Tunneling properties of electromagnetic wave in slab su-perconducting material

When the electromagnetic wave propagates through a slab superconducting material in microwave ranges,tunneling properties of the electromagnetic wave at critical temperature are investigated theoretically.The transmittance and the reflectance of the slab superconducting material vary with the thickness of material as well as the refractive index of substrates.The high transmittance is found for thin superconductor at low wavelength region.However,optical properties are strongly dependent upon temperature and incidence wavelength.The electromagnetic wave is totally transmitted without loss for incidence wavelength(l = 5000 nm) due to the zero refractive index and infinite penetration depth of the superconductor at the critical temperature.     

A multiobjective mesh optimization framework for mesh quality improvement and mesh untangling

We propose a multiobjective mesh optimization framework for mesh quality improvement and mesh untangling. Our framework combines two or more competing objective functions into a single objective function to be solved using one of various multiobjective optimization methods. Methods within our framework are able to optimize various aspects of the mesh such as the element shape, element size, associated PDE interpolation error, and number of inverted elements, but the improvement is not limited to these categories. The strength of our multiobjective mesh optimization framework lies in its ability to be extended to simultaneously optimize any aspects of the mesh and to optimize meshes with different element types. We propose the exponential sum, objective product, and equal sum multiobjective mesh optimization methods within our framework; these methods do not require articulation of preferences. However, the solutions obtained satisfy a sufficient condition of weak Pareto optimality. Experimental results show that our multiobjective mesh optimization methods are able to simultaneously optimize two or more aspects of the mesh and also are able to improve mesh qualities while eliminating inverted elements. We successfully apply our methods to real‐world applications such as hydrocephalus treatment and shape optimization. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Real-time heart activity monitoring with optical illusion using a smartphone

Multimedia Tools and Applications - In this study, we obtained a pulsatile photoplethysmogram (PPG) signal from a fingertip using the built-in camera of an iPhone 6 s and displayed a...