Sentence examples for slabs of material from inspiring English sources

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.

Patterning a flat slab of material with the necessary nanoscale structures to make a two-dimensional photonic crystal is a relatively simple process.

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.

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.

This paper presents an analytical model based on the concepts of contact mechanics and fracture mechanics to calculate forces applied to scissors during cutting of a slab of material.

We consider a one-dimensional test problem which con sists of a slab of material with a constant driving temperature source on one side.

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.

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.

The predictions in TT98 are based on the work of Wheeler et al. (1975) as well as mass-loss estimates from simulations of a planar slab of material hitting a star Fryxell and Arnett (1981), which have a low resolution compared with modern simulations.