introduction: saffron is one of the most important economic plants in the khorasan province. awareness of soil quality in agricultural lands is essential for the best management of lands and for obtaining maximum economic benefit. in general, plant growth is a function of environmental factors especially chemical and physical properties of soil (20). it has been demonstrated that there was a po...

Distinguishing between whole cells and cell debris is important in microscopy, e.g., in screening of pulmonary patients for infectious tuberculosis. We propose and theoretically demonstrate that whole cells and cell debris can be distinguished from the far-field pattern of surface plasmon coupled emission (SPCE) of a fluorescently-labeled sample placed on a thin metal layer. If fluorescently-la...

All-Aluminum metal-insulator-metal resonator structures with multiple metal-insulator stacks showing resonances in the mid-infrared (MIR) are fabricated. Ultrathin native Al2O3 is used as the insulator layers enabling simple fabrication of the resonator structures. The structures with two oxide layers exhibit two distinct resonances in the MIR. Simulation of these structures shows confinement o...