Sentences with phrase «electrodes which»

On the bottom, the sticker is equipped with two electrodes which are connected to a charging port of a device.

Above microcapsules are situated top transporant electrodes which are attached to the top protecting plate of the screen.

This thermal expansion causes cracks in the electrodes which ultimately reduces the cell's ability to hold a charge.

In most cases, what you get for your money is a box with three or four 9 volt batteries connected in series with a switch to turn it on, a light bulb in the circuit which will light up if the terminals are accidentally touched together (it acts as a fuse which won't blow in case of a short circuit), a couple of leads with clips and two silver electrodes which in most cases are small gauge silver wires.

This is done by means of electrodes which are mounted inside the Petri dish or the wells of a so - called well plate.

The process for making LCDs, called lithography, is akin to printing in that layers of semiconductor, metal and insulator are laid down on top of each other to form the electrodes which switch the pixels on and off.

Building on the newly - published pilot study, the team will conduct experiments using a windtunnel which measures the behaviour of mosquitoes towards odours and electrodes which track the response of individual odour - detecting cells from within the antenna of the mosquito in specially - designed secure laboratories at the School to measure the responses of malaria - infected Anopheles gambiae s.s. females to human odours.

If you could post a picture of the aftermath of one of the sparkplugs, it would probably help (maybe a couple of shots of it so we can see the electrode which was melted, as well as the parts which were still in the head).

Not exact matches

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin and UCLA conducted the study, which implanted electrodes deep into the craniums of epilepsy patients to monitor their brain activity during seizures.

Tiny electrodes around the display recognize the difference between a tap and a press, which provides instant access to a wide set of contextually specific controls.

St. Jude's Quadra defibrillator, which uses four electrodes, was the first product of its kind on the market.

But most notably, there's NeuroSky in San Jose, which has developed a single - electrode game - control headband.

Halo Sport uses electrodes to stimulate the brain's motor cortex, which controls planning and voluntary movements.

Basically, they place the acupuncture needles in specific places on your body (ankles, lower back, hands, etc.) and attach electrodes to the needles which transmit a low electrical current to stimulate the acupoints.

The cooling cap, which is built with EEG electrodes on the inside, simply fits over the infant's head.

Inserting electrodes into the brains of two macaques, Tsao worked out which aspects of a face were mapped onto each neuron.

The technology behind the electrically powered plasma thruster can deliver large thrust density without the need to expose electrodes to plasma, which cuts down on damage from erosion over time.

Some people's electrodes were in the entorhinal cortex's gray matter, and some were in its white matter fibers, which extend to the hippocampus, an area known for its role in memory.

The device is an improved version of a clinical tool called an electrode grid, which is a plastic or silicone - based grid of electrodes that is placed directly on the surface of the brain during surgery to monitor the activity of large groups of neurons.

With a large number of electrode channels distributed across the scalp, this method also detects which brain regions show more slow - wave activity than others.

It may also be possible to vary the voltage applied to the electrodes, putting the energetic squeeze on cells to the point at which they are just doing the absolute minimum to stay alive.

Scalp electrodes recorded activity in the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in memory (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.1005061107).

Implanted electrodes that sit next to neurons have in the past detected these signals, which are thought to help the brain build maps of the environment.

EEG is less invasive and less expensive than the implanted electrodes, which have previously been used to control robotic arms and computer cursors by thought alone, he says.

A metal electrode is then deposited onto each waveguide, which can produce surface acoustic waves.

«This means that one can control at will in which electrode the heat is released by simply using the proper molecule.»

Neurosurgeons use electrode grids to identify which areas of the brain are diseased in order to avoid damaging or removing healthy, functional tissue during operations.

Electrodes stuck onto his skin picked up the signals and relayed them to sensors on the prosthesis (above), which interpreted how he wanted to move.

It is done using electrodes placed in the brain, which recognise specific patterns of electric activity that occur when a person thinks about moving.

The key ingredient that makes the batteries rechargeable is a molecule called bismuth oxide which, when mixed into the batteries» zinc electrodes, prolongs the life of devices and allows them to recharge.

Lionel Velly, an anesthesiologist at Mediterranean University in Marseille, France, ran an experiment in which he used the electrodes in the other direction, to record electrical activity in the brain.

Last spring Deisseroth's group published an optogenetics study that helped to elucidate the workings of deep - brain stimulation, which uses electrodes implanted deep in the brain to alleviate the abnormal movements of Parkinson's disease.

The new device would use the same type of sensor, but the signal it generates would travel to a microchip implanted in the ear, which would convert it to an electrical signal and pass it on to an electrode in the cochlea.

Scalp electrodes recorded activity in the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in memory.

Most anesthesiologists monitor their patients using a machine known as a bispectral index monitor, which reads brain waves from electrodes on a patient's scalp and produces a score from 100 to 0.

Until now, there has been no analytical technique available that can directly determine the maximum charging rate, which is a function of the state of charge, temperature, electrode geometry, and other factors, before lithium metal plating starts.

When the microbes found in the soildigest organic materials, they naturally produce a small current, which can beharnessed with a simple device consisting of two electrodes and a small circuitboard.

280 °C, which is a trait that is highly desired for an electrode material, but rather unusual for hybrid organic?inorganic thin films.

Unlike traditional supercapacitors, which use the same material for both electrodes, the anode and cathode in an asymmetric supercapacitor are made up of different materials.

As batteries are used and charged, the electrochemical reaction results in the movement of ions between the two electrodes of a battery, which is the essence of an electrical current.

Metal nitrides such as titanium nitride, which offer both high conductivity and capacitance, are a promising alternative, but they tend to oxidize in watery environments that limits their lifetime as an electrode.

The two electrodes were then separated in the asymmetric supercapacitor by a solid - state electrolyte, which prevented the oxidization of the metal nitrides.

The stimulation volume (red), i.e. the area of the brain immediately adjacent to the electrode, which becomes «activated» when stimulation occurs.

Specifically, they have been looking at which brain regions need to be connected to the electrode used for deep brain stimulation.

Together with researchers from Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) Pontedera, Università degli Studi in Milan and Scuola Superiore Sant» Anna in Pisa, Francesco Greco from the Institute of Solid State Physics at TU Graz presents a novel method in Advanced Science which raises the transmission of electrical impulses from human to machine to the next level using printed tattoo electrodes.

«Using a new layer - by - layer fabrication process, we created a microfluidic environment in which TEER - measuring electrodes are integral components of the chip architecture and are positioned as close as possible to the tissues grown in one or both of two parallel running channels,» said Olivier Henry, Ph.D., a Wyss Institute Staff Engineer who was the driving force behind the new Organ Chip designs.

Electrodes of different sizes and arrangements could also be produced using the printer and individually adapted to the respective body part on which the measurement is to be carried out.

Another challenge, adds David Tew, a program manager at DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy in Washington, D.C., is that the all - ceramic electrodes and electrolyte are extremely brittle, which could make them less durable for use in real - world conditions.

«By selecting electrodes above a qubit, we can control a qubit's spin, which stores the quantum binary code of a 0 or 1.

Symptoms such as movement restrictions, muscle rigidity, or tremor can be alleviated using the neurosurgical procedure which places small electrodes into deep structures of the brain.