growing demand of invisible braces byesthetically conscious patients has led to remarkable inventions in materials for esthetic labial archwires. archwires with excellent optical clarity and mechanical properties comparable to conventional archwires have been manufactured by almost all the leading companies of orthodontic products in the past two decades, but their clinical use is still limited...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to compare the mechanical, structural, and aesthetic properties of two types of aesthetic coated nickel-titanium (NiTi) wires compared with comparable regular NiTi wires in the as-received state and after clinical use. MATERIALS/METHODS Sixty one subjects were randomly assigned to four groups (N = 61), two groups of coated wires and two grou...

We analyze the transmission and reflection of electromagnetic waves calculated from transfer matrix simulations of periodic arrangements of thin metallic wires. The effective permittivity and the absorption of the arrangements of wires are determined. Their dependence on the wire thickness and the conductance of the metallic wires is studied. The cutoff frequency, or effective plasma frequency,...

We use ab initio density functional calculations to study the effect of electron and hole doping on the equilibrium geometry and electronic structure of C, Si, and S monatomic wires. Independent of doping, all these nanowires are found to be metallic. In absence of doping, C wires are straight, whereas Si and S wires display a zigzag structure. Besides two preferred bond angles of 60° and 120° ...

Short dangling bond wires (DB wires), fabricated on H-terminated Si(001) surfaces, show patterns of displacement that depend on their length. We have performed density function calculations, with and without spin-polarisation, designed to investigate the atomic and electronic structure of these wires. As expected, we find that even length wires are accurately modelled by non-spin polarised calc...

Background Most patients have temporary epicardial pacing wires placed during cardiac surgery; the wires are removed usually during the first five postoperative days(1). In some patents, however, wire removal is difficult. In these cases, wires are cut short at the skin level and left in situ. Retained electrodes are usually well tolerated and complications are rare. Hereby we report a patient ...

The giant magneto-impedance (GMI) effect has been studied in 3 different families of amorphous wires: conventional amorphous wires (125 μm in diameter), cold drawn wires (50 and 20 μm in diameter) and thin glass coated amorphous microwires (with metallic nucleus diameter of about 15 μm). These wires have been investigated in the frequency range 1 – 500 MHz. A remarkable difference in the magnet...

OBJECTIVE This research aimed at comparing the qualitative chemical compositions and the surface morphology of fracture regions of eight types of Nickel/Titanium (NiTi) conventional wires, superelastic and heat-activated (GAC, TP, Ormco, Masel, Morelli and Unitek), to the wires with addition of copper (CuNiTi 27ºC and 35ºC, Ormco) after traction test. METHODS The analyses were performed in a ...

Concern about the performance of wires in scaled technologies has led to research exploring other communication methods. This paper examines wire and gate delays as technologies migrate from 0.18m to 0.035m feature sizes to better understand the magnitude of the wiring problem. Wires that shorten in length as technologies scale have delays that either track gate delays or grow slowly relative t...