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Energy Balance and Gas Thermalization in a High Power Microwave Discharge in Mixtures
Samaneh Biabani, Gholamreza Foroutan,
Volume 13, Issue 2 (12-2019)
Abstract
The dynamics of fast gas heating in a high power microwave discharge in air, is investigated in the framework of FDTD simulations of the Maxwell equations coupled with the fluid simulations of the plasma. It is shown that, an ultra-fast gas heating of the order of several 100 Kelvins occurs in less than 100 ns. The main role in the heating is played by the electron impact dissociation of , dissociation via quenching of metastable states of , as well as,  quenching by nitrogen molecules. Among the electronically excited metastable states,  are the most important species. Slow heating of the gas above 1 is attributed to the vibrational relaxation processes of , among them vibrational-translational relaxation of demonstrates the highest heating rate. The heating rate and thus the gas temperature are significantly increased with increasing of the microwave pulse amplitude, pulse width, and the gas pressure. In all cases, enhanced  dissociation is the main factor behind the enhanced gas heating. The same effects are observed for increasing of the initial gas temperature, and percentage in a  mixture.

Effect of Hydrostatic Pressure and Temperature on the Performance of a One-Dimensional Photonic Crystal-Based Biosensor
Dr. Samad Roshan Entezar,
Volume 15, Issue 2 (7-2021)
Abstract
We theoretically analyze the sensing properties of a one-dimensional photonic crystal-based biosensor for detecting cancer cells infiltrated in a defect cavity layer. The biosensor consists of a sample cavity layer sandwiched between two identical photonic crystals of Hgba2Ca2Cu3O8+d and GaAs. We use the transfer matrix method to evaluate the performance of the biosensor. We show that a defect mode appears in the transmission spectrum of the biosensor that its position depends on the type of cancer cells in the cavity layer. The analysis is carried out by comparing the transmittance peaks of the cancer cells with the normal cells. We investigate the performance of the biosensor under different hydrostatic pressures and temperatures. We show that one can use temperature change to fine-tune the frequency of the defect modes. In addition, we can adjust the working area of the biosensor by changing the hydrostatic pressure. It is shown that the sensitivity of the biosensor is independent of the temperature, while it strongly depends on the hydrostatic pressure.
Computational Modeling of Thermal Effects in Optogenetic Neurostimulation
Batul Nasrabadi, Mohammad Ismail Zibaii, Seyedeh Mahshad Hosseini,
Volume 16, Issue 1 (1-2022)
Abstract
ta charset="UTF-8" >Optogenetics is an advanced optical tool in neuroscience research. However, light stimulation in optogenetic experiments may also affect neural function by generating heat. In this paper, the effect of increasing the temperature of the brain tissue was studied during light stimulation. The Hodgkin-Huxley model and the hippocampal pyramidal cell model have been used to investigate the effect of temperature on spike neurons. The modeling results show that irradiation of brain tissue by pulsed laser with a frequency of 40 Hz, the duty cycle of 90% and wavelength of 593 nm at a distance of 10 μm from the tip of the fiber, for 60 seconds with a power of 1 and 40 mW leads to the temperature change from 37 °C to 39 °C. The obtained results show that the laser intensity decreases to zero at a distance of 1 mm from the tip of a fiber, which is absorbed by the tissue and causes a temperature rise of 2 °C that can increase the spike rate of neurons by 16.6%.
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