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31Synthetic aperture radar — (SAR) is a form of radar in which the highly directional (and thus very large) rotating antenna used by conventional radar is replaced with many low directivity small stationary antenna positions scattered over some area near or around the target …
32Chrysiridia rhipheus — Engraving captioned Urania riphaeus from Charles D. d Orbigny’s Dictionnaire universel d histoire naturelle (1849) Scientific classification Kingdom …
33Graphene nanoribbons — (also called nano graphene ribbons), often abbreviated GNRs, are thin strips of graphene or unrolled single walled carbon nanotubes. Graphene ribbons were originally introduced as a theoretical model by Mitsutaka Fujita and co authors to examine… …
34optics — /op tiks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) the branch of physical science that deals with the properties and phenomena of both visible and invisible light and with vision. [1605 15; < ML optica < Gk optiká, n. use of neut. pl. of OPTIKÓS; see OPTIC,… …
35Mathematics and Physical Sciences — ▪ 2003 Introduction Mathematics Mathematics in 2002 was marked by two discoveries in number theory. The first may have practical implications; the second satisfied a 150 year old curiosity. Computer scientist Manindra Agrawal of the… …
36Laser — For other uses, see Laser (disambiguation). United States Air Force laser experiment …
37Liquid crystal display — LCD redirects here. For other uses, see LCD (disambiguation). Reflective twisted nematic liquid crystal display. Polarizing filter film with a vertical axis to polarize light as it enters. Glass substrate with ITO electrodes. The shapes of these… …
38Capacitance — Electromagnetism Electricity · …
39Evanescent wave — Schematic representation of evanescent waves propagating along a metal dielectric interface. The charge density oscillations, when associated with electromagnetic fields, are called surface plasmon polariton waves. The exponential dependence of… …
40X-ray nanoprobe — The hard x ray nanoprobe being built for the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM), Argonne National Lab will advance the state of the art by providing a hard X ray microscopy beamline with the highest spatial resolution in the world. It will… …
