Sentences with phrase «electrical properties in»

In addition, surface geophysical techniques are used to map soil electrical properties in 3 - D, which greatly controls soil microbial activities.

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Like an electrical switch designed to automatically prevent a power overload, a circuit breaker tax credit is supposed to kick in when homeowners» property tax burdens overload their ability to pay.

NAN reports that several households, property and electrical polls were destroyed in the state capital.

The properties are two houses situated at East Legon and Pease at Kuntunse in the Ashanti Region, an electrical shop known as Night Angels Enterprise, located at Dzorwulu, and six Fidelity Bank accounts with total cash of approximately GH cents 23,000.

Klein provided $ 250,000 in state capital to modernize and upgrade the facility, including improvements to the electrical and cooling systems, greening the property, new fencing, exterior lighting and more.

In other planning board business, board members agreed to propose to the town board that the town waive usually - required parking fees for the Bradley Meadows complex, where Sunflower is currently undergoing expansion, due the property owner's commitment of between $ 15,000 and $ 18,000 to put in rapid charging stations for electrical vehicleIn other planning board business, board members agreed to propose to the town board that the town waive usually - required parking fees for the Bradley Meadows complex, where Sunflower is currently undergoing expansion, due the property owner's commitment of between $ 15,000 and $ 18,000 to put in rapid charging stations for electrical vehiclein rapid charging stations for electrical vehicles.

When driven with electrical current, electrons and positively charged holes become confined in the dots and recombine to emit light — a property that can be exploited to make lasers.

«Cryptographers are coming up with curves with different properties, and they use different primes,» says Utsav Banerjee, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and first author on the paper.

So far, researchers with the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle have described the intricate shapes and electrical properties...

So far, researchers with the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle have described the intricate shapes and electrical properties of about 100 nerve cells, or neurons, taken from the brains of 36 patients as they underwent surgery for conditions such as brain tumors or epilepsy.

Graphene is a two - dimensional (2D) one - atom - thick sheet of carbon crystals that has many extraordinary properties in terms of its strength, electrical and thermal conductivity, and optical transparency.

Now, a pair of scientists based in France and Switzerland have discovered another odd fullerene property: They change the amount of electrical current they conduct when they are squeezed.

Superconductivity is at the heart of intensive research in physics, in particular because of its remarkable electronic properties, such as the absence of electrical resistance.

And in related experiments, he made tadpoles grow eyes on their stomachs by changing the electrical properties of cells to mimic those associated with eye formation.

Since graphene was experimentally discovered in 2004, it has been the focus of vigorous applied research due to its outstanding properties such as high specific surface area, good thermal and electrical conductivities, and many more properties.

For several years, a team of researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas has investigated various materials in search of those whose electrical properties might make them suitable for small, energy - efficient transistors to power next - generation electronic devices.

In fall 1977, Vilenkin took a postdoctoral position at Case Western Reserve, where he was supposed to study the electrical properties of heated metals.

Pendry knew he was in uncharted territory, but at first he didn't comprehend the magnitude of his idea: By combining the electrical properties of Marconi's radar - absorbing material with the magnetism imparted by the copper wire, he had unknowingly figured out how to manipulate electromagnetic radiation, including visible light — making wild applications like Harry Potter's invisibility cloak suddenly within reach.

His group has found that they can tune these hydrogels to have the chemical, biological, mechanical and electrical properties they want for the regeneration of various tissues in the body.

«This provides another handle on how material properties can be tuned or controlled for practical applications in devices based on electrical and magnetic properties.»

«So manipulating the reaction conditions for this deprotection step, and monitoring closely the resultant chemical functionalities, is critical in tuning the electrical properties of radical polymers,» Boudouris said.

Published in ACS Nano, a journal of the American Chemical Society, the study coupled atomic - scale characterization and electrical property measurements with theory - based simulation.

This year it is held in Sweden with focus on electronic applications of the two - dimensional material with the extraordinary electrical, optical, mechanical and thermal properties that make it a more efficient choice than silicon in electronic applications.

In his search for solar cells, dubbed the Clean Energy Project, Aspuru - Guzik is screening molecules for a host of properties involved in converting sunlight into electrical energIn his search for solar cells, dubbed the Clean Energy Project, Aspuru - Guzik is screening molecules for a host of properties involved in converting sunlight into electrical energin converting sunlight into electrical energy.

«Working in optoelectronics, we always need to find a compromise between optical and electrical properties, whereas in plasmonics it is almost impossible, since the choice of metals is limited to three or four materials.

Markram's laboratory has characterized the electrical properties of many neocortical neuron types through experiments in vitro, and constructed a model for each.

The material that Wang and his team created restores all properties needed for use as a dielectric in wearable electronics — mechanical strength, breakdown strength to protect against surges, electrical resistivity, thermal conductivity and dielectric, or insulating, properties.

In the last decade, graphene has been intensively studied for its unique optical, mechanical, electrical and structural properties.

This results in specific properties of the material, for example an increase in electrical resistance.

Carol Finn of the USGS branch in Denver, Colorado, studied the electrical and magnetic properties of the volcano by hovering 50 meters above its slopes in a helicopter bearing remote - sensing tools.

«It is important to understand the fundamental processes involved in the molecular electrical doping of organic semiconductors more precisely,» explains Salzmann, continuing: «If we want to successfully employ these kinds of materials in applications, we need to be able to control their electronic properties just as precisely as we customarily do today with inorganic semiconductors.»

Rogers, who worked with colleagues at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and Dalian University of Technology in China, says gloves fitted with the nanomembrane could sense the thickness or composition of tissue via its electrical properties.

The technique could facilitate the use of nanoparticles for optical, electrical, optoelectronic, magnetic, catalysis and other applications in which tight control over size and structure is essential to obtaining desirable properties.

In the context of an international cooperation project, physicists at the Technische Universität München (TUM) have now observed the creation of razor thin polymer electrodes during the printing process and successfully improved the electrical properties of the printed films.

With their current work, the MIT researchers have enabled the control of the phase and electrical properties of this class of materials in a practical way, by applying an electrical charge.

The technology patented by the UJI combines graphene and organometallic compounds in a single material without altering the most interesting properties of graphene, such as its electrical conductivity.

«Tuning the optical properties of metamaterials is a significant challenge, and our study achieves one of the highest tunability ranges achieved to date in optical metamaterials,» said Aydin, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at McCormick.

Spintronics exploits the intrinsic spins of electrons and their resulting magnetic properties in material, as well as the electrons electrical charge, to store and process information.

But a new study suggests that in the days and weeks that lead up to a brain forming in an embryo or fetus, altering the electrical properties of these cells can dramatically change how the ensuing brain develops.

Graphene, a single atomic layer of carbon, is the strongest material known to man, and also has electrical properties superior to the silicon used to make the chips found in modern electronics.

A new study from the Cava lab has revealed a unifying connection between seemingly unrelated materials that exhibit extreme magnetoresistance, the ability of some materials to drastically change their electrical resistance in response to a magnetic field, a property that could be useful in magnetic memory applications.

The new study «shows that this rather exotic physical property can emerge in something as familiar as sound propagation,» says Steven Cummer, an electrical engineer at Duke University who was not involved in the work.

A team of Columbia Engineering researchers, led by Mechanical Engineering Professor James Hone and Electrical Engineering Professor Kenneth Shepard, has taken advantage of graphene's special properties — its mechanical strength and electrical conduction — and created a nano - mechanical system that can create FM signals, in effect the world's smallest FM radio trElectrical Engineering Professor Kenneth Shepard, has taken advantage of graphene's special properties — its mechanical strength and electrical conduction — and created a nano - mechanical system that can create FM signals, in effect the world's smallest FM radio trelectrical conduction — and created a nano - mechanical system that can create FM signals, in effect the world's smallest FM radio transmitter.

The researchers also found that in nerve cells that detect short sounds, that ability is amplified by electrical properties of the nerve cell membrane's ion channels, which allow the entry and exit of charged chemicals.

«When a charged particle sits on the surface of a material, the material undergoes a small change in its electrical property,» says Kar.

Electrical, thermal and mechanical properties are controlled by how the grains in a material are connected to each other.

The team used the key properties of zinc oxide, a material that when squashed or stretched creates a voltage by converting energy from motion into electrical energy, in the form of nanorods.

Using mouse and human - derived dopamine neurons, researchers found that dopamine movement is affected by changes in electrical properties of the neurons.

Their small size gives them unique optical, electrical, and chemical properties, raising concerns that they might have unforeseen effects in the body.

The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of graphene, an atomically - thin, two - dimensional carbon lattice with extraordinary electrical, thermal and mechanical properties.