scholarly journals On-demand light wave manipulation enabled by single-layer dielectric metasurfaces

APL Photonics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 086106
Author(s):  
Xuyue Guo ◽  
Bingjie Li ◽  
Xinhao Fan ◽  
Jinzhan Zhong ◽  
Shuxia Qi ◽  
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Nano Letters ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 3187-3192 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Castellanos-Gomez ◽  
M. Barkelid ◽  
A. M. Goossens ◽  
V. E. Calado ◽  
H. S. J. van der Zant ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (11) ◽  
pp. 957
Author(s):  
A. V. Turchin

Optical methods that are used to characterize the state of a surface covered with films are based on the measurement of either the ratio between the complex reflection coefficients for mutually orthogonal light polarizations (ellipsometry) or the magnitudes of reflection coefficients themselves; afterward, the parameters of films such as their number, thicknesses, and transparencies can be determined by the fitting, while solving the corresponding inverse problem. In order to extend the set of quantities that can bemeasured experimentally, a method is proposed that allows the phase of the reflected light wave to be determined, by analyzing the spectral features for light reflected from a plane-parallel gap between the surface of analyzed specimen and the environment. In particular, the spectrum obtained, by using the “moving specimen” procedure, can be transformed into the spectral dependences of the magnitude and phase of the reflection coefficient. As a result, the inverse problem of finding the dielectric permittivity of a single-layer film is reduced to the solution of a linear matrix equation, which makes the proposed method more advantageous in comparison with the ellipsometric one, for which there is no direct relationships between the ellipsometric angles and the physical parameters of the film.


2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Sriraam

A telemedicine system using communication and information technology to deliver medical signals such as ECG, EEG for long distance medical services has become reality. In either the urgent treatment or ordinary healthcare, it is necessary to compress these signals for the efficient use of bandwidth. This paper discusses a quality on demand compression of EEG signals using neural network predictors for telemedicine applications. The objective is to obtain a greater compression gains at a low bit rate while preserving the clinical information content. A two-stage compression scheme with a predictor and an entropy encoder is used. The residue signals obtained after prediction is first thresholded using various levels of thresholds and are further quantized and then encoded using an arithmetic encoder. Three neural network models, single-layer and multi-layer perceptrons and Elman network are used and the results are compared with linear predictors such as FIR filters and AR modeling. The fidelity of the reconstructed EEG signal is assessed quantitatively using parameters such as PRD, SNR, cross correlation and power spectral density. It is found from the results that the quality of the reconstructed signal is preserved at a low PRD thereby yielding better compression results compared to results obtained using lossless scheme.


Author(s):  
Murray Stewart ◽  
T.J. Beveridge ◽  
D. Sprott

The archaebacterium Methanospirillum hungatii has a sheath as part of its cell wall which is composed mainly of protein. Treatment with dithiothreitol or NaOH released the intact sheaths and electron micrographs of this material negatively stained with uranyl acetate showed flattened hollow tubes, about 0.5 μm diameter and several microns long, in which the patterns from the top and bottom were superimposed. Single layers, derived from broken tubes, were also seen and were more simply analysed. Figure 1 shows the general appearance of a single layer. There was a faint axial periodicity at 28.5 A, which was stronger at irregular multiples of 28.5 A (3 and 4 times were most common), and fine striations were also seen at about 3° to the tube axis. Low angle electron diffraction patterns (not shown) and optical diffraction patterns (Fig. 2) from these layers showed a complex meridian (as a result of the irregular nature of the repeat along the tube axis) which showed a clear maximum at 28.5 A, consistent with the basic subunit spacing.


Author(s):  
Maria Anna Pabst

In addition to the compound eyes, honeybees have three dorsal ocelli on the vertex of the head. Each ocellus has about 800 elongated photoreceptor cells. They are paired and the distal segment of each pair bears densely packed microvilli forming together a platelike fused rhabdom. Beneath a common cuticular lens a single layer of corneagenous cells is present.Ultrastructural studies were made of the retina of praepupae, different pupal stages and adult worker bees by thin sections and freeze-etch preparations. In praepupae the ocellar anlage consists of a conical group of epidermal cells that differentiate to photoreceptor cells, glial cells and corneagenous cells. Some photoreceptor cells are already paired and show disarrayed microvilli with circularly ordered filaments inside. In ocelli of 2-day-old pupae, when a retinogenous and a lentinogenous cell layer can be clearly distinguished, cell membranes of the distal part of two photoreceptor cells begin to interdigitate with each other and so start to form the definitive microvilli. At the beginning the microvilli often occupy the whole width of the developing rhabdom (Fig. 1).


Author(s):  
X. Lin ◽  
X. K. Wang ◽  
V. P. Dravid ◽  
J. B. Ketterson ◽  
R. P. H. Chang

For small curvatures of a graphitic sheet, carbon atoms can maintain their preferred sp2 bonding while allowing the sheet to have various three-dimensional geometries, which may have exotic structural and electronic properties. In addition the fivefold rings will lead to a positive Gaussian curvature in the hexagonal network, and the sevenfold rings cause a negative one. By combining these sevenfold and fivefold rings with sixfold rings, it is possible to construct complicated carbon sp2 networks. Because it is much easier to introduce pentagons and heptagons into the single-layer hexagonal network than into the multilayer network, the complicated morphologies would be more common in the single-layer graphite structures. In this contribution, we report the observation and characterization of a new material of monolayer graphitic structure by electron diffraction, HREM, EELS.The synthesis process used in this study is reported early. We utilized a composite anode of graphite and copper for arc evaporation in helium.


Swiss Surgery ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 114-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steinke ◽  
Leippold ◽  
Schweizer

Über die Frage der besten oder "richtigen" Technik bei gastrointestinalen Anastomosen wird seit je diskutiert. Die Ansprüche an eine gute Anastomosentechnik sind: Gute Durchblutung, Wasserdichtigkeit, Spannungsfreiheit, Sicherheit, leichte Durchführbarkeit, wenig Unruhe und Verschmutzung im Operationsgebiet und geringe Kosten. Die Operationstechnik der extramukösen, fortlaufenden Anastomosentechnik im Gastrointestinaltrakt wird in Wort und Bild erläutert. Anhand einer Pilotstudie, einer randomisierten Vergleichsstudie, einer Schweizer Multizenterstudie und schliesslich einer 5-jährigen Qualitätskontrollstudie wird gezeigt, dass diese "Schweizer"-Technik allen Anforderungen zur Durchführung einer "idealen" Anastomose gerecht wird und an fast allen intestinalen Lokalisationen verwendet werden kann.


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