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Item Open Access Acoustic microscopy with mechanical scanning—A review(IEEE, 1979-08) Quate, C. F.; Atalar, Abdullah; Wickramasinghe, H. K.Acoustic waves in liquids are known to have wavelengths comparable to that of visible light if the frequency is in the gigahertz range. The phenomena of Brillouin scattering in liquids is based on such waves. In helium near 2 K acoustic waves with a wavelength of 2000 Å were studied some ten years ago at UCLA. It follows from these observations that an imaging system based on acoustic radiation with a resolving power competitive with the optical microscope is within reach if an ideal lens free from aberrations could be found. Such a lens, which was so elusive at the beginning, is now a simple device and it is the basic component in the acoustic microscope that forms the basis for this review. In this article we will establish the characteristic properties of this new instrument. We will review some of the simple properties of acoustic waves and show how a single spherical surface formed at a solid liquid interface can serve as this ideal lens free from aberrations and capable of producing diffraction limited beams. When this is incorporated into a mechanical scanning system and excited with acoustic frequencies in the microwave range images can be recorded with acoustic wavelengths equal to the wavelength of visible light. We will present images that show the elastic properties of specimens selected from the fields of material science, integrated circuits, and cell biology. The information content in these images will often exceed that of the optical micrographs. In the reflection mode we illuminate the smooth surface of a crystalline material with a highly convergent acoustic beam. The reflected field is perturbed in a unique way that is determined by the elastic properties of the reflecting surface and it shows up in the phase of the reflected acoustic field. There is a distinct and characteristic response at the output when the spacing between the object and the lens is varied. This behavior in the acoustic ieflection microscope provides a rather simple and direct means for monitoring the elastic parameters of a solid surface. It is easy to distinguish between different materials, to determine the layer thickness, and to display variations in the elastic constants on a microscopic scale. These features lead us to believe there is a promising future for the field of acoustic microscopy.Item Open Access Multilevel physical optics algorithm for fast solution of scattering problems involving nonuniform triangulations(IEEE, 2007) Gürel, Levent; Manyas, AlpThis paper shows the computational efficiency of the multilevel physical optics (MLPO) algorithm can be further increased by employing nonuniform triangulations of the target surface so that the triangle size is not nearly uniform, but instead, is determined by the surface curvature.Item Open Access Numerically exact analysis of a two-dimensional variable-resistivity reflector fed by a complex-point source(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1997-11) Nosich, A. I.; Yurchenko, V. B.; Altintaş, A.Accurate numerical analysis of a two-dimensional (2-D) variable-resistivity reflector has been carried out by the method of regularization based on the analytical inversion of the corresponding static problem. The complex source-point model has been used to account for the directivity of the feeder and both the H- and E-polarization cases are considered. Far-field radiation patterns, directivity, and total radiative power have been computed for reflectors of uniform and nonuniform complex resistivities. The concept of edge loading for the control and improvement of antenna characteristics is confirmed by this numerically rigorous technique.Item Open Access Simulating a wavelength-size 2-D lens with an accurate numerical method(IEEE, 2001) Boriskin, A. V.; Nosich, A. I.; Altıntaş, AyhanThe effect of a localized light source directivity improvement due to an arbitrarily shaped dielectric cylinder taken as a 2-D model of a dielectric lens is studied. The source is simulated by the field of a complex source-point (CSP). An efficient algorithm for the solution of 2-D problem of wave scattering by a smooth dielectric cylinder is developed, based on the concept of analytical regularization. The basic properties of the algorithm are studied. Numerical results for the accuracy of the algorithm and sample far-field characteristics such as the total radiated power, directivity and radiation patterns for various lens parameters are presented.