We report on subwavelength plasmon-polariton guiding by triangular metal wedges at telecom wavelengths. A high-quality fabrication procedure for making gold wedge waveguides, which is also mass-production compatible offering large-scale parallel fabrication of plasmonic components, is developed. Using scanning near-field optical imaging at the wavelengths in the range of 1.43-1.52 microm, we de...

We study a model Schrödinger operator with constant magnetic field on an infinite wedge with Neumann boundary condition. The magnetic field is assumed to be tangent to a face. We compare the bottom of the spectrum to the model spectral quantities coming from the regular case. We are particularly motivated by the influence of the magnetic field and the opening angle of the wedge on the spectrum ...

This paper investigates the accuracy of the two available calculation algorithms of the Oncentra MasterPlan three-dimensional treatment planning system (TPS)-- the pencil beam method and collapsed-cone convolution--in modeling the Varian enhanced dynamic wedge (EDW). Measurements were carried out for a dual high energy (6-15 MV) Varian DHX-S linear accelerator using ionization chambers for beam...

In limited angle tomography, with applications such as electron microscopy, medical imaging, and industrial testing, the object of interest is scanned over a limited angular range, which is less than the full 180◦ mathematically required for density reconstruction. The use of standard full-range reconstruction algorithms produces results with notorious “butterfly” or “wedge” artifacts. In this ...

A prospective, randomised, controlled trial compared two different techniques of high tibial osteotomy with a lateral closing wedge or a medial opening wedge, stabilised by a Puddu plate. The clinical outcome and radiological results were examined at one year. The primary outcome measure was the achievement of an overcorrection of valgus of 4 degrees . Secondary outcome measures were the severi...

An effort is made to evaluate the formulation of seismic active earth pressure behind a nonvertical retaining wall supporting c-Ф backfill. The formulation is prepared to get a single critical wedge surface for simultaneous action of weight, surcharge, cohesion and adhesion. The success of any retaining structure involves the awareness of seismic active earth pressure. The effect of various par...

[1] A plane electromagnetic wave is incident at an oblique (skew) angle on a wedge of open angle 3p/2 with scalar face impedances, the same on both faces. When the theory previously developed for wedges of arbitrary angle with tensor face impedances is specialized to this case, the analysis simplifies, and the resulting expressions for the geometrical optics, surface wave and diffracted fields ...

In this article an analytical technique, namely the homotopy analysis method (HAM), is applied to solve the momentum and energy equations in the case of a two-dimensional incompressible flow passing over a wedge. The trail and error method and Padé approximation strategies have been used to obtain the constant coefficients in the approximated solution. The effects of the polynomial terms of HAM...

This study shows that by using a wedge plate the incident direction of light propagation can be rotated as desired while still preserving beam polarization. This study also deduces the basic condition of this preservation of polarization. Two typical wedge plates are analyzed for numerical demonstration. Simulation results verify that a collimated beam with a +45 degrees linear polarization can...

We show that both analytic and numerical evidence points to the existence of a critical angle of h'60° –70° in viscous fingers and diffusion-limited aggregates growing in a wedge. The significance of this angle is that it is the typical angular spread of a major finger. For wedges with an angle larger than 2h , two fingers can coexist. Thus a finger with this angular spread is a kind of buildin...