Optical form birefringence property of porous silicon is used in a compact polarization interferometer to demonstrate a novel optical transduction mechanism for vapor or gas sensing applications. This technique uses high interferometric sensitivity of polarization interference intensity when the porous silicon sample is exposed to solvent vapors. We experimentally demonstrate that the relative ...

--The inhibition of the corrosion of mild steel in hydrochloric acid solutions by the extract of Artemisia Herba-Alba has been studied using gravimetric and electrochemical measurement. Inhibition was found to increase with increasing concentration of the inhibitor. Values of inhibition efficiency calculated from weight loss and potentiodynamic polarization are in good agreement. This value goe...

The switchable bipolar ground state is at the heart of research into ferroelectrics for future, low-energy electronics. Polarization switching by an applied field is a complex phenomenon which depends on the initial domain ordering, defect concentration, electrical boundary conditions and charge screening. Injected free charge may also to be used to reversibly switch in-plane polarized domains....

The hormone auxin is actively transported throughout plants via protein machineries including the dedicated transporter known as PIN. The associated transport is ordered with nearby cells driving auxin flux in similar directions. Here, we provide a model of both the auxin transport and of the dynamics of cellular polarization based on flux sensing. Our main findings are: (i) spontaneous intrace...

Metallic wires can discriminate light polarization due to strong absorption of electric fields oscillating in parallel to wires. Here, we explore polarization-based biosensing of DNA hybridization in situ by employing metal target-conjugated nanoparticles to form a wire-grid polarizer (WGP) as complementary DNA strands hybridize. Experimental results using gold nanoparticles of 15 nm diameter t...

Vacancies play a pivotal role in affecting ferroelectric polarization and switching properties, and there is a possibility that ferroelectricity may be utterly eliminated when defects render the system metallic. However, sufficient quantitative understandings of the subject have been lacking for decades due to the fact that vacancies in ferroelectrics are often charged and polarization in charg...

Fuel cells, providing an advanced alternative energy source, are devices that can convert chemical into electrical energy. Modeling of a fuel cell provides improvements to the design cells as well cheaper, better and more efficient cells. Three basic voltage losses occur in cell: activation polarization, ohmic polarization concentration polarization. In this study, simulation PEM (proton exchan...

Inhibitory effect of extracts from three date varieties namely khalt (kha), Lassiane (La) and Tadmamt (Td)), and the mixture of date varieties as environmentally friendly corrosion inhibitor for carbon steel in 1M HCl is studied by means of electrochemical tests such as electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), and Tafel polarization. It's been obtained that in 1.0 M HCl solution the date e...

This paper describes the e€ects of treating the alloy powder of an electrode with 6 M KOH solution containing y M KBH4 ( y = 0.0, 0.005, 0.01, 0.02 and 0.03) on the kinetic properties of the electrode, including high rate dischargeablilty HRD, exchange current density I0, symmetry factor b, limiting current density IL, di€usion coecient of hydrogen in the a-phase Da, and electrochemical polari...