Sentences with phrase «of silica glass»

By adding a specially patterned layer of silica glass to the surface of ordinary solar cells, a team of researchers led by Shanhui Fan, an electrical engineering professor at Stanford University in California has found a way to let solar cells cool themselves by shepherding away unwanted thermal radiation.

In the experiment at SLAC, researchers used lasers to create a shock wave in samples of silica glass.

This was made of silica glass and powered by a commercial laser beam, at the SLAC laboratory in the USA.

Not exact matches

Glass is made of silica sand and therefore it is a natural material.

The diffraction patterns of both silica and germania glasses are consistent with a structure in which nearly all of the atoms belong to tridymite - like regions of up to about 20 angstroms or more that are bonded efficiently together in a manner analogous to that found in twinned crystals.

And why should we separate the study of amorphous cast sugar and silica glass?

Faccio and his colleagues created the event horizons in a two - centimeter - long section of fused silica glass, a medium in which intense laser pulses can locally perturb the refractive index, or speed of light passing through the material.

Yu and colleagues melted silica glass to form a sphere with a diameter of 182 micrometers.

By contrast, the shell of the diatom Cyclotella pseudostelligera is silica, the material that makes up sand, glass, and quartz.

Rubner used nanoparticles made of silica, the same material glass is made of, to create a coating with a rough surface.

To do so, the team dried a silica - based gel on glass slides, creating layers of 20 - nanometre silica particles.

Alternating layers of polymer and nanoparticles of silica (which have hydroxyl groups bound to their surface) form a superhydrophilic coating that can be applied to glass and other materials.

Han and postdoctoral researcher Guigen Liu achieved the results by attaching a small silicon pillar to the tip of the fused silica glass typically used in fiber optics.

Using data from the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, we show that four regions of the Moon previously described as «red spots» exhibit mid-infrared spectra best explained by quartz, silica - rich glass, or alkali feldspar.

Researchers precisely measured the rapid transformation of a fused silica glass into stishovite using SLAC's X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source.

«Opaline silica is basically like glass,» explains Moser, a geography professor at Western's Faculty of Social Science.

Researchers developed a hollow optomechanical device made of fused silica glass, through which fluids and gases could flow.

Diatom cell walls are made of silica, a component of glass.

Soon after the month - long Corcoran Gallery solo exhibition, Jane Frank began to apply not just spackle but a variety of other materials - sea - weathered or broken glass, charred driftwood, pebbles, what appears to be crushed graphite or silica, and even glued - on patches of separately painted and encrusted canvas (canvas collage)- to her jagged, abstract expressionist paintings.

Glass is a mysterious and alchemical material that combines all of the elements: wind, water, air, earth (silica).

We use many different types of glass in the UK, but at home we mostly use «soda - lime - silica» glass for containers like bottles and jars.

One patent is for a technique that fuses two different cuts of sapphire together, while the other technique fuses sapphire to glass made of quartz or silica.