Atomic force microscopy typically relies on high-resolution high-bandwidth cantilever deflection measurements based control for imaging and estimating sample topography and properties. More precisely, in amplitude-modulation atomic force microscopy (AM-AFM), the control effort that regulates deflection amplitude is used as an estimate of sample topography; similarly, contact-mode AFM uses regul...

The aim of our work is to design a touch screen for displaying vibrotactile haptic feedback to the user via piezo patches attached to its surface. One of the challenges in the design is the selection of appropriate boundary conditions and the piezo configurations (location and orientation) on the screen for achieving optimum performance within the limits of human haptic perception. To investiga...

There is a growing need for the rehabilitation, repair, and upgrading of concrete structures such as bridges and buildings. The repair or rehabilitation of reinforced concrete structures often offers a lower cost alternative to rebuilding, and it is traditionally achieved by bonding steel plates to the tensile face of a reinforced concrete member. The shear strength can be enhanced with plates ...

(148 words) Objective: The human heart is composed of a helical network of muscle fibers organized to form sheets that are separated by cleavage surfaces responsible for the orthotropic mechanical properties of cardiac muscle. The purpose of this study is the visualization of these structures in three dimensions. Methods: Anisotropic least square filtering followed by fiber and sheet tracking t...

Content protection for multimedia data is widely recognized especially for data types that are frequently distributed, sold or shared using the Internet. Particularly music industry dealing with audio files realized the necessity for content protection. Distribution of music sheets will face the same problems. Digital watermarking techniques provide a certain level of protection for these music...

The structure of tubulin has been studied in projection by minimum beam electron microscopy and image processing of negatively stained zinc-induoed sheets. The reconstructed images include data to 15 A resolution. We report here a clear and reproducible 82 if repeat arising from the arrangement of heterodimers in sheet aggregates of tubulin. This repeat is only observed in diffraction patterns ...

The piezo-phototronic effect is about the enhanced separation, transport, and recombination of the photogenerated carriers using the piezoelectric polarization charges present in piezoelectric-semiconductor materials. Here, it is presented that the piezo-phototronic effect can be effectively applied to improve the relative conversion efficiency of a flexible solar cell based on n-ZnO/p-SnS core...

Conventionally, intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) in the mouse is conducted with piezo-drills that use a droplet of mercury for damping. The use of mercury causes concerns of toxicity and contamination. Although Fluorinert can be used as a substitute for mercury to reduce piezo-drill’s lateral vibration, the damping effect is not as satisfactory as mercury. In this work, a modified piezo-...

The mode shapes of piezoelectric metamaterials are tuned by manipulating spatially the electrical boundary conditions piezo-elements, in a desired and controlled manner, order to tailor wave propagation characteristics through these metamaterials. piezo-elements using inductive shunting networks. With appropriate tuning optimization spatial distribution conditions, it would be possible alter sh...