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Nanocrystalline Cerium Oxide coated fiber optic gas sensor
Nanocrystalline Cerium Oxide coated fiber optic gas sensor - January 2014 B Renganathan, D Sastikumar, R Srinivasan… - Current Applied Physics 2014 A clad modified fiber optic sensor with nanocrystalline CeO2 is proposed for gas detection. As-prepared and annealed...
PHOTOCALYTIC DEDRADATION OF MALIC ACID UNDER THIN COATED TiO2
PHOTOCALYTIC DEDRADATION OF MALIC ACID UNDER THIN COATED TiO2 - January 2014 V Rodgher –Graduate Thesis ,The University of Western Ontario, 2012. Opaque fluids have a limited irradiation transmission. Thus, their decontamination employing near UV irradiation poses...
Initial high-temperature schedule to reduce drying time and control kiln brown stain in ponderosa pine shop lumber | StellarNet.us
Initial high-temperature schedule to reduce drying time and control kiln brown stain in ponderosa pine shop lumber The surface color and lightness of rough green and dry fleshly planed boards were determined using a StellarNet Spectrometers.
Development of high sensitivity ethanol gas sensor based on Co-doped SnO2 nanoparticles by microwave irradiation technique
Development of high sensitivity ethanol gas sensor based on Co-doped SnO2 nanoparticles by microwave irradiation technique - June 2013 M Parthibavarman, B Renganathan, D Sastikumar - Current Applied Physics, 2013 We have successfully synthesized Co doped SnO2...
Phosphor thermometry: On the synthesis and characterisation of Y3Al5O12:Eu (YAG:Eu) and YAlO3:Eu (YAP:EU)
Phosphor thermometry: On the synthesis and characterisation of Y3Al5O12:Eu (YAG:Eu) and YAlO3:Eu (YAP:Eu) - May 2013 T Kissel, J Brübach, M Euler, et al. - Materials Chemistry and Physics, 2013 With regard to phosphor thermometry, the materials Y3Al5O12:Eu (YAG:Eu)...
Collimated blue light generation in rubidium vapor
Collimated blue light generation in rubidium vapor - June 2013 MB Kienlen, NT Holte, HA Dassonville, et al,.- American Journal of Physics, Vol 81 (6), pp 442, 2013. We describe an experiment for generating and characterizing a beam of collimated blue light (CBL) in a...
A Moderate to High Red to Far-red Light Ratio from Light-emitting Diodes Controls Flowering of Short-day Plants
A Moderate to High Red to Far-red Light Ratio from Light-emitting Diodes Controls Flowering of Short-day Plants - May 2013 DS Craig, ES Runkle - Journal of the American Society for Horticultural, Vol 138(3), pp 167-172, 2013 In protected cultivation of short-day (SD)...
A microfabricated, low dark current a-Se detector for measurement of microplasma optical emission in the UV for possible use on-site
A microfabricated, low dark current a-Se detector for measurement of microplasma optical emission in the UV for possible use on-site - May 2013 S Abbaszadeh, KS Karim, V Karanassios - Proc. SPIE 8726, Next-Generation Spectroscopic Technologies VI, 87260S, 2013...
Single-pixel polarimetric imaging spectrometer by compressive sensing
Single-pixel polarimetric imaging spectrometer by compressive sensing - May 2013 F Soldevila, E Irles, V Durán, et al.,- Applied Physics B We present an optical system that performs polarimetric spectral imaging with a detector with no spatial resolution. This fact is...
Combustion of fine aluminum and magnesium powders in water
Combustion of fine aluminum and magnesium powders in water - May 2013 A Corcoran, S Mercati, H Nie, et al.,- Combustion and Flame, 2013 Micron-sized metal powders carried by a nitrogen flow were fed along the axis of a cylindrical hydrogen/oxygen diffusion flame. The...
Bessel-beam-written nanoslit arrays and characterization of their optical response
Bessel-beam-written nanoslit arrays and characterization of their optical response - May 2013 R Sahin, Y Morova, E Simsek, S Akturk - Applied Physics Letters, Vol 102(19), 2013. Nanoslit arrays are fabricated on thin metal film coated glass slides using femtosecond...
Study of As50 Se50 Thin Film Dissolution Kinetics in Amine based Solutions
Study of As50 Se50 Thin Film Dissolution Kinetics in Amine based Solutions - May 2013 K Pálka, M Vlček, A Kovalskiy - Physics Procedia, Vol 44, pp114-119, 2013. Chalcogenide glass thin films are suitable materials for micro optical elements fabrication due to their...
Infrared-Reflective Coatings
Infrared-Reflective Coatings - April 2013 F Wen, DE Busch, RL Fricker, R Provins, BD Kiessling, DE Bell- US Patent 20,130,089,706, 2013 A composition includes polymer and dispersed infrared-reflective clusters of titanium dioxide primary particles. The titanium...
Singlet Oxygen Generation and Triplet Excited State Spectra of Brominated BODIPY
Singlet Oxygen Generation and Triplet Excited State Spectra of Brominated BODIPY- April 2013 XF Zhang, X Yang - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B The excited triplet-, singlet- and ground-state properties, as well as singlet oxygen generation capability of four...
In Situ Polymerization of Aqueous Solutions of NIPAAm Initiated by Atmospheric Plasma Treatment
In Situ Polymerization of Aqueous Solutions of NIPAAm Initiated by Atmospheric Plasma Treatment - April 2013 R Molina, C Ligero, P Jovančić, E Bertran - Plasma Processes and Polymers, 2013 In situ polymerization of aqueous solution of NIPAAm initiated by atmospheric...
Lethal and sub-lethal effects of UV-B radiation exposure on the collembolan Folsomia candida (Willem) in the laboratory
Lethal and sub-lethal effects of UV-B radiation exposure on the collembolan Folsomia candida (Willem) in the laboratory- December 2012 GW Beresford, G Selby, JC Moore - Pedobiologia, 2012 This study assessed the effects of UV-B irradiation on the physiology, life...
Quantified oxygen evolution at microelectrodes
Quantified oxygen evolution at microelectrodes- December 2012 KP Rataj, C Hammer, B Walther, MM Lohrengel - Electrochimica Acta, 2012 The anodic oxygen evolution on Cu, Co and Mo was investigated under potential control in flow-through micro cells by fluorescence...
Nitrogen and Copper doped solar light active TiO 2 photocatalysts for water decontamination
Nitrogen and Copper doped solar light active TiO 2 photocatalysts for water decontamination- February 2013 MB Fisher, DA Keane, P Fernández-Ibáñez, et al. - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Vol 130-131. A novel class of photocatalytic coating capable of degrading...
Development of a doped titania immobilised thin film multi tubular photoreactor
Development of a doped titania immobilised thin film multi tubular photoreactor- October 2012 M Adams, N Skillen, C McCullagh, PKJ Robertson - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental , 2012. This paper describes a novel doped titania immobilised thin film multi tubular...
Tuning the colour and efficiency in OLEDs by using amorphous or polycrystalline emitting layers
Measurement of UV from a Microplasma by a Microfabricated Amorphous Selenium Detector - January 2013 S Abbaszadeh, KS Karim, V Karanassios-IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol 60 (2), 2013 We spectrally demonstrate for the first time that an amorphous selenium...
Measurement of UV from a Microplasma by a Microfabricated Amorphous Selenium Detector Electronics Devices
Measurement of UV from a Microplasma by a Microfabricated Amorphous Selenium Detector Electronics Devices - January 2013 IEEE Transactions on Abbaszadeh, S. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada. We...
EARLY FLOWERING CHIA AND USES THEREOF
EARLY FLOWERING CHIA AND USES THEREOF - January 2013 D Hildebrand, W Jamboonsri, TD Phillips - US Patent 20,130,007,909, 2013 The invention relates to early flowering Chia (Salvia hispanica L.) strains that are suitable for culturing in a temperate area for seed...
Temperature‐dependent shade avoidance involves the receptor‐like kinase ERECTA
Temperature‐dependent shade avoidance involves the receptor‐like kinase ERECTA- December 2012 D Patel, M Basu, S Hayes, I Majláth, FM Hetherington, et al. - The Plant Journal, 2012 Plants detect the presence of neighbouring vegetation through monitoring changes in the...
Measurement of UV from a Microplasma by a Microfabricated Amorphous Selenium Detector
Measurement of UV from a Microplasma by a Microfabricated Amorphous Selenium Detector - January 2013 S Abbaszadeh, KS Karim, V Karanassios-IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol 60 (2), 2013 We spectrally demonstrate for the first time that an amorphous selenium...
Human Pigmentation Variation: Evolution, Genetic Basis, and Implications for Public Health | Application Archive StellarNet.us
Human Pigmentation Variation: Evolution, Genetic Basis, and Implications for Public Health Esteban J. Parra- Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto at Mississauga Pigmentation, which is primarily determined by the amount, the type, and the distribution of...
Fabrication and Characterization of Micro and Nano Scale SiC UV Photodetectors
Fabrication and Characterization of Micro and Nano Scale SiC UV Photodetectors - December 2012 L Östlund, Q Wang, W Kaplan, S Lourdudoss –Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm The focus of this master thesis work is on the fabrication of micro- and nano-scale metal...
A Solar Photobioreactor for the Production of Biohydrogen from Microalgae
A Solar Photobioreactor for the Production of Biohydrogen from Microalgae -December 2012 L Pantí, P Chávez, D Robledo, R Patiño-Solar Hydrogen and Nanotechnology II, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6650. The green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is proposed to produce hydrogen...
Characterization and antimicrobial efficacy against E. coli of a helium/air plasma at atmospheric pressure created in a plastic package
Characterization and antimicrobial efficacy against E. coli of a helium/air plasma at atmospheric pressure created in a plastic package- December 2012 J Connolly, et al. – Journal of Physics D: Appl. Phys. 46 (3), 2013. A plasma source, sustained by the application of...
Evaluation of the Mechanism of the Gold Cluster Growth during Heating of the Composite Gold-Polytetrafluoroethylene Thin Film
Evaluation of the Mechanism of the Gold Cluster Growth during Heating of the Composite Gold-Polytetrafluoroethylene Thin Film-November 2012 K Grytsenko, V Lozovski, G Strilchuk, S Schrader - Nanomaterials, 2012 Nanocomposite films consisting of gold inclusions in the...
Integrated Microwave Atmospheric Plasma Source (IMAPlaS): thermal and spectroscopic properties and antimicrobial effect on B. atrophaeus spores
Integrated Microwave Atmospheric Plasma Source (IMAPlaS): thermal and spectroscopic properties and antimicrobial effect on B. atrophaeus spores- November 2012 R Bussiahn, R Gesche, S Kühn, KD Weltmann - Plasma Sources Science and Technology, Vol 21(6), 2012. The...
Method and System for Combined Photocatalytic and Electrochemical Wastewater Remediation | StellarNet.us
Method and System for Combined Photocatalytic and Electrochemical Wastewater Remediation- November 2012 A Chen, RM Asmussen, M Tian - US Patent 20,120,279,872, 2012 The present invention utilizes the marriage of photocatalytic degradation and electrochemical oxidation...
Laser Activated Gold Nanorods for the Photothermal Treatment of Cancer
Laser Activated Gold Nanorods for the Photothermal Treatment of Cancer- November 2012 F Rossi, F Ratto, R Pini-Excerpt from COMSOL Conference in Milan, 2012 Photothermal therapy through Gold Nanorods (GNRs) is a new approach for the minimally invasive treatment of...
High-light-like photosynthetic responses of Cucumis sativus leaves acclimated to fluorescent illumination with a high red
High-light-like photosynthetic responses of Cucumis sativus leaves acclimated to fluorescent illumination with a high red: far-red ratio: interaction between light quality … -November 2012 T Shibuya, R Endo, N Hayashi, Y Kitaya – Photosynthetica This study evaluated...
Influence of deposition rate on PL spectrum and surface morphology of ZnO nano layers deposited on Si (100) substrate
Influence of deposition rate on PL spectrum and surface morphology of ZnO nano layers deposited on Si (100) substrate -November 2012 A Zendehnam, M Mirzaee, S Miri, Thin Film Laboratory, Dept of Physics. Arak University, 2012. Zinc oxide (ZnO) thin films were...
Line intensity and broadening in the In III spectrum
Line intensity and broadening in the In III spectrum - November 2012 M Skočić, M Burger, S Bukvić, S Djeniže - Journal of Physics B: At, Mol. & Opt. Phys., Vol 45 (22), 2012 Placement of thin indium (In) cylindrical plates at both ends of the narrow linear part of the...
Oblique color vision in an open-habitat bird: spectral sensitivity, photoreceptor distribution and behavioral implications
Oblique color vision in an open-habitat bird: spectral sensitivity, photoreceptor distribution and behavioral implications-October BA Moore, P Baumhardt, M Doppler, J Randolet, et, al. - The Journal of Experimental Biology 215, 3442-3452. Color vision is not uniform...
Radiation-enhanced evaporation of ethanol fuel containing suspended metal nanoparticles
Radiation-enhanced evaporation of ethanol fuel containing suspended metal nanoparticles -October 2012 Y Gan and L Qiao- International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2012 Although the enhanced thermal conductivity of nanofluids has attracted much attention, their...
Asymmetrical mate preference in recently adapted white sands and black lava populations of Sceloporus undulatus
Asymmetrical mate preference in recently adapted white sands and black lava populations of Sceloporus undulatus - October 2012 KM Hardwick, JM Robertson, & EB Rosenblum -Current Zoology 59 (1): 2013. Speciation can proceed rapidly when natural and sexual selection act...
Interaction of graphene with excited and ground state Rhodamine revealed by steady state and time resolved fluorescence
Interaction of graphene with excited and ground state Rhodamine revealed by steady state and time resolved fluorescence- October 2012 XF Zhang and F Li - Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, Volume 246 (p. 8-15), 2012. The fluorescence decay of...
Reaction Probability and Infrared Detection of the Primary Ozonide in Collisions of O3 with Surface-bound C60
Reaction Probability and Infrared Detection of the Primary Ozonide in Collisions of O3 with Surface-bound C60 - October 2012 ED Davis, A Wagner, M McEntee, M Kaur, D Troya and JR Morris - J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2012, 3, pp 3193–319. The kinetics and mechanism of...