This paper investigates a new method for fabrication of broadband line-focus ultrasonic transducers by sol-gel spin-coating the poly(vinylidene difluoride-trifluroethylene) [P(VDF-TrFE)] copolymer film on a concave fine-polished beryllium copper backing. The ferroelectric hysteresis loops of the P(VDF-TrFE) films spin-coated from different molar ratios of VDF/TrFE, 77/23 and 55/45, were measure...

PURPOSE To quantify the effects of microbubble (MB) size, elasticity, and pulsed ultrasonic parameters on in vitro sonothrombolysis (ultrasound [US]-mediated thrombolysis) efficacy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Monodispersive MBs with diameters of 1 μm or 3 μm were exposed to pulsed US (1 MHz or 3 MHz) to lyse rabbit blood clots. Sonothrombolysis efficacy (clot mass loss) was measured as functions o...

Reported measurements of the dielectric properties or permittivities over broad frequency ranges for some agricultural materials are cited, and graphical data from the cited literature are presented. They include 50-kHz to 12-GHz frequency-domain permittivity data for adult rice weevils and hard red winter wheat, time-domain reflectometry data for the same insects from 30 MHz to 1 GHz, frequenc...

Feasibility Study of Shaped Electrode The objective of this project was a feasibility study of a novel, large-area plasma reactor for thin film production, based on a shaped electrode technique (“lens”) to compensate the standing wave non-uniformity. Cylindrical Test Reactor In the first phase a cylindrical reactor was designed and constructed to show the “proof of principle” of a novel electro...

As signal to noise ratio in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) improves with increasing static magnetic field strength there is a strong incentive to develop the technology to acquire images at higher fields. While magnet technology has made it possible to generate fields of 10 Tesla and more, limitations of the radio frequency (RF) hardware prevent the acquisition of high quality images over ful...

PW cell is used to test radiated electromagnetic field immunity for small equipment up to frequency of several GHz. As the carbon absorbers as a microwave absorber are conventionally used for PW cell, the inside measurement space is limited to small sized EUT. For the tests in this report, we tried to use a pyramid ferrite absorber, which has been developed recently, instead of a carbon absorbe...

ground penetrating radar (gpr) and magnetic methods were used at ghasr-e-shirin town in kermanshah province, southwest of iran for detecting a series of large ancient (ca 1500 years) underground cavities (tagh). the area of study is a historical monument which is named as emarat e khosro. radar and total intensity magnetic field measurements have been done on the eastern part of the complex, wh...