The material contained here is intended to supplement and support the information reported in our article, “On a Stochastic Non-relativistic Approach to Gravity as Originating from Vacuum Zero-Point Field van der Waals Forces,” to be published in Phys. Rev. A. The present material can be obtained from the EPAPS homepage (http://www.aip.org/pubservs/epaps.html) or from ftp.aip.org in the directo...

In response to an infection, proinfl ammatory cytokines stimulate lymphocytes to take up nutrients so that they can proliferate and mount an immune response. Once the infection is cleared, however, cytokine levels decline and the lymphocytes’ nutrient supply is abruptly cut off. Most of the cells quickly die by apoptosis, but a small fraction survive and differentiate into longlived memory cell...

A high contact resistance restricts the application of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in fabrication of field-effect transistors (FETs). Thus, it is important to decrease the contact resistance and investigate the critical influence factors such as the contact length and contact force. This study uses nanomanipulation to characterize both the resistance and the force at a CNT/Au side-contact interface...

This paper reported a method of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) fusion inside a scanning electron microscope (SEM). A CNT was picked up by nanorobotics manipulator system which was constructed in SEM with 21 DOFs and 1 nm resolution. The CNT was picked up and placed on two manipulators. The tensile force was 140 nN when the CNT was pulled into two parts. Then, two parts of the CNT were co...

We propose a new method for evaluating and correcting aberrations in a Vander Lugt correlator. The technique is achieved with liquid-crystal displays of the correlator and allows the task to be performed in situ. We present the theory on which the method is based and the experimental results that we obtained by applying it in a convergent correlator.

Marianna A Vander, Petr A Fedotov, Tamara A Lyubimtseva, Maria A Bortsova, Maria Yu Sitnikova, Dmitry S Lebedev, Evgeny N Mikhaylov Neuromodulation Unit, Almazov National Medical Research Centre, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Arrhythmia Department, Almazov National Medical Research Centre, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Heart Failure Department, Almazov National Medical Research Centre, Saint-Petersburg, ...

The measurement of the physical properties of surfaces on the nanoscale is a long-standing problem, and the atomic force microscope (AFM) has enabled the investigation of surface energies and mechanical properties over a range of length scales. The ability to measure these properties for softer materials presents a challenge when interpreting data obtained from such measurements, in particular ...