MIT, Harvard, and the surrounding areas lost power from 4:26 to 6:37 p.m. yesterday. The outage threw the Institute into darkness — classes were canceled, MBTA service was delayed, and police were dispatched to direct traffic. Emergency power remained on in dormitories and around campus. The problem is thought to be related to a transmission line in the area, said Michael Durand, NStar spokesma...

We report that Müller cells contain bundles of long specialized intermediate filaments, each about 10 nm in diameter; most likely, these filaments are the channels providing light transmission to photoreceptor cells in mammalian and avian retinas. We interpret transmission of light in such channels using the notions of quantum confinement, describing energy transport in structures with electro-...

We observed that when subwavelength-sized holes in an optically opaque metal film are completely covered by opaque metal disks larger than the holes, the light transmission through the holes is not reduced, but rather enhanced. Particularly we report (i) the observation of light transmission through the holes blocked by the metal disks up to 70% larger than the unblocked holes; (ii) the observa...

PURPOSE We evaluated the roles of luminance and fixation in the pathophysiology of dissociated vertical divergence (DVD). METHODS Vertical eye position was measured in 6 subjects with DVD (ages 11-47 years, 5 females) and 6 controls (ages 16-40 years, 5 females) using video-oculography (VOG) under conditions of change in fixation and luminance. RESULTS Subjects with DVD showed the following...

The effect of silicon concentration and annealing temperature on terbium luminescence was investigated for thin silicon rich silicon oxide films. The structures were deposited by means of plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. The structural properties of these films were investigated by Rutherford backscattering spectrometry, transmission electron microscopy and Raman scattering. The optic...

Nanostructured PbSnO(3) photocatalysts with particulate and tubular morphologies have been synthesized from a simple hydrothermal process. As-prepared samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction, Brunauer-Emmet-Teller surface area, transmission electron microscopy, and diffraction spectroscopy. The photoactivities of the PbSnO(3) nanostructures for isopropanol (IPA) degradation under visibl...

Artificial and engineered nanostructures expand the degrees of freedom with which one can manipulate the intricate interplay of light and matter. Certain nanostructural arrangements in the excited state enable the efficient electromagnetic coupling of propagating light with localized fields. Here, we demonstrate that light transmitted through a nanostructured metal thin film without any apertur...

Nonlinear optical transmission through periodically nanostructured metal films (surface-plasmon polaritonic crystals) has been studied. The surface polaritonic crystals have been coated with a nonlinear polymer. The optical transmission of such nanostructures has been shown to depend on the control-light illumination conditions. The resonant transmission exhibits bistable behavior with the cont...

The effects of chloroplast number and size on the capacity for blue light-dependent chloroplast movement, the ability to increase light absorption under low light, and the susceptibility to photoinhibition were investigated in Arabidopsis thaliana. Leaves of wild-type and chloroplast number mutants with mean chloroplast numbers ranging from 120 to two per mesophyll cell were analysed. Chloropla...

Transmitting power at high voltage and in DC form instead of AC is a new technology proven to be economic and simple in operation which is HVDC transmission. The HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current) technology is used to transmit electricity over long distances by overhead transmission lines or submarine cables. It is also used to interconnect separate power systems. A further development in this...