The California Laboratory for Atmospheric Remote Sensing Fourier transform spectrometer (CLARS-FTS) deployed at Mount Wilson, California, has been measuring column abundances of greenhouse gases in the Los Angeles (LA) basin in the near-infrared spectral region since August 2011. CLARS-FTS measures reflected sunlight and has high sensitivity to absorption and scattering in the boundary layer. I...

High-repetition rate laser-induced damage of Ta 2 O 5 :SiO coatings was investigated at 355 nm wavelength and a repetition 30 kHz. Laser-induced thresholds with different mixture ratios were measured. The relationships between threshold the material band gap defect absorption analyzed. decreased increase in number laser pulses owing to enhancement absorption. Enhancement is attributed density m...

Nair, Prem K., Tianbo Li, Reshma Bhattacharjee, Xin Ye, and Hans G. Folkesson. Oxytocin-induced labor augments IL-1 -stimulated lung fluid absorption in fetal guinea pig lungs. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 289: L1029–L1038, 2005. First published August 5, 2005; doi:10.1152/ajplung.00256.2004.—We tested the hypothesis that oxytocin-induced labor augmented IL-1 -induced/ -stimulated lung fl...

Metal corrugated surfaces have the potential of enhancing optical absorption through surface plasmon (SP) excitation facilitated by light-metal interactions. The successful utilization of metal corrugation induced optical absorption can improve the response of free carrier absorption (FCA), based HEterojunction Interfacial Workfunction Internal Photoemission (HEIWIP) detectors. This article rep...

Dislocation bias factors in bcc Fe have been calculated based on atomistic interaction energy maps on three kinds of dislocations, namely the a0/2〈111〉{110} screw, a0/2〈111〉{110} and a0〈100〉{001} edge dislocations. The results show that the dislocation bias is higher for the a0/2〈111〉 edge dislocation than for the a0〈100〉 edge dislocation, even though the latter possesses a larger Burgers vecto...

An optical Fourier transform processor converts visibility data at its input to a sky brightness function at its output. Scattered light and spurious terms resulting from the method of encoding the complex visibility function as a real -valued and nonnegative transmittance result in errors in the processor output. In this paper, we discuss the degree to which each of these undesired terms degra...

The structural changes in Pd and Pd–Ru alloys induced by the repeated absorption–desorption of hydrogen have been studied. It is found that absorption–desorption cycles produce structural changes in Pd whereas the addition of small amounts of Ru inhibits these hydrogen-induced changes. The experimental results show that bulk hydrogen absorption occurs in Pd, while hydrogen surface adsorption be...