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An improved BST dielectric powder is created used a sol-gel procedure. Addition of graphite to the powder, followed by a firing of the mixture results in a highly porous BST substrate, with the included graphite being burned off. By adjustment of the amount of added graphite, the porosity of the BST substrate is widely adjustable and enables achievement of a low bulk dielectric constant. A low dielectric filler is added to the fired substrate so as to provide a composite substrate with physical rigidity. Conductive layers are then adhered to the composite substrate to enable a tuning of the dielectric constant in accordance with applied DC voltage potentials. Antenna and other applications of the improved composite BST substrate are described.
1. An antenna comprising:
means for feeding an electromagnetic signal:
a radiating surface;
a dielectric phase shift structure positioned between said means for feeding and said radiating surface, said dielectric phase shift structure comprising a porous ceramic matrix including barium strontium titanate, said barium and strontium present in a percentage to assure a Curie temperature for said porous ceramic matrix below an operating temperature of said antenna, said porous ceramic matrix comprising not more than 50% of a volume of said dielectric phase shift structure; and
bias means positioned in contact with said structure for enabling an alteration of a dielectric constant of said structure by application of a voltage level.
2. The antenna as recited in claim 1, wherein said dielectric phase shift structure comprises a unitary block, said unitary block including on one surface thereof a ground plane and on an opposed surface thereof, a plurality of spaced electrodes, said ground plane and spaced electrodes comprising said bias means.
3. The antenna structure as recited in claim 2, further comprising:
at least one formed shape of said porous ceramic matrix juxtaposed to said unitary block at a point where said unitary block mates with said means for feeding, said formed shape of said porous ceramic matrix enabling an incoming wavefront to gradually encounter said porous ceramic matrix to thereby provide a gradual transition from an air interface to said porous ceramic matrix.
This invention relates to ferroelectric ceramic substrates, and, more particularly, to Barium, Strontium, Titanate (BST) substrates which exhibit low dielectric constants, are voltage tunable so as to enable a variation in phase shift therethrough, exhibit low loss tangents and operate in the paraelectric region.
Phase shift components find many uses in electronic circuits. A typical phased array antenna may have several thousand radiating elements with a phase shifter for every antenna element. Ferrite phase shifters have gained popularity due to their weight, size and operational speed characteristics. However, unit cost and complexity of ferrite phase shifters have prevented their wide spread use. PIN diode phase shifters are cheaper than ferrite phase shifters, but exhibit an excessive insertion loss which limits their utility in antenna arrays. Phase shifters that employ ferroelectric materials have the potential to provide much better performance than ferrite and PIN diode phase shifters due to their higher power handling capacity, lower required drive powers and wide range of temperatures of operation.
The discovery of the ferroelectric barium titanate opened the present era of ceramic dielectrics. In such ferroelectric dielectrics, pre-existing electric dipoles, whose presence in the material is predictable from crystal symmetry, interact to spontaneously polarize sub-volumes. A ferroelectric crystal of barium-titanate generally consists of localized domains and within each domain the polarization of all unit cells is nearly parallel. Adjacent domains have polarizations in different directions and the net polarization of the ferroelectric crystal is the vector sum of all domain polarizations.
The total dipole moment of a ferroelectric crystal may be changed (i) by the movement of walls between the domains, or (ii) by nucleation of new domains. When an external electric field is applied, the domains are oriented. The effect is to increase the component of polarization in the field direction. If the applied field is lifted, some of the regions that were oriented retain the new orientation; so that when a field is applied in an opposite direction, the orientation does not follow the original path in the curve. More specifically, the crystal exhibits a hysteresis which equates to a loss function for electrical signals that propagate therethrough. Such hysteresis action occurs when the ferroelectric crystal is operated below its Curie point temperature. Above the Curie point temperature, the crystal is both isotropic and paraelectric in that it does not exhibit the hysteretic loss function. In order to reduce the hysteresis effect, others in the prior art have added dopants to the crystalline matrix to, in essence, provide a "lubricating" function at the domain boundaries which reduces the remanent polarization upon a retrace of the hysteresis curve.
Barium titanate and barium titanate-based ceramics exhibit high dielectric constants (on the order of 2,000 or more). By application of a variable voltage bias across a barium titanate crystal, substantial "tunability" (variation of the dielectric constant) can be achieved. Nevertheless, as a result of the high dielectric constant values, the use of barium titanate materials as phase shifters in microwave applications has been limited (due to a high level of mismatch with the material into which the electric waves are coupled, e.g. air). Further, because the Curie temperature of barium titanate is approximately 120� C., operation of barium titanate-based ceramics at ambient assures that they operate in the region where they exhibit the hysteresis effect-and thus exhibit the loss function associated therewith.
More recently, it has been found that the inclusion of various amounts of lead, calcium and strontium can substantially modify the Curie temperature of a barium titanate ceramic. In FIG. 1, a plot of Curie temperature versus mole percentage additions of isovalent additives lead, calcium and strontium is plotted. It is to be noted that only a strontium additive enables a substantial lowering of the Curie temperature to a level that is both at and below normal ambient operating temperatures. As a result, barium strontium titanate (BST) ceramics are now being investigated in regards to various electronic applications.
BST ceramics exhibit a number of attributes which tend to make them useful for microwave phase shift applications. For instance, they exhibit a large variation of dielectric constant with changes in DC bias fields; low loss tangents over a range of operating DC bias voltages; insensitivity of dielectric properties to changes in environmental conditions; and are high reproducible. Nevertheless, they still exhibit very high dielectric constants which create substantial mismatches in phase shift environments.
Accordingly, it is an object of this invention to provide improved ferroelectric dielectrics that are suitable for use with electronic applications.
It is another object of this invention to provide improved BST dielectrics which exhibit low dielectric constants.
It is yet another object of this invention to provide low dielectric BST materials which retain a substantial tunability characteristic.
It is yet another object of this invention to provide improved BST materials that exhibit both low dielectric constants and operate in the paraelectric region at ambient temperatures.
An improved BST dielectric powder is created used a sol-gel procedure. Addition of graphite to the powder, followed by a firing of the mixture results in a highly porous BST substrate, with the included graphite being burned off. By adjustment of the amount of added graphite, the porosity of the BST substrate is widely adjustable and enables achievement of a low bulk dielectric constant. A low dielectric filler is added to the fired substrate so as to provide a composite substrate with physical rigidity. Conductive layers are then adhered to the composite substrate to enable a tuning of the dielectric constant in accordance with applied DC voltage potentials. Antenna and other applications of the improved composite BST substrate are described.
FIG. 1 is a plot of variation of Curie temperature of BaTiO3 with changes in mole percent of isovalent additives.
FIG. 2 is a flow chart of a prior art procedure for preparing Ba1-x Srx TiO3 powders.
FIG. 3 is a flow chart of a process incorporating the invention hereof for producing both dense and porous BST samples.
FIG. 4 is a plot of dielectric constant versus applied field for Ba0.65 Sr0.35 TiO3 and Ba0.5 Sr0.5 TiO3 solid samples, at 25� C. and 1 MHz.
FIG. 5 is a plot of loss tangent versus applied field for Ba0.65 Sr0.35 TiO3 and Ba0.5 Sr0.5 TiO3 solid samples, at 25� C. and 1 MHz.
FIG. 6 is a plot of change of dielectric constant of solid Ba0.65 Sr0.35 TiO3, versus temperatures and applied voltages at 1 MHz.
FIG. 7 is a plot of change of loss tangent of solid Ba0.65 Sr0.35 TiO3, versus temperatures and applied voltages at 1 MHz.
FIG. 8 is a plot of change of dielectric constant versus applied field for porous Ba0.65 Sr0.35 TiO3 samples at 25� C. and 1 MHz.
FIG. 9 is a plot of change of loss tangent of porous Ba0.65 Sr0.35 TiO3, versus applied voltage at 1 MHz.
FIG. 10 is a plot of dielectric constant of porous Ba0.65 Sr0.35 TiO3 as a function of microwave frequencies.
FIG. 11 is a plot of loss tangent of porous Ba0.65 Sr0.35 TiO3 as a function of microwave frequencies.
FIG. 12 is a perspective view of an electronically steerable "leaky-wave" antenna which employs a Ba0.65 Sr0.35 TiO3 ceramic as a phase shift media.
FIG. 13 is a schematic view of a phased array antenna which makes use of Ba0.65 Sr0.35 TiO3 phase shifters.
It is to be understood hereinbelow, that while various BST compositions are described, the invention is equally applicable to other stoichiometric compositions, such as Lead Manganese Niobate (PMN), Lithium Niobate, Lead Lanthanum Zirconium Titanate (PLZT) etc. All of the aforementioned may be processed in accord with the invention to be described below and are tunable to varying degrees upon application of a bias voltage.
A conventional method for the preparation of Ba1-x Srx TiO3 powders is shown in FIG. 2. The procedure commences, as shown at step 10, with a mixing of carbonates of barium and strontium with titanium dioxide. In addition, oxides of dopants may also be added (i.e., oxides of manganese, iron or calcium). The ingredients are then ball milled for two hours (step 12) and are then calcined at 800� C. for three hours and sintered at 1150� C. for 6 hours (box 14). The sintered materials are then ball milled for 6 more hours (step 16), sieved (step 18), and then pressed at 75,000 psi (step 20) to create a desired Ba1-x Srx TiO3 shape. Before the sieved powders are compressed in step 20, an organic binder (e.g. polyvinyl alcohol, alkaloid resin, etc.) is added in the form of a 10% solution to the calcined powder. The compacted powder shape is then sintered (step 22) to arrive at the final Ba1-x Srx TiO3 structure.
As above indicated, BST ceramics exhibit highly tunable dielectric constants which enable a substantial variation in an electrical phase shift therethrough. However, they also exhibit high dielectric values. Those values are so high as to cause a substantial mismatch when a BST ceramic is inserted into a signal transmission path. Such a mismatch results in a high standing wave ratio, unwanted reflections and resultant signal losses. It has been found that the dielectric constant of BST ceramics can be substantially altered by rendering the BST ceramic highly porous such that air and/or another low dielectric constant material can be interspersed with the BST material. Tunability is retained in such a lower dielectric BST ceramic--thereby enabling its use as a controllable phase shifter. Furthermore, such porous BST ceramics are usable not only as phase shifters but also as tunable capacitors in the form of both discrete thick films or distributed thin films.
It has also been found that use of a sol-gel method to manufacture BST ceramics, whether porous or solid, enables a uniform distribution of dopants therethrough--leading to a highly uniform composition distribution throughout the entire BST ceramic structure. Thus, for solid (dense) BST ceramics, the sol-gel method enables dopants to be uniformly distributed throughout the entire BST ceramic--as compared to a rather non-uniform distribution when made by the conventional process shown in FIG. 2.
Inclusion of graphite with a BST powder mixture (produced via the sol-gel process) enables production of a porous BST ceramic structure. Upon a subsequent firing at a slow rate, the included graphite is burned off--leaving the highly porous BST structure. The level of porosity (and the resulting density of the final ceramic) is controlled by the amount of added graphite. Sintering produces a porous BST ceramic which is then rendered mechanically strong by back-fill with an organic or inorganic filler.
The BST structure preferably includes appropriate levels of barium and strontium to assure that the resulting ceramic exhibits a Curie temperature that is at or below the lowest expected operating temperature. Under these conditions, the BST ceramic operates in its paraelectric region and hysteresis losses are avoided. To achieve such a BST ceramic, the strontium ratio should preferably be in a range of 15-50 mole percent.
Turning to FIG. 3, a sol-gel process will be described that enables achievement of porous BST ceramics which exhibit tunable, low-level dielectric constants; provides control of the Curie temperature to a level which assures paraelectric region operation; and insures that dopants added to the BST are uniformly distributed so as to provide the BST structure with a lowered dielectric loss tangent. Sol-gel processes are not, per se, novel, see "Sol-Gel Processes" Reuter "Advanced Materials", Vol. 3, No. 5, (1991), pp 258-259 and Vol. 3, No. 11, pp 568-571.
The procedure commences with step 30 wherein strontium and barium metals (and dopants, as required) are dissolved in 2-methoxyethanol. As dopants, manganese, iron or calcium in the form of nitrates or metals, may be added to the composition. The addition of strontium enables a reduction in the dielectric constant of the resulting BST ceramic, but the percentage reduction is small when compared to the reduction achieved through production of a porous BST shape.
Titanium isopropoxide (Ti(OC3 H7)4) is next added to the dissolved metal mixture (step 32) and the mixture is refluxed in nitrogen at 135� C. (step 34). The solution is then hydrolysed with triply distilled water wherein the H2 0:alkoxide mole ratio is 3:1 (step 36), with the result being an amorphous gel of BST powder (step 38). Next, the gel mixture is dried at 150� C. for 6 hours (step 40) and the resultant dried mixture is calcined at 900� C. to create a crystalline powder (step 42). Thereafter, a binder and graphite powder are added to the crystalline BST powder and the mixture is ball milled in ethanol for 6 hours (step 44). The ball milled mixture is then pressed into a desired shape (step 46), followed by firing at a slow rate up to 800� C. to burn out the graphite and binder (step 48).
Next, the shape is sintered at 1350� C. for one hour (step 50). The sintered shape is cooled and back filled with an organic or inorganic filler (e.g. an epoxy or a low loss oxide powder). The back filled BST shape is then cured to render the shape into a mechanically stable structure.
Dielectric constants and loss tangents of different compositions of BST ceramics were measured at 1 MHz. Silver paint was applied on both sides of a sample for impedance measurements. Impedance of the samples was measured by an HP 4192A impedance analyzer. The dielectric constants and loss tangents were calculated from the impedance measurements.
Dielectric properties were also measured as a function of temperature. Samples were encapsulated within a thin layer of silicon rubber and placed in a mixture of methanol and liquid nitrogen bath, and the temperature was varied from -50� C. to +50� C. In order to investigate the electrical tunability of the BST materials for phase shift applications at high frequencies, dielectric constants and loss tangents of Ba0.65 Sr0.35 TiO3 and Ba0.5 Sr0.5 TiO3 materials were measured as a function of DC bias fields at 1 MHz.
In FIG. 4, dielectric constants and loss tangents are shown for solid (dense) Ba0.65 Sr0.35 TiO3 and Ba0.5 Sr0.5 TiO3 samples produced via the sol-gel portion of the process of FIG. 3. The Ba0.5 Sr0.5 TiO3 composition exhibits a change of about 16% in dielectric constant but little or no change in loss tangent (FIG. 5). By contrast, the Ba0.65 Sr0.35 TiO3 composition shows a change of 54% in dielectric constant and a substantial decrease in loss tangent (FIG. 5).
The dielectric constant and loss tangent of solid (dense) Ba0.65 Sr0.35 TiO3 samples were also measured as a function of voltage and temperature and are shown in FIGS. 6 and 7. FIG. 6 illustrates the change of dielectric constant of solid Ba0.65 Sr0.35 TiO3 with temperature and applied voltage at 1 MHz. FIG. 7 plots the change of loss tangent of solid Ba0.65 Sr0.35 TiO3 with temperatures and applied voltage at 1 MHz. When increasingly DC biased, the dielectric constant of the solid Ba0.65 Sr0.35 TiO3 material decreases since the bias serves, increasingly, to repress domain reversibility.
The dielectric constants and loss tangents of porous Ba0.65 Sr0.35 TiO3 samples produced by the sol-gel process of FIG. 3 were also measured at 1 MHz and at microwave frequencies. The dielectric constant and loss tangent of porous Ba0.65 Sr0.35 TiO3 samples were approximately 150 (FIG. 8) and 0.007 (FIG. 9), respectively, with a tunability of around 33% at 10 kV/cm. The dielectric constant decreases to around 14 (FIG. 10) and the loss tangent varies from 0.007 to 0.003 (FIG. 11) in the frequency range of 12.4-18.0 GHz. The change of dielectric properties of Ba0.65 Sr0.35 TiO3 is due to the relaxation that most ferroelectric materials exhibit at high frequency, when spontaneous polarization lags behind the applied frequency. Other dielectric properties as a function of density of Ba0.65 Sr0.35 TiO3 are listed in Table 1 below.
TABLE 1______________________________________ Dielectric TUN- Constant Loss BIAS.FIELD ABILITYAIR % BST % (1 MHz) tan (kV/cm) (%)______________________________________70 30 150 0.008 10 3375 25 51 0.008 50 3080 20 30 0.006 40 885 15 17 0.001 60 5______________________________________
It can be seen that as the percent of BST decreases, the tunability decreases and the level of bias field increases that is required to achieve the lower tunability. At approximately 75/25, a highly tunable BST ceramic results with a Curie point that is substantially lower than ambient. Furthermore, a dielectric constant of 51 results in a low loss tangent of 0.008. It is preferred that the BST % in the porous ceramic be no more than 50% to achieve the reduced dielectric constant.
Referring now to FIG. 12, an exemplary application of a porous BST ceramic produced via the sol-gel method is illustrated. In this instance, BST ceramic 100 is positioned between an inlet waveguide 102 and a matched load waveguide 104. A plurality of conductive strips 106 are positioned on the radiating surface of the antenna structure and are spaced so as to expose portions 108 of underlying BST ceramic 100. Each of conductive strips 106 is connected to a variable voltage source V which enables a tuning of the dielectric constant of BST ceramic 100. A conductive ground plane 109 forms a reference potential surface beneath BST ceramic 100. At either end of BST ceramic are additional BST formed shapes 110 and 112. Shape 110 prevents reflections by enabling an incoming wave front to gradually encounter the BST dielectric material. In a similar fashion, BST shape 112 enables a gradual transition from a BST to an air interface and from thence to an absorptive load (not shown).
An incoming wave in waveguide 102 is coupled into BST ceramic 100 and leaks out from between conductive strips 106. By varying voltage V between conductive strips 106 and ground plane 109, the electrical distance d between adjacent strips 106 can be varied as a result of the change in the dielectric constant of BST ceramic 100. As a result, a steering of the beam in the XY plane occurs. By properly varying voltage V, a substantial beam steering action can be achieved.
The use of the porous BST structure 100 both enables a relatively low dielectric constant to be exhibited that prevents reflections due to an air/dielectric mismatch at inlet waveguide 102. Furthermore, by assuring that the BST ceramic 102 has a Curie point at or below the operating temperature of the leaky wave antenna structure, operations occur in the paraelectric region, thereby reducing and/or eliminating hysteresis losses.
In FIG. 13, a schematic of a microstrip, electronically steerable, phased array antenna 120 is shown wherein each of antenna elements 122 is connected via a BST phase shifter 124 and a microstrip connecting line to a feed point 126. Each of BST phase shifters 124 is connected to a steering voltage source (not shown) which enables the bias thereacross to be varied so as to change the phase shift of a signal being fed from feed point 126 to antenna elements 122. BST phase shifters 124, simply by change of a DC voltage thereacross, enable a controllable phase shift to be imparted to a signal that is either fed to or sensed from antenna elements 122. In such manner, antenna elements 122 are enabled to exhibit a beam scan function known to those skilled in the art.
Other applications of the BST material are: as a tunable dielectric to enable an electrical distance from a ground plane to be varied in accordance with an applied DC bias; in radome structures to enable the radome to selectively exhibit asymmetric transmissivities; for use in tunable multilayer capacitors; various additional antenna applications; as tunable substrates for printed circuit boards where the board forms an active element in the circuit; for use with chiral composites to enable a tuning of absorptive characteristics thereof; for use as a high energy cell or battery; in combination with IR windows, electrochronic coatings; and in micro-electro mechanical sensor applications, etc.
It should be understood that the foregoing description is only illustrative of the invention. Various alternatives and modifications can be devised by those skilled in the art without departing from the invention. As indicated above, PMN, PLZT and other ferroelectric compositions may be substituted for BST. The Curie temperatures thereof may be varied by alteration therein of one or more constituents (e.g. zirconium in PLZT, manganese in PMN, etc.). Accordingly, the present invention is intended to embrace all such alternatives, modifications and variances which fall within the scope of the appended claims.
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At the fifth session of the UN international negotiating committee on climate change, which ended in New York last week, American delegate Robert Reinstein said $50 million would be given to a World Bank fund for developing nations to tackle the issue of climate change. Another $25 million would be available from the US for these nations to prepare national inventories of greenhouse emissions and to examine ways to limit them.
The negotiations are the penultimate set of talks aimed at drawing up a treaty on climate change for world leaders to sign at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June. Many countries have agreed to sign a treaty to reduce emissions ...
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Shiga wields an intricate variation of a Chinese sword with a yin-yang on it. Lani One of the two female playable characters of the game, Lani specializes in the elemental attribute of Ice magic.Lani (GC Manual) Appearing small and fragile, she travels with Shiga and shares the same story path with him. What she lacks in physical power she makes up for with her magic power and speed. Lani wields a magic staff. Tai The other male playable character, Tai specializes in the elemental attribute of Lightning magic. Tai is the slowest character in the entire game, but compensates for that weakness with his power and magic attributes. Tai wields a sort of bamboo sword as his weapon. Naja Naja (GC Manual)The other female playable character, Naja specializes in the elemental attribute of Fire magic. Defying the realm of stereotypes, Naja is the strongest physical attacker of the group while also being quite fast herself. Due to these reasons the manual reports that "close combat is her forte". Naja wields a long spear as her weapon. Story Mode NPCs Captain Dax Raja Mirah Ariel Master Gen Kirin Story Mode Enemy NPCs Emperor Kang Sheva Cyrus Kanon Karas Konga Kresh Aria Kai GameplayThe gameplay is very similar to Koei's Dynasty Warriors series in which the player clears various stages of enemies. The player has a health meter, a magic meter, a morale bar, and a mini-map on the HUD that mimics the HUD of Dynasty Warriors. While the two games have many things in common, however, the main factor that separates the two is Mystic Heroes' focus on magic rather than musou to power up special attacks. By equipping a pair of runes in between each stage, different sets of spells can be used, with the possibility of even mixing elements to use in battle. These magic spells come in four attributes and four different types. Magic Spell Attributes Mystic Heroes revolves around magic spells instead of Musou like its more popular counterpart. There are four elements of magic in Mystic Heroes: Wind, Ice, Lightning, and Magic. Wind: Fastest moving, lowest damage output. Has the possibility of dizzying the enemy, making them spin around for several seconds. Attribute color is green. Ice: Medium-moving speed alongside Lightning, with a medium damage output as well. Has the possibility of freezing the enemy, making them unable to move, attack, or perform any action for several seconds. Attribute color is blue. Lightning: Medium-moving speed alongside Ice, however is the second strongest of the spell attributes. Has the possibility of stunning the enemy, slowing all their actions for several seconds. Attribute color is yellow (though most Lightning spells have purple visuals). Fire: Slowest moving spell attribute, but packs the strongest damage output. Has the possibility of burning the enemy, making the enemy take damage over time and flinch occasionally over several seconds. Attribute color is red. Magic Spell Types Direct : The spell is released directly and quickly in front of the player. Performed by quickly tapping Y on the Gamecube controller. Targeting: The spell allows the player to enter first person mode with crosshairs in the center. Using the crosshairs the player is able to lock-on to multiple enemies, upon which the spell is unleashed when the player releases Y on the Gamecube controller. The player is vulnerable while attempting to target enemies. Sword: Allows the player to engulf their weapon with magic. Can be used in a combo for a couple strikes to dish out extra damage and possibility of the element's effects, the button can be held down for the player to swing their magic-engulfed weapon in front of them until the player releases the button or all their magic is run out, or the button can be pressed once with full magic for the character to do a scripted set of weapon swipes. The player is invincible during this scripted attack and when the button is held down. Jump: Performed by pressing the X button on the Gamecube controller in the air. This releases a spell beneath the player, resulting in many damaged enemies (for most spells) underneath the player. Very flashy and usually racks up the most combinations early on in the game. Magic Spells While there are many spells in the game, each of the four attributes have two of each spell type (except Sword spells), allowing for a total of 20 total spells in the game. Wind Direct Whirlwind: Releases small whirlwinds that hug the ground when released. They fly in a random pattern as they move forward.Gale: Releases speedy balls of wind that zip forward in random lines. Targeting Windsnipe: Like Gale, but instead targets specific enemies and flies straight to them.Twister: Like Whirlwind, but instead targets specific enemies and flies straight to them.JumpTornado: Creates three twisters that rotate on the ground in a decent radius around the player.Life Pulse: Unleashes a strong gust of wind forward upon landing.Ice DirectSnowball: The player "throws" an ice ball in front of them that bounces forward when it hits the ground then bursts into tiny icicles on the ground.Icicle: Creates shards of ice that materialize quickly then shoots out in front of the playerTargetingBlizzardHailJumpAvalancheGlacier FreezeLightning DirectBoltShock OrbTargetingLightningShockJumpStormPure EnergyFire DirectFireballCometTargetingMeteorFirestormJumpVolcanoHell's Fire Modes Story: The campaign of the game. Here the player can go through the story, playing the game through a series of stages and acts, and also find new runes to use hidden within each stage. 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Problems began over the weekend when the Excite Network installed $2 million worth of new hardware to handle increased traffic, company spokeswoman Erica Schietinger said. iWon, which changed its corporate identity to the Excite Network after purchasing the Excite.com portal last year, has been switching Excite e-mail users to a new system since December.
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The problem affected a small percentage of the roughly 400 million e-mails handled by the three million to four million Excite e-mail accounts, Schietinger said Wednesday. She said the problem was resolved Wednesday, but the failure notice to customers was still posted.
Customer Marcus Jonsson said this was only the latest problem he's had with the migration. He said that since mid-December, when the switchover began, he's had mail bounced or delayed for up to a day. Jonsson added that he's unhappy with decisions to eliminate some features such as e-mail forwarding.
"iWon was a portal already. They should be familiar with that kind of system, so why is it taking so long?" Jonsson asked. "I can't imagine how many customers they're losing."
iWon did not receive any of Excite.com's equipment or code in the acquisition following Excite@Home's bankruptcy. As a result, it has been recreating the features of the old Excite portal, such as each customer's unique portal settings, and readying its infrastructure for the transition, Schietinger said. The timing of the migration was established in the bankruptcy settlement.
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Also Tuesday, some people couldn't access the Excite Network site because of a brief outage caused by the company switching on a piece of equipment, Schietinger said.
The Excite Network competes with other portals, such as Yahoo and MSN, which also offer free e-mail. Research firm Nielsen/NetRatings ranked Excite.com 19th among the Web sites with the highest number of unique visitors in November.
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Injuries are a major source of childhood emergency department and hospital admissions. The most recent accident statistics from the National Safety Council, the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, and other sources tell us that:
- Injury is the leading cause of death in children and young adults. According to the most recent statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there were approximately 2,800 children, ages one to 14 years, that died from an unintentional injury.
- Falls are the leading cause of unintentional injury for children. Children ages 14 and under account for one-third of all fall-related visits to hospital emergency rooms.
- In 2005, nearly 252,000 children ages 14 and under were treated in the US for bicycle-related injuries. Nearly half (47 percent) of children ages 14 and under hospitalized for bicycle-related injuries are diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury.
- Drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury-related death among children ages one to 14. The majority of drownings and near-drownings occur in residential swimming pools and in open water sites. However, children can drown in as little as one inch of water.
- Airway obstruction injury is the leading cause of unintentional injury-related death among infants under age one.
- Approximately 45 percent of unintentional injury deaths occurred in and around the home. Unintentional home injury deaths to children are caused primarily by fire and burns, suffocation, drowning, firearms, falls, choking and poisoning.
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The Excel CONCATENATE function joins together a series of supplied text strings or other values, into one combined text string.
The format of the function is :
where the text arguments are a set of one or more text strings or other values that you want to join together.
In Excel 2007 and later versions of Excel, you can supply up to 255 text arguments to the Concatenate function, but in Excel 2003, the Concatenate function can only accept up to 30 text arguments.
The following spreadsheets show the Concatenate function, used to join together the strings in columns A - C of the example spreadsheet.
Note that, in the examples above, text strings have been added to separate the different fields. For example, in cell D2, a space (encased in quotes) has been used to separate the forename and surname.
Also note that in cell D3, the Text function has been used to convert the date value in cell C3 into a string, using the date format "dd/mm/yy". If the date was not converted in this way, the date part of the returned string would be displayed as the date's underlying value, which is the number 31810. This is explained further in the 'Trouble Shooting' section below.
Further information and examples of the Excel Concatenate function can be found on the Microsoft Office website.
Some users encounter the following problem when using the Concatenate function:
The Concatenate function inserts a number in place of a date or time, as shown below:
Dates and times within Excel are represented by numbers, and it is simply the formatting of a cell that causes these numbers to be displayed as dates and times. Therefore, when an Excel date or time is supplied to the Concatenate function the underlying numeric value is shown, instead of the formatted date or time (read more about Excel data types on the Excel Formatting page)
This problem can be solved by using the Excel Text function to convert the date or time value into a text string. This is shown in the example spreadsheet below:


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To receive ranking points a player must reach a round where points are available.
A ranking is made up of a player's 'Best 6' results from the 52-week period leading up to, and including, the last eligible week date except that ranking points earned at the World and Regional Championships will remain active for inclusion until the points from the next respective editions of those events become eligible for consideration.
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They also had a veteran talk to them about her experiences with artificial limbs. Cindy Crenshaw-Martin lost both of her legs when a bomb hidden in a trash can exploded while she was stationed overseas in 1978.
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The students designed and built their legs in class in teams of three to four students. They were encouraged to experiment and try things, redesign, and rebuild until they were successful. They had to measure the leg for one of their team and cut it to fit, making sure it was comfortable and, most important, making sure it stayed attached while in use.
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"When was the last time you went to Mount Deckbi, Elisa?" James Carter (a.k.a. Chainy) , an Elite Ranger, asked me during one of our chats with all the other rangers, who weren't out on runs.
I shrugged. "It's been a while - that's for sure. I believe it was with Jake, Jake Fennet." I thought it over for a moment, and added, "Yeah... That was the last time I explored Deckbi." That expedition had been so long ago (not a year, of course). Back then, loads of trainers wanted to go to Mt. Deckbi. In fact, I took three trips going there one after the other... Or, maybe, I had a journey through Mount Oktori in between. Well, either way, I still went to those mountains a lot of times consecutively.
"Good then," he replied with a smug grin. I looked at him questioningly. "You wouldn't... I mean, shouldn't mind taking this trainer to Mt. Deckbi, in that case." His smile grew even wider as I felt frustration boil over me.
"But.. But.. But... I've just been to Mt. Oktori!"
"That doesn't count!" he said in that oh-so-smug voice of his.
"Fine..." I muttered, which elicited a smirk out of Chainy. He slid a pale brown folder across the table. I grabbed it quickly, and glanced at it for a moment. If I had to do this, then I best be doing it swiftly.
I grabbed my brown messenger bag from my office, stashing a couple of healing and escape items into it. Herbs, Pokedolls, everything that we might possible need on this trip. I opened a zipper on the front of the leather bag, which contained all my Pokemon's Pokeballs. Nia, my Staraptor, could fly me there if it wasn't for the misty, dusty fog. That left Archer.
<Where to this time?> my Gallade talked through me through our mindlink.
{Mount Deckbi,} I replied. {Teleport me there, could you?}
<Oh, the place you had always been complaining about, huh? I'll get you there, and I might even stay throughout the run.>
{Cool, thanks! It's gonna be hot, though.}
With that, I was wrapped in a bubble of blue Psychic energy. It required a strong amount of concentration from the Pokemon who was doing this, but I was sure the Blade Pokemon could execute this move perfectly. I trusted him, as well as all my other partners. To me, that was what was important - the bond between Pokemon and trainer; the trust and friendship connecting them together. The telekinetic power brought me to my destination, atom by atom, molecule by molecule, body cell by body cell.
Now, all that was left for me to do, was to wait for the trainer. Oh, I almost forgot. I connected to the Ranger Headquarters' server using my Ranger's Digital Assistant (RDA). The trainer file, along with all the other information necessary for this trip, was soon uploaded into my device.
"Archer, come on out!" I tossed out the red-and-white orb, and with a flash of white light, my Psychic-Fighting-type emerged before me.
{Welcome to Mount Deckbi!}
<So this is Deckbi... Well, it's not too bad. Just the blanket of fog, is all,> he said as he surveyed the zone. I could only nod in agreement. The mist was a bit thicker today that what I was used to.
Trainer Statistics:
Name: Taither
Location: Mt. Deckbi
Encounters Left: 15
Area Effects: foggy, hot weather
Pokemon Encountered: [none]
Current Encounter: [none]
Pokemon Captured: [none]
Total Items: Four Parkballs|One Superball
Pokemon Stats
Chompy the Garchomp (M) - 100%
Ability: Rough Skin
Nature: Adamant
TM/HM/BM/SM/MT: TM Earthquake|TM Roar
Swampert (M) - 100%
Ability: Torrent
Nature: Brave
TM/HM/BM/SM/MT: TM Ice Beam|HM Strength|HM Waterfall|HM Surf
Scizor (M) - 100%
Ability: Technician
Nature: Jolly
Ye the Raichu (M) - 100%
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