law. The ideal gas law allows the number density in the lidar equation to be related to temperature and pressure. The number density of the atmospheric gas, even at the surface, is sufficiently small enough for the gas to be considered ideal.
D. Hydrostatic Equilibrium
Hydrostatic equilibrium (HSEQ) is the balance of the upward pressure gradient force with the downward force of gravity on the gas:10,11].
E. Effect of Absorption by Ozone and Air
For temperature retrieval in the upper stratosphere and above, it is reasonable to assume that the atmospheric transmission is constant. Between 25 and 35 km, there are small effects due to absorption of ozone and, to a lesser extent, air. Ozone absorption in the Chappuis band can cause on the order of 0.5 K changes in temperature below 35 km . In this study, the ozone model of McPeters et al.  is used for the ozone density, and the cross section is from Griggs . Operationally, using the best ozone profile available would be recommended (for instance, using colocated ozone lidar or microwave radiometer, ozonesonde, or a model).
The Rayleigh extinction is calculated using the cross section, as given by Nicolet , which, along with the a priori density profile, is used to calculate the extinction. For a Rayleigh-scatter lidar transmitting at 532 nm, the uncertainty introduced by using the a priori density is less than 0.05 K. If desired, the measured lidar density could be used for the correction.
F. Lidar Instrument Function
The variation of the lidar instrument function with height is small enough that it is often assumed constant, particularly for measurements in the upper stratosphere and lower mesosphere, the retrieval range of many systems. Assuming the atmospheric transmission is constant above 35 km, this assumption is reasonable. Below this height, there is a small change in transmission due to ozone and air. Above 80 km, the mean molecular mass and, hence, the Rayleigh-scatter cross section begin varying with height due to an increase in the relative amount of atomic oxygen, and these variations can affect Rayleigh-scatter temperature retrievals .
The form of the instrument function used in the OEM retrievals is
Here, is the lidar constant, which includes the efficiency of the system, the number of transmitted photons, and the area of the receiving telescope; , the Rayleigh-scatter cross section; , the ozone optical depth at the wavelength of the transmitter; and, , the optical depth due to Rayleigh extinction. The ozone absorption is found from the ozone density, , and cross section, :
The lidar constant is the constant of proportionality between the measured photocounts and number density. The corrected photocounts are normalized in the clear signal region, here defined as a region of the count profile where the photomultipliers are linear and the signal-to-noise ratio is high (e.g., 55 to 60 km). The total number of counts in the clear signal region is then normalized to the integrated CIRA-86 number density .
The Rayleigh-scatter cross section is assumed constant below 80 km. Above 80 km, the cross-section value is calculated using the cross sections for , , and given by Argall , while the ratio of each species with respect to the total number density is taken from the US Standard Atmosphere . This variation of the cross section with height becomes significant in the upper mesosphere and above. The systematic uncertainties introduced in the retrieval by this form of the instrument function will be discussed in the next section.
3. Current Lidar Temperature Retrieval Methods
Most Rayleigh-scatter temperature retrievals use a variation of the HC method. In this section, we review that method, the inversion approach of the GS method, and introduce the OEM applied to the temperature retrieval problem.
A. HC Method
The HC method employs numerical integration of the lidar equation, using the ideal gas law and the assumption of HSEQ to relate the retrieved photocounts to temperature. The integration requires the assumption that, within each retrieval layer, the temperature must be constant. The numerics are robust and, even when applied to measurements with extremely low signal-to-noise ratio, can retrieve reasonable temperature estimates. Statistical uncertainties due to the Poisson noise associated with the photocount measurements are fully treated. The method does not address systematic uncertainties. The intrinsic systematic uncertainty associated with this method is related to the integral, which correlates the pressure at the seeding altitude with the retrieved pressure at every height below. Hauchecorne and Chanin  showed that this uncertainty decreases proportionally to the density at the top height to the density at the each height below. Thus, in practice, when using the HC retrieval, the top 10 to 15 km (on the order of two scale heights) of the temperature profile should be discarded if the seeding pressure is uncertain, which is typically the case if it is chosen from an atmospheric model. Examples of this convergence with decreasing altitude are shown in Khanna et al. .
Other systematic uncertainties include uncertainties in the correction of the photocount profiles at both high signal rates (pulse pile up) and low signal rates (background correction), changes in atmospheric transmission due to Rayleigh and ozone extinction, variations in the mean molecular mass with altitude, uncertainties in the determination of the pressure, lidar constant, and the height dependence of the acceleration due to gravity. Traditionally researchers have attempted to correct their photocount profiles for some of these effects. For example, simultaneous measurements of vibrational Raman scattering can be used to correct for aerosols [18,19]. Keckhut et al.  give a detailed discussion and estimation of systematic uncertainties due to pulse pile up, background, geometric effects, and aerosols. These and other lidar groups have made careful measurements and estimates of various systematic uncertainties, primarily those due to aerosols and the photomultipliers (including their associated counting electronics).
B. GS Method
The GS method was the first attempt to use a statistical inversion approach to retrieve temperature. A grid search method was used to find a photocount profile that minimized the cost function relative to the measured profile, though the cost function used did not include a regularization term and, thus, was not sensitive to departures of the solution from the a priori state. The forward model equation used was
This forward model assumes HSEQ. The retrieved photocount profile can then be integrated in a manner similar to the HC method with two important differences. First, the temperature within a layer can vary with altitude. Second, the profile can be integrated from the bottom to the top of the retrieval grid, which has the advantage of minimizing seed pressure effects at all heights, thus, greatly reducing the seed pressure uncertainty at the greatest heights. Khanna et al.  showed that the systematic uncertainty associated with this integration from the bottom allowed the entire retrieval grid to be used without having to discard the top of the profile.
The GS method does not calculate the uncertainties of the retrieved model parameters. The statistical uncertainty is found by a Monte Carlo simulation. Khanna et al.  showed that the statistical uncertainties found in this manner are fully consistent with the HC method; however, the computational time for the Monte Carlo simulation is long compared to the HC method.
4. Application of the OEM to Rayleigh-Scatter Lidar
While the OEM is well known in the atmospheric satellite and passive optical measurement community, it may not be familiar to the lidar specialist. Here, the specific application of OEM to Rayleigh-lidar temperature retrieval is discussed.
The OEM offers significant advantages over the HC and GS methods:
- 1. Forward model does not require the assumption of HSEQ.
- 2. Allows direct determination of photomultiplier dead time to be found using the full nonlinear correction equation for a paralyzable system.
- 3. Allows physically and mathematically justified determination of the top of the retrieved profile.
- 4. Full uncertainty budget can be retrieved, including all systematic and statistical uncertainties on a profile by profile basis.
- 5. No post- or pre-filtering of the retrieval is required, and the height resolution of the retrieved temperature profile is the FWHM of the averaging kernels, which are computed at each height.
- 6. Detector and sky background (either constant or height dependent) are retrieved along with temperature.
- 7. Can be applied at any required height or time resolution, e.g., nightly averaged profiles that are co-added in height or individual profiles at high temporal-spatial resolution.
- 8. Method is extremely fast computationally.
These advantages will be explored in detail in the following sections.
B. Brief Description of the OEM
To apply the OEM, a forward model is required. The forward model contains all the physical and instrumental factors, which together describe the measurements. The general form of the forward model is
Finding the retrieved state from the measurements is made possible by Bayes’ theorem, which is the basis for the manipulation of conditional probabilities. In this case, the a priori state, , consists of a temperature profile, background, and, for the two-channel case, dead time. A probability is assigned reflecting the certainty of this state. There is also a measurement and its associated variance. Bayes’ theorem allows the most likely state to be found consistent with the a priori knowledge, the performed measurement, and the associated uncertainties.
The optimum estimate for the retrieved state is found by minimizing a cost function formed from the measurement, , and its covariance, , the forward model, the retrieved state model parameters, and the a priori covariance, , using Bayes’ theorem:
The uncertainty budget is determined from the measurement, smoothing, and model parameter covariance matrices . The retrieval’s covariance due to measurement noise, , is
C. Forward Models for Rayleigh-Scatter Temperature Retrieval
After extensive experimentation, two forward models were chosen for further study. In both models, the retrieved parameters are temperature, dead time, and background (which includes photomultipler shot noise and sky background and, for some systems, depends on height). If only a single channel is available, dead time cannot be retrieved, but dead time is then treated as a forward model parameter.
The lidar equation (LE) model is based solely on the lidar equation, with the number density replaced by pressure and temperature via the ideal gas law. For a linear system, the low-gain digital or analog Rayleigh [low-level Rayleigh (LLR)] channel forward model is2):
Unlike the GS method, the LE forward model has a height-dependent instrument function . The model parameters here are the instrument function, the dead time, and a pressure profile. It is not possible for the instrument function and pressure to be included with temperature and background as retrieval parameters, as the Jacobians for the instrument function would not be linearly independent. The LE model does not assume HSEQ; thus, the pressure profile must be specified at all points on the retrieval grid.
The second forward model is the OEM analog of the HC method, where HSEQ is assumed and combined with the lidar equation to give a forward model similar to that given for the GS method:
The advantage of the HSEQ forward model is that pressure only needs to be known at a single point to define a pressure profile at all points. However, two additional forward model parameters are now required: the mean molecular mass and the acceleration due to gravity. Given that the HSEQ forward model and the HC method contain similar physical assumptions, temperature retrieved from the same measurements should be similar. This assertion is shown to be true in Section 5.
D. Implementation of the OEM
For pilot studies of the effectiveness of retrieving various combinations of parameters, forward models, and uncertainties, a linear OEM retrieval was written and tested on synthetic lidar measurements with and without noise, as described in . Results from the pilot study will not be shown, but, for reasonable perturbations (including adding realistic atmospheric waves) and a priori states, a robust temperature retrieval was obtained, giving confidence in the method and forward models used. Parameters that could (and could not) be retrieved were also investigated, and the best combination for use with a single data channel is to retrieve the temperature and instrumental background, leaving all other quantities as forward model parameters (e.g., pressure, instrument function, gravity).
This study uses the Qpack software package developed by Eriksson et al. . Qpack is a free MATLAB package designed for general OEM solutions. Qpack is part of the radiometer and microwave community ARTS model , which has been well tested for both ground-based and satellite retrieval. Qpack is used with the Marquardt–Levenberg method, which is also used because it is a nonlinear method and is often able to retrieve parameters even when the a priori is considerably far from the true solution, e.g., the US Standard Atmosphere temperature profile compared to an individual temperature profile on a given night.
As discussed in Eriksson et al. , there is typically some covariance between the various quantities, and the covariance matrices should have off-diagonal elements. This correlation is provided by using correlation functions with a correlation length appropriate to the physical situation. For this study, we have used tent functions, with an a priori correlation length of 3000 m for temperature. The measurement covariance matrix, , is a diagonal matrix. The solutions did not show much sensitivity to any reasonable choice of the correlation length. The Marquardt–Levenberg method then finds an iterative solution that minimizes the cost function to order unity in a few (typically four to six) iterations.
5. Results and Validation of the OEM Temperature Retrieval
In this section, the OEM retrieval is tested in several ways. These tests convincingly demonstrate the robustness of the method, its advantages compared to other methods, and the validity of the temperatures retrieved. The OEM retrieval is tested with both forward models using synthetic measurements and then with Rayleigh-scatter lidar measurements.
The measurements used were obtained in the spring and summer of 2012 by The University of Western Ontario’s Purple Crow Lidar (PCL) at its new location, the Environmental Sciences Western Field Station (43.1°N, 279°W, 275 m altitude). This facility is about 20 km northeast of the PCL’s original location. The PCL is a large power-aperture monostatic lidar, which is described in detail in , with some significant upgrades for these measurements. The transmitter is now a Litron Nd:YAG laser that outputs 1000 mJ per pulse at 532 nm with a repetition rate of 30 Hz. The photocount measurements were obtained from three channels: a Hamamatsu R7400 photomultiplier, outputted in analog and digital mode to a Licel transient recorder and a Hamamatsu R5600 photomultiplier, outputted in digital mode to a SRS 430 multichannel scalar averager. Both counters accumulated returns over the same 1800 laser shots (), at 7.5 m height resolution for the Licel analog (LLRa) and HHR channel and at 24 m for the LLR digital (LLRd) channel. The LLRd detector is attenuated with a neutral density filter, chosen to keep the count rate linear from the time when the system’s mechanical chopper fully opens ( altitude).
The retrievals are performed between 30 and 120 km over integration periods of a few hours. This range is used to allow measurements to range from an extremely high signal-to-noise ratio up to altitudes in which the photocounts can be assumed to be due only to background light. The measurements were then coadded to 255 m for the Licel channel and 264 m for the LLR (i.e., the measurement grid). The retrieval grid has a vertical resolution of 1020 m. The clear signal region is 30 to 35 km for the LLR channel and 55 to 60 km for the HLR channel.
The OEM requires an estimate of the covariances associated with the measurement and retrieval parameters. Since the photocounts obey Poisson counting statistics, the measurement variances are equal to the count rate for the LLRd and HLR channels, with no correlation between the photocount measurements assumed. The a priori temperature profile used for all retrievals is the US Standard Atmosphere, with a variance of . This choice of variance is consistent with the discussion of variability in the US Standard Model description as well as the various data sets used in the MSIS-91 extended model . The background variance is estimated from the measurement profile by determining the standard deviation of the mean of the photocount returns above 115 km. The pressure profile is assigned a standard deviation of 1%, the lidar constant 1%, the density 10%, the Chappuis band cross section 2%, the dead time 0.2%, acceleration due to gravity 0.1%, and the Rayleigh scattering cross section 0.2%. Correlation was introduced in the covariance matrices for temperature and the height-dependent forward model parameters using a tent function with a length of 3 km, as described in Section 4.D. These choices and their implications to the retrieval will be further discussed as follows.
A. Retrievals Using Synthetic Measurements
Initial testing of the OEM was accomplished with both forward models by using the forward models themselves to generate synthetic photocount profiles with system parameters estimated for the PCL HLR channel with an integration time of 6.5 h (similar to the measurements on 24 May 2012). Poisson noise and a constant background were then added to the photocount profiles. For these tests, the true temperature profile and pressure values were taken from the CIRA-86 model for May at middle latitudes . Neither forward model requires the model atmosphere to be in the HSEQ. The LE forward model does not require the assumption of the HSEQ. The HSEQ forward model only uses the atmospheric model to pick a pressure at one point (, typically the top of the grid) on the measurement grid and then uses Eq. (22) to compute a pressure profile from the atmospheric model temperatures and .
1. HSEQ Forward Model
Figure 1 shows the temperature Jacobians, normalized by the number density. The Jacobians are normalized in the figure to allow them to be plotted on a linear scale. The main feature of the Jacobians is the sharp peaks at the level where the temperature has been perturbed. The Jacobians also show a second feature, which grows with decreasing altitude. Figure 2 shows the Jacobians for 45 km on the retrieval grid for the HSEQ and the LE forward models.
Both Jacobians are identical from the top of the data grid down to where they begin to decrease rapidly with height. The LE Jacobian is symmetric and sharply peaked around 45 km. The HSEQ Jacobian is about twice as wide at half maximum and has a tail that increases with decreasing height. The use of a HSEQ pressure assumption causes the pressure at all heights to be correlated with the temperatures at all heights above, which is a consequence of the integral in . The tail in the HSEQ Jacobian below the peak is caused by changes in pressure below the peak of the Jacobian as the temperature changes because, if temperature below a given height changes, it causes a change in the pressure at all heights above it.
The averaging kernels (Fig. 1) contain two important pieces of information not available in the HC or GS method. First, the trace of the averaging kernel matrix is the number of degrees of freedom of the retrieval. For the temperature retrievals shown here, and, in subsequent sections, there are about 90 retrieval levels extending above 120 km, with degrees of freedom in the mid-70 s, meaning the retrieval contains mostly information from the measurement and not the a priori up to heights of 90 to 100 km. The OEM method eliminates any subjective judgements about the effect of seed pressure on the retrieval: the degrees of freedom directly give the cutoff, and the uncertainty budget (see below) gives the systematic uncertainty due to seed pressure.
Second, the FWHM of an individual averaging kernel is the vertical resolution of the measurements at that point, which only can be equal to or greater than the retrieval grid spacing (Fig. 3). Often, lidar measurements are reported on a measurement grid and then digitally filtered, without the effect of the filter on the vertical resolution being specified. The plot of vertical resolution shows that, over most of the retrieval’s useful range, the vertical resolution of the retrieval is identical to the resolution of the retrieval grid.
Figure 4 shows the percent difference between the synthetic measurement and the final iteration of the forward model. The agreement between the measurements and model is within the Poisson photocount uncertainty and has zero bias. The difference between the true and retrieved background (not shown) is about 0.5% and is within one standard deviation of the uncertainty of the retrieved background.
The retrieved temperature profile is shown in Fig. 5. Below 100 km, the agreement is within the total uncertainty (Fig. 6). This figure reveals one of the major advantages of the OEM technique: the ability to compute a full uncertainty budget of random and systematic uncertainties.
The following systematic uncertainties are considered:
- 1. Uncertainty of the Rayleigh cross section on Rayleigh extinction.
- 2. Uncertainty in the total density used to calculate the Rayleigh extinction.
- 3. Uncertainty in the ozone absorption cross section of the Chappuis band.
- 4. Uncertainty in the ozone concentration in the height range of the retrieval.
- 5. Uncertainty in the knowledge of the lidar constant.
- 6. Counting system dead time correction (HLR only).
- 7. Variation of Rayleigh-scattering cross section with height.
- 8. Pressure (either at one point for HSEQ forward model or a profile for LE forward model).
- 9. Acceleration due to gravity (HSEQ forward model only).
- 10. Variation of mean molecular mass with altitude (HSEQ forward model only).
The OEM also computes the smoothing error, which estimates the uncertainty due to the smoothing by the averaging kernels on the retrieved state, causing it to miss features that may be present in the true state. For the lidar retrievals, the smoothing error becomes important in the lower thermosphere, as the true count rate drops to the order of a few times the background. At the greatest heights, the variation of the mean molecular mass with altitude also begins to contribute.
The random uncertainties are less than 0.8 K in the stratosphere. The total uncertainty is due primarily to the assumption of a seed pressure (here at 120 km), the uncertainty in the lidar constant, and knowledge of the local gravitational field. Small contributions result from uncertainties in the counting system dead time and ozone density.
Random uncertainty is dominant until around 90 km, where the smoothing error begins to rapidly increase. The statistical uncertainties in the OEM method are approximately the same as the statistical uncertainties determined from the HC method. Hence, the statistical uncertainties in the OEM retrieval are similar to the HC method, as opposed to the GS method, where the statistical uncertainties are more uniform with height compared to the HC method . Small contributions to the uncertainty budget arise from variations in the mean molecular mass at the greatest heights, the lidar constant, the seed pressure, and, at the lower heights, Rayleigh extinction and the dead time correction.
2. LE Forward Model
Figure 7 shows the Jacobians and averaging kernels for the LE forward model. Without the assumption of the HSEQ, the Jacobians are more localized, with no contributions from lower heights as seen in the HSEQ case above. The vertical resolution is about 15% better at 100 km than for the HSEQ model (Fig. 8). The model fit is excellent, with small residual differences between the forward model and measurements on the order of the Poisson photocount noise (Fig. 9), leading to a successful temperature retrieval (Fig. 10).
The systematic uncertainties are significantly different between the two forward models (Fig. 11). For the LE forward model, the largest systematic uncertainty is due to the pressure profile and lidar constant, contributing between 4 to 7 K, with the maximum contribution around 45 km altitude. The contribution from the lidar constant is significant, with a similar shape to pressure. These differences are due to the assumption of HSEQ, which causes two important differences in the sensitivity of the forward models to their parameters. For pressure uncertainty, recall that, in the HSEQ forward model, the pressure is only assumed at one point (). The pressure profile is computed relative to this point, and ’s contribution is primarily in the seeding of the pressure at the initial heights. The uncertainty due to then primarily affects the pressures near the seed height, with the initial pressure becoming less important farther from the initial point. This behavior is similar to the role of the constant of integration term in the HC method. In the LE forward model, pressure, and its associated uncertainty, is specified at every point on the retrieval grid, causing the pressure to contribute uncertainty locally at every height.
The difference in uncertainty for the lidar constant can be seen by combining the HSEQ Eq. (3) and the ideal gas law to find a expression for . The resulting expression for the temperature profile depends on the relative density; hence, is less sensitive to the choice of the lidar constant. The LE forward model depends on the absolute, not relative, density; thus, the choice of lidar constant affects the density at all heights.
The uncertainty due to Rayleigh scatter cross-section variation is small. For this forward model, there is no uncertainty due to the acceleration due to gravity or the mean molecular mass, as these quantities are only used to compute the pressure profile when HSEQ is assumed.
The largest uncertainty in the stratospheric temperature for the LE forward model is due to the uncertainty in the ozone cross section. By comparison, the uncertainty due to knowledge of the ozone density profile is about 30% of this amount. Small but significant contributions arise from the Rayleigh scatter cross section, dead time, number density, and, in the upper stratosphere, the statistical uncertainty of the measurement.
3. Response of the OEM to Rapid Temperature Fluctuations
To test the sensitivity of the OEM to rapid changes in temperature, an oscillation was introduced into the true profile that grew as a sinusoid in height with a growth rate of twice the scale height. This type of oscillation is what would be expected for a monochromatic gravity wave conserving kinetic energy density as it propagates upward. The perturbation is introduced at the lowest heights with an amplitude of 0.5 K and allowed to grow until the associated lapse rate exceeds the dry adiabatic lapse rate, after which the amplitude is fixed (“saturates”).
Figure 12 shows the temperature profiles retrieved for an oscillation with a vertical wavelength of 10 km. The agreement with the true temperature profile shows that the OEM technique is capable of capturing extremely sharp features in the temperature profile. A less realistic case of a single wave with a vertical wavelength of 3 km is shown in Fig. 13. The OEM retrieval using the HSEQ forward model performs as well with these extreme perturbations, as it does in the cases without added oscillations discussed previously. The LE forward model performs equally as well as the HSEQ forward model for the same added oscillations.
B. Temperature Retrievals for 24 May 2012
The results in the previous section give confidence in the OEM and forward models developed to fit the lidar measurements. In this section, these models are applied to PCL measurements on the night of 24 May 2012 and compared to retrievals using the HC method on the same lidar measurement.
1. HSEQ Forward Model
Figure 14 shows a comparison between the temperature retrieved by the OEM using the HSEQ forward model and the temperature calculated from the HC method. The a priori background is taken as , and the retrieved background is . Figure 15 shows the uncertainties associated with the retrieval. The first point to note is that the systematic uncertainties are largest until the greatest heights of the retrieval, where the statistical uncertainty and smoothing error account for most of the total uncertainty. Since the top 10 to 15 km would be removed from the profile, the HC retrieval would be reported starting around 85 km, where most of the uncertainty is statistical. However, with the OEM retrieval, a useful profile, with full uncertainty budget, is obtained up to 100 km. In addition to random uncertainties, variation in the mean molecular mass, knowledge of the lidar constant, and the smoothing error all contribute to an overall uncertainty at 100 km of 15 K. In the stratosphere, the uncertainty increases to about 1 K at the bottom of the profile, with the largest contributions due to the assumed pressure at 120 km, the lidar constant, the gravitational profile, and the dead time.
2. LE Forward Model
The LE forward model differs from the HSEQ forward model because a pressure profile, as opposed to a pressure seed height, is required. Temperature retrievals are performed using the LE forward model with different pressure profiles. Since the pressure profile is a model parameter, and not a retrieval parameter, utilizing the LE forward model requires the best available pressure profile to be useful, as pressure is inversely proportional to temperature. Few measurements of atmospheric pressure profiles exist, particularly on a routine basis. The Aura microwave limb sounder (MLS) provides excellent global coverage and retrieves temperature profiles as a function of pressure as well as geopotential heights, which are computed using the assumption of HSEQ . Thus, pressure can be equated to altitude. Using this pressure profile measurement for an overpass during the measurement period on 24 May 2012 gives a temperature retrieval that is much hotter in the stratosphere and much cooler in the upper mesosphere than the HC retrieval. Similarly, using both CIRA-86 and the US Standard Atmosphere pressure profiles yielded temperature profiles considerably different than those computed from the HC method.
To demonstrate that the LE model temperature differences were purely due to differences in the pressure profile, temperature was retrieved using a hybrid pressure approach. In the HSEQ forward model, the pressure profile is updated at each iteration in order to be consistent with the retrieved temperature profile at that iteration. The final pressure profile found from HSEQ is, thus, consistent with the retrieved temperature. When this pressure profile is used as the true pressure profile in the LE forward model, the retrieved temperature profile is equivalent to the HSEQ retrieval, and, like the HSEQ retrieval, is similar to the HC method.
The reason for the large differences in temperature between the LE retrieval using the various pressure profiles and the HSEQ forward model is due to the large differences in pressure between the profiles (Fig. 16). The MLS pressure is less than the HSEQ pressure at all heights, with the difference between them almost a factor of 2 in the lower thermosphere. Both pressure profiles are significantly lower than the CIRA and US Standard models. The pressure in the stratosphere and mesosphere is greater in the CIRA model than the US Standard model. The HSEQ pressure is about 30% less than the CIRA pressure in the mesopause region.
C. Dual Channel Retrieval of Temperature, Dead Time, and Background
The advantage of a two-channel system for large power-aperture product lidars is that the range over which temperatures can be retrieved is increased. However, even if the system is engineered so each channel is linear, some scheme must be used to combine the measurements into a single temperature profile. The most common approaches are to either form a common photocount profile from the two channels (often called “gluing”) or to retrieve temperature profiles from each channel and combine these into a single profile (often called “merging”). Each method suffers in practice from the same issue. For many nights, the slopes of the photocount profiles or the shape of the temperature profiles in the region of overlap are similar. However, for many other nights, the slopes are significantly different and gluing or merging introduces systematic uncertainty into the retrieved temperatures. Also, a quantitative criteria for what region to choose for overlap between the two channels has not been established. The gluing method also has the challenge of dealing with combining the statistical uncertainties, which are different for each channel. In an analog/digital system, there is the challenge of converting the raw digitized analog signal into virtual photocounts while maintaining appropriate statistical uncertainties.
The two-channel OEM retrieval does not require solutions to any of these challenges. The measurement vector now contains the measurements from both channels, which are not required to be in the same units or even have the same spatial-temporal resolution. The retrieved temperature profile is a single profile, which minimizes the cost function by accounting for contributions from both measurements. The background for each channel is retrieved, in addition to the dead time for the HLR channel. Retrievals have also been successfully tested using analog and digital channels, using the native units for the analog signal.
Extensive testing was performed using synthetic measurements to gain experience in the best combination of height ranges and overlap. The following retrievals use the appropriate HSEQ forward model. The lowest altitude for the HLR channel was chosen as 37.5 km. At this height, the nonlinearity of the detector is modest, e.g., . Measurements were used up to 122 km, similar to the single channel case. The LLRd channel measurements are used from a lower height of 25 km to an upper height of 110 km. The normalization of the density profile is 55 to 60 km for the HLR channel and 30 to 35 km for the LLRd channel. The HLR measurements are coadded to 30 m, while the LLRd measurements are used at their native 24 m vertical resolution (Fig. 17). The retrieval grid is the same as the single channel case, 1020 m. The temporal co-adding for both channels is 6.5 h of data records consisting of 1800 laser shots each (1 min). The a priori estimate of the dead time is the manufacturer’s specification of 4 ns.
Figure 18 shows the Jacobians for the two-channel retrieval on 24 May 2012. The sensitivity of the forward model at the lowest heights to temperature is larger for the HLR channel, due to its higher count rate. The averaging kernels and vertical resolution are also similar to the one-channel case, except above 95 km (Fig. 19). In the 95 to 100 km region, the two-channel retrieval’s resolution increases more rapidly with altitude and is about 30% greater than the one-channel retrieval at 100 km.
Figure 20 shows the differences between the forward model and the measurements. The LLRd measurements contribute from 25 km up to 37.5 km. Above this height, the measurement covariance weights the retrieval primarily to the HLR measurements. The handoff from the LLRd residual to the HLR residual is seamless, and the residuals are around 0.1% or less. At the greater heights, the LLRd residuals have a bias, but not the HRL residuals, which are determining the temperature profile at these heights. The HLR residuals become large above 100 km, as the measurements no longer control the retrieval and the model falls back to the a priori state.
Figure 21 shows the retrieved temperature profile. The temperature profile retrieved from the two-channel measurements agrees to within the level with the temperature profiles calculated from the HC method. The profile simultaneously retrieved from both channels also agrees well with the HC retrieval for the LLRd channel. The retrieved backgrounds are within 0.21% and 1.9% of the a priori’s estimated from the measurements, and the retrieved dead time is 3.90 ns.
The uncertainty budget is also similar above 40 km to the single-channel case (Fig. 22). The uncertainties below 37.5 km, where the LLRd makes its largest contribution are consistent with the single-channel results, where the HLR channel was used down to 31 km. Since the retrieval now goes down to 25 km altitude, the uncertainty due to ozone density profile increases rapidly. In this situation, the additional ozone at the lower heights contributes to uncertainty in the stratosphere that exceeds the uncertainty in the knowledge of the ozone absorption cross section. The high signal-to-noise ratio measurements of the HLR channel at 37.5 km cause a jump downward in the statistical uncertainty along with increasing the systematic uncertainties due to the model parameters. This increase in uncertainty is due to the larger value of the temperature Jacobians at the lowest heights for the HLR channel compared to the LLRd channel Jacobians at the same height. The temperature retrieval above 37.5 km is predominantly due to the HLR channel measurements.
To highlight the advantage of using the OEM instead of merging temperatures, consider the stratospheric temperature on two nights (Fig. 23). On 24 May 2012, the temperatures in the region of overlap between the two channels processed individually by the HC method have similar slopes, and it is straightforward to merge the temperatures. The OEM retrieval is also smooth in this region. Contrast this night to 7 August 2012, where the OEM retrieval is again smooth, but the temperature profiles retrieved by the HC method have different slopes and significant differences in magnitude below 40 km.
D. Comparison of the OEM to the HC Method on Other Nights
To illustrate the OEM’s robustness, Fig. 24 shows the comparison between the retrieval using the HSEQ forward model with two channels (LLRd and HLR) and the HC method on nine nights. For this comparison, the temperature profiles retrieved by the HC method are cut off at the height where the statistical uncertainty is above 10%. As the HC method temperatures are seeded at a signal-to-background level of 2, this choice ensures the top 10 to 15 km has been removed from the profile. The OEM retrieved temperatures are shown up to the greatest height given by the degrees of freedom of the retrieval on each night. The agreement is within the combined uncertainties, with each small bump in the HC method also occurring in the OEM retrieval. The insensitivity of the retrieval to the choice of an a priori temperature profile is also demonstrated by these results, as the US Standard Atmosphere temperature profile was used as the a priori temperature profile for each night. The retrieved dead time was also consistent from night to night. The mean dead time was .
The comparisons in the previous sections show that both forward models, with and without assuming HSEQ, provide robust OEM retrievals, which yield temperature profiles, photocount background, and dead time. These retrievals compare favorably with expected values. The OEM retrieval also gives a full random and systematic uncertainty budget on a profile by profile basis. Furthermore, the OEM’s averaging kernels allow the determination of both the vertical resolution as a function of height and the maximum height to which the retrieval is mostly independent of the a priori profile.
The HSEQ forward model is mathematically equivalent to the HC method, and this assertion is made clear by the nearly one-to-one correspondence in temperatures determined by both methods. The LE forward model requires that the true pressure profile be known to a high precision. The examples shown assumed the pressure profile is known to 1%, which results in systematic uncertainties due to pressure of about 4 K, with uncertainties due to knowledge of the lidar constant of the same order of magnitude. For more useful retrievals, it is recommended that the pressure profile be known through the upper stratosphere, mesosphere, and lower thermosphere to less than 1%. This requirement may not be possible with the current generation of atmospheric instruments.
In the past, individual investigators have addressed the question of data corrections, signal-to-noise ratio, and seed pressure by attempting to correct their measurements before a temperature is retrieved. In an OEM framework, all significant instrumental and atmospheric corrections are built into the forward models, and level 0 measurements are used in the analysis. A temperature profile is retrieved along with a quantitative determination of the maximum retrieval height to which the retrieval is valid. The OEM determines both the vertical resolution of the retrieval as well as the full random and systematic budget for uncertainties. It is computationally efficient, performing the full nonlinear calculation in seconds on a laptop computer using a interpreted fourth-generation programming language.
This discussion of the application of OEMs to the retrieval of Rayleigh-scatter lidar temperatures can be summarized as follows.
- 1. The forward models presented for use with the OEM provide robust estimations of temperature.
- 2. OEM temperature retrievals using a forward model, which assumes HSEQ, are equivalent to the temperature profiles calculated using the HC method.
- 3. The OEM provides a cut-off height for retrievals. Below this height, the entire temperature profile can be used.
- 4. Vertical resolution is determined quantitatively at each height.
- 5. The OEM provides a complete uncertainty budget, including random uncertainties, smoothing error, and uncertainty due to model parameters including pressure, instrument parameters, and composition changes for each temperature profile retrieved.
- 6. If multiple channel measurements are available, a single temperature profile can be retrieved that is consistent with both measurements simultaneously. In this case, the dead time may be also retrieved in addition to the backgrounds and temperature profile. For the case of an analog and digital channel, no conversion of the analog signal into current or virtual photocounts is required.
- 7. OEMs are fast computationally and, thus, practical for routine data analysis.
OEM retrievals using the HSEQ forward model offer significant advantage over the HC and GS methods and are physically equivalent to traditional methods. The LE model allows the assumption of HSEQ to be dropped but requires high-quality estimates of the pressure as a function of height to produce useful results. Most if not all measurements of pressure available in the middle atmosphere at some point in their processing appeal to the assumption of HSEQ, in an atmosphere known to often not be in HSEQ. We encourage the atmospheric community to develop better methods for determining pressure profiles that do not depend on the assumption of HSEQ. When these pressure measurements are available, the LE forward model will be able to retrieve temperature without the assumption of HSEQ.
The uncertainty budgets given in the study are heuristic and not meant to be definitive. The model parameter variances have been made as a “best guess” based on current best practice. The assessment and assignment of appropriate covariances to the model parameters should be a priority of the lidar measurement community. Much of this work is being performed by the International Space Science Institute’s Critical Assessment and Standardized Reporting of Vertical Filtering and Error Propagation in the Data Processing Algorithms of the NDACC Lidars working group (LeBlanc et al., http://www.issibern.ch/teams/ndacc/), but specific community recommendations for the OEM method on the uncertainties and best choices for model parameters would be beneficial.
This study, as well as the recent application of OEM techniques to the retrieval of extinction and backscatter from an aerosol lidar by Povey et al. , establish OEM as an important new tool for retrieval of geophysical parameters from active remote sensing instruments. These studies are the first step in a new growth area, which can be called “measurement assimilation.” In the last two decades, dedicated effort has been made by meteorological services in the area of data assimilation, wherein forecast model predictions are improved by incorporating all available measurement information into the model to improve the forecast. In measurement assimilation, consider a station with numerous individual instruments, many of which individually determine or require the same atmospheric parameter. For instance, temperature information may come individually from microwave sounders, radiosondes, lidar, etc. The goal of measurement assimilation is to develop retrieval systems that analyze groups of measurements simultaneously, in a framework such as is described in this study. Forward models could be developed for various instruments, and joint parameters such as temperature could be retrieved. Parameters retrieved in this manner would be the best estimates based on all available information rather than a single instrument, and the weighting of individual instruments could change as a function of time, meteorological conditions, etc. The benefit for the user would be the ability to obtain on a continuous basis the best available measurement of a parameter from a station as opposed to multiple estimates at varying spatial-temporal resolutions.
This work greatly benefited from scientific discussions with our colleagues. P. S. Argall, B. Calpini, G. Martucci, D. Ruffieux, and V. Simeonov. We especially thank T. LeBlanc for encouraging us to explore improvements to the quality of lidar temperature retrievals through his International Space Sciences Institute lidar algorithms initiative. We would like to thank the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MétéoSuisse, for its support of this project. R. J. S. would like to further thank the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and The University of Western Ontario for supporting his research as well as the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The MLS measurements used in this study were acquired as part of the activities of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate and are archived and distributed by the Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC). We also acknowledge the Aura MLS mission scientists and associated NASA personnel for the production of the data used in this study.
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High-Frequency Acoustic Emission Induced by Indentation Fracture in Brittle Materials
Acoustic emission analysis is a method routinely applied in a variety of scientific, technological, and industrial fields. So far most of these applications have in common a limitation to sub-MHz frequencies. Recently, the frequency range available for acoustic emission analysis has been extended up to about 100 MHz. The present paper is a continuation of these investigations. Vickers hardness indendation in brittle materials has been used as a source of fracture and fracture-induced acoustic emission. The experimental setup consisting of a hardness tester, a focusing broadband transducer, and a digitizing signal analyzer is designed for frequencies up to about 400 MHz. It can be realized or even improved in a number of laboratories with standard experimental instrumentation. The highest acoustic emission frequency detected in the present paper is about 150 MHz. This frequency limit is set by the transducers used. The method has been applied in order to investigate the presence and characteristics of acoustic emission in slide glass, a single crystal of Si, and a fine-grained AIN ceramic. Received acoustic emission signals have been analyzed with respect to the temporal shape, the amplitude spectrum, and the stage of occurrence relative to the indendation loading/unloading cycle.
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Largest solar cell plant to be built in Bay Area
A Palo Alto company will announce today that it will spend about $100 million to build the world's largest solar cell factory and that it will locate its new plant in the Bay Area.
Martin Roscheisen, chief executive of Nanosolar Inc., said Tuesday that his firm is considering sites in San Jose and San Francisco that would be close to its current pilot plant in Palo Alto, where it uses an unconventional material as the basis for its solar cells. Assuming that it stays on track, by 2007, Nanosolar's new factory will produce 200 million solar cells a year that will generate more electricity than the output of a plant in Japan run by Sharp, considered today's world leader in solar power.
Solar cells absorb photons from sunlight and convert these into electrons to generate electricity. More than 90 percent of all solar cells use silicon to transform light into electricity.
Ed Beardsworth, an independent energy technology consultant in Palo Alto, said shortages of silicon -- the prime ingredient in solar cells and computer chips -- are opening the market for alternative materials.
Nanosolar is one of several companies that use a blend of metals that includes copper and gallium. "The question is whether these new companies like Nanosolar can live up to their own expectations," Beardsworth said.
Joel Makower, a consultant with Clean Edge, a research firm that follows renewable energy, said firms such as Miasolé in San Jose and DayStar Technologies in New York state are also racing to mass-produce solar cells that use materials other than silicon.
"It's a wide-open field," he said.
Roscheisen said Nanosolar will make its new solar cells through a process much like printing. The base of the solar cell will be a metal foil bathed in a solution containing tiny particles of the light-capturing metals. The liquid will evaporate and leave behind this photovoltaic material. A thin, transparent film will be baked over the cell. Currently, the process prints onto a metal foil 4 inches wide, but Roscheisen said this could be extended up to 72 inches.
To build its new plant, Nanosolar raised $75 million from European and U.S. investors including Jeff Skoll, the former eBay executive who also backed "An Inconvenient Truth," former Vice President Al Gore's movie on global warming. Roscheisen said $15 million in government subsidies would be part of the factory financing package, but he declined to identify those subsidies. He said a final decision on the factory site would be made soon.
Dave Pearce, chief executive of Miasolé, said his firm uses a slightly different approach at a plant in Santa Clara that is supposed to expand from making pilot batches "to reasonably high-volume production" later this year.


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So what would you rather see in your smartphone, a thin sleek design that turns heads or a larger battery that turns on at the end of the day after constantly being in use during working hours. Drop us a comment in the box below.


Drivers for the interface are installed, I can use another application to open up the port and see some of my debug messages from the device. It is an Adafruit FTDI friend connected to an Arduino Pro.
When any FTDI or CH340 device is connected to this Windows 10 system, the “Tools → Ports” option is greyed out and not selectable. Curiously, the 8u2 and 16u2 USB to Serial interfaces work fine ONLY when no FTDI or CH340 based devices are attached to the system.
As a band-aid, I am able to upload to the port by changing the value in the “preferences.txt” file.
I need a serious solution for this nuisance.


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This is the sixth and final part of how future smartphones would look like. Imagine using smart glasses that could do the same functions as a smartphone. Learn more here.
We continue last weeks series on how phones of the future would look like. This is the fifth part series and we are looking at a phone that would have two different displays.
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This is the third part series of what we think phones would look like in the future. The next big thing in display technology in the near future seems to be flexible displays.
It is almost 150 years since the first telephone was invented and patented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 and since then the phone has changed in shapes and sizes that everybody owns a phone. Let us look at the evolution of the phone and compare the difference between each phone.
This is the part 2 series of what we think phones would look like in the future. Imagine a future where these transmitters are a lot more powerful and can charge devices over-the-air at great distances? Learn more in this write-up.
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Due to how important laptops and computers are in our world, it’s frustrating and stressful when they break, especially if you have an upcoming deadline to meet. These are the three most important reasons they breakdown and how you can manage them.
Let's talk about 5G, the latest and greatest global network that will transform our lives. 5G will let us download a high-definition or HD movies in seconds and make self-driven cars smarter and safer. So what exactly is 5G?
A processor, or microprocessor, is a small chip that resides in computers and other electronic devices. This processor handles all the basic system instructions. In this article, we will discover the differences between the Pentium and Celeron processors.


How to unbrick a Note 2 without loosing data?
I just changed the screen of a Galaxy Note 2, and everything worked perfectly.
When I was going to charge it, the phone went into download mode, i figured the charger was faulty, but it worked on another phone.
When I ejected the charger it went black and won't turn back on again. There must be a problem with the charging port, right? I think I've read somewhere that you can put it into download mode by using just two of the pins, in some way. Might this be the case?
Hard reset won't work, there's just no way to jumpstart it.
Is this a good question?


A research team from the Imperial College London and AI and machine learning startup FaceSoft.io announced a joint effort on a new solution called AvatarMe that is capable of reconstructing a photorealistic 3D bust from a source photograph.
The team — who announced their work in a paper that was accepted to the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2020 — say that AvatarMe outperforms similar existing systems and can generate high resolution 3D faces with detailed reflections from low resolution images.
As VentureBeat reports, the system created pore-level reflectance maps of 200 different peoples’ faces by using a sphere rig consisting of 168 LED lights and 9 DSLR cameras. Those maps were used to train an AI generative adversarial network model called GANFIT to create its own realistic face maps while simultaneously optimizing them for a facial recognition identity match with the source image.
GANFIT consists of two parts, the first being a generator that creates samples and the second being the discriminator, which constantly attempts to spot the differences between the generated and real-world samples. The two parts go back and forth doing their job until the discriminator is no longer able to distinguish between the two with more than a 50% expected accuracy.
Though impressive, the research team acknowledges that AvatarMe still has limitations, though one of its major shortcomings is partially due to the data sample that was used to train the AI model not containing enough samples of various ethnicities. The result of the poorly trained model for some skin types is poor performance on its part when trying to reconstruct the faces of some individuals, highlighting the importance of diversity in sampling for machine learning.
June 18, 2020 – by Tony Bitzionis


Shure MVi, or Shure Motive MVi, a digital audio interface that connects a microphone or instrument to a computer or mobile device to create a portable recording studio, was announced on January 05, 2015.
Type: Digital Audio Interface
Price: US $99
On sale @ Amazon.
Shure MVi may require the ASIO4ALL driver to emulate ASIO and run on the Ableton Live digital audio workstation (DAW).