We have experimentally investigated the effects of release hole size on acoustic transmission through micromachined phononic band gap crystals. The results confirm previous theoretical studies and determine the range of release hole sizes for which the band gap is minimally compromised. The experiments were performed on micro fabricated 2D phononic crystal plates comprised of high acoustic impe...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of pilot hole tapping, together with other variables such as pilot hole diameter, in relation to inner screw diameter and preparation method, on the insertion torque and pullout resistance of the screws used for anterior fixation of the cervical spine. METHOD Twenty polyurethane test bodies and 30 thoracic vertebrae (T1-T5) were tested. Four holes were drille...

We investigate transmission efficiency and finite size effects for the subwavelength hole arrays. Experiments and simulations show how the finite size effects depend strongly on the hole diameter. The transmission efficiency reaches an asymptotic upper value when the array is larger than the surface plasmon propagation length on the corrugated surface. By comparing the transmission of arrays wi...

Utilizing sp3d5s* tight-binding band structure and wave functions for electrons and holes we show that acoustic phonon limited hole mobility in [110] grown silicon nanowires (SiNWs) is greater than electron mobility. The room temperature acoustically limited hole mobility for the SiNWs considered can be as high as 2500 cm2/V s, which is nearly three times larger than the bulk acoustically limit...

increased vitreoretinal adhesion include lattice degeneration, some post-inflammatory lesions, areas of degenerative modelling, and some vitreous base lesions. These areas of increased adhesion may remain attached, even if the vitreous is detached elsewhere. Sebag and Balazs reported that the posterior vitreous cortex contained a round hole corresponding to the peripapillary attachment. The dia...

PURPOSE To describe a novel method for the evaluation of metamorphopsia within the central 10 degrees of the visual field in 55 patients with idiopathic macular hole. The test evaluates the interocular disparity between the two eyes in metamorphopsia. METHODS Semicircular test and reference stimuli of variable diameters were used in a binocular test that measured interocular size disparity be...

Measurements are reported of the error in wall static pressure reading due to the finite size of the pressure tapping. The experiments were performed in incompressible turbulent pipe flow over a wide range of Reynolds numbers, and the results indicate that the correction term (as a fraction of the wall stress) continues to increase as the hole Reynolds number d+ = uτd/ν increases, contrary to p...

----------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT---------------------------------------------------------Different structures of Index-guiding Photonic crystal fibre are designed. The attractive vectorial Finite Element Method simulation technique is used to analyse such PCFs by taking suitable fibre parameter i.e. air hole diameter (d), pitch (Λ) and air core diam...

OBJECTIVE We evaluated the influence of the diameter and the preparation of the pilot hole on the resistance to the pulling out and the strength when inserting pedicle screws with conical internal diameter. METHODS Mechanical experiments were performed with pedicle conical screws of 4.2 mm and 5.2 mm diameter. They were inserted in the vertebral pedicles of swine. The hole was manufactured wi...