We study the pattern formation of a chiral nematic liquid crystal under a wetting transition. In the isotropic-liquid crystal transition, a surface-enhanced effect happens and a thin liquid crystal layer forms at the substrates of the cell. In this confined system, chirality, elastic anisotropy, surface anchoring, and wetting strength interplay. A striped pattern is formed due to the chiral nat...

In this paper, a rectangular sandwich plate with a constrained layer and an electrorheological (ER) fluid core is investigated. The rectangular plate is covered an ER fluid core and a constraining layer to improve the stability of the system. The two outer layers of the sandwich structure are elastic. The viscoelastic materials express the middle layer behavior under electric field and small st...

The zero bias anomaly (ZBA) of the tunnel conductivity are investigated in the Al/δ−GaAs tunnel structure with 2D electron concentration in δ-layer to be equal to 3.6∗10 cm−2. We find that the dip (ZBA) in the tunnel density of states near the Fermi level EF reveals logarithmic dependence on the energy ε in the range kT < ε< h̄/τ . Here ε is the energy relative to EF and τ is the elastic relaxat...

Elastic fibers are composed of peripheral microfibrils and a core of elastin. Whether elastic-fiber microfibrils are specialized and whether their structure differs from that in non-elastic tissues remain to be determined, however. In this study, the ultrastructure of elastic-fiber microfibrils was examined in monkey (Macaca mulatta and Macaca fuscata) gingiva. In contrast to the straight micro...

We calculate both the micromechanical response and bulk elastic constants of composites of rods embedded in elastic media. We find two fixed points for Poisson's ratio with respect to rod density: there is an unstable fixed point for Poisson's ratio =1/2 (an incompressible system) and a stable fixed point for Poisson's ratio =1/4 (a compressible system). We also derive approximate expressions f...

Line integral forms for the elastic field of dislocations in anisotropic, multilayer materials are developed and utilized in Parametric Dislocation Dynamics (PDD) computer simulations. Developed equations account for interface image forces on dislocations as a result of elastic modulus mismatch between adjacent layers. The method is applied to study dislocation motion in multilayer thin films. ...

The dispersion relation and the power spectrum of the surface modes on a surface-active, freely standing film of a concentrated polymer solution are studied with a two-component fluid model of a viscoelastic material. The diagram of bending modes is obtained from an asymptotic analysis of the dispersion equation when the bending rigidity modulus is the main elastic effect on the layer interface...

Zinc oxide thin films grown by atomic layer deposition have been subject to great attention over the past few years. In this work, we study ZnO on Si substrates with di-ethyl zinc (DEZ) as metal precursor and H2O or D2O water vapour oxidant. Film composition a function of growth temperature is studied Ion Beam Analysis (IBA) using Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry (RBS) determine Zn areal ...

Elastic scattering of α-particle and some tightly-bound light nuclei has shown the pattern of rainbow scattering at medium energies, which is due to the refraction of the incident wave by a strongly attractive nucleus-nucleus potential. This review gives an introduction to the physics of the nuclear rainbow based essentially on the optical model description of the elastic scattering. Since the ...

We investigate theoretically ferroelastic domain fractions in a heteroepitaxial bilayer consisting of 001 tetragonal PbZrxTi1−xO3 and 001 rhombohedral PbZr1−xTixO3 on a thick 001 passive substrate as a function of the lattice misfit strain between layers and the substrate. By considering the self-strain in each layer and the indirect elastic interaction between the layers, we provide a numerica...