in order to investigate the effect of silicon application on some physiological characteristics and growth of wheat (triticum aestivum l.) under late drought stress condition, an experiment was conducted at the agriculture and natural resources university of ramin, khuzestan during year 2012. the experiment was conducted in the open environment as factorial randomized complete block design with...

To investigate the effects of silicon on the growth characteristics and the reduction of the powdery mildew damage to Zinnia (Zinnia elegans Jacq. ʻMagellanʼ), an experiment was carried out as a factorial experiment in the form of a randomized complete block design with two factors including eight treatments and three replications. The first factor included silicon concentrations at four levels...

T requirements of modern high-performance power electronic systems, in particular for the military applications as shown in Figure 1, are surpassing the power density, efficiency and reliability limitations set by the inherent properties of widely employed silicon-based devices. To overcome this, new device technologies are being explored. The past decade has seen an intense and steady increase...

The detrimental drought effects could be listed as the loss in dry weight and silicon is known to enhance crop tolerance to drought by increasing seedling growth and hydraulic conductivity. To investigate the effects of silicon priming (0, 1 and 2 mM as sodium silicate), on seedling growth and root anatomy of three barley cultivars (Khatam, Rihane, and Nimrooz) a laboratory experiment was condu...

We report the observation of four-wave mixing phenomenon in a simple silicon wire waveguide at the optical powers normally employed in communications systems. The maximum conversion efficiency is about -35 dB in the case of a 1.58-cm-long silicon wire waveguide. The nonlinear refractive index coefficient is found to be 9x10-18 m2/W. This value is not negligible for dense wavelength division mul...

This paper shows that the reflectance in silicon nanowires (SiNWs) can be optimized as a function of the area of silicon substrate where the nanostructure growth. SiNWs were fabricated over four different areas of silicon substrates to study the size effects using electroless etching technique. Three different etching solution concentrations of silver nitrate (AgNO3) and hydroflu...

The paper proposes a novel DNA based concept towards the natural evolution of instruction set architecture and arithmetic unit. Silicon based conventional systems have insignificant storage and huge hardware size when compared with DNA based systems. The silicon systems can never have natural evolution. Current intelligent systems based on Artificial Intelligence concepts falsify the basic law ...