We present an ultrabroadband thin-film infrared absorber made of sawtoothed anisotropic metamaterial. Absorptivity of higher than 95% at normal incidence is supported in a wide range of frequencies, where the full absorption width at half-maximum is about 86%. Such property is retained well at a very wide range of incident angles too. Light of shorter wavelengths are harvested at upper parts of...

Transmission of blast waves is a complex phenomenon and the characteristics vary with blast design parameters and geo-technical properties of medium. Frequency of vibration and triggering component for structural excitation generally quantifies safe vibration magnitude. At closer distance or higher elevations than the blast locations, vertical or transverse component will be the first arrival t...

X-ray emission from the gravitational wave transient GW170817 is well described as non-thermal afterglow radiation produced by a structured relativistic jet viewed off-axis. We show that counterpart continues to be detected at 3.3 years after merger. Such long-lasting signal not prediction of earlier models characterized narrow core and viewing angle about 20 deg, spurring renewed interest in o...

Photon accelerators can spectrally broaden laser pulses with high efficiency in moving electron density gradients. When driven by a conventional pulse, the group velocity walk-off experienced accelerated photons and deterioration of gradient from diffraction refraction limit extent spectral broadening. Here we show that pulse shaped space-time transverse intensity profile overcomes these limita...

for detecting organic and/or inorganic compounds and therefore it has been widely used in many scientific fields with improving analytical instruments such as high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), capillary electrophoresis (CE), fluorescence confocal microscopy, etc. For these purposes, a great deal of effort has gone into the development of fluorescent reagents using various fluoropho...

The absolute sound localization abilities of two Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris) were measured using a four-choice discrimination paradigm, with test locations positioned at 45 deg., 90 deg., 270 deg. and 315 deg. angles relative to subjects facing 0 deg. Three broadband signals were tested at four durations (200, 500, 1000, 3000 ms), including a stimulus that spanned a wide r...

Paradoxical shifts in human color (spectral) sensitivity occur on deep-red (658 nm) background fields. As the radiance of the deep-red background is increased from low to moderate levels, the spectral sensitivity for detecting 15-Hz flicker shifts toward shorter wavelengths, although by more than is predicted by selective chromatic adaptation (e.g., Eisner & MacLeod, 1981; Stromeyer et al., 198...

this publication uses a colorimetric method based on the absorbance spectra of dye solutions to improve on beer’s law when calculating the dye concentrations of a three-component mixture. the performance of the new method is compared with that of beer’s law evaluated at three wavelengths, and beer’s law evaluated at 16 wavelengths. colorimetric method gives the best prediction of dye concentrat...

Amphiphilic 4-(3',4'-dimethoxystyryl)-N-octadecylpyridinium perchlorate and bromide form stable monolayers at the air/water interface. Small differences in the surface pressure-area and surface potential-area isotherms depending on the anion indicate interactions between the chromophore and the anions on the pure water subphase. The monolayer behavior is considerably modified on 10 mM aqueous s...