Kinetics of Oxidation of 3-Benzoylpropionic Acid by N-Bromoacetamide in Aqueous Acetic Acid Medium by N. A. Mohamed Farook, G. A. Seyed Dameem

“…But the rate of the reaction is enhanced by lowering the dielectric constant of the reaction medium. A mechanism consistent with observed results have been proposed and the related rate law was deduced.…”
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Microwave-assisted heating in a novel thin film-liquid spinning coaxial reactor by Guennadi A. Kouzaev

“…It consists of a sealed coaxial waveguide with a dielectric hollow mixer that rotates along the length of the central conductor. …”
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Kinetics and Mechanism of Oxidation of Isoleucine by N-Bromophthalimide in Aqueous Perchloric Acid Medium by N. M. I. Alhaji, S. Sofiya Lawrence Mary

“…The rate is decreased by the addition of phthalimide. A decrease in the dielectric constant of the medium increases the rate. …”
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Vibrations and Heat Transfer in Glasses: The Role Played by Disorder by Tanguy, Anne

“…We show finally that the temperature dependence of thermal conductivity in dielectric materials can be understood by relating it to the disorder-dependent harmonic vibrational eigenmodes.…”
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Breakdown Mechanism of Different Sulphur Hexafluoride Gas Mixtures by E. Onal

“…Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) gas and SF6 gas mixtures are widely used in gas-insulated systems (GIS) because they have good dielectric and thermal properties. Among the various gas mixtures investigated so far, SF6-air, SF6-CO2, and SF6-N2 are most used gas mixtures. …”
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Electronic Structure and Optical Properties of GaAs1-xBix Alloy by Xindong You, Renjie Zhou

“…Besides, other important optical constants, such as the dielectric function, reflectivity, refractive index, and loss function also change significantly.…”
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Behaviour of Thin Film TiO2 Overlaid λ/2 Microstrip Rejection Filter Due to Ageing of the Overlay by S. B. Rane, Vijaya Puri

“…The long term ageing aspects of the dielectric layers used for protection, passivation and improvement of circuit properties should be taken into consideration during design and fabrication.…”
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New Niobium Capacitors with Stable Electrical Parameters by H. Zillgen, M. Stenzel, W. Lohwasser

“…By optimizing the structure of the dielectric and the cathodic layers as well as the process parameters we gained a capacitor which can be used up to 105 °C . …”
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Kinetics of Oxidation of 3-Benzoylpropionic Acid by N-Chlorobenzamide in Aqueous Acetic Acid Medium by N. A. Mohamed Farook, G. A. Seyed Dameem

“…But the rate of the reaction is enhanced by lowering the dielectric constant of the reaction medium. Hypochlorous acidium ion (H2O+Cl), has been postulated as the reactive oxidizing species. …”
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High Efficiency and Broadband Microstrip Leaky-Wave Antenna by Onofrio Losito

“…Furthermore, from the theoretical analysis we can see that, decreasing the relative dielectric constant of the substrate, the bandwidth of the leaky-wave antenna becomes much wider, improving its performance.…”
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AlN/GaN-Based MOS-HEMT Technology: Processing and Device Results by S. Taking, D. MacFarlane, E. Wasige

“…The developed technology uses thermally grown Al2O3 as a gate dielectric and surface passivation for devices. Significant improvement in device performance was observed using the following techniques: (1) Ohmic contact optimisation using Al wet etch prior to Ohmic metal deposition and (2) mesa sidewall passivation. …”
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Cherenkov radiation energy transfer from [18F]-fluorodeoxyglucose to subphthalocyanine fluorophores by Lioret, Vivian, Decréau, Richard A.

“…The CR emission occurs from relaxation of molecules of the dielectric medium surrounding the emitted beta-particle. …”
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An Efficient Algorithm for EM Scattering from Anatomically Realistic Human Head Model Using Parallel CG-FFT Method by Lei Zhao, Gen Chen

“…The accuracy of the proposed algorithm is verified by comparing numerical results with analytical Mie-series solutions for dielectric spheres. Numerical experiments have demonstrated that the proposed method has good performance on parallel efficiency.…”
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Fabrication of CPW-Fed Fractal Antenna for UWB Applications with Omni-Directional Patterns by Tohid Sedghi, Mahdi Jalali, Tohid Aribi

“…The ground-plane is truncated at the center and includes dielectric notches at its side to enhance the antenna’s impedance bandwidth. …”
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Design of Dual Mode RFID Antenna for Inventory Management and IV Fluid Level Warning System by Ssu-Han Ting, Chih-Kuang Wu, Ching-Hsing Luo

“…The RFID is affixed on the IV drip bag; the fluid in bag affects the antenna transmission distance by fluid dielectric conditions. This allows for two different operational modes (moderate and short distance). …”
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Conductivity of the PGT Synthesized by the High Energy Ball Milling (HEBM) by S. K. S. Parashar, M. Ghoranneviss, A. Salar Elahi

“…Complex impedance analysis suggested the dielectric relaxation to be of non-Debye type. The activation energy was found to be 1.04 ev. …”
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UHF Metamaterial Absorber with Small-Size Unit Cell by Combining Fractal and Coupling Lines by Shicheng Fan, Yaoliang Song

“…The proposed absorber consists of a surface metal structure and metallic background plane, separated by a dielectric substrate and air. Simulation results show that the absorber has an absorption peak at 442 MHz with 99.73% absorptivity. …”
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Oxidation of Some Aliphatic Alcohols by Pyridinium Chlorochromate -Kinetics and Mechanism by Sapana Jain, B. L. Hiran, C. V. Bhatt

“…The rate of oxidation decreases with increase in dielectric constant of solvent suggests ion-dipole interaction. …”
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Effect of Thickness on Structural and Optical Properties of Tetra-tert- butyl-2, 3-naphthalocyanine Thin Films by I. Dhanya, C S Menon

“…Various optical constants like band gap energy, Eg the width of band tails of localized states into the gap, EU and steepness parameter, β gets calculated and the variation of different optical parameters like refractive index, extinction coefficient, dielectric constants, optical conductivity and surface and volume energy losses with photon energy are estimated.…”
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RF Tomography in Free Space: Experimental Validation of the Forward Model and an Inversion Algorithm Based on the Algebraic Reconstruction Technique by V. Picco, T. Negishi, S. Nishikata, D. Spitzer, D. Erricolo

“…As a result, the images of the dielectric permittivity profiles obtained are superior in quality to the ones obtained using classical regularization approaches such as the truncated singular value decomposition. …”
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