The detonation of a metalized explosive generates fireball that has spatially non-uniform distribution particle concentration and gas temperature. transient temperature field must be probed with ruggedized spatially- temporally-resolved diagnostics. use in-situ thermocouples for measurements within multiphase fireballs is demonstrated. Although the thermocouple lags behind local temperature, as...

The space industry is seeking new solutions for the development of lightweight, inexpensive and easy-to-manufacture on-board communication payload devices. One proposed technologies additive manufacturing (AM) polymeric materials that are subsequently metallized. devices developed using this technique must be operational in particular environment conditions. In work we study integrity filters m...

We present a novel fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy technique to measure absolute positions of fluorescent molecules within 100 nm above a metalized surface based on distance-dependent fluorescence lifetime modulations. We apply this technique to fluorescently labeled microtubules as optical probes with various unlabeled proteins attached. By measuring the fluorescence lifetimes, we obt...

The DNA double-strand recognition, as well as the ability to manipulate its structure open a multitude of ways to make it useful for molecular electronics. Step by step we improve the synthesized constructs and the measurement methods of single DNAbased molecules. I will present new DNA-based metalized molecules and report on our measurements of their energy level structure and transport proper...

We report on our recent results concerning fabrication of high-Q whispering gallery mode (WGM) crystalline resonators, and discuss some possible applications of lithium niobate WGM resonators in nonlinear optics and photonics. In particular, we demonstrate experimentally a tunable third-order optical filter fabricated from the three metalized resonators; and report observation of parametric fre...

Plastic UV reßective mulch (metalized mulch) and wheat straw mulch delayed colonizationbyBemisia argentifoliiBellows&Perring and the incidenceof aphid-borneviruses in zucchini squash. No insecticides were used in either mulch treatment. The mulches were compared with a preplant treatment of imidacloprid and an untreated, unmulched control. In 2000, yield ofmarketable fruit in the plastic and st...