We report the demonstration of a composite right/left-handed (CRLH) metamaterial waveguide for terahertz quantum-cascade (QC) lasers. By incorporating gap capacitors ( 250 nm) in the top metallization of a metal-metal waveguide operating in a higher order lateral mode, we have realized a CRLH transmission line that supports traveling modes with negative effective phase indices (i.e., left-hande...

The normal Doppler effect has well-established applications in many areas of science and technology. Recently, a few experimental demonstrations of the inverse Doppler effect have begun to appear in negative-index metamaterials. Here we report an experimental observation of the zero Doppler effect, that is, no frequency shift irrespective of the relative motion between the wave signal source an...

We have constructed a human osteogenic sarcoma cell line, U-2 OS/GFP-Gu, that expresses nucleolar RNA helicase RH-II/Gu tagged with green fluorescent protein (GFP). The presence of a GFP tag does not inhibit RNA helicase, RNA folding and ATPase activities of RH-II/Gu protein. The derived cell line responds to cytotoxic agents like the parental cell line U-2 OS. In the presence of either actinom...

In the context of supersymmetric theories, a weakly broken gauged SO(3) flavour symmetry is used to produce two highly degenerate right handed (RH) neutrinos. It is then shown that this SO(3) flavour symmetry is compatible with all fermion masses and mixings if it is supplemented with a further SU(3) flavour symmetry. A specific Susy breaking model is used to generate the light neutrino masses ...

A simple scheme for the realization of terahertz (THz) fundamental-mode closed-stopband composite right/left-handed leaky-wave antennas (CRLH LWAs) is presented. The proposed CRLH LWAs are reconstructed by graphene-based coplanar waveguide (CPW) transmission line supercells. Their shunt inductances achieved narrow graphene strips two unit cell structures halved. designed and confirmed numerical...

BACKGROUND In Bangladesh, 24 % of the total populations are adolescents. Twelve months intervention was implemented under Demand-Based Reproductive Health Commodity Project (DBRHCP) in two low performing areas: rural Sub-district Nabiganj (population 323,357) and an urban slum in Dhaka city (population 141,912). We evaluated the changes in knowledge of female unmarried adolescents on selected r...

In this work, highly selective filters based on periodic arrays of electrically small resonators are pointed out. The highpass filters are implemented in microstrip technology by etching complementary split ring resonators (CSRRs), in the ground plane, and series capacitive gaps, or interdigital capacitors, in the signal strip. The structure exhibits a composite right/left handed (CRLH) behavio...

An antenna comprising two different composite right/left-handed transmission line structures is proposed which enables easy beam steering at an operation frequency of 10 GHz. The composite right/left-handed transmission lines are based on planar, periodically arranged via free unit cells, implemented in microstrip technology. Both transmission lines exhibit the infinite wavelength phenomenon wh...