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In this work, a theoretical formula based on equivalent circuit model is proposed to describe the influence of frequency on the droplet actuation behavior in reverse electrowetting. To verify the theory, changes of droplet profile are monitored by charge coupled device (CCD) camera and simulated by COMSOL. It shows that the threshold voltage required for the droplet to start contracting inward increases firstly and then decreases with the increasing frequency. When the frequency is 1 kHz, the threshold voltage reaches the maximum value. Once the droplet begins to move inward, its contact angle increases with the working voltage. As for 4 kHz, the contact angle increases linearly from 60° to 154° when voltage ranges from 16 V to 50 V, while the droplet remained stationary when U < 16 V. The relative experimental results well accord with the theoretical prediction.

Ferrimagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle monolayers on top of ferroelectric BaTiO3 substrates were prepared and a magnetoelectric coupling effect was observed. We employed hereby a magnetoelectric AC susceptibility setup as modification of a commercial superconducting quantum interference device magnetometer. The magnetoelectric coefficient shows two jumps at the BaTiO3 phase transition temperatures. Moreover, the magnetic depth profile of the nanoparticle monolayer was probed by polarized neutron reflectivity. The data recorded at various electric field values show that the electric field is able to alter the magnetism of the nanoparticle monolayer by a strain mediated magnetoelectric coupling effect.

We add a nonstandard higgs into the traditional bosonic part of electroweak chiral Lagrangian, in purpose of finding out the contribution to EWCL coefficients from processes with internal line higgs particle. To construct the effective Lagrangian with higgs, we use low energy expansion scheme and write down all the independent terms conserving $SU(2)\times U_Y(1)$ symmetry in the nonlinear representation which we show is equivalent to the linear representation. Then we integrate out higgs using loop expansion technique at 1-loop level, contributions from all possible terms are obtained. We find three terms, $\mathcal{L}_5$, $\mathcal{L}_7$, $\mathcal{L}_{10}$ in EWCL are important, for which the contributions from higgs can be further expressed in terms of higgs partial decay width $\Gamma_{h\to ZZ}$ and $\Gamma_{h\to WW}$. Higg mass dependence of the coefficients in EWCL are discussed.

An adaptive fuzzy sliding mode strategy is developed for the generalized projective synchronization of a fractional-order chaotic system, where the slave system is not necessarily known in advance. Based on the designed adaptive update laws and the linear feedback method, the adaptive fuzzy sliding controllers are proposed via the fuzzy design, and the strength of the designed controllers can be adaptively adjusted according to the external disturbances. Based on the Lyapunov stability theorem, the stability and the robustness of the controlled system are proved theoretically. Numerical simulations further support the theoretical results of the paper and demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method. Moreover, it is revealed that the proposed method allows us to manipulate arbitrarily the response dynamics of the slave system by adjusting the desired scaling factor λi and the desired translating factor ηi, which may be used in a channel-independent chaotic secure communication.