Quantum corrals are two-dimensional structures built atom by atom on an atomically clean metallic surface using a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). These two-dimensional structures ‘‘corral’’ electrons in the surface states of noble metals, leading to standing-wave patterns in the electron density inside the quantum corral. The authors review the physics of quantum corrals and relate the sig...

This demonstration of mirage effect under a microscope provides a new possibility to measure the thermal diffusivity of a transparent sample as small as a few microns, with micronic spatial resolution. Mirage effect [ l] is now a classical technique of photothermal physics. The modulated heating beam is focused at normal incidence on the sample's surface, while the probe beam runs either along ...

The rise of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds, both private and public, has created new problems in managing large collections of virtual-machine (VM) images. VM images must be kept up-to-date with security patches and scanned for malicious or improperly licensed software. Because images are bulky, attention must be paid to the latencies of deployment and capture. Large collections of V...

The minimum information required for a glycomics experiment (MIRAGE) project was established in 2011 to provide guidelines to aid in data reporting from all types of experiments in glycomics research including mass spectrometry (MS), liquid chromatography, glycan arrays, data handling and sample preparation. MIRAGE is a concerted effort of the wider glycomics community that considers the adapta...

The microbial metalloproteome has been largely unexplored. Using the metalloproteomics approach MIRAGE (Metal Isotope native RadioAutography in Gel Electrophoresis) we have been able to explore the soluble Fe and Zn metalloproteome of Escherichia coli. The protein identification by MS/MS typically resulted in several overlapping proteins for each metal containing spot. Using the E. coli genome ...

We present the core functionality of MIRAGE, a management tool for the analysis and deployment of configuration policies over network security components, such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and VPN routers. We review the two main functionalities embedded in our current prototype: (1) a bottom-up analysis of already deployed network security configurations and (2) a top-down refinem...

Mirage mediation reduces the fine-tuning in the minimal supersymmetric standard model by dynamically arranging a cancellation between anomaly-mediated and modulus-mediated supersymmetry breaking. We explore the conditions under which a mirage “messenger scale” is generated near the weak scale and the little hierarchy problem is solved. We do this by explicitly including the dynamics of the SUSY...

mirage effect is contactless and non destructive method which has been used a lot to determine thermal properties of different  kind of samples , transverse photothermal deflection ptd in  skimming configuration with ccd camera  and special programs is used to determine thermal conductivity of porous silicon ps  film. ps samples were prepared by electrochemical etching. thermal conductivity wit...

We summarise the approach to brane cosmology known as " mirage cosmology " and use it to determine the Friedmann equation on a 3-brane embedded in different bulk spacetimes all with one or more extra dimensions. Usually, when there is more than one extra dimension the junction conditions, central to the usual brane world scenarios, are difficult to apply. This problem does not arise in mirage c...