Salmonella Enteritidis culture was subjected to heat or microwave treatment to obtain bacteria reduction by 4, 5, and 6 log units. Control, heated and microwaving micro-organisms were incubated in a nutrient broth at 10°C for 432 h. Growth-curve parameters were calculated using Gompertz and Baranyi equations. It was found that in most cases untreated salmonellae had a shorter generation time, a...

Microwave heating processes involve electromagnetic and thermal effects coupled together through the local temperature dependence of the material dielectric properties. This paper presents a one-dimensional model for the coupled electromagnetic-thermal process and demonstrates its solutions for typical problems. The local temperature dependence of the lossy dielectric medium is taken into accou...

A new fully microwave-assisted liquid sample introduction system (MASIS) is presented and evaluated in Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry (ICP-AES). The device employs a single TM010 microwave cavity for the simultaneous aerosol generation and desolvation. The different experimental requirements of both physical processes demand a careful system design and a judicious selec...

We demonstrate experimentally a mechanism of the soliton generation in nonlinear active metamaterials. Our meta-structure consists of a ring resonator formed by a microwave amplifier loaded with a left-handed transmission line. We demonstrate a variety of nonlinear effects not described by weakly nonlinear models, and study experimentally the system’s spatiotemporal dynamics, including the gene...

Mobile communication systems revolutionized the way people communicate. Evolution of wireless access technologies is about to reach its fourth generation (4G) and the 5G mobile networks will focus on the development of the user terminals where the terminals will have access to different wireless technologies at the same time and will combine different flows from different technologies. Looking ...

An approach to fast entanglement generation based on Rydberg dephasing of collective excitations (spin waves) in large, optically thick atomic ensembles is proposed. Long-range 1/r(3) atomic interactions are induced by microwave mixing of opposite-parity Rydberg states. The required long coherence times are achieved via four-photon excitation and readout of long wavelength spin waves. The depha...

The Intelligent Process Control Architecture (IPCA) a control architecture for dynamic processes which is rooted in the Generic Task approach to knowledgebased systems. The first generation of IPCA has been completed, and experimentally proved in the testbed domain of microwave processing of polymer composite materials. The next generation of IPCA is now being designed, and will incorporate mor...

We describe a scheme for the efficient generation of microwave photon pairs by parametric down-conversion in a superconducting transmission line resonator coupled to a Cooper-pair box serving as an artificial atom. By properly tuning the first three levels with respect to the cavity modes, the down-conversion probability may reach the percentage level at good fidelity. We show this by numerical...

The microwave band fixed wireless access (FWA) systems are expected to operate in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments in order to loosen the restrictions on antenna installation at a subscriber station (SS). In addition, it is planning to adopt array antenna at a SS in the next generation FWA. In this case, Direction of arrival (DOA) is a one of the important propagation parameters. We carrie...