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Equipment and Experimental Procedures
The first half of this chapter discusses the furnaces, crucibles, and starting materials that are used in flux growth experiments. Although flux...
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Materials, Fabrication and Characterization Methods
Recently, advancing fabrication technologies enabled the realization of ring resonators in many material systems with excellent optical properties....
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Mirror-enhanced super-resolution microscopy
Axial excitation confinement beyond the diffraction limit is crucial to the development of next-generation, super-resolution microscopy. STimulated...
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Analysis of Experimental Studies of Energy Characteristics of a Pump with Centrifugal Vortex Stage
The characteristics of hydrodynamic pumps are analyzed. The advantages and disadvantages of this type of pumps are discussed. A pump with...
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OSIRIS-REx Contamination Control Strategy and Implementation
OSIRIS-REx will return pristine samples of carbonaceous asteroid Bennu. This article describes how pristine was defined based on expectations of...
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Surface-blended texturing of medical needles for friction reduction using a picosecond laser
The success of percutaneous procedures depends on the accuracy of the medical needle insertion. Reducing the insertion force and using better needle...
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Simulation of unsteady state performance of a secondary air system by the 1D-3D-Structure coupled method
This paper describes the calculation method for unsteady state conditions in the secondary air systems in gas turbines. The 1D-3D-Structure coupled...
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PandaX-III: Searching for neutrinoless double beta decay with high pressure 136Xe gas time projection chambers
Searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay (NLDBD) is now regarded as the topmost promising technique to explore the nature of neutrinos after...
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SEIS: Insight’s Seismic Experiment for Internal Structure of Mars
By the end of 2018, 42 years after the landing of the two Viking seismometers on Mars, InSight will deploy onto Mars’ surface the SEIS ( S eismic E xperi...
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Experimental Equipment and Technique
This chapter presents the field emission electron microscope, its technical characteristics and various modern construction of microscopes. A...
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The Classical World
The classical world, or classical antiquity, is a traditional all-embracing definition describing the cultures of the Mediterranean area from the...
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Spectroscopic Windows
For the transmission of infrared radiation to and from an ultrahigh vacuum system for the purpose of carrying out Seals for infrared windows infrared...
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The Note
The package arrived in a hermetically sealed standard issue with a return post from somewhere on Mars. Piers popped it open. Inside was a real...
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Orientation of Hittite Monuments
The possible astronomical or topographical orientations of the Hittite monuments of the Bronze Age has remained unexplored until recently. This would...
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The Caloris Network
The Sun had stopped in the sky. Soon it would move east for a couple of days, pause again, then continue its trek toward the western horizon, where...
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Neutron radiography for the study of water uptake in painting canvases and preparation layers
Easel paintings on canvas are subjected to alteration mechanisms triggered or accelerated by moisture. For the study of the spatial distribution and...
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Inertia and Gravity
We all know how astronauts float in space, near Earth, feeling no force pulling at them. In fact, we will see that gravity is no force, that is, it...
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Effervescence in champagne and sparkling wines: From grape harvest to bubble rise
Bubbles in a glass of champagne may seem like the acme of frivolity to most of people, but in fact they may rather be considered as a fantastic...