Spatially masked optical Kerr effect (SM-OKE) spectroscopy is a nonresonant femtosecond pump–probe technique capable of measuring isotropic contributions to the transient birefringence of molecular ...

Understanding how light travels through various materials is essential for many fields, from medical imaging to manufacturing. However, due to their structure, materials often show directional ...

Convergence of a subsequence of approximate solutions arising from a full discretization is shown for a general class of quasi-linear parabolic problems. The numerical method combines the backward ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We present a new approach for predicting stable equilibrium shapes of two-dimensional crystalline islands on flat substrates, as commonly ...

After years in R&D, several fab tool vendors last year finally began to ship systems based a next-generation technology called atomic layer etch (ALE). ALE is is moving into 16/14nm, but it will play ...

Isotropic nanoparticles are nanoscale particles that exhibit uniform physical properties in all directions. Unlike anisotropic nanoparticles, which have direction-dependent properties, isotropic ...

In the development of chiral materials, electron microscopy, polarimeters, or other spectroscopic methods are commonly used to analyze and discuss the chirality or asymmetry of materials. With the ...

There's a very simple way of describing AF which websites trying to describe it seemingly avoid deliberately.<br><br>This is what I present below. Yes, it is somewhat simplified. Yes, it could ...

Engineers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have created a new shape-changing or "morphing" 3D printing nozzle that was featured as a Frontispiece in the January 5th issue of the journal Advanced ...