The propagation characteristics of the leaky modes in planar anisotropic waveguides with a multilayer structure have been investigated by means of a compact rigorous formalism. The leakage losses and leaky transition angle have been studied for the fundamental and first hybrid modes. An inhomogeneous waveguide and buffered step index type structure have been discussed. Particular attention has ...

A weighted-average method for determining uniaxial, true tensile stress vs. strain relation after necking is presented for strip shaped samples. The method requires identification of a lower and an upper bound for the true stress-strain function after necking and expresses the true stress-strain relation as the weighted average of these two bounds. The weight factor is determined iteratively by...

A biaxial version of the Gay-Beme potential used to model uniaxial anisotropic molecules is developed. This novel biaxial potential can be used to deal with molecules with different attractive and repulsive contributions along their three axes. The Gay-Berne (GB) [l] potential can be regarded as an anisotropic and shifted version of the Lennard-Jones 6-12 (LJ) interaction suitable for uniaxial ...

We present a general method for retrieving the effective tensorial permittivity of uniaxially anisotropic metamaterials. By relaxing the usually imposed constraint of assuming nonmagnetic metal/dielectric metamaterials, we also retrieve the effective permeability tensor and show that multilayer hyperbolic metamaterials exhibit a strong and broadband diamagnetic response in the visible regime. T...

The objective of this paper is all-angle artificial magnetic conductor, i.e., artificial magnetic conductor that has stable magneticwall effect with respect to the incidence angle. Furthermore, we seek for a design that would be easy for manufacturing. In order to achieve this we use grounded uniaxial material slabs and we do not constrict ourselves to naturally available materials. Instead, we...

An algorithm is presented for simulation of guided modes in a multilayer uniaxial structure with each layer characterized by its own ellipsoid of refractive indices and direction of optical axis. The proposed approach is based on presenting an electromagnetic field in each layer as a linear combination of ordinary and extraordinary waves coupled through the boundary conditions. The problem is r...

The inelastic response of materials to applied uniaxial loading is typically measured using tensile or compressive specimens of initially circular cross-section. Under deformation, this cross-section may become elliptical due to anisotropic material behaviour. An optical technique for measuring the elliptical deformation of anisotropic, homogeneous cylindrical specimens undergoing uniaxial defo...

The critical exponents νL2, ηL2 and γL2 of a uniaxial Lifshitz point are calculated at two-loop level using renormalization group and ǫL-expansion techniques. We introduced a new constraint involving the loop momenta along the competition axis, which allows to solve the two-loop integrals. The exponent γL2 obtained using our method is in good agreement with numerical estimates based on Monte Ca...

Molecular dynamics simulations are performed to investigate the buckling properties of [100]-, [110]-, [111]-, and [112]-oriented single-crystalline germanium nanowires under uniaxial compression. The effects of simulation temperature, strain rate, and wire length on the buckling behaviour are investigated. The simulation results indicate that critical load clearly decreases with increasing tem...

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