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Development of fixed abrasive chemical mechanical polishing process for glass disk substrates
Glass disk substrates are used in a wide range of portable devices because of their relatively high resistance to heat and shocks compared to aluminum substrates. Chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) with fixed...
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Treatment of severe acute respiratory syndrome
The best treatment strategy for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is still unknown. Ribavirin and corticosteroids were used extensively during the SARS outbreak. Ribavirin has been criticized for its la...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Crystal Growth of ScBO3:Cr 3+ — A New Near-IR Tunable Laser Crystal
Since the discovery of the alexandrite room-temperature tunable laser [1], much effort has been expended in exploring new laser materials and several new room-temperature tunable laser hosts [2] have been disc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A ScBO3:Cr Laser
Since the first sucessful demonstration of room-temperature tunable laser operation in alexandrite [1], researchers have discovered several new room-temperature tunable lasers including emerald [2], GSGG:Cr [3...
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Dynamics of wire boom oscillations on a spinning satellite Part I, Lagrangian equations of motion and transient response
This paper reports on the results of a theoretical formulation on the dynamics of a spinning satellite with four extendable/retractable wire booms each with a tip mass attached. Seven coupled nonlinear equatio...
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Dynamics of wire boom oscillations on a spinning satellite Part II, normal modes in spin plane
Harmonic analysis of the normal modes in the spin plane of a satellite with four hinged wire booms each with a tip mass attached is presented. Analytical expressions of normal mode coordinates and frequencies ...