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Books

THz Investigations of Condensed Phase Biomolecular Systems

Author(s)
Kevin O. Douglass, Hailiang Zhang, Susan K. Gregurick, Karen M. Siegrist, David F. Plusquellic
Terahertz (THz) spectroscopic investigations of crystalline dipeptide nanotubes are discussed in the frequency region from 0.6 THz (2 cm-1) to 3 THz (100 cm-1)...

Detection of food pathogens by on-chip PCR

Author(s)
Pierre-Alain Auroux, Barbara Jones
This is a chapter that will be part of a book on detection of pathogens using state-of-the-art detection methods. We are focusing on the use of microfluidic...

Integrating Sensors and Actuators into RFID Tags

Author(s)
Kang B. Lee, J T. Cain
The objective in this chapter is to present the current situation in RFID systems and networked transducers and to indicate the strategy that is taken and...

Terahertz Spectroscopy of Biomolecules

Author(s)
David F. Plusquellic, Edwin J. Heilweil
Far-infrared (Terahertz or THz) spectroscopic investigations of condensed-phase biological and model organic species including substituted benzenes, amino acids...

The Detection and Characterization of Ions, DNA and Proteins with Nanometer-Scale Pores

Author(s)
John J. Kasianowicz, Jeffrey C. Lerman, Sarah E. Henrickson, Martin Misakian, Rekha Panchal, Kelly Halverson, Sina Bavari, Tam Nguyen, Rick Gussio, Devanand K. Shenoy, Vincent M. Stanford
Protein ion channels are nanometer-scale pores that are central to many biological processes, including the sensing of a wide variety of molecules. They have...

Physical and Chemical Data, Section 2

Author(s)
Daniel G. Friend, Bruce E. Poling, George H. Thomson, Thomas E. Daubert, Evan Buck
This Section provides tabular material for the physical and chemical properties of substances of interest to the chemical engineering community. Many of the...

Emerging Topics: MEMS Atomic Clocks

Author(s)
Svenja A. Knappe
The combination of MEMS fabrication with atomic clocks has enabled a new generation of small, cheap, low-power devices. Since the proposal of chip-scale atomic...

Absolute Magnitude and Phase Calibrations

Author(s)
Kate Remley, Paul D. Hale, Dylan Williams
In VNA measurements, the magnitude and phase of a transmitted or reflected wave are measured relative to that of the incident wave. VNA measurements are made a...
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