Sentence examples for slab of material from inspiring English sources
But Dr Pendry's bold conclusion, just published in Physical Review Letters, is that a slab of material with a negative refractive index would not merely make a nice lens, it would make a perfect lens.
A flat slab of material would thus send all the rays originating from a single point back to a mirror-image point on the other side of the slab.
FROM Babylonian cuneiform to the recent crop of failed Internet appliances to Microsoft's grand plan to introduce a customized operating system later this year called Windows XP Tablet PC edition, communicating on a flat slab of material is the Once and Future Thing.
We consider a one-dimensional test problem which con sists of a slab of material with a constant driving temperature source on one side.
The objective of the study is to maximize the reflection or the dissipation in a finite slab of material for pressure and shear waves in a range of frequencies.
We also present results for a two-dimensional problem consisting of a constant driving temperature source on one side of a slab of material with an optically thick region interior to the slab.
Effectively, an infinite array of 2D-periodic slabs of material is separated by wide vacuum spacings.
This firm in Boca Raton, Fla .uspl uses recycled plastic containers to make slabs of material that look like lumber, feel like lumber and cut like lumber.
This is similar to a fibre laser, but uses a slab of optical material as the gain medium and produces a more powerful beam.
If a slab of insulating material is inserted between the charged plates, the bound electric charges comprising the internal structure of the insulation are displaced slightly, or polarized; bound negative charges (atomic electrons) shift a fraction of an atomic diameter toward the positive plate, and bound positive charges shift very slightly toward the negative.
In such measurements, a thin slab of the material has to insert between point-isotropic γ-ray source and detector assembly.
