The purpose of this communication is to comment on and discuss laser acceleration of electrons in vacuum. In particular, we will: (i) critique the recent paper by C.M. Haaland [ 11, titled “Laser electron acceleration in vacuum”, (ii) discuss some general features and characteristics of laser acceleration in vacuum and (iii) propose a vacuum laser acceleration concept called the “vacuum beat wa...

Octafilar helical antenna (OFHA) is proposed for handheld ultra‐high‐frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) reader. The investigated antenna configuration consists of OFHA placed on reader device in the presence of human hand model. The antenna is designed at UHF band centered at 915 MHz. The antenna return loss, axial ratio, gain, co‐polarized and cross...

The title coordination polymer, [Cu(C(2)H(4)NO(2))(2)](n), is two-dimensional and consists of a distorted octa-hedral copper coordination polyhedron with two bidentate glycine ligands chelating the metal through the O and N atoms in a trans-square-planar configuration. The two axial coordination sites are occupied by carbonyl O atoms of neighbouring glycine mol-ecules. The Cu-O distances for th...

A specialised hybrid controller is applied for the control of motorised space tether spin-up coupled with an axial oscillation phenomenon. A six degree of freedom dynamic model of a motorised momentum exchange tether is used as the basis for interplanetary payload exchange in the context of control. The tether comprises a symmetrical double payload configuration, with an outrigger counter inert...

Quantum fluctuations and stability of tetrahedral deformations in atomic nuclei. The possible existence of stable axial octupole and tetrahedral deformations is investigated in 80 Zr and 98 Zr. HFBCS calculations with parity projection have been performed for various parametrizations of the Skyrme energy functional. The correlation and ex-citation energies of negative parity states associated w...

We use molecular statics simulations with the embedded atom method potential to delineate yielding (material instability) and buckling (structural instability) in gold nanowires deformed axially in compression. It is found that both local (stacking faults) and global instabilities occur when the gold nanowire yields but only global instabilities occur when the nanowire buckles. Furthermore stro...

A multiple magnetic mirror array is formed at the Large Plasma Device LAPD W. Gekelman, H. Pfister, Z. Lucky, J. Bamber, D. Leneman, and J. Maggs, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 62, 2875 1991 to study axial periodicity-influenced Alfvén spectra. Shear Alfvén waves SAW are launched by antennas inserted in the LAPD plasma and diagnosed by B-dot probes at many axial locations. Alfvén wave spectral gaps and co...

In this research paper, a slotted coaxial line fed cross dipole excitation structure for short backfire antenna is proposed and developed to achieve reconfigurable circular polarization. The cross dipole, which is fed by the slotted coaxial line, consists of two orthogonal dipoles. The dipoles are mounted on the outer conductor of the coaxial line. A unique technique is developed to generate re...

We formulate the particle conjugation operation and its convenient realization as G– parity in the framework of several chiral soliton models. The Skyrme model, the Skyrme model with vector mesons and the chiral quark model are specifically treated. The vector and axial vector currents are classified according to their behavior under G–parity. In the soliton sector particle conjugation constrai...

Programmable apodizers written on a liquid crystal spatial light modulator (LCSLM) offer the possibility of modifying the point spread function (PSF) of an optical system in monochromatic light with a high degree of flexibility. Extension to polychromatic light has to take into account the liquid crystal response dependence on the wavelength. Proper control of the chromatic properties of the LC...