Surface acoustic wave (SAW) velocity spectroscopy has been long considered to be one of the leading candidates for nondestructive characterization of surface-treated metals because of its ability to probe the material properties at different penetration depths depending on the inspection frequency. We developed a high-precision laser-ultrasonic technique to study the feasibility of SAW dispersi...

Nondestructive evaluation of the prevailing compressive residual stress in the shallow subsurface layer of surface-treated metals is greatly complicated by the accompanying surface roughness and cold work. A high-precision laser-ultrasonic technique has been developed to study the feasibility of SAW dispersion spectroscopy for residual stress assessment on surface-treated metals in a wide frequ...

Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) filters are small, rugged and cost-competitive mechanical band-pass filters with amazing frequency response characteristics. Therefore, SAW filters have played an important role as a key device in various mobile and wireless communication systems such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) and cellular phones (Campbell, 1998). Recently, the balanced SAW filter becomes...

A novel, ultrasound based approach for the dynamic stimulation and promotion of tissue healing processes employing surface acoustic waves (SAW) on a chip is presented for the example of osteoblast-like SaOs-2 cells. In our investigations, we directly irradiate cells with SAW on a SiO2 covered piezoelectric LiNbO3 substrate. Observing the temporal evolution of cell growth and migration and compa...

Time-resolved adsorption behavior of a human immunoglobin G (hIgG) protein on a hydrophobized gold surface is investigated using multitechniques: quartz crystal microbalance/dissipation (QCM-D) technique; combined surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and Love mode surface acoustic wave (SAW) technique; combined QCM-D and atomic force microscopy (AFM) technique. The adsorbed hIgG forms interfacial st...

A Rayleigh-type surface acoustic wave (SAW) is used in various fields as classical and quantum information carriers because of its localization, high electrical controllability, low propagation loss. Coupling hybridization between the SAW other physical systems such magnetization, electron charge, spin are recent focuses phononics spintronics. precise measurement amplitude often necessary to di...

The authors combine acousto-optoelectric and multichannel photon correlation spectroscopy to probe spatiotemporal carrier dynamics induced by a piezoelectric surface acoustic wave (SAW). technique is implemented combining phase-locked optical microphotoluminescence simultaneous three-channel time-resolved detection. From the recorded time-correlated single-photon-counting data, time transients ...

OBJECTIVE Prehospital emergency amputation is a rare procedure, which may be necessary to free a time-critical patient from entrapment. This study aimed to evaluate four techniques of cadaveric lower limb prehospital emergency amputation. METHOD A guillotine amputation of the distal femur was undertaken in fresh frozen self-donated cadavers. A prehospital doctor conducted a surgical amputatio...