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We demonstrate a field-portable fluorescence microscopy platform installed on a smart phone for imaging of single/isolated nanoparticles and fluorescently labeled viruses.
Despite the wealth of information contained in the Web of Linked Data, the current limitations and entry barriers of the Semantic Web technologies hinder the users from taking advantage of these information resources. Linked Data visualization can alleviate this problem. In this paper, we adopt a proper Linked Data visualization model, design Linked Data visualization algorithms, and develop a lightweight,...
Long-reach passive optical networks are one of the proposed solutions to the merging of access and metro networks into a single system for lowering deployment costs. As propagation delays increase proportional to the network range, new designs of scheduling and bandwidth distribution schemes need to be considered to mitigate its effects on overall packet delay. This paper presents an interleaved polling...
The scalability problem is an important task to evolutionary analog circuit design. In this paper, we aimed at raising the search efficiency of evolutionary algorithm to improve the scalability of evolutionary analog circuit design. We made an analysis and found out that all the components in circuits are related. After encoding, the genes belong to the chromosome are correlation and non-separable...
Outdoor images captured during inclement weather conditions generally exhibit visibility degradation. Localized light sources often result from activation of streetlights and vehicle headlights and are common scenarios in these conditions. The presence of localized light sources in hazy images may cause the generation of over saturation artifacts when those images are restored by traditional state-of-the-art...
Mathematics is closely related to daily life. However, it is one of the subjects causing anxiety during the learning process for the primary school students. The courses conducted by using the game-based learning (GBL) model can enhance the learners' willingness to learn as well as learning interest. Therefore, this study adopts the input-process-outcome GBL model to develop mathematics learning system...
This paper presents a novel assembly technique for 3D micro structures on the substrate. The technique is based on pushing the structure to rotate to a predefined angle by using a micro probe. A compliant push pad is used to fix the position of the assembled structures. No other latching mechanism is necessary and thus the push operation can be significantly simplified. Micro mirrors and scanners...
Dynamic queries continuously update the data that is visualized in accordance with the user actions. They are typically applied for visual information seeking. This paper proposes to introduce this interaction style for exploring 3D medical neuroimages in its original form, enhancing visual seeking technology in a medical diagnostic procedure. More precisely, we present three dynamic query tools that...
The popularity of social networking has changed interactive relationships between people. The development of mobile devices has further provided diverse communication channels for social networking websites. The rich resources in virtual communities, instantaneous feedback, and sharing of information have led many studies to apply it in the instructional environment of collaborative learning. This...
This paper presents a monopole antenna with three-tier small semicircles for ultra-wideband operation. The monopole antenna with three-tier small semicircles which can get wider bandwidth is done by etching process on the FR4 substrate with 1.6mm in thickness and 4.4 relative permittivity. The ground plane is a semicircle with larger slit which is good for impedance matching. The S11 frequency response,...
Work-life issues gradually received much attention in contemporary Chinese society since the trend in communication and the diversity of labor market composition from recent economy development as well as technology innovation. Especially, female professionals make these so-called ‘virtuous wife, good mother’ face challenges to fit in with the demands in-between various life domains, such as family...
A dual-band printed slot antenna for wireless communication terminals is presented. It consists of two pairs of C-shaped slot and T-shaped slot and six pairs of slit. The C-shaped slots are fed by two 50-Ω microstrip lines. The antenna can provide two wide operating bands centered at 2.50GHz and 3.66GHz, to cover WLAN/2.5-GHz and the 3.5GHz WiMAX bands respectively. The isolation of the prototype...
This is the first report of 0 eV or negative Schottky barrier height for electrons down to 100 K, even on lightly doped Si. It is achieved by energy barrier engineering with Yb doping at NiSi/Si interface. Ideal unity rectification ratio and reasonable sheet resistance are also achieved in this study. This technology can potentially boost future MOSFET performance.
NiCr (80/20 at.%) thin films were deposited on SiO2/Si substrates as a cryonetic heater by DC magnetron sputtering technique. After a series of annealing treatments under various conditions, the electrical properties and microstructure of the films were investigated. The crystallinity and composition of the films were analyzed by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The...
For the first time, 10nm Si-based bulk FinFETs 6T SRAM (beta ratio = 2) with novel multiple fin heights technology is successfully demonstrated with 25% better static noise margin at 0.6 V than single fin-height baseline. Meanwhile, presented technology also provides advantage in SRAM cell size by 20% scaling down. It can furthermore offer potential of beyond 10nm Si-based CMOS computing circuit technology.
For the first time, 10nm Si-based bulk FinFETs 6T SRAM (beta ratio = 2) with novel multiple fin heights technology is successfully demonstrated with 25% better static noise margin at 0.6 V than single fin-height baseline. Meanwhile, presented technology also provides advantage in SRAM cell size by 20% scaling down. It can furthermore offer potential of beyond 10nm Si-based CMOS computing circuit technology.
Random charging for a large number of Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) can have a negative impact on the power network operation with peak load and imposes technical and economical challenges to the electric power utilities. In this paper, we address this issue by applying and proposing three smart PEV charging modes, i.e. the valley-searching, the interruptible and the variable-rate charging patterns...
In this paper, we propose two methods to improve the efficiency of the scheme. Our main optimization is a new method to fulfill the tensor product of vectors, which can significantly reduce the computational overhead in the key switching algorithm, and the basic homomorphic operation is about 40%–50% faster than before by using this method. By truncating the least significant bits from every element...
The marked expansion of the urban impervious surfaces induced by continuous growth of economy and population of China over the past three decades has posed a variety of challenges to studies on urban hydrology, climatology and urban planning practice. Thanks to the characteristics of objectivity, efficiency and integrity, remote sensing has been recognized as a powerful alternative for dynamic monitoring...
Application layer multicast is an alternative to network layer multicast. The existing application layer multicast approaches focused on single source multicast and they are insufficient in supporting distributed applications that require multisource and fast route recovery with dynamic membership. This study proposed a multisource application layer multicast routing protocol with fast route recovery...
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