The paper presented the experimental results regarding the use of the cellulose triacetate (CTA) to determine the homogeneity degree of the irradiation field obtained in accelerated electron beam by scattering through aluminum foils and to evaluate absorbed dose into the material depth. The results indicated a reduced irradiation surface for thin scattering foil (0.1 mm). Both using thicker sca...

We propose a novel personal identification method, named Thermal-ID, which utilizes human body temperature as a source of identifying information. Thermal-ID is expressed by the temperature difference generated by partially covering the surface of the body with thermal barrier material (e.g., cutout urethane foam-coated aluminum foil). The aim is to positively identify a subject with minimal di...

A sample holder for high temperature (300 K<T<800 K) measurements in superconducting quantum interference device magnetometers is presented. It is fabricated using aluminum foil and it is appropriate for samples in either solid or powder form. The holder is homogeneous for the gradiometer coil, and this results in a contribution to the background signal that is below the instrument noise at any...

This work describes a system used in gait analysis studies. The system is based on a continuous conductive walkway, made of ordinary aluminum foil. It measures the length of each single step, as well as those temporal parameters of gait that relate to the position of the feet on or off the ground. The system is relatively simple and inexpensive to build and run. Data collection and reduction is...

Knowledge of the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of grain boundaries over the full range of crystallographic type will be of great interest and utility. This paper presents results for relative grain boundary energies and mobilities in Al foil which have been extracted from the geometry and crystallography of triple junctions. This approach is based on the assumption of local equilibrium o...

We propose a novel personal identification method, named Thermal-ID, which utilizes human body temperature as a source of identifying information. Thermal-ID is expressed by the temperature difference generated by partially covering the surface of the body with thermal barrier material (e.g., cutout urethane foam-coated aluminum foil). The aim is to positively identify a subject with minimal di...