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A Microflow Cytometer On A Chip, Joel P. Golden, Jason Kim, George P. Anderson, Nicole N. Hashemi, Peter J. Howell, Frances S. Ligler Feb 2010

A Microflow Cytometer On A Chip, Joel P. Golden, Jason Kim, George P. Anderson, Nicole N. Hashemi, Peter J. Howell, Frances S. Ligler

Nastaran Hashemi

A rapid, automated, multi-analyte Microflow Cytometer is being developed as a portable, field-deployable sensor for onsite diagnosis of biothreat agent exposure and environmental monitoring. The technology relies on a unique method for ensheathing a sample stream in continuous flow past an interrogation region where optical fibers provide excitation and collect emission. This approach efficiently focuses particles in the interrogation region of the fluidic channel, avoids clogging and provides for subsequent separation of the core and sheath fluids in order to capture the target for confirmatory assays and recycling of the sheath fluid. Fluorescently coded microspheres provide the capability for highly …


Effect Of Temperature Variation On The Magnetostrictive Properties Of Coalxfe2−Xo4, Ikenna C. Nlebedim, N. Ranvah, Y. Melikhov, P. I. Williams, J. E. Snyder, A. J. Moses, David C. Jiles Jan 2010

Effect Of Temperature Variation On The Magnetostrictive Properties Of Coalxfe2−Xo4, Ikenna C. Nlebedim, N. Ranvah, Y. Melikhov, P. I. Williams, J. E. Snyder, A. J. Moses, David C. Jiles

David C. Jiles

The effect of temperature variation on the magnetoelasticproperties of the CoAlxFe2−xO4 system (for x=0.0, 0.2, 05, and 0.7) has been studied. Substitution of Al3+ for Fe3+ was found to lower the Curie temperature of the samples and to change the lattice parameter. The magnitude of peak to peak magnetostriction, strain sensitivity, magnetomechanical hysteresis, and relative contributions of λ111 and λ100 to the resultant magnetostriction were found to vary with temperature. The results show the possibility of tailoring the magnetoelasticproperties of highly magnetostrictive cobalt ferrite at temperatures of interest by cation substitution.


Growth Of Crystalline Cobalt Ferrite Thin Films At Lower Temperatures Using Pulsed-Laser Deposition Technique, A. Raghunathan, David C. Jiles, Ikenna C. Nlebedim Jan 2010

Growth Of Crystalline Cobalt Ferrite Thin Films At Lower Temperatures Using Pulsed-Laser Deposition Technique, A. Raghunathan, David C. Jiles, Ikenna C. Nlebedim

David C. Jiles

Cobaltferritethin films were grown on SiO2/Si(100) substrates using pulsed-laser deposition technique at substrate temperatures ranging from 250 to 600 °C. Thermal expansion mismatch between the film and substrate appears to have a substantial effect on the magnetic properties of the cobaltferritefilms, due to the large magnetoelastic coupling of cobaltferrite. It was shown in this study, that polycrystalline films with (111)-preferred orientation could be prepared at substrate temperatures as low as 250 °C. The growth of crystalline cobaltferritefilms at such low temperatures indicates the potential to use cobaltferrite for microelectromechanical systemsdevices and sensor applications including integration with a wider range of …


Resistivity Recovery In Gd5si2.09ge1.91 By Annealing, Ravi L. Hadimani, David C. Jiles Jan 2010

Resistivity Recovery In Gd5si2.09ge1.91 By Annealing, Ravi L. Hadimani, David C. Jiles

David C. Jiles

Irreversible change in resistivity occurs in Gd5(SixGe1−x)4 (with 0.41


On The Interaction Of An Eddy Current Coil With A Right-Angled Conductive Wedge, John R. Bowler, Theodoros Theodoulidis Jan 2010

On The Interaction Of An Eddy Current Coil With A Right-Angled Conductive Wedge, John R. Bowler, Theodoros Theodoulidis

John R. Bowler

A fundamental problem in eddy-current nondestructive evaluation is one of finding the quasi-static electromagnetic field of a cylindrical coil in the vicinity of the edge of a metal block. Although the field can be calculated numerically, an effective analytical approach can potentially provide a better understanding of the edge fields and form the basis of a procedure for solving a whole class of related edge problems including edge structures that contain corner cracks. One can represent the metal block as a conductive quarter space in an unbounded region. However, it has been found that the analysis is more straightforward if …