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    Perancangan Interior Surabaya Science Centre

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    During this rapid development era with its huge development. The education and entertainment world also experience those wide range changes. The recent entertaining site provides less focus on the educational facility. Which is then leads to the situation that it is more and more difficult to find educational supportive entertaining site. As one of the major cities in Indonesia, Surabaya lack of attention to the needs of society in the field of education entertainment. “Surabaya Science Centre” Interior design is an education entertainment facility which somehow can help the people to develop better in the field of education. The main facilities such as lobby, ticket area, an areas of biologys, earth and space areas, an area of physics, chemistry area, cinema area, cafe, office, and souvenir shop area provided. The concept of “Imaginative Life” is the description of the life of the imagination game with the aim of being informative, educative, as well as entertaining. Interior design applied in Surabaya Science Centre is created based on a fun atmosphere, colorful and thematic so that visitors can change their mindset from boring science being fun and amazing

    Sensitivity-bandwidth limit in a multi-mode opto-electro-mechanical transducer

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    An opto--electro--mechanical system formed by a nanomembrane capacitively coupled to an LC resonator and to an optical interferometer has been recently employed for the high--sensitive optical readout of radio frequency (RF) signals [T. Bagci, \emph{et~al.}, Nature {\bf 507}, 81 (2013)]. Here we propose and experimentally demonstrate how the bandwidth of such kind of transducer can be increased by controlling the interference between two--electromechanical interaction pathways of a two--mode mechanical system. With a proof--of--principle device \new{operating at room temperature, we achieve a sensitivity of 300 nV/Hz^(1/2) over a bandwidth of 15 kHz in the presence of radiofrequency noise, and an optimal shot-noise limited sensitivity of 10 nV/Hz^(1/2) over a bandwidth of 5 kHz. We discuss strategies for improving the performance of the device, showing that, for the same given sensitivity, a mechanical multi--mode transducer can achieve a bandwidth} significantly larger than that of a single-mode one

    Characterization of a defective PbWO4 crystal cut along the a-c crystallographic plane: structural assessment and a novel photoelastic stress analysis

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    Among scintillators, the PWO is one of the most widely used, for instance in CMS calorimeter at CERN and PANDA project. Crystallographic structure and chemical composition as well as residual stress condition, are indicators of homogeneity and good quality of the crystal. In this paper, structural characterization of a defective PbWO4 (PWO) crystal has been performed by X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) and Photoelasticity in the unusual a-c crystallographic plane. XRD and EDS analysis have been used to investigate crystallographic orientation and chemical composition, while stress distribution, which indicates macroscopic inhomogeneities and defects, has been obtained by photoelastic approaches, in Conoscopic and Sphenoscopic configuration. Since the sample is cut along the a-c crystallographic plane, a new method is proposed for the interpretation of the fringe pattern. The structural analysis has detected odds from the nominal lattice dimension, which can be attributed to the strong presence of Pb and W. A strong inhomogeneity over the crystal sample has been revealed by the photoelastic inspection. The results give reliability to the proposed procedure which is exploitable in crystals with other structures.Comment: 18 pages, 10 figures, revised versio

    Quantum dynamics of a vibrational mode of a membrane within an optical cavity

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    Optomechanical systems are a promising candidate for the implementation of quantum interfaces for storing and redistributing quantum information. Here we focus on the case of a high-finesse optical cavity with a thin vibrating semitransparent membrane in the middle. We show that robust and stationary optomechanical entanglement could be achieved in the system, even in the presence of nonnegligible optical absorption in the membrane. We also present some preliminary experimental data showing radiation-pressure induced optical bistability.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures. Work presented at the conference QCMC 2010 held on 19-23 July 2010 at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australi

    Speed Control of Non-collocated Stator-Rotor Synchronous Motor with Application in Robotic Surgery

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    This paper introduces Non-collocated Stator-Rotor Synchronous Motor (NSRSM) as a novel actuation system for cases where the stator and rotor are required to interact across a physical barrier. The main motivation for NSRSM is in the area of laparoscopic robotic surgery whereby it is desired to actuate the manipulators across the abdominal wall, but it also has potential application in other robotic surgery procedures. The configuration of NSRSM is similar to that of permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) although due to asymmetric structure of the windings around the rotor, the electromechanical model of PMSMs was developed to obtain the dynamic model of NSRSM. The field oriented control method is used to develop an appropriate model for control purposes. Then two widely used control algorithms (PI controller and linear quadratic regulator (LQR)) are used to control the rotor speed in the presence of the modelling uncertainties and load disturbances. Simulation results show that these two methods are robust

    Ground state of excitons and charged excitons in a quantum well

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    A variational calculation of the ground state of a neutral exciton and of positively and negatively charged excitons (trions) in single quantum well is presented. We study the dependance of the correlation energy and of the binding energy on the well width and on the hole mass. Our results are are compared with previous theoretical results and with avalaible experimental data.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures presented to OECS

    Magnetic Surgical Instruments for Robotic Abdominal Surgery.

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    This review looks at the implementation of magnetic-based approaches in surgical instruments for abdominal surgeries. As abdominal surgical techniques advance toward minimizing surgical trauma, surgical instruments are enhanced to support such an objective through the exploration of magnetic-based systems. With this design approach, surgical devices are given the capabilities to be fully inserted intraabdominally to achieve access to all abdominal quadrants, without the conventional rigid link connection with the external unit. The variety of intraabdominal surgical devices are anchored, guided, and actuated by external units, with power and torque transmitted across the abdominal wall through magnetic linkage. This addresses many constraints encountered by conventional laparoscopic tools, such as loss of triangulation, fulcrum effect, and loss/lack of dexterity for surgical tasks. Design requirements of clinical considerations to aid the successful development of magnetic surgical instruments, are also discussed

    Optical properties of black silicon structures ALD-coated with Al 2 O 3

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    Atomic layer deposited (ALD) Al 2 O 3 coatings were applied on black silicon (b-Si) structures. The coated nanostructures were investigated regarding their reflective and transmissive behaviour. For a systematic study of the influence of the Al 2 O 3 coating, ALD coatings with a varying layer thickness were deposited on three b-Si structures with different morphologies. With a scanning electron microscope the morphological evolution of the coating process on the structures was examined. The optical characteristics of the different structures were investigated by spectral transmission and reflection measurements. The usability of the structures for highly efficient absorbers and antireflection (AR) functionalities in the different spectral regions is discussed
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