The thermodynamic, structural, magnetic and electronic properties of pristine and intrinsic vacancy defect containing topological Dirac semimetal Ba3SnO are studied using first-principles density functional theory calculations. The thermodynamic stability of...

[1] This paper presents simulations and methods developed to investigate the feasibility of using a Fractional-Sample-Delay (FSD) system in the planned EISCAT_3D incoherent scatter radar. Key requirements include a frequency-independent beam direction over a 30 MHz band centered around 220 MHz, with correct reconstruction of pulse lengths down to 200 ns. The clock jitter from sample to sample must be extremely low for the integer sample delays. The FSD must also be able to delay the 30 MHz wide signal band by 1/1024th of a sample without introducing phase shifts, and it must operate entirely in baseband. An extensive simulation system based on mathematical models has been developed, with inclusion of performance-degrading aspects such as noise, timing error, and bandwidth. Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filters in the baseband of a band-passsampled signal have been used to apply true time delay beamforming. It has been confirmed that such use is both possible and well behaved. The target beam-pointing accuracy of 0.06°is achievable using optimized FIR filters with lengths of 36 taps and an 18 bit coefficient resolution. Even though the minimum fractional delay step necessary for beamforming is ∼13.1 ps, the maximum sampling timing error allowed in the array is found to be s ≤ 120 ps if the errors are close to statistically independent.Citation: Johansson, G., J. Borg, J. Johansson, M. Lundberg Nordenvaad, and G. Wannberg (2010), Simulation of post-ADC digital beamforming for large aperture array radars, Radio Sci., 45, RS3001,

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The DE-Link attitude determination and pointing system onboard stratospheric balloons provides a low cost, low weight and high accuracy method to increase the efficiency of WLAN communication between balloon and ground station. By determination of the 6-dimensional pose of the balloon gondola in real-time, the WLAN antenna can be pointed toward a known position on the ground. This removes the need for powerconsuming omnidirectional antennas. It also gives an improvement in communication speed and reduction of overall weight by the removal of heavy RF power amplifiers. The design uses a combination of GPS receivers, accelerometers and magnetoresistive circuits to determine the absolute attitude and position of the gondola in real-time, and two DC motors to point the antenna in azimuth-and elevation directions to compensate for the movements of the gondola. Ground based tests have shown the system to function well with a pointing error of less than ±2• .