Enhancement of light extraction in a GaInN light-emitting diode employing a conductive omnidirectional reflector consisting of GaN, an indium-tin oxide nanorod low-refractive-index layer, and an Ag layer is presented....
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Femtosecond laser ablation of Silicon (100) with thermal oxide thin films was studied in order to further understand the ablative properties of thin films and to evaluate their influence on the ablation of the substra...
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We report on applications of dual-frequency nematic liquid crystal (NLC) materials for electrically tunable lenses and for particles manipulation in colloidal systems. In dual-frequency NLC one can switch the LC direc...
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A method for noninvasive, quantitative characterization of tissues using molecular fluorescence was applied to porcine knee cartilage. Experimental and computational results agreed to within 5% and were reproducible w...
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Polymeric dielectrics have two electric field "thresholds", the first where conduction goes from linear to nonlinear, which is typically in the range of 10 V/m, and the second where carriers attain high mobi...
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Polymeric dielectrics have two electric field "thresholds", the first where conduction goes from linear to nonlinear, which is typically in the range of 10 V/m, and the second where carriers attain high mobility, which is typically in the range of 3times10 V/m. The latter is of great importance, as under the action of a cyclic field, the dielectric will degrade rapidly as a result of hot electrons, UV photons, etc. This paper will review important high field phenomena in dielectrics along with the methods used to measure and compute them
Rice husk can be an interesting source of raw material for obtaining silica, due to its composition, availability and cost. The extraction process of silica from rice husk can be divided in two parts. First some compo...
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Rice husk can be an interesting source of raw material for obtaining silica, due to its composition, availability and cost. The extraction process of silica from rice husk can be divided in two parts. First some components of rice husk are removed by acid leaching, using HCl, H2SO4, or a mixture of them, followed by calcination for burning out carbon compounds. The residue obtained after calcination is composed of about 95% amorphous silica. In this work, silica was produced from rice husk following the steps previously described, using leaching solutions of 10% HCl, 10% H 2SO4 and a mixture of 10% HCl and 10% H2SO 4. Calcination of leached materials was carried out at 600 or 700°C for 3 h. The silica powder obtained presented a mean particle size of 18 μm, around 98% amorphous SiO2 with a specific surface area of about 300 m2/g.
Femtosecond pulsed laser damage of Silicon (100) with thermal oxide thin films was studied in order to further understand the optical and electrical properties of thin films and to evaluate their influence on the dama...
Femtosecond pulsed laser damage of Silicon (100) with thermal oxide thin films was studied in order to further understand the optical and electrical properties of thin films and to evaluate their influence on the damage of the substrate. The damage threshold as a function of film thickness (2 – 1200 nm) was measured. The damage morphology produced by single laser pulses was also investigated. Two primary morphologies were observed, one in which the oxide film is completely removed, and the other in which the film is delaminated and expanded above the surface producing a bubble feature.
Highly selective and repeatable delamination of thermal oxide films from Si(100) substrates has been performed using single and multiple femtosecond laser pulses forming bubbles or blisters. By overlapping the bubbles...
Highly selective and repeatable delamination of thermal oxide films from Si(100) substrates has been performed using single and multiple femtosecond laser pulses forming bubbles or blisters. By overlapping the bubbles laterally, tubes or capillaries can be formed with a range of volumes suitable for nanofluidics. By scanning the sample through the laser using an automated translation stage, patterns of tubes with arbitrary complexity can be formed, while the scan velocity can easily control the volume of the tubes. The production time for capillaries in this fashion is considerably less than with other lithographic techniques, while the proximity of the tubes to the underlying silicon substrate yields the possibility for integrated devices. The mechanism responsible for the delamination will be discussed and the optimal laser and sample translation conditions will be presented which provide the most uniform tubes. Atomic force microscopy and optical microscopy of capillaries with a range of volumes will be presented.
Plane parallel ionization chambers are an important tool for dosimetry and absolute calibration of electron beams used for radiotherapy. Most dosimetric protocols require corrections for recombination and polarity eff...
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Plane parallel ionization chambers are an important tool for dosimetry and absolute calibration of electron beams used for radiotherapy. Most dosimetric protocols require corrections for recombination and polarity effects, which are to be determined experimentally as they depend on chamber design and radiation quality. Both effects were investigated in electron beams from a linear accelerator (Varian 21CD) for a set of four tissue equivalent plane parallel ionization chambers customized for the present research by Standard Imaging (Madison WI). All four chambers share the same design and air cavity dimensions, differing only in the diameter of their collecting electrode and the corresponding width of the guard ring. The diameters of the collecting electrodes were 2 mm, 4 mm, 10 mm and 20 mm. Measurements were taken using electron beams of nominal energy 6 to 20 MeV in a 10 cm × 10 cm field size with a SSD of 100 cm at various depths in a Solid WaterR slab phantom. No significant variation of recombination effect was found with radiation quality, depth of measurement or chamber design. However, the polarity effect exceeded 5% for the chambers with small collecting electrode for an effective electron energy below 4 MeV at the point of measurement. The magnitude of the effect increased with decreasing electron energy in the phantom. The polarity correction factor calculated following AAPM protocol TG51 ranged from approximately 1.00 for the 20.0 mm chamber to less than 0.95 for the 2 mm chamber at 4.1cm depth in a electron beam of nominally 12 MeV. By inverting the chamber it could be shown that the polarity effect did not depend on the polarity of the electrode first traversed by the electron beam. Similarly, the introduction of an air gap between the overlying phantom layer and the chambers demonstrated that the angular distribution of the electrons at the point of measurement had a lesser effect on the polarity correction than the electron energy itself. The magnitu
Crystal-melt interfacial free energies (γ) are computed for hcp Mg by employing equilibrium molecular-dynamics (MD) simulations and the capillary-fluctuation method (CFM). This work makes use of a newly developed emb...
Crystal-melt interfacial free energies (γ) are computed for hcp Mg by employing equilibrium molecular-dynamics (MD) simulations and the capillary-fluctuation method (CFM). This work makes use of a newly developed embedded-atom-method (EAM) interatomic potential for Mg fit to crystal, liquid, and melting properties. We describe how the CFM, which has previously been applied to cubic systems only, can be generalized for studies of hcp metals by employing a parametrization for the orientation dependence of γ in terms of hexagonal harmonics. The method is applied in the calculation of the Turnbull coefficient (α) and crystalline anisotropies of γ. We obtain a value of α=0.48, with interfacial free energies for different high-symmetry orientations differing by approximately 1%. These results are compared to those obtained in previous MD-CFM studies for cubic EAM metals as well as experimental studies of solid-liquid interfaces in hcp alloys. In addition, the implications of our results for the prediction of dendrite growth directions in hcp metals are discussed.
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