This paper presents a review of micro- and nano-structure based oligonucleotide detection and quantification techniques. The characteristics of such devices make them very attractive for Point-of-Care or On-Site-Testing biosensing applications. Their small scale means that they can be robust and portable, their compatibility with modern CMOS electronics means that they can easily be incorporate...

The scientific objective of this research is to understand acoustic wave propagation in a dynamic environment in two frequency bands: Low (50 Hz to 500 Hz) and Mid-to-High (500 Hz to 50 kHz). The goal for the low frequency band is to assess the effects of internal waves on acoustic wave propagation, with an emphasis on the mechanisms that cause significant temporal and spatial acoustic intensit...

The scientific objective of this research is to understand acoustic wave propagation in a dynamic environment in two frequency bands: Low (50 Hz to 500 Hz) and Mid-to-High (500 Hz to 50 kHz). The goal for the low frequency band is to assess the effects of internal waves on acoustic wave propagation, with an emphasis on the mechanisms that cause significant temporal and spatial acoustic intensit...

The invention as disclosed is a fiber optic interferometric directional acoustic density sensor that increases the directionality of a vector sensor that is much smaller in size than the wave length of an acoustic wave. This is accomplished through the use of second order directionality by measuring the acoustic fluctuations of fluid density at a point, wherein the acoustic density fluctuations...

In this paper we report on the nonresonant conversion of convectively unstable linear gravity modes into acoustic oscillation modes in shear flows. The convectively unstable linear gravity modes can excite acoustic modes with similar wave-numbers. The frequencies of the excited oscillations may be qualitatively higher than the temporal variation scales of the source flow, while the frequency sp...

this paper concerns with the modeling and construction of a fifth order method for two dimensional acoustic wave equation in heterogenous media. the method is based on a standard discretization of the problem on smooth regions and a nonstandard method for nonsmooth regions.the construction of the nonstandard method is based on the special treatment of the interface using suitable jump condition...

Our research efforts concentrate on focusing photon and sound into sub-wavelength scales. While we emphasize on new insights of material and device design from fundamental approaches, we also actively pursue the applications of our technology in the areas of nanofabrication, energy conversion, communication, and biomedical imaging. Acoustic metamaterials promise new applications for steering an...

The multi-chamber reactive silencers are widely used to reduce engine exhaust noise as well as blower intake and discharge noise. Davis et al. [1] developed a one-dimensional analytical approach, which assumes plane wave propagation in the axial direction in silencers, to predict the acoustic attenuation performance of double expansion chamber reactive silencers, and compared the predictions wi...