Structure formation and dynamical behavior of kinetic plasmas controlled by magnetic reconnection is investigated by means of electromagnetic particle simulations. Twodimensional simulation in a long time scale reveals that there are two evolving regimes in the temporal behavior of current layer structure, dependently on the spatial size of plasma inflow through the upstream boundary, i.e., a s...

The current and magnetic-field fluctuations associated with magnetic-field-line reconnection have been measured in the reversed field pinch plasma configuration. The current sheet resulting from this reconnection has been measured. The current layer is radially broad, comparable to a magnetic-island width, as may be expected from current transport along magnetic-field lines. It is much larger t...

Transmission spectra of thin metal films perforated by a high density of disordered sub-wavelength diameter cylindrical holes have been measured. The films, consisting of duplex layers of chromium and gold or chromium and silver, were characterised by perforations of mean diameter, hdi and fractional area coverage, F: films with hdi and F of 187F 50 nm and 0.21, and 340F 67 nm and 0.28 were stu...

In the present analysis, the Dufour and Soret effects on unsteady heat-mass transfer of a viscous incompressible Powell-Eyring fluids flow past an expanding/shrinking permeable sheet are reported. The fluid boundary layer develops over the variable sheet with suction/injection to the non-uniform free stream velocity. Under the symmetry group of transformations, the governing equations along wit...

The structures of two antimicrobial peptides (arenicin Ar-1 and its linear derivative C/S-Ar-1) are studied in different solutions and at the air-water interface using spectroscopic methods such as circular dichroism (CD) and infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy (IRRAS) as well as grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXD) and specular X-ray reflectivity (XR). Both peptides exhibit simil...

This paper investigates the convective heat and mass transfer in nanofluid flow through a porous media due to a stretching sheet subjected to magnetic field, viscous dissipation, chemical reaction and Soret effects. Two types of nanofluids, namely Cu-water and Ag-water were studied. The governing boundary layer equations are formulated and reduced to a set of ordinary differential equations usi...

The fine structure of the superficial layers of the tablet-forming micro-organism, Lampro­ pedia hyalina, has been studied by several electron microscopical techniques. The outer envelope is distinct from the cell wall and surrounds not individual cells but groups of cells (tablets). This envelope appears to embody two complex layers, both possessing a regularpatterned structure. One layer (the...

A healable transparent capacitive touch screen sensor has been fabricated based on a healable silver nanowire-polymer composite electrode. The composite electrode features a layer of silver nanowire percolation network embedded into the surface layer of a polymer substrate comprising an ultrathin soldering polymer layer to confine the nanowires to the surface of a healable Diels-Alder cycloaddi...

A comprehensive study is made of the behavior and effects of fluorine in n-polysilicon layers. The polysilicon is deposited in a conventional low pressure chemical vapor deposition furnace on ~100! silicon wafers, implanted with 1310 cm F and 1310 cm As and annealed at 850, 950, 1015, and 1065 °C. Sheet resistance, transmission electron microscopy ~TEM!, and secondary ion mass spectroscopy are ...

The fine structure of the superficial layers of the tablet-forming micro-organism, Lampro­ pedia hyalina, has been studied by several electron microscopical techniques. The outer envelope is distinct from the cell wall and surrounds not individual cells but groups of cells (tablets). This envelope appears to embody two complex layers, both possessing a regularpatterned structure. One layer (the...