Present disclosure provides a method for grouping of a plurality of optical fibers using first coating layer and magnetic coating layer. The method of the present disclosure includes the step of coating of each of the plurality of optical fibers with a first coating layer and the step of coating of each of the plurality of optical fibers with a magnetic coating layer. Further, the method includes the step of applying magnetic field over the plurality of optical fibers for grouping of the plurality of optical fibers in a predefined manner. Furthermore, the first coating layer serves as a shock absorber to protect the plurality of optical fibers from physical damage.

A magnetic member for attachment to a surface has a first layer of material connected to a second layer of material and a plurality of spaced metal strips or metal particles are disposed between the first and second layers of material. The spaced metal strips or metal particles are adapted to magnetically attract a magnetic material attached to an object.

The present invention provides an EMI shielding device including a flame retarding, thermal interface material composite with a through plane thermal conductivity of no less than 30 W/mK and a dielectric withstanding voltage of no less than 1 kV/mm, where the composite includes at least one dielectric layer of self-aligned, carbon-based materials associated with superparamagnetic particles and at least one layer of fillers including a blend of dielectric heat transfer materials with a thermal or UV curable polymer or phase change polymer. The anisotropic heat transfer carbon-based materials associated with superparamagnetic materials are aligned under a low magnetic field strength of less than 1 Tesla to an orientation that results in a high thermal conductivity direction which can conduct the maximum heat from the adjacent device of the present composite. The present invention also provides a method for preparing the composite.

To a co-precipitating aqueous solution, aqueous solutions containing (a) Tb ions, (b) at least one other rare earth ions selected from the group consisting of Y ions and lanthanoid rare earth ions (excluding Tb ions), (c) Al ions and (d) Sc ions are added; the resulting solution is stirred at a liquid temperature of 50° C. or less to induce a co-precipitate of the components (a), (b), (c) and (d); the co-precipitate is filtered, heated and dehydrated; and the co-precipitate is fired thereafter at from 1,000° C. to 1,300° C., thereby forming a sinterable garnet-type complex oxide powder.

A bulk dual phase soft magnetic component having a three-dimensional magnetic flux and its manufacturing methods are described herein. The methods can include combining a first powder material with a second powder material to form a component structure, wherein the first powder material comprises a plurality of first particles each comprising a first core and a reactive coating, and wherein the second powder material comprises a plurality of second particles each comprising a second core and a non-reactive coating, and, consolidating the component structure to join the plurality of first particles with the plurality of second particles.

A magnetic micro-particle (201) comprising one or more magnetic nano-wires (202).

The disclosure provides improved magnetic glass particles for use in nucleic acid capture, enrichment, analysis, and/or purification. Various modifications to the disclosed compositions and methods of using the same, as well as devices and kits are described.

The disclosure provides improved magnetic glass particles for use in nucleic acid capture, enrichment, analysis, and/or purification. Various modifications to the disclosed compositions and methods of using the same, as well as devices and kits are described.

A sintered body of Tb-conitaining rare earth aluminum garnet represented by formula (1)

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(where 0 < x < 0.45, 0 < y ≤ 0.1, and 0.004 < z < 0.2), wherein: | a-b | ≤ 0.1 when at least 900 mn < λ < 1,100 nm, where, in terms of a total light transmittance spectrum on an optical path length of 24 mm, a% is the total light transmittance at the wavelength 900 mn and b% is the total light transmittance at any wavelength λ more to the long-wavelength side than 900 nm; and no thermal lensing effect is produced even with respect to a 100-W laser output, allowing for use as a Faraday rotator of a high-power fiber laser.

A paramagnetic garnet-type transparent ceramic that exhibits a high laser damage threshold, said ceramic being a sintered body of a Tb-containing rare earth-aluminum garnet represented by formula (1), and being characterized in that the average sintered grain size is 10-40 μm, and the insertion loss at a wavelength of 1,064 nm in the optically effective region along the length direction of a 20 mm-long sample is 0.05 dB or less.

(Tb.sub.1-x-yY.sub.xSc.sub.y).sub.3(Al.sub.1-zSc.sub.z).sub.5O.sub.12  Formula (1)

(In the formula, 0≤x<0.45, 0≤y<0.08, 0≤z<0.2, and 0.001<y+z<0.20.)