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Study of free-piston Stirling engine driven linear alternators
The analysis, design and operation of single phase, single slot tubular permanent magnet linear alternator is presented. Included is the no-load and on-load magnetic field investigation, permanent magnet's leakage field analysis, parameter identification, design guidelines and an optimal design of a permanent magnet linear alternator. For analysis of the magnetic field, a simplified magnetic circuit is utilized. The analysis accounts for saturation, leakage and armature reaction
Electro-optic scanning of light coupled from a corrugated LiNbO3 waveguide
Light diffracted from a grating output coupler in a Ti-diffused LiNbO3 waveguide is scanned electro-optically. Using a coupling length of 2.5 mm in our arrangement we have demonstrated a scanning capability of one resolved spot per 3 V/µm applied field
Effect of spin-orbit interaction on heterojunction band discontinuities
The effect of spin-orbit interaction is included in the linear combination of atomic orbitals calculation of heterojunction band discontinuities. It is found that spin-orbit interaction is not negligible when the atomic number of the constituent atoms exceeds about 40. The effect of spin-orbit interaction as well as some interesting observations and their implications are briefly discussed
On the Clark-alpha model of turbulence: global regularity and long--time dynamics
In this paper we study a well-known three--dimensional turbulence model, the
filtered Clark model, or Clark-alpha model. This is Large Eddy Simulation (LES)
tensor-diffusivity model of turbulent flows with an additional spatial filter
of width alpha (). We show the global well-posedness of this model with
constant Navier-Stokes (eddy) viscosity. Moreover, we establish the existence
of a finite dimensional global attractor for this dissipative evolution system,
and we provide an anaytical estimate for its fractal and Hausdorff dimensions.
Our estimate is proportional to , where is the integral spatial
scale and is the viscous dissipation length scale. This explicit bound is
consistent with the physical estimate for the number of degrees of freedom
based on heuristic arguments. Using semi-rigorous physical arguments we show
that the inertial range of the energy spectrum for the Clark- model has
the usual Kolmogorov power law for wave numbers and
decay power law for This is evidence that the
Clark model parameterizes efficiently the large wave numbers within
the inertial range, , so that they contain much less translational
kinetic energy than their counterparts in the Navier-Stokes equations.Comment: 11 pages, no figures, submitted to J of Turbulenc
The effect of electron-electron correlation on the attoclock experiment
We investigate multi-electron effects in strong-field ionization of Helium
using a semi-classical model that, unlike other commonly used theoretical
approaches, takes into account electron-electron correlation. Our approach has
an additional advantage of allowing to selectively switch off different
contributions from the parent ion (such as the remaining electron or the
nuclear charge) and thereby investigate in detail how the final electron angle
in the attoclock experiment is influenced by these contributions. We find that
the bound electron exerts a significant effect on the final electron momenta
distribution that can, however, be accounted for by an appropriately selected
mean field. Our results show excellent agreement with other widely used
theoretical models done within a single active electron approximation
Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in the local density of states
The scattering of electrons with inhomogeneities produces modulations in the
local density of states of a metal. We show that electron interference
contributions to these modulations are affected by the magnetic field via the
Aharonov-Bohm effect. This can be exploited in a simple STM setup that serves
as an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer at the nanometer scale.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. v2 added reference
The magnetofection method: Using magnetic force to enhance gene delivery
In order to enhance and target gene delivery we have previously established a novel method, termed magnetofection, which uses magnetic force acting on gene vectors that are associated with magnetic particles. Here we review the benefits, the mechanism and the potential of the method with regard to overcoming physical limitations to gene delivery. Magnetic particle chemistry and physics are discussed, followed by a detailed presentation of vector formulation and optimization work. While magnetofection does not necessarily improve the overall performance of any given standard gene transfer method in vitro, its major potential lies in the extraordinarily rapid and efficient transfection at low vector doses and the possibility of remotely controlled vector targeting in vivo
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