The optical bistability in a composite, composed of nonlinear metallic particles (spherical or cylindrical) with interfacial layers randomly embedded in a linear dielectric host, is investigated theoretically. It is shown that both interfacial property and the size of metallic particles can dramatically a!ect the optical bistable behavior, and the threshold value is more less in three dimension...

It is shown, for the first time to the best of author’s knowledge, that when the finite dimensional space sequence is generated by using Nedelec’s edge elements of any order and of both families defined on tetrahedra, the so-called discrete compactness property holds true for Lipschitz polyhedra even in the presence of mixed boundary conditions. The family of meshes is not required to be quasi-...

Shear piezoelectricity was investigated in a series of composites consisting of increased loadings of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) in poly (γ-benzyl-L-glutamate), or PBLG. The effects of the SWCNTs on this material property in PBLG will be discussed. Their influence on the morphology of the polymer (degree of orientation and crystallinity), and electrical and dielectric properties of t...

Recently, photonic crystals doped with liquid crystal (LC) material havegained much research interest. In this article new ternary one-dimensional photoniccrystal introduced and studied. The liquid crystal layer of 5CB and 5PCH is sandwichedby two dielectric layers. For the first time, we use four structures SiO2/UCF35/CaF2,SiO2/5CB/CaF2, NFK51/UCF35/NPSK53 and NFK51/5CB/NPSK53. The effect ofte...

Nanosecond absorption dynamics at approximately 685 nm after excitation of photosystem I (PS I) from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 is consistent with electrochromic shift of absorption bands of the Chl a pigments in the vicinity of the secondary electron acceptor A(1). Based on experimental optical data and structure-based simulations, the effective local dielectric constant has been estimated to ...

Improvement in the time-zero dielectric breakdown (TZDB) endurance of metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) capacitor with stacking structure of Al/HfO2/SiO2/Si is demonstrated in this work. The misalignment of the conduction paths between two stacking layers is believed to be effective to increase the breakdown field of the devices. Meanwhile, the resistance of the dielectric after breakdown for dev...

Time correlation functions for gases of linear molecules in a static homogeneous magnetic field are derived from the set of transport relaxation equations obtained from the linearized WaldmannSnider equation. In particular, the complex autoand cross correlation functions of the friction pressure tensor and the tensor polarization are considered. They are of importance for the viscosity, the dep...

We demonstrate the existence of self-consistent Bloch modes in resonant nonlinear photonic crystals with a complex, intensity-dependent, and frequency-dependent dielectric function. Such a dielectric response may arise by "doping" the photonic crystal with resonant quantum dots, atomic impurities, or other two-level light emitters. These exact solutions of the nonlinear electromagnetic wave equ...

This paper examines in detail the characteristics of a leaky Lamb wave propagating in a piezoelectric plate immersed in a dielectric or conductive fluid. The analysis is based on the partial wave analysis and its numerical calculations. Some corrections have been made so that both the changes in phase velocity and the wave attenuation of leaky Lamb waves caused by fluid’s mechanical, dielectric...