Waveguides with low confinement loss, low chromatic dispersion, and low nonlinear effects are used in optical communication systems. Optical fibers can also be employed in such systems. Besides optical fibers, photonic crystal fibers are also highly suitable transmission media for optical communication systems. In this paper, we introduce two new designs of index-guiding photonic crystal fiber ...

In today’s world all the imaging data or information is processed and stored in a digital form. The digital imaging used in many applications like forensic imaging, medical imaging and computer graphics etc. The image is first captured by the hardware and then converted into digital form and stored in memory device. The digital images are represented and stored in the form of square pixel. The ...

A new hexagonal bipyramidal Ni8 cluster is reported and its magnetic behaviour is analyzed. The molecular structure consists of a hexagonal wheel capped by two additional apical Ni(2+) ions. This structure supports ferromagnetic superexchange interactions between adjacent Ni(2+) ions in the wheel and an antiferromagnetic superexchange interaction between the wheel and apical Ni(2+) ions.

TEM analysis of mesoporous materials is generally undertaken to give qualitative results. Accurate quantitative analysis is demonstrated in this study. A systematic image analysis of a powder form of a hexagonal mesoporous material known as KIT-6 is conducted using a transmission electron microscope (TEM). Three types of image contrast typically appear in this material (a hexagonal honeycomb st...

A neutron diffraction method applicable to nonlamellar phases of substrate-supported lipid membranes is described and validated. When prepared on a flat substrate, the resulting nonlamellar phases have layered symmetry which provides some advantages over powder diffraction for detailed structure determination. This approach recently led to the detection of a rhombohedral phase and a distorted h...

The internal structure of DNA-CTAB and DNA-DDAB is investigated by a Small Angel X- ray Scattering(SAXS) instrument. Hexagonal packing of DNA was observed for DNA complex with CTAB, and for DDABcomplex is observed lamellar structure. Variations in the internal spacing and degree of long-range ordering aredependent on both surfactant type and concentrations of added salt. When we increased the a...

Small angle x-ray analyses show that the shear-induced hexagonal perforated layer phase in a poly(ethylene oxide)- b-polystyrene diblock copolymer consists of trigonal (R3;m) twins and a hexagonal (P6(3)/mmc) structure, with trigonal twins being majority components. Transmission electron microscopy reveals that the hexagonal structure is generated through sequential intrinsic stacking faults on...