The Pockels effect in periodically poled lithium niobate made it possible to switch optical signals between two orthogonal optical linear polarizations of the vertical and horizontal polarization states. Based on this effect, we demonstrated polarization-based binary optical logic gates: AND, and OR gates. By combining these basic gates with other polarization-based optical logic gates such as ...

This work demonstrates two DNA-based logic circuits that behave as a half-adder and a half-subtractor. A half-adder is composed of an AND gate and an XOR gate, whereas a half-subtractor consists of an INH gate and an XOR gate. The proposed designs are inspired by molecular beacons.

This article studies the response of a half-disk exposed to an external uniform static electric field. A semianalytical method is presented for computing the potential for a geometry consisting of two conjoined half-disks with different permittivities. The method is based on analytical series expansions with coefficients obtained as a numerical solution of a matrix equation. We consider the pol...

the existing theory for wave propagation through a soil layer are not compatible with the real soil layers because in the theory the layers are flat and the sub-layers are parallel, while in real the soil layers are not flat and they may not be parallel. thus, wave propagations through a corrugated interface are so important. in this paper, a two-dimensional sh-wave propagation through a corrug...

Over a decade of comparative studies, researchers have found that rudimentary numerical abilities are widespread among vertebrates. While experiments in mammals and birds have employed a variety of stimuli (visual, auditory and tactile), all fish studies involved visual stimuli and it is unknown whether fish can process numbers in other sensory modalities. To fill this gap, we studied numerical...

the problem of propagation of plane wave including body and surface waves propagating in a transversely isotropic half-space with a depth-wise axis of material symmetry is investigated in details. using the advantage of representation of displacement fields in terms of two complete scalar potential functions, the coupled equations of motion are uncoupled and reduced to two independent equations...

superplastic materials show huge amount of deformation in low strain rates and temperature above half of melting point. in superplastic forming, estimating the pressure–time diagram and thickness distribution has significant importance. utilizing numerical methods, the involved parameters in superplastic forming can be optimized for such estimations. in the present paper, the simulation of supe...