Magnetic seed treatment is one of the physical pre-sowing seed treatments to enhance the performance of crop plants. In our earlier experiment, we found significant increase in germination and vigour characteristics of maize (Zea mays L.) seeds subjected to magnetic fields. Among various combinations of magnetic field (MF) strength and duration, best results were obtained with MF of 100 mT for ...

We have investigated the properties of a magnetically delayed pseudospark switch (PSS). One of the challenges of all low pressure gas discharge switches is the reduction of the lifetime due to commutation losses resulting in anode heating. This effect can be minimized by carefully dimensioning the saturating inductors. For many decades, this method has been successfully used for thyratrons. In ...

We introduce a new class of Pickering foams which can be manipulated using a magnetic field. These foams are stabilized by a mixture of magnetic and nonmagnetic particles. They exhibit excellent stability in the absence of a magnetic field, but can be rapidly destroyed on demand with the application of a threshold field. We characterize their stability in the absence of a magnetic field by meas...