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Applied Sciences, Volume 5, Issue 3

September 2015 - 32 articles

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Articles (32)

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,440 Views
31 Pages

7 September 2015

By crossing two intense ultrashort laser pulses with different colors in a transparent medium, like a simple piece of glass, a fan of multicolored broadband light pulses can be simultaneously generated. These newly generated pulses are emitted in sev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,896 Views
13 Pages

A Novel Rotary Piezoelectric Motor Using First Bending Hybrid Transducers

  • Yingxiang Liu,
  • Dongmei Xu,
  • Zhaoyang Yu,
  • Jipeng Yan,
  • Xiaohui Yang and
  • Weishan Chen

27 August 2015

We report a novel rotary piezoelectric motor using bending transducers in this work. Three transducers are used to drive a disk-shaped rotor together by the elliptical movements of their driving tips; these motions are produced by the hybrid of two f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,621 Views
13 Pages

Proton Acceleration by Ultrashort Intense Laser Interaction with Microstructured Snow Targets

  • Elad Schleifer,
  • Zohar Henis,
  • Mordechai Botton,
  • Omer Shavit,
  • Daniel F. Gordon and
  • Arie Zigler

26 August 2015

Enhanced proton acceleration to high energy by relatively modest ultrashort laser pulses and structured dynamic plasma snow targets was demonstrated experimentally. High proton yield emitted to narrow solid angle with energies of up 25 MeV were detec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,851 Views
19 Pages

Design and Status of the ELIMED Beam Line for Laser-Driven Ion Beams

  • G. A. Pablo Cirrone,
  • Giacomo Cuttone,
  • Francesco Romano,
  • Francesco Schillaci,
  • Valentina Scuderi,
  • Antonino Amato,
  • Giacomo Candiano,
  • Michele Costa,
  • Giuseppe Gallo and
  • Giuseppina Larosa
  • + 9 authors

21 August 2015

Charged particle acceleration using ultra-intense and ultra-short laser pulses has gathered a strong interest in the scientific community and it is now one of the most attractive topics in the relativistic laser-plasma interaction research. Indeed, i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,866 Views
13 Pages

21 August 2015

Currently, the demand for information security of industrial control systems is becoming more and more urgent, but the security model proposed by OPC UA cannot meet the practical requirements of industrial control systems. For this reason, this paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,748 Views
12 Pages

Expeditious Synthesis of Noble Metal Nanoparticles Using Vitamin B12 under Microwave Irradiation

  • Changseok Han,
  • Varun Nagendra,
  • R. B. Nasir Baig,
  • Rajender S. Varma and
  • Mallikarjuna N. Nadagouda

19 August 2015

A greener synthesis protocol for noble nanometals is developed using vitamin B12 as a reducing and capping agent in conjunction with the use of microwaves. Successful assembly of nanoparticles or microparticles with varied shapes and sizes have been...

  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
14,805 Views
22 Pages

18 August 2015

The air-stable hydride-platinum(II) complex [PtH{(PMe2O)2H}(PMe2OH)], reported by Parkins and co-workers in 1995, is the most versatile catalyst currently available for the hydration of C≡N bonds. It features remarkable activity under relatively mild...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,076 Views
13 Pages

18 August 2015

This paper presents the design and simulation of improved circuits of Fuzzifier and capacitance to voltage (C2V) converter. The Fuzzifier circuit is designed based on analog advantages such as low die area, high accuracy, and simplicity which are add...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,284 Views
13 Pages

14 August 2015

This paper presents a novel resin concrete obtained by adding cubic zirconium tungstate (ZrW2O8) as filler. A prediction algorithm on the thermal expansion coefficient (CTE) of resin concrete (including filler) was established on the basis of the me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,263 Views
8 Pages

Optical Fiber Pumped High Repetition Rate and High Power Nd:YVO4 Picosecond Regenerative Amplifier

  • Zhen-Ao Bai,
  • Zhong-Wei Fan,
  • Zhen-Xu Bai,
  • Fu-Qiang Lian,
  • Zhi-Jun Kang and
  • Wei-Ran Lin

13 August 2015

We report a stable optical fiber pumped Nd:YVO4 all solid state regenerative amplifier with all fiber picosecond laser as seed source. 888 nm Yb optical fiber lasers was chosen as pump source to reduce quantum defect for improved thermal performance....

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