The invasion of Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) (Diptera: Drosophilidae) worldwide has disrupted existing or developing integrated pest management (IPM) programs in soft-skinned fruits. Currently, with a reliance on only broad-spectrum insecticides, t...
A double resonance two-photon spectroscopy scheme is discussed to probe jointly rotational and rovibrational transitions of ensembles of trapped HD+ ions. The two-photon transition rates and lightshifts are calculated with the two-photon tensor opera...
Estimates of absolute pest population density are critical to pest management programs but have been difficult to obtain from capture numbers in pheromone-baited monitoring traps. In this paper, we establish a novel predictive relationship for a prob...
The diffusion and trapping of particles in complex porous media are fundamental processes in materials science and bioengineering. This study systematically investigates the influence of pore radius on particle capture kinetics within a three-dimensi...
We introduce a novel approach to achieve broadband rainbow trapping in a 2D photonic crystal (PC) platform. By exploiting the concept of valley PCs, we engineer a structure that supports robust topological edge states. A carefully designed rotational...
The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of the vertical guiding laser beam waist on cold atom guiding efficiency. In this study, a double magneto-optical trap (MOT) apparatus is used. With an unbalanced force in the horizont...
Trap density refers to the density of electronic trap states within dielectric materials that can capture and release charge carriers (electrons or holes) in a semiconductor channel, affecting the transistor’s performance. This study aims to in...
A flake is a crack that is induced by trapped hydrogen within steel. To study its formation mechanism, previous studies mostly focused on the formation process and magnitude of hydrogen pressure in hydrogen traps such as cavities and cracks. However,...
Numerical modeling was conducted to study the capture of particles diffusing in porous media with traps. The pores are cylindrical in shape, and the traps are randomly distributed along the cylindrical surfaces of the pores. The dynamics of particle...
In this work, high-frequency forced vibrations of lateral field excitation (LFE) devices with stepped electrodes based on monoclinic crystals GdCOB are modeled, and the influence laws of the device parameters (the step number, size, and thickness of...
We studied the characteristics of adult flat grain beetles Cryptolestes pusillus Schönherr in trap counts and their relationship with insect densities using electronic probe traps in experimental bins, which contained approximately 1.1 tons of p...
The focusing properties of elegant third-order Hermite–Gaussian beams (TH3GBs) and the radiation forces exerted on dielectric spherical particles produced by such beams in the Rayleigh scattering regime have been theoretically studied. Numerical resu...
Particle trapping and sensing serve as important tools for non-invasive studies of individual molecule or cell in bio-photonics. For such applications, it is required that the optical power to trap and detect particles is as low as possible, since la...
Field trials were conducted to define several parameters associated with adding LEDs to monitoring traps for codling moth (CM), Cydia pomonella (L.), using both a sex pheromone lure (PH1X) and a non-pheromone lure (CM4K). Traps with LEDs emitting at...
The broadband spontaneous emission of excitons in CdSe quantum dots (QDs) is of great interest for the spectral imaging of living organisms or specific substances in the visible spectral region as well as in the biological optical window near the inf...
For a pure SU(2) Yang–Mills theory in 4D, we revisit the spatial (3D), ball-like region of radius
Binary neutron star mergers and proto-neutron stars provide unique environments where dense matter is hot, lepton-rich, and potentially undergoes a transition from hadronic to deconfined quark matter. We investigate the thermodynamics and stellar pro...
This work investigates the effect of interface traps on the impedance spectra of dopant-free silicon solar cells. The studied device consists of a crystalline silicon absorber with an a-Si:H/MoOx/ITO stack as the front passivating hole-collecting con...
The miniaturization of ion trap mass analyzers is an important direction in the development of mass spectrometers. In this work, we proposed two models of miniaturized HreLIT with a field radius of about 2 mm based on the existing research on convent...
With the surging demand for dynamic, real-time, and rapid qualitative analysis of chemical components, chip-scale mass spectrometers have attracted widespread attention. Ion traps have become the preferred mass analyzer for chip-scale mass spectromet...
Usually, optical tweezers for trapping atoms or nanoparticles are based on the focusing of a Gaussian laser beam (GB). The optical trap is characterised by its longitudinal stability (LS), expressed as the ratio of the backward axial gradient and the...
With the increasing application field, a higher requirement is put forward for the mass spectrometer. The reduction in size will inevitably cause a loss of precision; therefore, it is necessary to develop a high-performance miniature mass spectromete...
Based on the thermal phase structure of pure SU(2) quantum Yang–Mills theory, we describe the electron at rest as an extended particle, a droplet of radius
A horizontally aligned GaAs p–i–n nanowire array solar cell is proposed and studied via coupled three-dimensional optoelectronic simulations. Benefiting from light-concentrating and light-trapping properties, the horizontal nanowire array...
Large-radius excitons in polar crystals are considered. It is shown that translation invariant description of excitons interacting with a phonon field leads to a nonzero contribution of phonons into the exciton ground state energy only in the case of...
High- and medium-resolution satellite optical imagery show that submesoscale cyclonic eddies (SCEs) trap coastal waters and induce their rapid cross-shelf transport. Due to the presence of a rigid boundary, the convergence is observed in the coastal...
Emerald ash borer (EAB), (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire), first identified in 2002 in southeast Michigan, has caused catastrophic ash (Fraxinus spp.) mortality in forests within the core of the invasion and has spread to 35 states and five Canadian p...
Magnetic Drug Targeting is a promising cancer treatment that offers the possibility of increasing therapeutic efficiency while reducing the patient’s side-effects. Thereby, the cancer-drug is bounded to magnetic nanoparticles, which are injecte...
Superconductors have revolutionized magnet technology, surpassing the limitations of traditional coils and permanent magnets. This work experimentally investigates the field-trapping ability of a MgB2 disc at various temperatures and proposes new hyb...
By combining a spiral zone plate (SZP) and a grating, we propose a single optical element, termed a composited spiral zone plate grating (CSZPG), to generate flower mode vortices with the equicohesive petals and has long focal depths. Theoretical ana...
Recently, in accordance with the demand for development of low-power semiconductor devices, a negative capacitance field-effect-transistor (NC-FET) that integrates ferroelectric material into a gate stack and utilizes negative capacitive behavior has...
A series of polyester films doped with a hole transport molecule, p-diethylaminobenzaldehyde-1,1'-diphenylhydrazone (DEH), have been systematically exposed to ultraviolet radiation with a peak wavelength of about 375 nm. The electronic performance o...
Mink farming has seen a resurgence in Bulgaria since 2013, and this has led to a high risk of American mink escaping and establishing feral populations. The largest active commercial farm in the country has a capacity of nearly 130,000 animals. The a...
Understanding the multi-scale effects of arable land landscape on epigaeic arthropod diversity is essential for biodiversity conservation and agroecosystem services. Our study explored the overall effect of landscape elements on epigaeic arthropod di...
The departure of nitrogen bubbles from duplex stainless steel (DSS) is essential for studying the precipitation behavior of bubbles during solidification. In the current work, the numerical and theoretical derivation of analytical formula were used t...
Levitation of single trapped particles enables the exploration of fundamental physicochemical aerosol properties never previously achieved. Experimental measurements showed that (NH4)2SO4’s particle shape deviated from sphericity during the crystalli...
Under the typical hot isostatic pressing (HIP) processing conditions, plastic deformation by dislocation slip is considered the primary mechanism for pore shrinkage, according to experimental observations and deformation mechanism maps. In the presen...
The integral parameters (mass, radius) of hot proto-quark stars that are formed in supernova explosion are studied. We use the MIT bag model to determine the pressure of up-down and strage quark matter at finite temperature and in the regime where ne...
An adjustable optical cage generated by focusing a partially coherent beam with nonconventional correlation function named the Bessel–Gaussian correlated Schell-model (BGCSM) beam is investigated in detail. With the help of the generalized Huyg...
The determination of microscopic residual gas distribution is beneficial for exploiting reservoirs to their maximum potential. In this work, both forced and spontaneous imbibition (waterflooding) experiments were performed on a high-pressure displace...
We investigated the relative importance of vacant lot and urban farm habitat features and their surrounding landscape context on bee community richness, abundance, composition, and resource use patterns. Three years of pan trap collections from 16 si...
Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) is still a new high-precision surface detection technique. However, the adsorption quality detected by the QCM currently contains a solvent-coupling quality and cannot separate the actual biomolecular mass. Local sur...
We present analytical calculations of the energies and eigenfunctions of all normal modes of excitation of charge
Focal depth tuning provides an effective way to enhance the longitudinal flexibility of circular Airy beams (CABs). In this work, we investigate the control of focal depth in CABs by introducing an adjustable amplitude coefficient and varying the ape...
The transport by materially coherent surface-layer eddies was studied in a two-layer quasigeostrophic model driven by eastward mean shear. The coherent eddies were identified by closed contours of the Lagrangian-averaged vorticity deviation obtained...
Starting from the need for emergency rescue information transmission in tunnel engineering accidents, this article focuses on researching and solving the technical problems of information transmission between rescue personnel and trapped personnel af...
In this paper, the propagation of surface gravity waves over multiple bottom-standing porous semicircular humps is examined in the absence and presence of double floating
Despite progress in optical multiplexing, integrating discrete channel switching with continuous control of distinct optical fields in a single metasurface remains challenging. Here, we numerically demonstrate a dielectric metasurface that enables wa...
The size-dependent photoluminescence (PL) blue shift in organometal halide perovskite nanoparticles has traditionally been attributed to quantum confinement effects (QCEs), irrespective of nanoparticle size. However, this interpretation lacks rigor f...
We study spherically symmetric spacetimes in Einstein-aether theory in three different coordinate systems, the isotropic, Painlevè-Gullstrand, and Schwarzschild coordinates, in which the aether is always comoving, and present both time-dependent and...
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