Sentences with phrase «at tunable»

This enabled the researchers to control the amount of heat that vanadium dioxide can dissipate by switching its phase from insulator to metal and vice versa, at tunable temperatures.

Not exact matches

The rover's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument that analyzes the soil and atmosphere around the rover using a mass spectrometer, a gas chromatograph and a tunable laser spectrometer to detect oxygen and carbon isotopes in carbon dioxide and methane samples to see if they are biochemical in origin.

«To do this,» explains Antonio Cabrera Lavers, head of astronomy at the GTC and one of the authors of the paper, «we have used for the first time the blue tunable filter of OSIRIS to take a deep image centred on the emission from the recombination lines of one of the oxygen ions in the planetary nebula 6778.»

Contributions to this have been made in images obtained by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and taken thanks to the tunable blue filter of the OSIRIS instrument on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Garafía, La Palma).

Collaborating with Mahesh Neupane, a computational physicist at Army Research Laboratories, and Dennis Nordlund, an X-ray spectroscopy expert at Stanford University's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Monti's team used a tunable, high - intensity X-ray source to excite individual electrons in their test samples and elevate them to very high energy levels.

The WGM biosensor, which Arnold named for the famous Whispering Gallery in the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, is a device the size of a small smartphone comprising a tunable laser guided down a specially treated fiber optic filament with a detector at the far end of the filament measuring the light's intensity and resonance.

From in situ measurements made over a 20 - month period by the Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS) of the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite on Curiosity at Gale Crater, we report detection of background levels of atmospheric methane of mean value 0.69 ± 0.25 ppbv at the 95 % confidence interval (CI).

Because «blinking» is precisely tunable, molecules that are only nanometers apart from each other can be distinguished — at the higher resolution end of super-resolution.

Therefore, the results achieved in this study have shown that nonlinear effects in graphene nano - mechanical resonators reveal a hybridization effect at high energies that, if controlled, could open up new possibilities to manipulate vibrational states, engineer hybrid states with mechanical modes at completely different frequencies, and to study the collective motion of highly tunable systems.

«Tunable infrared OPA light sources today cost around a $ 100,000 and take up a good bit of space on a tabletop or lab bench,» said study lead author Yu Zhang, a former Rice graduate student at LANP.

The question is — and it's a question at this point — can we learn from these novel biophotonic mechanisms that have evolved over millions of years of natural selection new approaches to making tunable and switchable photonic materials to more efficiently encode, transmit, and decode information via light?»

The approach, called tunable infrared laser direct absorption spectroscopy, detects the ratio of methane isotopes, which can provide a «fingerprint» to differentiate between two common origins: microbial, in which microorganisms, typically living in wetlands or the guts of animals, produce methane as a metabolic byproduct; or thermogenic, in which organic matter, buried deep within the Earth, decays to methane at high temperatures.

'' [Our work] demonstrates a new approach for efficient energy conversation from a dc electric field to coherent, high - power and electrically tunable terahertz emission by using hybrid semiconductors,» said Andrii Iurov, a researcher with a dual appointment at the University of New Mexico's Center for High Technology Materials and the City University of New York.

Inspired by natural cellular structures, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, and MIT have developed a new method to 3D print materials with independently tunable macro-and microscale porosity using a ceramic foam ink.

«Carbon metabolism drives «living» metal catalysts that frequently move around, split, or merge, resulting in a nanoparticle size distribution that's far from the ordinary, and highly tunable,» says Ju Li, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a corresponding author of the paper.

Recently developed, in - situ techniques for direct volume determination, acoustic wave velocity measurements, and x-ray diffraction at HPCAT, along with molecular dynamics simulations, were employed to explore the nature of the unusual and pressure - tunable, compression and elastic properties.

This result, together with the tunable and multifunctional properties of PNBs in vitro and in vivo [34,40,50] that support diagnosis, therapy and theranostics (diagnosis and treatment united in one procedure) at the cellular level and with single cell selectivity, justify the development of PNB theranostic technologies despite the general limitations mentioned above.

The samples were excited with a NdYAG - pumped wavelength - tunable dye laser (Sirah Laser, Kaarst, Germany) and imaged with a f# 1.2 50 mm lens (Nikkor, Japan) and a low - noise cooled 512 × 512 16 - bit CCD camera (VersArray, Princeton Instruments, Acton MA), using 10 nm FWHM band - pass interference filters (Chroma, Bellows Falls, VT) centered at 610, 670 and 710 nm.

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As for the aerodynamics, manipulated in part by the oversized and adjustable carbon - fiber rear wing as well as a tunable front splitter, at 211 mph the car benefits from about 750 pounds of total downforce.

Is a part of the tunable geometry and as such may well be less than mathematically perfect at any speed and transient.

High - performance aluminum - bodied gas - charged piggyback - reservoir shocks at all four corners are fully adjustable for spring preload, compression and rebound damping, to help provide maximum grip and a highly tunable ride

The tech - heads over at Logitech have been busy constructing a brand new gaming mouse named the G502 Proteus Core Tunable Gaming Mouse, which features the world's first 12,000 DPI sensor.

They can't even predict the next decade, much less ten decades; despite tuning they only poorly replicate the historical climate; their equations can't be shown to converge; the number of tunable parameters is far too large for comfort; they show absolutely no skill at regional scales; their results for things they are not tuned to replicate (e.g. rainfall) are abysmal — in short they are glorified Tinkertoy ™ models which have one common characteristic... they don't work well.

And clouds being much smaller than the spatial scale, they must be averaged to at least one grid size (which are still a couple of orders of magnitude larger), hence my «tunable average cloudiness parameter» statement.

It is a compact silicon plate which uses a tiny grid of tunable crystals to control the measures of magnitude, time delay or phase of the reflected light which shines at the surface of the chip from the laser.

The catch is that the C by GE bulbs are limited in their tenability; as noted, C - Sleep offers just three settings, and C - Life isn't tunable at all.

Among the tunable white smart bulbs, the LIFX White 800 is the brightest, peaking at over 1,320 lux from the top and 620 from the side.

Both the tunable and white - only bulbs operate at a solid 800 lumens while drawing 11 watts of power, work without a hub, and can be controlled with voice commands via Amazon's Alexa digital assistant.

Looking at the bulbs individually, the Eufy Lumos Tunable White Smart Bulb offers a solid range of color temperatures, from 2700K to 6500K, and it's easy to pick a temperature and set brightness without delving into sub-menus.

Available in tunable - or fixed - white models, these smart bulbs deliver quality lighting at low prices.