Sentences with phrase «apply voltage»

To clear the display you need only apply a voltage.

If radiation causes a charge to build up within the spacecraft, interfering with operations, the craft will apply a voltage to an electronic gate.

If you then apply a voltage and measure current, you can work out the charge from the capacitance reading given off.

«Switchable glass available today is quite expensive because it uses transparent conducting layers to apply a voltage across the entire glass,» said Paul W. Leu of the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering, leader of the research team.

The electrodes apply a voltage that ramps from high to low, so the electrons will arrive at different times and land at different vertical positions.

Those electrodes apply a voltage that sets the electrons in motion.

As for those you referened as being more believeable than God, I will wait for their analysis of what it means to have multi million degree braided magnetic loops on the sun, and all the applied voltages... oh what does that mean anyway... I wonder... what comes next.

My recollection is that fusion occurs at 10 - 14 million degrees, and much lower with applied voltages... Interesting times we live in.

They injected the cells into each channel and simply applied voltage to drive the cells downstream.

The phenomenon that makes this work is called dielectrophoresis, which involves an applied voltage that exerts force upon the bacteria.

As the satellite traces out a 1.5 - hour - long orbit, a characteristic rise and fall in the difference between the two applied voltages would indicate that one of the cylinders is falling slightly faster than the other — and signal a violation of the equivalence principle.

By applying a voltage across a carbon nanotube — a rolled - up sheet of carbon atoms — the team can generate a powerful electric field.

«Applying voltage to EGaIn forms a thin layer of oxide on the surface of the metal, which effectively lowers the surface tension,» Dickey says.

Applying a voltage to the base permits the flow of current from emitter to collector.

They then applied a voltage across it and designed a circuit that could tell precisely where the surface is being touched.

They are charged by applying a voltage to two electrodes suspended in a solution so that positive ions head to one electrode and negative ions to the other.

The gate is opened or closed by applying a voltage.

«In fact,» Prof. Lugli explains, «the electrical resistivity of such films can be modulated by either an applied voltage (to provide a transistor action) or by the adsorption of gas molecules, which in turn is a signature of the gas concentration for sensor applications.»

Although glass that uses an applied voltage to switch from clear to an opaque or tinted state is commercially available, its high cost — around $ 100 per square foot — has hindered widespread use.

The higher the applied voltage and temperature, the faster the electrolytic fluid decomposes.

In the gap between the gratings, the researchers trigger a wave by applying a voltage to a comb - shaped device called a transducer, which causes the material to contract.

Instead of transmitting electric current without any loss of power, as superconductors do, superinsulators completely shut off the flow of charges under an applied voltage.

Just as in a real neuron, when the applied voltage reaches a certain level, the capacitor becomes conductive, firing a «nerve signal».

They found that when two short voltages were applied to the device in a short space of time, the second voltage was able to trigger a larger current in the IZO channel compared to the first applied voltage, as if it had «remembered» the response from the first voltage.

They then attached leads to the coils» opposite ends and applied a voltage, generating heat.

«These devices can be used not only to record signals but to apply voltages back to the nerve cell,» Lieber says.

At the same time, the researchers succeeded in switching this Kondo effect on and off via the applied voltage.

«In addition, we can precisely control how many molecules bind to the graphene by adjusting an applied voltage,» explains Dr. Jörg Rappich from the HZB Institute for Silicon Photovoltaics, Rösicke's advisor.

Information is written by applying a voltage to the electrodes next to the ultra-thin ferroelectric, and it is read by measuring the tunnelling current.

In that setup, applying a voltage drives oxygen atoms into the material.

The team filled the central chamber of their cell with brackish water containing 5 grams of sodium chloride per litre, as might be found in an estuary, and applied a voltage of 0.55 volts to the setup.

When the researchers applied a voltage to the setup, the valley walls tilted like a seesaw.

The researchers will also continue to work on developing alternative ways to trigger the reverse transition, such as by applying voltage, or engineering the source of the moisture.

Conversely, biasing a semiconductor — that is, applying a voltage to it — to induce current to flow can generate light, a phenomenon called electroluminescence.

But applying a voltage via a wire (4) to the p - type region quickly stops it from blocking the flow.

We show a shift of around 10 nm for an applied voltage of 10 V.

These studies will provide significant insights into nanoscale catalysts, sensors and electrochromic applications such as smart glass where light or heat transmission properties of the glass are changed by applying voltage.

The wearable system consists of plasticized polyvinyl chloride (PVC) gel, mesh electrodes, and applied voltage.

The team used a catalyst made of carbon, copper and nitrogen and applied voltage to trigger a complicated chemical reaction that essentially reverses the combustion process.

After «picking up» one atom, he could release it back to the surface in another location, by applying a voltage pulse.

Dielectrophoresis (DEP) is a scalable technique to electronically trap and manipulate biological cells, biomolecules and nanoparticles using electric field gradients that can be generated by applying a voltage bias between two electrodes.

A bimorph is an assembly of two materials — in this case, graphene and glass — that bends when driven by a stimulus like heat, a chemical reaction or an applied voltage.

In certain materials, piezoelectrics, which expand or contract when applying a voltage, SAWs can be generated through oscillating electric fields.

An artificial muscle bundle measuring just 0.4 mm across was able to lift a half - gallon of water by 1.4 in (3.6 cm), with an applied voltage of only 0.172 volts per cm.

When a coil applies a voltage, the particles align perpendicular to the direction of flow of the oil, impeding its flow through the channels in the pistons.

By applying a voltage, the wetting properties of a hydrophobic surface can be modified and the surface becomes increasingly hydrophilic (wettable).

With Electrowetting displays, the modification of the surface tension is used to obtain a simple optical switch by contracting a colored oil film through applying a voltage.

Specifically, the pattern of applying voltage was optimized to «reduce waste,» Bridgestone said.

The matrix is initialized and refreshed by applying voltage to all conductors of the array of FETs simultaneously, thus using the plate having the FETs as one of the two electrodes for impressing an electric field over the gyricon medium.

After growing the polymer on the plasmonic metasurfaces, the reflection of the metasurfaces can be modulated by the applied voltage.