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Analysis and design of integration formulas for a random integrand
Analysis of integration formulas and procedure for designing optimal integration formul
A suspended microchannel with integrated temperature sensors for high-pressure flow studies
A freestanding microchannel, with integrated temperature sensors, has been developed for high-pressure flow studies. These microchannels are approximately 20μm x 2μm x 4400μm, and are suspended above 80 μm deep cavities, bulk micromachined using BrF3 dry etch. The calibration of the lightly boron-doped thermistor-type sensors shows that the resistance sensitivity of these integrated sensors is parabolic with respect to temperature and linear with respect to pressure. Volumetric flow rates of N2 in the microchannel were measured at inlet pressures up to 578 psig. The discrepancy between the data and theory results from the flow acceleration in a channel, the non-parabolic velocity profile, and the bulging of the channel. Bulging effects were evaluated by using incompressible water flow measurements, which also measures 1.045x10^-3N-s/m^2 for the viscosity of DI water. The temperature data from sensors on the channel shows the heating of the channel due to the friction generated by the high-pressure flow inside
The inferior caval vein draining into the left atrial cavity : a rare case
The inferior vena cava (IVC) draining into the left atrium (LA) is exceedingly rare in the setting of the usual atrial arrangement (situs solitus). This article describes a patient with this unique anomaly, and its repair.peer-reviewe
Micro heat exchanger by using MEMS impinging jets
A micro impinging-jet heat exchanger is presented here. Heat transfer is studied for single jet, slot arrays and jet arrays. In order to facilitate micro heat transfer measurements with these devices, a MEMS sensor chip, which has an 8 x 8 temperature-sensor array on one side, and an integrated heater on the other side has been designed and fabricated. This sensor chip allows 2-D surface temperature
measurement with various jets impinging on it. It is
found that micro impinging jets can be highly efficient when compared to existing macro impinging-jet microelectronics packages such as IBM 4381. For example, using a single nozzle jet (500-μm diameter driven by 5 psig pressure), the sensor chip (2 x 2 cm^2) temperature can be cooled down from 70 to 33°C. The cooling becomes more efficient when
nozzle arrays (4x5 over 1 cm^2 area) are used under
the same driving pressure. Interestingly, although
higher driving pressure gives better cooling (lower
surface temperature), the cooling efficiency, defined
as h/0.5pv^2, is actually higher for lower driving
pressure
K*{\Lambda}(1116) photoproduction and nucleon resonances
In this presentation, we report our recent studies on the
photoproduction off the proton target, using the tree-level Born approximation,
via the effective Lagrangian approach. In addition, we include the nine (three-
or four-star confirmed) nucleon resonances below the threshold
MeV, to interpret the discrepancy between the
experiment and previous theoretical studies, in the vicinity of the threshold
region. From the numerical studies, we observe that the and
play an important role for the cross-section enhancement near
the . It also turns out that, in order to reproduce the
data, we have the vector coupling constants
and
.Comment: 2 pages, 2 figures, talk given at International Conference on the
structure of baryons, BARYONS'10, Dec. 7-11, 2010, Osaka, Japa
Semimetalic graphene in a modulated electric potential
The -electronic structure of graphene in the presence of a modulated
electric potential is investigated by the tight-binding model. The low-energy
electronic properties are strongly affected by the period and field strength.
Such a field could modify the energy dispersions, destroy state degeneracy, and
induce band-edge states. It should be noted that a modulated electric potential
could make semiconducting graphene semimetallic, and that the onset period of
such a transition relies on the field strength. There exist infinite
Fermi-momentum states in sharply contrast with two crossing points (Dirac
points) for graphene without external fields. The finite density of states
(DOS) at the Fermi level means that there are free carriers, and, at the same
time, the low DOS spectrum exhibits many prominent peaks, mainly owing to the
band-edge states.Comment: 12pages, 5 figure
"Low-state" Black Hole Accretion in Nearby Galaxies
I summarize the main observational properties of low-luminosity AGNs in
nearby galaxies to argue that they are the high-mass analogs of black hole
X-ray binaries in the "low/hard" state. The principal characteristics of
low-state AGNs can be accommodated with a scenario in which the central engine
is comprised of three components: an optically thick, geometrically accretion
disk with a truncated inner radius, a radiatively inefficient flow, and a
compact jet.Comment: 8 pages. To appear in From X-ray Binaries to Quasars: Black Hole
Accretion on All Mass Scales, ed. T. J. Maccarone, R. P. Fender, and L. C. Ho
(Dordrecht: Kluwer
Two--Electron Atoms in Short Intense Laser Pulses
We discuss a method of solving the time dependent Schrodinger equation for
atoms with two active electrons in a strong laser field, which we used in a
previous paper [A. Scrinzi and B. Piraux, Phys. Rev. A 56, R13 (1997)] to
calculate ionization, double excitation and harmonic generation in Helium by
short laser pulses. The method employs complex scaling and an expansion in an
explicitly correlated basis. Convergence of the calculations is documented and
error estimates are provided. The results for Helium at peak intensities up to
10^15 W/cm^2 and wave length 248 nm are accurate to at least 10 %. Similarly
accurate calculations are presented for electron detachment and double
excitation of the negative hydrogen ion.Comment: 14 pages, including figure
Planar immersion lens with metasurfaces
The solid immersion lens is a powerful optical tool that allows light
entering material from air or vacuum to focus to a spot much smaller than the
free-space wavelength. Conventionally, however, they rely on semispherical
topographies and are non-planar and bulky, which limits their integration in
many applications. Recently, there has been considerable interest in using
planar structures, referred to as metasurfaces, to construct flat optical
components for manipulating light in unusual ways. Here, we propose and
demonstrate the concept of a planar immersion lens based on metasurfaces. The
resulting planar device, when placed near an interface between air and
dielectric material, can focus electromagnetic radiation incident from air to a
spot in material smaller than the free-space wavelength. As an experimental
demonstration, we fabricate an ultrathin and flexible microwave lens and
further show that it achieves wireless energy transfer in material mimicking
biological tissue
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