Motion-induced blindness is a striking phenomenon in which salient static visual stimuli "disappear" for seconds at a time in the presence of specific moving patterns. Here we investigate whether the phenomenon is due to surface completion of the moving patterns. Stereo-depth information was added to the motion stimulus to create depth ordering between the static and moving components of the di...

We report the observation of terahertz (THz) electric field induced conductivity modulation in sub-wavelength gold plasmonic media. Through all-THz pump-probe time-resolved transmission spectroscopy, we demonstrate that the presence of induced surface charges influences near-field mediated light propagation. The phenomenon is ascribed to the enhanced metal conductivity due to enhanced surface d...

In order to control residual stress distribution in glass, techniques based on the phenomenon of photoelasticity are efficient, though subject to the inherent limitations of all optical techniques. To mitigate these limitations, we exploit the phenomenon of acoustoelasticity to estimate residual stress distribution, using surface acoustic waves. In this study, we characterize the surface residu...

Two-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method has been performed to numerically investigate the transmission through a one-dimension cupped surface metallic grating structure. The concept of coupling of optical modes in the notches and main slits, introduced by Crouse and Keshavareddy [1], is examined further in our work. Unexpected phenomenon is shown that even horizontal surface...

2014 The avalanche degradation phenomenon model presented here takes into account both : an increase of surface recombination rate localized near the initial intrinsic point in the junction transition region surface and a displacement of the intrinsic point due to the oxide injected charge. A method for the determination of parameters of the model is presented. The modelling results are given f...

We study the surface tension and the phenomenon of phase coexistence for the Ising model on Z (d > 2) with ferromagnetic but random couplings. We prove the convergence in probability (with respect to random couplings) of surface tension and analyze its large deviations : upper deviations occur at volume order while lower deviations occur at surface order. We study the asymptotics of surface ten...

In the late 1970s, signal intensity in Raman spectroscopy was found to be enormously enhanced, by a factor of 10(6) and more recently by as much as 10(14), when an analyte was placed in the vicinity of a metal nanoparticle (particularly Ag). The underlying source of this huge increase in signal in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy has since been characterized by considerable...

Colloidal trivalent gallium (Ga) doped zinc oxide (ZnO) hexagonal nanocrystals have been prepared to introduce more carrier concentration into the wide band gap of ZnO. The dopant (Ga) modifies the morphology and size of ZnO nanocrystals. Low content of Ga enhances the optical band gap of ZnO due to excess carrier concentration in the conduction band of ZnO. The interaction among free carriers ...