Modern environments are saturated with sensors. These sensors may be active or passive, stationary or mobile, based on land, sea, air or space. They may differ in size, complexity, modes of operation, power, costs and...
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Modern environments are saturated with sensors. These sensors may be active or passive, stationary or mobile, based on land, sea, air or space. They may differ in size, complexity, modes of operation, power, costs and a number of other features. The challenge in a sensor-rich environment is to coordinate the sensing of all the sensors in order to obtain the best total group performance. The complexity of the problem suggests that traditional methods of optimization will be prohibitively costly in terms of computation and communication. Additionally, there is some ambiguity over how to aggregate individual sensor utilities into a "best total group performance." Under these circumstances, game theoretic methods can be employed to both limit the computation and communication necessary for group coordination and avoid the problem of aggregating utilities. Specifically, an economic paradigm is adopted from which an efficient method for sensor coordination can be derived. The resultant coordination algorithm is shown to have bounded Pareto suboptimality, demonstrating the tradeoff between inter-sensor communication and utility optimization
A balanced optical-RF phase detector for the extraction of low-jitter RF-signals from optical pulse trains, which is robust against drifts and photodetector nonlinearities, is presented. Sub-10 fs in-loop relative tim...
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Simultaneous OCT and video microscopy were performed on rat somatosensory cortex during forepaw stimulation. Fractional changes in localized regions of OCT images reveal a functional signal time-course similar to hemo...
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Accurate processing of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals requires a sensitive and robust QRS detection method. In this study, three methods are quantitatively compared using a similar algorithm structure but applying di...
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Accurate processing of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals requires a sensitive and robust QRS detection method. In this study, three methods are quantitatively compared using a similar algorithm structure but applying different transforms to the differentiated ECG. The three transforms used are the Hilbert transformer, the squaring function, and a second discrete derivative stage. The first two have been widely used in ECG and heart rate variability analysis while the second derivative method aims to explain the success of the Hilbert transform. The algorithms were compared in terms of the number of false positive and false negative detections produced for records of the mit/BIH Arrhythmia Database. The Hilbert transformer and the squaring function both produced a sensitivity and positive predictivity of over 99%, though the squaring function had a lower overall detection error rate. The second derivative resulted in the highest overall detection error rate. Different algorithms performed better for diverse ECG characteristics; suggesting that an algorithm can be specified for different recordings, the algorithms can be combined based on each one's characteristics to determine a new more accurate method, or an additional detection stage can be added to reduce the number of false negatives
A balanced optical-RF phase detector for the extraction of low-jitter RF-signals from optical pulse trains, which is robust against drifts and photodetector nonlinearities, is presented. Sub-10 fs in-loop relative tim...
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A balanced optical-RF phase detector for the extraction of low-jitter RF-signals from optical pulse trains, which is robust against drifts and photodetector nonlinearities, is presented. Sub-10 fs in-loop relative timing jitter is demonstrated.
Motor prosthetic algorithms were recently proposed to combine target and path information to drive reaching arm movements to a static goal. In this paper, we extend two approaches to support goals that may themselves ...
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Motor prosthetic algorithms were recently proposed to combine target and path information to drive reaching arm movements to a static goal. In this paper, we extend two approaches to support goals that may themselves evolve over the duration of the reaching movement. The resulting probabilistic and control-based dynamic-goal reach state equations represent an intermediate level of user flexibility between static-goal reach state equations and unconstrained movement
Xenon diflouride (XeF 2 ) vapor has been known to be able to spontaneously etch Si isotropically at high rates up to 10 mum/min. This dry etching process does not require plasmas or catalysts, and thus causes little d...
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Xenon diflouride (XeF 2 ) vapor has been known to be able to spontaneously etch Si isotropically at high rates up to 10 mum/min. This dry etching process does not require plasmas or catalysts, and thus causes little damage to the electronic properties. It is useful for releasing free standing structures by etching away Si sacrificial layers or for gate oxide failure analysis by etching away the backside Si. In this work, the etching of Si, SiGe alloys and Ge was studied and results were discussed. Both SiGe and Ge were found to be etched by XeF 2 vapor, and at faster rates than Si
Yttria (Y2O3) has become a promising gate oxide material to replace silicon dioxide in metal-oxide-semiconductor devices. Using a first-principles approach the electronic structure, defect structure, and formation ene...
Yttria (Y2O3) has become a promising gate oxide material to replace silicon dioxide in metal-oxide-semiconductor devices. Using a first-principles approach the electronic structure, defect structure, and formation energy of native point defects in Y2O3 are studied. Vacancies, interstitials, and antisites in their relevant charge states are considered. We find that within the band gap of Y2O3 oxygen vacancies, oxygen interstitials, yttrium vacancies, and yttrium interstitials can be stable depending on the Fermi level and external chemical potentials. When the Fermi level is constrained to be within the band gap of silicon, oxygen vacancies are the dominant defect type under low oxygen chemical potential condition. A higher oxygen chemical potential leads to oxygen interstitials and ultimately yttrium vacancies.
We explore theoretically electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in a superconducting quantum circuit (SQC). The system is a persistent-current flux qubit biased in a Λ configuration. Previously [Phys. Rev. Le...
We explore theoretically electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in a superconducting quantum circuit (SQC). The system is a persistent-current flux qubit biased in a Λ configuration. Previously [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 087003 (2004)], we showed that an ideally prepared EIT system provides a sensitive means to probe decoherence. Here, we extend this work by exploring the effects of imperfect dark-state preparation and specific decoherence mechanisms (population loss via tunneling, pure dephasing, and incoherent population exchange). We find an initial, rapid population loss from the Λ system for an imperfectly prepared dark state. This is followed by a slower population loss due to both the detuning of the microwave fields from the EIT resonance and the existing decoherence mechanisms. We find analytic expressions for the slow loss rate, with coefficients that depend on the particular decoherence mechanisms, thereby providing a means to probe, identify, and quantify various sources of decoherence with EIT. We go beyond the rotating wave approximation to consider how strong microwave fields can induce additional off-resonant transitions in the SQC, and we show how these effects can be mitigated by compensation of the resulting ac Stark shifts.
Next generation light sources demand femtosecond-level synchronization of its subcomponents over distances of several km. We demonstrate an optical synchronization system based on distribution of mode-locked pulses ov...
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Next generation light sources demand femtosecond-level synchronization of its subcomponents over distances of several km. We demonstrate an optical synchronization system based on distribution of mode-locked pulses over optical fiber in a real accelerator environment.
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