Enhancements of the continuous-wave four-wave mixing conversion efficiency and bandwidth are accomplished through the application of plasma-assisted photoresist reflow to reduce the sidewall roughness of sub-square-micron-modal area waveguides. Nonlinear AlGaAs optical waveguides with a propagation loss of 0.56 dB/cm demonstrate continuous-wave four-wave mixing conversion efficiency of -7.8 dB....

C2+ hydrocarbons are selectively produced in one-step catalytic CO2 conversion via designing the catalyst-bed configuration under non-thermal DBD plasma operating at low temperature and atmospheric pressure.

According to global statistics, over 80,000 deaths occur by suicide annually. Up to 90% of complete suicides are based on psychiatric disorders specifically major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar disorder. Furthermore high levels of inflammation have been indicated in suicidal patients in both central nervous system and the peripheral blood. Two biological mechanisms that play a key role i...

Based on particle-in-cell simulations, we propose to generate sub-nanosecond pulses of narrowband terahertz radiation with tens MW power using unique properties kiloampere relativistic (2 MeV) electron beams produced by linear induction accelerators. Due small emittance such beams, they can be focused into millimeter and sub-millimeter spots comparable in sizes the wavelength THz radiation. If ...

320 one-day male broilers (ross 308) were divided in 4 treatments (with 4 replicate and 20 chicks for a replicate). all of broilers reared under a cold environmental temperature to induce ascites .experimental treatments were included 1: was fed a commercial corn-soybean meal- based diet meeting nrc (1994) including 1.2% arg and 40 iu of vitamin e/kg (control), 2: control with 400 iu of vitamin...

Hydrogen production via plasma methane pyrolysis is investigated using a microwave torch (MPT) and gliding arc plasmatron (GAP). The performance of the two sources in terms conversion, product spectrum, energy efficiency compared. physical chemical properties produced carbon particles are conversion higher GAP than MPT. In MPT amorphous spherical volume source. stops after acetylene. acetylene ...

Three full-wave codes for simulating microwave propagation and O-SX mode conversion in magnetized plasma are described compared. Their feasibility to investigate processes obtain efficiencies parameters relevant a potential MAST Upgrade 28 GHz electron Bernstein wave heating scenarios is explored.