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1Laser ablation — is the process of removing material from a solid (or occasionally liquid) surface by irradiating it with a laser beam. At low laser flux, the material is heated by the absorbed laser energy and evaporates or sublimates. At high laser flux, the… …
2Bernard Marshall Gordon — (born in 1927), American inventor and philanthropist, is generally called Bernie rather than Mr. Gordon by associates and subordinates. [As of January, 2007, the book of Bernie s earthly life is still open. Consequently there are no scholarly… …
3spectroscopy — spectroscopist /spek tros keuh pist/, n. /spek tros keuh pee, spek treuh skoh pee/, n. the science that deals with the use of the spectroscope and with spectrum analysis. [1865 70; SPECTRO + SCOPY] * * * Branch of analysis devoted to identifying… …
4Audience scanning — An audience watches a laser light show during the SIB trade fair in Rimini, Italy in 2002. Audience scanning (sometimes called crowd scanning ) occurs when a laser beam is directed toward the people observing a laser show or display. Although… …
5Medical ultrasonography — This article is about using ultrasound to image the human body. For imaging of animals in research, see Preclinical imaging. Sonography redirects here. For the tactile alphabet called sonography , see Night writing. Medical ultrasonography… …
6Phased array — This article is about general theory and electromagnetic phased array. For the ultrasonic and medical imaging application, see phased array ultrasonics. In wave theory, a phased array is a group of antennas in which the relative phases of the… …
7radar — /ray dahr/, n. 1. Electronics. a device for determining the presence and location of an object by measuring the time for the echo of a radio wave to return from it and the direction from which it returns. 2. a means or sense of awareness or… …
8Physical Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Scientists discovered a new family of superconducting materials and obtained unique images of individual hydrogen atoms and of a multiple exoplanet system. Europe completed the Large Hadron Collider, and China and India took… …
9LIDAR — A FASOR used at the Starfire Optical Range for LIDAR and laser guide star experiments is tuned to the sodium D2a line and used to excite sodium atoms in the upper atmosphere …
10History of radar — The history of radar starts with experiments by Heinrich Hertz in the late 19th century that showed that radio waves were reflected by metallic objects. This possibility was suggested in James Clerk Maxwell s seminal work on electromagnetism.… …
