The main objective of this research is to develop a micro and nanogap structure using dry anisotropic etching –Reactive Ion EtchingRIE. Amorphous silicon material is used in the micro and nanogap structure and gold as electrode. The fabrication processes of the micro and nanostructure are based on conventional photolithography, wet etching for the Al pattern and wet etching for a-Si pattern usi...

We prove the existence of solutions to an integral equation modeling the infiltration of a fluid in an isotropic homogeneous porous medium. Let us consider the mathematical theory of the infiltration of a fluid from a cylindrical reservoir into an isotropic homogeneous porous medium. Describing this phenomena in the Boussinesq model (see [1]), we are led to the nonlinear integral equation (see ...

Some conventional machining methods have been developed to machine microelectrodes. However, these methods still require too much time and too many resources. This paper uses electrochemical etching as an alternative method for the simple and cheap fabrication of microelectrodes. Electrochemical etching is usually considered an appropriate method of producing sharp probes. However, it is possib...

A finely layered medium behaves as a homogeneous anisotropic medium at long wavelengths. When each layer is a transversely isotropic viscoelastic (TIV) medium, attenuation anisotropy can be described by a generalization of Backus averaging to the lossy case. We introduce a method to compute the complex and frequency-dependent stiffnesses of the equivalent viscoelastic, homogeneous, transversely...

In 1,2 or 3 dimensions a scalar wave excited by a non-negative source in a viscoelastic medium with a non-negative relaxation spectrum or a Newtonian response or both combined inherits the sign of the source. The key assumption is a constitutive relation which involves the sum of a Newtonian viscosity term and a memory term with a completely monotone relaxation kernel. In higher-dimensional spa...

molecular tumbling causes that anisotropy of nuclear interaction now plays dominant role in the appearance of NMR spectra. Frankly speaking the NMR signals are very broad and spectra become featureless. In general missing isotropic tumbling leads to severe broadening of the detected signals. The lack of resolution, however; does not mean the absence of structure information, it rather reflects ...

After having closely re-examined the notion of a Lévy’s stable vector, it is shown that the notion of a stable multivariate distribution is more general than previously defined. Indeed, a more intrinsic vector definition is obtained with the help of non isotropic dilations and a related notion of generalized scale. In this framework, the components of a stable vector may not only have distinct ...

We have identified two new galaxies with gas counter-rotation (NGC 1596 and NGC 3203) and have confirmed similar behaviour in another one (NGC 128), this using results from separate studies of the ionized-gas and stellar kinematics of a welldefined sample of 30 edge-on disc galaxies. Gas counter-rotators thus represent 10±5% of our sample, but the fraction climbs to 21 ± 11% when only lenticula...

This paper proposes a novel method for document enhancement. The method is based on the combination of two state-of-the-art filters through the construction of a mask. The mask is applied to a TV (Total Variation) regularized image where background noise has been reduced. The masked image is then filtered by NLmeans (Non Local Means) which reduces the noise in the text areas located by the mask...